Posts Tagged ‘fish-out-of-water’



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.

Bad Company (2002)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Rock, Chris | Stormare, Peter | Macht, Gabriel | Washington, Kerry | Maropis, Adoni | Beauvais, Garcelle | Marsh, Matthew | Micanovic, Dragan | Slattery, John | Smith, Brooke | Sunjata, Daniel | Lawson Jr., DeVone | Robbins, Wills | Vasut, Marek
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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When a CIA agent is killed during a nuclear arms purchase, his partner Oakes, recruits his twin brother, Jake Hayes. Jake had no idea he had a twin brother, let alone that he worked for the CIA. Jake, a.k.a. Michael Turner, has nine days to fill his brother’s place. However, the enemy terrorists learn of his secret identity and kidnap his girlfriend/fiancee. He has to rescue them and save New York city from an imminent nuclear terrorist act.

Freshman, The (1990)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Broderick, Matthew | Kirby, Bruno | Miller, Penelope Ann | Whaley, Frank | Polito, Jon | Benedict, Paul | Gant, Richard | Welsh, Kenneth | Payton-Wright, Pamela | Wong, B.D. | Schell, Maximilian | Parks, Bert | Konig, Tex | Cimino, Leonardo
Directors: Bergman, Andrew
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Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine “Jimmy the Toucan” Sabatini, an “importer” bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can’t refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.

Michael (1996)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | MacDowell, Andie | Hurt, William | Hoskins, Bob | Pastorelli, Robert | Stapleton, Jean | Garr, Teri | Langham, Wallace | Adams, Joey Lauren | Gugino, Carla | Hodges, Tom | Burns, Catherine Lloyd | Schiff, Richard | Trillin, Calvin | Lee Jr., Donald J.
Directors: Ephron, Nora
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Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an ‘angel expert’, are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her house with a real, live archangel named Michael. Upon arrival, they see that her claims are true - but Michael is not what they expected: he smokes, drinks beer, has a very active libido and has a rather colourful vocabulary. In fact, they would never believe it were it not for the two feathery wings protruding from his back. Michael agrees to travel to Chicago with the threesome, but what they don’t realise is that the journey they are about to undertake will change their lives forever.

Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia
Actors: Szubanski, Magda | Cromwell, James | Stein, Mary | Rooney, Mickey | Daily, Elizabeth | Mann, Danny | Headly, Glenne | Wright, Steven | Cosmo, James | Kress, Nathan | Jeffrey, Myles | Ross, Stanley Ralph | Taylor, Russi | Goldberg, Adam | Barth, Eddie
Directors: Miller, George
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After Babe’s great victory in the shepherding contest, Farmer Arthur Hoggett turns down all offers to make money with his pig’s talents. But when he gets hurt severely in the well, his wife has to take up farming. She does her best but cannot meet the bank’s requirements, which results in the necessity of getting back to Babe. Soon, Esme Hoggett is sitting in a plane headed for “the” city. There, Babe unwillingly causes deep trouble. He has to stay with Mrs. Hoggett in the only hotel in town that accepts pets. Friendly neighbours send officials who catch all animals from the hotel: Cats, dogs, chimpanzees and many others. Babe, who managed to stay free, decides to help his new friends and gets unexpected help - not only by Ferdinand, who flew all the way to the city.

Mr. Baseball (1992)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sport
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Selleck, Tom | Takakura, Ken | Takanashi, Aya | Haysbert, Dennis | Shioya, Toshi | Toyohara, Kosuke | Fujiwara, Toshizo | Takano, Mak | Morinaga, Kenji | Nishimura, Joh | Goto, Norihide | Toita, Kensuke | Fuji, Naoki | Hozumi, Takanobu | Lee, Leon
Directors: Schepisi, Fred
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A Major Leaguer down on his percentages gets traded to the Chuunichi Dragons , and has trouble adjusting to Japanese customs. He resists what he considers ridiculous and arbitrary rules of the club and belittles the etiquette expected of him as a representative of his team. When he starts seeing the interactions of his coach with the owners of the team, and falls in love with his trainer’s daughter, he begins to rethink his attitude.

