Posts Tagged ‘based-on-play’

Hamlet (2009)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Hamlet
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Laurie | Esmond Knight | Anthony Quayle | Niall MacGinnis | Harcourt Williams | Patrick Troughton | Tony Tarver | Peter Cushing | Stanley Holloway | Russell Thorndike | Basil Sydney | Eileen Herlie | Norman Wooland | Felix Aylmer
Directors: Laurence Olivier
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Sabrina (1954)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Sabrina
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Humphrey Bogart | Audrey Hepburn | William Holden | Walter Hampden | John Williams | Martha Hyer | Joan Vohs | Marcel Dalio | Marcel Hillaire | Nella Walker | Francis X. Bushman | Ellen Corby | David Ahdar | Raymond Bailey | Ralph Brooks
Directors: Billy Wilder
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Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work — busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play — technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but David hardly notices her — “doesn’t even know I exist” — until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David’s attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor | Paul Newman | Burl Ives | Jack Carson | Judith Anderson | Madeleine Sherwood | Larry Gates | Vaughn Taylor | Brian Corcoran | Hugh Corcoran | Bobby Johnson | Tony Merrill | Robert 'Rusty' Stevens | Vince Townsend | Zelda Cleaver
Directors: Richard Brooks
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The fifth Tennessee Williams play to reach the screen, wealthy Mississippi plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt, unaware that he’s dying of cancer and disturbed by the strained and childless marriage of his favored alcoholic son Brick and his other son, Gooper, whose wife is about to bring forth another in the endless line of little “no-neck monsters,” celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday with his family. Brick’s wife, Maggie, beautiful and desirable, tries unsuccessfully to coax her husband away from the bottle, while alternately enticing him and taunting him about his obsession with his deceased best friend and the guilt about their relationship. The seamy tensions reach a climax when the truth of Big Daddy’s health is revealed, and he and Brick manage to resolve their differences.

Anastasia (1997)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Anastasia
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Meg Ryan | John Cusack | Kelsey Grammer | Christopher Lloyd | Hank Azaria | Bernadette Peters | Kirsten Dunst | Angela Lansbury | Rick Jones | Andrea Martin | Glenn Walker Harris Jr. | Debra Mooney | Arthur Malet | Charity James | Liz Callaway
Directors: Don Bluth | Gary Goldman
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Anastasia, the daughter of the last Russian czar, is at a party, when Rasputin, an evil monk, declares a curse on the Romanov family. Anastasia and her grandmother escape with the help of a young kitchen boy Dimitri, but Anastasia falls, hits her head, and loses her memory. Ten years later, Anya (Anastasia) leaves the orphanage where she grew up, and goes to St. Petersburg with her puppy fried Pooka. There she meets a grown-up Dimitri, and his friend, Vladimir, who are holding auditions, for an “Anastasia” to fool the empress, and get a lot of money. They choose Anya, and take her to Paris. Rasputin, who has died, uses minions to try and kill Anya, failing twice. During the course of all these events, Dimitri and Anya fall in love.

Beautiful Thing (1996)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Beautiful Thing
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Glen Berry | Martin Walsh | Steven M. Martin | Scott Neal | Andrew Fraser | Ben Daniels | John Savage | Garry Cooper | Daniel Bowers | Terry Duggan | Ozdemir Mamodeally | John Benfield | Davyd Harries | Dave Lynn | Jonathan Harvey
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A tender love story set during a hot summer on a South-East London housing estate. Jamie, a relatively unpopular lad who bunks off school to avoid football, lives next door to Ste, a more popular athletic lad but who is frequently beaten up by his father and older brother. Such an episode of violence brings Jamie and Ste together: Sandra (Jamie’s mum) offers refugee to Ste, who has to ‘top-and-tail’ with Jamie. Hence, the story tells of their growing attraction for one another, from initial lingering glances to their irrefutable love, which so magnificently illustrated at the end of the film. In deals with the tribulations of coming to terms with their sexuality and of others finding out, in light of Sandra’s unwavering loyalty and defence of Jamie and the fear of repercussion should Ste’s family find out. The plot is set against sub-texts of Sandra’s desire to manage her own pub, and thus escape the estate, and of her new relationship with her hippy boyfriend Tony; and of Leah, the brassy girl next door who has been expelled from school and spends her time listening to Mama Cass records and tripping on a variety of drugs.

