Posts Tagged ‘mother’

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Dench, Judi | Blanchett, Cate | Georgeson, Tom | Maloney, Michael | Scanlan, Joanna | Parkes, Shaun | Kennedy, Emma | Kumar, Syreeta | Simpson, Andrew | Davis, Philip | Nottingham, Wendy | Empson, Tameka | Skinner, Leon | Nighy, Bill | Temple, Juno
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

I Am David (2003)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tibber, Ben | Caviezel, James | Plowright, Joan | Shopov, Hristo | De Santis, Silvia | Reconti, Paco | Attias, Roberto | De Vito, Francesco | Russell, Lucy | Bonnevie, Maria | Carinci, Viola | Jivkov, Marin | Syulev, Robert | Sperduti, Alessandro
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In 1952, the polyglot twelve year-old David, who was raised in the Communist Belene Prison Camp in Bulgaria, witnesses the death of his friend and protector Johannes and escapes from the concentration camp in the night. He is advised to mistrust everybody and together with a piece of bread, a compass, a piece of soap, a jackknife and a sealed envelope to be delivered in Denmark, he travels though Greece and Italy heading North. Along his journey, David discovers the beauty of the world and slowly he changes his behavior with people. When he meets Sophie, an old lady that lives in Switzerland and likes to paint as hobby, she asks David to paint his face; later she invites David to have lunch with her in her house, and David finally discloses his quest to her.

Life as a House (2001)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kline, Kevin | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Christensen, Hayden | Malone, Jena | Steenburgen, Mary | Weinberg, Mike | Leavenworth, Scotty | Somerhalder, Ian | Sheridan, Jamey | Bakula, Scott | Nelson, Sandra | Robards, Sam | Pankow, John | Delgado, Kim | Primus, Barry
Directors: Winkler, Irwin
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When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

Hamlet (1996)

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Laurie, John | Knight, Esmond | Quayle, Anthony | MacGinnis, Niall | Williams, Harcourt | Troughton, Patrick | Tarver, Tony | Cushing, Peter | Holloway, Stanley | Thorndike, Russell | Sydney, Basil | Herlie, Eileen | Wooland, Norman | Aylmer, Felix
Directors: Olivier, Laurence
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Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father’s funeral and his mother’s wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot—the most complicated and most interesting in all literature—he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the “prime minister,” love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother’s.

Hellbreeder (2004)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery
Countries: UK
Actors: Uphill, Lyndie | Pinon, Dominique | Day, Darren | Barnes, Tina | Sidgwick, Jonathon | Cullen, Ian | Cohen, Carrie | Gasnier, Harold | McKee, Alisdair | Emanual, Petros | Duran, Azucena | Hoppé, Canelle | Walker, Leona | Downey, Paul
Directors: Eaves, James
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Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival of the mysterious stranger Alice suspects to be the killer of her son coincides with a renewed spate of horrific child murders. Now a weary drunk detective must uncover the truth behind the killings before another child is killed; and Alice must face the unbelievable truth behind the death of her son before insanity, grief and guilt break her mind.

Eraserhead (1977)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Nance, Jack | Stewart, Charlotte | Allen Joseph | Bates, Jeanne | Roberts, Judith | Laurel Near | Phipps-Wilson, V. | Fisk, Jack | Lange, Jean | Coulson, Thomas | Monez, John | Joston, Darwin | Graham, T. Max | Landon Jr., Hal | Lynch, Jennifer Chambers
Directors: Lynch, David
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Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Stepmom (1998)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Sarandon, Susan | Harris, Ed | Malone, Jena | Aiken, Liam | Whitfield, Lynn | Larson, Darrell | Wilson, Mary Louise | Blake, Andre B. | Russell, Herbert | Eagle, Jack | Sierra, Lu Celania | Zemzare, Lauma | Schenck, Holly | Stone, Michelle
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father’s life: Isabel, a successful photographer. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad, but also loves her work and does not plan to give it up. But Jackie, a full-time mother, regards Isabel’s efforts as offensively insufficient. She can’t understand that work can be important to her as well as the kids. The conflict between them is deepened by the sudden diagnose of cancer, which might may be deadly for Jackie. They all have to learn a little in order to grow together.

Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Gere, Richard | Meloni, Christopher | Davis, Viola | Baker, Becky Ann | Glenn, Scott | Molloy, Linda | Schreiber, Pablo | Whitman, Mae | Tahan, Charlie | McCormick, Carolyn | Manson, Ted | Essandoh, Ato | Johnson, Terri Denise | Lucas, Jessica
Directors: Wolfe, George C.
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Two unhappy people’s lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who’s trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to reconcile with his estranged son, checks into an inn in a North Carolina beach town where she is staying.

Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Attenborough, Richard | Perkins, Elizabeth | McDermott, Dylan | Walsh, J.T. | Remar, James | Leeves, Jane | Jones, Simon | Windom, William | Wilson, Mara | Prosky, Robert | Narducci, Kathrine | McCormack, Mary | Greenman, Alvin | Janney, Allison | Noonan, Greg
Directors: Mayfield, Les
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A little girl discovers dreams do come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood’s most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the “secret” about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn’t expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list. But after meeting a special department store Santa who’s convinced he’s the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all - something to believe in.

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.