Posts Tagged ‘mother-daughter-relationship’

Spanglish (2004)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | Leoni, Téa | Vega, Paz | Leachman, Cloris | Bruce, Shelbie | Steele, Sarah | Hyland, Ian | Luna, Victoria | Suárez, Cecilia | Molina, Ricardo | Canela, Brenda | Martin, Eddy | Nieth, Nicole | Kaler, Jamie | Lancaster, James
Directors: Brooks, James L.
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John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. When they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter’s soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous!

FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Keitel, Harvey | Salkey, Jason | O'Toole, Peter | Morgan, Lara | Franks, Adam | Witcher, Guy | May, Joseph | Bradley, John | Chancellor, Anna | Hoath, Florence | Nicholls, Phoebe | Kavanagh, Leonard | Earl, Elizabeth | McGann, Paul | Lesser, Anton
Directors: Sturridge, Charles
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Based on factual accounts, this is the story of two young girls that, somehow, have the ability to take pictures of winged beings… which certainly causes quite a stir throughout England during the time of the first World War. Everyone, except the girls who think it’s quite normal, are excited about this “photographic proof” that fairies exist… even the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini pay the girls a visit.

11:14 (Eleven Fourteen, The Movie) (2003)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Thomas, Henry | Heron, Blake | Hershey, Barbara | Gregg, Clark | Swank, Hilary | Hatosy, Shawn | Sands, Stark | Hanks, Colin | Foster, Ben | Swayze, Patrick | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Segel, Jason | Gomez, Rick
Directors: Marcks, Greg
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In Middletown, at 11:14 PM, two cars accidents happen at the same time, affecting the lives of five different groups of people. A drunken driver hits a man in a lonely road near a bridge; three young men hits a woman with a van, one of the passenger has a severed penis while another man on the road shoots them; a young man robs a convenience store, with the support of the clerk; a man finds a body in a cemetery and gets rid off it; and a young woman pretending to be pregnant tries to raise money for an abortion. All of these characters and their fates are very connected.

Missing, The (2003)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Blanchett, Cate | Wood, Evan Rachel | Boyd, Jenna | Eckhart, Aaron | Kilmer, Val | Calderón, Sergio | Schweig, Eric | Reevis, Steve | Tavare, Jay | Baker, Simon | McKinnon, Ray | Perlich, Max | Frank, Ramon | Lujan, Deryle J.
Directors: Howard, Ron
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In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie’s daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back.

MirrorMask (2005)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Barry, Jason | Brydon, Rob | Fry, Stephen | Hamilton, Andy | Harvey, Simon | Henry, Lenny | Llewellyn, Robert | Robson, Nik | Allen, Rick | Schofield, Simon | Tate, Mark | Thompson, Richard | Thompson, Robin | Ballamy, Iain | Batchelor, Chris
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

Enough (2002)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Campbell, Bill | Allen, Tessa | Lewis, Juliette | Futterman, Dan | Wyle, Noah | Ward, Fred | Carroll, Janet | Cobbs, Bill | Maher, Christopher | Young, Bruce A. | French, Bruce | Madera, Ruben | Martin, Dan | Kober, Jeff
Directors: Apted, Michael
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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn’t who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there’s only one way out of the marriage: kill him. ‘Fred Ward (I)’ (qv) has a guest-starring role.

Ice Princess (2005)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Trachtenberg, Michelle | Cusack, Joan | Stewart, Amy | Ross, Steve | Panettiere, Hayden | Cattrall, Kim | Blumas, Trevor | Olson, Kirsten | Lai, Jocelyn | Ray, Connie | Lee, Paul Sun-Hyung | Bradshaw, Roy | Hird, Mark | Gilbank, Ben | Campbell, Cole
Directors: Fywell, Tim
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A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan in Walt Disney Pictures’ “ICE PRINCESS.” Brainy Casey Carlyle (’Michelle Trachtenberg’ (qv)) has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother (’Joan Cusack’ (qv)), who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen (’Hayden Panettiere’ (qv))—three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US National circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced former skating champion who also happens to be Gen’s mother (’Kim Cattrall’ (qv)), she must dash her own mother’s hopes in order to pursue her dream. Now, with only the support of Gen’s teenage brother, a hunky Zamboni driver (’Trevor Blumas’ (qv)), Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real “ice princess.”

Premonition (2007)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bullock, Sandra | McMahon, Julian | McClure, Shyann | Burness, Courtney Taylor | Long, Nia | Ziegler, Irene | Nelligan, Kate | Macaulay, Marc | Valletta, Amber | Stormare, Peter | Ciccolella, Jude | Stapleton, E.J. | Famiglietti, Mark | Whitsett, Laurel | Ketterer, Kristin
Directors: Yapo, Mennan
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Depressed housewife learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the next day after to a world in which he is still dead.

Flightplan (2005)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Sarsgaard, Peter | Bean, Sean | Beahan, Kate | Irby, Michael | Cohen, Assaf | Christensen, Erika | Edelman, Shane | Gallagher, Mary | Ramm, Haley | Landis, Forrest | Kolesarova, Jana | Sexton, Brent | Lawston, Marlene | Scott, Judith
Directors: Schwentke, Robert
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In this modern retelling of a classic urban legend, a mother finds herself at odds with a unremitting flight crew and her own sanity when her daughter vanishes in the middle of a flight, with only a few clues left behind. She must now challenge the boundaries of her will and her mind in her desperate search.

Incredibles, The (2004)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Newton, Thandie | Nelson, Craig T. | Hunter, Holly | Jackson, Samuel L. | Lee, Jason | Dominique R. Louis | Newton, Teddy | Sincere, Jean | Fucile, Eli | Andrews, Maeve | Shawn, Wallace | Fox, Spencer | Romano, Lou | Canney, Wayne | Vowell, Sarah | Bird, Michael
Directors: Bird, Brad
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Mr. Incredible (A.K.A. Bob Parr), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world’s greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville. Always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. But fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire of being a superhero and force to live a “normal life” with their three children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack (who were secretly born with superpowers). Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.