childhood-friend movies

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Fiennes, Joseph | Haysbert, Dennis | West, Timothy | Giannini, Adriano | Hui, Raman | Chan, Chung | Cummings, Jim | Vernon, Conrad | Birch, Andrew | Miller, Chris
Directors: Gilmore, Patrick
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Sinbad, the most daring and notorious rogue ever to sail the seven seas, has spent his life asking for trouble, and trouble has finally answered in a big way. Framed for stealing one of the world’s most priceless and powerful treasures—the Book of Peace—Sinbad has one chance to find and return the precious book, or his best friend Proteus will die. Sinbad decides not to take that chance and instead sets a course for the fun and sun of the Fiji Islands. However, Proteus’ beautiful betrothed, Marina, has stowed away on Sinbad’s ship, determined to make sure that Sinbad fulfills his mission and saves Proteus’ life. Now the man who put the “bad” in Sinbad is about to find out how bad bad can be.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Hartnett, Josh | Beckinsale, Kate | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Voight, Jon | Baldwin, Alec | Sizemore, Tom | Scott, William Lee | Zola, Greg | Bremner, Ewen | King, Jaime | Kellner, Catherine | Garner, Jennifer | Rue, Sara | Shannon, Michael
Directors: Bay, Michael
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The above summaries do a great job of describing the dynamics of the love triangle that develops between the two pilots that fall in love with the same nurse. The movie also does a credible job of displaying the war from the American side with FDR and our side. It also shows the strategy of Japan as they plan for and execute all facets of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While all details may not be historically correct, I believe that they do the job well - all things considered. Historic events that were altered were probably done so in an attempt to also make this movie the entertaining epic that it is.

13 Going on 30 (2004)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Garner, Jennifer | Ruffalo, Mark | Greer, Judy | Serkis, Andy | Baker, Kathy | Reeves, Phil | Ball, Samuel | DeBonis, Marcia | Allen, Christa B. | Marquette, Sean | Warren, Kiersten | Grifasi, Joe | Gleason, Mary Pat | Egan, Susan | Collins, Lynn
Directors: Winick, Gary
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It’s 1987, and geeky Jenna wants to be popular. After her 13th birthday party goes awry, Jenna wishes she could just be 30 instead - only to wake up and discover that she’s flash-forwarded 17 years. Now a sexy, successful magazine editor, Jena finds out that being an adult isn’t necessarily all it’s cracked up to be.

Beaches (1988)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Midler, Bette | Hershey, Barbara | Heard, John | Gray, Spalding | Kazan, Lainie | Read, James | Johnston, Grace | Bialik, Mayim | Leeds, Marcie | Williard, Carol | Kent, Allan | Leeds, Phil | Goodfriend, Lynda | Plant, Nikki | French, Michael
Directors: Marshall, Garry
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When the New York child performer CC Bloom and San Fransisco rich kid Hillary meet in a holiday resort in Atlantic City, it marks the start of a lifetime friendship between them. The two keep in touch through letters for a number of years until Hillary, now a successful lawyer moves to New York to stay with struggling singer CC. The movie shows the various stages of their friendship and their romances including their love for the same man.

Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A (2006)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Wiest, Dianne | Downey Jr., Robert | LaBeouf, Shia | Diaz, Melonie | Garro, Julia | Hendricks, Eleonore | Scarimbolo, Adam | Tambakis, Peter Anthony | Tatum, Channing | Tirado, Anthony | Rosado, Erick | Payne, Steve | Palminteri, Chazz | Feldman, Tibor | Compston, Martin
Directors: Montiel, Dito
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Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father’s ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out. A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again?

Neverwas (2005)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Eckhart, Aaron | McKellen, Ian | Nolte, Nick | Hurt, William | Bellamy, Bill | Cumming, Alan | Moriarty, Michael | Roberts, Ken | Henry, Tim | Macaluso, Joe | Airlie, Andrew | Drescher, Ryan | Eckhart, Jim | Hendery, Richard | Tisdale, Mark
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A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children’s book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book’s secrets and his place in the story.

It (1990)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Anderson, Harry | Christopher, Dennis | Masur, Richard | O'Toole, Annette | Reid, Tim | Ritter, John | Thomas, Richard | Curry, Tim | Brandis, Jonathan | Crane, Brandon | Faraizl, Adam | Green, Seth | Heller, Ben | Perkins, Emily | Taylor, Marlon
Directors: Wallace, Tommy Lee
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Derry, Maine is a quiet town, terrorized every 30 years by a horror known only as “It”. The only victims of “It” are children. Through the form of a clown named Pennywise, “It” wakes up every 30 years and feeds. The adults of Derry act like “It” doesn’t happen. Ironically they know about “It”, but the events are too horrible to talk about. Seven outcasts, know as The Lucky Seven, Bill, Ben, Beverly, Eddie, Richie, Mike, and Stan are able to defeat “It” as children and make a pact to return and do battle again should the terror return. Now 30 years later, Mike Hanlon who stayed behind, is puzzled by a bizarre occurance of child murders. When he discovers that “It” has come back, he reunites what’s left of The Lucky Seven, now in their middle ages to do battle once again, and “It” is ready. The Lucky Seven must now defeat “It” and cure Derry of “The Derry Disease”.

Keeping the Faith (2000)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Elfman, Jenna | Bancroft, Anne | Wallach, Eli | Rifkin, Ron | Forman, Milos | Taylor, Holland | Edelstein, Lisa | Sofer, Rena | Leung, Ken | George, Brian | Burns, Catherine Lloyd | Essman, Susie | Blumberg, Stuart
Directors: Norton, Edward
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A love triangle between three friends. Rabbi Jake Schram and Father Brian Finn, two friends, are out to update their religions and draw in more worshipers. With the arrival of Anna Reilly, an old childhood friend of the two, the men’s lives are thrown a curve ball. Anna has become a stunning beauty with a lot of spunk and ambition, and both of them want her. A major road block to Anna for both men is their religion. Jake is up for a head position at his synagogue and taking on a non-Jewish partner is frowned upon, besides the fact that his mother disowned his brother for marrying a non-Jewish woman. Brian has given a vow of celibacy to become a priest.

Strange Wilderness (2007)

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Abel, Jake | Alejandro, Kevin | Baker, Joe Don | Beasor, Terrence | Borgnine, Ernest | Clark, Blake | Covert, Allen | Dante, Peter | Deutsch, Will | Farley, John | Jeff Garlin | Hamlin, Harry | Heffernan, Kevin | Hill, Jonah | Hippler, Tom
Directors: Wolf, Fred
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With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.

Without a Paddle (2004)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Price, Matthew | Hampton, Andrew | Rumbold, Jarred | Snell, Carl | Starr, Antony | Shepard, Dax | Lillard, Matthew | Green, Seth | Bernecker, Nadine | Cormack, Danielle | Stott, David | Somerville, Bonnie | Adsit, Scott | Fairhead, Morgan Reese | Holloway, Liddy
Directors: Brill, Steven
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The legendary high jacker is actually Dan Cooper. DB Cooper is the name of the man arrested shortly after the real high jacker jumped from the plane but was quickly cleared by the authorities. Unfortunately, the newspapers picked up DB Cooper’s name instead of Dan Cooper and the name stuck.