Posts Tagged ‘coma’

Cell, The (2000)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Vaughn, Vince | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Weber, Jake | Baker, Dylan | Jean-Baptiste, Marianne | Bauchau, Patrick | Becker, Gerry | Subkoff, Tara | Sutherland, Catherine | Thomas, Jake | James, Colton | Norris, Dean | Cothran Jr., John | Conley, Jack
Directors: Singh, Tarsem
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Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for a desperate favour. They had just tracked down a notorious serial killer, Carl Stargher, whose MO is to abduct women one at a time and place them in a secret area where they are kept for about 40 hours until they are slowly drowned. Unfortunately, the killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot confess where he has taken his latest victim before she dies. Now, Catherine Deane must race against time to explore the twisted mind of the killer to get the information she needs, but Stargher’s damaged personality poses dangers that threaten to overwhelm her.

Swimfan (2002)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bradford, Jesse | Christensen, Erika | Appleby, Shiri | Burton, Kate | Crawford, Clayne | Ritter, Jason | Goodwin, Kia | Hedaya, Dan | Higgins, Michael | Sandow, Nick | Isaacs, Pamela | DeBello, James | Somerville, Phyllis | Cappadona, Tom | Barrett, Malcolm
Directors: Polson, John
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Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he’s on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Not that it’s been easy - every day Ben juggles countless hours in the pool (training for a critical swim meet), with a job at the local hospital, and finding quality time with his high school sweetheart, Amy. Ben’s rock-solid, promising future and romance with Amy are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the “new girl in town,” quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more - much more. Seducing Ben is only beginning; she becomes his biggest “fan” and most unexpected nightmare, as her obsessions quickly spiral out of control into betrayal, madness and, ultimately, murder.

Face/Off (1997)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Cage, Nicolas | Allen, Joan | Nivola, Alessandro | Gershon, Gina | Swain, Dominique | Cassavetes, Nick | Presnell, Harve | Feore, Colm | Lynch, John Carroll | Pounder, CCH | Wisdom, Robert | Cho, Margaret | Denton, James | Ross, Matt
Directors: Woo, John
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Sean Archer is a government agent who for six years has been trying to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who tried to kill him but ended up killing Archer’s son instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has planted a bomb that will go off, unless he lets him go but Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing so a fight erupts that leaves Troy comatose. But later when they go through some of his brother, Pollux’s things, they discover that Troy was telling the truth. All what they need now is to find out where it is and the only person who knows is Pollux. And the only person that he will talk to about it, is his brother, Caster but unfortunately he is a vegetable. A government official then suggests to Archer that he assume Caster’s identity and ask Pollux about the bomb. So she brings him to a doctor who has perfected a method wherein the face of one individual is removed from him and placed on another. Archer agrees. The operation is a success so Archer as Troy goes to the prison where Pollux is being held and successfully gets him to tell him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was believed to be comatose awakens and forces the doctor who operated on Archer to place Archer’s face on him. He then goes to the prison as Archer and taunts Archer by telling him that he has destroyed all documentation of the operation and eliminated everyone who knew about it. He then takes his brother out and leaves Archer in prison. But Archer somehow manages to escape and is now trying to find someone who will believe and help him, while Troy is plotting something.

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bullock, Sandra | Pullman, Bill | Gallagher, Peter | Boyle, Peter | Warden, Jack | Johns, Glynis | Mercurio, Micole | Bernard, Jason | Rispoli, Michael | Walker, Ally | Keena, Monica | Rudnick, Ruth | Wright, Marcia | Cusack, Dick | Morris, Thomas Q.
Directors: Turteltaub, Jon
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Lucy’s life consists of constant lonliness that is until she saves Peter’s life. Now she is a part of his family, and with a strong heart and fate on her side, others begin to realize what a terrific person she is, especially Jack, Peter’s brother. An extraordinarily true-to-life sequence of events begin to take place as Lucy and Jack become closer and learn more about each other and themselves than one would ever expect from such coincidental, yet believable events.

Just Like Heaven (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Witherspoon, Reese | Ruffalo, Mark | Logue, Donal | Spybey, Dina | Shenkman, Ben | Heder, Jon | Milicevic, Ivana | Chao, Rosalind | Pflueger, Chris | Dorsey, Kerris | Shafer, Alyssa | Canada, Ron | Aaron, Caroline | Made, Gabrielle | Cowen, Shulie
Directors: Waters, Mark
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Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon), a dedicated Doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When her sister with two kids set her up on a date, she gets into a tragic car crash and gets in a coma. Meanwhile, an artist named David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) moves into San Francisco and coincidentally, into Elizabeth’s apartment for rent. While at the apartment, Elizabeth’s spirit haunts him. She doesn’t remember who she is, who her family is, and what she did - All that she remembered was her apartment and where everything was. To settle the arguments, Dacid agrees to figure out who Elizabeth really is. When they get close to figuring out who she is, they eventually find love in each other and as they finally know who she really is, they learn that fate really has put them both together.

