Posts Tagged ‘orphan’
Good Will Hunting (1997)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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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. |
Mercury Rising (1998)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who is the target for assassins after cracking a top secret government code. |
Alone in the Dark (2005)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Edward Carnby (Slater), detective of the paranormal, unexplained and supernatural, investigates a mystery (the recent death of a friend) with clues leading to “Shadow Island” that brings him face to face with bizarre horrors that prove both psychologically disturbing and lethal, as he discovers that evil demons worshiped by an ancient culture called the Abskani are planning on coming back to life in the 21st century to once again take over the world… and only he and a young genius anthropologist with an incredible memory (and his ex-girlfriend), Aline Cedrac (Reid), stand in their way, at a gateway to hell. Standing in Carnby’s way, however, is the impact that a brief encounter with an evil spirit called the Queen had upon his mind, as he slowly finds himself overpowered by the forces of darkness as they eat away at his very sanity… |
Bless the Child (2000)Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
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Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O’Connor’s well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis (Jimmy Smits), an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply “special.” She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child and the love she inspires in those she touches. |
Doctor Zhivago (1965)Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 |
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism. |
The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)Friday, June 5th, 2009 |
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Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the “Clan of the Cave Bear” finds little Ayla from the “other”’s clan – tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When the little one finds a most needed new cave, she may stay – for now. As it turns out later, she’s a bright child, but has a hard time to keep her place in a clan with different customs. She has to hide her intelligence because she’s a woman. |
Vanity Fair (2004)Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 |
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible. Search keywords |
Raging Bull ()Friday, December 12th, 2008 |
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When Jake LaMotta steps into the boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he is a prize fighter. But when he treats his family and friends in the same way, he is a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any time. Even though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Maybe it is his violent bouts and the paranoia and jealousy. That rage helped him to master, but in real life, he winds up tires alone. Kun Jake LaMotta toimenpiteet osaksi nyrkkeily rengas-ja obliterates hänen vastustajansa, hän on prizefighter. Mutta kun hän kohtelee hänen perheelleen ja ystävilleen samalla tavalla, hän on tikittää aikapommi, valmiina mennä pois milloin tahansa. Vaikka LaMotta haluaa hänen perheensä rakkautta, jotain aina tuntuu tulla niiden välillä. Ehkä se on hänen väkivaltainen bouts ja vainoharhaisuus ja kateutta. Tällainen huutoa auttoivat häntä mestari, mutta todellisessa elämässä, hän tuulet esiin rengas yksin. |







