Posts Tagged ‘fish-out-of-water’

Mean Girls (2004)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Chabert, Lacey | Lohan, Lindsay | McAdams, Rachel | Amanda Seyfried | Tina Fey | Lizzy Caplan
Directors: Waters, Mark S.
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Raised in African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron thinks she knows about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today.

Family Man, The (2000)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Cheadle, Don | Cage, Nicolas | Piven, Jeremy | Leoni, Téa | Sommer, Josef | Rubinek, Saul
Directors: Ratner, Brett
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A modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn’t leave his college girlfriend for a London trip. He’s married to Kate, lives in Jersey and has two kids. He, of course, desperately wants his life back for which he has worked 13 years for. He’s president of P. K. Lassiter Investment House and not a tire salesman at Big Ed’s. He drives a Ferrari and not a mini-van that never starts. And most importantly he doesn’t wake up in the morning with kids jumping on the bed. After a bad start, day by day he’s more confident in his new life and starts to see what he’s been missing. Turns out money’s good to have but that’s not everything.

Kate & Leopold (2001)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan, Meg | Jackman, Hugh | Schreiber, Liev | Meyer, Breckin | Lyonne, Natasha | Whitford, Bradley | Whitehead, Paxton | Gray, Spalding | Josh Stamberg | Sussman, Matthew | Ayanna, Charlotte | Bosco, Philip | Jack, Andrew | Tracy, Stan | Schaal, Kristen
Directors: Mangold, James
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Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boy friend, Stuart, lives above her apartment and finds this space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the eighteen hundreds and takes pictures of the place. Leopold, a man living in the 1870’s, was puzzled by Stuart’s tiny camera and decides to follow him and they both ended up in this century. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insights from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.

Trading Places (1983)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Denholm | Aykroyd, Dan | Woods, Maurice | Fisher Jr., Richard D. | Gallagher, Jim | DiSabatino, Anthony | Behrend, Bonnie | Merrill, Sunnie | Newell, James | St. John, Mary | Tremena, Bonnie | Schwartz, David | Bellamy, Ralph | Ameche, Don | Degidon, Tom
Directors: Landis, John
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.

My Cousin Vinny (1992)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Pesci, Joe | Macchio, Ralph | Tomei, Marisa | Whitfield, Mitchell | Gwynne, Fred | Smith, Lane | Pendleton, Austin | McGill, Bruce | Chaykin, Maury | Myers, Paulene | Scheine, Raynor | Rebhorn, James | Ellis, Chris | Simpson, Michael | Walker, Lou
Directors: Lynn, Jonathan
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While heading for college, Bill and Stan are arrested in Alabama when circumstances point to them as having murdered a convenience store clerk. Unable to afford an attorney, they turn to Bill’s cousin Vinny, a brash New Yorker who took six tries to pass his bar exam. Worse, until now he’s only taken personal injury cases, none of which have gone to trial. Dragging along his even more abrasive fiancee Mona Lisa Vito, Vinny will have to straighten up fast, and keep out of jail himself, if he’s going to win the case.

Kingdom, The (2007)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Foxx, Jamie | Cooper, Chris | Garner, Jennifer | Bateman, Jason | Barhom, Ashraf | Suliman, Ali | Piven, Jeremy | Jenkins, Richard | Chandler, Kyle | Fisher, Frances | Huston, Danny | AuCoin, Kelly | Smith, Anna Deavere | Kelly, Minka | Hunter, Amy
Directors: Berg, Peter
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When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a local matter. Hamstrung by protocol-and with the clock ticking on their five days-the FBI agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts, who want to locate the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury’s crew finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Colonel Al-Ghazi, who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist cell bent on further destruction. With these unlikely allies sharing a propulsive commitment to crack the case, the team is led to the killer’s front door in a blistering do-or-die confrontation. Now in a fight for their own lives, strangers united by one mission won’t stop until justice is found in The Kingdom.

Decoys (2004)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada
Actors: Sevier, Corey | von Pfetten, Stefanie | Poirier, Kim | Toufexis, Elias | Ory, Meghan | Esmer, Enis | Morin, Krista | Trottier, Marc | Colak, Carrie | Burgi, Richard | Eggert, Nicole | Hastings, Don | Smyth, Sarah | Graham, Leah | Lobel, Mike
Directors: Hastings, Matthew
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Luke and Roger are just another couple of college guys trying to lose their virginity. But when Luke sees something unusual, he begins to suspect that the girls on campus aren’t exactly…human.

Nanny Diaries, The (2007)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Johansson, Scarlett | Linney, Laura | Giamatti, Paul | Evans, Chris | Murphy, Donna | Keys, Alicia | Art, Nicholas | Corddry, Nathan | Huffman, Cady | Roderick, Brande | Garbiras, Nina | Roberts, Judith | Wright, Alison | Simms, Heather | Jaffrey, Sakina
Directors: Berman, Shari Springer
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A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

Holiday, The (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diaz, Cameron | Winslet, Kate | Law, Jude | Black, Jack | Wallach, Eli | Burns, Edward | Sewell, Rufus | Englefield, Miffy | Pritchard, Emma | Parish, Sarah | Sossamon, Shannyn | Macy, Bill | Berman, Shelley | Hahn, Kathryn | Krasinski, John
Directors: Meyers, Nancy
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In London, Iris Simpkins write a wedding column in a newspaper and has an unrequited love for her colleague Jasper Bloom. Nearby Christmas, she is informed that Jasper is engaged and will marry another colleague, and her life turns head over heels. In Los Angeles, the movie-trailers maker Amanda Woods has just broken with her unfaithful boyfriend Ethan and wants to forget him. Amanda access a house exchange website, and impulsively swaps her mansion for Iris’ cottage in Surrey for the holiday along the next two weeks. While in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris’ widow brother and book editor Graham and they fall in love for each other. Meanwhile Iris meet her next door neighbor, the ninety year old screenplay writer Arthur, who helps her to retrieve her self-esteem, and the film composer Miles, and they fall in love for each other.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Baron Cohen, Sacha | Davitian, Ken | Luenell | Barr, Bob | Ciorobea, Spirea | Keyes, Alan | Psenicksa, Michael | Rowe, Bobby | Sell, Jim | Walker, Larry | Äliyev, Ilham | Anderson, Pamela | Behar, Mariam | Stein, Linda
Directors: Charles, Larry
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Kazakhstani TV personality Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the “greatest country in the world.” With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than on his assignment.