Posts Tagged ‘depression’

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Glenn Close | Cameron Diaz | Calista Flockhart | Kathy Baker | Amy Brenneman | Valeria Golino | Holly Hunter | Matt Craven | Gregory Hines | Miguel Sandoval | Noah Fleiss | Danny Woodburn | Penelope Allen | Roma Maffia | Elpidia Carrillo
Directors: Rodrigo García
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A study of the physical and emotional intricacies affecting the everyday lives of a very diverse group of women, and the strategies they adopt in coping with events – large and small, overt and hidden – which shape the way they live.

America’s Sweethearts (2001)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
America’s Sweethearts
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Billy Crystal | Catherine Zeta-Jones | John Cusack | Hank Azaria | Stanley Tucci | Christopher Walken | Alan Arkin | Seth Green | Scot Zeller | Larry King | Steve Pink | Rainn Wilson | Eric Balfour | Marty Belafsky
Directors: Joe Roth
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Gwen and Eddie were at one time Hollywood’s premier couple on and off the screen. But during the filming of their latest movie, Gwen took up with a Latin guy she met on the set. She and Eddie have since split up. Now their movie is ready to be shown but the director will only first show it at the press junket. But the studio boss, concerned of what the movie will be, instructs Lee his P.R. man to handle to junket and to try and distract the press from asking about the movie by making them think that Gwen and Eddie are back together. Only problem is that he just fired Lee, but after giving in to Lee’s demands he agrees. Lee enlists the aid of Gwen’s assistant, Kiki, who is her sister to help. When they get to the junket, things are still tense between them. And Kiki is trying hard to keep in check her feelings for Eddie.

Don Juan DeMarco (1995)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Don Juan DeMarco
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Johnny Depp | Faye Dunaway | Géraldine Pailhas | Bob Dishy | Rachel Ticotin | Talisa Soto | Marita Geraghty | Richard C. Sarafian | Tresa Hughes | Stephen Singer | Franc Luz | Carmen Argenziano | Jo Champa | Esther Scott
Directors: Jeremy Leven
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A young man (who is the legendary Don Juan?), comes to New York in search of his lost love. Feeling like he has nothing to live for, he attempts to commit suicide from atop a billboard. Dr. Mickler, (played by Marlon Brando), is a soon retiring psychiatrist who helps Don Juan (Johnny Depp), come to his senses. He brings the costumed boy to the psychiatric hospital , in hopes of helping Don Juan find his identity. The doctor works with him for ten days, in which Don tells his life story. Mickler begins to believe that the young man is truly Don Juan, but the rest of the staff doesn’t agree. The doctor knows that the only way out for Don Juan, is to pretend he’s an average boy whose fantasy got the best of him.

Eraserhead (1977)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Eraserhead
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nance | Charlotte Stewart | Allen Joseph | Jeanne Bates | Judith Anna Roberts | Laurel Near
Directors: David Lynch
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Bad Lieutenant (1992)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Bad Lieutenant
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Harvey Keitel | Victor Argo | Paul Calderon | Leonard L. Thomas | Robin Burrows | Frankie Thorn | Victoria Bastel | Paul Hipp | Brian McElroy | Frankie Acciarito | Peggy Gormley | Stella Keitel | Dana Dee | Anthony Ruggiero | Vincent Laresca
Directors: Abel Ferrara
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A police Lieutenant goes about his daily tasks of investigating homicides, but is more interested in pursuing his vices. He has accumulated a massive debt betting on baseball, and he keeps doubling to try to recover. His bookies are beginning to get agitated. The Lieutenant does copious amounts of drugs, cavorts with prostitutes, and uses his status to take advantage of teenage girls. While investigating a nun’s rape, he begins to reflect on his lifestyle.

The Hours (2002)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Hours, The
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Julianne Moore | Meryl Streep | Stephen Dillane | Miranda Richardson | George Loftus | Charley Ramm | Sophie Wyburd | Lyndsey Marshal | Linda Bassett | Christian Coulson | Michael Culkin | John C. Reilly | Jack Rovello | Toni Collette
Directors: Scott Rubin | Stephen Daldry
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The film concerns three women each suffering from depression. Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is starting to write her book ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ in 1923 England. She is coming to the realization of her lesbianism and fighting her pure despair of life and headaches. Virginia receives a visit from her sister Vanessa and Vanessa’s two sons and daughter. The daughter places a strong influence on Virginia’s emotions through the death of a bird. Eventually, Virgnia must face the decision to run away to London, stay with her beloved husband, or move to London where the doctors forbid her to go. Laura Brown (Julianne Moore), is a mother fearing her ability to be a mother again. She is reading ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ in 1951 Los Angeles. Laura is trying to throw a wonderful birthday party for her husband. The very pregnant Laura thinks she won’t be an adequate mother to her daughter and current baby on the way in a few months. Laura must make the decision to run away from it all or live miserably with her happy husband. Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) is a career publisher living in present 2001 New York. Her nickname, given by her poet-friend, Richard, who is dying of AIDS, is Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa is also throwing a party but for Richard who is receiving an award for his poetry. Like Virginia Woolf, Clarissa is also a lesbian but also wonders if she is in love with Richard with whom she once dated. At the end, the whole plot twists and comes together. The basic theme of the film is wondering if it is better to live your life for your own happiness or others.

Speaking of Sex (2001)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Speaking of Sex
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Hart Bochner | Kathryn Erbe | Kathleen Robertson | Melora Walters | | Jay Mohr | Catherine O'Hara | Lara Flynn Boyle
Directors: John McNaughton
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Virgin Suicides, The
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: James Woods | Kathleen Turner | Kirsten Dunst | Josh Hartnett | Michael Paré | Scott Glenn | Danny DeVito | A.J. Cook | Hanna R. Hall | Leslie Hayman | Chelse Swain | Anthony DeSimone | Lee Kagan | Robert Schwartzman | Noah Shebib
Directors: Sofia Coppola
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The lives of an eclectic group of men who live in an affluent American suburb in the ’70s are forever changed by their obsession with five doomed sisters.

The Astronaut’s Wife (1999)

Monday, October 5th, 2009
Astronaut’s Wife, The
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Charlize Theron | Joe Morton | Clea DuVall | Donna Murphy | Nick Cassavetes | Samantha Eggar | Gary Grubbs | Blair Brown | Tom Noonan | Tom O'Brien | Lucy Lin | Michael Crider | Jacob Stein | Timothy Wicker
Directors: Rand Ravich
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Astronaut Spencer Armacoust was on a mission when he suddenly lost contact. When he got home, to friends he was the same, but to his wife he was different. She becomes pregnant, but as time progresses she begins to feel like the lives inside of her are not of this world.

Snow Cake (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Snow Cake
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Alan Rickman | Sigourney Weaver | Carrie-Anne Moss | David Fox | Jayne Eastwood | Emily Hampshire | James Allodi | Johnny Goltz | Robert Smith Jones | Mark McKinney | Callum Keith Rennie | Jackie Brown | Selina Cadell | Nia Rorts | Julie Stewart
Directors: Marc Evans
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Alex Hughes, an ex-convict, is on a road trip to Winnipeg to see an old friend. Along the way, he meets the annoying, but vivacious, Vivienne Freeman who manages to bum a ride with him. Just as he begins to warm to this eccentric girl, Alex’s vehicle is in a serious automobile accident that kills Vivienne. After his meeting with the police, Alex decides to speak with Vivienne’s mother. Upon arrival at her home, Alex discovers that the mother, Linda, is a barely functional autistic who convinces him to stay long to take out the garbage the day after the funeral he agrees to arrange. In those few days, Alex discovers new friends and learns more about the uniqueness of Linda even as he struggles to come to terms with his own grief.

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Choke (2008)

Monday, April 27th, 2009
Choke
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kathryn Alexander | Teodorina Bello | Kate Blumberg | Jonah Bobo | Willi Burke | Heather Burns | David Wolos-Fonteno | Matt Gerald | Joel Grey | Viola Harris | Brad William Henke | Paz de la Huerta
Directors: Clark Gregg
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Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical re-enactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night, Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who “save” him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall, to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.

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Ms .45 (1981)

Monday, April 20th, 2009
Ms .45
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Zoë Lund | Albert Sinkys | Darlene Stuto | Helen McGara | Nike Zachmanoglou | Peter Yellen | Editta Sherman | Vincent Gruppi | S. Edward Singer | Stanley Timms | Faith Peters | Lawrence Zavaglia | Alex Jachino | Jack Thibeau
Directors: Abel Ferrara
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A mute woman gets raped twice coming home from work and decides to take matters into her own hands. She dresses suggestively and roams the streets alone, reaking vengeance upon anyone who tries to take advantage of her. Eventually her secret life spills over into her regular life in the fashion industry.