Posts Tagged ‘class-differences’

Spanglish (2004)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | Leoni, Téa | Vega, Paz | Leachman, Cloris | Bruce, Shelbie | Steele, Sarah | Hyland, Ian | Luna, Victoria | Suárez, Cecilia | Molina, Ricardo | Canela, Brenda | Martin, Eddy | Nieth, Nicole | Kaler, Jamie | Lancaster, James
Directors: Brooks, James L.
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John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. When they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter’s soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous!

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.

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.

Anna and the King (1999)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Chow, Yun-Fat | Bai, Ling | Felton, Tom | Alwi, Syed | Kim, Randall Duk | Lim, Kay Siu | Campbell, Melissa | Chin, Keith | Maniam, Mano | Venugopal, Shanthini | Yusoff, Deanna | Palmer, Geoffrey | Firbank, Ann | Stewart, Bill
Directors: Tennant, Andy
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This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.

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.

Illusionist, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Norton, Edward | Giamatti, Paul | Biel, Jessica | Sewell, Rufus | Marsan, Eddie | Wood, Jake | Fisher, Tom | Johnson, Aaron | Tomlinson, Eleanor | Johnson, Karl | Franklin, Vincent | Blane, Nicholas | McGough, Philip | Redman, Erich | Carter, Michael
Directors: Burger, Neil
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A magician in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna falls in love with a woman well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to the crown prince, the magician uses his powers to free her and undermine the stability of the royal house of Vienna.

Titanic (1997)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Winslet, Kate | Zane, Billy | Bates, Kathy | Fisher, Frances | Stuart, Gloria | Paxton, Bill | Hill, Bernard | Warner, David | Garber, Victor | Hyde, Jonathan | Amis, Suzy | Abernathy, Lewis | Cascone, Nicholas | Sagalevitch, Dr. Anatoly M.
Directors: Cameron, James
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Titanic, the ship of dreams. Is also known as Unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fall in love, until one night, their fairytale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancée Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her grand daughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the 6 saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukator, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he doesn’t see her, and they never ended up together, her mom, Cal, and friends of the family has know choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 20’s, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage, and then to Rose all Titanic and the real love of her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside of her memory, and Titanic is to rest in peace at the bottom of the North Atlantic from 1912 until the end of time.

Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Heche, Anne | Schwimmer, David | Obradors, Jacqueline | Morrison, Temuera | Janney, Allison | Weston, Douglas | Curtis, Cliff | Trejo, Danny | Bode, Ben | Basco, Derek | Sedaris, Amy | Nguyen, Long | Feagai, Jake | Koyama, John
Directors: Reitman, Ivan
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Taking a romantic tropical island week off with her boyfriend, an ambitious, decisive New York girl agrees to help her magazine out by covering a story on a neighbouring island. The only plane available is piloted by a laid-back heavy drinker with whom she shares a mutual dislike. But she has no choice and he can’t refuse the money. When the plane crash-lands on an uninhabited island with little chance of rescue they both wish they had made other arrangements - at least to start with.

Persuasion (2007)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Penry-Jones, Rupert | Hawkins, Sally | Krige, Alice | Head, Anthony | Davis, Julia | Fenton Stevens, Michael | Stockley, Mary | Wight, Peter | Bailey, Marion | Hale, Amanda | Higham, Jennifer | Stephen, Rosamund | Stella Gonet | Hazeldine, Sam | Shergold, Louis
Directors: Shergold, Adrian
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On the brink of financial ruin, the Elliot family is forced to vacate their ancestral home in order to recover their debts and avoid losing face amongst their parish. The task of organizing their effects falls to levelheaded Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of Frederick Wentworth, a dashing (but destitute) naval officer…

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tracy, Spencer | Poitier, Sidney | Hepburn, Katharine | Houghton, Katharine | Kellaway, Cecil | Richards, Beah | Glenn, Roy | Sanford, Isabel | Christine, Virginia | Hay, Alexandra | Randolph, Barbara | Martin, D'Urville | Heaton, Tom | Gaynor, Grace | Martin, Skip
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he’s black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl’s parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor’s parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .