Posts Tagged ‘poignant’

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Leonard, Robert Sean | Hawke, Ethan | Charles, Josh | Hansen, Gale | Kussman, Dylan | Ruggiero, Allelon | Waterston, James | Lloyd, Norman | Smith, Kurtwood | Belver, Carla | Pownall, Leon | Martin, George | Aufiery, Joe | Carey, Matt
Directors: Weir, Peter
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Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.

Sleepwalking (2008)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Stahl, Nick | Hopper, Dennis | Harrelson, Woody | Chin, Simon | Ennis, Mike | Rennie, Callum Keith | Scoular, Peter | Skog, Troy
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The drama follows an 11-year-old girl’s struggle to come to terms with her mother’s abandonment.

Basketball Diaries, The (1995)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Bracco, Lorraine | Sokol, Marilyn | Madio, James | McGaw, Patrick | Wahlberg, Mark | Cooper, Roy | Kirby, Bruno | Papiris, Jimmy | Gaetani, Nick | Chaplin, Alexander | Jorgensen, Ben | Mostel, Josh | Lewis, Juliette | Imperioli, Michael
Directors: Kalvert, Scott
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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim’s life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach (”Swifty”) who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim’s dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s mounting concern for her son. He can’t go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim “picked up a game” now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.

Cinderella Man (2005)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Crowe, Russell | Zellweger, Renée | Giamatti, Paul | Bierko, Craig | Considine, Paddy | McGill, Bruce | Huband, David | Price, Connor | Waller, Ariel | Louis, Patrick | DeWitt, Rosemarie | Kash, Linda | Campbell, Nicholas | Pyrz, Gene | Shamata, Chuck
Directors: Howard, Ron
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During the Great Depression, a common-man hero, James J. Braddock—a.k.a. the Cinderella Man—was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom. His career appeared to be finished, he was unable to pay the bills, the only thing that mattered to him—his family—was in danger, and he was even forced to go on Public Relief. But deep inside, Jim Braddock never relinquished his determination. Driven by love, honor and an incredible dose of grit, he willed an impossible dream to come true. In a last-chance bid to help his family, Braddock returned to the ring. No one thought he had a shot. However Braddock, fueled by something beyond mere competition, kept winning. Suddenly, the ordinary working man became the mythic athlete. Carrying the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders, Braddock rocketed through the ranks, until this underdog chose to do the unthinkable: take on the heavyweight champ of the world, the unstoppable Max Baer, renowned for having killed two men in the ring.

Outsiders, The (1983)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Macchio, Ralph | Howell, C. Thomas | Swayze, Patrick | Lowe, Rob | Estevez, Emilio | Cruise, Tom | Withrow, Glenn | Lane, Diane | Garrett, Leif | Dalton, Darren | Meyrink, Michelle | Sartain, Gailard | Waits, Tom | Smith, William
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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Based on the S.E. Hinton novel of the same name. The tension between two groups: The Greasers and The Socials “Socs” puts Ponyboy Curtis (Howell) and his best friend Johnny Cade (Macchio) in a bad spot. One night at the movies, Ponyboy and Johnny fall in love with Sherri “Cherry” Valance (Lane) and Marcia (Meyrink) once they get Dally Winston (Dillon), the toughest and meanest of the Greasers to stop attempting to “score” Cherry and Marcia. What Johnny and Ponyboy don’t know is that Cherry and Marcia are girls for the snobbish, popular, and rich group, the Socs. Once Johnny kills Bob Sheldon (Garrett), the toughest and meanest member of the Socs, this begins as the Socs demand a rumble against the Greasers.

Scrooge (1951)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: UK
Actors: Sim, Alastair | Harrison, Kathleen | Johns, Mervyn | Baddeley, Hermione | Michael Hordern | Cole, George | Charlesworth, John | De Wolff, Francis | Anderson, Rona | Marsh, Carol | Worth, Brian | Malleson, Miles | Thesiger, Ernest | Dearman, Glyn | Dolan, Michael
Directors: Hurst, Brian Desmond
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Stingy old Ebenezer Scrooge is known as the meanest man in London. He overworks and underpays his humble clerk, Bob Cratchit, whose little son, Tiny Tim, is crippled and may soon die. He also has nothing to do with his nephew, Fred, because his birth cost the life of his beloved sister. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge has a haunting nightmare. He is visited by three ghosts and is given one last chance to change his ways and save himself from the grim fate that befell his business partner, Jacob Marley.

Dragonheart (1996)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Quaid, Dennis | Christie, Julie | Thewlis, David | Postlethwaite, Pete | Meyer, Dina | Isaacs, Jason | Thompson, Brian | Oakes, Lee | Christian, Wolf | O'Neill, Terry | Vejmelková, Eva | Bahúl, Milan | Hric, Peter | Kovacicova, Sandra | Cohen, Kyle | Baker, Thom
Directors: Cohen, Rob
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Set in the 10th Century, a man (Bowen) teams up with the last dragon to remind the people of a long lost code of honor, and inspire them to fight for their freedom from a tyrannical king.

Amistad (1997)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Hawthorne, Nigel | Hopkins, Anthony | Hounsou, Djimon | McConaughey, Matthew | Paymer, David | Postlethwaite, Pete | Skarsgård, Stellan | Adoti, Razaaq | Fofanah, Abu Bakaar | Paquin, Anna | Milian, Tomas | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Ashong, Derrick N. | Silva, Geno
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Bobby (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.

Proof (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Paltrow, Gwyneth | Hopkins, Anthony | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Davis, Hope | McCarthy, Danny | Daszkjewicz, Tobiasz | Houston, Gary | Wittman, Anne | Zimmerman, Leigh | Stinton, Colin | Burnett, Leland | Keefe, John | Chung, Chipo | Harris, C. Gerod | Seth, Roshan
Directors: Madden, John
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The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father’s ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.