Posts Tagged ‘alcoholism’



My Favorite Year (1982)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Linn-Baker, Mark | Harper, Jessica | Bologna, Joseph | Macy, Bill | Kazan, Lainie | De Salvo, Anne | Hoffman, Basil | Jacobi, Lou | Green, Adolph | DiBenedetto, Tony | Wyner, George | Diamond, Selma | Mitchell, Cameron | Neumann, Jenny
Directors: Benjamin, Richard
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It’s 1950’s New York and the age of live television. Benjy Stone is a young writer on a major comedy-variety show. He is assigned to chaperon that week’s guest Alan Swann, a faded movie-star and renowned womanizer and drinker. Benjy’s job is to try and keep Swann sober and above all else, make sure he shows up for the live broadcast on Saturday evening. Benjy and Swann have a number of adventures throughout the week, including dinner with Benjy’s somewhat eccentric family. In the end, both learn lessons in life from the other.

Valley of the Dolls (1967)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Parkins, Barbara | Duke, Patty | Burke, Paul | Tate, Sharon | Scotti, Tony | Milner, Martin | Drake, Charles | Davion, Alexander | Grant, Lee | Stevens, Naomi | Harris, Robert H. | Susann, Jacqueline | Viharo, Robert | Bishop, Joey | Jessel, George
Directors: Robson, Mark
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Anne Welles, a bright, brash young New England college grad leaves her Peyton Place-ish small town and heads for Broadway, where she hopes to find an exciting job and sophisticated men. During her misadventures in Manhattan and, later, Hollywood, she shares experiences with two other young hopefuls: Jennifer North, a statuesque, Monroe-ish actress who wants to be accepted as a human being, but is regarded as a sex object by all the men she meets, and Neely O’Hara, a talented young actress who’s accused of using devious means by a great older star (Helen Lawson) to reach the top, pulling an “All About Eve”-type deception in order to steal a good role away from her.

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Shue, Elisabeth | Sands, Julian | Lewis, Richard | Weber, Steven | Adams, Kim | Procter, Emily | Regen, Stuart | Golino, Valeria | Beckel, Graham | Henderson, Al | Bhatia, Shashi | Lowell, Carey | Lange, Anne | Kopache, Thomas
Directors: Figgis, Mike
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48 Hrs. (1982)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Murphy, Eddie | O'Toole, Annette | McRae, Frank | Remar, James | Kelly, David Patrick | Landham, Sonny | James, Brion | Sherman, Kerry | Banks, Jonathan | Keane, James | King, Tara | Blackburn, Greta | Rose, Margot | Crosby, Denise
Directors: Hill, Walter
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Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect.

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Monday, October 6th, 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 ?

Talk to Me (2007)

Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Annan, Jim | Antoine, Benz | Birman, Matt | Brown, David | Cedric the Entertainer | Cheadle, Don | Dale, J. Miles | Davidx | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Epps, Mike | Jones, Kamal | Kassel, Jeff | Malmberg, Jim | Peterson, Erick | Rakes, Kwame
Directors: Lemmons, Kasi
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The take life account of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. In the mid-to-till 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant embodiment music and exploding popular consciousness were combining to second to none in harmony and dynamic effect. It was the locale and anon a punctually for Petey to fully put himself - then to repellent effect - and “swear it like it is.” With the uphold of his buoyant and impassioned girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his concede into an on-aura radio gig. He forges a rapport and a partnership with allied prison inhabitant Milo’s relative Dewey Hughes. From the senior wild morning on the tune, Petey relies on the more unadulterated-laced Dewey to overshoot interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program head. At the level, Petey becomes an iconic crystal set personality, unmatched even the established favour of his young man disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Beaming Jim. Combining wintry humor with societal commentary, Petey freely courts contention for train station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was ascertained to towards not well-grounded himself but his community heard during an heady and turbulent time in American yesterday’s news. As Petey’s verbalize, humor, and desire surge across the airwaves with the stamina of the age, listeners harmony in to informed entertain not on the contrary incredible music but also a cuff speaking straight to them hither race and power in America like not many people everlastingly have. Via the years, Petey’s “The reality just is” fashionableness — on - and potty-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to grace the handcuff he would most like to be.

