Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’

Slap Shot (1977)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Newman | Strother Martin | Michael Ontkean | Jennifer Warren | Lindsay Crouse | Jerry Houser | Andrew Duncan | Jeff Carlson | Steve Carlson | David Hanson | Yvon Barrette | Allan F. Nicholls | Brad Sullivan | Stephen Mendillo | Yvan Ponton
Directors: George Roy Hill
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The player-coach of a small town minor professional league hockey team must deal with hostile crowds and on-ice thuggery in this warm-hearted and only slightly farcical look at minor league ice hockey.

Always Outnumbered (1998)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Laurence Fishburne | Daniel Williams | Bill Cobbs | Natalie Cole | Laurie Metcalf | Alan Wilder | Cicely Tyson | Bridgid Coulter | Bill Nunn | Isaiah Washington | Bill Duke | Kevin Carroll | Jamaal Carter | John Toles-Bey | Brooke Marie Bridges
Directors: Michael Apted
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An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.

Of Human Bondage (1934)

Friday, February 27th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Leslie Howard | Bette Davis | Frances Dee | Kay Johnson | Reginald Denny | Alan Hale | Reginald Sheffield | Reginald Owen | Desmond Roberts | Harry Allen | Ray Atchley | Frank Baker | Douglas Gordon | Frankie Grandetta | Tommy Hughes
Directors: John Cromwell
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Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with illiterate waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him, runs off with a salesman and returns unmarried and pregnant. Philip gets her an apartment and they become engaged. Mildred runs off with another medical student. Philip takes her back again when she returns with her baby. She wrecks his apartment and burns the securities he needs to pay tuition. He gets a job as a salesman, has surgery on his foot, receives an inheritance, and returns to school where he learns Mildred is dying.

Torch Singer (1933)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Claudette Colbert | Ricardo Cortez | David Manners | Lyda Roberti | Baby LeRoy | Charley Grapewin | Sam Godfrey | Florence Roberts | Virginia Hammond | Mildred Washington | Cora Sue Collins | Helen Jerome Eddy | Albert Conti | Ethel Griffies | James Burke
Directors: Alexander Hall
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Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. The father, Michael Gardner, leaves for China not knowing about the baby, and she assumes he has abandoned her for life. She gets a job as a torch singer, changes her name to Mimi Benton, and becomes notorious for her drinking and philadering. Mimi fills in on a children’s radio program as the character “Aunt Jenny,” singing and telling bedtime stories, and eventually uses the airtime to find her long lost daughter, part with her wild lifestyle, and reunite with Michael.

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Vivien Leigh | Robert Taylor | Lucile Watson | Virginia Field | Maria Ouspenskaya | C. Aubrey Smith | Janet Shaw | Janet Waldo | Steffi Duna | Virginia Carroll | Leda Nicova | Florence Baker | Margery Manning | Frances MacInerney | Eleanor Stewart
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy
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On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn’t killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra’s hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family’s country estate.

Hands Across the Table (1935)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Carole Lombard | Fred MacMurray | Ralph Bellamy | Astrid Allwyn | Marie Prevost | Ruth Donnelly | Joseph R. Tozer | William Demarest | Edward Gargan | Ferdinand Munier | Harold Minjir | Marcelle Corday | Albert Conti | Herman Bing | Peter Allen
Directors: Mitchell Leisen
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Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match in Theodore ‘Ted’ Drew III. After a date with Ted, she lets him sleep on her couch when he’s too drunk to go further; but what is she to think when he wants to extend the arrangement?

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Meryl Streep | Jane Alexander | Justin Henry | Howard Duff | George Coe | JoBeth Williams | Bill Moor | Howland Chamberlain | Jack Ramage | Jess Osuna | Nicholas Hormann | Ellen Parker | Shelby Brammer | Carol Nadell
Directors: Robert Benton
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Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted however refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son.

Daddy Day Care (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Murphy | Jeff Garlin | Steve Zahn | Regina King | Kevin Nealon | Jonathan Katz | Siobhan Fallon | Lisa Edelstein | Lacey Chabert | Laura Kightlinger | Leila Arcieri | Anjelica Huston | Khamani Griffin | Max Burkholder | Arthur Young
Directors: Steve Carr
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In the hilarious comedy Daddy Day Care, two fathers (Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin) lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon, the two dads open their own day care facility, “Daddy Day Care”, and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As “Daddy Day Care” starts to catch on, it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy’s tough-as-nails director (Anjelica Huston) …who has driven all previous competitors out of business.

Postal (2007)

Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Germany | USA
Actors: Zack Ward | Dave Foley | Chris Coppola | Jackie Tohn | J.K. Simmons | Ralf Moeller | Verne Troyer | Chris Spencer | Larry Thomas | Michael Paré | Erick Avari | Lindsay Hollister | Brent Mendenhall | Rick Hoffman | Michael Benyaer
Directors: Uwe Boll
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The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are planning the same heist as well. Chaos ensues, and now the Postal Dude must not only take on terrorists but political figures as well.

The Razor’s Edge (1946)

Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tyrone Power | Gene Tierney | John Payne | Anne Baxter | Clifton Webb | Herbert Marshall | Lucile Watson | Frank Latimore | Elsa Lanchester | Fritz Kortner | John Wengraf | Cecil Humphreys | Harry Pilcer | Cobina Wright Sr. | George Adrian
Directors: Edmund Goulding
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Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929, is invited to live in Paris with her rich, social climbing, Uncle Elliot. During a sojurn there, Larry, having attained his goal, is reunited with Isabel. While slumming one night Larry, Isabel and company are shocked to discover Sophie, a friend from Chicago. Having lost her husband and child in a tragic accident, Sophie is living the low-life with the help of drugs an abusive brute. Larry tries to rehabilitate her, but his efforts are sabotaged by Isabel who has tried in vain to reignite Larry’s interest in her.