Posts Tagged ‘single-father’

Must Love Dogs (2005)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Cusack, John | Perkins, Elizabeth | Plummer, Christopher | Mulroney, Dermot | Channing, Stockard | Hillis, Ali | Henke, Brad William | Gonzalo, Julie | Howerton, Glenn | Shenkman, Ben | Spiro, Jordana | Trutner, Kirk | Webster, Victor | Spound, Michael
Directors: Goldberg, Gary David
Download: DivX iPod 

The preschool teacher Sarah (Diane Lane) divorced from her beloved husband eight moths ago, but she is still very vulnerable and alone. Her family presses her to find a new Mr. Right, and her sister Carol (Elizabeth Perkins) puts her profile on the site PerfectMatch.com. She has blind dates with odd guys, but she particularly likes Jake (John Cusack), who divorced three months ago and still misses his former wife. Jake likes her too, but Sarah has one night stand with Bob (Dermot Mulroney), the father of one of her students, and Jake gives-up on her. Later Sarah finds that Jake is her perfect match.

Craft, The (1996)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ulrich, Skeet | Meyer, Breckin | Marston, Nathaniel | De Young, Cliff | Senzy, Arthur | Hules, Endre | Conlon, Mark | Newman, William | Britt, Rod | Roche, Brogan | Genaro, Tony | Filardi, Jason | Kapelos, John | Mangan, Darin
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

Sarah Bailey, a sixteen year old troubled teenager with a painful past and a history of suicidal tendencies and hallucinations, moves to L.A. with her father and stepmother to start a new life - and is enrolled into a Catholic school. It is at school that she comes into contact with three unlikely friends, Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle, all who are socially outcast with various problems in their lives that they wish they could fix. Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle dabble in occult practices, and when they notice Sarah has the powers of a natural witch, they talk her into joining their coven. When Sarah joins, they soon realize that with a fourth witch in the coven they can begin to cast spells they couldn’t before, and begin to amend all the things wrong in their lives - but like everything else in life - things come with a price.

Smart People (2008)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Church, Thomas Haden | Holmes, Ashton | Denman, David | Wadsworth, Don | Haley, Robert | Sebes, Patrick | Doyle, Kevin James | Huber, Paul | Walters, Richard John | Martin, Scott A. | Kroloff, Adam | Jordan, Patrick | Warner, Rick | Hackney, Barret
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.

Tightrope (1984)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hedaya, Dan | St. John, Marco | Paul, Graham | Holliday, Bill | Wilmot, John | Houck Jr., Joy N. | Baker-Bergen, Stuart | Barber, Donald | Harvey, Robert | Gural, Ron | Martens, Layton | Boyle, Richard Charles | Sachar, Jonathan | Ferbos, Lionel
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty. All this contrasts with his home life as a single parent with two young girls. Then on the case he meets rape counsellor Beryl Thibodeaux with whom a relationship possibly offering some normalcy starts to develop.

Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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
Directors:
Download: DVD iPod 

A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South.

Nim’s Island (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Butler, Gerard | Carman, Michael | Brady, Mark | Simcoe, Anthony | Baker, Christopher | Joyce, Maddison | Callan, Peter | Butler, Russell | Gibson, Colin | Probets, Bryan | Nason, Andrew | Bellette, Tony | Dornan, Jeff | Laga'aia, Jay | Walton, John
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she’s reading. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world’s greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim’s father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim’s Island.

Definitely, Maybe (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Reynolds, Ryan | Wiltfong, Bob | Chasin, Ryder | Benitez, Blake | Greenstein, Ashtyn | Hartigan, Dylan | Mott, Paul | Pickett, Alexander | Rodriguez, Marquis | Biberi, James | Patterson, Keith | Gold, Daniel Eric | Ferrara, Adam | Luke, Derek | Serrano, Nestor
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

Romantic comedy: Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will’s story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. On the campaign, Will’s best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspirations, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a “PG” version of his story for his daughter ad changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Is her mother Will’s college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, he apolitical April? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad’s romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it’s definitely never too late to go back…and maybe even possible to find a happy ending.

Unforgiven (1992)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hackman, Gene | Freeman, Morgan | Harris, Richard | Woolvett, Jaimz | Rubinek, Saul | Fisher, Frances | Levine, Anna | Mucci, David | Campbell, Rob | James, Anthony | Frederick, Tara | Elliott, Beverley | Repo-Martell, Liisa | Smith, Josie
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff ‘Little Bill’ tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill’s justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as ‘The Schofield Kid’, and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned, saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth.

War of the Worlds (2005)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Fanning, Dakota | Chatwin, Justin | Otto, Miranda | Robbins, Tim | Gonzalez, Rick | Vazquez, Yul | Venito, Lenny | Walter, Lisa Ann | Robinson, Ann | Barry, Gene | Basche, David Alan | Abrams, Roz | Brownlee, Michael | Sanes, Camillia
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
Download: DivX iPod 

Ray Ferrier is a dock worker who is finishing a night of work in the morning, because he works the night shift. But when he gets home his young daughter Rachel and teenage son Robbie are staying with him at his house in Bayonne, New Jersey, while his pregnant ex-wife Mary Anne and her new husband Tim visit her parents in Boston for the weekend. But then the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense! Witnessing, and barely escaping the horror, first-hand, it’s up to Ray to protect his two kids from terrorist and races up to Boston before one of them gets murdered by a large tripod machine in its path!

Underdog (2007)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Lee, Jason | Dinklage, Peter | Belushi, James | Warburton, Patrick | Neuberger, Alex | Momsen, Taylor | Slattery, John | Adams, Amy | Garrett, Brad | Bee, Samantha | Crowe, Timothy | Vigus, Larry | Mariani, Mario | Wilder, Bates | Garde, Alexander
Directors: Du Chau, Frederik
Download: DivX iPod 

A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers — a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.