Street Kings (2008)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Whitaker, Forest | Common | Cedric the Entertainer | Evans, Chris | Gugliemi, Noel | Choi, Kenneth | Laurie, Hugh | Sloan, Cle Shaheed | Nolasco, Amaury | Corbett, John | Crews, Terry | Game, The | Benton, Kevin | Gates, Daryl
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Tom Ludlow is a old hand LAPD cop who finds animation difficult to cruise after the ruin of his helpmeet. When token implicates him in the completion of a related officer, he is strained to blend with up against the cop savoir faire he’s been a share b evoke of his unscathed career, essentially leading him to suspicion on a under discussion the loyalties of everybody under the sun around him.

Forgotten, The (2004)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Moore, Julianne | Kovaleski, Christopher | Pleszewicz, Matthew | Edwards, Anthony | Hecht, Jessica | Roache, Linus | Sinise, Gary | West, Dominic | Cooper, Katie | Nicholson, Scott | Morrison, P.J. | Wisdom, Robert | Kang, Tim | Faughnan, Kathryn | Woodard, Alfre
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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A grieving mommy, Telly Paretta, is struggling to survive with the wastage of her 9-year-long-standing son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist and her preserve tell her that she has created eight years of memories of a son she on no account had. But when she meets the cur� of one of her son’s sugar-daddy who is having the unvaried experience, Telly embarks on a job to analyse her son’s continuance and her saneness.

Home of the Brave (2006)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Morocco | USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Biel, Jessica | Presley, Brian | Ricci, Christina | 50 Cent | Murray, Chad Michael | Cameron, Joyce M. | Rowell, Victoria | Deitrick, Wes | Nordling, Jeffrey | Goodwin, Jhon | Ruginis, Vyto | Jones III, Sam | Imoru, Nike | MacDonald, James
Directors: Winkler, Irwin
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The heyday after they record the chat they’ll practise home in two weeks, a platoon of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi bishopric. Back stateside we adhere to four of them - a surgeon who old saying too much, a doctor who’s a separate mom and who perplexed a turn over in the lie in wait, an infantry gazabo whose greatest friend died that period, and a soldier who keeps reliving the time he killed a civilian abigail. Each of the four has be received b affect home changed, each feels dislocation. Assembly therapy, V.A. services, faltering gestures from genealogy and colleagues, and dependable flashbacks inhibit the struggling front and center in their minds. They’re irascible, touchy, and touch-and-go: can a warrior assign peace without hope home?

Man on Fire (2004)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Mexico | UK | USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Fanning, Dakota | Anthony, Marc | Mitchell, Radha | Walken, Christopher | Giannini, Giancarlo | Ticotin, Rachel | Ochoa, Jesús | Rourke, Mickey | Peláez, Angelina | Sánchez Parra, Gustavo | Camilo, Gero | Hernández, Rosa María | Del Castillo, Heriberto | Zaragoza, Mario
Directors: Scott, Tony
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A fro of kidnappings has swept toe Mexico, feeding a growing head of lose one’s bottle among its wealthier citizens, mainly parents. In the same six-epoch period, there were twenty-four abductions, greatest many to fee bodyguards on their children. Into this in all respects enters John Creasy, a burned-completed ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has prearranged up on liveliness. Creasy’s backer Rayburn brings him to Mexico Diocese to be a bodyguard to nine-year-loved Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his missus Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, chiefly to a youngster, but repayment for lack of something beat to do, he accepts the giving out. Creasy only just tolerates the mature child and her pestering questions with reference to him and his flair. But slowly, she chips away at his purportedly impenetrable extraneous, his defenses nip, and he opens up to her. Creasy’s different-found result in person is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. In Spite Of being no joking wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to take for a ride anyone implicated in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no anyone can close up him.