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Amazing Grace - 2007 |
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Steven Knight |
| Director: |
Michael Apted |
| Cast: |
Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Ramola Garai, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell |
| Producers: |
Terrence Malick, Edward R. Pressman, Patricia Heaton, David Hunt, Ken Wales, Jeanney Kim |
British director Michael Apted brings us this exciting political and social drama based on the true story of British abolitionist leader William Wilberforce’s life long struggle to put an end to slavery in England. A battle he begins as a young and hopeful soldier for human rights and integrity, but after many years of disheartening, failed attempts to persuade parliament of his cause, he finds his health weakened, along with his spirit. Finally, as Great Britain faces the siege of war, Wilberforce and his team devise a clever plan that leads to their historical victory. Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films February 2007.
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FUR: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus - 2006 |
| Screenplay: |
Errin Cressida Wilson |
| Director: |
Steven Shainberg |
| Cast: |
Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. |
| Producers: |
Laura Bickford, Andrew Fierberg, Bill Pohlad, Bonnie Timmerman |
| Co-Producer: |
Vin Farrell |
| Executive Producers: |
Edward R. Pressman, Alessandro Camon, Michael Roban |
Fur is the imaginary portrait of photographer, Diane Arbus. Based on the book by Patricia Bosworth. Released by Picturehouse November 2006.
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Driving Lessons - 2006 |
| Screenplay: |
Jeremy Brock |
| Director: |
Jeremy Brock |
| Cast: |
Rupert Grint, Julie Walters and Laura Linney |
| Producer: |
Julia Chasman |
| Executive Producers: |
Edward R. Pressman and Alessandro Camon |
Jeremy Brock, writer of the BAFTA nominated film Mrs. Brown, has his directorial debut with this heart-warming coming of age story reminiscent of Harold and Maude. Driving Lessons tells the story of a shy teenage boy, Harry Potter’s Rupert Grint, as he begins to escape from the influence of his domineering, staunchly religious mother (the two time Oscar nominee Laura Linney). When he goes to work for a wacky, retired actress (played by Harry Potter’s Julie Walters), the boy finally begins to discover who he really is. Released by Sony Pictures Classics October 2006.
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The King - 2006
In this powerful and dramatic thriller about betrayal and bitter revenge, a handsome young US Marine called Elvis (GAEL GARCIA BERNAL - The Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros) returns to his Preacher father's sleepy hometown dreaming for some kind of reconciliation - having been abandoned by the man as a child.
Elvis walks through the world with an effortless charm, and seems to be the very embodiment of hope and enthusiasm. But now the Preacher (WILLIAM HURT - The Village, A.I.) has a new family, and is in no mood to confront his past mistakes, so he callously rejects Elvis again - and this flippant act of cruelty sets off a course of action from which the Preacher and his family may never recover...
The King is a controversial tale of tragic retaliation and twisted love. |
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Thank You For Smoking - 2006
Based on the best-selling novel by Christopher Buckley, Thank you for Smoking is an irreverent satirical comedy with a remarkable ensemble cast including Adam Brody of The O.C., Katie Holmes of Batman Begins, and veterans William H. Macy and Robert Duvall. Aaron Eckhart (Erin Brockovich and In The Company of Men) stars as Nick Naylor, Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, who cleverly works as a spin doctor on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son.
Adapted from Christopher’s Buckley novel of the same title. |
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The Beautiful Country - 2005
Binh, a young Vietnamese man, makes an extraordinary six-month journey from his village, 300 miles south of Saigon, all the way to a farm in Texas - in search of his long lost GI father. As he travels with his young brother, his arduous trip is almost cut short when his refugee boat breaks down. Picked up by the authorities he is then interned into a camp in Malaysia - where an opportunistic escape with another refugee, Ling, onto a smuggler's cargo boat, allows his quest to continue. Binh is then confronted by starvation, illness and an insane culture of gambling for food and water on the ocean freighter, skippered by Captain Oh. Eventually making it to New York - he discovers that he has effectively become an indentured slave to the restaurant owners he 'works' for. But for all this, his dream of finding his father never falters … Beautiful Country is an epic, highly emotional and ultimately uplifting story of one young man's seemingly impossible search for his lost father.
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Featuring: Nick Nolte ,Tim Roth ,Temuera Morrison, Bai Ling, and introducing Damien Nguyen as Binh.
Screenplay: Sabina Murray
Story: Sabina Murray and Lingard Jervey |
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer - 2005
When Jimmy and his half Native American girlfriend Lily are murdered by a rampaging satanic cult led by Luc Crash and his demonic bride, he is traumatized to find himself reincarnated as 'The Crow', an immortal being of Native American folk law and the 'killer of killers'. With revenge burning in his broken heart, and whilst he tries to come to terms with his new dark powers, Jimmy comes to realize what he can do, and what he must do - as he confronts the onslaught of gang members Famine, Pestilence, War and Death in this epic action battle of good and extreme evil …There is no rest without vengeance. Directed by newcomer Lance Mungia and featuring an all-star cast including Edward Furlong, Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Dennis Hopper, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Marcus Chong , Tito Ortiz, Rena Owen , Danny Trejo, and Macy Gray.
