Posts Tagged ‘father-son-relationship’

Knockaround Guys (2001)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pepper, Barry | Davoli, Andy | Green, Seth | Diesel, Vin | Malkovich, John | Nascarella, Arthur J. | Noonan, Tom | Pasco, Nicholas | Doyle, Shawn | Gage, Kevin | Hopper, Dennis | Francis, Andrew | Liddle, John | Lemche, Kris | Tiefenbach, Dov
Directors: Koppelman, Brian
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The four sons (Diesel, Green, Pepper, Davoli) of major Brooklyn mobsters have to team up to retrieve a bag of cash in a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff. Specifically, the story gets started when Matt Demaret (Pepper) goes on a job to deliver the money for his mob father (Hopper) on the advice of his uncle (Malkovich). Things don’t go as planned though…

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.

Lucky Ones, The (2008)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Robbins, Tim | McAdams, Rachel | Peña, Michael | Hagan, Molly | Young, Mark L. | Platt, Howard | Heard, John | Myrin, Arden | Goss, Coby | Brown, Vis | Garrett, Spencer | Korby, Katie | LaNasa, Katherine | Manning, Conner | Manning, William
Directors: Burger, Neil
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After suffering an injury during a routine patrol, hardened sergeant TK Poole is granted a one-month leave to visit his fiancé. But when an unexpected blackout cancels all flights out of New York, TK agrees to share a ride to Pittsburgh with two similarly stranded servicemen: Cheever, an older family man who longs to return to his wife in St. Louis, and Colee, a naive private who’s pinned her hopes on connecting with a dead fellow soldier’s family. What begins as a short trip unexpectedly evolves into a longer journey. Forced to grapple with old relationships, broken hopes and a country divided over the war, TK, Cheever and Colee discover that home is not quite what they remembered, and that the unlikely companionship they’ve found might be what matters the most.

Field of Dreams (1989)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Madigan, Amy | Hoffmann, Gaby | Liotta, Ray | Busfield, Timothy | Jones, James Earl | Lancaster, Burt | Whaley, Frank | Brown, Dwier | Andelin, James | Kean, Mary Anne | Persons, Fern | Coffield, Kelly | Milhoan, Michael | Eastin, Steve
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
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Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, “If you build it, he will come.” He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Olivier, Laurence | Bloom, Claire | Smith, Maggie | Andress, Ursula | Gwillim, Jack | Fleetwood, Susan | Roach, Pat | Hamlin, Harry | Bowker, Judi | Burgess Meredith | Phillips, Siân | Robson, Flora | Manahan, Anna | Jackson, Freda | Pigott-Smith, Tim
Directors: Davis, Desmond
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By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess’s former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.

RV (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Hines, Cheryl | Levesque, Joanna 'JoJo' | Hutcherson, Josh | Daniels, Jeff | Chenoweth, Kristin | Parrish, Hunter | Sonnenfeld, Chloe | Ferris, Alex | Arnett, Will | Hale, Tony | Howe, Brian | Cox, Richard Ian | Gair, Erika-Shaye | Sztopa, Veronika
Directors: Sonnenfeld, Barry
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Bob Munro is the dad of a dysfunctional family. He hires an RV to take the family on vacation. However Bob is NOT the best RV steering wheel operator in the neighborhood and the hilarity is added on by the fact that the brakes are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Bob first realizes it when the RV rolls (not literally) backwards into a line of shopping carts. Also Bob’s job is in danger if he doesn’t go to a very important meeting. Before you can say “COME BACK! COME BACK!,” things go gloriously, hilariously, Munro-annoyingly wrong due to the lack of brakes, Bob’s job, toilet waste not cleared out from the last rental and more hilarious stuff.

Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lawrence, Martin | Jones, James Earl | Cedric the Entertainer | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Epps, Mike | Roberts, Damani | C.K., Louis | Jenkins, Brandin | Davis Jr., Reginald | Hoffman, Gus | Crockett, Affion | McGee, Robin | Richmond, Werner | Medina, Rich | Ferguson, Ted
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A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Bloom, Orlando | Knightley, Keira | Davenport, Jack | Nighy, Bill | Pryce, Jonathan | Arenberg, Lee | Crook, Mackenzie | McNally, Kevin | Bailie, David | Skarsgård, Stellan | Hollander, Tom | Harris, Naomie | Klebba, Martin | Schofield, David
Directors: Verbinski, Gore
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Just before their wedding, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, but Cutler proposes a deal to Will: their freedom per Jack’s compass. Meanwhile, Jack is afraid of the sea, because he owes his soul to the evil Davy Jones, the Captain of the Flying Dutchmen. When Will meets Jack, the pirate proposes to exchange his compass by a key owned by Davy Jones. Will goes to the Flying Dutchman without knowing how dangerous and diabolic Davy Jones and his crew are.

3:10 to Yuma (2007)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Browning, Chris | Corrigan, Harp | Crowe, Russell | Durand, Kevin | Elliot, Hugh | Fonda, Peter | Foster, Ben | Gibson, Darren | Henning, Jason | Herman, Henry | Howell, Shawn | King, Kc | Lerman, Logan | Lockwood, Billy
Directors: Mangold, James
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Rancher Dan Evans heads into Bisbee to clear up issues concerning the sake of his land when he witnesses the closing events of a stagecoach robbery led by famed outlaw Ben Wade. Shortly thereafter, Wade is captured by the law in Bisbee and Evans finds himself one of the escorts who will take Wade to the 3:10 to Yuma train in Contention for the reward of $200. Evans’s effort to take Wade to the station is in part an effort to save his land but also part of an inner battle to determine whether he can be more than just a naive rancher in the eyes of his impetuous and gunslinging son William Evans. The transport to Contention is hazardous and filled with ambushes by Indians, pursuits by Wade’s vengeful gang and Wade’s own conniving and surreptitious demeanor that makes the ride all the more intense.