Posts Tagged ‘poignant’

Bobby (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.

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.

Legend of Bagger Vance, The (2000)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | Damon, Matt | Theron, Charlize | McGill, Bruce | Gretsch, Joel | Moncrief, J. Michael | Smith, Lane | Gerety, Peter | O'Neill, Michael | Ryan, Thomas Jay | Hamilton, Trip | Crowley, Dermot | Presnell, Harve | Nelson, Danny | Penny, Bob
Directors: Redford, Robert
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Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He’s living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who’s the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn’t return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele’s father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father’s. She’s able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having “one of their own” compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs’s caddy and help him regain his “authentic swing”. He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match.

Hunchback, The (1997)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | Czech Republic | Hungary | USA
Actors: Patinkin, Mandy | Harris, Richard | Hayek, Salma | Atterton, Edward | Blythe, Benedick | Terry, Nigel | Dale, Jim | Baxter, Trevor | Dobtcheff, Vernon | Grace, Nickolas | Sim, Matthew | Stuart, Cassie | Fon, Gabi | Mehlmann, Michael | Antal, Olga
Directors: Medak, Peter
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Based on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister’s obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her.

Proof (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Paltrow, Gwyneth | Hopkins, Anthony | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Davis, Hope | McCarthy, Danny | Daszkjewicz, Tobiasz | Houston, Gary | Wittman, Anne | Zimmerman, Leigh | Stinton, Colin | Burnett, Leland | Keefe, John | Chung, Chipo | Harris, C. Gerod | Seth, Roshan
Directors: Madden, John
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The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father’s ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.

Amistad (1997)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Hawthorne, Nigel | Hopkins, Anthony | Hounsou, Djimon | McConaughey, Matthew | Paymer, David | Postlethwaite, Pete | Skarsgård, Stellan | Adoti, Razaaq | Fofanah, Abu Bakaar | Paquin, Anna | Milian, Tomas | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Ashong, Derrick N. | Silva, Geno
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Ryder, Winona | Wiest, Dianne | Hall, Anthony Michael | Baker, Kathy | Oliveri, Robert | Ferrell, Conchata | Aaron, Caroline | Williams, Dick Anthony | Jones, O-Lan | Price, Vincent | Arkin, Alan | Blommaert, Susan | Perri, Linda | Davidson, John
Directors: Burton, Tim
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A modern day fairy tale which tells the story of Edward, the man created by an inventor, who died before finishing him and left Edward with scissors where he should have hands. One day when the local “Avon” representative calls at the historic mansion where Edward has been living alone, she takes him home to stay with her family. He has to adapt to the new life and environment that he isn’t used to. Soon he shows a talent in cutting hair and hedges, and wins every body’s heart. But life isn’t always so sweet…

Human Stain, The (2003)

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Kidman, Nicole | Harris, Ed | Sinise, Gary | Miller, Wentworth | Barrett, Jacinda | Lennix, Harry J. | Gregg, Clark | Smith, Anna Deavere | Mitchell, Lizan | Washington, Kerry | Newman, Phyllis | Martindale, Margo | Canada, Ron | Avital, Mili
Directors: Benton, Robert
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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.

Lost in Translation (2003)

Monday, February 11th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Johansson, Scarlett | Murray, Bill | Takeshita, Akiko | Minamimagoe, Kazuyoshi | Shibata, Kazuko | Take | Baba, Ryuichiro | Yamaguchi, Akira | Lambert, Catherine | du Bois, François | Leffman, Tim | Pekar, Gregory | Allen, Richard | Ribisi, Giovanni | Yukai, Diamond
Directors: Coppola, Sofia
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Bob Harris is an American film actor, far past his prime. He visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and he meets Charlotte, the young wife of a visiting photographer. Bored and weary, Bob and Charlotte make ideal if improbable traveling companions. Charlotte is looking for “her place in life,” and Bob is tolerating a mediocre stateside marriage. Both separately and together, they live the experience of the American in Tokyo. Bob and Charlotte suffer both confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves and the Japanese. As the relationship between Bob and Charlotte deepens, they come to the realization that their visits to Japan, and one another, must soon end. Or must they?

Dragonheart (1996)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Quaid, Dennis | Christie, Julie | Thewlis, David | Postlethwaite, Pete | Meyer, Dina | Isaacs, Jason | Thompson, Brian | Oakes, Lee | Christian, Wolf | O'Neill, Terry | Vejmelková, Eva | Bahúl, Milan | Hric, Peter | Kovacicova, Sandra | Cohen, Kyle | Baker, Thom
Directors: Cohen, Rob
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Set in the 10th Century, a man (Bowen) teams up with the last dragon to remind the people of a long lost code of honor, and inspire them to fight for their freedom from a tyrannical king.