Archive for September, 2007

Backdraft (1991)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
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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A rookie firefighter tries to earn the respect of his older brother and other firefighters while taking part in an investigation of a string of arson/murders. This detailed look into the duties and private lives of firemen naturally features widespread pyrotechnics and special effects.

Beethoven (1992)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Charles Grodin | Bonnie Hunt | Dean Jones | Nicholle Tom | Christopher Castile | Sarah Rose Karr | Oliver Platt | Stanley Tucci | David Duchovny | Patricia Heaton | Robi Davidson | Laurel Cronin | O-Lan Jones | Nancy Fish | Craig Pinkard
Directors: Brian Levant
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Barely escaping from nefarious dognappers, an adorable puppy named Beethoven adopts the unsuspecting Newton family — and promptly grows up into 185 pounds of romping, drolling, disaster-prone St. Bernard! Unfortunately, even after proving his canine credentials to mom and the kids, the heroic hound gets nowhere with uptight dad, George (Charles Grodin). But when a beastly veterinarian (Dean Jones) makes Beethoven the target of an unspeakable animal experiment, George becomes the only hope for saving the Newton’s furriest family member.

Cinderella (1950)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | 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.

Just Like Heaven (2005)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Reese Witherspoon | Mark Ruffalo | Donal Logue | Dina Spybey | Ben Shenkman | Jon Heder | Ivana Milicevic | Rosalind Chao | Chris Pflueger | Kerris Dorsey | Alyssa Shafer | Ron Canada | Caroline Aaron | Gabrielle Made | Shulie Cowen
Directors: Mark Waters
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Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon), a dedicated Doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When her sister with two kids set her up on a date, she gets into a tragic car crash and gets in a coma. Meanwhile, an artist named David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) moves into San Francisco and coincidentally, into Elizabeth’s apartment for rent. While at the apartment, Elizabeth’s spirit haunts him. She doesn’t remember who she is, who her family is, and what she did - All that she remembered was her apartment and where everything was. To settle the arguments, Dacid agrees to figure out who Elizabeth really is. When they get close to figuring out who she is, they eventually find love in each other and as they finally know who she really is, they learn that fate really has put them both together.

Baby’s Day Out (1994)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Joe Mantegna | Lara Flynn Boyle | Joe Pantoliano | Brian Haley | Cynthia Nixon | Fred Dalton Thompson | John Neville | Matthew Glave | Adam Robert Worton | Jacob Joseph Worton | Brigid Duffy | Guy Hadley | Eddie Bracken | Kenneth L. Jordahl | Raymond Henders
Directors: Patrick Read Johnson
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Baby Bink couldn’t ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he’s just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink’s parents; especially the three enterprising kidnapers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnaping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.

Cast Away (2000)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Sanchez | Lari White | Leonid Citer | David Allen Brooks | Yelena Popovic | Semion Suradikov | Tom Hanks | Helen Hunt | Peter Berg | Dmitri S. Boudrine | François Duhamel | Michael Forest | Viveka Davis | Nick Searcy | Jennifer Choe
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment’s notice, to far-flung locales - and away from his girlfriend Kelly, played by Helen Hunt. Chuck’s manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. Stripped of the conveniences of everyday life, he first must meet the basic needs of survival, including water, food and shelter. Chuck, the consummate problem solver, eventually figures out how to sustain himself physically. But then what? Chuck begins his true personal journey. After four years, fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization, only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than all the earlier physical ones. His ability to persevere and to hope are a product of his life-changing experience.

Black Rain (1989)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Douglas | Andy Garcia | Ken Takakura | Kate Capshaw | Yusaku Matsuda | Shigeru Kôyama | John Spencer | Guts Ishimatsu | Yuya Uchida | Tomisaburo Wakayama | Miyuki Ono | Luis Guzmán | John Costelloe | Stephen Root | Richard Riehle
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.

The Ugly Duckling and Me! (2006)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy
Countries: Denmark | France | Germany | Ireland | UK
Actors: Morgan Jones | Paul Tylack | Kim Larney | Anna Olson | Gary Hetzler | Danna Davis | Barbara Bergin | Michelle Read | Hilary Cahill | Hillary Kavanagh | Laurann Rabbitt | Aoife Murray | Liz Lloyd | Aileen Mythen | Justin Gregg
Directors: Michael Hegner
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Nia Vardalos | Michael Constantine | John Corbett | Christina Eleusiniotis | Kaylee Vieira | John Kalangis | Lainie Kazan | Marita Zouravlioff | Sarah Osman | Petra Wildgoose | Melissa Todd | Bess Meisler | Andrea Martin | Louis Mandylor | Gerry Mendicino
Directors: Joel Zwick
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Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family’s restaurant, Dancing Zorba’s, in Chicago. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy. But Toula is looking for more in life. Her mother convinces Gus to let her take some computer classes at college (making him think it’s his idea). With those classes under her belt, she then takes over her aunt’s travel agency (again making her father think it’s his idea). She meets Ian Miller, a high school English teacher, WASP, and dreamboat she had made a fool of herself over at the restaurant; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. He has to learn to accept Ian; Ian has to learn to accept Toula’s huge family, and Toula has to learn to accept herself.

Grumpier Old Men (1995)

Friday, September 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Walter Matthau | Jack Lemmon | Ann-Margret | Sophia Loren | Burgess Meredith | Daryl Hannah | Kevin Pollak | Katie Sagona | Ann Morgan Guilbert | James Andelin | Marcus Klemp | Max Wright | Cheryl Hawker | Wayne A. Evenson | Allison Levine
Directors: Howard Deutch
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Things don’t seem to change much in Wabasha County: Max and John are still fighting after 35 years, Grandpa still drinks, smokes, and chases women , and nobody’s been able to catch the fabled “Catfish Hunter”, a gigantic catfish that actually smiles at fishermen who try to snare it. Six months ago John married the new girl in town (Ariel), and people begin to suspect that Max might be missing something similar in his life. The only joy Max claims is left in his life is fishing, but that might change with the new owner of the bait shop.