Archive for the 'Drama' Category

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a drama fantasy movie starring Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button, a man who is different from any other man in the world. At age 50 strange things happened to him. Instead of aging his life is aging backward. And his life becomes more complicated when he falls in love with a woman of 30. This movie is inspired by a 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. [...] »

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Kabluey
Kabluey is a drama movie starring Lisa Kudrow as a woman whose husband is fighting in Iraq. Inept Salman (Prendergast) her brother in law comes to help her. Salman must take a humiliating job as a giant blue corporate mascot in order to help make ends meet and hold the family together. [...] »

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Boy A
Boy A is a movie about a boy who sent away to juvenile prison because he committed a terrible crime. He released at age 24 and try to leave his past behind. His caseworker Terry (Peter Mullan) sees the good in him and does everything in his power to give Boy A a second chance. Boy A chooses the name Jack and is set up with a job, a home and the opportunity for a new life. At his job he forms adult relationships for the first time. He bonds with Chris (Shaun Evans) and finds a girlfriend in Michelle (Katie Lyons), both co-workers who witness Jack’s newfound compassion and loyalty. Others are drawn to his shy, kind ways. As relationships develop, he is torn between the deceit in concealing his past and the potential exoneration by revealing his crime. Jack no longer doubts his capacity to love and has more to lose than ever. He seeks Terry’s approval to confess the truth to Michelle but is implored to keep his secret for fear of his own safety.
Spending 14 years in prison has done nothing to persuade the public he’s paid his dues. Accompanying his release is a widespread, media frenzy which re-ignites public indignation. The crime and trial are covered as current news and feed a hunger for revenge. Although Jack bears little resemblance to the young Boy A, it becomes increasingly clear that the past may be impossible to escape.
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The Escapist
The Express is a movie which based on the true story of a college football hero named Ernie Davis (Rob Brown). He is the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. Following his draft by the NFL, tragedy struck the star athlete and he was never able to take the professional field. But his tale would forever change the face of professional sports. Raised in poverty in Pennsylvania coal-mining country, Davis overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become an unstoppable running back for the Syracuse Orangemen. Under the guidance of coach Ben Schwartzwalder (Dennis Quaid) — a hard-nosed surrogate father with an obsession for winning a national championship — Davis would develop from an impressive high-school athlete into a legend. While everyone agreed Ernie Davis was a miracle player, few thought this quiet young man would become an icon for the burgeoning civil rights movement dividing America in the early 1960s. Refusing to play by the unspoken racist rules of the day, Davis broke through one barrier after another to alter the way fans looked at men of his color. Though struck a terrible blow in the prime of his life, his spirit soared when most would crumble. Forcing his bull-headed coach to re-examine a life lived in color-based privilege, Davis would join the ranks of black pioneers who inspired a movement that smashed barriers on and off the playing field. [...] »

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Transsiberian
Transsiberian is a thriller movie starring Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer. The story is about an American couple, Roy (Harrelson) and Jessie (Mortimer), who travel on the famed Trans-Siberian train from China to Moscow. They soon encounter another couple, Abby (Mara) and her boyfriend, Carlos (Noriega), and what seems to be a simple train journey turns into a chase full of deception and murder. Ben Kingsley also plays in this movie. [...] »

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The Women
The Women is a movie adapted from a novel by Diane English. It’s a remake of the 1939 George Cukor classic. The story is about wealthy New Yorker who leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women at a resort. Stars in this movie are Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith and Debra Messing. [...] »

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Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a drama comedy about two friends, Zack and Miri who look to solve their respective cashflow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begins to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought. [...] »

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The Stone Angel
The Stone Angel is a drama Movie about the story of feisty firecracker Hagar Shipley. Her passionate heart has always ruled her head and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. With her life nearly behind her, she sets out in search of a way to reconcile herself to her turbulent past. Through her reflections we come to know a passionate and rebellious young bride, her love for her two sons, the freedoms she claimed, and the joys she denied herself.
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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is a teenage movie from the creator of Bends it like Beckham. The story is about a 14-year-old girl who keeps a diary about the ups and downs of being a teenager, including the things she learns about kissing. [...] »

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The Longshots
The Longshots is a movie about a girl on a boy football team. The movie starrign Ice Cube as Curtis Plummer a former high school football star who teach his niece, Jasmine (Keke Palmer from Akeelah & The Bee), into the quarterback of the local team, the Minden Browns, and gets his stride back when he becomes the team coach. With Curtis as their new leader and their pigtail-wearing star player, this team of misfits wins its way to the the Pop Warner Super Bowl and the small city of Minden, Illinois, is ignited with team spirit, town pride and the glory it once knew. [...] »

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Nights in Rodanthe
Nights in Rodanthe is a movie starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane. The story is about two unhappy people’s lives which become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who’s trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to reconcile with his estranged son, checks into an inn in a North Carolina beach town where she is staying. [...] »

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Choke
Choke is a comedy movie starring Sam Rockwell. The movie is adapted from a novel by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club). The story is about Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), a sex addict who works as a Colonial War re-enactor and runs a con scheme that involves deliberately choking in restaurants and attaching himself parasitically to his rescuers, all to fund his mother’s (Huston) care at a private mental hospital. He is forced to address his intimacy issues when he falls in love with his mother’s doctor and discovers that he is unable to perform with the one woman he actually likes. [...] »

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Australia
Australia is a romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II. The movie centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. With his new film, Luhrmann is painting on a vast canvas, creating a cinematic experience that brings together romance, drama, adventure and spectacle. [...] »

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