Posts Tagged ‘box-office-flop’

Good Year, A (2006)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Highmore, Freddie | Finney, Albert | Crowe, Russell | Spall, Rafe | Panjabi, Archie | Coyle, Richard | Righton, Ben | Kennedy, Patrick | Rhodes, Ali | Daniel Mays | Aalia, Nila | Hudson, Stephen | Facio, Giannina | Hollander, Tom | Briand, Lionel
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she’s Henry’s illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten?

Sphere (1998)

Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Hoffman, Dustin | Stone, Sharon | Latifah, Queen | Schreiber, Liev | Coyote, Peter | Marga Gomez
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious ‘manifestations’? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out.

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

Friday, September 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Bates, Kathy | Chan, Jackie | Coogan, Steve | Fyfe, Robert | Broadbent, Jim | McNeice, Ian | Ryall, David | Hammond, Roger | Godley, Adam | Mok, Karen | Cooper, Howard | Hinchcliffe, Daniel | Teufel, Wolfram | Strauss, Tom | West, Kit | Bremner, Ewen
Directors: Coraci, Frank
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Based on the classic novel by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (2003) stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. As an adventurer, Passepartout ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg (played by Steve Coogan) on a daring mission to journey around the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the world in 80 days. Along the way, they encounter many interesting 19th Century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage around the world.

Family Business (1989)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Hoffman, Dustin | Broderick, Matthew | McCutcheon, Bill | Ludwig, Salem | Everhart, Rex | Tolkan, James | Carlin, Thomas A. | DiBenedetto, Tony | Pierce, Wendell | Carruthers, James | O'Connell, Jack | Capodice, John | Guzmán, Luis | McNamara, Dermot A.
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Jessie is an ageing career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito’s son and Jessie’s grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past. So when Adam approaches Jessie with a scheme for a burglary he’s shocked, but not necessarily disinterested….

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Willis, Bruce | Rubinek, Saul | Freeman, Morgan | Hancock, John | Dunn, Kevin | James, Clifton | Giambalvo, Louis | Heyman, Barton | Parker, Norman | Moffat, Donald | King, Alan | Fuller, Kurt | LeFevre, Adam | Libertini, Richard
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Hard Rain (1998)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | France | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Slater, Christian | Quaid, Randy | Asner, Edward | Goorjian, Michael A. | Florek, Dann | Harris, Ricky | Rolston, Mark | Murnik, Peter | Duvall, Wayne | Dysart, Richard | Baker, Ray | Patterson, Jay | Monks, Michael | Bryce, Mackenzie
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Heavy Rainfall causes a Indiana river to swell and flood the town. All inhabitants are forced by public services to leave instantly. Tom and his uncle Charlie work for a money transport firm and their assignment is to evacuate all cash from the banks along the flooding river. So, their truck is loaded with about three million Dollars. Hank tries to prevent further flooding, as he’s the guy responsible for the dam up the river, but he has to open one gate in order to save the old dam from breaking. Only the police under the Sheriff’s leadership stay in town to prevent looting. As the water level rises, Tom and Charlie’s Truck gets stuck in the flooded road. This is the moment, Jim, an elderly thief, and his gang have been waiting for. In an attempt to get the money from the truck, Charlie gets shot and Tom swims off to save the cash bags. While trying to hide, he meets Karen, who resisted to leave the old church she has been restoring for eight months. She thinks he is a looter, and calls the cops to bring him in. But as the Sheriff finds out about that much cash in a situation like this, he radios his old pal Hank, up at the dam…

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Goodman, John | Rhames, Ving | Sizemore, Tom | Anthony, Marc | Curtis, Cliff | Serrano, Nestor | Omilami, Afemo | Johnson, Cullen O. | Nascarella, Arthur J. | Scorsese, Martin | Farrell, Tom Riis | Shaklin, Aleks | Citer, Leonid | Rosario Jr., Jesus A. Del
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48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn’t help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Green, Tom | Torn, Rip | Thomas, Eddie Kaye | Williams, Harland | Hall, Anthony Michael | Davies, Jackson | Widdows, Connor | Taylor, John R. | Osborne, Bob | Gordon, George | Selmour, Ron | Neale, David | Heindl, Scott | Brown, R. Nelson | Gray, Allan
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Tom Green plays Gord Brody, a slacker who dreams of becoming an animator for cartoon shows. He is forced to move back in with his parents, but then refuses to leave. Along the way, he sexually pleasures various farm animals, licks open flesh wounds, accuses his father of molesting his brother, goes scuba diving in a toilet, plays an organ with several sausages attached to it which are suspended in midair, and does a bunch of other stuff that is too insane, offensive, disgusting, or weird to be mentioned here.

Species II (1998)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Madsen, Michael | Justin Lazard | Harris, Baxter | Williamson, Mykelti | Helgenberger, Marg | Dzundza, George | Cromwell, James | Wynter, Sarah | Henstridge, Natasha | Myriam Cyr
Directors: Medak, Peter
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Mykelti Williamson and Justin Lazard are a pair of astronauts who make the first successful manned mission to Mars. Lazard’s character gets infected by an alien and slowly begins to mutate. When they get back to Earth all he has on his mind is to have sex with Henstridge!

We’re No Angels (1989)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Penn, Sean | Axton, Hoyt | Kirby, Bruno | McAnally, Ray | Russo, James | Shawn, Wallace | Reilly, John C. | Brazeau, Jay | Buhay, Ken | Murdoch, Bill | Turner, Frank C. | Walker, Matthew | Hoy, Sean | Berry, Lloyd
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A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly.