based-on-play movies

Sabrina (1954)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Hepburn, Audrey | Holden, William | Hampden, Walter | Williams, John | Hyer, Martha | Vohs, Joan | Dalio, Marcel | Hillaire, Marcel | Walker, Nella | Bushman, Francis X. | Corby, Ellen | Ahdar, David | Bailey, Raymond | Brooks, Ralph
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work — busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play — technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but David hardly notices her — “doesn’t even know I exist” — until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David’s attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Taylor, Elizabeth | Newman, Paul | Ives, Burl | Carson, Jack | Anderson, Judith | Sherwood, Madeleine | Gates, Larry | Taylor, Vaughn | Corcoran, Brian | Corcoran, Hugh | Johnson, Bobby | Merrill, Tony | Stevens, Robert 'Rusty' | Townsend, Vince | Cleaver, Zelda
Directors: Brooks, Richard
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The fifth Tennessee Williams play to reach the screen, wealthy Mississippi plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt, unaware that he’s dying of cancer and disturbed by the strained and childless marriage of his favored alcoholic son Brick and his other son, Gooper, whose wife is about to bring forth another in the endless line of little “no-neck monsters,” celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday with his family. Brick’s wife, Maggie, beautiful and desirable, tries unsuccessfully to coax her husband away from the bottle, while alternately enticing him and taunting him about his obsession with his deceased best friend and the guilt about their relationship. The seamy tensions reach a climax when the truth of Big Daddy’s health is revealed, and he and Brick manage to resolve their differences.

Anastasia (1997)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan, Meg | Cusack, John | Grammer, Kelsey | Lloyd, Christopher | Azaria, Hank | Peters, Bernadette | Dunst, Kirsten | Lansbury, Angela | Jones, Rick | Martin, Andrea | Harris Jr., Glenn Walker | Mooney, Debra | Malet, Arthur | James, Charity | Callaway, Liz
Directors: Bluth, Don | Goldman, Gary
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Anastasia, the daughter of the last Russian czar, is at a party, when Rasputin, an evil monk, declares a curse on the Romanov family. Anastasia and her grandmother escape with the help of a young kitchen boy Dimitri, but Anastasia falls, hits her head, and loses her memory. Ten years later, Anya (Anastasia) leaves the orphanage where she grew up, and goes to St. Petersburg with her puppy fried Pooka. There she meets a grown-up Dimitri, and his friend, Vladimir, who are holding auditions, for an “Anastasia” to fool the empress, and get a lot of money. They choose Anya, and take her to Paris. Rasputin, who has died, uses minions to try and kill Anya, failing twice. During the course of all these events, Dimitri and Anya fall in love.

Beautiful Thing (1996)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Berry, Glen | Walsh, Martin | Martin, Steven M. | Neal, Scott | Fraser, Andrew | Daniels, Ben | Savage, John | Cooper, Garry | Bowers, Daniel | Duggan, Terry | Mamodeally, Ozdemir | Benfield, John | Harries, Davyd | Lynn, Dave | Harvey, Jonathan
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A tender love story set during a hot summer on a South-East London housing estate. Jamie, a relatively unpopular lad who bunks off school to avoid football, lives next door to Ste, a more popular athletic lad but who is frequently beaten up by his father and older brother. Such an episode of violence brings Jamie and Ste together: Sandra (Jamie’s mum) offers refugee to Ste, who has to ‘top-and-tail’ with Jamie. Hence, the story tells of their growing attraction for one another, from initial lingering glances to their irrefutable love, which so magnificently illustrated at the end of the film. In deals with the tribulations of coming to terms with their sexuality and of others finding out, in light of Sandra’s unwavering loyalty and defence of Jamie and the fear of repercussion should Ste’s family find out. The plot is set against sub-texts of Sandra’s desire to manage her own pub, and thus escape the estate, and of her new relationship with her hippy boyfriend Tony; and of Leah, the brassy girl next door who has been expelled from school and spends her time listening to Mama Cass records and tripping on a variety of drugs.

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: History | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Neeley, Ted | Anderson, Carl | Elliman, Yvonne | Dennen, Barry | Bingham, Bob | Marshall, Larry | Mostel, Josh | Yaghjian, Kurt | Thomas, Paul | Douglass, Pi | Orbach, Richard
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Based on a concept album project written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and the subsequent long-running Broadway performance, this film tells the story of the final 6 days in the life of Jesus Christ through the troubled eyes of Judas Escariot. Too often mis-labeled a musical, this film is a “rock opera.” There are no spoken lines, everything is sung.

