Posts Tagged ‘barbershop’

Sting, The (1973)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Newman, Paul | Redford, Robert | Shaw, Robert | Durning, Charles | Walston, Ray | Brennan, Eileen | Gould, Harold | Heffernan, John | Elcar, Dana | Kehoe, Jack | Arliss, Dimitra | Jones, Robert Earl | Sloyan, James | Dierkop, Charles | Paul, Lee
Directors: Hill, George Roy
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Johnny Hooker is a young con-man who is being taught by Luther. One day they pull one of their con jobs and net themselves a huge roll. What they don’t know is that the man they conned is the courier for a numbers runner. And it turns out that the boss, Doyle Lonigan, considers it an attack on him and orders all the people involved terminated. Hooker is shaken down by a crooked cop, Snyder, who threatens to turn him over to Lonigan unless he pays him off. Hooker pays him, he then tries to warn Luther but is too late. He then goes to see Henry Gondorf, a friend of Luther’s and a one time great con-man, who has had a bit of bad luck. After hearing what happened to Luther and seeing how hungry Hooker is for payback, he assembles a gang and decides to con Lonigan. While everything seems to be going ok, there is just the problem of the hit on Hooker and Snyder, whom Hooker paid off with counterfeit money.

Day of the Locust, The (1975)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sutherland, Donald | Black, Karen | Burgess Meredith | Atherton, William | Page, Geraldine | Dysart, Richard | Hopkins, Bo | Serna, Pepe | Goldoni, Lelia | Barty, Billy | Haley, Jackie Earle | LeRoy, Gloria | Hoffman, Jane | Leavitt, Norman | Kennedy, Madge
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930’s Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely, morose accountant. As Tod is drawn deeper into the lurid private lives of studio bosses and film industry workers, he gradually becomes desperate to know if Faye - or anyone - is capable of real love.

Chinatown (1974)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Dunaway, Faye | Huston, John | Lopez, Perry | Hillerman, John | Zwerling, Darrell | Ladd, Diane | Jenson, Roy | Bakalyan, Richard | Mantell, Joe | Glover, Bruce | Hinds, Nandu | O'Rear, James | Hong, James
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn’t drop the case immediately. Gittes pursues the case anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy centering on water management, state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate, and involving at least one murder.

Little Manhattan (2005)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hutcherson, Josh | Ray, Charlie | Whitford, Bradley | Nixon, Cynthia | Garson, Willie | Patano, Tonye | Manzay, J. Kyle | Pais, Josh | Dossett, John | Balsam, Talia | Meyerson, Jonah | Bush, Michael | Aguiar, Brian W. | Cubbler, Nick | Laflamme, Anthony
Directors: Levin, Mark
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Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan, untill Rosemary Telesco walked into his life actually into his karate class. But, before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not being going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life,love and girls.

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Cazale, John | Durning, Charles | Sarandon, Chris | Boyar, Sully | Broderick, James | Marriott, John | Springer, Gary | Henriksen, Lance | Chianese, Dominic | Levine, Floyd | Foresta, Carmine | Bogert, William | Cummins, Ron | Gerber, Jay
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Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a sex change operation. On a hot summer afternoon, the First Savings Bank of Brooklyn is held up by Sonny and Sal, two down-and-out characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with the robbery, Sonny finds that there’s actually nothing much to steal, as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Police Captain Moretti, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city’s entire police force. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, demanding safe escort to the airport and a plane out of the country in return for the bank employees’ safety.

Summer of Sam (1999)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Leguizamo, John | Brody, Adrien | Sorvino, Mira | Esposito, Jennifer | Rispoli, Michael | Guerra, Saverio | Tarantina, Brian | Palagonia, Al | Garito, Ken | Neuwirth, Bebe | LuPone, Patti | Starr, Mike | LaPaglia, Anthony | Smith, Roger Guenveur | Gazzara, Ben
Directors: Lee, Spike
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Spike Lee’s take on the “Son of Sam” murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Unforgiven (1992)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hackman, Gene | Freeman, Morgan | Harris, Richard | Woolvett, Jaimz | Rubinek, Saul | Fisher, Frances | Levine, Anna | Mucci, David | Campbell, Rob | James, Anthony | Frederick, Tara | Elliott, Beverley | Repo-Martell, Liisa | Smith, Josie
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The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff ‘Little Bill’ tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill’s justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as ‘The Schofield Kid’, and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned, saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth.

Mr. Woodcock (2007)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Thornton, Billy Bob | Scott, Seann William | Sarandon, Susan | Poehler, Amy | Sagemiller, Melissa | Suplee, Ethan | Davich, Jacob | Baldridge, Kyley | George, Alec | Sargent, Joseph Michael | Gainey, M.C. | Briscoe, Brent | Kuhr, Dave | Wyatt, Lisa K. | Fuller, Kurt
Directors: Gillespie, Craig
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Taken aback by his mother’s wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.

Rounders (1998)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Norton, Edward | Cicero, Paul | Turturro, John | Iannicelli, Ray | Mol, Gretchen | Janssen, Famke | Goldsmith, Merwin | Malkovich, John | Landau, Martin | Zito, Sonny | Rispoli, Michael | Lawrence, Mal Z. | Kanakaredes, Melina | Mostel, Josh
Directors: Dahl, John
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A young man (Damon) is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Borgnine, Ernest | Red Buttons | Lynley, Carol | McDowall, Roddy | Stevens, Stella | Winters, Shelley | Albertson, Jack | Martin, Pamela Sue | O'Connell, Arthur | Shea, Eric | Sadoff, Fred | Allen, Sheila | Arvan, Jan | Webster, Byron
Directors: Neame, Ronald
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At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90′ tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.