Posts Tagged ‘actress’

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: David Alexander | Ciarán Hinds | Lee Pace | Tom Payne | Tim Potter | Matt Ryan | Mark Strong | Mo Zinal | Chris Mansfield
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Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

V for Vendetta (2005)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Natalie Portman | Hugo Weaving | Stephen Rea | Stephen Fry | John Hurt | Tim Pigott-Smith | Rupert Graves | Roger Allam | Ben Miles | Sinéad Cusack | Natasha Wightman | John Standing | Eddie Marsan | Clive Ashborn | Emma Field-Rayner
Directors: James McTeigue
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Segel | Russell Brand | Bill Hader | Jack McBrayer | Taylor Wily | Davon McDonald | Steve Landesberg | Jonah Hill | Paul Rudd | Kala Alexander | Kalani Robb | Branscombe Richmond | Billy Green Bush | William Baldwin | Jason Bateman
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Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex … and she’s bringing along her new boyfriend.

National Lampoon presents Cattle Call (2006)

Friday, June 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Thomas Ian Nicholas | Diedrich Bader | Andrew Katos | Paul Mazursky | Jonathan Winters | Jack Maxwell | Rudy De Luca | Buck Kartalian | John Capodice | John Mariano | Martin Guigui | Mario Macaluso | Buck Reynolds | Drew Falcone | Pete Wooster
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A guy starts a fake casting agency in hopes that he will meet his soul mate.

Get Shorty (1995)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Gandolfini | Linda Hart | Miguel Sandoval | Martin Ferrero | Delroy Lindo | John Travolta | Danny DeVito | Dennis Farina | Rene Russo | David Paymer | Jon Gries
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he’s struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he’s snagged up by a producer. The rest is history.

Edmond (2005)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William H. Macy | Frances Bay | Rebecca Pidgeon | Joe Mantegna | Denise Richards | Wendy Thompson | Vincent Guastaferro | Ling Bai | Matt Landers | Dulé Hill | Russell Hornsby | Aldis Hodge | Debi Mazar | Mena Suvari | Jeffrey Combs
Directors: Stuart Gordon
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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller’s for a Tarot reading: “You are not where you belong,” she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman’s club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he’s found them. Where does he belong?

For Your Consideration (2006)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Catherine O'Hara | Stephen Rannazzisi | Ed Begley Jr. | Eugene Levy | Harry Shearer | Christopher Moynihan | John Michael Higgins | Carrie Aizley | Stephanie Courtney | Suzy Nakamura | Jim Piddock | Jane Morris | Jennifer Coolidge | Jordan Black
Directors: Christopher Guest
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Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called “Home for Purim,” when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in “Variety” and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors’ lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood!

Slipstream (2007)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Stella Arroyave | Lisa Pepper | Michael Clarke Duncan | Dana Generally | Saginaw Grant | Gavin Grazer | Christopher Lawford | John Littlefield | William Lucking | Kevin McCarthy | Ken Millen | Richard F. Putnam | Thell Reed | Michael R. Robinson
Directors: Anthony Hopkins
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“Slipstream” is a noir-comedy about an actor and would-be screenwriter, who at the very moment of his meeting with Fate, comes to discover that life is random and fortune is sightless as he is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams, and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream. The film will be a complex, surreal and dreamlike tale of one man’s journey.

Evita (1996)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Antonio Banderas | Jonathan Pryce | Jimmy Nail | Victoria Sus | Julian Littman | Olga Merediz | Laura Pallas | Julia Worsley | María Luján Hidalgo | Servando Villamil | Andrea Corr | Peter Polycarpou | Gary Brooker | Maite Yerro
Directors: Alan Parker
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Based on the incredible true story, Eva (Evita) Peron, starts out life as a poor girl who goes on to become an actress and then become the wife of the president of Argentina, Juan Peron. The musical is a story of love and politics, showing all the battles and triumphs Evita has in her short, but amazing life.

Libertine, The (2004)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Johnny Depp | Samantha Morton | John Malkovich | Stanley Townsend | Paul Ritter | Francesca Annis | Rosamund Pike | Tom Hollander | Johnny Vegas | Richard Coyle | Hugh Sachs | Tom Burke | Rupert Friend | Jack Davenport | Trudi Jackson
Directors: Laurence Dunmore
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In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual intercourse flourish. Thirteen years later, in the middle of political and economical problems, Charles II asks the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from the exile to London. John is a morally corrupt, drunkard and sexually active cynical poet, and the King asks him to prepare a play for the French ambassador to make him pleased. John meets the aspirant actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her a great star. He falls in love for her, and she becomes his mistress; during the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls in disgrace in the court. When he was thirty-three years old, he was dying of syphilis associated to alcoholism and he converted to a religious man.