Posts Tagged ‘father-son-relationship’

Beowulf (2007)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Winstone, Ray | Wright Penn, Robin | Hopkins, Anthony | Bilezikjian, John | Martin, Brice | Fortag, Sonje | Baker-Bernard, Sharisse | Salt, Charlotte | Renee, Julene | Ellis, Greg | Young, Rik | Roché, Sebastian | Harter Zemeckis, Leslie | Malkovich, John | Schultz, Woody
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel’s mother, who begins killing out of revenge.

Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: France
Actors: Highmore, Freddie | Farrow, Mia | Balfour, Penny | Rand, Doug | LeFevre, Adam | Bejote Njamba, Jean | Blumental, Serge | Madonna | Fallon, Jimmy | De Niro, Robert | Keitel, Harvey | de Jong, Lee | Palminteri, Chazz | Rhoff | Estevez, Emilio
Directors: Besson, Luc
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Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur’s grandfather returns to sign some papers and pay off the family debt. Arthur discovers that the key to success lies in his own descent into the land of the Minimoys, creatures no larger than a tooth, whom his grandfather helped relocate to their garden. Somewhere among them is hidden a pile of rubies, too. Can Arthur be of stout heart and save the day? Romance beckons as well, and a villain lurks.

Transamerica (2005)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: James, Andrea | Huffman, Felicity | Burstein, Danny | Orozco, Maurice | Peña, Elizabeth | Bockhorn, Craig | Borghese, Paul | Zegers, Kevin | Budinoff, Jon | Evans, Venida | Scheine, Raynor | Bayley, Kate | Maeve, Stella | Dunn, Teala | Frangione, Jim
Directors: Tucker, Duncan
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One week before her sex-change operation, Bree receives a call from a 17-year-old identifying himself as her son from a college liaison. Bree’s psychiatrist won’t approve the surgery until Bree deals with this relationship, so Bree flies to New York City, bails the youth out of juvenile detention, and offers him a ride back to Los Angeles without disclosing that she is his father. Both her plans and his go awry, and as secrets will out, what might become a friendship (or more) founders. The lad’s step-father, a sex-change support group, a peyote eater, a Navajo wrangler, and Bree’s family all play their parts in this exploration of family, gender, and expectations.

HouseSitter (1992)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Hawn, Goldie | Delany, Dana | Harris, Julie | Moffat, Donald | MacNicol, Peter | Shull, Richard B. | Cronin, Laurel | Cooper, Roy | Durang, Christopher | Broun, Heywood Hale | Jones, Cherry | Simek, Vasek | Whang, Suzanne | Klug, Mary
Directors: Oz, Frank
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When his longtime girlfriend Becky says no to marriage and the house he has built, architect Newton Davis takes it badly. Three months later a one night liaison with livewire waitress Gwen gets rather out of control when she tracks down the dream house, moves in, and lets it be known locally that she and Newton are married. Everyone in the small town take to her, including his parents, while Becky shows renewed interest. When Newton realises the situation he suggests to Gwen that continuing the deception might have advantages for both of them.

Falcon and the Snowman, The (1985)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hutton, Timothy | Penn, Sean | Hingle, Pat | Van Patten, Joyce | Reed, Rob | Newell, Rob | West, Karen | Camacho, Art | Kozuch, Annie | Dysart, Richard | Pointer, Priscilla | Makepeace, Chris | Harewood, Dorian | Kaplan, Mady | McCalman, Macon
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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The true story of Christopher Boyce (Hutton), a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton (Penn); it can’t last, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce and his family.

Billy Madison (1995)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | McGavin, Darren | Wilson, Bridgette | Whitford, Bradley | Mostel, Josh | MacDonald, Norm | Beltzman, Mark | Hankin, Larry | Merritt, Theresa | Platias, Dina | Alianak, Hrant | Marino, Vincent | Mather, Jack | Kelk, Christopher | Donato, Marc
Directors: Davis, Tamra
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Billy Madison is a non-working, non-educated slacker who lives entirely off his dad. He spends his day drinking beer, reading girly magazines, and hanging out by the pool. When his father realizes that Billy is unfit to run the family business, Billy decides that he must go back to school and earn a real education. He figures it will be no problem going back to high school and learning over again, until he learns that his father bought Billy’s passing grades all the way back in elementary school. Thus, Billy must return to elementary school and pass each grade one at a time in a short time, or else he loses his place as heir to the company. In addition, Billy tries to win the hand of Veronica, a sexy school teacher who thinks her students are more mature than Billy.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Bloom, Orlando | Knightley, Keira | Davenport, Jack | Nighy, Bill | Pryce, Jonathan | Arenberg, Lee | Crook, Mackenzie | McNally, Kevin | Bailie, David | Skarsgård, Stellan | Hollander, Tom | Harris, Naomie | Klebba, Martin | Schofield, David
Directors: Verbinski, Gore
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Just before their wedding, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, but Cutler proposes a deal to Will: their freedom per Jack’s compass. Meanwhile, Jack is afraid of the sea, because he owes his soul to the evil Davy Jones, the Captain of the Flying Dutchmen. When Will meets Jack, the pirate proposes to exchange his compass by a key owned by Davy Jones. Will goes to the Flying Dutchman without knowing how dangerous and diabolic Davy Jones and his crew are.

Bully (2001)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Renfro, Brad | Miner, Rachel | Phillips, Bijou | Stahl, Nick | Pitt, Michael | Fitzpatrick, Leo | Garner, Kelli | Franzese, Daniel | Paulding, Nathalie | Sutta, Jessica | Amatrudo, Ed | Raulerson, Steve | Clayton, Judy | Lilly, Alan | Colletti, Irene B.
Directors: Clark, Larry
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After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend’s twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby’s often cruel ways, couldn’t agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small Florida town. In the midst of their plotting, they find themselves contemplating with the possible aftermath of what could happen.

Friday (1995)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cube, Ice | Tucker, Chris | Long, Nia | Lister, Tommy 'Tiny' | John Witherspoon | Horsford, Anna Maria | King, Regina | Parker, Paula Jai | Love, Faizon | Pooh, DJ | Means, Angela | Reynolds, Vickilyn | Riser, Ronn | Bradley, Kathleen | Cox, Tony
Directors: Gray, F. Gary
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Having just been canned from his job on his day off, Craig and his best friend Smokey spend the day smoking up in their South Central neighborhood while dealing with a neighborhood bully, relationship troubles, an angry drug dealer, and a lot of other odd characters.

Next Friday (2000)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Cube, Ice | Jones, Tamala | Epps, Mike | Pierce, Justin | Curry, Don 'D.C.' | John Witherspoon | Lister, Tommy 'Tiny' | Whitley, Kym | Jones, Kirk | Vargas, Jacob | Hill, Amy | Rodríguez, Lisa | Fingaz, Sticky | Powell, Clifton | Sebastian, Lobo
Directors: Carr, Steve
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Debo has escaped from prison and is looking to get revenge on Craig. So Craig’s dad takes him to Rancho Cucamonga to hide out with his Uncle Elroy and cousin Day-Day, who moved to the suburbs after winning the lottery. But once he gets there, Craig and Day-Day have a set of suburban misadventures that make his South Central experiences look tame.