Posts Tagged ‘child-abuse’

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Damon, Matt | Affleck, Ben | Skarsgård, Stellan | Driver, Minnie | Affleck, Casey | Hauser, Cole | Mighton, John | Majorowski, Rachel | McCauley, Colleen | Mercier, Matt | St. George, Ralph | Lynds, Rob | Washington, Dan | Folland, Alison
Directors: Van Sant, Gus
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Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean’s coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.

Running Scared (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Walker, Paul | Bright, Cameron | Farmiga, Vera | Palminteri, Chazz | Roden, Karel | Messner, Johnny | Milicevic, Ivana | Neuberger, Alex | Cudlitz, Michael | Altman, Bruce | Mitchell, Elizabeth | Nascarella, Arthur J. | Noble, John | DeLeon, Idalis | Warshofsky, David
Directors: Kramer, Wayne
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After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things goes wrong for Joey after the neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find the kid and the gun before the police and the mob find them first.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Monday, July 6th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Rickman, Alan | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Radcliffe, Daniel | Smith, Maggie | Coltrane, Robbie | Triplets, Saunders | Harris, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Griffiths, Richard | Deadman, Derek | Hart, Ian | Borowiecki, Ben | Davis, Warwick | Troyer, Verne | Hurt, John | Bremmer, Richard
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Horror (2002)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Kreskin | Mahon, Lizzy | Lopes, Danny | Lamberti, Vincent | Sanford, Christie | Pagan, Jessica | Brown, Raine | Kenny, Kevin | Farabaugh, Chris | Rose, Felissa | Norberg, Rick | Andre, Erin
Directors: Tomaselli, Dante
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Writer/Director Dante Tomaselli merges two disturbing storylines into this visually arresting chiller. The first involves a band of five teens that escape from a drug rehabilitation center to cash in on a questionable promise of salvation from the psychopathic Reverend Salo Jr. (Vincent Lamberti). Leader of the pack Luck (Danny Lopes), fueled on major hallucinogens, transports the gang to the reverend’s isolated house where the basis of the second plot has been set simultaneously. Here lives Grace (Lizzy Mahon), Salo Jr.’s daughter, whom he and his equally bizarre wife (Christie Sanford) have enslaved through enforced drug addiction and psychic brainwashing. Grace’s only salvation appears to be by the guidance of her paternal grandfather Reverend Salo Sr. (The Amazing Kreskin). But this hope is quickly jeopardized when it becomes revealed that his comforting visitations may be being made from beyond the grave. Regardless, it is through Grace’s visions involving him that she learns of her parent’s demonic pastimes, which include abduction, murder, and possibly worse. Shortly after the arrival of the rehab escapees, Luck shoots and kills Salo Jr. and his wife. This eruption of bloody violence becomes the catalyst for the unleashing of dark forces with terrifying results.

Prince of Tides, The (1991)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Danner, Blythe | Nelligan, Kate | Krabbé, Jeroen | Dillon, Melinda | Carlin, George | Gould, Jason | Sullivan, Brad | Collier, Maggie | Wray, Lindsay | Whitaker, Brandlyn | Woods, Justen | Fain, Bobby | Yearwood, Trey
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When a Southern born New York writer tries to commit suicide, her “unemployed-football-coach” twin brother, Tom Wingo, comes to her aid. While tending to his sister Savannah’s care he meets her psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein. Dr. Lowenstein, desperate to unlock the door to her patient’s self-destructive pattern, relies on Tom to be his sister’s memory. What she doesn’t realize is that the last thing Tom wants to do is remember. Haunted by a painful childhood and a domineering mother, Tom discovers the only thing worse than not remembering is not telling.

Shining, The (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Duvall, Shelley | Lloyd, Danny | Crothers, Scatman | Nelson, Barry | Stone, Philip | Turkel, Joe | Jackson, Anne | Burton, Tony | Beldam, Lia | Gibson, Billie | Dennen, Barry | Baxt, David | Redwood, Manning | Burns, Lisa
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.

Radio Flyer (1992)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bracco, Lorraine | Heard, John | Baldwin, Adam | Wood, Elijah | Mazzello, Joseph | Johnson, Ben | Baca, Sean | Munic, Robert | Ratliff Henson, Garette | Nicholas, Thomas Ian | Verduzco, Noah | Ocampo, Isaac | Romero, Kaylan | Verduzco, Abraham | Evans, T.J.
Directors: Donner, Richard
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A loving father explains the value of promise and believing to his two boys trough the story of young Mike and his kid brother Bobby, who being abandoned by their dad had to move with ma and German shepherd Shane to a rural town where the local kids, lorded by abusive older scamp Victor Hernandez, consider them intruders ’stealing’ their predecessors’ place. Alas the friendly sheriff Daugherty, whose protection they politely wave, will have to act against a far worse bully, ma’s new lover who expects to be called the king and belts Bobby’s back brutally when drunk in the garage, a secret the boys want to keep secret for finally happy ma. The superstitious brothers spend their time exploring, pulling a wheeled red wagon called Radio Flyer, which name finally inspires a desperate ‘magical escape’ attempt…

Where the Heart Is (2000)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Judd, Ashley | Channing, Stockard | Cusack, Joan | Frain, James | Bruno, Dylan | David, Keith | Prewitt, Ray | House, Laura | Green, Karey | Green, Mary Ashleigh | McInroe, Kinna | Auldridge, Laura | Godwin, Alicia | Letts, Dennis
Directors: Williams, Matt
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Novalee Nation, 17 and very pregnant, has never been part of a real home. The closest thing to family for the hard-luck teen is her selfish, would-be musician boyfriend, Willy Jack, with whom she’s traveling from Tennessee to California in a rust bucket that used to be a Plymouth. A bathroom stop en route, at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart, changes Novalee’s life forever. For when she leaves the store, she discovers that Willy Jack and the Plymouth are gone. Only her Polaroid camera remains in the parking space. Alone and broke, Novalee surreptitiously moves into the vast store, borrowing food and supplies from its shelves. When she gives birth on the floor - and her hideaway is revealed - Novalee and her “Wal-Mart Baby” become instant celebrities. More importantly, over the next few years, Novalee finally becomes part of an unconventional, makeshift family comprised of her wonderfully eccentric new friends. Now, with the family she always wanted, Novalee is transformed from a homeless teen to a successful and strong woman. She has finally found a home in this small town where fate has dropped her.

Martyrs (2008)

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror
Countries: Canada | France
Actors: Alaoui, Morjana | Jampanoï, Mylène | Bégin, Catherine | Toupin, Robert | Tulasne, Patricia | Gosselin, Juliette | Dolan-Tadros, Xavier | Chasse, Isabelle | Miskdjian, Emilie | Chute, Mike | Cohen, Gaëlle | Pascale, Anie | Pham, Jessie | Scott, Erika
Directors: Laugier, Pascal
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A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Five People You Meet in Heaven, The (2004)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Voight, Jon | Burstyn, Ellen | Daniels, Jeff | Dominczyk, Dagmara | Grayhm, Steven | Imperioli, Michael | Rennie, Callum Keith | Jenkins, Rebecca | Brebner, Callahan | Weigel, Nicaela | Weigel, Shelbie | Cadman, Darcy | O'Halloran, Tim | Santiago, Zak | Aneke, Emy
Directors: Kramer, Lloyd
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Eddie is the responsible for the maintenance of the Ruby Pier amusement park and a veteran of World War II. While trying to save a five year old girl from an accident with ride that is falling after rupturing the wire, Eddie dies. He awakes in Heaven, and the Blue Man explains him that he will have a journey meeting five people in their heavens that will show the importance of his life before he goes to the next level.