Posts Tagged ‘family’



Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Crane, Norma | Frey, Leonard | Picon, Molly | Mann, Paul | Harris, Rosalind | Marsh, Michele | Small, Neva | Glaser, Paul Michael | Lovelock, Ray | Edwards, Elaine | Bonstein, Candy | Ruskin, Shimen | Scooler, Zvee | Zorich, Louis
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

Duchess, The (2008)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: France | Italy | UK
Actors: Knightley, Keira | Fiennes, Ralph | Rampling, Charlotte | Cooper, Dominic | Atwell, Hayley | McBurney, Simon | McArdle, Aidan | Shrapnel, John | Petrie, Alistair | Godfrey, Patrick | Medwin, Michael | Edwards, Justin | McCabe, Richard | Dean, Calvin | Stokely, Hannah
Directors: Dibb, Saul
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A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Costello, Dolores | Baxter, Anne | Holt, Tim | Moorehead, Agnes | Collins, Ray | Sanford, Erskine | Bennett, Richard | Welles, Orson | August, Edwin | Baxley, Jack | Blees, William | Clement, Lyle | Cooper, Bobby | Dillaway, Don
Directors: Fleck, Fred
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The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.

Secret of NIMH, The (1982)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jacobi, Derek | Hartman, Elizabeth | Malet, Arthur | DeLuise, Dom | Baddeley, Hermione | Shannen Doherty | Wheaton, Wil | Hicks, Jodi | Fried, Ian | Carradine, John | Strauss, Peter | Shenar, Paul | Hatten, Tom | Bliss, Lucille | Ray, Aldo
Directors: Bluth, Don
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A fieldmouse named Mrs. Brisby must move her family to a safe location before the farmer plows the field where they live, but her invalid son Timmy cannot go outside due to his pneumonia. She enlists the aid of some highly intelligent, escaped lab rats that have built a subterranean society inside a rose bush near the farmer’s garden. The rats, led by the wise Nicodemus, decide to help her physically move her house to repay a debt of gratitude to her late husband, who made possible the rats’ escape from the laboratory. But things become complicated when some of the rats decide to use the situation to kill Nicodemus and make it appear to be accidental.

Land Before Time, The (1988)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Barsi, Judith | Byrnes, Burke | Damon, Gabriel | Erwin, Bill | Hingle, Pat | Hutson, Candace | Ryan, Will | Shaver, Helen
Directors: Bluth, Don
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An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each onea different species, and they encounter several obstacles as they learn to worktogether in order to survive.

Jingle All the Way (1996)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Sinbad | Hartman, Phil | Wilson, Rita | Conrad, Robert | Mull, Martin | Lloyd, Jake | Belushi, James | De La Pena, E.J. | Newman, Laraine | Chapman, Justin | Korman, Harvey | Moll, Richard | Riordan, Daniel | Deist, Jeff L.
Directors: Levant, Brian
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Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Howard Langston, a father who has promised his son that he will get anything he wants for christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, his son wants an immensely popular “Turbo Man” action figure. Howard forgets to get it, and since it’s Christmas Eve, it’s sold out everywhere. Since Howard knows he has let his son down in the past, he goes on a quest to track down a “Turbo Man” action figure, and will stop at nothing to get his son the gift that he wants.

Antz (1998)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Allen, Woody | Aykroyd, Dan | Bancroft, Anne | Curtin, Jane | Glover, Danny | Hackman, Gene | Lopez, Jennifer | Mahoney, John | Mazursky, Paul | Shaud, Grant | Stallone, Sylvester | Stone, Sharon | Walken, Christopher | Cummings, Jim | Winchell, April
Directors: Darnell, Eric
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Z is just another ant in a colony of millions, striving for individuality. He falls in love with Princess Bala, and convinces his Warrior ant friend Weaver to switch places with him for a day, so that he can see Princess Bala once again. The outcome of this throws Z into a bigger adventure than he ever dreamed possible…

Christmas Wish, The (1998)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Harris, Neil Patrick | Reynolds, Debbie | Watts, Naomi | Wilson, Alexandra | Archer, Beverly | Meltzer, Ian | Bayer, Gary | Greene, James | Douglas, Jerry | Fairman, Michael | Barnes, Adilah | Birney, Frank | Carlo, Ismael 'East' | Hoag, Jan | Mitchell, Stuart
Directors: Barry, Ian
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THE CHRISTMAS WISH stars Neil Patrick Harris as an orphan who returns to his grandparents’ home after the death of his grandfather. He and his grandmother (played by Debbie Reynolds) begin to uncover some mysteries about the man’s life that lead them both to a fresh understanding of the Christmas season.

Barbie Mariposa and Her Butterfly Fairy Friends (2008)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Animation
Countries: USA
Actors:
Directors: Helten, Conrad
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Elina knows that it’s difficult feeling like you don’t belong, so when Bibble decides not to visit a friend for fear of not fitting in, Elina relates the story of a butterfly fairy named Mariposa who loves to read and dream about the stars and the worlds beyond her land, but never quite feels like she fits in with her fellow fairies. Flutterfield was once a land of frightened fairies forced to hide in darkness from the monster-like Skeezites who devour butterfly fairies, but is now ruled by kind Queen Marabella who protects her land with glowing flowers. When a power-hungry fairy named Henna poisons the Queen in hopes of stealing the throne, it falls to Mariposa to venture outside Flutterfield to find the antidote to the poison and save the Queen. With some unlikely help from her attitude-laden employers Rayna and Rayla as well as her friend Willa and a little bunny fairy named Zinzie, Mariposa must bravely confront her own self-doubt as well as the Skeezites and other dangers in order to save Flutterfield and its Queen. Along the way, Mariposa learns that the best thing a fairy can be is oneself. This fourth Barbie Fairytopia adventure has all the visual appeal and wonder of the previous Fairytopia DVDs with a nice message about liking oneself. (Ages 3 to 9)

Absolute Power (1997)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Harris, Ed | Linney, Laura | Glenn, Scott | Haysbert, Dennis | Davis, Judy | Marshall, E.G. | Hardin, Melora | Welsh, Kenneth | Johnson, Penny | Jenkins, Richard | Margolis, Mark | Kagan, Elaine | Alison Eastwood
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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Luther Whitney is a professional thief, who only works occasionally. He is planning what is suppose to be his last job, and everything is going smoothly until some come in before he can leave. He hides in a secret room and from behind a one-way mirror sees that it’s the wife of the owner of the house he is robbing and another man. They are fooling around when the guy decides to liven things up by striking her, she get away but he corners her, she then grabs a letter opener and is about to stab him when he cries out for help when two men come in and shoot her dead. It seems that the man is Alan Richmond, the President of the United States and the two men are the secret service agents assigned to him. Later, a woman, Gloria Russell, who is his Chief of Staff enters and upon learning of what has happened, decides to cover it up and make it appear that she was killed by a burglar. After sanitizing the room, they are about to leave but they forget the letter opener, Whitney comes out of the room and takes it and makes his getaway but when they returned for the letter opener they discover Whitney and chase him but he gets away. The police investigate the murder and there are so many inconsistencies, which makes the investigator, Seth Frank suspect that something is going on. Frank then discovers that Whitney is a possible suspect but the only thing is that he doesn’t believe that Whitney is a killer. Whitney tries to leave town but when he learns just how corrupt and amoral Richmond is he decides to play mind games with him and the others. Richmond, at the same time, tells them that Whitney must be silenced permanently.