Posts Tagged ‘gift’

Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Meyer, Breckin | Dillon, Matt | Keaton, Michael | Lohan, Lindsay | Long, Justin | Jill Ritchie | Jimmi Simpson
Directors: Angela Robinson
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Maggie Peyton (Lindsay Lohan), the first Peyton to graduate from college receives a graduation present from her dad (Michael Keaton) and as she’s about to get a 250Z, she instead receives a Volkswagon Bug (Herbie) and Herbie takes her for a ride. Herbie takes her to “Kevins Custom Car Shop” run by her best friend Kevin (Justin Long) where they take Herbie for a test drive and end up at a car show where Herbie beats all-time racer Trip Murphy (Matt Dillon)in an impromptu street race. Trip demands a rematch and attempts to discover the secret behind Herbie. But Magwheels’s biggest challenge isn’t the up and coming Daytona 500, It’s proving to her dad that she’s good enough to be the next great Peyton.

Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Rennie | Neal, Patricia | Marlowe, Hugh | Jaffe, Sam | Gray, Billy | Bavier, Frances | Martin, Lock | Davis, Elmer | Kaltenborn, H.V. | Pearson, Drew | Heatter, Gabriel | Bane, Holly | Bradford, Marshall | Brown, John | Burton, John
Directors: Wise, Robert
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A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.

Nancy Drew (2007)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Family | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Emma | Flitter, Josh | Thieriot, Max | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Donovan, Tate | Alva, Amanda | Abrams, Phil | Bell, Marshall | Bemis, Cliff | Borjas, Edgar | Bostwick, Barry | Clark, Adam | Cooper, Rich | D'Ambrosio, Vito | Dickens, Darnell
Directors: Fleming, Andrew
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This movie is about Nancy Drew going to Los Angeles California with her father, who was going there on business. While she was there she happened upon a mystery that involved a murdered movie actress, and her daughter. Nancy found out her her daughter was, when nobody even knew that the actress had any kids, and the actress’s daughter inherited all of the actress’s money. At the end of the movie, once they got back home, Ned and Nancy kissed for what I think was their first actual kiss, and right after their quick kiss Nancy’s father told her that she had a call from some people in Germany, who were talking about the Loch Ness Monster.

Birds, The (1963)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Taylor, Rod | Tandy, Jessica | Pleshette, Suzanne | Hedren, Tippi | Cartwright, Veronica | Griffies, Ethel | McGraw, Charles | McDevitt, Ruth | Chapman, Lonny | Mantell, Joe | Weaver, Doodles | Atterbury, Malcolm | McGovern, John | Swenson, Karl | Deacon, Richard
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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Guaranteed to make you want to stop bird-watching and put the old bird feeder to the ax—at least for a while. The whole thing starts when Melanie Daniels is crossing a lake and is nipped by a gull. Gradually, incidence of bird damage to humans by pecking increases. Glass windows splinter before diving birds, children are sent home from school to safety, townspeople take refuge in a lunchroom, Miss Daniels in a phone booth, and finally everyone hides in homes tightly boarded up against repeated attacks by the birds. It’s enough to make you kick the next pigeon you come across.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilder, Gene | Albertson, Jack | Ostrum, Peter | Kinnear, Roy | Cole, Julie Dawn | Stone, Leonard | Nickerson, Denise | Denney, Nora | Themmen, Paris | Reit, Ursula | Bollner, Michael | Sowle, Diana | Woods, Aubrey | Battley, David | Meisner, Günter
Directors: Stuart, Mel
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?

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.

Bee Season (2005)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Gere, Richard | Binoche, Juliette | Cross, Flora | Minghella, Max | Bosworth, Kate | Fischer, Corey | Zuckerman, Sam | Mankin, Joan | Mackenzie, Piers | Holt, Lorri | Leonard, Brian | McGraw, Kathy | Evans, John | Mullally, Alisha | Charles, Olivia
Directors: McGehee, Scott | Siegel, David
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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty…

Shopgirl (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Danes, Claire | Schwartzman, Jason | Wilson, Bridgette | Bottoms, Sam | Conroy, Frances | Pidgeon, Rebecca | Shelton, Samantha | Doctor, Gina | Kusatsu, Clyde | Rosemont, Romy | Snyder, Joshua | Nichols, Rachel | Edelman, Shane
Directors: Tucker, Anand
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The story follows Mirabelle, a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcee Ray Porter (Steve Martin) and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.

French Connection, The (1971)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Rey, Fernando | Scheider, Roy | Lo Bianco, Tony | Bozzuffi, Marcel | Pasquale, Frédéric de | Hickman, Bill | Rebbot, Ann | Gary, Harold | Farber, Arlene | Egan, Eddie | Ernotte, André | Grosso, Sonny
Directors: Friedkin, William
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William Friedkin’s gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between ‘Popeye’ Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed.

Santa Clause 2, The (2002)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Allen, Tim | Mitchell, Elizabeth | Krumholtz, David | Lloyd, Eric | Reinhold, Judge | Crewson, Wendy | Breslin, Spencer | Mumy, Liliana | Woodman, Danielle | LaFleur, Art | Tyler, Aisha | Pollak, Kevin | Thomas, Jay | Dorn, Michael | Attadia, Christopher
Directors: Lembeck, Michael
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Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) has been Santa Claus for the past eight years, and his loyal elves consider him the best Santa ever. But Santa’s got problems (he’s even mysteriously losing weight) and things quickly go south when he finds out that his son, Charlie, has landed on this year’s “naughty” list. Desperate to help his son, Scott heads back home, leaving a substitute Claus to watch over things at the Pole. But when the substitute institutes some strange redefinitions of naughty and nice, putting Christmas at risk, it’s up to Scott to return with a new bag of magic to try to save Christmas.