Posts Tagged ‘letter’

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…

Waitress (2007)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Keri | Fillion, Nathan | Hines, Cheryl | Sisto, Jeremy | Griffith, Andy | Jemison, Eddie | Temple, Lew | Stanchfield, Darby | Sulzman, Heidi | Johnson, Lauri | Hunley, Sarah | Drummond, Cindy | Dean, Nathan | Fogarty, Caroline
Directors: Shelly, Adrienne
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Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she’ll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe’s diner, listens to old Joe’s wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have?

Anna and the King (1999)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Chow, Yun-Fat | Bai, Ling | Felton, Tom | Alwi, Syed | Kim, Randall Duk | Lim, Kay Siu | Campbell, Melissa | Chin, Keith | Maniam, Mano | Venugopal, Shanthini | Yusoff, Deanna | Palmer, Geoffrey | Firbank, Ann | Stewart, Bill
Directors: Tennant, Andy
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This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.

Thirteenth Floor, The (1999)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Bierko, Craig | Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Mol, Gretchen | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Haysbert, Dennis | Steven Schub | Roberts, Jeremy | Hutton, Rif | Rippy, Leon | MacLachlan, Janet | Henke, Brad William | Bulos, Burt | Valentino, Venessia | Miller, Howard S. | Texada, Tia
Directors: Josef Rusnak
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Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He’s about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that’s just like the 30’s with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine…

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Monday, July 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ledger, Heath | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Quaid, Randy | Hathaway, Anne | Williams, Michelle | Planche, Valerie | Beckel, Graham | Harbour, David | Mara, Kate | Maxwell, Roberta | McRobbie, Peter | Faris, Anna | Cardellini, Linda | Campbell, Scott Michael | Trimble, David
Directors: Lee, Ang
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A raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond—by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Monday, July 6th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Rickman, Alan | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Radcliffe, Daniel | Smith, Maggie | Coltrane, Robbie | Triplets, Saunders | Harris, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Griffiths, Richard | Deadman, Derek | Hart, Ian | Borowiecki, Ben | Davis, Warwick | Troyer, Verne | Hurt, John | Bremmer, Richard
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Immortal Beloved (1994)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Oldman, Gary | Krabbé, Jeroen | Rossellini, Isabella | Steege, Johanna ter | Hofschneider, Marco | Margolyes, Miriam | Humphries, Barry | Golino, Valeria | Horan, Gerard | Fulford, Christopher | Pigg, Alexandra | Diberti, Luigi | Culkin, Michael | Gibson, Donal | North, Matthew
Directors: Rose, Bernard
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Ludwig van Beethoven dies and his assistant/friend Schindler proceeds to deal with his affairs (last will and testament). There is a question as to who really is his “immortal beloved”, and so tries to find out who this might be.

Sweet Land (2005)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Reaser, Elizabeth | Smith, Lois | Heusinger, Patrick | Pelinski, Stephen | Guinee, Tim | Hogan, Robert | Cumming, Alan | Sand, Paul | Markell, Jodie | Kermes, Sage | Frantzich, Kirsten | Yoakam, Stephen | Landry, Karen | Cada, James | DeLisi, Debbie
Directors: Selim, Ali
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As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf’s postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry…

Tragedy of Macbeth, The (1971)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Finch, Jon | Annis, Francesca | Shaw, Martin | Bayler, Terence | Stride, John | Selby, Nicholas | Chase, Stephan | Shelley, Paul | MacFarquhar, Maisie | Taylor, Elsie | Rimmington, Noelle | Davis, Noel | Bromley, Sydney | Pearson, Richard | Mason, Patricia
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Roman Polanski’s version of Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king’s son conspires to attack MacBeth and expose him for the murderer he is.

Inferno (1980)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Music | Mystery
Countries: Italy
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Morita, Pat | Trejo, Danny | Fitzpatrick, Gabrielle | Drake, Larry | Schiavelli, Vincent | Fralick, David 'Shark' | Mitchell, Silas Weir | Avildsen, Jonathan | Pressly, Jaime | Erwin, Bill | Rainey, Ford | West, Kevin | Pointer, Priscilla | Symonds, Robert
Directors: Avildsen, John G.
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Young poetess Rose Elliot buys a book from a local antique dealer, a diary in Latin of an architect, E. Varelli. She learns of the Three Mothers, and believes her apartment building is one of their houses. She pleads her brother Mark, who is studying musicology in Rome, to come, because she is afraid. Mark’s friend Sara reads her letter, which he left behind in class, and discovers the school is run by the Mater Lacrimarum, and is killed for this knowledge. The house of Mater Suspiriorum has already been destroyed, and by the time Mark arrives in New York City, he is investigating his sister’s murder.