Movies starring Jack Nicholson
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The Shining (1980)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as the custodian of the Overlook Hotel, in the mountains of Colorado. The place is closed down during winter, and Torrance and his family will be the only occupants of the hotel for a long while. When the snow storms block the Torrance family in the hotel, Jack’s son Danny – who has some clairvoyance and telepathy powers – discovers that the hotel is haunted and that the spirits are slowly driving Jack crazy. When Jack meets the ghost of Mr. Grady, the former custodian of the hotel who murdered his wife and his two daughters, things begin to get really nasty… |
The Shining (1980)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as the custodian of the Overlook Hotel, in the mountains of Colorado. The place is closed down during winter, and Torrance and his family will be the only occupants of the hotel for a long while. When the snow storms block the Torrance family in the hotel, Jack’s son Danny – who has some clairvoyance and telepathy powers – discovers that the hotel is haunted and that the spirits are slowly driving Jack crazy. When Jack meets the ghost of Mr. Grady, the former custodian of the hotel who murdered his wife and his two daughters, things begin to get really nasty… |
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain. |
The Crossing Guard (1995)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time to try and make peace with himself and his entourage, and even finds romance. Gale, whose life is spiralling down because of his obsession towards Booth, will bring himself on the very edge of sanity. At he end of the week, both men will find themselves on a collision course with each other. |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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McMurphy thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad. His plan backfires when he is sent to a mental asylum. He tries to liven the place up a bit by playing card games and basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after him at every turn. |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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McMurphy thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad. His plan backfires when he is sent to a mental asylum. He tries to liven the place up a bit by playing card games and basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after him at every turn. |
Easy Rider (1969)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Batman (1989)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Gotham City: dark, dangerous, ‘protected’ only by a mostly corrupt police department. Despite the best efforts of D.A. Harvey Dent and police commissioner Jim Gordon, the city becomes increasingly unsafe…until a Dark Knight arises. We all know criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot…so his disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. He becomes a bat. Enter Vicky Vale, a prize-winning photo journalist who wants to uncover the secret of the mysterious “bat-man”. And enter Jack Napier, one-time enforcer for Boss Grissom, horribly disfigured after a firefight in a chemical factory…who, devoid of the last vestiges of sanity, seizes control of Gotham’s underworld as the psychotic, unpredictable Clown Prince of Crime…the Joker. Gotham’s only hope, it seems, lies in this dark, brooding vigilante. And just how does billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne fit into all of this? |
Batman (1989)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Gotham City: dark, dangerous, ‘protected’ only by a mostly corrupt police department. Despite the best efforts of D.A. Harvey Dent and police commissioner Jim Gordon, the city becomes increasingly unsafe…until a Dark Knight arises. We all know criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot…so his disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. He becomes a bat. Enter Vicky Vale, a prize-winning photo journalist who wants to uncover the secret of the mysterious “bat-man”. And enter Jack Napier, one-time enforcer for Boss Grissom, horribly disfigured after a firefight in a chemical factory…who, devoid of the last vestiges of sanity, seizes control of Gotham’s underworld as the psychotic, unpredictable Clown Prince of Crime…the Joker. Gotham’s only hope, it seems, lies in this dark, brooding vigilante. And just how does billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne fit into all of this? |
Wolf (1994)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Wolf (1994)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Prizzi’s Honor (1985)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Terms of Endearment (1983)Thursday, October 29th, 2009 |
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Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma’s marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora’s interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. |
Tommy (1975)Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 |
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When Nora Walker gets pregnant, her beloved husband, the pilot Captain Walker, is considered missing in action in World War II when his plane crashes in a battle. Nora raises her son Tommy alone with the memories of his father. In 1951, she meets Franks Hobbs in a summer camp, is courted by him, ending in an affair. However, in the middle of a stormy night, the boy has a nightmare with his father and runs to her mother’s bed, finding her naked with “uncle” Frank, becoming immediately deaf, dumb and blind. The years go by, and her mother lives with a complex of guilty of the psychological problem of her son. One night, Tommy finds a pinball machine in a junkyard, and his natural skills transform him in a champion, and when he supersedes and heals his problems, a legion of fans follows him, as if he were a new Messiah. |
The Little Shop of Horrors ()Friday, December 19th, 2008 |
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Classic black comedy about young people who develop schnook bloodthirsty plant and is forced to kill in order to feed it. Basis for the later hit the music scene. Klasická černá komedie o mladých, kteří schnook rozvíjí krvežíznivý rostlin a je nucen zabít, aby se uživili to. Základ pro pozdější hit hudební scéně. |
Chinatown ()Friday, December 12th, 2008 |
