Posts Tagged ‘california’

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Reinhold, Judge | Romanus, Robert | Backer, Brian | Walston, Ray | Thomson, Scott | Schiavelli, Vincent | Brown, D.W. | Whitaker, Forest | Nolan, Tom | Stoltz, Eric | Davis Jr., Stanley | Russo, James | Bolt, James | Cage, Nicolas
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Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.

L.A. Story (1991)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Grant, Richard E. | Pollak, Kevin | McMurray, Sam | Stewart, Patrick | Amador, Andrew | De Harp, Eddie | Shan, M.C. | Hinkley, Tommy | Miller, Larry | Simmons, Thornton | Dragon, Dennis | Stahl, Richard | Lustig, Aaron | Winters, Time
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In this spin on the traditional romantic comedy, Harris K. Tellemacher, a Shakespeare-quoting, Los Angeles TV weatherman is looking for something meaningful for his life. The Los Angeles Freeway sign informs him that the weather will change his life in two ways, and Harris begins to search for the meaning behind that message.

Get Shorty (1995)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gandolfini, James | Linda Hart | Sandoval, Miguel | Ferrero, Martin | Lindo, Delroy | Travolta, John | DeVito, Danny | Farina, Dennis | Russo, Rene | Paymer, David | Gries, Jon
Directors: Sonnenfeld, Barry
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Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he’s struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he’s snagged up by a producer. The rest is history.

1941 (1979)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Aykroyd, Dan | Candy, John | Oates, Warren | Lee, Christopher | Toshiro Mifune | Robert Stack | Allen, Nancy | Williams, Treat | John Belushi | Beatty, Ned | Fuller, Samuel
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Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Winter, Alex | Carlin, George | Camilleri, Terry | Shor, Dan | Steedman, Tony | Loomis, Rod | Leong, Al | Wiedlin, Jane | Barron, Robert V. | David, Clifford | Landon Jr., Hal | Casey, Bernie | Stock-Poynton, Amy | McNamara, J. Patrick
Directors: Herek, Stephen
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When best friends Bill S. Preston and Ted “Theodore” Logan are in danger of being seperated and having their band, Wyld Stalyns broken up because they’re failing history, a time traveler from the future gives them a telephone booth so they can travel through time and ace their history report.

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Oh, Sandra | Duncan, Lindsay | Bova, Raoul | Riotta, Vincent | Monicelli, Mario | Nobile, Roberto | Zagaria, Anita | Gori, Evelina | Steigerwalt, Giulia | Szajda, Pawel | Pelka, Valentine | Vulicevic, Sasa | Sarchielli, Massimo | Gerini, Claudia
Directors: Wells, Audrey
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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.

Joe Dirt (2001)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Spade, David | Daniel, Brittany | Miller, Dennis | Beach, Adam | Walken, Christopher | Pressly, Jaime | Kid Rock | Sullivan, Erik Per | Harvey, Megan Taylor | Aaron, Caroline | Ward, Fred | Farley, John | Zany, Bob | Miller, Bean | Walker, Lee
Directors: Gordon, Dennie
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David Spade plays Joe, whose search for his family has him hittin’ the road and keepin’ it real with every lowlife he meets, including a sweet hottie (Brittany Daniel), a janitor (Christopher Walken), and a pychotic cannibal (Brian Thompson) with whom he has a brief interlude. Through it all, Joe keeps on truckin’ . . . all the way to L.A., where a shock jock DJ (Dennis Miller) targets Joe as the butt of his show. But Joe’s plucky spirit encourages listeners to cheer him on and help him find a better family than the one he thought he wanted. Rock on!

Seabiscuit (2003)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: McCullough, David | Bridges, Jeff | O'Connor, Paul Vincent | Cooper, Chris | Ensign, Michael | Keane, James | Mahaffey, Valerie | Doty, David | Craig, Carl M. | O'Neill, Michael | Corley, Annie | Angarano, Michael | Bowen, Cameron | Luke, Noah | Bess, Mariah
Directors: Ross, Gary
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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.”

Sideways (2004)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Giamatti, Paul | Church, Thomas Haden | Madsen, Virginia | Oh, Sandra | Burke, Marylouise | Hecht, Jessica | Doty, Missy | Gainey, M.C. | Reiner, Alysia | Tukhmanyan, Shake | Duke, Shaun | Covarrubias, Robert | Gallagher, Patrick | Faracy, Stephanie | Marinelli, Joe
Directors: Payne, Alexander
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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.

Lions for Lambs (2007)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Streep, Meryl | Cruise, Tom | Peña, Michael | Garfield, Andrew | Berg, Peter | Dunn, Kevin | Luke, Derek | Bates, Larry | May, Christopher | Pease, David | Janson, Heidi | Carley, Christopher | Back, George | Wu, Kristy
Directors: Redford, Robert
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Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest’s fates.