Posts Tagged ‘father-daughter-relationship’



Daddy’s Little Girls (2007)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Union, Gabrielle | Elba, Idris | Louis Gossett Jr. | Smith, Tasha | Ross, Tracee Ellis | Williams, Malinda | Vaughn, Terri J. | Sturgis, Gary Anthony | Davis, Cassi | McClain, Sierra Aylina | McClain, China Anne | McClain, Lauryn Alisa | Jennings, Juanita | Howell, Maria | Dewberry, Rochelle
Directors: Perry, Tyler
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A reverse-Cinderella tale centers on a successful attorney (Union) who falls in love with a financially challenged mechanic (Elba) who is a single father of three children. The relationship hits a snag when the mechanics ex-wife comes back into his life and threatens to take away their kids.

Harper (1966)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Newman, Paul | Bacall, Lauren | Harris, Julie | Hill, Arthur | Leigh, Janet | Tiffin, Pamela | Wagner, Robert | Webber, Robert | Winters, Shelley | Gould, Harold | Jenson, Roy | Martin, Strother | West, Martin | deWit, Jacqueline | Iglesias, Eugene
Directors: Smight, Jack
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Paul Newman IS Harper, a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie’s Baby (Lauren Bacall) hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

Anna Christie (1930)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Garbo, Greta | Bickford, Charles | Marion, George F. | Dressler, Marie | Mack, James T. | Phelps, Lee | Baxley, Jack | O'Brien, William H.
Directors: Brown, Clarence
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Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

They Live by Night (1948)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: O'Donnell, Cathy | Granger, Farley | Da Silva, Howard | Flippen, Jay C. | Craig, Helen | Wright, Will | Bryant, Marie | Wolfe, Ian | Phipps, William | Harvey, Harry | Lee, Will | Nolan, Jim | Infuhr, Teddy | Foulger, Byron | Beach, Guy
Directors: Ray, Nicholas
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In the ’30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after “Bowie the Kid” harder than ever.

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.

Three Lives of Thomasina, The (1964)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: McGoohan, Patrick | Hampshire, Susan | Naismith, Laurence | Anderson, Jean | Brambell, Wilfrid | Currie, Finlay | Winter, Vincent | Gilmore, Denis | Carson, Charles | Roberts, Ewan | Johnston, Oliver | De Wolff, Francis | Nicholson, Nora | Stewart, Jack | Dotrice, Karen
Directors: Chaffey, Don
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A young Scottish girl’s cat, Thomasina, apparently dies at the hands of her widowed veterinarian father. The strained relationship between the girl and her father is eventually repaired with the return of Thomasina and the aid of a beautiful and mysterious “witch” who seems to have powers to revive and heal animals.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Megna, John | Overton, Frank | Murphy, Rosemary | White, Ruth | Peters, Brock | Evans, Estelle | Fix, Paul | Paxton, Collin Wilcox | Anderson, James | Ghostley, Alice | Duvall, Robert | Windom, William | Denton, Crahan | Hale, Richard
Directors: Mulligan, Robert
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In the rural American south during the depths of the Depression, two children watch as their principled father takes a stand against intolerance.

Chinatown (1974)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Dunaway, Faye | Huston, John | Lopez, Perry | Hillerman, John | Zwerling, Darrell | Ladd, Diane | Jenson, Roy | Bakalyan, Richard | Mantell, Joe | Glover, Bruce | Hinds, Nandu | O'Rear, James | Hong, James
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn’t drop the case immediately. Gittes pursues the case anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy centering on water management, state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate, and involving at least one murder.

Bratz (2007)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Banks, Ogie | Ellis, Greg | Oliver, Tracey | Schlatter, Charlie | Chabert, Lacey | Cuoco, Kaley | Hack, Olivia | Malick, Wendie | Mowry, Tia | Quan, Dionne | Riley, Madison | Vincent, Miracle
Directors: Rijgersberg, Nick
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Four best friends start high school. Each one is unique and likes their own thing. When Meredith, the most popular girl, sees this she automatically knows they are trouble. Eventually though Cloe joins the soccer team and hangs out with them, Sasha joins the cheer leading squad and hangs out with the cheerleaders, Jade is part of the math club so she hangs out with them, and Yasmin is left all alone. After years of not talking to each other Jade and Yasmin speak a few words in the restroom but Yasmin doesn’t have the courage to tell Jade she misses her. Then the four girls are reunited when they are sent to detention for causing a food fight. After the girls are reunited they find out they are not invited to a huge party given by Meredith Then Cloe finds out that her mom got a job serving food at the party. They are forced to work for Meredith Then at the party Meredith decides to expose Yasmins secret which is her dancing and singing with a face mask. Then Yasmins friend(who she has a crush on) starts doing a dance and then everybody joins in and Meredith is humiliated. When Meredith accidentally gets thrown into the pool she calls the four best friends “bratz.” The girls then decide to be part of the talent show to win a scholarship. Meredith is always the one who wins but the “bratz” are prepared to take her down. But when Meredith finds she threatens Yasmin by telling her that if she continued preparing for the show she would expose her friends secrets. Yasmin decides to call everything off. At the end the girls still do the talent show and they tell everybody there secrets who turn out not to be so bad. The girls win and they each end up with their crushes. The girls decide to give Cloe the scholarship. The movie ends with the girls walking down a red carpet.

JCVD (2008)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: Belgium | France | Luxembourg
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Damiens, François | Zinedine Soualem | Belkhadra, Karim | Wolff, Jean-François | Paulicevich, Anne | Flanders, John | Gregory, Dean | Hermans, Kim | Preston, Steve | Rockenbrod, Paul | Rossett, Alan | Walsh, Jesse Joe | Woodhall, Leslie | Flanders, Saskia
Directors: El Mechri, Mabrouk
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Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! In JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States.