Posts Tagged ‘drug-addiction’

Traffic (2000)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Del Toro, Benicio | Vargas, Jacob | Chavez, Andrew | Saucedo, Michael | Milian, Tomas | Yenque, Jose | Rivera, Emilio | O'Neill, Michael | Douglas, Michael | Jones, Russell G. | Hetherington, Lorene | Collins, Eric | Holden, Beau | Stader, Peter | Lew, James
Directors: Soderbergh, Steven
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.

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.

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Monday, July 27th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Breslin, Abigail | Kinnear, Greg | Dano, Paul | Arkin, Alan | Collette, Toni | Carell, Steve | Turtletaub, Marc | Talley, Jill | Canela, Brenda | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Loring, Chuck | Shilton, Justin | Thomson, Gordon | Parker, Steven Christopher | Cranston, Bryan
Directors: Dayton, Jonathan
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word “dysfunctional”. The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?

Empire Records (1995)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: LaPaglia, Anthony | Caulfield, Maxwell | Mazar, Debi | Cochrane, Rory | Whitworth, Johnny | Tunney, Robin | Zellweger, Renée | Embry, Ethan | Shivers, Coyote | Sexton III, Brendan | Tyler, Liv | Wills, James 'Kimo' | Bode, Ben | Bolen, Gary | Sissons, Kimber
Directors: Moyle, Allan
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Empire Records is going to be turned into a Music Town. It is up to the wacky employees to figure out a way to raise enough money to help their boss Joe keep the store from changing hands. They also deal with problems amongst themselves, love, and a has-been spoiled rock star named Rex Manning.

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.

From Hell (2001)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Graham, Heather | Holm, Ian | Coltrane, Robbie | Richardson, Ian | Flemyng, Jason | Cartlidge, Katrin | Harvey, Terence | Lynch, Susan | Rhys, Paul | Sharp, Lesley | Skornik, Estelle | McGaughey, Nicholas | Apsion, Annabelle | Page, Joanna
Directors: Hughes, Albert
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The infamous Jack the Ripper case set in London of 1888. The Ripper has been running amok in the Whitechapel district murdering and dissecting prostitutes. Scotland Yard Inspector Fred Abberline, aided by his partner, Peter Godley, are on the case to figure out who this serial killer is and why he is killing these women in such a brutal manner. Abberline is an opium addict and when “chasing the dragon” he is able to have visions of the future, a certain psychic ability that allows him to solve cases. As Abberline and Godley investigate the crimes, they become acquainted with the prostitutes who were friends and colleagues of the victims. Abberline begins to fall in love with Mary Kelly, one of the prostitutes, or as the nobles called them “unfortunates”, being hunted down by Jack the Ripper. Abberline digs deeper and deeper into the conspiracy and attempts to solve the case before Mary Kelly is the next victim.

Rachel Getting Married (2008)

Friday, February 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hathaway, Anne | DeWitt, Rosemarie | Zickel, Mather | Irwin, Bill | Smith, Anna Deavere | George, Anisa | Adebimpe, Tunde | Winger, Debra | LePage, Jerome | Sia, Beau | Missick, Dorian | Julian, Kyrah | Lewis, Carol Jean | Harrison, Herreast | Joseph, Gonzales
Directors: Demme, Jonathan
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“Rachel Getting Married” is a contemporary “drama with an aggressive sense of humor” about the return of an estranged daughter to the family home for her sister’s wedding. Kym’s reemergence throws a wrench into the family dynamics, forcing long-simmering tensions to surface in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking. “Rachel Getting Married” paints a colorful, nuanced family portrait.

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Ross, Diana | Williams, Billy Dee | Pryor, Richard | Callahan, James T. | Hampton, Paul | Melton, Sid | Capers, Virginia | Fair, Yvonne | Sanford, Isabel | Lyles, Tracee | Glass, Ned | Selzer, Milton | Bartold, Norman | Tanner, Clay | Hairston, Jester
Directors: Furie, Sidney J.
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Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.

Valley of the Dolls (1967)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Parkins, Barbara | Duke, Patty | Burke, Paul | Tate, Sharon | Scotti, Tony | Milner, Martin | Drake, Charles | Davion, Alexander | Grant, Lee | Stevens, Naomi | Harris, Robert H. | Susann, Jacqueline | Viharo, Robert | Bishop, Joey | Jessel, George
Directors: Robson, Mark
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Anne Welles, a bright, brash young New England college grad leaves her Peyton Place-ish small town and heads for Broadway, where she hopes to find an exciting job and sophisticated men. During her misadventures in Manhattan and, later, Hollywood, she shares experiences with two other young hopefuls: Jennifer North, a statuesque, Monroe-ish actress who wants to be accepted as a human being, but is regarded as a sex object by all the men she meets, and Neely O’Hara, a talented young actress who’s accused of using devious means by a great older star (Helen Lawson) to reach the top, pulling an “All About Eve”-type deception in order to steal a good role away from her.

Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Barrymore, Drew | Zahn, Steve | Garcia, Adam | Murphy, Brittany | Woods, James | Bracco, Lorraine
Directors: Penny Marshall
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Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter’s problems, and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school. However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another, Beverly discovers she’s pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less difficult than informing her parents, and at 16, Beverly is a wife and mother. Against the odds, Beverly is determined to still finish high school and go on to college, but that goal becomes more difficult with time, especially after Beverly’s marriage begins to fall apart. Ray tries to do the right thing but has trouble holding a job, and becomes addicted to heroin.