Posts Tagged ‘dinner’

He Was a Quiet Man (2007)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Slater | John Gulager | Jamison Jones | Michael DeLuise | K.C. Ramsey | David Wells | Randolph Mantooth | Sewell Whitney | William H. Macy | Greg Baker | Brian Lohmann | Paul D. Roberts | Bobby Hardy | Bill Rothbard | Stanley C. Hall
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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he’s screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

Rocket Science (2007)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Reece Thompson | Dionne Audain | Anna Kendrick | Nicholas D'Agosto | Vincent Piazza | Margo Martindale | Aaron Yoo | Josh Kay | Steve Park | Maury Ginsberg | Utkarsh Ambudkar | Denis O'Hare | Lisbeth Bartlett | Candace Scholz | Virginia Frank
Directors: Jeffrey Blitz
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Coming of age in Plainsboro, New Jersey. High school student Hal Hefner stutters. On the evening his parents stop arguing and separate, 43 miles away at the state tournament, his school’s legendary debater, Ben Wekselbaum, goes blank mid-sentence, Ben’s teammate Ginny Ryerson doesn’t get a first-place trophy, and the world changes. That fall, to Hal’s amazement, Ginny recruits him for the debate team, mentors him, and will be his partner. He still has his stutter, but he works hard and he falls in love with Ginny. On the day of the first debate of the season, the world changes again. From then until the day of the state tournament, Hal has a lot to sort out. Is love rocket science?

Moonlight Mile (2002)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal | Dustin Hoffman | Susan Sarandon | Ellen Pompeo | Aleksia Landeau | Richard Messing | Lev Friedman | Bob Clendenin | Jim Fyfe | Mary Ellen Trainor | Richard Fancy | Marcia Mitzman Gaven | Allan Corduner | Holly Hunter | Careena Melia
Directors: Brad Silberling
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A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. While grieving along with her parents and drawn into legal issues presented by a district attorney seeking justice for the family, he finds himself falling in love with another woman, against his own best intentions.

Deranged (1974)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Roberts Blossom | Cosette Lee | Leslie Carlson | Robert Warner | Marcia Diamond | Brian Smeagle | Arlene Gillen | Robert McHeady | Marian Waldman | Jack Mather | Micki Moore | Pat Orr
Directors: Jeff Gillen
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A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein.

Atonement (2007)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Saoirse Ronan | Brenda Blethyn | Julia West | James McAvoy | Harriet Walter | Keira Knightley | Juno Temple | Felix von Simson | Charlie von Simson | Alfie Allen | Patrick Kennedy | Benedict Cumberbatch | Peter Wight | Peter O'Connor | Daniel Mays
Directors: Joe Wright
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In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between a servant’s son, Robbie, and her older sister, Cecilia, that she childishly misconstrues. Briony’s misunderstanding leads to a terrible crime whose consequences follow them through World War II.

American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Boyd Banks | Mila Kunis | William Shatner | Geraint Wyn Davies | Robin Dunne | Lindy Booth | Charles Officer | Jenna Perry | Michael Kremko | Kate Kelton | Quancetia Hamilton | John Healy | Andrew Scorer | Kim Poirier | Kim Schraner | Shoshana Sperling
Directors: Morgan J. Freeman
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Rachael Newman has developed an interest for murders after she met psycho Patrick Bateman. To further study the subject, she enrolls at the university department for Behavioural and Social Sciences, under the expert leadership of ex-FBI man Robert Starkman. Very certain about herself, Rachael has one single goal: to become class assistant. It’s a prestigious job as having that position will almost guarantee employment at the FBI. But becoming class assistant is no easy task to accomplish, as the first trouble arises when secretary Gerty Fleck decides she is too young for it. And Gerty Fleck won’t be the only obstacle.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Uma Thurman | Luke Wilson | Anna Faris | Rainn Wilson | Eddie Izzard | Stelio Savante | Mike Iorio | Mark Consuelos | Wanda Sykes | Margaret Anne Florence | Eva Veronika | Lawrence Feeney | Lou Bonacki | Jeff Norris | Greg Northrop
Directors: Ivan Reitman
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Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) thought his luck had just changed when he start dating Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman). But what he doesn’t know is he is going out with New York super-hero G-Girl. When he breaks it of with her for his work partner Hannah (Anna Faris) G-Girl makes his life hell.

Devil Wears Prada, The (2006)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Anne Hathaway | Emily Blunt | Stanley Tucci | Simon Baker | Adrian Grenier | Tracie Thoms | Rich Sommer | Daniel Sunjata | David Marshall Grant | James Naughton | Tibor Feldman | Rebecca Mader | Jimena Hoyos | Gisele Bündchen
Directors: David Frankel
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Miranda Priestley, of “Runway” magazine tears up the landscape as a demanding fashion editor. She is a terror to everyone who is around her as is quickly depicted in the opening scenes of the movie. Her first assistant strives to please her and tries to emulate her, but one can sense that she is not quite as hard as she tries to put on. Into this mix comes a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry, has never read the magazine, and doesn’t know who Miranda Priestley is. She only sees this as a stepping stone to another journalism position. Showing no fashion sense and immediately scorned by everyone, Miranda nonetheless hires her as the second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, you can sense that she is trying to force her to quit, but it makes the young woman dig in to please her boss. With the help of one of the magazine’s fashion editors, she gets a complete makeover and a new security. However, with her new appearance and the demands placed on her, she starts to lose her friends, family and her live-in boy friend. As she is whisked away to Paris with Miranda and faces all of the glamor that could be hers, including a flashy if not artificial freelance journalist, she is forced to make the decision of where she wants to be in her life.

House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Connelly | Ben Kingsley | Ron Eldard | Frances Fisher | Kim Dickens | Shohreh Aghdashloo | Jonathan Ahdout | Navi Rawat | Carlos Gómez | Kia Jam | Jaleh Modjallal | Samira Damavandi | Matthew Simonian | Namrata Singh Gujral | Al Faris
Directors: Vadim Perelman
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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter’s chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house’s former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Ewan McGregor | John Leguizamo | Jim Broadbent | Richard Roxburgh | Garry McDonald | Jacek Koman | Matthew Whittet | Kerry Walker | Caroline O'Connor | Christine Anu | Natalie Jackson Mendoza | Lara Mulcahy | David Wenham | Kylie Minogue
Directors: Baz Luhrmann
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Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris’ now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club’s highest paid star and the city’s most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.