Posts Tagged ‘basketball’

Made of Honor (2008)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Patrick Dempsey | Kevin McKidd | Kadeem Hardison | Chris Messina | Richmond Arquette | Sydney Pollack | James Sikking | Kevin Sussman | Craig Susser | Trip Davis | Eoin McCarthy | Clive Russell | Iain Agnew | Grant Thomson | Marty Ryan
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Made of Honor revolves around Tom and Hannah, who have been platonic friends for 10 years. He’s a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn’t found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her “maid” of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Petersen | William L. Petersen | Willem Dafoe | John Pankow | Debra Feuer | John Turturro | Darlanne Fluegel | Dean Stockwell | Steve James | Robert Downey Sr. | Michael Greene | Christopher Allport | Jack Hoar | Valentin de Vargas | Dwier Brown | Michael Chong
Directors: William Friedkin
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Two cops in Los Angeles try to track down the vicious criminal Eric Masters. Then, one of them is killed by Masters and the other one swears revenge no matter what the cost. After that, the hunt becomes an ob- session and the law he once swore to uphold becomes meaningless to him.

Breakfast Club, The (1985)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Emilio Estevez | Anthony Michael Hall | Judd Nelson | Paul Gleason | John Kapelos | Ron Dean | Tim Gamble | Perry Crawford | John Hughes
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When five high school students, Andrew, John, Allison, Brian, and Claire, meet in detention one day. The principal wants them to write an essay, and they think they are in for a boring 8 hours of doing nothing. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some marijuana, they pour their hearts out to each other, and tell about their fears, secrets, and their deepest emotions, and problems.

Teen Wolf (1985)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael J. Fox | James Hampton | Susan Ursitti | Jerry Levine | Matt Adler | Lorie Griffin | Jim McKrell | Mark Arnold | Jay Tarses | Mark Holton | Scott Paulin | Elizabeth Gorcey | Melanie Manos | Doug Savant | Charles Zucker
Directors: Rod Daniel
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Teen discovers that puberty for him means he turns into a werewolf. One of the beneficial side effects is that it also turns him into a top-notch basketball player. But will his notoriety cost him his friends and can he find true love?

21 (2008)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Sturgess | Kevin Spacey | Aaron Yoo | Jacob Pitts | Laurence Fishburne | Jack McGee | Josh Gad | Sam Golzari | Jack Gilpin | Butch Williams | Jeffrey Ma | Frank Patton | Steven Richard Vezina | Chaska T. Werner | Kyle Morris
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

Basketball Diaries, The (1995)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Lorraine Bracco | Marilyn Sokol | James Madio | Patrick McGaw | Mark Wahlberg | Roy Cooper | Bruno Kirby | Jimmy Papiris | Nick Gaetani | Alexander Chaplin | Ben Jorgensen | Josh Mostel | Juliette Lewis | Michael Imperioli
Directors: Scott Kalvert
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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim’s life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach (”Swifty”) who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim’s dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s mounting concern for her son. He can’t go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim “picked up a game” now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.

High School Musical 2 (2007)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Zac Efron | Vanessa Anne Hudgens | Ashley Tisdale | Lucas Grabeel | Corbin Bleu | Monique Coleman | Mark L. Taylor | Bart Johnson | Robert Curtis Brown | Jessica Tuck | Alyson Reed | Chris Warren Jr. | Ryne Sanborn | Olesya Rulin | Kaycee Stroh
Directors: Kenny Ortega
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The Wildcats are back. They start off getting out of school, where Shar Pay makes sure Troy has job at her country club. Troy then in returns gets everyone else a job at the country club too. Gabrielle is the new lifeguard, while Troy, Chad, and the others work in the kitchen. At the country club there is a talent show, which Sharpay and Ryan win every year. Kelsie had written a song for Troy and Gabrielle to sing at the talent show, which later on Sharpay takes (at a faster tempo) for her and Troy to sing at the talent show. Sharpay plots to take Troy away from Gabrielle,by getting him a better job than the rest of the Wildcats. Troy starts changing, all for a “scholarship”, starting to act like a jerk, which results in Gabrielle breaking up with Troy, saying she doesn’t belong there. After Troy loses all his friends, because he began acting like a jerk and had found out that Sharpay had made it where no Junior Staffers can perform in the talent show, he decides to do something about it, and asks for his old job back with the rest of his friends and quits the talent show leaving Sharpay with nothing, since she had ditched her brother to perform with Troy. She then goes back to Ryan, who had been working with the Junior Staffers on an act, who then leaves her saying she always wanted the spotlight, now she has it. Troy ends up doing the talent show, thinking that he would be performing with Sharpay. He learns a new song within a matter of minutes.

