Posts Tagged ‘marriage’

Pursuit of Happyness, The (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | Smith, Jaden | Newton, Thandie | Howe, Brian | Karen, James | Castellaneta, Dan | Fuller, Kurt | Fischer, Takayo | West, Kevin | Cheung, George | Silverman, David Michael | Bove, Domenic | Callan, Geoff | Raven, Joyful | Klace, Scott
Directors: Muccino, Gabriele
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Chris Gardner has big dreams for him and his family but it doesn’t seem to come together for him. Chris has an opportunity to be a stock broker but first he has to go through a grueling internship which means no pay. Chris decides to do it but when his wife leaves and he is evicted, he has to take care of his son on his own. So they find themselves sometimes living on the street and struggling to get by. But Chris is determined to make it.

300 (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Butler, Gerard | Headey, Lena | West, Dominic | Wenham, David | Regan, Vincent | Fassbender, Michael | Wisdom, Tom | Pleavin, Andrew | Tiernan, Andrew | Santoro, Rodrigo | Cimmino, Giovani | McHattie, Stephen | Kramer, Greg | Ivanovici, Alex | Kelly, Craig
Directors: Snyder, Zack
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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius’ master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries’ request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes’ way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents’ complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied “molon lave,” which means “Come and get them.” The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn’t been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) “In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions).” For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) “Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws,” meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians’ morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.

World Trade Center (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Bello, Maria | Paolo, Connor | Piccininni, Anthony | Gerasimovich, Alexa | Flynn, Morgan | Pena, Michael | Riesco, Armando | Hernandez, Jay | Starr, Joe | Bernthal, Jon | Jimeno, William | Damici, Nick | Ciccolella, Jude | Pfefferkorn, Martin
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the wreckage while the rescue teams fight to save them.

Freedom Writers (2007)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Swank, Hilary | Dempsey, Patrick | Glenn, Scott | Staunton, Imelda | Hernandez, April L. | Mario | Herrera, Kristin | Ngan, Jacklyn | Montalvo, Sergio | Finn, Jason | Wyatt, Deance | Smith, Vanetta | Chavarria, Gabriel | Parrish, Hunter | GarcĂ­a, Antonio
Directors: LaGravenese, Richard
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A young teacher (Swank) inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Border, The (1982)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Keitel, Harvey | Perrine, Valerie | Oates, Warren | Carrillo, Elpidia | Wilcox, Shannon | Viescas, Manuel | Morris, Jeff | Gomez, Mike | Blocker, Dirk | Chapman, Lonny | Pickren, Stacey | Levine, Floyd | Jeter, James | Fudge, Alan
Directors: Richardson, Tony
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A border agent involved in drug smuggling decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman’s baby is put up for sale on the black market.

Rear Window (1954)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Kelly, Grace | Corey, Wendell | Ritter, Thelma | Burr, Raymond | Evelyn, Judith | Bagdasarian, Ross | Darcy, Georgine | Berner, Sara | Cady, Frank | Fax, Jesslyn | Harper, Rand | Winston, Irene | Davenport, Havis | English, Marla
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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In 1950-something New York, an adventuresome free-lance photographer finds himself confined to a wheelchair in his tiny apartment while a broken leg mends. With only the occasional distraction of a visiting nurse and his frustrated love interest, a beautiful fashion consultant, his attention is naturally drawn to the courtyard outside his “rear window” and the occupants of the apartment buildings which surround it. Soon he is consumed by the private dramas of his neighbors lives which play themselves out before his eyes. There is “Miss Lonelyhearts,” so desperate for her imaginary lover that she sits him a plate at the dinner table and feigns their ensuing chat. There is the frustrated composer banging on his piano, the sunbathing sculptress, the shapely dancer, the newlyweds who are concealed from their neighbors by a window shade, and a bungling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog who sleep on the fire escape to avoid the sweltering heat of their apartment. …And then there is the mysterious salesman whose nagging, invalid wife’s sudden absence from the scene ominously coincides with middle-of-the-night forays into the dark, sleeping city with his sample case. Where did she go? What’s in the trunk that the salesman ships away? What’s he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink?

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Jane | Monroe, Marilyn | Coburn, Charles | Reid, Elliott | Noonan, Tommy | Winslow, George | Dalio, Marcel | Holmes, Taylor | Varden, Norma | Wendell, Howard | Geray, Steven | Letondal, Henri | Mostovoy, Leo | Frazer, Alex | Davis, George
Directors: Hawks, Howard
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Lorelei and Dorothy are just “Two Little Girls from Little Rock”, lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.” Based on the Broadway musical based on the novel.

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.

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.

Grumpy Old Men (1993)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Lemmon, Jack | Matthau, Walter | Ann-Margret | Burgess Meredith | Hannah, Daryl | Pollak, Kevin | Davis, Ossie | Henry, Buck | McDonald, Christopher | Cochran, Steve | Howard, Joe | O'Connor, Isabell | Sedlachek, Buffy | Lynch, John Carroll | Brin, Charles
Directors: Petrie, Donald
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John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They’re continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day, Ariel, moves into the street. Both men are attracted to her, and their rivalry steps up a gear.