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Jesus Christ Superstar
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ted Neeley | Carl Anderson | Yvonne Elliman | Barry Dennen | Bob Bingham | Larry Marshall | Josh Mostel | Kurt Yaghjian | Paul Thomas | Pi Douglass | Richard Orbach
Directors: Norman Jewison
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Based on a concept album project written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and the subsequent long-running Broadway performance, this film tells the story of the final 6 days in the life of Jesus Christ through the troubled eyes of Judas Escariot. Too often mis-labeled a musical, this film is a “rock opera.” There are no spoken lines, everything is sung.

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nick Nolte | Bette Midler | Richard Dreyfuss | Little Richard | Tracy Nelson | Elizabeth Peña | Evan Richards | Donald F. Muhich | Paul Mazursky | Valerie Curtin | Jack Bruskoff | Geraldine Dreyfuss | Barry Primus | Irene Tsu | Michael Yama
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Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. Their teenage son is confused about his sexuality and their daughter is suffering from eating disorders. While they are celebrating thanksgiving having plenty of food, street tramp Jerry is hungry, homeless, sleeping rough and has lost his dog. Jerry decides to end his life by drowning himself in their swimming pool. Dave rescues him and invites him to stay for a while. How does this stranger change the life style of this family?

Amen. (2002)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Amen.
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ulrich Tuker | Mathieu Kassovitz | Ulrich Mühe | Michel Duchaussoy | Ion Caramitru | Marcel Iures | Friedrich von Thun | Antje Schmidt | Hanns Zischler | Sebastian Koch | Erich Hallhuber | Burkhard Heyl | Angus MacInnes | Bernd Fischerauer | Pierre Franckh
Directors: Costa-Gavras
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Kurt Gerstein, a brilliant German scientist, is recruited into the SS during the opening years of the Second World War. Assigned as a sanitation engineer, Gerstein is sent to the Eastern Front to supervise water purification for the German Army. Soon after, however, he is asked to help with a “special project” involving fumigation of “vermin infested” areas behind the front lines. Gerstein develops Zyklon-B, a deadly chemical gas which Gerstein believes will be put to use killing rats, lice, and other disease carrying creatures. However, when Gerstein realizes that his invention will be used to kill not animals but people, he begins an emotional search of his Christian values and ultimately decides to betray the SS by attempting to expose the Holocaust by way of informing the Catholic Church.

Cradle Will Rock (1999)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Cradle Will Rock
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hank Azaria | Rubén Blades | Joan Cusack | John Cusack | Cary Elwes | Philip Baker Hall | Cherry Jones | Angus Macfadyen | Bill Murray | Vanessa Redgrave | Susan Sarandon | Jamey Sheridan | John Turturro | Emily Watson | Bob Balaban
Directors: Tim Robbins
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It’s a drama about theatre life in the 1930s during the times of the Great Depression, the Red Scare (communism), facism, unions, Hitler, Mussolini, New York mayor Nelson Rockefeller, director Orson Welles, painter Diego Rivera, and William Randolph Hearst. This film focuses on the lives of several people during hard times in New York as many struggle to find their place in America. The main focus of the film is a play entitled “Cradle Will Rock,” which tells a pro-union story about lower class workers trying to survive in a growing power-hungry world.

The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Phantom of the Opera, The
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gerard Butler | Minnie Driver | Miranda Richardson | Patrick Wilson | Emmy Rossum | Ciarán Hinds
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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“The Phantom of the Opera” is a magnificent tale that begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House while tutoring a chorus girl. He finally drives the lead soprano crazy so she and her friend leave. The girl is able to sing lead one night but the soprano doesn’t want her show stolen so she comes back. The ghost demands they keep giving his protoge lead roles. Meanwhile, His pupil falls in love with the Vicomte de Chagny, but the Phantom is in love with Christine, his student. The Phantom is outraged by their love and kidnaps Christine to be his eternal bride. Will Raoul, the Vicomte, be able to stop this dastardly plan? Watch and find out

Hysterical Blindness (2002)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Hysterical Blindness
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Uma Thurman | Gena Rowlands | Juliette Lewis | Justin Chambers | Ben Gazzara | Anthony DeSando | Jolie Peters | Callie Thorne | Jeff Aaron | Jeff Chena | Alex Draper | Russell Gibson | Charles LaPlaca | Wade Mylius | Rick Pisarro
Directors: Mira Nair
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In this bittersweet slice of working class single New Jersey life, best friends Debby and Beth (both pushing thirty) go looking for love in the wrong place – namely their favorite bar, Oliver’s. Rugged contractor Rick eyes Beth but ends up going home with the more assertive Debby. Beth’s style is further cramped by the responsibilities of single motherhood. As Debby tries to parlay what was essentially a casual fling into possible marriage with an indifferent Rick, her mother Virginia wonders if her affair with widower Nick is the real thing. Rounding out the romantic possibilities is Bobby, the bartender who flirts with Beth. The women clash as plans go awry, tragedy strikes, and hearts get broken. In the end, Debby, Beth, and Virginia find, if not the relationships of their dreams, peace with each other and within themselves.

The Bachelor (1999)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Bachelor, The
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Chris O'Donnell | Renée Zellweger | Artie Lange | Edward Asner | Hal Holbrook | James Cromwell | Marley Shelton | Peter Ustinov | Katharine Towne | Rebecca Cross | Stacy Edwards | Mariah Carey | Sarah Silverman | Jennifer Esposito | Brooke Shields
Directors: Gary Sinyor
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Jimmie Shannon is a man who has had dozens of girlfriends and they all break up with him cause he is unwilling to commit. But when he meets Anne, he starts to loosen up a but is still a little hesitant. Even his blustery grandfather, who is concerned of the fate of the Shannon line, is nagging him to get married and have children. So he decides to take that step but he is so nervous that he botches the proposal. Anne is disappointed in him. When his grandfather dies and the will is read, they discover that he has left Jimmie 100 million but only if he gets married by his 30th birthday which is the next day. Jimmie then decides to propose to Anne again and this time does a little better but when Anne questions his eagerness and if he truly wants to marry him he freezes, she then gets on a plane for Greece. She gets off the plane at the last minute and goes to visit her parents. Jimmie then learns that if he doesn’t get the inheritance which includes the business, a company that has a reputation of buying a business and then stripping it for all that it is worth and then laying off the employees, will buy it and lay off all of the employees. Jimmie is adivised to find someone else to marry so he goes through his black book and proceeds to ask every girl he has dated to marry him only some of them are still stinging from his breaking up with them, others think that it’s a travesty what he is proposing, or he just continues to propose badly.

Ran (1985)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Ran
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai | Satoshi Terao | Jinpachi Nezu | Daisuke Ryu | Mieko Harada
Directors: Akira Kurosawa
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This is a Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won’t be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.

Amadeus (1984)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Amadeus
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: F. Murray Abraham | Tom Hulce | Elizabeth Berridge | Simon Callow | Roy Dotrice | Christine Ebersole | Jeffrey Jones | Charles Kay | Kenneth McMillan | Kenny Baker | Lisabeth Bartlett | Barbara Bryne | Martin Cavina | Roderick Cook | Milan Demjanenko
Directors: Milos Forman
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Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart’s music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he can’t understand why God favored Mozart, such a vulgar creature, to be his instrument. Salieri’s envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take revenge.

Peter Pan (1953)

Friday, October 30th, 2009
Peter Pan
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Isaacs | Jeremy Sumpter | Richard Briers | Geoffrey Palmer | Harry Newell | Freddie Popplewell | Theodore Chester | Rupert Simonian | George MacKay | Harry Eden | Patrick Gooch | Lachlan Gooch | Mathew Waters | Alan Cinis | Frank Whitten
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Based upon Sir James M. Barrie’s 1904 play about the boy who refuses to grow up, the film begins in the London nursery of Wendy, John, and Michael Darling, where three children are visited by Peter Pan. With the help of his tiny friend, the fairy Tinkerbell, Peter takes the three children on a magical flight to Never Land. This enchanted island is home to Peter, Tink, the Lost Boys, Tiger Lily and her Native American nation, and the scheming Captain Hook who is as intent on defeating Peter Pan as he is from escaping the tick-tocking crocodile that once ate a hand of his that Peter Pan cut off—and loved the taste of so much.

The Lion in Winter (1968)

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Lion in Winter, The
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter O'Toole | Katharine Hepburn | Anthony Hopkins | John Castle | Nigel Terry | Timothy Dalton | Jane Merrow | Nigel Stock | Kenneth Ives | O.Z. Whitehead | Fran Stafford | Ella More | Kenneth Griffith | Henry Woolf | Karol Hagar
Directors: Anthony Harvey
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In 1183 Henry II summonses his sons Richard, John, and Geoffrey to join him and his prison-bound wife Eleanor at Chinon for a family Christmas, along with King Philip II of France and his sister Alais, Henry’s mistress. Philip is insisting Alais now marries John as agreed years before else he wants her dowry, the lands of the Vexen, back. As Eleanor has already given the province of Aquitaine to Richard, the outcome of this may decide the very future of England. Everyone present except perhaps Alais are masters of double-dealing and deceipt, so it could be a lively Yuletide.

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The Crucible (1996)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Crucible, The
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Winona Ryder | Paul Scofield | Joan Allen | Bruce Davison | Rob Campbell | Jeffrey Jones | Peter Vaughan | Karron Graves | Charlayne Woodard | Frances Conroy | Elizabeth Lawrence | George Gaynes | Mary Pat Gleason | Robert Breuler
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others’ land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950’s America.

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Forbidden Planet
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Walter Pidgeon | Anne Francis | Leslie Nielsen | Warren Stevens | Jack Kelly | Richard Anderson | Earl Holliman | Robby the Robot | George Wallace | Robert Dix | Jimmy Thompson | James Drury | Harry Harvey Jr. | Roger McGee | Peter Miller
Directors: Fred M. Wilcox
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An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some 17 light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its fourth planet, Altair-4. What they discover is how and why an alien race of geniuses destroyed itself overnight while leaving their technology intact at some point in the distant, distant past.

The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Tragedy of Macbeth, The
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jon Finch | Francesca Annis | Martin Shaw | Terence Bayler | John Stride | Nicholas Selby | Stephan Chase | Paul Shelley | Maisie MacFarquhar | Elsie Taylor | Noelle Rimmington | Noel Davis | Sydney Bromley | Richard Pearson | Patricia Mason
Directors: Roman Polanski
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Roman Polanski’s version of Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king’s son conspires to attack MacBeth and expose him for the murderer he is.

About Last Night… (1986)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
About Last Night…
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rob Lowe | Demi Moore | James Belushi | Elizabeth Perkins | George DiCenzo | Michael Alldredge | Robin Thomas | Donna Gibbons | Megan Mullally | Patricia Duff | Rosanna DeSoto | Sachi Parker | Robert Neches | Joe Greco | Ada Maris
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Danny and Bernie are two single men living their lives on the wild side. But when Danny meets Debbie at a bar and the two start a relationship with a one night stand, Danny’s life takes a different turn. How does this passionate night become a full affair and what effect will this relationship have on both people and their friendship with their best mates ?