Posts Tagged ‘marriage-proposal’

Annie Hall (1977)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Keaton, Diane | Roberts, Tony | Kane, Carol | Simon, Paul | Duvall, Shelley | Margolin, Janet | Dewhurst, Colleen | Walken, Christopher | Symington, Donald | Ludlam, Helen | Lawner, Mordecai | Neuman, Joan | Munk, Jonathan | Volner, Ruth
Directors: Allen, Woody
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After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation.

Mrs. Harris (2005)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bening, Annette | Kingsley, Ben | Leachman, Cloris | O'Donnell, Lawrence | Whaley, Frank | Smitrovich, Bill | Fisher, Frances | Gross, Michael | Guttman, Ronald | Amedori, John Patrick | McCoy, Brad | Rubinstein, John | Butler, Brett | Garlington, Lee | Burstyn, Ellen
Directors: Nagy, Phyllis
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Fact-based story about Jean Harris (Annette Bening), a woman who was accused of murdering famed Scarsdale Diet Dr. Herman (Hi) Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) after being in a relationship with him for 14 years. Depicted as a womanizer, Dr. Tarnower had earlier asked Mrs. Harris, a divorced school teacher, to marry him. But when faced with upcoming nuptials, he backed out. The story depicts Mrs. Harris as a distraught and obsessive woman who may have been suffering from some mental illness and based on a note sent to the doctor, may have been suicidal at the time of the murder. She contended that Dr. Tarnower was shot while the two wrestled with a gun she was going to use to kill herself. Contains profanity and sexual situations, including implied masturbation.

Edison (2005)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Spacey, Kevin | Freeman, Morgan | Timberlake, Justin | LL Cool J | McDermott, Dylan | Heard, John | Wayans, Damien | Yip, Françoise | Wilson, Garfield | Jackson, Andrew | Sanchez, Marco | Quon, Darryl | Perez, Timothy Paul | Miano, Robert | Harrison, B.J.
Directors: Burke, David J.
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Josh Pollack, a naive and ambitious reporter, is convinced the F.R.A.T., an elite force within the Edison Police Department, is corrupted. Working on a homicide case, he begins to unearth evidence which suggests that the entire justice system is willingly turning a blind eye to the abuses of the this force. When his life and that of his girlfriend are threatened from his research, he join forces with his editor, a once-famous reporter, and a renown private detective to bring down the F.R.A.T. and every one behind it.

Michael (1996)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | MacDowell, Andie | Hurt, William | Hoskins, Bob | Pastorelli, Robert | Stapleton, Jean | Garr, Teri | Langham, Wallace | Adams, Joey Lauren | Gugino, Carla | Hodges, Tom | Burns, Catherine Lloyd | Schiff, Richard | Trillin, Calvin | Lee Jr., Donald J.
Directors: Ephron, Nora
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Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an ‘angel expert’, are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her house with a real, live archangel named Michael. Upon arrival, they see that her claims are true - but Michael is not what they expected: he smokes, drinks beer, has a very active libido and has a rather colourful vocabulary. In fact, they would never believe it were it not for the two feathery wings protruding from his back. Michael agrees to travel to Chicago with the threesome, but what they don’t realise is that the journey they are about to undertake will change their lives forever.

How to Steal a Million (1966)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hepburn, Audrey | O'Toole, Peter | Wallach, Eli | Griffith, Hugh | Boyer, Charles | Gravey, Fernand | Dalio, Marcel | Marin, Jacques | Moustache | Tréville, Roger | Malin, Edward | Bertram, Bert | Brown, Georg Stanford | Longa, Rémy | Ramade, Jacques
Directors: Wyler, William
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Charles Bonnet, the latest in a long line of master art forgers, loans one of his best works, a faux Cellini Venus, to a Paris museum despite his daughter Nicole’s objections. Later, Nicole surprises a tuxedo-clad burglar in her father’s workshop. She can’t call the police because her father’s hobby might be discovered, so she ends up driving the man—Simon Dermott—back to his hotel. Dermott is actually an inspector who is gathering evidence against Bonnet, but his attraction to Nicole complicates the assignment. Nicole learns that the museum plans to conduct a test on the Venus for insurance purposes, which she knows will expose the statue as a fake. To save her father from jail, she asks Simon to steal it, unaware of his true identity. Simon, intrigued by the challenge and now smitten with Miss Bonnet, agrees to the proposal.

Vanity Fair (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Byrne, Gabriel | Mandy, Angelica | Lloyd-Pack, Roger | Sheen, Ruth | Fleetwood, Kate | Witherspoon, Reese | Dubey, Lillete | Garai, Romola | Maudsley, Tony | Findlay, Deborah | Franklyn-Robbins, John | Bazely, Paul | Ifans, Rhys | Rhys Meyers, Jonathan | Beall, Charlie
Directors: Nair, Mira
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

Team America: World Police (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Stone, Matt
Directors: Parker, Trey
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Team America follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that power hungry dictator Kim Jong Il (Parker) is out to destroy the world, the team recuits Broadway star Gary Johnston (Parker) to go undercover. With the help of Team America (Stone, Miller, Masasa, Parker, and Norris), Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer’s hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save the world?

Amadeus (1984)

Monday, April 6th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Abraham, F. Murray | Hulce, Tom | Berridge, Elizabeth | Dotrice, Roy | Callow, Simon | Ebersole, Christine | Jones, Jeffrey | Kay, Charles | McMillan, Kenneth | Baker, Kenny | Bartlett, Lisabeth | Bryne, Barbara | Cavina, Martin
Directors: Forman, Milos
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Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart’s music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he can’t understand why God favored Mozart, such a vulgar creature, to be his instrument. Salieri’s envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take revenge.

Strangers, The (2008)

Friday, March 27th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fisher, Alex | Clayton-Luce, Peter | Speedman, Scott | Tyler, Liv | Ward, Gemma | Weeks, Kip | Margolis, Laura | Howerton, Glenn
Directors: Bertino, Bryan
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After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.

Deliver Us from Eva (2003)

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: LL Cool J | Union, Gabrielle | Martin, Duane | Atkins, Essence | Lee, Robinne | Good, Meagan | Jackson, Mel | Edmonds, Dartanyan | Whitley, Kym | Watkins, Royale | Winston, Matt | Paul, Ruben | Gregory, Dorian | Moore, Kenya | Brown, Yuri
Directors: Hardwick, Gary
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Eva Dandridge is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their husbands. Her in-laws, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They end up paying Ray, the local “playboy,” $5,000 to date her. The plan goes by smoothly, but troubles comes when Ray actually falls in love with Eva.