Director: Lance Mungia
Screenplay: Jeff Mungia and Jeff Most & Sean Hood |
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Never Die Alone - 2004
Adapted from a cult novel, the story charts the spectacular rise and brutal fall of a black drug dealer (DMX) as it is relayed to a young white journalist (David Arquette) posthumously through the dead hustler's diaries. The book's author, Donald Goines, is one of the most successful black authors of all time, despite his premature death in an ununsolved homicide. He lived the life of the streets, then wrote about it, in a series of best-selling novels remarkable for their hard-hitting authenticity and their understanding of human nature as it reveals itself in extreme situations.
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Screenplay: James Gibson
Adapted by the novel by Donald Goines |
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Undertow - 2004
Two young brothers, Chris (JAMIE BELL - Nicholas Nickleby, Billy Elliot) and Tim, go on the run through the southern states of the US when their uncle, Deel (JOSH LUCAS - Stealth, Wonderland, Sweet Home Alabama, The Hulk, A Beautiful Mind) returns from years in jail and murders their father (DERMOT MULRONEY- About Schmidt, My Best Friends Wedding) for keeping from him a fortune in old Mexican coins they had inherited.
Having witnessed the killing, the two boys manage to escape with the gold coins, but leaving the murder weapon - Chris' own knife - covered in his father's blood and of course Chris' fingerprints.
Chased by both Deel and the Police - who now suspect Chris of the murder - somehow the two brothers must evade capture and find a way to heal their broken family.
UNDERTOW is at once a classic 'chase' movie and an emotional coming of age drama akin to 'Stand By Me'.
Director: David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls)
Screenplay: Joe Conway
Featuring: Devon Alan Frankel and Shiri Appleby |
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The Cooler - 2003
A black comedy about Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy), a man with such devastatingly bad luck that it's infectious — just by bumping into a hot hand he can instantaneously turn it cold. And so he does by acting as a "cooler" at the gritty Shangri-la Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas, a job forced upon him by the slippery Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin), the casino's director of operations, in order to pay off an outstanding debt. Once the debt is repaid, Bernie wants nothing more than to put Vegas behind him, much to Shelly's dismay, since he has become reliant on Bernie's cooling abilities. In a devious attempt to lure him to stay, Shelly throws a gorgeous waitress named Natalie (Maria Bello) his way, but the plan backfires when Bernie and Natalie end up falling for each other and Bernie's bad luck begins to turn.
Director: Wayne Kramer
Screenplay: Frank Hannah
Featuring: Paul Sorvino, Ron Livingston, Ellen Greene, Arthur Nascarella and Joey Fatone. |
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Rick - 2003
Once a decent guy, Rick (Bill Pullman) now finds himself a widower faced with an arrogant boss (Aaron Stanford) who is half his age, a distant daughter (Agnes Bruckner), and a corporate job that forces him to act like the brash and sarcastic jerk he suspects he's becoming. Its no wonder a cocktail waitress has placed him under a curse. When an old business school buddy offers to end Rick's woes with what seems to be a perfect plan, Rick is left to make an unconventional decision. The perfect plan is not what it seems and threatens to destroy the only decent thing in his life, leaving him alone in a hostile world. Will Rick become a victim of his own temptation?
Director: Curtiss Clayton
Screenplay: Daniel Handler
Featuring: Sandra Oh, Dylan Baker, Paz de la Huerta and Emmanuelle Chirqui. |
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Love Object - 2003
Kenneth has never been lucky with women. He is attracted to his assistant, Lisa, but is too shy and awkward to approach her. When he comes across a company that manufactures lifelike, custom-designed sex dolls, a momentary impulse leads him to purchase one designed to look just like Lisa. He projects his feelings for Lisa onto the doll, with whom he starts carrying on an imaginary affair, complete with dinners and kinky sex.
When his relationship with the real Lisa begins to grow, he starts comparing her to the doll and becomes dissatisfied with Lisa's human imperfections. In his twisted mind, Kenneth's ultimate goal now shifts from making the doll more and more like Lisa to making Lisa more like the doll — with horrific results.
Director/Writer: Robert Parigi
Featuring: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Udo Kier and Rip Torn |
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The Hebrew Hammer - 2003
A Jewxploitation spoof in the vein of Shaft and Austin Powers, The Hebrew Hammer is the story of Mordechai, a handsome Orthodox Jew (a.k.a. the Semitic super stud!) hired by the Jewish Justice League after discovering that Santa's evil son — who has come to run the North Pole after staging a coup with the help of a reindeer, Blitzen — has plans to eradicate Hanukkah.
