mother-son-relationship movies

Truman Show, The (1998)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Linney, Laura | Emmerich, Noah | McElhone, Natascha | Taylor, Holland | Delate, Brian | Slater, Blair | Krause, Peter | Schanz, Heidi | Taylor, Ron | Taylor, Don | Raymond, Ted | Clayton, Judy
Directors: Weir, Peter
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He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering.

11:14 (Eleven Fourteen, The Movie) (2003)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Thomas, Henry | Heron, Blake | Hershey, Barbara | Gregg, Clark | Swank, Hilary | Hatosy, Shawn | Sands, Stark | Hanks, Colin | Foster, Ben | Swayze, Patrick | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Segel, Jason | Gomez, Rick
Directors: Marcks, Greg
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In Middletown, at 11:14 PM, two cars accidents happen at the same time, affecting the lives of five different groups of people. A drunken driver hits a man in a lonely road near a bridge; three young men hits a woman with a van, one of the passenger has a severed penis while another man on the road shoots them; a young man robs a convenience store, with the support of the clerk; a man finds a body in a cemetery and gets rid off it; and a young woman pretending to be pregnant tries to raise money for an abortion. All of these characters and their fates are very connected.

Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lawrence, Martin | Jones, James Earl | Cedric the Entertainer | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Epps, Mike | Roberts, Damani | C.K., Louis | Jenkins, Brandin | Davis Jr., Reginald | Hoffman, Gus | Crockett, Affion | McGee, Robin | Richmond, Werner | Medina, Rich | Ferguson, Ted
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A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South.

21 (Twenty One, The Movie) (2008)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sturgess, Jim | Spacey, Kevin | Bosworth, Kate | Yoo, Aaron | Lapira, Liza | Pitts, Jacob | Fishburne, Laurence | McGee, Jack | Gad, Josh | Golzari, Sam | Carey, Helen | Gilpin, Jack | Lows, Donna | Williams, Butch | Campbell, Ben
Directors: Luketic, Robert
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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.

Sideways (2004)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
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 divorcĂ© 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.

Clubland (2007)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Australia
Actors: Blethyn, Brenda | Callan, Peter | Chittenden, Khan | Clearkin, Brendan | Russell Dykstra | Holden, Frankie J. | Quast, Philip | Wilson, Richard | Booth, Emma | Gibney, Rebecca | Wall, Katie
Directors: Nowlan, Cherie
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The shy son (Chittenden) of an aging comedienne (Blethyn) tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend (Booth), and his mother’s second chance at fame.

Fido (2006)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Connolly, Billy | Skorzewski, Jan | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Baker, Dylan | Tyell, Kevin | Ray, K'Sun | Czerny, Henry | Nelson, Tim Blake | Bennett, Sonja | Clement, Jennifer | Kepinski, Raphael | Brown, Aaron | Olds, Brandon | Fast, Alexia | Cuffling, Bernard
Directors: Currie, Andrew
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Timmy Robinson’s best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, “FIDO” will rip your heart out.

Anna and the King (1999)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Chow, Yun-Fat | Bai, Ling | Felton, Tom | Alwi, Syed | Kim, Randall Duk | Lim, Kay Siu | Campbell, Melissa | Chin, Keith | Maniam, Mano | Venugopal, Shanthini | Yusoff, Deanna | Palmer, Geoffrey | Firbank, Ann | Stewart, Bill
Directors: Tennant, Andy
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This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.

Home Alone (1990)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Culkin, Macaulay | Pesci, Joe | Stern, Daniel | Heard, John | Blossom, Roberts | O'Hara, Catherine | Goethals, Angela | Ratray, Devin | Bamman, Gerry | Snell, Terrie | Wolf, Hillary | Hankin, Larry | Maronna, Michael C. | Minter, Kristin | Campeanu, Daiana
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Kevin McAllister, 8 years old is accidentally left behind while his family rushes to the Airport to go to France for their Christmas vacation. Kevin learns that he made his family is gone. He spends his first day having fun in his house. Kevin learns that Mav and Harry (The Wet Bandits), two crooks are trying to rob his house. Kevin fends for himself and protects his house from the thieves, by setting traps everywhere. Meanwhile, Kevin’s mother discovers that they left Kevin in Chicago and tries to go back to Chicago while the other members of the family stay in Fance.

Next Best Thing, The (2000)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Everett, Rupert | Bratt, Benjamin | Douglas, Illeana | Vartan, Michael | Sommer, Josef | Stumpf, Malcolm | Redgrave, Lynn | Harris, Neil Patrick | Valley, Mark | Krull, Suzanne | Edwards, Stacy | Lynch, John Carroll | Bennett, Fran | Lopez, Ricki
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert’s little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.