Posts Tagged ‘animal-rights’

Fly Away Home (1996)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Daniels, Jeff | Paquin, Anna | Delany, Dana | Kinney, Terry | Graham, Holter | Ratchford, Jeremy | Verginella, Deborah | Reynolds, Michael J. | Hemblen, David | James, Ken | Ballard, Nora | Paton, Sarena | Lishman, Carmen | Hill, Christi | Orban, Judith
Directors: Ballard, Carroll
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Amy (Anna Paquin) is reunited with her father (Jeff Daniels) after her mother’s death. She withdraws from her new life, and life in general, until she finds a reason to participate in something: the preservation, parenting, and eventual migration-instruction of a flock of orphaned geese.

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Roth, Tim | Bonham Carter, Helena | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Giamatti, Paul | Warren, Estella | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Warner, David | Kristofferson, Kris | Avari, Erick | Elliott, Lucas | Parke, Evan | Shadix, Glenn | Shen, Freda Foh | Ellis, Chris
Directors: Burton, Tim
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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.

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Davis, Ossie | Platt, Oliver | Boyle, Peter | Schiff, Richard | Wilson, Kristen | Tambor, Jeffrey | Pratt, Kyla | Raven | Gilborn, Steven | Dellums, Erik | Christopher, June | Franklin, Cherie | Adair-Rios, Mark | Calfa, Don
Directors: Thomas, Betty
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Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In so doing, he and his friends meet such exotic creatures as the Pushme-Pullyu and the Giant Moon Moth. This musical is the source of the hit song, “If I Could Talk To The Animals.”

Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Szubanski, Magda | Cromwell, James | Stein, Mary | Rooney, Mickey | Daily, Elizabeth | Mann, Danny | Headly, Glenne | Wright, Steven | Cosmo, James | Kress, Nathan | Jeffrey, Myles | Ross, Stanley Ralph | Taylor, Russi | Goldberg, Adam | Barth, Eddie
Directors: Miller, George
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After Babe’s great victory in the shepherding contest, Farmer Arthur Hoggett turns down all offers to make money with his pig’s talents. But when he gets hurt severely in the well, his wife has to take up farming. She does her best but cannot meet the bank’s requirements, which results in the necessity of getting back to Babe. Soon, Esme Hoggett is sitting in a plane headed for “the” city. There, Babe unwillingly causes deep trouble. He has to stay with Mrs. Hoggett in the only hotel in town that accepts pets. Friendly neighbours send officials who catch all animals from the hotel: Cats, dogs, chimpanzees and many others. Babe, who managed to stay free, decides to help his new friends and gets unexpected help - not only by Ferdinand, who flew all the way to the city.

Fast Food Nation (2006)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Valderrama, Wilmer | Moreno, Catalina Sandino | Talancón, Ana Claudia | Serrán, Juan Carlos | Hernández, Armando | Kinnear, Greg | Ertl, Frank | Conway, Michael D. | Baker, Mitch | Salmon, Ellar | Edwards, Dakota | Wheeler-Nicholson, Dana | Guzmán, Luis | Cannavale, Bobby | Rosales, Francisco
Directors: Linklater, Richard
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Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear) is the Mickey’s food restaurant chain’s Marketing Director. He is the inventor of the “Big One” the hamburger best seller of Mickey’s. An independent research reports the presence of cow’s feces in the Big One. So Don is sent to Cody, Colorado, to verify if the slaughterhouse, main supplier of Mickey’s, is efficient as it appears and the production process is regular. During his investigations he discovers the horrible truth behind a simple hamburger; the reality is not like we think it is. Don discovers that the mass production system involves from the temp workers like Amber (Ashley Jonhson), to the exploitation of Mexican irregular immigrants. It is not only the meat that is crush in the mincing machine, but all our society.

Black Sheep (2006)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Meister, Nathan | Mason, Danielle | Feeney, Peter | Davis, Tammy | Levestam, Glenis | Wright, Tandi | Driver, Oliver | Chamberlain, Matthew | Fenton, Nick | Clarke, Sam | Kent, Eli | Blake, Nick | Chapman, Richard | Sutherland, Louis | Harcourt, Ian
Directors: King, Jonathan
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An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

28 Days Later… (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Palmer, Alex | De Stoppani, Bindu | Hiltunen, Jukka | Schneider, David | Murphy, Cillian | Sedgwick, Toby | Harris, Naomie | Huntley, Noah | Dunne, Christopher | Hitching, Emma | Delamere, Alexander | McGarrity, Kim | Gleeson, Brendan | Burns, Megan | Hackney, Justin
Directors: Boyle, Danny
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A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Melito, Joseph | Willis, Bruce | Seda, Jon | Chance, Michael | Campbell, Vernon | Walls, H. Michael | Adrian, Bob | Jones, Simon | Florence, Carol | Raymond, Bill | Abuba, Ernest | St. Paule, Irma | Stowe, Madeleine | Perillo, Joey | Kirkpatrick, Bruce | Pitt, Brad | Plummer, Christopher
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.

Shaggy Dog, The (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Allen, Tim | Davis, Kristin | Grey, Zena | Breslin, Spencer | Glover, Danny | Downey Jr., Robert | Leonard, Joshua | Pyfrom, Shawn | Wohl, Bess | Paul, Jarrad | Gurwitch, Annabelle | Curtin, Jane | Hall, Philip Baker | Moore, Joel | Brox, Jeanette
Directors: Robbins, Brian
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A man tries to live a normal life despite the fact that he sometimes turns into a sheepdog.

LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Towne, Katharine | Brown, Melanie | Hardy, Tom | McCall, Ross | Fisher, Toby | Bill, Leo | Winchester, Philip | Lord, Stephen | Emery, Tania | Talbot, Alan | Zaki, Antony | Elbrick, Xanthe
Directors: De Selva, Simon
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Re-formed by a coded message to their web site, a group of animal rights activists set off to free an imprisoned colleague from a terrifying ordeal. Their rescue mission leads them to a disused lab, but what should have been a simple raid turns into a series of twisted and mind bending incidents where the free and the caged switch places, in this tormented psychological horror.