Posts Tagged ‘terminal-illness’

Finding Neverland (2004)

Saturday, December 13th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Winslet, Kate | Christie, Julie | Mitchell, Radha | Hoffman, Dustin | Highmore, Freddie | Prospero, Joe | Roud, Nick | Spill, Luke | Macdonald, Kelly | Crook, Mackenzie | Essell, Eileen | Gardner, Jimmy | Fox, Oliver
Directors: Forster, Marc
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes “Peter Pan.” After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads’ mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow’s mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia’s health worsens, Barrie’s ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

Stealing Beauty (1996)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Italy | UK
Actors: Cecchi, Carlo | Cusack, Sinéad | Fiennes, Joseph | Flemyng, Jason | Gherardi, Anna-Maria | Irons, Jeremy | Marais, Jean | McCann, Donal | Moffett, D.W. | Oliva, Ignazio | Sandrelli, Stefania | Siciliano, Francesco | Sorgani, Mary Jo | Treviglio, Leonardo | Tyler, Liv
Directors: Bertolucci, Bernardo
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After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris).

Silk (2007)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | France | Italy | Japan | UK
Actors: Pitt, Michael | Vogel, Tony | Bertorelli, Toni | Welsh, Kenneth | Molina, Alfred | Golding, Michael | Cecchi, Carlo | Fiorini, Marc | Csuth, Leslie | Tezuka, Toru | Morita, Hiroya | Ando, Akinori | Kunimura, Jun | Hongô, Kanata | Yakusho, Kôji
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Based on the Alessandro Baricco’s novel this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve’s wife Helene begins to suspect.

Living and the Dead, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Lloyd-Pack, Roger | Bill, Leo | Conrich, Neil
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.

Superhero Movie (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bell, Drake | McDonald, Christopher | Nielsen, Leslie | Hart, Kevin | Hansen, Ryan | David, Keith | Spiner, Brent | Joy, Robert | Tambor, Jeffrey | Hays, Robert | Cohen, Sam | Morgan, Tracy | Bierko, Craig | Tillman, Richard | Rex, Simon
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Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero.

American Werewolf in London, An (1981)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: David Naughton | Agutter, Jenny | Dunne, Griffin | Woodvine, John | Kaye, Lila | Belcher, Joe | Schofield, David | Glover, Brian | Mayall, Rik | Baker, Sean | Ryan, Paddy | Davies, Anne-Marie | Oz, Frank | McKillop, Don | Kember, Paul
Directors: Landis, John
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Two American students are on a walking tour of England and are attacked by a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, but reverts to it’s human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it’s existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he find a way to die to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural death.

For Your Consideration (2006)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: O'Hara, Catherine | Rannazzisi, Stephen | Begley Jr., Ed | Levy, Eugene | Shearer, Harry | Moynihan, Christopher | Higgins, John Michael | Aizley, Carrie | Courtney, Stephanie | Nakamura, Suzy | Piddock, Jim | Morris, Jane | Coolidge, Jennifer | Black, Jordan
Directors: Guest, Christopher
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Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called “Home for Purim,” when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in “Variety” and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors’ lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood!

Bucket List, The (2007)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Freeman, Morgan | Hayes, Sean | Todd, Beverly | Morrow, Rob | Dale, Ian Anthony | Freeman, Alfonso | Holub, Hugh B. | Lund, Jordan | Maharajh, Frank | Mangum, Jonathan | McGonagle, Richard | Roullard, Ramon | Stapleton, Christopher | Vongtama, Roy
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Corprate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.

Being There (1979)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sellers, Peter | MacLaine, Shirley | Douglas, Melvyn | Warden, Jack | Dysart, Richard | Basehart, Richard | Attaway, Ruth | Clennon, David | Brill, Fran | DuBarry, Denise | Burbridge, Oteil | Keller III, Ravenell | Corrigan, Brian | Brown, Alfredine P. | Jacob, Donald
Directors: Ashby, Hal
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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

Walk to Remember, A (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hannah, Daryl | West, Shane | Moore, Mandy | Coyote, Peter | Jonathan Parks Jordan | German, Lauren
Directors: Shankman, Adam
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Each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life. Serious and conservative, Jamie was as far from cool as she could possibly be, and didn’t care. Landon hung with the in-crowd an aimless, moody, reckless guy who breezed through school on looks and bravado and had no plans, no future and no faith in himself. When a prank goes terribly wrong landing a kid in the hospital, Landon is assigned to tutor a young student on the weekends and participate in the Drama Club’s spring play. Clearly in over his head with both assignments, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. Soon, against his own expectations and the scorn of his friends, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible.