Posts Tagged ‘coming-of-age’

Fierce People (2005)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Yelchin, Anton | Sutherland, Donald | Evans, Chris | Stewart, Kristen | de la Huerta, Paz | Mankuma, Blu | Perkins, Elizabeth | Shyer, Christopher | Chalk, Gary | McDonald, Ryan | Dey, Kaleigh | Brooks, Aaron | Williams, Branden | Grant, Teach
Directors: Dunne, Griffin
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Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee DIANE LANE stars as a massage therapist who dreams of leaving New York City and joining her son’s father, a renowned anthropologist, who is studying a primitive South American tribe called Yanomano or “Fierce People.” She currently lives a carefree life in Manhattan, but when her son has a close brush with the law, she realizes it’s time to make a life-altering change, and she pulls some strings to enter them into a life of wealth and privilege. When her son is attacked, their perfect world is shattered.

Igby Goes Down (2002)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Culkin, Kieran | Danes, Claire | Goldblum, Jeff | Harris, Jared | Peet, Amanda | Phillippe, Ryan | Pullman, Bill | Sarandon, Susan | Culkin, Rory | Tambakis, Peter Anthony | Irwin, Bill | Gati, Kathleen | Forrester, Gannon | Weston, Celia | Jagger, Elizabeth
Directors: Burr Steers
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Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast “old money” family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it. After happily flunking out of several Prep Schools, Igby escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan. His darkly comic trip—shared by a deviant cast of characters, including his terminally bored, part-time lover Sookie, his Godfather’s trophy mistress Rachel, and smack-dealing performance artists Russel—veers from bizarre to tragic in Igby’s ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from “going down.”

Home at the End of the World, A (2004)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Chalmers, Andrew | Donowho, Ryan | Vieira, Asia | Hamilton, Quancetia | Authors, Jeff J.J. | Merchant, Lisa | Lea, Ron | Smith, Erik | Allan, Harris | Frewer, Matt | Spacek, Sissy | Farrell, Colin | Roberts, Dallas | Wright Penn, Robin | Roberts, Shawn
Directors: Mayer, Michael
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Two childhood friends face their past relationships, including their own, alongside a new friend in the 1980’s in New York City. Their friendship becomes a love triangle as they struggle with a father’s death and an unexpected pregnancy. Together, the shall face each other as they realize that everything they have may not be what they expected.

White Squall (1996)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bridges, Jeff | Goodall, Caroline | Savage, John | Wolf, Scott | Sisto, Jeremy | Phillippe, Ryan | Lascher, David | Cole, Eric Michael | Marsden, Jason | Selby, David | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Ivanek, Zeljko | Getty, Balthazar | Embry, Ethan | Clarke, Jordan
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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A true story about a group of American teenage boys who crew a school sailing ship to gain experience, discipline, or whatever their parents feel they lack. The voyage is a true adventure for them all but it has its downs as well as ups.

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Dunst, Kirsten | Stiles, Julia | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Goodwin, Ginnifer | West, Dominic | Stevenson, Juliet | Harden, Marcia Gay | Slattery, John | Seldes, Marian | Mitchell, Donna | Rigby, Terence | Eisenhower, Jennie | Lyles, Leslie | Allen, Laura
Directors: Newell, Mike
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Set in 1953, Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.

Grease (1978)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Olivia Newton-John | Channing, Stockard | Conaway, Jeff | Pearl, Barry | Tucci, Michael | Ward, Kelly | Conn, Didi | Donnelly, Jamie | Manoff, Dinah | Arden, Eve | Avalon, Frankie | Blondell, Joan | Byrnes, Edd | Caesar, Sid
Directors: Kleiser, Randal
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What, you haven’t seen it? Danny is the ‘coolest’ of the T Birds, a group of High School guys, they hang out with the Pink Ladies. Danny met Sandy during the summer holiday and now she’s moved to the area and to his school, Rydell High. Sandy doesn’t fit in with the ‘cool’ scene, and the Pink ladies, “Look at me I’m Sandra Dee, Blessed with my virginity” sings Rizzo, the Pink Ladies leader. A rival gang Scorpians want to race the T Birds car (”Go Greased Lightening …”). Also there’s a National Dance TV show coming to Rydall High … There are a couple of rival suitors to Sandy and Danny, to liven the relationship up. And ‘oh yes’ - Graduation.

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ohgo, Suzuka | Igawa, Togo | Mako | Futerman, Samantha | Sung, Elizabeth | Ikeda, Thomas | Gong, Li | Chin, Tsai | Momoi, Kaori | Weizenbaum, Zoe | Okihiro, David | Tachibana, Miyako | Kawamura, Kotoko | Yune, Karl | Yuan, Eugenia
Directors: Marshall, Rob
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In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto’s Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo’s bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha’s mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha’s world are forever changed by the onslaught of history.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sykes, Eric | Spall, Timothy | Tennant, David | Radcliffe, Daniel | Watson, Emma | Grint, Rupert | Williams, Mark | Phelps, James | Phelps, Oliver | Wright, Bonnie | Rawle, Jeff | Pattinson, Robert | Isaacs, Jason | Felton, Tom | Ianevski, Stanislav
Directors: Newell, Mike
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Harry’s fourth summer and the following year at Hogwarts are marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort’s Death Eaters are gaining strength and even creating the Dark Mark giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again. In the unsuspecting lives of the young wizard and witches at Hogwarts the competitors are selected by the goblet of fire, which this year makes a very surprising announcement: Hogwarts will have two representatives in the tournament, including Harry Potter! Will Harry be able to rise to the challenge for the Tri Wizard Tournament while keeping up with school or will the challenges along with Voldemort’s rebirth be too much for the young hero?

Brother Bear (2003)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Phoenix, Joaquin | Suarez, Jeremy | Raize, Jason | Moranis, Rick | Thomas, Dave | Sweeney, D.B. | Copeland, Joan | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Gould, Harold | Christie, Paul | Mastrogiorgio, Daniel | Harris, Estelle | Proops, Greg | Perrette, Pauley | Cesar, Darko
Directors: Blaise, Aaron | Walker, Robert
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Long ago, as the Earth was emerging from the Ice Age, there were three brothers. After a bear takes the life of the oldest brother, impulsive youngest brother Kenai kills the bear in revenge, only to be transformed into a bear himself. Denahi, the middle brother, comes upon this bear and, thinking it killed Kenai, vows revenge. Now brother hunts brother and Kenai’s only hope for survival is to befriend his own worst enemy, a grizzly cub named Koda. Koda main goal is to show Kenai the real meaning of brotherhood.

How to Make an American Quilt (1995)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryder, Winona | Bancroft, Anne | Burstyn, Ellen | Nelligan, Kate | Woodard, Alfre | Craddick, Kaelynn | Craddick, Sara | Capshaw, Kate | Baldwin, Adam | Mulroney, Dermot | Angelou, Maya | Smith, Lois | Simmons, Jean | Arndt, Denis | Torn, Rip
Directors: Moorhouse, Jocelyn
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Finn is a young graduate student, finishing a master’s thesis, and preparing for marriage to her fiance Sam. But thoughts of the end of the free life, and a potential summer fling, intrude. She goes home to her grandmother, where, over the making of her wedding gift by a group of quilting-bee friends, laughter, bickering, love, and advice lead her toward a more open-eyed examination of her course.