Posts Tagged ‘money’

The Devil’s Own (1997)

Friday, September 18th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | George Hearn | Kelly Singer | Ashley Carin | Paul Ronan | Julia Stiles | Ryan Mitchell | Rubén Blades | Margaret Colin | William Atherton | Simon Jones | Natascha McElhone | Treat Williams | David Wilmot
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
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Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt star in this thriller about an IRA gunman who draws an American family into the corssfire of terrorism. Frankie McGuire (Pitt) is one of the IRA’s deadliest assassins. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O’Meara (Ford), a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie’s real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom’s growing suspicions, force Frankie to choose between the promise of peace of a lifetime of murder.

Blank Check (1994)

Monday, June 29th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Brian Bonsall | Karen Duffy | James Rebhorn | Jayne Atkinson | Michael Faustino | Chris Demetral | Miguel Ferrer | Michael Lerner | Tone Loc | Rick Ducommun | Alex Zuckerman | Alex Morris | Debbie Allen | Michael Polk | Lu Leonard
Directors: Rupert Wainwright
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Preston Waters is a 12 year old boy who is sick of his parents always teaching him the value of money. Little does he know, he is about to learn it. When a smart crook, Carl Quigley, nearly kills Preston by running over his bike, he mistakenly fills out a blank cheque, which Preston prints out for $1 Million. Preston convinces the bank manager to cash the cheque, and when Quigley’s employee returns to collect the money for Quigley and finds that the bank manager has given it to a kid, Quigley sets out to track the kid down and get his money. Preston creates the pseudonym of ‘Macintosh’ to handle his finance, and the police get suspicious. Preston begins his spending, but later becomes aware that he must avoid Quigley who is on his back, and the police seperately attempt to work out the mystery behind ‘Macintosh’. Will Preston be convinced that money is’nt everything.

Knockaround Guys (2001)

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Barry Pepper | Andy Davoli | Seth Green | Vin Diesel | John Malkovich | Arthur J. Nascarella | Tom Noonan | Nicholas Pasco | Shawn Doyle | Kevin Gage | Dennis Hopper | Andrew Francis | John Liddle | Kris Lemche | Dov Tiefenbach
Directors: Brian Koppelman
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The four sons (Diesel, Green, Pepper, Davoli) of major Brooklyn mobsters have to team up to retrieve a bag of cash in a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff. Specifically, the story gets started when Matt Demaret (Pepper) goes on a job to deliver the money for his mob father (Hopper) on the advice of his uncle (Malkovich). Things don’t go as planned though…

Sweet Land (2005)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Elizabeth Reaser | Lois Smith | Patrick Heusinger | Stephen Pelinski | Tim Guinee | Robert Hogan | Alan Cumming | Paul Sand | Jodie Markell | Sage Kermes | Kirsten Frantzich | Stephen Yoakam | Karen Landry | James Cada | Debbie DeLisi
Directors: Ali Selim
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As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf’s postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry…

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Craig Bierko | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Gretchen Mol | Vincent D'Onofrio | Dennis Haysbert | Steven Schub | Jeremy Roberts | Rif Hutton | Leon Rippy | Janet MacLachlan | Brad William Henke | Burt Bulos | Venessia Valentino | Howard S. Miller | Tia Texada
Directors: Josef Rusnak
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Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He’s about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that’s just like the 30’s with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine…

Payback: Straight Up - The Director’s Cut (2006)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hugh Bonneville | Stephen Cinabro | James Coburn | Jack Conley | Richard Cotovsky | William Devane | Bill Duke | Mel Gibson | John Glover | Gregg Henry | Gene Kelly | David Paymer | Roderick Peeples | Christian Stolte | Sterling Wolfe
Directors: Brian Helgeland
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Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.

U Turn (1997)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Nick Nolte | Jennifer Lopez | Powers Boothe | Claire Danes | Joaquin Phoenix | Jon Voight | Billy Bob Thornton | Abraham Benrubi | Richard Rutowski | Aida Linares | Sean Stone | Ilia Volok | Valeri Nikolayev | Brent Briscoe
Directors: Oliver Stone
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A man running from a mysterious past is trapped in a small desert town after his car breaks down. Everybody in this town seems to have totally lost their mind and Bobby can’t wait to leave. But there is a problem: Bobby doesn’t have the money to get his car back. So when an aging man offers him money to kill his young wife Bobby seriously thinks about it. However the gorgeous young woman casts some kind of spell on him and she asks him to get rid of her husband. But this time, the stakes are much higher…

Sliver (1993)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sharon Stone | William Baldwin | Tom Berenger | Polly Walker | Colleen Camp | Amanda Foreman | Martin Landau | CCH Pounder | Nina Foch | Keene Curtis | Nicholas Pryor | Anne Betancourt | Tony Peck | Frantz Turner | Dr. Melvyn Kinder
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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Young publishing executive Carly takes an apartment in an exclusive “sliver” building in New York, only to learn that the previous tenant, who bore a great resemblance to Carly, died in a mysterious fall from the apartment balcony. When other tenants of the building begin to die likewise mysteriously, Carly begins to suspect that a killer may be inhabiting the building and that it may be either Zeke, the voyeuristic building owner with whom she’s become involved romantically, or Jack, a mystery writer with a suspicious quality.

It Could Happen to You (1994)

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Bridget Fonda | Rosie Perez | Wendell Pierce | Isaac Hayes | Víctor Rojas | Seymour Cassel | Stanley Tucci | J.E. Freeman | Red Buttons | Richard Jenkins | Robert Dorfman | Charles Busch | Beatrice Winde | Ginny Yang
Directors: Andrew Bergman
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Charlie Lang, a New York cop with a heart of gold, wins a share of the lottery. However, the day before, having been caught without enough money to tip waitress (Yvonne), Charlie offers her half the winnings. Charlie’s wife, Muriel, is the complete opposite of her husband. She wants more and more money, and she’s not impressed by Charlie’s honest and kind nature. As Charlie and Muriel grow apart, Charlie and Yvonne grow together.

Hold That Ghost (1941)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Bud Abbott | Lou Costello | Richard Carlson | Joan Davis | Mischa Auer | Evelyn Ankers | Marc Lawrence | Shemp Howard | Russell Hicks | William B. Davidson | Ted Lewis | Ted Lewis' Orchestra | Laverne Andrews | Maxene Andrews | Patty Andrews
Directors: Arthur Lubin
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Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster’s will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.