Posts Tagged ‘family’

Simpsons Movie, The (2007)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Castellaneta, Dan | Kavner, Julie | Cartwright, Nancy | Smith, Yeardley | Azaria, Hank | Shearer, Harry | Brooks, Albert | Grammer, Kelsey | Mantegna, Joe | Wiedergott, Karl | Brockovich-Ellis, Erin | Driver, Minnie | Hayden, Pamela | Tress MacNeille | Roswell, Maggie
Directors: Silverman, David
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Homer adopts a pig who’s run away from Krusty Burger after Krusty tried to have him slaughtered, naming the pig “Spider Pig.” At the same time, the lake is protected after the audience sink the barge Green Day are on with garbage after they mention the environment. Meanwhile, Spider Pig’s waste has filled up a silo in just 2 days, apparently with Homer’s help. Homer can’t get to the dump quickly so dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it. Russ Cargill, the villainous boss of the EPA, gives Arnold Schwarzenegger 5 options, forcing him to choose 4 (which is, unfortunately, to destroy Springfield) and putting a dome over Springfield to prevent evacuation. Homer, however, has escaped, along with his family. Can he stop the evil Cargill from annihilating his home town, and his family, who have been forced to return to Springfield?

Over the Hedge (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Shandling, Garry | Carell, Steve | Sykes, Wanda | Shatner, William | Nolte, Nick | Church, Thomas Haden | Janney, Allison | Levy, Eugene | O'Hara, Catherine | Lavigne, Avril | Djalili, Omid | Kirkpatrick, Sami | Baumel, Shane | Davenport, Madison
Directors: Johnson, Tim
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Traveling raccoon con artist, RJ (Willis), arrives in a woods outside a human city in the Midwest, excited about the wonders that living near humans can bring hungry animals. What he finds, however, is an Amish-like community that is deathly afraid of humans, after their leader, Vern the tortoise (Shandling), has an encounter with human boys that terrifies him. Encouraged by RJ, however, the animals slowly venture over the hedge that separates them from the brand new suburban development that appeared over the winter while they were sleeping, and what RJ shows them is a whole new world where humans leave tin cans full of fish and other food in big canisters, ripe for the taking. As they get closer and closer to humans, however, their comfortable lives in the woods appears to be threatened…

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Romano, Ray | Leguizamo, John | Leary, Denis | Scott, Seann William | Peck, Josh | Latifah, Queen | Arnett, Will | Leno, Jay | Wedge, Chris | Ackerman, Peter | Anderson, Caitlin Rose | Anderson, Connor | Bologna, Joseph | Crocicchia, Jack | DeSève, Peter
Directors: Saldanha, Carlos
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Manny (Ray Ramono), Sid (John Leguizamo), and Diego (Denis Leary) are currently living in a large valley surrounded by an enormously high ice wall on all sides. When a waterpark begins to form, the trio discovers that the ice wall is actually a wall that is barely holding a massive body of water that could flood the valley to nearly a mile underwater. A vulture tells them that there is a boat at the other end of the valley that may save them all, but they only have 3 days to make it or die. Manny is having trouble facing the fact that he may be the last mammoth left. Along the way, they meet Ellie (Queen Latifah), a mammoth who thinks she is a possum, and her possum brothers Crash (Sean William Scott) and Eddie (Josh Peck). As they begin to travel together, Manny learns, with help from Diego and Sid, that having this new mammoth with them, may not be as bad as Manny makes it out to be while they try to escape the oncoming and continually threatening flood. During their journey, Scrat the sabre-toothed squirrel has his own hilarious adventures that eventually leads to something else entirely.

Desperate Hours (1990)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rourke, Mickey | Hopkins, Anthony | Rogers, Mimi | Crouse, Lindsay | Lynch, Kelly | Koteas, Elias | Morse, David | Smith, Shawnee | Gerard, Danny | Bamman, Gerry | McGrath, Matt | Jones, John Christopher | Norris, Dean | Finn, John | Curry, Christopher
Directors: Cimino, Michael
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Michael Bosworth is a psychotic criminal who is about to go on trial however, he seduces his lawyer into helping him escape. But as they try to make their getaway, she’s left behind. He decides to wait for her to come to him, so he decides to hide at the house of the Cornells. Now it appears that the Cornells have problems of their own. The husband and wife are separated. And there’s an FBI agent after them who is using the lawyer to lead them to Bosworth.

