Posts Tagged ‘chicago-illinois’

Judgment Night (1993)

Monday, April 27th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Estevez, Emilio | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Leary, Denis | Dorff, Stephen | Piven, Jeremy | Greene, Peter | Schrody, Erik | Wiseman, Michael | DeLorenzo, Michael | Webb, Relioues | Zahrn, Will | Williams, Eugene | Harnos, Christine | Görg, Galyn | Alvarado, Angela
Directors: Hopkins, Stephen
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Four pals are on their way to a boxing match, but gets stuck in heavy traffic. To get to the boxing match in time they take the first exit they find to find another way to the venue. As they are driving around lost in gang-land they get stuck and witness a brutal murder. The killer wants no witnesses and tries to kill them too. The four pals get away the first time, but the killer is soon back on their tail again while they are trying to find help in the middle of nowhere.

Weather Man, The (2005)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Caine, Michael | Davis, Hope | de la Peña, Gemmenne | Hoult, Nicholas | Rispoli, Michael | Bellows, Gil | McConnell, Judith | Marrs, Chris | Facklis, Dina | Brooks, DeAnna N.J. | Moody, Sia A. | Van Swearingen, Guy | Pina, Alejandro | Bubala, Jackson
Directors: Verbinski, Gore
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Clever and insightful movie on the subject of growing-up in upper middle class America. Dave Spritz, a weatherman without meteorological qualifications in Chicago, is confronted with his own rage that life hasn’t proceeded as he had planned. A talented man who finds it difficult to see his own talent because he compares himself with his Pulitzer winning, distant father is at a low ebb. Not to mention that “fans” delight in recognizing him on the street and throwing food at him. The other problems in his life, an angry ex-wife, a daughter bullied at school and a son just leaving rehab don’t help. And Spritz would really rather just think about sex. Through finding a hobby, connecting with his dying father and standing by his kids we see the character grow and become a hero.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Monroe, Marilyn | Curtis, Tony | Lemmon, Jack | Raft, George | O'Brien, Pat | Brown, Joe E. | Persoff, Nehemiah | Shawlee, Joan | Gray, Billy | Stone, George E. | Barry, Dave | Mazurki, Mike | Wilson, Harry | Wills, Beverly
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are In Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane’s dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn’t have. But he can use Osgood Fielding’s yacht if Jerry — as Daphne — will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention.

Deliver Us from Eva (2003)

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: LL Cool J | Union, Gabrielle | Martin, Duane | Atkins, Essence | Lee, Robinne | Good, Meagan | Jackson, Mel | Edmonds, Dartanyan | Whitley, Kym | Watkins, Royale | Winston, Matt | Paul, Ruben | Gregory, Dorian | Moore, Kenya | Brown, Yuri
Directors: Hardwick, Gary
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Eva Dandridge is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their husbands. Her in-laws, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They end up paying Ray, the local “playboy,” $5,000 to date her. The plan goes by smoothly, but troubles comes when Ray actually falls in love with Eva.

Buddy (1997)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Russo, Rene | Coltrane, Robbie | Cumming, Alan | Hall, Irma P. | Elliott, Peter | Wilson, Mak | Bruce, Lynn Robertson | Sealey, Mark | Tygner, Robert | Sisti, Michelan | Hurst, Peter | Tilden, Leif | Townsend, Star | Reubens, Paul | Aylward, John
Directors: Thompson, Caroline
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This is a fact based story about an English socialite (Rene Russo) and her husband (Robbie Coltrane) who live in a mansion with a brood of animals including chimpanzees who are raised as her children. When she discovers an ailing baby gorilla, she decides to care for it as well. Years later, the gorilla is fully grown and its strength is sometimes out of control. However, the gorilla shows love for his mistress and obeys her commands. That all changes when she is invited to display the gorilla and chimps at the Chicago World’s Fair. Accidentally freed by one of the chimps, the gorilla terrorizes the Fair. From that point on, he becomes moody and more uncontrollable until he attacks his mistress in a bestial rage.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Comingore, Dorothy | Moorehead, Agnes | Warrick, Ruth | Collins, Ray | Sanford, Erskine | Sloane, Everett | Alland, William | Stewart, Paul | Coulouris, George | Bonanova, Fortunio | Schilling, Gus | Van Zandt, Philip | Backus, Georgia | Shannon, Harry
Directors: Welles, Orson
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

Raging Bull (1980)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Moriarty, Cathy | Pesci, Joe | Vincent, Frank | Colasanto, Nicholas | Saldana, Theresa | Gallo, Mario | Adonis, Frank | Bono, Joseph | Topham, Frank | Flax, Lori Anne | Scorsese, Charles | Dunphy, Don | Hanrahan, Bill | Bennett, Rita
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he’s a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he’s a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family’s love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it’s his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.

Surviving Christmas (2004)

Friday, December 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gandolfini, James | Macy, Bill | Affleck, Ben | Applegate, Christina | | Zuckerman, Josh
Directors: Mike Mitchell
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Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, Drew wants to revisit his old childhood home and possibly relive some old holiday memories. But when he arrives, he finds that the house he was raised in is no longer the home he grew up in. Inhabited by another family, Drew offers a nice financial reward that has the family ringing. But is Drew’s generous cash offer only the beginning of an annoying visitor whose a little too overeager to celebrate Christmas?

This Christmas (2007)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lindo, Delroy | Elba, Idris | Devine, Loretta | Brown, Chris | Robinson, Keith | Alonso, Laz | Short, Columbus | Leal, Sharon | London, Lauren | Ontiveros, Lupe | Stroup, Jessica | Phifer, Mekhi | King, Regina | Banner, David | Harris, Ricky
Directors: Whitmore II, Preston A.
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A Christmastime drama centered around the Whitfield family’s first holiday together in four years.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Broderick, Matthew | Ruck, Alan | Sara, Mia | Jones, Jeffrey | Grey, Jennifer | Pickett, Cindy | Ward, Lyman | McClurg, Edie | Sheen, Charlie | Stein, Ben | Close, Del | Capers, Virginia | Edson, Richard | Jenkins, Larry Flash | Swanson, Kristy
Directors: Hughes, John
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Ferris Bueller has played hooky numbers of times, and this time he’s got the entire school and more believing he is on the verge of death. On this special day off, Ferris invites his friend Cameron Fry and girlfriend Sloane Peterson to his day of fun, while taking Cameron’s father’s precious Ferrari for transportation. All the while, the principal Ed Rooney is determined to prove Ferris is faking his illness and Ferris’s agitated sister Jeanie also has a goal to catch Ferris off guard. Ferris enjoys his day with his friends, until the mileage of the Ferrari reads one too many miles driven and Cameron has a blow out.