Posts Tagged ‘basketball’

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

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Petersen | Petersen, William L. | Dafoe, Willem | Pankow, John | Feuer, Debra | Turturro, John | Fluegel, Darlanne | Stockwell, Dean | James, Steve | Downey Sr., Robert | Greene, Michael | Allport, Christopher | Hoar, Jack | de Vargas, Valentin | Brown, Dwier | Chong, Michael
Directors: Friedkin, William
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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.

Made of Honor (2008)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Dempsey, Patrick | McKidd, Kevin | Hardison, Kadeem | Messina, Chris | Arquette, Richmond | Pollack, Sydney | Sikking, James | Sussman, Kevin | Susser, Craig | Davis, Trip | McCarthy, Eoin | Russell, Clive | Agnew, Iain | Thomson, Grant | Ryan, Marty
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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.

Breakfast Club, The (1985)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Estevez, Emilio | Hall, Anthony Michael | Nelson, Judd | Gleason, Paul | Kapelos, John | Dean, Ron | Gamble, Tim | Crawford, Perry | Hughes, John
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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: Fox, Michael J. | Hampton, James | Ursitti, Susan | Levine, Jerry | Adler, Matt | Griffin, Lorie | McKrell, Jim | Arnold, Mark | Tarses, Jay | Holton, Mark | Paulin, Scott | Gorcey, Elizabeth | Manos, Melanie | Savant, Doug | Zucker, Charles
Directors: Daniel, Rod
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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: Sturgess, Jim | Spacey, Kevin | Yoo, Aaron | Pitts, Jacob | Fishburne, Laurence | McGee, Jack | Gad, Josh | Golzari, Sam | Gilpin, Jack | Williams, Butch | Ma, Jeffrey | Patton, Frank | Vezina, Steven Richard | Werner, Chaska T. | Morris, Kyle
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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: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Bracco, Lorraine | Sokol, Marilyn | Madio, James | McGaw, Patrick | Wahlberg, Mark | Cooper, Roy | Kirby, Bruno | Papiris, Jimmy | Gaetani, Nick | Chaplin, Alexander | Jorgensen, Ben | Mostel, Josh | Lewis, Juliette | Imperioli, Michael
Directors: Kalvert, Scott
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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
Countries: USA
Actors: Efron, Zac | Hudgens, Vanessa Anne | Tisdale, Ashley | Grabeel, Lucas | Bleu, Corbin | Coleman, Monique | Taylor, Mark L. | Johnson, Bart | Curtis Brown, Robert | Tuck, Jessica | Reed, Alyson | Warren Jr., Chris | Sanborn, Ryne | Rulin, Olesya | Stroh, Kaycee
Directors: Ortega, Kenny
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Good-bye, classroom! Hello, summer! But for Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor, this vacation is no day at the beach. That’s because they’re all working at a country club founded by Ryan and Sharpay’s family! And with the club’s annual talent show right around the corner, Sharpay’s competitive instincts are sizzling. She dumps Ryan as her singing partner and starts wooing Troy to join her onstage instead. Gabriella is less than thrilled that Troy has agreed to sing with Sharpay. How could he do that to her? Things are heating up on the lawns of high society. Will Troy and Gabriella realize that they’re meant to be? Or is it already too late for them to sing one last song together?

Semi-Pro (2008)

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sport
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Actors: Ferrell, Will | Harrelson, Woody | Benjamin, André | Tierney, Maura | Davis, DeRay | Braaten, Josh | Phillips, Jay | Cornell, Peter | Richter, Andy | Daly, Andrew | Arnett, Will | Luyben, Kate | Koechner, David | Haley, Jackie Earle | Corddry, Rob
Directors: Alterman, Kent
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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: Washington, Denzel | Lithgow, John | Ice-T | Pollak, Kevin | Wagner, Lindsay | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Evans, Josh | Dillard, Victoria | Amos, John | Cothran Jr., John | Dona, Linda | Landers, Matt | Cheshier, Lydell M. | DuPois, Starletta | Howard, Sherman
Directors: Mulcahy, Russell
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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: Norton, Edward | Furlong, Edward | D'Angelo, Beverly | Brooks, Avery | Lien, Jennifer | Suplee, Ethan | Keach, Stacy | Balk, Fairuza | Gould, Elliott | Torry, Guy | Russ, William | Cortese, Joseph | Smith, Jason Bose | Lyons, Antonio David | Sol, Alex
Directors: Kaye, Tony
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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.