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Spade, David | McCormack, Mary | Bierko, Craig | Terra, Scott | Boyd, Jenna | Farley, John | Slayton, Bobby | Buffer, Michael | Wolf, Fred | Milano, Alyssa | Lewis, Emmanuel | Diaz, Joey | Grevioux, Kevin | Clark, Brian | Garrett, Leif
Directors: Sam Weisman
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TV child star of the ’70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid. Several folk who are also involved in Dickie’s special world include: Sidney, Dickie’s longtime friend and agent; Cyndi, his on-again, off-again girlfriend; Peggy, Dickie’s real mother; George, Dickie’s adopted father figure; and Grace, his adopted mother figure.

Deep End of the Ocean, The (1999)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Pfeiffer, Michelle | Williams, Treat | Goldberg, Whoopi | Jackson, Jonathan | Buck, Cory | Merriman, Ryan | Vega, Alexa | McGrady, Michael | Strong, Brenda | McElroy, Michael | Musante, Tony | Gregorio, Rose | Kapelos, John | Jenney, Lucinda | Roselius, John
Directors: Grosbard, Ulu
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The Deep End of The Ocean is a film about a family’s reaction when Ben, the youngest son is kidnapped and then found ten years later, living in the same town.

Divorce, Le (2003)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Hudson, Kate | Lhomme, Jean-Marie | Watts, Naomi | Buchet-Deàk, Esmée | Pivert, Jean-Jacques | Poupaud, Melvil | Samie, Catherine | Labarthe, Samuel | Caron, Leslie | Thierry Lhermitte | Richard, Nathalie | Gruen, Samuel | Wyckoff, Peter | Lonnoy, Sandrel | Close, Glenn
Directors: Ivory, James
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French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her Frenchman-wed sister in Paris.

School of Rock, The (2003)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Black, Jack | Pascal, Adam | Papaelias, Lucas | Stack, Chris | Silverman, Sarah | White, Mike | Babin, Lucas | Cusack, Joan | Green, Jordan-Claire | Afflerbach, Veronica | Cosgrove, Miranda | Gaydos Jr., Joey | Tsai, Robert | Massagli, Angelo | Clark, Kevin Alexander
Directors: Linklater, Richard
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Down and out rock star Dewey Finn (Black) gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar prodigy, who could help Dewey win a “battle of the bands” competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight.

Rumor Has It… (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Aniston, Jennifer | Costner, Kevin | MacLaine, Shirley | Ruffalo, Mark | Jenkins, Richard | McDonald, Christopher | Sandvoss, Steve | Suvari, Mena | Vogel, Mike | Lanza, Robert | Vachon, Lisa | Stock, Trevor | Taylor, Jennifer Bini | Burrs, Marcia Ann | Wanlass, Lynn
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Sarah Huttington, recently engaged, goes home to Pasadena with fiancé Jeff for a family wedding. She hears a rumor that “The Graduate” (book and movie) are based on her family. Did her grandmother and her mom have flings with the same man just before her parents married? Is she a strange man’s child; does this explain why she doesn’t fit in? Was her mother happy? Is she too facing a loveless marriage? Where can she seek answers: her mother’s dead, her father’s a pleasant naïf. Ask her salty grandma? Better to ask the man in the triangle, the real Benjamin Braddock. With Jeff’s blessing, Sarah heads for San Francisco, looking for the key to her past and to her future.

Tarzan (1999)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Goldwyn, Tony | Driver, Minnie | Close, Glenn | Blessed, Brian | Hawthorne, Nigel | Henriksen, Lance | Knight, Wayne | Linz, Alex D. | O'Donnell, Rosie | Dempsey, Taylor | Marsden, Jason | Angel, Jack | Ashton, Joseph | Bergen, Bob | Bumpass, Rodger
Directors: Buck, Chris
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The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he’s human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to…