Posts Tagged ‘quirky’

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.

Feast of Love (2007)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Kinnear, Greg | Mitchell, Radha | Burke, Billy | Blair, Selma | Davalos, Alexa | Hemingway, Toby | Katic, Stana | Marozsán, Erika | Alexander, Jane | Ward, Fred | Martindale, Margo | Pyle, Missi | Lucio, Shannon | Mentzel, Alex
Directors: Benton, Robert
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A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. and is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.

Beetle Juice (1988)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Baldwin, Alec | Davis, Geena | McEnroe, Annie | Page, Maurice | Stanger, Hugo | Keaton, Michael | Mittelman, Rachel | O'Hara, Catherine | Saunders, J. Jay | Ettlinger, Mark | Jones, Jeffrey | Ryder, Winona | Shadix, Glenn | Martinez, Patrice | Daly, Cindy
Directors: Burton, Tim
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The Deetz’s gothic daughter discovers the Maitands in the attic and befriends them. She finds their after life handbook which is eventually confiscated by the family’s interior decorator who is fascinated by the paranormal, and during a seance,conjures up the Maitlands. Most of the trouble starts as the free lance bio-excorist, Beetlejuice gets involved.

Christmas Vacation (1989)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Chase, Chevy | D'Angelo, Beverly | Lewis, Juliette | Galecki, Johnny | Randolph, John | Ladd, Diane | Marshall, E.G. | Roberts, Doris | Quaid, Randy | Flynn, Miriam | Burger, Cody | Latzen, Ellen Hamilton | Hickey, William | Questel, Mae | McMurray, Sam
Directors: Chechik, Jeremiah S.
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It’s Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark’s continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.

Purple Rain (1984)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Prince | Kotero, Apollonia | Day, Morris | Karlatos, Olga | Williams III, Clarence | Benton, Jerome | Sparks, Billy | Jones, Jill | Huntsberry, Charles | Dickerson, Dez | Bennett, Brenda | Moonsie, Susan | Gershman, Sandra Claire | Upsher, Kim | Leeds, Alan
Directors: Magnoli, Albert
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A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn’t all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father’s self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.

Running with Scissors (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bening, Annette | Cox, Brian | Fiennes, Joseph | Wood, Evan Rachel | Baldwin, Alec | Cross, Joseph | Clayburgh, Jill | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Union, Gabrielle | Wilson, Patrick | Chenoweth, Kristin | Dominczyk, Dagmara | Camp, Colleen | Kaeding, Jack | Guedj, Gabriel
Directors: Murphy, Ryan
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The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he’ll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs (1965- ) divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother’s mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch’s younger daughter, and he’s the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?

Monster House (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Newman, Ryan | Buscemi, Steve | Musso, Mitchel | O'Hara, Catherine | Willard, Fred | Lerner, Sam | Schultz, Woody | McConnel, Ian | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Lee, Jason | Locke, Spencer | James, Kevin | Cannon, Nick | Heder, Jon | Turner, Kathleen
Directors: Kenan, Gil
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The teenage DJ is observing his neighbor Nebbercracker on the other side of their street in the suburb that destroys tricycles of children that trespass his lawn. When DJ’s parents travel on the eve of Halloween and the abusive nanny Zee stays with him, he calls his clumsy best friend Chowder to play basketball. But when the ball falls in Nebbercracker’s lawn, the old man has a siege, and sooner they find that the house is a monster. Later the boys rescue the smart Jenny from the house and the trio unsuccessfully tries to convince the babysitter, her boyfriend Bones and two police officers that the haunted house is a monster, but nobody believes on them. The teenagers ask their video-game addicted acquaintance Skull how to destroy the house, and they disclose its secret on the Halloween night.

Cry-Baby (1990)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Amy Locane | Tyrrell, Susan | Bergen, Polly | Pop, Iggy | Lake, Ricki | Lords, Traci | McGuire, Kim | Burrows, Darren E. | Mailer, Stephen | Webb, Kim | Wendl, Alan J. | Donahue, Troy | Stole, Mink | Dallesandro, Joe
Directors: Waters, John
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Allison is a “square” good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or “Drape” in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the ’50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.

Quick Change (1990)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | Grand, Dale | Elliott, Bob | Davis, Geena | Quaid, Randy | Aarn, Kimberleigh | Ryan, Ron | McConnachie, Brian | Gilpin, Jack | Cael, Jordan | DeVille, Rhe | Dornya, Marya D. | Flynn, Barbara | Griffin, Elizabeth A. | Ivie, Connie
Directors: Franklin, Howard
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When a man dressed as a clown enters a bank and trys to rob it, no one takes him seriously at start. But as this New Yorker pulls this daring robbery with the help of his friends, it looks like leaving the bank with all the stolen money is the easy part! All they have to do now is make it out of the city and to the airport. They have plenty of time, but its not that easy as they seem to get out of one problem only to fall into another. Will they make before the cops catch up with them?