Posts Tagged ‘domestic-violence’

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…

Enough (2002)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Campbell, Bill | Allen, Tessa | Lewis, Juliette | Futterman, Dan | Wyle, Noah | Ward, Fred | Carroll, Janet | Cobbs, Bill | Maher, Christopher | Young, Bruce A. | French, Bruce | Madera, Ruben | Martin, Dan | Kober, Jeff
Directors: Apted, Michael
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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn’t who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there’s only one way out of the marriage: kill him. ‘Fred Ward (I)’ (qv) has a guest-starring role.

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 fiancĂ©e 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.

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bates, Kathy | Masterson, Mary Stuart | Parker, Mary-Louise | Tandy, Jessica | Tyson, Cicely | O'Donnell, Chris | Shaw, Stan | Sartain, Gailard | Scott, Timothy | Basaraba, Gary | Smith, Lois | Allen, Jo Harvey | McCalman, Macon | Riehle, Richard | Scheine, Raynor
Directors: Avnet, Jon
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Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920’s Alabama. Through Idgie’s inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.

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.

Hounddog (2007)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Clayton-Luce, Oliver | Hanford, Cody | Morse, David | Omilami, Afemo | Pelton, Ryan | Prather, Ron | Sanders, Christoph | Taylor, Frank Hoyt | Thompson, Jody | Wallace, Sean Andrew | Yelton, William Smith | Fanning, Dakota | Fuhrman, Isabelle | Laurie, Piper | McIntyre, Chandler
Directors: Kampmeier, Deborah
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A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

Thirteen (2003)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wood, Evan Rachel | Reed, Nikki | Hudgens, Vanessa Anne | Hunter, Holly | Corbet, Brady | Estrada, Ulysses | Blakely-Cartwright, Sarah | Carey, Jenicka | Clarke, Sarah | Di Angelo, Jasmine | Ludwick, Tessa | Pardue, Kip | Tsou, CeCe | Sisto, Jeremy | Yang, Jamison
Directors: Hardwicke, Catherine
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Tracy is a more unpopular girl who desperately wants to befriend the most popular girl in school Evie. When Evie finally becomes her friend she leads Tracy into a world of drugs, sex, violence, and theft in which her mother can not save her.

Carolina Moon (2007)

Monday, May 18th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Forlani, Claire | Hudson, Oliver | Davis, Josie | Scarfe, Jonathan | Willett, Chad | Bisset, Jacqueline | Johnston, Shaun | Lawson, Greg | Rooney, Maureen | See, Kailin | Keebler, Shae | Casha, Gabrielle | Moench, Brieanna | Phillips, Kade
Directors: Tolkin, Stephen
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In her mid-twenties, Tory Bodeen returns to the small Carolina town of her childhood, where her best friend Hope was murdered in an unsolved assault. Tory is blessed - or maybe cursed - with the ability to see events in the past and present, and although at the time she knew what has happening to Hope, she was unable to prevent it or to see who the assailant was. Her father, a righteous religious fanatic, remains a suspect. As the anniversary of Hopes death approaches, Tory resolves to face her demons with the help of childhood friends - her cousin Wade, Hope’s sister Faith, and Hope’s brother Cade, who still carries a torch for her. Will friends be enough?

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Bergin, Patrick | Anderson, Kevin | Lawrence, Elizabeth | Secor, Kyle | Nevins, Claudette | Abatemarco, Tony | Geraghty, Marita | Venton, Harley | Fish, Nancy | Shackelford, Sandi | Johnson, Bonnie | Harrington, Graham | Ward, John | Robinson, Sharon J.
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their house- hold, however, is very different. Martin is an abusive and brutally obsessed husband. Laura is living her life in constant fear and waits for a chance to escape. She finally stages her own death, and flees to a new town and new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead he will stop at nothing to find and kill her.