Posts Tagged ‘greed’

Scrooged (1988)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | Allen, Karen | Forsythe, John | Glover, John | Goldthwait, Bob | Johansen, David | Kane, Carol | Mitchum, Robert | Phillips, Nicholas | Pollard, Michael J. | Woodard, Alfre | King, Mabel | Murray, Joel | Farr, Jamie | Goulet, Robert
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Frank’s childhood wasn’t a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn’t really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.

Herbie Rides Again (1974)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hayes, Helen | Berry, Ken | Powers, Stefanie | McIntire, John | Wynn, Keenan | Hall, Huntz | Slattery, Richard X. | Bailey, Raymond | Tobin, Dan | Devry, Elaine | Dunn, Liam | Scotti, Vito | Colley, Don Pedro | McCann, Chuck | Blake, Larry J.
Directors: Stevenson, Robert
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Alonzo Hawk is a mean-spirited property developer who has bought several blocks of land in the downtown district in order to build a gigantic shopping mall. There is one problem however; an elderly widow named Steinmetz won’t sell the one remaining lot that Hawk needs to proceed with his scheme. So he resorts to all manner of chicanery, legal or otherwise, to get it. Fortunately, the widow Steinmetz has an ace up her sleeve in the form of Herbie, the miraculous Volkswagen.

Greedy (1994)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Douglas, Kirk | Travis, Nancy | d'Abo, Olivia | Hartman, Phil | Begley Jr., Ed | Burns, Jere | Camp, Colleen | Balaban, Bob | Hyser, Joyce | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Fallon, Siobhan | McCarthy, Kevin | Alexander, Khandi
Directors: Lynn, Jonathan
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An extremely wealthy and crafty old man (Douglas) toys with his greedy nieces and nephews as they circle about, waiting for their ill-deserved inheritance. The plot thickens as the old man takes a young mistress (d’Abo), and they fear that she will get the estate. In response, they locate the much-loved nephew (Fox) who walked away from the whole greed thing and became a professional bowler. Deception upon deception complicates matters as young Daniel is slowly drawn back under the spell of Greed.

Redbelt (2008)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Addiss, Jeffrey | Alfieri, Joseph | Allen, Tim | Barcellos, Douglas | Bator, Craig Collington | Cable, Matt | Canfield, Ryan Everett | Cantillo, Jose Pablo | Couture, Randy | DeCastro, Steve | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Fair, Justin | Farrell, Scott | Fitzgerald, Hugh | Goldberg, Mike
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A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry. Though he refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition.

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Willis, Bruce | Griffith, Melanie | Cattrall, Kim | Rubinek, Saul | Freeman, Morgan | Hancock, John | Dunn, Kevin | James, Clifton | Giambalvo, Louis | Heyman, Barton | Parker, Norman | Moffat, Donald | King, Alan | Broderick, Beth
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Nailed (2006)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Porter, Charles | Heredia, Wilson Jermaine | Sarpong, Sam | LePorte, George | Stoney, Ray | Hilton, Marshal | Maguire, Henry | Salahuddin, Bashir | Zacher, Rory | Casey, Patrick | Donea, Marcel | Shaheen, Steve | Dours, Jed | Dunlop, Christian | Webb, Gerald
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“Nailed” is a thriller about two men who break into a house looking for valuables, and find instead a man lying on a bed, covered in bandages, whose caretaker may have intentions that are less than honorable. All is not as it seems as things begin to go wrong for the thieves and the plot takes a turn for the worse, bringing the supernatural into play.

Webs (2003)

Friday, July 4th, 2008
Genres: Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Ashbee | Craig Blair | Jeffrey Douglas | Fox, Colin | Dylan Bierk | Greenhouse, Kate
Directors: David Wu
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“Webs” stars Richard Grieco as an Everyman electrician who stumbles onto a doohickey that can open a gateway to a parallel Earth. After members of Grieco’s crew accidentally activates the doohickey, the 4-men team find themselves in a Chicago that looks familiar, but has been overrun by mutant spiders from another parallel universe…

Zombie Strippers! (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Englund, Robert | Medina, Joey | Hawkes, John | Green, Calvin | Kilberg, Zak | Colbert, Stephen | Beck, Billy | Wood, Travis | Milne, Brad | Lamas, Adam | Kraus, Gary | Roof, Jim | Smith, Adam | Jones, Asante | Webb, David E.
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In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into “Super Zombie Strippers” the girls struggle with whether or not to conform to the new “fad” even if it means there’s no turning back.

Fool’s Gold (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: McConaughey, Matthew | Hudson, Kate | Sutherland, Donald | Bremner, Ewen | Winstone, Ray | Dziena, Alexis | Bremner, Ewen | Winstone, Ray | Hart, Kevin | Warner, Malcolm-Jamal | Hooks, Brian | Roberts, David | Mulheren, Michael | LeFevre, Adam | Nichol, Rohan | Ammouchi, Ali | Sciberras, Roger | O'Sullivan, Tom | Young, Duncan | Connolly, Elizabeth
Directors: Tennant, Andy
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A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple’s sense of adventure — and their estranged romance.

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Bardem, Javier | Brolin, Josh | Harrelson, Woody | Macdonald, Kelly | Dillahunt, Garret | Harper, Tess | Corbin, Barry | Root, Stephen | Boyce, Rodger | Grant, Beth | Reeder, Ana | Gwin, Kit | Hopkins, Zach | Love, Chip
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.