Posts Tagged ‘release-from-prison’

21 Grams (2003)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Watts, Naomi | Huston, Danny | Nahon, Carly | Pakis, Claire | Del Toro, Benicio | Nichols, Nick | Gainsbourg, Charlotte | Rubinstein, John | Marsan, Eddie | Salter, Loyd Keith | Harris, Antef A. | Leo, Melissa | Musso, Marc | Delgado, Teresa
Directors: González Iñárritu, Alejandro
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This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

Talk to Me (2007)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Annan, Jim | Antoine, Benz | Birman, Matt | Brown, David | Cedric the Entertainer | Cheadle, Don | Dale, J. Miles | Davidx | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Epps, Mike | Jones, Kamal | Kassel, Jeff | Malmberg, Jim | Peterson, Erick | Rakes, Kwame
Directors: Lemmons, Kasi
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The true life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and “tell it like it is.” With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo’s brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey’s voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey’s “The truth just is” style — on - and off-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.

Rounders (1998)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Norton, Edward | Cicero, Paul | Turturro, John | Iannicelli, Ray | Mol, Gretchen | Janssen, Famke | Goldsmith, Merwin | Malkovich, John | Landau, Martin | Zito, Sonny | Rispoli, Michael | Lawrence, Mal Z. | Kanakaredes, Melina | Mostel, Josh
Directors: Dahl, John
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A young man (Damon) is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

High Plains Drifter (1973)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Verna Bloom | Hill, Marianna | Ryan, Mitch | Ging, Jack | Gierasch, Stefan | Hartley, Ted | Curtis, Billy | Lewis, Geoffrey | Walker, Scott | Barnes, Walter | Brinegar, Paul | Bull, Richard | Donner, Robert | Hillerman, John
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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A mysterious gunfighter without a name rides across the desert landscape and arrives in the mining town beside the sea “Lago” to stay for the night. After gunning down three desperado’s who tried to kill him, the town hires the gunfighter to help defend the town from three murderous outlaws, Stacey Bridges, Bill Borders and Cole Carlin who have been released from jail after they brutally whipped to death the town’s local lawman Marshal Jim Duncan who is in his grave with a unmarked gravestone, the three outlaws set out to return to “Lago” to get their vengeance. Can the mysterious gunfighter without a name stop the three outlaws?

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Diaz, Cameron | Barrymore, Drew | Liu, Lucy | Mac, Bernie | Glover, Crispin | Theroux, Justin | Patrick, Robert | Moore, Demi | Santoro, Rodrigo | LaBeouf, Shia | LeBlanc, Matt | Wilson, Luke | Cleese, John | DuBois, Ja'net | Yuen, Cheung-Yan
Directors: McG
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Natalie, Dylan, and Alex, three glamorous, tough-as-nails, investigative agents - who work for the Charles Townsend Detective Agency - are sent undercover to retrieve two missing jewelry bands. These are no ordinary wedding rings. They contain valuable information that reveals the new identities of every person in the FBI’s Witness Protection Program. After five of the program’s participants turn up dead, only the Angels can stop the perpetrator, using their expertise as masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts.

Revolver (2005)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Statham, Jason | Liotta, Ray | Benjamin, André | Pastore, Vincent | Pruti, Faruk | Shend | Moody, Bill | Flint, Jimmy | Wang, Bruce | Tang, Tony | Sweeney, George | Herdman, Martin | Denham, Tony | Stuart, Trevor | Tang, Gary
Directors: Ritchie, Guy
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Jake Green is a hotshot gambler, long on audacity and short on common sense. He’s rarely allowed to play in any casino because he is a winner. Jake has taken in so much money over the years, he is the only client of his accountant and older brother Billy. One night, Jake, Billy and their other brother Joe are invited to sit in on a private game, where Jake is expected to lose to Dorothy Macha, a crime boss and local casino owner who can’t play for squat, but always wins because people are too scared to beat him. Jake isn’t afraid of Macha, and not only beats Dorothy in a quick game of chance, but takes every possible opportunity to insult the man. Jake and his brothers leave the game, and Macha puts out the order for a hit on Jake, who ends up working for and being protected by a pair of brothers, Avi and Zack, who are out to take Macha down.

Hudson Hawk (1991)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Aiello, Danny | MacDowell, Andie | Coburn, James | Grant, Richard E. | Bernhard, Sandra | Burton, Donald | Harvey, Don | Caruso, David | Bryniarski, Andrew | Toussaint, Lorraine | Harris, Burtt | Stallone, Frank | Zozzora, Carmine | Molinari, Stefano
Directors: Lehmann, Michael
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Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy.

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Woods, James | McGovern, Elizabeth | Weld, Tuesday | Williams, Treat | Hayden, James | Pesci, Joe | Rapp, Larry | Aiello, Danny | Forsythe, William | Young, Burt | Fluegel, Darlanne | Miller, Dutch | Harper, Robert | Bright, Richard
Directors: Leone, Sergio
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Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.