Posts Tagged ‘fired’

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.

Talk to Me (2007)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Annan, Jim | Antoine, Benz | Birman, Matt | Brown, David | Cedric the Entertainer | Cheadle, Don | Dale, J. Miles | Davidx | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Epps, Mike | Jones, Kamal | Kassel, Jeff | Malmberg, Jim | Peterson, Erick | Rakes, Kwame
Directors: Lemmons, Kasi
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The true life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and “tell it like it is.” With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo’s brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey’s voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey’s “The truth just is” style — on - and off-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.

Incredibles, The (2004)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Newton, Thandie | Nelson, Craig T. | Hunter, Holly | Jackson, Samuel L. | Lee, Jason | Dominique R. Louis | Newton, Teddy | Sincere, Jean | Fucile, Eli | Andrews, Maeve | Shawn, Wallace | Fox, Spencer | Romano, Lou | Canney, Wayne | Vowell, Sarah | Bird, Michael
Directors: Bird, Brad
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Mr. Incredible (A.K.A. Bob Parr), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world’s greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville. Always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. But fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire of being a superhero and force to live a “normal life” with their three children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack (who were secretly born with superpowers). Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.

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.

Bruce Almighty (2003)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Freeman, Morgan | Aniston, Jennifer | Hall, Philip Baker | Bell, Catherine | Walter, Lisa Ann | Carell, Steve | Dunn, Nora | Jemison, Eddie | Satterfield, Paul | Kiely, Mark | Kirkland, Sally | Bennett, Tony | Di Pri, Timothy | Tahash, Brian
Directors: Shadyac, Tom
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Bruce Nolan (Carrey), a television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y.,is discontented with almost everything in life despite his popularity and the love of his girlfriend, Grace (Aniston) . At the end of the worst day of his life, Bruce angrily ridicules and rages against God and God responds. God appears in human form (Freeman) and, endowing Bruce with divine powers, challenges Bruce to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better.

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?

On the Waterfront (1954)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Malden, Karl | Cobb, Lee J. | Steiger, Rod | Henning, Pat | Erickson, Leif | Westerfield, James | Galento, Tony | Mauriello, Tami | Hamilton, John F. | Heldabrand, John | Bond, Rudy | Blackman, Don | Keegan, Arthur | Simon, Abe
Directors: Kazan, Elia
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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.

Muppets Take Manhattan, The (1984)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Henson, Jim
Directors: Oz, Frank
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The Muppets are back in a brand-new full-length musical comedy! After graduating college, the Muppets travel to Manhattan to have someone produce their musical “Manhattan Melodies”. When it doesn’t happen, the gang splits up. Kermit makes friends with Jenny (Juliana Donald) and Piggy is jealous, thinking that Kermit found a new girl. Now Rowlf is a vet secretary, Fozzie’s living in a cave, and Piggy is working at a hotel with her partner, but apparently they get fired and now Piggy lives next door to where Kermit works at Pete’s with Jenny. When Jenny and Kermit find producer-in-training Ronny Coleman (Lonny Price), he promises to produce their show. The gang returns to Manhattan, but after getting hit by a car in joy, Kermit gets amnesia and now finds work making ads with other frogs. When Kermit is found at Pete’s, they try to restore his memory.

Life as a House (2001)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kline, Kevin | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Christensen, Hayden | Malone, Jena | Steenburgen, Mary | Weinberg, Mike | Leavenworth, Scotty | Somerhalder, Ian | Sheridan, Jamey | Bakula, Scott | Nelson, Sandra | Robards, Sam | Pankow, John | Delgado, Kim | Primus, Barry
Directors: Winkler, Irwin
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When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

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 fiancĂ©, 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 . . .