Posts Tagged ‘imagination’

He Was a Quiet Man (2007)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Gulager, John | Jones, Jamison | DeLuise, Michael | Ramsey, K.C. | Wells, David | Mantooth, Randolph | Whitney, Sewell | Macy, William H. | Baker, Greg | Lohmann, Brian | Roberts, Paul D. | Hardy, Bobby | Rothbard, Bill | Hall, Stanley C.
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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he’s screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

Finding Neverland (2004)

Friday, December 4th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Winslet, Kate | Christie, Julie | Mitchell, Radha | Hoffman, Dustin | Highmore, Freddie | Prospero, Joe | Roud, Nick | Spill, Luke | Macdonald, Kelly | Crook, Mackenzie | Essell, Eileen | Gardner, Jimmy | Fox, Oliver
Directors: Forster, Marc
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes “Peter Pan.” After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads’ mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow’s mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia’s health worsens, Barrie’s ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

Radio Flyer (1992)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bracco, Lorraine | Heard, John | Baldwin, Adam | Wood, Elijah | Mazzello, Joseph | Johnson, Ben | Baca, Sean | Munic, Robert | Ratliff Henson, Garette | Nicholas, Thomas Ian | Verduzco, Noah | Ocampo, Isaac | Romero, Kaylan | Verduzco, Abraham | Evans, T.J.
Directors: Donner, Richard
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A loving father explains the value of promise and believing to his two boys trough the story of young Mike and his kid brother Bobby, who being abandoned by their dad had to move with ma and German shepherd Shane to a rural town where the local kids, lorded by abusive older scamp Victor Hernandez, consider them intruders ’stealing’ their predecessors’ place. Alas the friendly sheriff Daugherty, whose protection they politely wave, will have to act against a far worse bully, ma’s new lover who expects to be called the king and belts Bobby’s back brutally when drunk in the garage, a secret the boys want to keep secret for finally happy ma. The superstitious brothers spend their time exploring, pulling a wheeled red wagon called Radio Flyer, which name finally inspires a desperate ‘magical escape’ attempt…

Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kaye, Danny | Granger, Farley | Jeanmaire, Zizi | Walsh, Joseph | Tonge, Philip | Bruhn, Erik | Petit, Roland | Brown, John | Qualen, John | Lafayette, Jeanne | Malcolm, Robert | Chandler, George | Kelsey, Fred | Perkins, Gil | Votrian, Peter J.
Directors: Vidor, Charles
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A completely fabricated biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen featuring several of his stories and a ballet performance of “The Little Mermaid”.

Cat in the Hat, The (2003)

Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Baldwin, Alec | Preston, Kelly | Fanning, Dakota | Breslin, Spencer | Hill, Amy | Hayes, Sean | Chuchran, Danielle | Rice, Taylor | Oaks, Brittany | Prairie, Talia-Lynn | Castellaneta, Dan | Brandt, Victor | Norris, Daran | Bugsy
Directors: Welch, Bo
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Conrad and Sally Walden (’Spencer Breslin’ (qv) and ‘Dakota Fanning’ (qv)) are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat (’Mike Myers’ (qv)) walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it’s all fun and games, until things get out of hand, and The Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Comingore, Dorothy | Moorehead, Agnes | Warrick, Ruth | Collins, Ray | Sanford, Erskine | Sloane, Everett | Alland, William | Stewart, Paul | Coulouris, George | Bonanova, Fortunio | Schilling, Gus | Van Zandt, Philip | Backus, Georgia | Shannon, Harry
Directors: Welles, Orson
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

Breakfast Club, The (1985)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Estevez, Emilio | Hall, Anthony Michael | Nelson, Judd | Gleason, Paul | Kapelos, John | Dean, Ron | Gamble, Tim | Crawford, Perry | Hughes, John
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When five high school students, Andrew, John, Allison, Brian, and Claire, meet in detention one day. The principal wants them to write an essay, and they think they are in for a boring 8 hours of doing nothing. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some marijuana, they pour their hearts out to each other, and tell about their fears, secrets, and their deepest emotions, and problems.

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Winter, Alex | Carlin, George | Camilleri, Terry | Shor, Dan | Steedman, Tony | Loomis, Rod | Leong, Al | Wiedlin, Jane | Barron, Robert V. | David, Clifford | Landon Jr., Hal | Casey, Bernie | Stock-Poynton, Amy | McNamara, J. Patrick
Directors: Herek, Stephen
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In the small town of San Dimas, a few miles away from Los Angeles, there are 2 nearly brain dead teenage boys going by the names of Bill S, Preston ESQ. and Ted Theodore Logan, they have a dream together of starting their own rock and roll band called the “Wyld Sallions”. Unfortunately, they are still in high school and on the verge of failing out of their school as well, and if they do not pass their upcoming history report, they will be separated as a result of Ted’s father sending him to military school. But, what Bill and Ted do not know is that they must stay together to save the future. So, a man from the future named Rufus came to help them pass their report. So, both Bill and Ted decided to gather up historical figures which they need for their report. They are hoping that this will help them pass their report so they can stay together.

Slipstream (2007)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Arroyave, Stella | Pepper, Lisa | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Generally, Dana | Grant, Saginaw | Grazer, Gavin | Lawford, Christopher | Littlefield, John | Lucking, William | McCarthy, Kevin | Millen, Ken | Putnam, Richard F. | Reed, Thell | Robinson, Michael R.
Directors: Hopkins, Anthony
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“Slipstream” is a noir-comedy about an actor and would-be screenwriter, who at the very moment of his meeting with Fate, comes to discover that life is random and fortune is sightless as he is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams, and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream. The film will be a complex, surreal and dreamlike tale of one man’s journey.

Miss Potter (2006)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Zellweger, Renée | McGregor, Ewan | Watson, Emily | Flynn, Barbara | Paterson, Bill | Gibbs, Matyelok | Owen, Lloyd | Lesser, Anton | Bamber, David | Kerrigan, Patricia | Barker, Judith | Middleton, Chris | Boynton, Lucy | Jenkins, Oliver | Mulholland, Richard
Directors: Noonan, Chris
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Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne’s first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents’ way of life and London.