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Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman who is emerging as Mrs Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he does not drop the case immediately. Gittes pursues the case anyway slowly uncovering a major conspiracy centering on water management, provincial and municipal corruption, land use and real estate, in which at least one murder. Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is ingehuurd door een vrouw die zich opwerpt als mevrouw Mulwray bespioneren van haar man. Kort na Gittes is ingehuurd, de echte mevrouw Mulwray verschijnt in zijn kantoor te dreigen met het aanklagen als hij geen druppel het geval onmiddellijk. Gittes streeft de zaak hoe dan ook langzaam een grote samenzwering bloot te centreren op het vlak van waterbeheer, provinciale en gemeentelijke corruptie, de ruimtelijke ordening en onroerend goed, waarbij ten minste een moord. |
Hells Angels on Wheels ()Monday, December 8th, 2008 |
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At first the gas station attendant poet is happy when the rockers gang "Hell's Angels" finally accepted him. But he was shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo for them. He himself in trouble when the leader of the friend falls in love with him – and he welcomes her approaches. Na prvi benzinske postaje prisutno pjesnik je sretan kad je rockers banda "Hell's Angels" konačno prihvati ga. Ali on je shocked kad on uči kako brutalan oni su – ne čak i ubojstva je za njih tabu. On se sam u nevolji kad je lider je prijateljica padne u ljubavi s njim – a on pozdravlja joj pristupe. |
Five Easy Pieces ()Monday, November 24th, 2008 |
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Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson) comes from a probably educated family of musicians, and showed once big promise as a concert pianist. By the nature a restless, bad person Bobby left his family and his music when he could not suffer the silly one, the secluded routine of the everyday practise any more. He made in the street see wishing, the world “” and think hopefully that a little bit or somebody suppressed his internal turmoil. He has sat down in a small town as a Öltakler where his life insists on going for the argument with his stupid, but loving friend Rayette (cirques Black), and the bowling every night with his friend Elton (Billy “Green” Bush) to the work. Not unexpectedly this routine, bobby and starts to make sick, subdued, he decides to travel to the Puget tone, Washington to pay a visit to his family. Leaving Rayette in a nearby motel, Bobby goes home and is combined with his family again. Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson) kommt aus einer wohl erzogenen Familie von Musikern, und zeigte einmal große Versprechung als ein Konzertpianist. Durch die Natur eine ruhelose, böse Person verließ Bobby seine Familie und seine Musik, als er das dumme, die zurückgezogene Routine der täglichen Praxis nicht mehr erleiden konnte. Er brachte in die Straße, wollend, die Welt “zu sehen,” und hoffentlich zu finden, dass etwas oder jemand seinen inneren Aufruhr unterdrückte. Er hat sich in einer kleinen Stadt als ein Öltakler niedergelassen, wo sein Leben daraus besteht, dem Argumentieren mit seiner dämlichen, aber liebenden Freundin Rayette (Karen Black), und das Bowling jede Nacht mit seinem Freund Elton (Billy “Grünes” Bush) zur Arbeit zu gehen. Nicht überraschend beginnt diese Routine, Bobby und, deprimiert anzuwidern, er entscheidet sich dafür, zum Puget-Ton, Washington zu reisen, um seiner Familie einen Besuch abzustatten. Rayette an einem nahe gelegenen Motel verlassend, geht Bobby nach Hause und wird mit seiner Familie wieder vereinigt. |
Anger Management (1992)Friday, March 14th, 2008 |
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After a misunderstanding is ordered aboard an airplane which from the control, mild-civilised Dave Buznik steps up by judge Daniel to be present from doctor Buddy Rydell at controlled fury-administrative meetings which are filled with highly eccentric and brief men and women. The unorthodox approach of the friend to the therapy is confrontational and polish, and Dave is thereby confused. Then, afterwards one more bad luck, judge Daniel Dave orders to increase his therapy or to go bankrupt in the prison. So, friend moves in with Dave to help him, to fight with his internal demons. Friend himself has no internal demons, because he auditions with every opportunity and the making indecent remarks about the friend of Dave Linda and coming floating Dave in confronting to every low, encloses previous or presently head-on. But friend goes, finally, too far, and Dave must decide whether to crawl enter back into his bowl or for himself. Could it be that mistaking the friend and contradicting treatment just consist in it what the doctor ordered?. Nachdem ein Missverständnis an Bord eines Flugzeuges, das aus der Kontrolle, der mild-gesittete Dave Buznik eskaliert, von Richter Daniels befohlen wird, von Arzt Buddy Rydell geführten Wut-Verwaltungssitzungen beizuwohnen, die mit hoch exzentrischen und flüchtigen Männern und Frauen gefüllt werden. Die unorthodoxe Annäherung des Freunds an die Therapie ist confrontational und Poliermittel, und Dave ist dadurch verwirrt. Dann, danach noch ein anderes Missgeschick, befiehlt Richter Daniels Dave, seine Therapie zu steigern oder im Gefängnis Konkurs zu machen. Also, Freund bewegt sich in mit Dave, um ihm zu helfen, mit seinen inneren Dämonen zu kämpfen. Freund selbst hat keine inneren Dämonen, da er bei jeder Gelegenheit vorspielt und das machende unanständige Anmerkungen über die Freundin von Dave Linda und antreibenden Dave ins Konfrontieren jedem geringen, vorig oder gegenwärtig frontal einschließt. Aber Freund geht schließlich zu weit, und Dave muss entscheiden, ob zu Kraul zurück in seine Schale oder für sich eintreten. Konnte es sein, dass das Verwechseln des Freunds und widersprechende Behandlung gerade darin bestehen, was der Arzt bestellte?. |
The Bucket List ()Friday, February 15th, 2008 |
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The billionaire of Corprate Edward Cole and the Chambers of Cart driver of mechanic of class of work they have not anything in common except his terminal diseases. Sharing a room of hospital together, they decide to leave it and to do all the things that they wanted sometime to do before they die according to his bucket list. In the process, both cure one to other, become unlikely friends, and finally they find the joy in the life. O bilionário de Corprate Edward Cole e as Câmaras de Carreteiro de mecânico de classe de trabalho não têm nada em comum exceto as suas doenças terminais. Compartilhando uma sala de hospital em conjunto, eles decidem deixá-lo e fazer todas as coisas que eles quiseram alguma vez fazer antes que eles morram segundo a sua lista de balde. No processo, ambos curam um a outro, tornam-se amigos improváveis, e enfim encontram a alegria na vida. |















