Posts Tagged ‘christmas’

Annie Hall (1977)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Keaton, Diane | Roberts, Tony | Kane, Carol | Simon, Paul | Duvall, Shelley | Margolin, Janet | Dewhurst, Colleen | Walken, Christopher | Symington, Donald | Ludlam, Helen | Lawner, Mordecai | Neuman, Joan | Munk, Jonathan | Volner, Ruth
Directors: Allen, Woody
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After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation.

Color Purple, The (1985)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Glover, Danny | Goldberg, Whoopi | Avery, Margaret | Winfrey, Oprah | Pugh, Willard E. | Busia, Akosua | Jackson, Desreta | Caesar, Adolph | Chong, Rae Dawn | Ivey, Dana | Jackson, Leonard | Guillory, Bennet | Patton Jr., John | Anderson, Carl | Beaubian, Susan
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900’s. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life…

Truman Show, The (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Linney, Laura | Emmerich, Noah | McElhone, Natascha | Taylor, Holland | Delate, Brian | Slater, Blair | Krause, Peter | Schanz, Heidi | Taylor, Ron | Taylor, Don | Raymond, Ted | Clayton, Judy
Directors: Weir, Peter
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He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering.

Roger & Me (1989)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Blanchard, James | Bond, James | Boone, Pat | Eubanks, Bob | Hamper, Ben | Jackson, Timothy | Kay, Tom | Koppel, Ted | Lennox, Correy | MacDonald, Brian | Rather, Dan | Reagan, Ronald | Ross, Fred | Sawdon, Richard Earl
Directors: Moore, Michael
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Elfman, Danny | Sarandon, Chris | O'Hara, Catherine | Hickey, William | Shadix, Glenn | Reubens, Paul | Page, Ken | Ivory, Ed | McBride, Susan | Durst, Debi | Proops, Greg | Katz, Kerry | Crenshaw, Randy | Ball, Sherwood | Twillie, Carmen
Directors: Selick, Henry
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Bored and unhappy with the life of being “The Pumpkin King” Jack Skellington of Halloween Town, Jack sets out to find something exciting. Jack discovers “Christmas Town” and takes it upon himself to take over the duties of Santa to deliver toys across the world to children.

Home Alone (1990)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Culkin, Macaulay | Pesci, Joe | Stern, Daniel | Heard, John | Blossom, Roberts | O'Hara, Catherine | Goethals, Angela | Ratray, Devin | Bamman, Gerry | Snell, Terrie | Wolf, Hillary | Hankin, Larry | Maronna, Michael C. | Minter, Kristin | Campeanu, Daiana
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Kevin McAllister, 8 years old is accidentally left behind while his family rushes to the Airport to go to France for their Christmas vacation. Kevin learns that he made his family is gone. He spends his first day having fun in his house. Kevin learns that Mav and Harry (The Wet Bandits), two crooks are trying to rob his house. Kevin fends for himself and protects his house from the thieves, by setting traps everywhere. Meanwhile, Kevin’s mother discovers that they left Kevin in Chicago and tries to go back to Chicago while the other members of the family stay in Fance.

Michael (1996)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | MacDowell, Andie | Hurt, William | Hoskins, Bob | Pastorelli, Robert | Stapleton, Jean | Garr, Teri | Langham, Wallace | Adams, Joey Lauren | Gugino, Carla | Hodges, Tom | Burns, Catherine Lloyd | Schiff, Richard | Trillin, Calvin | Lee Jr., Donald J.
Directors: Ephron, Nora
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Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an ‘angel expert’, are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her house with a real, live archangel named Michael. Upon arrival, they see that her claims are true - but Michael is not what they expected: he smokes, drinks beer, has a very active libido and has a rather colourful vocabulary. In fact, they would never believe it were it not for the two feathery wings protruding from his back. Michael agrees to travel to Chicago with the threesome, but what they don’t realise is that the journey they are about to undertake will change their lives forever.

Cold Mountain (2003)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Law, Jude | Kidman, Nicole | Zellweger, Renée | Atkins, Eileen | Gleeson, Brendan | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Portman, Natalie | Ribisi, Giovanni | Sutherland, Donald | Winstone, Ray | Baker, Kathy | Gammon, James | Hunnam, Charlie | White, Jack | Suplee, Ethan
Directors: Minghella, Anthony
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Jude Law plays a leading role as Inman, a wounded confederate soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his prewar sweetheart, Ada, played by Nicole Kidman.

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Hoskins, Bob | Tucci, Stanley | Fiennes, Ralph | Richardson, Natasha
Directors: Wang, Wayne
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Marisa Ventura (Lopez) is a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City, who works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, Marisa meets Christopher Marshall (Fiennes), a handsome heir to a political dynasty, who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Fate steps in and throws the unlikely pair together for one night. When Marisa’s true identity is revealed, the two find that they are worlds apart, even though the distance separating them is just a subway ride between Manhattan and the Bronx.

Bless the Child (2000)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Basinger, Kim | Smits, Jimmy | Coleman, Holliston | Sewell, Rufus | Bettis, Angela | Ricci, Christina | Gaston, Michael | Cavazos, Lumi | Arliss, Dimitra | Lipinski, Eugene | Betancourt, Anne | Holm, Ian | Stenborg, Helen | Lemche, Matthew | Warry-Smith, Dan
Directors: Russell, Chuck
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Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O’Connor’s well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis (Jimmy Smits), an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply “special.” She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child and the love she inspires in those she touches.