Semi-Pro (2008)

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sport
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Actors: Will Ferrell | Woody Harrelson | André Benjamin | Maura Tierney | DeRay Davis | Josh Braaten | Jay Phillips | Peter Cornell | Andy Richter | Andrew Daly | Will Arnett | Kate Luyben | David Koechner | Jackie Earle Haley | Rob Corddry
Directors: Kent Alterman
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Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association’s Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true

Ricochet (1991)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | John Lithgow | Ice-T | Kevin Pollak | Lindsay Wagner | Mary Ellen Trainor | Josh Evans | Victoria Dillard | John Amos | John Cothran Jr. | Linda Dona | Matt Landers | Lydell M. Cheshier | Starletta DuPois | Sherman Howard
Directors: Russell Mulcahy
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Rookie Los Angeles cop Nick Styles is at a Los Angeles street fair, where hit man Earl Talbot Blake pulls a double cross on some drug dealers, killing four men. Minutes later, Nick shoots Blake in the knee, and Blake is grabbed by Nick’s partner and best friend Larry Doyle. Nick becomes the focus of the media, thanks to an amateur cameraman’s footage of Nick disarming Blake. Over the next few years, Nick’s career takes off: he’s offered a job in the district attorney’s office, and his hip media style keeps him in the public eye. Nick marries a woman named Alice and they go on to have two daughters named Lisa and Monica. While Blake is in prison, he vows revenge on Nick. When Blake comes up for parole, he orchestrates a bloody escape — which includes faking his own death. Blake doesn’t want Nick dead. He just wants Nick to suffer in spades. He wants to ruin Nick’s life as completely as possible, and then have Nick sent to prison for murder so Nick will know how Blake feels. Blake begins his vendetta by killing city councilman U. B. Farris and planting evidence to make everyone think Nick and Farris are running an underage pornography ring. Blake then kidnaps Nick, forces him to take drugs and have sex with a prostitute, videotapes the whole thing, and then releases Nick. Nick tells everyone that it was Blake who kidnapped him, but everyone refuses to believe Nick because everyone thinks Blake is dead. That night, Blake breaks into Nick’s house, and makes a threatening videotape with Lisa, Monica, and an ax in it, but Blake didn’t actually do anything to Lisa and Monica. Nick is then suspended from the DA’s office, with everyone thinking that Nick is mentally ill because he keeps saying that Blake is still alive. Blake then begins the final phase of his vendetta — he kills Larry and frames Nick for it. Blake also links Nick to misappropriation of public funds, specifically, the funds he’s supposed to be raising for a children’s center in a building at the base of the Watts tower. Nick is forced to turn to his childhood friend, gang leader Odessa, for help in clearing his name and stopping Blake once and for all.

American History X (1998)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Edward Norton | Edward Furlong | Beverly D'Angelo | Avery Brooks | Jennifer Lien | Ethan Suplee | Stacy Keach | Fairuza Balk | Elliott Gould | Guy Torry | William Russ | Joseph Cortese | Jason Bose Smith | Antonio David Lyons | Alex Sol
Directors: Tony Kaye
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A Neo Nazi skinhead, named Derek Vineyard (Edward Norton) goes to jail for 3 years after committing a murder of 2 black guys. In the meanwhile, his younger brother, Danny Vineyard (Edward Furlong) goes in the same way and makes the same mistakes (racism and hatred) his eldest brother did (this is the result of the Neo Nazi environment he grows up into, and the influence Derek left behind). While Derek is in jail he realize that he choose the wrong path. after coming back from jail, Derek try to convince his brother not to go in his own way.