Posts Tagged ‘fairy-tale’

Beethoven (1992)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Grodin, Charles | Hunt, Bonnie | Jones, Dean | Tom, Nicholle | Castile, Christopher | Karr, Sarah Rose | Platt, Oliver | Tucci, Stanley | Duchovny, David | Heaton, Patricia | Davidson, Robi | Cronin, Laurel | Jones, O-Lan | Fish, Nancy | Pinkard, Craig
Directors: Levant, Brian
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Barely escaping from nefarious dognappers, an adorable puppy named Beethoven adopts the unsuspecting Newton family — and promptly grows up into 185 pounds of romping, drolling, disaster-prone St. Bernard! Unfortunately, even after proving his canine credentials to mom and the kids, the heroic hound gets nowhere with uptight dad, George (Charles Grodin). But when a beastly veterinarian (Dean Jones) makes Beethoven the target of an unspeakable animal experiment, George becomes the only hope for saving the Newton’s furriest family member.

Cinderella (1950)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Woods, Ilene | Audley, Eleanor | Felton, Verna | Du Brey, Claire | Williams, Rhoda | MacDonald, James | Stanley, Helene | Van Rooten, Luis | Barclay, Don | Douglas, Mike | Fontaine, John | Keen, Earl | McCauley, Clint | Phipps, William | Woodbury, John
Directors: Geronimi, Clyde
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In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella’s father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies, Cinderella’s wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house. Meanwhile, across town in the castle, the King determines that his son the Prince should find a suitable bride and provide him with a required number of grandchildren. So the King invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy dress ball, where his son will be able to choose his bride. Cinderella has no suitable party dress for a ball, but her friends the mice, lead by Jaques and Gus, and the birds lend a hand in making her one, a dress the evil stepsisters immediately tear apart on the evening of the ball. At this point, enter the Fairy Godmother, the pumpkin carriage, the royal ball, the stroke of midnight, the glass slipper, and the rest, as they say, is fairy tale history.

Baby’s Day Out (1994)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Mantegna, Joe | Boyle, Lara Flynn | Pantoliano, Joe | Haley, Brian | Nixon, Cynthia | Thompson, Fred Dalton | Neville, John | Glave, Matthew | Worton, Adam Robert | Worton, Jacob Joseph | Duffy, Brigid | Hadley, Guy | Bracken, Eddie | Jordahl, Kenneth L. | Henders, Raymond
Directors: Johnson, Patrick Read
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Baby Bink couldn’t ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he’s just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink’s parents; especially the three enterprising kidnapers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnaping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hale, Jennifer | Tress MacNeille | Paulsen, Rob | Burton, Corey | Taylor, Holland | Blakeslee, Susan | Welker, Frank | Barnes, Christopher Daniel | Stojka, Andre | Carter, Carmen | La Piana, Gina | Taylor, Russi | Yezzi, Susan
Directors: Kafka, John
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The movie explores Cinderella’s “happily ever after” life as a princess in 3 stories, with help from the Fairy Godmother. First, Cinderella’s awkward first days at the palace, when she tried so hard to fit in that she forgot to be herself. Second, how Jaq felt so left out that he wished to be a human. Third, how Cinderella taught one of her nasty step-sisters how to smile which leads to her own true love.

Legend (1985)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Sara, Mia | Curry, Tim | Bennent, David | Playten, Alice | Barty, Billy | Hubbert, Cork | O'Farrell, Peter | Shah, Kiran | Lanyon, Annabelle | Picardo, Robert | Martin, Tina | Longmur, Ian | Crane, Mike | Gilbert, Liz
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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A magical adventure which features elves, demons and other mythical creatures. Darkness, the personification of evil, plans to disperse eternal night in the land where this story takes place, by killing every unicorn in the world. Although he looks unbeatable, Jack and his friends are disposed to do everything to save the world and princess Lili (who Darkness intends to make his wife) from the hands of this evil monster.

Barefoot Contessa, The (1954)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Gardner, Ava | O'Brien, Edmond | Goring, Marius | Cortese, Valentina | Brazzi, Rossano | Sellars, Elizabeth | Stevens, Warren | Interlenghi, Franco | Aldon, Mari | Love, Bessie | Decker, Diana | Fraser, Bill | Rabagliati, Alberto | Staiola, Enzo
Directors: Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella’s castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.

Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Neill, Sam | Keena, Monica | Davis, Viola | Bellows, Gil | Glover, Brian | Conrad, David | Brophy, Anthony | Cuka, Frances | Bauer, Chris | Allen, John Edward | Táborský, Miroslav | Tiernan, Andrew | Pringle, Bryan | Wyatt, Dale
Directors: Cohn, Michael
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Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers’ story of a young woman who is unliked by her stepmother, the film includes the talking mirror, a poisoned apple, and some ruffian gold (not diamond) miners (and they aren’t dwarfs or cute). It takes place at the time of the Crusades, and depicts the attitudes of the wealthy and the peasant classes toward one another.

Shrek the Third (2007)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Murphy, Eddie | Diaz, Cameron | Banderas, Antonio | Andrews, Julie | Cleese, John | Everett, Rupert | Idle, Eric | Timberlake, Justin | Blakeslee, Susan | Cameron, Cody | King, Larry | Knights, Christopher | Krasinski, John | McShane, Ian
Directors: Hui, Raman
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When Fiona’s father and King of Far Far Away passes away, the clumsy Shrek becomes the immediate successor of the throne. However, Shrek decides to find the legitimate heir Artie in a distant kingdom with his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to be able return to his beloved house in the swamp with the pregnant Fiona. Meanwhile, the envious and ambitious Prince Charming joins the villains of the fairytales plotting a coup d’état to become the new king.

Sabrina (1954)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Hepburn, Audrey | Holden, William | Hampden, Walter | Williams, John | Hyer, Martha | Vohs, Joan | Dalio, Marcel | Hillaire, Marcel | Walker, Nella | Bushman, Francis X. | Corby, Ellen | Ahdar, David | Bailey, Raymond | Brooks, Ralph
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work — busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play — technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but David hardly notices her — “doesn’t even know I exist” — until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David’s attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her.

Pretty Woman (1990)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gere, Richard | Roberts, Julia | Bellamy, Ralph | Alexander, Jason | San Giacomo, Laura | Hyde-White, Alex | Yasbeck, Amy | Donahue, Elinor | Elizondo, Hector | Baldwin, Judith | Randal, Jason | Applebaum, Bill | Bjork, Tracy | Greene, Gary | Gallo, Billy
Directors: Marshall, Garry
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Vivian Ward has found a way of living by working as a prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard. When she runs into the prince of her dreams, who comes along on his wild horse, she first does not recognize him as her saviour. The prince, a ruthless and wealthy businessman by the name of Edward Lewis, does not know that she could be more than just a girl from the sidewalk, but he changes his decision after the first night with the beautiful stranger. Her being the first person in a long time who could surprise him, Edward can slowly feel the light at the end of the tunnel. He is on his way to become a better person, whereas Vivian has got a new chance to start over again.