Groundhog Day (1993)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | MacDowell, Andie | Elliott, Chris | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Doyle-Murray, Brian | Geraghty, Marita | Paton, Angela | Ducommun, Rick | Overton, Rick | Duke, Robin | Bivins, Carol | Garson, Willie | Campbell, Ken Hudson | Podewell, Les | Sell, Rod
Directors: Ramis, Harold
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A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting “rat” (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the ‘following’ day he discovers that it’s Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.

Legally Blonde (2001)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Witherspoon, Reese | Wilson, Luke | Blair, Selma | Davis, Matthew | Garber, Victor | Coolidge, Jennifer | Taylor, Holland | Larter, Ali | Cauffiel, Jessica | Ubach, Alanna | Oz Perkins | Cardellini, Linda | Thomas, Bruce | Lynn, Meredith Scott | Welch, Raquel
Directors: Luketic, Robert
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Elle Woods (’Reese Witherspoon’ (qv)) has it all. She’s the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But, there’s just one thing stopping Warner (’Matthew Davis (I)’ (qv)) from popping the question: Elle is too blonde. Growing up across the street from ‘Aaron Spelling’ (qv) might mean something in LA, but nothing to Warner’s East-Coast blue blood family. So, when Warner packs up for Harvard Law and reunites with an old sweetheart from prep school, Elle rallies all her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. But law school is a far cry from the comforts of her poolside and the mall. Elle must wage the battle of her life, for her guy, for herself and for all the blondes who suffer endless indignities everyday.

13th Warrior, The (1999)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Venora, Diane | Banderas, Antonio | Kulich, Vladimir | Dennis Storhoi | Southern, Daniel | Maffin, Neil | DeSantis, John | Russell, Clive | Hausserman, Mischa | Sveinall, Oliver | Riis, Asbjørn 'Bear' | Bremmer, Richard | Curran, Tony | Woodington, Albie | Sharif, Omar | Avari, Erick
Directors: McTiernan, John | Crichton, Michael
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In AD 922, an important emissary who is banished from his homeland. The nomadic outcast comes across a band of Norse warriors who coerce him into joining them when they are summoned to fight mysterious creatures legendary for consuming every living thing in their path. Eventually surrounded by the frightening and ferocious foe, Ibn must conquer his personal fears and help battle the illusive invaders—who emerge out of the shroud of fog in the black of the night.

Uncle Buck (1989)

Monday, September 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Candy, John | Kelly, Jean Louisa | Hoffmann, Gaby | Culkin, Macaulay | Madigan, Amy | Bromka, Elaine | Brown, Garrett M. | Metcalf, Laurie | Underwood, Jay | Tarantina, Brian | Starr, Mike | Shepherd, Suzanne | Windom, William | Cockrum, Dennis | Robinson, Joel
Directors: Hughes, John
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Bob Russel, his wife Cindy Russel, and their three kids, 8-year-old Miles, 6-year old Maizy, and 15-year-old Tia, recently moved from Indianapolis to Chicago, and Tia resents Bob and Cindy for it because Tia, Miles, and Maizy were perfectly happy living in Indianapolis. Bob and Cindy are in bed one night when Cindy’s aunt calls and tells them that Cindy’s father has had a heart attack. Bob and Cindy immediately make plans to go to Indianapolis to visit Cindy’s father. After hearing this, Tia angrily tells Cindy that Tia would have a heart attack too if her family moved away from her, then Tia slams her bedroom door in Cindy’s face. With Cindy and Bob going to Indianapolis, the problem is who the babysitter will be. Even though Cindy doesn’t like the idea, they choose Bob’s brother Buck to babysit Tia, Miles, and Maizy. Cindy doesn’t like Buck because she thinks Buck is a sloppy person who doesn’t know how to do anything. While Cindy and Bob are in Indianapolis, Buck takes over the house, and Buck tries to do the best he can with the kids while he’s having problems with Chanice Kobolowski, who has been his girlfriend for the past 8 years. Buck bonds with Miles and Maizy and wins their love, but Buck has problems with Tia as he tries to protect Tia from her boyfriend Bug, because unknown to Tia, Bug only wants Tia for one reason sex.