Posts Tagged ‘widower’

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Damon, Matt | Affleck, Ben | Skarsgård, Stellan | Driver, Minnie | Affleck, Casey | Hauser, Cole | Mighton, John | Majorowski, Rachel | McCauley, Colleen | Mercier, Matt | St. George, Ralph | Lynds, Rob | Washington, Dan | Folland, Alison
Directors: Van Sant, Gus
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Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean’s coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.

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…

Patriot, The (2000)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Seagal, Steven | Sartain, Gailard | Jones, L. Q. | Mitchell, Silas Weir | Belle, Camilla | Beene, Dan | Damon Collazo | Whitney Yellow Robe | Leland, Brad | Molly McClure | Winchester, Philip | Sebern, Douglas | Loney, Ross | O'Connor, Bernard | Mountain Chief, Leonard
Directors: Dean Semler
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The movie takes place in South Carolina in 1776. Benjamin Martin, a French-Indian war hero who is haunted by his past, is a patriot who wants no part in a war with Britian. Meanwhile, his two eldest sons, Gabriel and Thomas, can’t wait to go out and kill some Redcoats. When South Carolina decides to go to war with Britain, Gabriel immediatly signs up to fight…without his father’s permission. But soon, Colonel Tavington, British solder infamous for his brutal tactiks, captures Gabriel and sentences him to be hanged. As Gabriel is taken away, Thomas tries to free him, only to be killed by Tavington, in front of Benjamin. Now, seeking revenge for his son’s death, Benjamin leaves behind his 5 other children to bring independence to the 13 colonies.

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.

Houseboat (1958)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Grant, Cary | Loren, Sophia | Hyer, Martha | Guardino, Harry | Ciannelli, Eduardo | Hamilton, Murray | Gibson, Mimi | Petersen, Paul | Herbert, Charles | Kennedy, Madge | Litel, John | Klemperer, Werner | Benedict, Brooks | Brengt, Ernst | Brooks, Ralph
Directors: Shavelson, Melville
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Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pidgeon, Walter | Francis, Anne | Nielsen, Leslie | Stevens, Warren | Kelly, Jack | Anderson, Richard | Holliman, Earl | Robot, Robby the | Wallace, George | Dix, Robert | Thompson, Jimmy | Drury, James | Harvey Jr., Harry | McGee, Roger | Miller, Peter
Directors: Wilcox, Fred M.
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An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some 17 light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its fourth planet, Altair-4. What they discover is how and why an alien race of geniuses destroyed itself overnight while leaving their technology intact at some point in the distant, distant past.

Mothman Prophecies, The (2002)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gere, Richard | Eigenberg, David | Tracey, Bob | Emanuel, Ron | Messing, Debra | Stoviak, Tom | Erickson, Yvonne | Nunnally, Scott | Mackenzie, Harris | Patton, Will | Jenney, Lucinda | Linney, Laura | Tully, Tom | Mott, Zachary | McDonough, Ann
Directors: Pellington, Mark
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John Klein, a Washington newspaper reporter leaves his job after his wife dies to investigate strange reports, including psychic visions (”prophecies”) and sightings of winged creatures (”mothmen”), in a small West Virginia town, that may be the signs of an alien invasion of Earth…

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tracy, Spencer | Poitier, Sidney | Hepburn, Katharine | Houghton, Katharine | Kellaway, Cecil | Richards, Beah | Glenn, Roy | Sanford, Isabel | Christine, Virginia | Hay, Alexandra | Randolph, Barbara | Martin, D'Urville | Heaton, Tom | Gaynor, Grace | Martin, Skip
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he’s black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl’s parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor’s parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .

Steel Magnolias (1989)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Field, Sally | Parton, Dolly | MacLaine, Shirley | Hannah, Daryl | Dukakis, Olympia | Roberts, Julia | Skerritt, Tom | Shepard, Sam | McDermott, Dylan | O'Connor, Kevin J. | McCutcheon, Bill | Wedgeworth, Ann | Johnson, Knowl | Ward, Jonathan | Besch, Bibi
Directors: Ross, Herbert
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Revolving around Truvy’s Beauty Parlor in a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, STEEL MAGNOLIAS is the story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there. As the picture opens, we find Drum Eatenton shooting birds in the trees of his back yard in preparation for his daughter’s wedding reception that afternoon. Shortly thereafter, M’Lynn and Shelby (Drum’s wife and daughter) depart for Truvy’s to get their hair done for the wedding. “Just the sweetest thing,” Annelle Depuy Desoto (who may or may not be married because her marriage may not be legal) is introduced to Truvy’s customers as her new “glamour technician.” While in the chairs, the sour-tempered Ouiser Boudreaux shows up and entertains the assemblage with her barbs. It seems that the only one of the group who truly understands Ouiser is Clairee who is recently widowed and looking for a diversion. As she says, later in the picture, “If you can’t find anything good to say about anybody, come sit by me.” Filled with humor and heartbreak, these “Steel Magnolias” make us laugh and cry as the realities of their lives in tiny Chiquapin Parish unfolds.

Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Albert, Eddie | Milland, Ray | Pleasence, Donald | Richards, Kim | Eisenmann, Ike | Barnes, Walter | Shaw, Reta | Pyle, Denver | Ryder, Alfred | Montaigne, Lawrence | Wilson, Terry | Chandler, George | Downs, Dermott | Sanders, Shepherd | Brodie, Don
Directors: Hough, John
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Tia (Kim Richards) and Tony (Ike Eisenmann) are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian (Donald Pleasence) poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian’s megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland), who wants to exploit them. Jason (Eddie Albert), a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony “escape to witch mountain,” while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.