Posts Tagged ‘trial’

Anna and the King (1999)

Monday, July 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: USA
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This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.

The Crucible (1996)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Winona Ryder | Paul Scofield | Joan Allen | Bruce Davison | Rob Campbell | Jeffrey Jones | Peter Vaughan | Karron Graves | Charlayne Woodard | Frances Conroy | Elizabeth Lawrence | George Gaynes | Mary Pat Gleason | Robert Breuler
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others’ land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950’s America.

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kathy Bates | Mary Stuart Masterson | Mary-Louise Parker | Jessica Tandy | Cicely Tyson | Chris O'Donnell | Stan Shaw | Gailard Sartain | Timothy Scott | Gary Basaraba | Lois Smith | Jo Harvey Allen | Macon McCalman | Richard Riehle | Raynor Scheine
Directors: Jon Avnet
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Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920’s Alabama. Through Idgie’s inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.

Civil Action, A (1998)

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Robert Duvall | Tony Shalhoub | William H. Macy | Zeljko Ivanek | Bruce Norris | John Lithgow | Kathleen Quinlan | Peter Jacobson | Mary Mara | James Gandolfini | Stephen Fry | Dan Hedaya | David Thornton | Sydney Pollack
Directors: Steven Zaillian
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Jan Schlichtmann is a successful lawyer whose practically his own entrepreneur. He’s a humble bachelor with a nice car, a nice house, and a career that has amassed huge rewards. Not to mention being the founder and practice of the lucrative law firm he runs with his Boston partners, all in a case’s settlement. However, when the families of deceased children sue a giant food conglomerate, with the accusation of their companies are responsible for poisoning their children and afflicting them fatally with cancer. Jan comes to the rescue, thinking it’s one more case he can easily knock out of the park and make a fortune, as well as a name for he and his firm. With a class action lawsuit to file, Jan willingly puts himself and his firm as representatives of those families. However, it’s one case that could ruin Jan: his pride, his ambition, and ultimately, his career. As the pressures of the case begin to take their turn on both the prosecution, the defense, as well as the families, Jan is about to realize that he has taken on the biggest case of his life, and there is a price to pay.

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Tim Roth | Helena Bonham Carter | Michael Clarke Duncan | Paul Giamatti | Estella Warren | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | David Warner | Kris Kristofferson | Erick Avari | Lucas Elliott | Evan Parke | Glenn Shadix | Freda Foh Shen | Chris Ellis
Directors: Tim Burton
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After having their ship crash on a mysterious planet, two US astronauts wander across the desert plain. Thinking they are alone, the surprise comes when life forms appear, not just as mute human but as apes. Walking, talking apes. The apes see themselves as the original beings on the planet and do anything to keep all humans locked up.

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.

Appaloosa Movie (2008)

Monday, January 12th, 2009
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Jauregui | Jeremy Irons | Timothy V. Murphy | Luce Rains | James Tarwater | Boyd Kestner | Gabriel Marantz | Viggo Mortensen | Benjamin Rosenshein | Cerris Morgan-Moyer | James Gammon | Timothy Spall | Tom Bower | Erik J. Bockemeier
Directors: Ed Harris
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Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

The Verdict (1982)

Monday, January 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Newman | Charlotte Rampling | Jack Warden | James Mason | Milo O'Shea | Lindsay Crouse | Ed Binns | Julie Bovasso | Roxanne Hart | James Handy | Wesley Addy | Joe Seneca | Lewis J. Stadlen | Kent Broadhurst | Colin Stinton
Directors: Sidney Lumet
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Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, he suddenly realizes that perhaps after all the case should go to court: to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients, and to restore his standing as a lawyer.

The Narrow Margin (1952)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Charles McGraw | Marie Windsor | Jacqueline White | Gordon Gebert | Queenie Leonard | David Clarke | Peter Virgo | Don Beddoe | Paul Maxey | Harry Harvey | Peter Brocco | Ivan Browning | George Chandler | James Conaty
Directors: Richard Fleischer
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When a mobsters wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that he’s coming to trial she has to be escourted across country via train in order to testify. Cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail.

Bingo (1991)

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Cindy Williams | David Rasche | Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. | David French | Kurt Fuller | Joe Guzaldo | Glenn Shadix | Janet Wright | Wayne Robson | Suzie Plakson | Simon Webb | Tamsin Kelsey | Norman Browning | James Kidnie | Blu Mankuma
Directors: Matthew Robbins
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When Bingo, a runaway circus dog who leaves the big top, saves the life of Chuckie, a young boy who is having trouble fitting in with his pals. The two quickly become best friends-skateboarding, playing pinball, and doing math homework together. But Chuckie’s parents discover the stowaway pooch, and make no bones about the fact that Bingo will not accompany them on thier cross-country move. What follows next is a heart warming 1000 mile adventure of puppy love and loyalty as Bingo and Chuckie encounter nutty charcters and hilarious situations in thier quest to be reunited. Dog catchers, kidnappers, hospitalsmand even prison cant keep the two misfits apart!