Posts Tagged ‘paralysis’

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Rickman, Alan | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Radcliffe, Daniel | Smith, Maggie | Coltrane, Robbie | Triplets, Saunders | Harris, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Griffiths, Richard | Deadman, Derek | Hart, Ian | Borowiecki, Ben | Davis, Warwick | Troyer, Verne | Hurt, John | Bremmer, Richard
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Iron Man (2008)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Downey Jr., Robert | Howard, Terrence | Bridges, Jeff | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Bibb, Leslie | Toub, Shaun | Tahir, Faran | Badreya, Sayed | Smitrovich, Bill | Gregg, Clark | Guinee, Tim | Lyman, Will | Khan, Marco | Foster, Kevin | Noel, Garret
Directors: Favreau, Jon
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Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he’s captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.

He Was a Quiet Man (2007)

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Gulager, John | Jones, Jamison | DeLuise, Michael | Ramsey, K.C. | Wells, David | Mantooth, Randolph | Whitney, Sewell | Macy, William H. | Baker, Greg | Lohmann, Brian | Roberts, Paul D. | Hardy, Bobby | Rothbard, Bill | Hall, Stanley C.
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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he’s screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

Ruins, The (2008)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Tucker, Jonathan | Ashmore, Shawn | Anderson, Joe | Calderón, Sergio | Ramirez, Jesse | Moreno, Balder | Baveas, Dimitri | Rodriguez, Patricio Almeida | Jurado, Mario | Ramos, Luis Antonio | Quispe, Walter | Vega, Nathan | Marquez-Munduate, Tanisha | Argirousis, Chris | Gregory, Alexander
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A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

Secret Garden, The (1993)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Maberly, Kate | Prowse, Heydon | Knott, Andrew | Smith, Maggie | Crossley, Laura | Lynch, John | Sparrow, Walter | Jacob, Irène | Baker, Frank | Hill, Valerie | Pickering, Andrea | Moreton, Peter | Spreckley, Arthur | Bruce, Colin | Singh, Parsan
Directors: Holland, Agnieszka
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After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a ’secret garden’ that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little ‘magic’, can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family?

Awake (2007)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christensen, Hayden | Alba, Jessica | Howard, Terrence | Olin, Lena | McDonald, Christopher | Robards, Sam | Howard, Arliss | Stevens, Fisher | Chapman, Georgina | Harbour, David | Hinkle, Steven | O'Hare, Denis | Hewson, Charlie | Young, Court | Costa, Joseph
Directors: Harold, Joby
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The story focuses on a man (Christensen) who suffers “Anesthetic Awareness” (An occurrence where during surgery where not enough anesthetic medication for the patient’s body weight), and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His wife (Alba) must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around them

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Chestnut, Morris | Messner, Johnny | Strickland, KaDee | Marsden, Matthew | Gonzalez, Nicholas | Byrd, Eugene | Yune, Karl | Richardson, Salli | Anderson, Andy | Nicholas Hope | Peter Curtin | Arndt, Denis | Do, Khoa | Aireti | Tandjung, Andre
Directors: Dwight H. Little
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In New York, the ambitious Dr. Jack Byron and his associate Gordon Mitchell present the research of his assistant Sam Rogers to the CEO and board of directors of a corporation to sponsor a scientific expedition to Borneo. The objective is to find a flower, Blood Orchid, that flourishes for a couple of weeks every seven years and could be a fountain of youth, prolonging the expectation of life of human beings. They are succeeded and once in Borneo, they realize that it is the raining season and there is no boat available to navigate on the river. They pay US$ 50,000.00 to convince Captain Bill Johnson and his partner Tran to sail to the location. After an accident in a waterfall, the survivors realize that a pack of anacondas have gathered for mating and their nest is nearby the plantation of Blood Orchid, which made them bigger and bigger.

Skeleton Key, The (2005)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hudson, Kate | Rowlands, Gena | Hurt, John | Sarsgaard, Peter | Bryant, Joy | Barnett, Maxine | Harris, Fahnlohnee R. | Zinser, Marion | Tyler, Deneen | Dalrymple, Ann | Marcus, Trula M. | Staten, Tonya | Uskali, Thomas | Apgar, Jen | Landis, Forrest
Directors: Softley, Iain
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A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid going-ons centered around a group of Hoodoo (Not Voodoo, it’s different. Hoodoo is an old African American magic that only works if you believe in it.) practitioners.

Bone Collector, The (1999)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Jolie, Angelina | Latifah, Queen | Rooker, Michael | McGlone, Mike | Guzmán, Luis | Orser, Leland | Hickey, John Benjamin | Cannavale, Bobby | O'Neill, Ed | Zeman, Richard | Birkelund, Olivia | Swanson, Gary | Bulleit, James | Fontaine, Frank
Directors: Noyce, Phillip
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Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Amelia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father’s suicide and thinking she’s next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Caine, Michael | Headly, Glenne | Rodgers, Anton | Harris, Barbara | McDiarmid, Ian | Ivey, Dana | Fay, Meagen | Conroy, Frances | Calfan, Nicole | Walle, Aïna | Pay, Cheryl | Auffret, Nathalie | Susi, Lolly | Holliday-Evans, Rupert
Directors: Oz, Frank
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Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this town (on the French Mediterranean coast) aint big enough for the two of them. They agree to a “loser leaves” bet. The bet brings out the best/worse in the two. Interesting twist at the end.