Posts Tagged ‘orphan’

Bless the Child (2000)

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kim Basinger | Jimmy Smits | Holliston Coleman | Rufus Sewell | Angela Bettis | Christina Ricci | Michael Gaston | Lumi Cavazos | Dimitra Arliss | Eugene Lipinski | Anne Betancourt | Ian Holm | Helen Stenborg | Matthew Lemche | Dan Warry-Smith
Directors: Chuck Russell
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Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O’Connor’s well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis (Jimmy Smits), an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply “special.” She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child and the love she inspires in those she touches.

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Matt Damon | Ben Affleck | Stellan Skarsgård | Minnie Driver | Casey Affleck | Cole Hauser | John Mighton | Rachel Majorowski | Colleen McCauley | Matt Mercier | Ralph St. George | Rob Lynds | Dan Washington | Alison Folland
Directors: Gus Van Sant
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Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean’s coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Omar Sharif | Julie Christie | Geraldine Chaplin | Rod Steiger | Alec Guinness | Tom Courtenay | Siobhan McKenna | Ralph Richardson | Rita Tushingham | Jeffrey Rockland | Tarek Sharif | Bernard Kay | Klaus Kinski | Gérard Tichy | Noel Willman
Directors: David Lean
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Daryl Hannah | Pamela Reed | James Remar | Thomas G. Waites | John Doolittle | Curtis Armstrong | Martin Doyle | Tony Montanaro | Mike Muscat | John Wardlow | Keith Wardlow | Karen Austin | Barbara Duncan | Gloria Lee | Janne Mortil
Directors: Michael Chapman
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Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the “Clan of the Cave Bear” finds little Ayla from the “other”’s clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When the little one finds a most needed new cave, she may stay - for now. As it turns out later, she’s a bright child, but has a hard time to keep her place in a clan with different customs. She has to hide her intelligence because she’s a woman.

Vanity Fair (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gabriel Byrne | Angelica Mandy | Roger Lloyd-Pack | Ruth Sheen | Kate Fleetwood | Reese Witherspoon | Lillete Dubey | Romola Garai | Tony Maudsley | Deborah Findlay | John Franklyn-Robbins | Paul Bazely | Rhys Ifans | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Charlie Beall
Directors: Mira Nair
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

Batman (1989)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Adam West | Burt Ward | Lee Meriwether | Cesar Romero | Burgess Meredith | Frank Gorshin | Alan Napier | Neil Hamilton | Stafford Repp | Madge Blake | Reginald Denny | Milton Frome | Gil Perkins | Dick Crockett | George Sawaya
Directors: Leslie H. Martinson
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In Gotham City, a dark knight known as Batman helps to defeat evil and keep the city’s citizens safe. When Jack Napier is transformed into the evil, Joker, he promises to take over Gotham City it is up to Batman to stop him in his tracks before it is too late.

Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Albert | Ray Milland | Donald Pleasence | Kim Richards | Ike Eisenmann | Walter Barnes | Reta Shaw | Denver Pyle | Alfred Ryder | Lawrence Montaigne | Terry Wilson | George Chandler | Dermott Downs | Shepherd Sanders | Don Brodie
Directors: John Hough
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Tia (Kim Richards) and Tony (Ike Eisenmann) are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian (Donald Pleasence) poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian’s megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland), who wants to exploit them. Jason (Eddie Albert), a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony “escape to witch mountain,” while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Derek Luke | Michael Ealy | Laz Alonso | Omar Benson Miller | Pierfrancesco Favino | Valentina Cervi | Matteo Sciabordi | John Turturro | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | John Leguizamo | Kerry Washington | D.B. Sweeney | Robert John Burke | Omari Hardwick | Omero Antonutti
Directors: Spike Lee
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Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Pollyanna Movie (1960)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Amanda Burton | Kenneth Cranham | Georgina Terry | Aden Gillett | Pam Ferris | Kate Ashfield | Tom Bell | Tom Ellis | David Bamber | Ben Thornton | Judy Flynn | Amanda Walker | Nicola Duffett | Jan Carey | Jane Nash
Directors: Sarah Harding
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Even after having lived the hardscrabble life of a missionary’s daughter all her life and seen the loss of both parents, young Pollyanna Whittier refuses to be depressed. Instead, she must be glad about anything she can think of, and it’s paid off big time. Now, however, she must go to live with her cold, spinsterish aunt in a town inhibited by embittered, unfriendly souls. Can she use her glad game to win over everyone and transform the town?

The Rescuers (1977)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Crime | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
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A bottle containing a plea for help arrives at the Rescue Aid Society, an organization of mice from all over the world who’s mission is to help those in need. Bernard and Miss Bianca are chosen for the task and after gathering the needed clues and information, they fly on the back of albatross Orville to the gloomy and uncharted Devil’s Beyou. There, together with Ellie Mae and other swamp folk, they must work together to save a little orphan girl from the evil Madame Medusa.