Posts Tagged ‘job-promotion’

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?

21 (Twenty One, The Movie) (2008)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sturgess, Jim | Spacey, Kevin | Bosworth, Kate | Yoo, Aaron | Lapira, Liza | Pitts, Jacob | Fishburne, Laurence | McGee, Jack | Gad, Josh | Golzari, Sam | Carey, Helen | Ma, Jeffrey | Gilpin, Jack | Patton, Frank | Lows, Donna | Vezina, Steven Richard | Werner, Chaska T. | Williams, Butch | Morris, Kyle | Campbell, Ben
Directors: Luketic, Robert
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

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.

What Happens in Vegas (2008)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diaz, Cameron | Kutcher, Ashton | Corddry, Rob | Bell, Lake | Sudeikis, Jason | Williams, Treat | O'Connell, Deirdre | Krusiec, Michelle | Farina, Dennis | Galifianakis, Zach | Latifah, Queen | Ritter, Krysten | Garcia, Ricky | Daly, Andrew | Robledo, Benita
Directors: Vaughan, Tom
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The clumsy and reckless Jack Fuller is fired by his boss and father and together with his friend and unsuccessful lawyer Hater, they decide to go to Las Vegas to have a good time. Meanwhile the fiancé of the workaholic stock broker Joy McNally breaks up their engagement because of her lack of attitude. Her friend and bartender Tipper convinces Joy to spend a couple of days also in Las Vegas. Due to a hotel management mistake, they are lodged in the same room and later they hang around together. During the night, they get completely wasted and on the next morning, Jack and Joy find that they got married. While discussing to briefly end their wedding, Jack borrows a coin from Joy to gamble in the jackpot machine and wins three million dollars. They question in court the ownership of the money and the conservative Judge R. D. Whopper freezes the money and sentence them to live together with Joy moving to Jack’s house for six months and attending regular counseling sessions. Each one decides to make the life of the other hell on Earth to force to get out of the marriage.

Promotion, The (2008)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Scott, Seann William | Reilly, John C. | Bellows, Gil | Armisen, Fred | Hansen, Steven H. | Gunther, Jaide | Gunther, Emerald | Gunther, Krystyl | McIntyre, Betsy | Adloff, Nathan | Albert Jr., Anthony | Andre, Chris | Armon, Michael | Caputo, Brent Allen | Cilia, Robert
Directors: Conrad, Steve
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Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.

40 Year Old Virgin, The (2005)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Carell, Steve | Keener, Catherine | Rudd, Paul | Malco, Romany | Rogen, Seth | Banks, Elizabeth | Mann, Leslie | Lynch, Jane | Bednob, Gerry | Malil, Shelley | Dennings, Kat | Masterson, Jordy | Smith, Chelsea | Hill, Jonah | Phillips, Erica Vittina
Directors: Lehmann, Michael
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Andy at the age of 40 still hasn’t had sex. He lets his secret slip at a poker game with his buds from work. After the revealing all his friends are on a mission to help get him laid. Along the way Andy meets a nice mom: Trish who fall head over heels for each other.

Brazil (1985)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Pryce, Jonathan | De Niro, Robert | Helmond, Katherine | Holm, Ian | Hoskins, Bob | Palin, Michael | Richardson, Ian | Vaughan, Peter | Greist, Kim | Broadbent, Jim | Hicks, Barbara | McKeown, Charles | O'Connor, Derrick | Pogson, Kathryn | Pringle, Bryan
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill’s lives are put in danger.

Mary Poppins (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrews, Julie | Van Dyke, Dick | Tomlinson, David | Johns, Glynis | Baddeley, Hermione | Shaw, Reta | Dotrice, Karen | Garber, Matthew | Lanchester, Elsa | Treacher, Arthur | Owen, Reginald | Wynn, Ed | Darwell, Jane | Malet, Arthur | Banas, Robert
Directors: Stevenson, Robert
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The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.

Waiting… (2005)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Family | Short
Countries: USA
Actors: Reynolds, Ryan | Erb, Tom | Lozeau, Danielle | Faris, Anna | Long, Justin | Kong, Nicole | Koechner, David | Boyd, Michele | Guzmán, Luis | Baldassari, Bobby | McBride, Chi | Amenta, Jennifer | Cleary, Melissa A. | Daley, John Francis | Doubleday, Kaitlin | Coro, Renee | Benedict, Rob | Ubach, Alanna | Lengies, Vanessa | Kasch, Max | Milonakis, Andy | Cook, Dane | Ladd, Jordan
Directors: O'Connor, Michael | McKittrick, Rob
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Young employees at Shenaniganz restaurant collectively stave off boredom and adulthood with their antics.

Dark Blue (2002)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Speedman, Scott | Michele, Michael | Gleeson, Brendan | Rhames, Ving | Kurupt | Mihok, Dash | Banks, Jonathan | Davidovich, Lolita | Alexander, Khandi | Lee, Dana | Way, Chapman Russell | Hinkle, Marin | Williams, Jim Cody | Casados, Eloy
Directors: Shelton, Ron
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Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially-charged climate,the LAPD’s elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry, known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper, tutors SIS rookie Bobby Keough in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Holland, the only man in the department willing to stand up to the SIS, threatens to end Perry’s brand of singlehanded “justice” on the Los Angeles streets. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., Perry and Keough must track down cold-blooded killers and face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue.