Posts Tagged ‘blockbuster’

Presumed Innocent (1990)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Presumed Innocent
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Brian Dennehy | Raul Julia | Bonnie Bedelia | Paul Winfield | Greta Scacchi | John Spencer | Joe Grifasi | Tom Mardirosian | Anna Maria Horsford | Sab Shimono | Bradley Whitford | Christine Estabrook | Michael Tolan | Madison Arnold
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
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When a female D.A. is killed, the D.A. assigns his assistant to handle the investigation. Only problem is that he was having an affair with her. And the evidence reveals that he is the killer. So he suspects that the man who wants his boss’ job is trying to frame him. He turns to Sandy Stern a highly celebrated defense attorney to represent him.

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Howl’s Moving Castle
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Chieko Baisho | Takuya Kimura | Akihiro Miwa | Tatsuya Gashuin | Ryûnosuke Kamiki | Mitsunori Isaki | Yo Oizumi | Akio Ôtsuka | Daijiro Harada | Haruko Kato | Jean Simmons | Christian Bale | Lauren Bacall | Blythe Danner | Emily Mortimer
Directors: Hayao Miyazaki
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Young Sophie Hatter is cursed by the Witch of the Waste, and turns into an old hag. Ashamed of how she looks, she flees into the hills where a moving castle roams the hills. It is said to belong to the young and handsome wizard Howl, who has a bad reputation. Within the castle, Sophie befriends the fire demon Calcifer, who promises to help her become young again. One catch: she must help Calcifer to be free of Howl, and Calcifer cannot tell her how. However, Sophie agrees to stay and try to find out about the contract through other ways. Still, Howl can see that Sophie is under a spell like Calcifer can, and he falls in love with her for who she is and not for what she looks like. Sophie manages to bring life to the moving castle, and she helps Howl to face his former tutor, Madam Suliman.

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Good Will Hunting
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Matt Damon | Ben Affleck | Stellan Skarsgård | Minnie Driver | Casey Affleck | Cole Hauser | John Mighton | Rachel Majorowski | Colleen McCauley | Matt Mercier | Ralph St. George | Rob Lynds | Dan Washington | Alison Folland
Directors: Gus Van Sant
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Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean’s coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt | Sarah Michelle Gellar | Ryan Phillippe | Freddie Prinze Jr. | Bridgette Wilson | Anne Heche | Johnny Galecki | Muse Watson | Stuart Greer | J. Don Ferguson | Deborah Hobart | Mary McMillan | Rasool J'Han | Dan Albright | Lynda Clark
Directors: Jim Gillespie
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It’s the fourth of July and four friends Julie, Ray, Helen, and Barry are celebrating along with graduation. On their way home they hit a pedestrian walking down a curved corner. They make a pact to keep it a secret in hopes of saving their futures. While dumping the body in a near by sea, the body becomes alive and tries to attach Helen. They throw him in and never return to that site. One year later, Julie returns home from college for summer break. In the mail she receives a letter stating that “I know what you did last summer.” Julie freaks out and gathers up her old friends who are now separated, miserable and not speaking. They all decide to find out who saw them that fateful night and in the process of tracking the suspect down, the body count goes up.

The Sound of Music (1965)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Sound of Music, The
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer | Richard Haydn | Peggy Wood | Anna Lee | Portia Nelson | Ben Wright | Daniel Truhitte | Norma Varden | Marni Nixon | Gilchrist Stuart | Evadne Baker | Doris Lloyd | Charmian Carr | Nicholas Hammond
Directors: Robert Wise
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

Shrek the Third (2007)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Shrek the Third
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Eddie Murphy | Cameron Diaz | Antonio Banderas | Julie Andrews | John Cleese | Rupert Everett | Eric Idle | Justin Timberlake | Susan Blakeslee | Cody Cameron | Larry King | Christopher Knights | John Krasinski | Ian McShane
Directors: Raman Hui
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When the King of Far, Far Away ‘croaks’, it is up to Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots go off to bring back the next heir to the throne, Artie. Whilst Shrek and his crew are gone, Prince Charming brings together all evil fairy tale creatures in an attempt to take over as the new king.

The 007 World Is Not Enough (1999)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
007 World Is Not Enough, The
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Sophie Marceau | Robert Carlyle | Denise Richards | Robbie Coltrane | Judi Dench | Desmond Llewelyn | John Cleese | Maria Grazia Cucinotta | Samantha Bond | Michael Kitchen | Colin Salmon | Goldie | David Calder | Serena Scott Thomas
Directors: Michael Apted
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The 19th installment follows MI-6 Commander James Bond to a swiss bank in Bilbao, Spain where upon retrieval of three million pounds (British dollars) a siege takes place. James barely escapes the local police, leaving them questioning the mysterious shooting that occurred minutes ago. The next day, at the MI-6 Headquarters in London, Bond first greet Miss Moneypenny and gives her a nice souvenir: a cigar. Q then calls him in first to meet Sir Robert King then to report on the mission. It was then that the three million pounds was in fact, a bomb which destroys the Headquarters and kills King. Bond’s only suspect, who happens to be the woman from the swiss bank blows herself up form a hot-air balloon. He then meets Sir King’s daughter, Electra, who now own her father’s oil company. But Bond’s real mission has a new enemy named Renard a man who feels no pain whatsoever after a bullet was put into his head, who along with Electra and their henchmen plan to nuke Europe and everything in it’s path. Now with the help of Christmas Jones, a research scientist, James must foil the terrorists plan before the entire Easternmost countries are wiped out forever. The world is not enough for disasters. And the world is not enough for terrorists. The world is only enough for one man- one hero: James Bond 007!

Sabrina (1954)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Sabrina
Genres: Biography | 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.

Backdraft (1991)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Backdraft
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | William Baldwin | Robert De Niro | Donald Sutherland | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Scott Glenn | Rebecca De Mornay | Jason Gedrick | J.T. Walsh | Anthony Mockus Sr. | Cedric Young | Juan Ramírez | Kevin Casey | Jack McGee | Mark Wheeler
Directors: Ron Howard
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As a child Brian McCafferty watched his firefighter father die. Years later he joins his brother, Steven in the force by becoming a rookie firefighter. There is a history of conflict between the two brothers that is heated up by working together. With this background, a series of suspicious fires are set, each made to kill a specific person. After becoming frightened at a fire, Brian pulls strings to get into an investigative office and finds that he is now not putting out the arsonist’s fires, but trying to track him down.

Lady and the Tramp (1955)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Lady and the Tramp
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Peggy Lee | Barbara Luddy | Larry Roberts | Bill Thompson | Bill Baucom | Stan Freberg | Verna Felton | Alan Reed | George Givot | Dal McKennon | Lee Millar | Bill Lee | Thurl Ravenscroft | Max Smith | Bob Stevens
Directors: Clyde Geronimi
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Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at Lady’s home make her decide to travel with him for a while. This turns out to be a bad move, as no dog is above the law.

Cinderella (1950)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Cinderella
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ilene Woods | Eleanor Audley | Verna Felton | Claire Du Brey | Rhoda Williams | James MacDonald | Helene Stanley | Luis Van Rooten | Don Barclay | Mike Douglas | John Fontaine | Earl Keen | Clint McCauley | William Phipps | John Woodbury
Directors: Clyde Geronimi
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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.

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Life Is Beautiful
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberto Benigni | Nicoletta Braschi | Giustino Durano | Lidia Alfonsi | Sergio Bini Bustric | Giuliana Lojodice | Amerigo Fontani | Pietro De Silva | Francesco Guzzo | Raffaella Lebboroni | Giorgio Cantarini | Marisa Paredes | Horst Buchholz | Claudio Alfonsi | Gil Baroni
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In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

The Shining (1980)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Shining, The
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott Gould | Rebecca De Mornay
Directors: Mick Garris
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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 Lion King (1994)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Lion King, The
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jonathan Taylor Thomas | Matthew Broderick | James Earl Jones | Jeremy Irons | Moira Kelly | Niketa Calame | Ernie Sabella | Nathan Lane | Robert Guillaume | Rowan Atkinson | Madge Sinclair | Whoopi Goldberg | Cheech Marin | Jim Cummings | Zoe Leader
Directors: Rob Minkoff | Roger Allers
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A young lion prince is born in Africa, thus making his uncle Scar the second in line to the throne. Scar plots with the hyenas to kill King Mufasa and Prince Simba, thus making himself King. The King is killed and Simba is led to believe by Scar that it was his fault, and so flees the kingdom in shame. After years of exile he is persuaded to return home to overthrow the usurper and claim the kingdom as his own thus completing the “Circle of Life”.

The Flintstones (1994)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Flintstones, The
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Goodman | Elizabeth Perkins | Rick Moranis | Rosie O'Donnell | Kyle MacLachlan | Halle Berry | Elizabeth Taylor | Dann Florek | Richard Moll | Irwin Keyes | Jonathan Winters | Harvey Korman | Elaine Silver | Melanie Silver | Hlynur Sigurdsson
Directors: Brian Levant
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The Flintstones and the Rubbles are modern stone-age families. Fred and Barney work at Slate and Company, mining rock. Fred gives Barney some money so he and Betty can adopt a baby. When Fred and Barney take a test to determine who should become the new associate vice president, Barney returns the favor by switching his test answers for Fred’s, whose answers aren’t very good. Fred gets the executive position, but little realizes that he’s being manipulated by Cliff Vandercave to be the fall guy for an embezzlement scheme.

The Exorcist (1973)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Exorcist, The
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ellen Burstyn | Max von Sydow | Jason Miller | Lee J. Cobb | Kitty Winn | Jack MacGowran | Linda Blair | Reverend William O'Malley | Barton Heyman | Peter Masterson | Rudolf Schündler | Gina Petrushka | Robert Symonds | Arthur Storch | Reverend Thomas Bermingham
Directors: William Friedkin
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Blatty’s novelization of a real case of possession that happened in a Washington Suburb (Mt. Ranier, MD) puts Regan, an adolescent girl, Living with her mother in Georgetown in Washington, into a more and more difficult situation. She exhibits strange symptoms, including levitation and great strength. When all medical possibilities are exhausted, her mother is sent to a priest who is also a psychiatrist. He becomes convinced that Regan is possessed and he and a second priest experienced in exorcism try to drive the spirit from Regan before she dies. Very graphic for its time.

Speed (1994)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Speed
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Keanu Reeves | Dennis Hopper | Sandra Bullock | Joe Morton | Jeff Daniels | Alan Ruck | Glenn Plummer | Richard Lineback | Beth Grant | Hawthorne James | Carlos Carrasco | David Kriegel | Natsuko Ohama | Daniel Villarreal | Simone Gad
Directors: Jan de Bont
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Bomber Terrorist’s (Dennis Hopper) elevator plan backfires, so he rigs a bomb to a LA city bus. The stipulation is: once armed, the bus must stay above 50 mph to keep from exploding. Also if LAPD Officer (Keanu Reeves) tries to unload any passengers off, Payne (Hopper) will detonate it. Joe Morton co-stars as Jack’s (Keanu’s) superior, and Jeff Daniels supports Jack helping him try to defuse the bomb.

Sister Act (1992)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Sister Act
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Whoopi Goldberg | Maggie Smith | Kathy Najimy | Wendy Makkena | Mary Wickes | Harvey Keitel | Bill Nunn | Robert Miranda | Richard Portnow | Ellen Albertini Dow | Carmen Zapata | Pat Crawford Brown | Prudence Wright Holmes | Georgia Creighton | Susan Johnson-Kehn
Directors: Emile Ardolino
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Delores is having an affair with her Mafia boss, Vince. Her career as a singer in Las Vegas is going nowhere and Vince won’t divorce his wife and she goes to him to break it off, witnessing a murder Vince just ordered. Running from the club, she seeks police protection. They agree to hide her in the one place Vince would never look for her. She finds, to her chagrin, that it is a convent, where she must impersonate a nun. After several false starts, she is assigned to the convent’s dismal choir. She challenges and reorganizes them to become a modern singing group. In this she is successful, and as the choir gets better, success brings it’s own problems.

Pocahontas (1995)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Pocahontas
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Irene Bedard | Judy Kuhn | Mel Gibson | David Ogden Stiers | John Kassir | Russell Means | Christian Bale | Linda Hunt | Danny Mann | Billy Connolly | Joe Baker | Frank Welker | Michelle St. John | James Apaumut Fall | Gordon Tootoosis
Directors: Mike Gabriel | Eric Goldberg
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Capt. John Smith leads a rag-tag band of English sailors & soldiers to the New World to plunder its riches for England (or, more precisely, for Governor Ratcliffe, who comes along for the ride). Meanwhile, in this “New World,” Chief Powhatan has pledged his daughter, Pocahontas, to be married to the village’s greatest warrior. Pocahontas, however, has other ideas. She has seen a vision of a spinning arrow, a vision she believes tells her change is coming. Her life does indeed change when the English ship lands near her village. Between Ratcliffe, who believes the “savages” are hiding the gold he expected to be plentiful, and Powhatan, who believes these pale newcomers will destroy their land, Smith and Pocahontas have a difficult time preventing all-out war, and saving their love for each other.

Out of Africa (1985)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Out of Africa
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Robert Redford | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Michael Kitchen | Malick Bowens | Joseph Thiaka | Stephen Kinyanjui | Michael Gough | Suzanna Hamilton | Rachel Kempson | Graham Crowden | Leslie Phillips | Mike Bugara | Shane Rimmer | Job Seda
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.