Posts Tagged ‘underdog’

Legend of Bagger Vance, The (2000)

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | Damon, Matt | Theron, Charlize | McGill, Bruce | Gretsch, Joel | Moncrief, J. Michael | Smith, Lane | Gerety, Peter | O'Neill, Michael | Ryan, Thomas Jay | Hamilton, Trip | Crowley, Dermot | Presnell, Harve | Nelson, Danny | Penny, Bob
Directors: Redford, Robert
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Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He’s living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who’s the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn’t return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele’s father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father’s. She’s able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having “one of their own” compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs’s caddy and help him regain his “authentic swing”. He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match.

Planet of the Apes (2001)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Roth, Tim | Bonham Carter, Helena | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Giamatti, Paul | Warren, Estella | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Warner, David | Kristofferson, Kris | Avari, Erick | Elliott, Lucas | Parke, Evan | Shadix, Glenn | Shen, Freda Foh | Ellis, Chris
Directors: Burton, Tim
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It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a “routine” reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet’s Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind’s past - and the key to its future.

Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, The (2005)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Moore, Julianne | Harrelson, Woody | Dern, Laura | Morgan, Trevor | Porterfield, Ellary | Reynolds, Simon | Gagné, Monté | Clark, Robert | Seater, Michael | Knudsen, Erik | Scott, Jake | Todosey, Jordan | Price, Ryan | Norris, Shae | Falle, Abigail
Directors: Anderson, Jane
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This true-story-based bittersweet drama follows Evelyn Ryan (Julianna Moore) who was a housewife and a devoted mother of 10. Her remarkable ingenuity and an uncommon wit had success at the jingle contests staged by corporations to promote their products. Evelyn had found the way to keep her family together, notwithstanding an alcoholic husband and the other difficult circumstances.

Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Law, Jude | Blanchett, Cate | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Davenport, Jack | Rebhorn, James | Rubini, Sergio | Hall, Philip Baker | Weston, Celia | Fiorello | Rocca, Stefania | Marescotti, Ivano | Longhi, Anna | Fabrizi, Alessandro
Directors: Minghella, Anthony
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The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie’s cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom’s talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf’s privileges his own.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Vaughn, Vince | Taylor, Christine | Stiller, Ben | Torn, Rip | Long, Justin | Root, Stephen | Moore, Joel | Williams, Chris | Tudyk, Alan | Pyle, Missi | Duff, Jamal | Cole, Gary | Bateman, Jason | Azaria, Hank | Kaplon, Al
Directors: Rawson Thurber | Thurber, Rawson Marshall
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Peter LaFleur is a charismatic underachiever and proprietor of a rundown gym called Average Joe’s. The facility’s ecclectic clientele of decidedly less-than-average Joes is comprised of: a self-styled pirate; a scrawny nerd who dreams of impressing an unattainable cheerleader; an obsessive aficionado of obscure sports; a dim-witted young man; and a cocky know-it-all who, of course, really knows nothing. Peter’s humble gym catches the eye of White Goodman, the power-mullet-sporting, Fu-Manchu-d, egomaniacal owner of Globo Gym, a gleaming monolith of fitness. White intends to take over Average Joe’s, and Peter’s non-existent bookkeeping is making it all too easy for him. A foreclosing bank has stationed attorney Kate Veatch inside Average Joe’s to finalize Globo’s takeover of the gym. But Peter’s boyish charms win her over and Kate joins his team of social rejects to beat the odds—and their own ineptitude—to try to save Average Joe’s. How? A showdown dodgeball competition against Globo Gym.

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hamill, Mark | Ford, Harrison | Fisher, Carrie | Cushing, Peter | Guinness, Alec | Daniels, Anthony | Baker, Kenny | Mayhew, Peter | Prowse, David | Jones, James Earl | Brown, Phil | Fraser, Shelagh | Purvis, Jack | McCrindle, Alex | Byrne, Eddie
Directors: Lucas, George
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In a distant galaxy eons before the creation of the mythical planet known as Earth, vast civilizations have evolved, and ruling the galaxy is an interstellar Empire created from the ruins of an Old Republic that held sway for generations. It is a time of civil war, as solar systems have broken away from the Empire and are waging a war of rebellion. During a recent battle techical schematics for a gigantic space station, code named The Death Star, have been unearthed by Rebel spies, and a young woman who is a dissident member of the Imperial Senate, under the cover of a diplomatic mission to the planet Alderaan, is trying to smuggle these plans to the Rebellion. But her spacecraft is attacked by a vast warship of the Empire and seized. The dissident Senator is captured, but the plans for the Death Star are nowhere to be found. While soldiers of the Empire search the nearby planet Tatooine, a series of incidents sweeps up a young desert farmer with dreams of being a fighter pilot in the Rebellion, as he winds up with the Death Star plans and also the assistance of an elderly hermit who once served as a warrior of an ancient order whose chosen weapons were powerful energy swords known as light sabers. The pair recruit a cynical interstellar smuggler and his outsized alien copilot with an ancient freighter heavily modified for combat to help them reach Alderaan - but the planet is obliterated and now the foursome must rescue the young woman held prisoner by the Empire and lead an attack by the Rebellion against the Death Star before it can annihilate all hope of restoring freedom to the galaxy.