Posts Tagged ‘divorce’

Frida (2002)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Salma Hayek | Mía Maestro | Amelia Zapata | Alejandro Usigli | Diego Luna | Alfred Molina | Lucia Bravo | Valeria Golino | Patricia Reyes Spíndola | Loló Navarro | Roger Rees | Fermín Martínez | Roberto Medina | Ashley Judd | Antonio Banderas
Directors: Julie Taymor
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006)

Friday, June 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Hugh Bonneville | Tom Hardy | Douglas Hodge | Adrian Lester | Andrew Lincoln | Ewan McGregor | Stephen Samson | Nicholas Sidi | Mark Strong | Hiran Desilva Thenabadu | Benjamin Whitrow
Directors:
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Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we’re all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?

Definitely, Maybe (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Ryan Reynolds | Bob Wiltfong | Ryder Chasin | Blake Benitez | Ashtyn Greenstein | Dylan Hartigan | Paul Mott | Alexander Pickett | Marquis Rodriguez | James Biberi | Keith Patterson | Daniel Eric Gold | Adam Ferrara | Derek Luke | Nestor Serrano
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Romantic comedy: Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will’s story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. On the campaign, Will’s best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspirations, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a “PG” version of his story for his daughter ad changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Is her mother Will’s college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, he apolitical April? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad’s romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it’s definitely never too late to go back…and maybe even possible to find a happy ending.

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?

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Diane Lane | Sandra Oh | Lindsay Duncan | Raoul Bova | Vincent Riotta | Mario Monicelli | Roberto Nobile | Anita Zagaria | Evelina Gori | Giulia Steigerwalt | Pawel Szajda | Valentine Pelka | Sasa Vulicevic | Massimo Sarchielli | Claudia Gerini
Directors: Audrey Wells
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Academy Award nominee ‘Diane Lane (I)’ (qv) stars as ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer’s block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv)’ memoir of the same name.

Mr. Woodcock (2007)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Seann William Scott | Susan Sarandon | Amy Poehler | Melissa Sagemiller | Ethan Suplee | Jacob Davich | Kyley Baldridge | Alec George | Joseph Michael Sargent | M.C. Gainey | Brent Briscoe | Dave Kuhr | Lisa K. Wyatt | Kurt Fuller
Directors: Craig Gillespie
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Taken aback by his mother’s wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.

American Gangster (2007)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Russell Crowe | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Josh Brolin | Lymari Nadal | Ted Levine | Roger Guenveur Smith | John Hawkes | RZA | Yul Vazquez | Malcolm Goodwin | Ruby Dee | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Carla Gugino | Skyler Fortgang
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

Seabiscuit (2003)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: David McCullough | Jeff Bridges | Paul Vincent O'Connor | Chris Cooper | Michael Ensign | James Keane | Valerie Mahaffey | David Doty | Carl M. Craig | Michael O'Neill | Annie Corley | Michael Angarano | Cameron Bowen | Noah Luke | Mariah Bess
Directors: Gary Ross
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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters’fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit “fixed us, every one of us.”

War of the Worlds (2005)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Cruise | Dakota Fanning | Justin Chatwin | Miranda Otto | Tim Robbins | Rick Gonzalez | Yul Vazquez | Lenny Venito | Lisa Ann Walter | Ann Robinson | Gene Barry | David Alan Basche | Roz Abrams | Michael Brownlee | Camillia Sanes
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Ray Ferrier is a dock worker who is finishing a night of work in the morning, because he works the night shift. But when he gets home his young daughter Rachel and teenage son Robbie are staying with him at his house in Bayonne, New Jersey, while his pregnant ex-wife Mary Anne and her new husband Tim visit her parents in Boston for the weekend. But then the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense! Witnessing, and barely escaping the horror, first-hand, it’s up to Ray to protect his two kids from terrorist and races up to Boston before one of them gets murdered by a large tripod machine in its path!

Sideways (2004)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Giamatti | Thomas Haden Church | Virginia Madsen | Sandra Oh | Marylouise Burke | Jessica Hecht | Missy Doty | M.C. Gainey | Alysia Reiner | Shake Tukhmanyan | Shaun Duke | Robert Covarrubias | Patrick Gallagher | Stephanie Faracy | Joe Marinelli
Directors: Alexander Payne
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Miles Raymond, a failed writer and divorcé who teaches junior high school English takes his best friend, former hot actor Jack, on a weeklong drive up to California’s wine country. There they explore the nature of their failures and question their relationships. Jack, about to get married, has an affair with a woman and wonders whether he should call off his wedding. Miles questions whether or not he made the right choice while trying to form a relationship with the woman’s best friend, a fellow oenophile who is a waitress at a restaurant that he frequents often when visiting that part of the country.