Posts Tagged ‘stranded’

Lucky Ones, The (2008)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Robbins, Tim | McAdams, Rachel | Peña, Michael | Hagan, Molly | Young, Mark L. | Platt, Howard | Heard, John | Myrin, Arden | Goss, Coby | Brown, Vis | Garrett, Spencer | Korby, Katie | LaNasa, Katherine | Manning, Conner | Manning, William
Directors: Burger, Neil
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After suffering an injury during a routine patrol, hardened sergeant TK Poole is granted a one-month leave to visit his fiancé. But when an unexpected blackout cancels all flights out of New York, TK agrees to share a ride to Pittsburgh with two similarly stranded servicemen: Cheever, an older family man who longs to return to his wife in St. Louis, and Colee, a naive private who’s pinned her hopes on connecting with a dead fellow soldier’s family. What begins as a short trip unexpectedly evolves into a longer journey. Forced to grapple with old relationships, broken hopes and a country divided over the war, TK, Cheever and Colee discover that home is not quite what they remembered, and that the unlikely companionship they’ve found might be what matters the most.

Hills Have Eyes, The (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stanford, Aaron | Quinlan, Kathleen | Shaw, Vinessa | de Ravin, Emilie | Byrd, Dan | Bower, Tom | Drago, Billy | Joy, Robert | Levine, Ted | Askew, Desmond | Buzzington, Ezra | Smith, Michael Bailey | Ortiz, Laura | Nicotero, Gregory | Camilleri Preziosi, Maisie
Directors: Aja, Alexandre
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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty…or so they thought? When the Carter’s car breaks down at the old site, they’re stranded…or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren’t pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.

Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Heche, Anne | Schwimmer, David | Obradors, Jacqueline | Morrison, Temuera | Janney, Allison | Weston, Douglas | Curtis, Cliff | Trejo, Danny | Bode, Ben | Basco, Derek | Sedaris, Amy | Nguyen, Long | Feagai, Jake | Koyama, John
Directors: Reitman, Ivan
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Taking a romantic tropical island week off with her boyfriend, an ambitious, decisive New York girl agrees to help her magazine out by covering a story on a neighbouring island. The only plane available is piloted by a laid-back heavy drinker with whom she shares a mutual dislike. But she has no choice and he can’t refuse the money. When the plane crash-lands on an uninhabited island with little chance of rescue they both wish they had made other arrangements - at least to start with.

Enemy Mine (1985)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Gossett Jr., Louis | James, Brion | Marcus, Richard | McCormick, Carolyn | Robinson, Bumper | Mapp, Jim | Kerwin, Lance | Kraft, Scott | Michaels, Lou | Geer, Andy | Stolow, Henry | Andress, Herb | Danmar | Hausenberger, Mandy
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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On a far distant planet, at the height of the war between the Dracon and Terran Empires, two military pilots crash in the heat of battle. One is Terran, one is Drac. Each is a repulsive alien to the other. Each is a professional warrior, filled with hatred for his blood enemy. Now, marooned on a hostile world, they have a choice. They can complete their missions in a mutual pact of violence and death. Or they can do the most painful thing any Human or Drac has ever done: reach out and begin the new age of understanding that is struggling to be born.

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Shatner, William | Nimoy, Leonard | Kelley, DeForest | Doohan, James | Koenig, Walter | Takei, George | Nichols, Nichelle | Besch, Bibi | Butrick, Merritt | McBride, Jeff | Winfield, Paul | Alley, Kirstie | Montalban, Ricardo | Eisenmann, Ike | Vargas, John
Directors: Meyer, Nicholas
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It is the 23rd Century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may well be the last space mission of his career. But Khan is back. Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan—brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth—has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk . . . with the threat of a universal Armageddon!

Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mantee, Paul | Lundin, Victor | West, Adam | Barney
Directors: Haskin, Byron
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Commander Kit Draper and Colonel Dan McReady are orbiting Mars in an exploritory surveyor. A malfunction forces them to eject with only Draper and a monkey named Mona surviving. Draper must learn to survive in this hostile environment fighting thirst, hunger and even hostile aliens if he expects to see home again.

Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Milano, Alyssa | Kennedy, Jamie | Griffin, Kathy | Knight, Wayne | Duncan, Michael Clarke | McDowell, Malcolm | Segal, George | Bader, Diedrich | Strong, Tara | Berger, Gregg | Medlock, Alec
Directors: Doi, Davis
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Experience the Magic of Dinotopia in an All-New Animated Movie! 26, the beloved young dinosaur from the hit miniseries, stars in an all-new animated movie set on the island where humans and dinosaurs co-exist. Twelve-year-old orphan Kex stows away in a lifeboat, hoping to see the world, but after being washed overboard he finds himself on Dinotopia, befriended by 26. Soon, the friends face trouble when the evil Ogthar is released from his stone prison and recovers the Ruby Sunstone, whose dark power can endanger all of Dinotopia. Join 26, Kex and the other dinosaurs as they fight to save their magical home!

Dust Devil (1992)

Friday, April 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller | Western
Countries: South Africa | UK
Actors: Burke, Robert John | Field, Chelsea | Mokae, Zakes | Matshikiza, John | Swart, Rufus | Hootkins, William | Norton, Terri | Copley, Russell | Odendaal, Andre | Cornell, Luke | Henn, Philip | Stevenson, Robert | Hallr, Peter | Earnhart, Stephen | Sägebrecht, Marianne
Directors: Stanley, Richard
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A shape shifter (Burke) comes from the desert in search of victims, a spirit the locals call “The Dust Devil”. He prays on the lonely and the unloved, those that have already lost everything but life itself. Wendy (Field) has broken up with her husband and wanders aimlessly in her car. She picks up a stranger and begins having misgivings about picking him up when strange things begin to occur. Meanwhile a local police officer (Mokae) tracks the killer. Aided by a shaman’s admonishments about witchcraft he sets off to try and stop the beast before it can complete its grisly task.

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Roth, Tim | Bonham Carter, Helena | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Giamatti, Paul | Warren, Estella | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Warner, David | Kristofferson, Kris | Avari, Erick | Elliott, Lucas | Parke, Evan | Shadix, Glenn | Shen, Freda Foh | Ellis, Chris
Directors: Burton, Tim
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After having their ship crash on a mysterious planet, two US astronauts wander across the desert plain. Thinking they are alone, the surprise comes when life forms appear, not just as mute human but as apes. Walking, talking apes. The apes see themselves as the original beings on the planet and do anything to keep all humans locked up.

Mogambo (1953)

Friday, January 16th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gable, Clark | Gardner, Ava | Kelly, Grace | Sinden, Donald | Stainton, Philip | Pohlmann, Eric | Naismith, Laurence | O'Dea, Denis | Etula, Asa
Directors: Ford, John
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Having missed connections with a maharajah, gorgeous, adaptable playgirl Eloise Kelly descends upon white hunter Vic Marswell. After brief resistance, they fall into each other’s arms. Then anthropologist Donald Nordley arrives; Vic is inexplicably drawn to Mrs. Nordley, a blonde twit. Kelly, her departure delayed, must go along on the Nordley safari where the two women clash over Vic. Much local color along the way.