The Hammer joins forces with Esther, the gorgeous and dangerous daughter of the Chief of the Jewish Justice League, and his friend Mohammed, head of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front, who fears Santa may go after Kwanzaa next, to topple the evil Santa and save Hanukkah for future generations.
Add Writer/ Director: Jonathan Kesselman
With: Adam Goldberg, Andy Dick, Judy Greer, Mario Van Pebbles, Melvin Van Pebbles, Rachel Dratch, Peter Coyote, Nora Dunn, Annie McEnroe, Grant Rosenmeyer and Harrison Chad. |
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Party Monster - 2003
Party Monster is based on the true story of Michael Alig (Macauley Culkin), a club kid and party promoter at New York City's infamous Limelight Club in the early 1990s. At the height of his prominence, he had his own record label, his own magazine, and an ever-increasing drug habit. As his addictions grew worse, his lifestyle and party themes became darker and more twisted, ultimately reaching a tragic crescendo when he murdered his drug dealer by injecting him with Drano and throwing him in the East River. The power he wielded on the club scene made Alig feel so untouchable that he proudly boasted of the murder. Both the press and police thought it a publicity stunt ... until the body washed ashore.
Writer/Directors: Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato
With Seth Green, Chloe Sevigny, Dylan McDermott, Mia Kirshner, Diana Scarwid, Natasha Lyonne and Marilyn Manson |
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Owning Mahowny - 2003
Directed by Richard Kwietniowski and starring Minnie Driver, John Hurt, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Brian Mahowny, a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. A workaholic but good friend to all, no one suspects the other side of Brian Mahowny - the side executing the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history to feed his gambling obsession. |
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The Guys - 2002
A Columbia University journalist (Sigourney Weaver) spends an afternoon with a fire captain (Anthony LaPaglia) to help him write eulogies for guys from his firehouse who have just died in the World Trade Center collapse. An emotional journey in search of solace, it pays tribute to the brave men who gave their lives on September 11, and it explores with an intimate eye the complex feelings affecting those left behind. It is moving, funny, and, finally, uplifting.
Director: Jim Simpson
Play and screenplay: Anne Nelson |
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Wendigo - 2001
A blue Volvo makes its way through the fading light one winter evening in Upstate New York. Kim (Patricia Clarkson), George (Jake Weber), and their 8-year-old son, Miles (Erik Per Sullivan), are on their way to a friend's country farmhouse. But a fluke accident sets off a chain of events that alters their lives forever and conjures up the ferocious spirit of Wendigo, a Native American myth made manifest in Miles' imagination. Stylistically, the film is part thriller and part horror. Thematically, it's a mix of The Shining and Deliverance. |
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Happy Times - 2001
Directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Benshan Zhao and Jie Dong, Happy Times is a small but broad Chinese language comedy about human nature when it comes to love and the pursuit of happiness. Middle-aged Ding Shikou visits a matchmaker to find a wife. Finally, she sends him the perfect one. Desperate to impress her, Ding promises her a far more extravagant wedding than he can afford, leading her to believe he is rich. Then desperate, to make money, Ding refurbishes an abandoned railway car on Lover's Lane and charges admission for young couples wandering by. Up in the woods, he discovers a young blind girl who's just attempted suicide. He saves her life this time only to witness her attempt again. She tells him she wouldn't be so desperate if she had a job, so he offers one at his hotel, in hopes of re-instilling her will to live. Ding tells her a tangled and hilarious mess of lies in order to employ her. He even has a group of old retirees create a fake hotel environment in an abandoned factory, so she believes she has a legitimate job. Finally, he must tell her the truth and come clean to his fiancée, which turns out to be both a heartbreaking and hilarious life lesson for all involved. International Distribution through 20th Century Fox and Domestic distribution handled through Sony Picture Classics. |
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Harvard Man - 2001
Writer / Director James Toback reveals college life played out against a background of love, sex, basketball, crime, and experimentation. Starring Sara Michelle Gellar, Adrian Grenier, Eric Stoltz, and Rebecca Gayheart |
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American Psycho - 2000
Writer / Director Mary Harron’s darkly comic adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s acclaimed novel, features Christian Bale as yuppie killer Patrick Bateman who spends his days in a numbing world of status-symbol on Wall Street. Though, come nightfall, he breaks out with smirking explosions of homicide, accomplished with the fastidious care of a hopeless obsessive. Also starring Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Jared Leto, Chloë Sevigny, and Justin Theroux. |
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The Crow: Salvation - 2000
Bharat Nalluri directs the third installment of The Crow, starring Kirsten Dunst, and Eric Mabius as Alex Corvis ‘The Crow’. After Alex is framed for the murder of his girlfriend and put to the electric chair, Alex is brought back from the dead by a crow just as the legend says “Love is stronger than death”. He returns to discover that a corrupt police force is behind her murder and for him to go after the killers, he must investigate the truth to seek revenge. Also starring Fred Ward, William Atherton, and Grant Shaud.
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