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Midler, Bette | Dreyfuss, Richard | Richard, Little | Nelson, Tracy | Peña, Elizabeth | Richards, Evan | Muhich, Donald F. | Mazursky, Paul | Curtin, Valerie | Bruskoff, Jack | Dreyfuss, Geraldine | Primus, Barry | Tsu, Irene | Yama, Michael
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Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. Their teenage son is confused about his sexuality and their daughter is suffering from eating disorders. While they are celebrating thanksgiving having plenty of food, street tramp Jerry is hungry, homeless, sleeping rough and has lost his dog. Jerry decides to end his life by drowning himself in their swimming pool. Dave rescues him and invites him to stay for a while. How does this stranger change the life style of this family?

Amen. (2002)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: France | Germany | Romania | USA
Actors: Tuker, Ulrich | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Mühe, Ulrich | Duchaussoy, Michel | Caramitru, Ion | Iures, Marcel | von Thun, Friedrich | Schmidt, Antje | Zischler, Hanns | Koch, Sebastian | Hallhuber, Erich | Heyl, Burkhard | MacInnes, Angus | Fischerauer, Bernd | Franckh, Pierre
Directors: Costa-Gavras
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Kurt Gerstein, a brilliant German scientist, is recruited into the SS during the opening years of the Second World War. Assigned as a sanitation engineer, Gerstein is sent to the Eastern Front to supervise water purification for the German Army. Soon after, however, he is asked to help with a “special project” involving fumigation of “vermin infested” areas behind the front lines. Gerstein develops Zyklon-B, a deadly chemical gas which Gerstein believes will be put to use killing rats, lice, and other disease carrying creatures. However, when Gerstein realizes that his invention will be used to kill not animals but people, he begins an emotional search of his Christian values and ultimately decides to betray the SS by attempting to expose the Holocaust by way of informing the Catholic Church.

Cradle Will Rock (1999)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Azaria, Hank | Blades, Rubén | Cusack, Joan | Cusack, John | Elwes, Cary | Hall, Philip Baker | Jones, Cherry | Macfadyen, Angus | Murray, Bill | Redgrave, Vanessa | Sarandon, Susan | Sheridan, Jamey | Turturro, John | Watson, Emily | Balaban, Bob
Directors: Robbins, Tim
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It’s a drama about theatre life in the 1930s during the times of the Great Depression, the Red Scare (communism), facism, unions, Hitler, Mussolini, New York mayor Nelson Rockefeller, director Orson Welles, painter Diego Rivera, and William Randolph Hearst. This film focuses on the lives of several people during hard times in New York as many struggle to find their place in America. The main focus of the film is a play entitled “Cradle Will Rock,” which tells a pro-union story about lower class workers trying to survive in a growing power-hungry world.

Phantom of the Opera, The (2004)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Butler, Gerard | Driver, Minnie | Richardson, Miranda | Wilson, Patrick | Rossum, Emmy | Hinds, Ciarán
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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“The Phantom of the Opera” is a magnificent tale that begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House while tutoring a chorus girl. He finally drives the lead soprano crazy so she and her friend leave. The girl is able to sing lead one night but the soprano doesn’t want her show stolen so she comes back. The ghost demands they keep giving his protoge lead roles. Meanwhile, His pupil falls in love with the Vicomte de Chagny, but the Phantom is in love with Christine, his student. The Phantom is outraged by their love and kidnaps Christine to be his eternal bride. Will Raoul, the Vicomte, be able to stop this dastardly plan? Watch and find out

Hysterical Blindness (2002)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Thurman, Uma | Rowlands, Gena | Lewis, Juliette | Chambers, Justin | Gazzara, Ben | DeSando, Anthony | Peters, Jolie | Thorne, Callie | Aaron, Jeff | Chena, Jeff | Draper, Alex | Gibson, Russell | LaPlaca, Charles | Mylius, Wade | Pisarro, Rick
Directors: Nair, Mira
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In this bittersweet slice of working class single New Jersey life, best friends Debby and Beth (both pushing thirty) go looking for love in the wrong place - namely their favorite bar, Oliver’s. Rugged contractor Rick eyes Beth but ends up going home with the more assertive Debby. Beth’s style is further cramped by the responsibilities of single motherhood. As Debby tries to parlay what was essentially a casual fling into possible marriage with an indifferent Rick, her mother Virginia wonders if her affair with widower Nick is the real thing. Rounding out the romantic possibilities is Bobby, the bartender who flirts with Beth. The women clash as plans go awry, tragedy strikes, and hearts get broken. In the end, Debby, Beth, and Virginia find, if not the relationships of their dreams, peace with each other and within themselves.