Posts Tagged ‘rural’

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Newman, Paul | Kennedy, George | Cannon, J.D. | Antonio, Lou | Drivas, Robert | Martin, Strother | James, Clifton | Woodward, Morgan | Askew, Luke | Cavell, Marc | Davalos, Richard | Donner, Robert | Warren Finnerty | Hopper, Dennis | McLiam, John
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Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn’t work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will the camp bosses ever break him ?

Deranged (1974)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Blossom, Roberts | Lee, Cosette | Carlson, Leslie | Warner, Robert | Diamond, Marcia | Smeagle, Brian | Gillen, Arlene | McHeady, Robert | Waldman, Marian | Mather, Jack | Moore, Micki | Orr, Pat
Directors: Gillen, Jeff
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A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein.

Pure Country (1992)

Monday, May 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Strait, George | Warren, Lesley Ann | Glasser, Isabel | Chandler, Kyle | Doe, John | Calhoun, Rory | Molly McClure | McIlvain, Terry | Metcalf, Toby | Walters, Mark | Christopher, Tom | Fontana, Jeffrey R. | Prettyman, Jeff | Anthony, David | Daily, Mike D.
Directors: Cain, Christopher
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Dusty Chandler (Strait) is a super star in the country music world, but his shows have the style of a ’70s rock concert. One day he takes a walk - out of his overdone concerts to find his real country roots. He’s helped and hindered by friends and staff, but pushes on in his search for a real music style as well as a real romance.

Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: George, Chief Dan | Locke, Sondra | McKinney, Bill | Vernon, John | Trueman, Paula | Bottoms, Sam | Keams, Geraldine | Parfrey, Woodrow | Jameson, Joyce | Wooley, Sheb | Dano, Royal | Clark, Matt | Verros, John | Sampson, Will
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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Josey Wales is a peaceful farmer in the days near the end of the Civil War. After his home is burned and his family murdered, he hardens into a human bullet - dedicated to destroying the renegades who took his “life.” He joins a band of unreconstructed rebel guerilla fighters who continue to fight the Union - even after the official surrender of the Confederacy - an action which makes them, legally, outlaws. Josey is driven by vengeance, but after a while, that’s not enough. Back before his own personal Holocaust, he had been a builder - of home, family, farm, and life. And no matter how much ice he’s wrapped himself in, down inside there’s still the soul of a living man. While Wales exists, he’s pulled by this hidden yearning to Live. Each day offers him chances to remember, to assuage his yearning, to begin again. And the movie shows us how Josey Wales - a mere seeker of vengeance - learns to live again, rededicated to the values he chose so long ago.

Notebook, The (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ivey, Tim | Rowlands, Gena | DuPois, Starletta | Garner, James | Thomas, Anthony-Michael Q. | Grady, Ed | Amber, Renée | Echols, Jennifer | Knight, Geoffrey | Connolly, Kevin | Gosling, Ryan | Wahlquist, Heather | McAdams, Rachel | Schaff, Andrew | Shelly, Matt
Directors: Cassavetes, Nick
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An old man in a nursing home reads a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. They met one evening at a carnival many years ago. Allie’s parents separate Noah and Allie. They disapprove of Noah’s lack of wealth, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. In a local newspaper, Noah’s picture catches Allie’s eye. He is standing in front of a fully restored, 200 year old home. The article is filled with praise for his accomplishments. Allie’s heart nearly bursts. The last time she saw this house it was a rotted decaying shamble. She stood enfolded in Noah’s arms in the great entryway and listened to his plans to buy and restore this house. Just the way she wanted it. With her love for Noah still alive, the picture pulls at her heart. She has to go back, see if Noah is okay, and tell him about her marriage. They both think the echo deep in their hearts, the one that has lasted all these years, is not shared by the other. The cry they could not stifle. It wasn’t over for me.

Spencer’s Mountain (1963)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Fonda, Henry | O'Hara, Maureen | MacArthur, James | Crisp, Donald | Cox, Wally | Farmer, Mimsy | Gregg, Virginia | Bronson, Lillian | Bissell, Whit | Rorke, Hayden | Bennett, Kathy | Taylor, Dub | Summers, Hope | Mayer, Ken | FitzSimons, Bronwyn
Directors: Daves, Delmer
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Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he and Clay get into a bit of trouble. If he has one dream in life it’s to build his wife Olivia a beautiful house on a piece of land he inherited on Spender’s mountain. When his eldest son, Clayboy, graduates at the top of his high school class and has the opportunity to go to college, Clay has only one option left to him.

Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: France
Actors: Highmore, Freddie | Farrow, Mia | Balfour, Penny | Rand, Doug | LeFevre, Adam | Bejote Njamba, Jean | Blumental, Serge | Madonna | Fallon, Jimmy | De Niro, Robert | Keitel, Harvey | de Jong, Lee | Palminteri, Chazz | Rhoff | Estevez, Emilio
Directors: Besson, Luc
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Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur’s grandfather returns to sign some papers and pay off the family debt. Arthur discovers that the key to success lies in his own descent into the land of the Minimoys, creatures no larger than a tooth, whom his grandfather helped relocate to their garden. Somewhere among them is hidden a pile of rubies, too. Can Arthur be of stout heart and save the day? Romance beckons as well, and a villain lurks.

Of Mice and Men (1992)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Malkovich, John | Walston, Ray | Siemaszko, Casey | Fenn, Sherilyn | Terry, John | Riehle, Richard | Arquette, Alexis | Morton, Joe | Willingham, Noble | D'Angerio, Joe | Milligan, Tuck | Steen, David | Harris, Moira | Boone Junior, Mark
Directors: Sinise, Gary
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Based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, George and Lennie, who wander the country during the Depression, dreaming of a better life for themselves. Then, just as heaven is within their grasp, it is inevitably yanked away. The film follows Steinbeck’s novel closely, exploring questions of strength, weakness, usefulness, reality and utopia, bringing Steinbeck’s California vividly to life.

Infamous (2006)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Jones, Toby | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Rubin, Mark | Schwelling, Steve | Gill, Glover Johns | Arteaga, Rey | Sherburn, Justin | Halbreich, Andrew | Stevenson, Juliet | Panes, Michael | Davis, Hope | Curcio, Frank G. | Bullock, Sandra | Rossellini, Isabella
Directors: McGrath, Douglas
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On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Knightley, Keira | Riley, Talulah | Pike, Rosamund | Malone, Jena | Mulligan, Carey | Sutherland, Donald | Blethyn, Brenda | Blakley, Claudie | Morand, Sylvester | Woods, Simon | Reilly, Kelly | MacFadyen, Matthew | Torrens, Pip | Whiteside, Janet | Matthews, Sinead
Directors: Wright, Joe
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The story is based on Jane Austen’s novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.