Tribulation (2000)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Busey, Gary | Mandel, Howie | Mancuso, Nick | Kidder, Margot | Miller, Sherry | Ziegler, Joseph | Bayne, Lawrence | Best, Wayne | Kamateros, Costa | Gallagher, Patrick | Lewis, Leigh | Nordeman, Nichole | Van Impe, Jack | Van Impe, Rexella | Jakes, T.D.
Directors: van Heerden, André
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Tom Canboro is a police detective with a Christian sister, Eileen, a brother, Calvin, a wife, Susan, and eccentric brother-in-law, Jason. One night, Jason seemingly goes insane and tries to kill Eileen, calling her a “hater”. Tom soon realises this may be a conspiracy going as far as devil worship, but as he speeds in his car to get help, he suddenly looses control and crashes. Waking up in a strange hospital, he finds years have passed and people all over the world are wearing the mark of 666 on their right hands, and all those who don’t are being killed off. Franco Macalusso, the believer in world peace Jason was fond of, now controls the world, and is trying to bring the world together as it was at the tower of Babel. Meanwhile, the “Haters” or Christians are hiding out and airing TBN tapes on the air for people to realise the Messiah is really the Antichrist, but their leader, Helen Hannah, is arrested…

Laramie Project, The (2002)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ricci, Christina | Buscemi, Steve | Linney, Laura | Phoenix, Summer
Directors: Kaufman, Moisés
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‘Moisés Kaufman’ (qv) and members of New York’s Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of ‘Matthew Shepard (I)’ (qv). This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd’s visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of “Angels in America” a year after Shephard’s death.

Hard to Kill (1990)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Seagal, Steven | LeBrock, Kelly | Sadler, William | Coffin, Frederick | Burroughs, Bonnie | Bloch, Andrew | Richmond, Branscombe | Boswell, Charles | Rosencrantz, Zachary | Beatty Jr., Lou | DeMauro, Nick | Corello, Nick | De Rosa, Justin | Brock, Stanley | James, Evan
Directors: Malmuth, Bruce
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In 1983, Senator Vernon Trent is running a high-profile re-election campaign. Los Angeles cop Mason Storm videotapes a meeting where Trent hires killers to kill his opponent so he won’t lose the election. When Mason’s cover is blown, he gets away temporarily, but when he calls in this information to his partner Kevin O’Malley, he is overheard by corrupt cops who work for Trent. On his way home, Mason stops at a liquor store to pick up some champagne to celebrate his undercover coup with his wife Felicia and his 5-year-old son Sonny. 5 thugs come into the store with guns and blow away the cashier, and Mason kills the thugs. At home, Mason tucks Sonny in, and Mason and Felicia open the champagne. The corrupt cops who overheard Storm’s call to Kevin go to Storm’s house and start firing their guns. Felicia is killed, and Sonny is missing and presumed dead. Mason himself, declared dead at the hospital, revives only to remain in a coma. Kevin enlists the help of a doctor to keep Mason’s survival a secret until he can recuperate and give information on his assailants. 7 years later, in 1990, Kevin has been forced off the LAPD, with Trent and his men now running the show. Mason is in a coma center under the alias of “John Doe,” and he’s being cared for by nurse Andrea “Andy” Stewart. Mason wakes up from his 7 year coma, and takes some time to recover. After recovering, Mason is reunited with Sonny, who is now 12-years-old, and Mason plans his revenge on Trent.

Uptown Girls (2003)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Brittany | Faison, Donald | Pendleton, Austin | Fanning, Dakota | Shelton, Marley | Locklear, Heather
Directors: Boaz Yakin
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Molly Gunn (Murphy), the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray (Fanning), the oft ignored daughter of a music executive (Locklear) she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

Batman & Robin (1997)

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Clooney, George | O'Donnell, Chris | Thurman, Uma | Silverstone, Alicia | Gough, Michael | Hingle, Pat | Glover, John | Macpherson, Elle | Fox, Vivica A. | Thomessen, Vendela Kirsebom | Sanders, Elizabeth | Swenson, Jeep | Fink, John | MacKay, Michael Reid
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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Mr. Freeze plans on taking Gotham City hostage by freezing the town into a permanent winter. In the meantime, a new seductive villainous, Poison Ivy, has appeared to cause a rift in the partnership of Batman & Robin. While all this is happening, faithful butler Alfred is dying. Mr. Freeze holds the key to save his life. Enter Batgirl to help save the day.