Posts Tagged ‘elopement’

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Streisand, Barbra | Matthau, Walter | Crawford, Michael | McAndrew, Marianne | Lockin, Danny | Peaker, E.J. | Ames, Joyce | Tune, Tommy | Knaiz, Judy | Hurst, David | Feld, Fritz | Collier, Richard | O'Malley, J. Pat | Armstrong, Louis
Directors: Kelly, Gene
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Film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. Concerns itself with Dolly Levi, a New York-based matchmaker who merrily arranges things… like furniture and daffodils and lives. A widow, she has found herself in love with a “half-a-millionaire” Yonkers merchant named Horace Vandergelder. So she proceeds to weave a web of romantic complications involving him, his two clerks, a pretty milliner and her assistant. Eventually, of course, all is sorted out, and everyone ends up with the right person.

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Crane, Norma | Frey, Leonard | Picon, Molly | Mann, Paul | Harris, Rosalind | Marsh, Michele | Small, Neva | Glaser, Paul Michael | Lovelock, Ray | Edwards, Elaine | Bonstein, Candy | Ruskin, Shimen | Scooler, Zvee | Zorich, Louis
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Garson, Greer | Olivier, Laurence | Boland, Mary | Oliver, Edna May | O'Sullivan, Maureen | Rutherford, Ann | Inescort, Frieda | Gwenn, Edmund | Morley, Karen | Angel, Heather | Hunt, Marsha | Lester, Bruce | Ashley, Edward | Cooper, Melville | Lamont, Marten
Directors: Leonard, Robert Z.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Knightley, Keira | Riley, Talulah | Pike, Rosamund | Malone, Jena | Mulligan, Carey | Sutherland, Donald | Blethyn, Brenda | Blakley, Claudie | Morand, Sylvester | Woods, Simon | Reilly, Kelly | MacFadyen, Matthew | Torrens, Pip | Whiteside, Janet | Matthews, Sinead
Directors: Wright, Joe
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The story is based on Jane Austen’s novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.

Troy (2004)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: Malta | UK | USA
Actors: Glover, Julian | Cox, Brian | Jones, Nathan | Maropis, Adoni | Smith, Jacob | Pitt, Brad | Shrapnel, John | Gleeson, Brendan | Kruger, Diane | Bana, Eric | Bloom, Orlando | Svegler, Siri | Barat, Lucie | Bones, Ken | Cauchi, Manuel
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer’s “The Iliad.”