Tag Archives: backstage

Blazing Saddles

IMDB Rating: 7.80
30096 votes

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The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.
Actors
BartCleavon Little
JimGene Wilder
TaggartSlim Pickens
Also posted in 1974, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Western | Comments (1)

The Godfather: Part II

IMDB Rating: 9.00
141221 votes

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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Actors
Don Michael CorleoneAl Pacino
Tom HagenRobert Duvall
Kay CorleoneDiane Keaton
Also posted in 1974, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (1)

Hot Fuzz

IMDB Rating: 8.10
64792 votes

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Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman (Frost), who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is address to as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "acidents".
Actors
Sgt. Nicholas AngelSimon Pegg
Met SergeantMartin Freeman
Met Chief InspectorBill Nighy
Also posted in 2007, Action, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (1)

A Prairie Home Companion

IMDB Rating: 7.20
6457 votes

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The movie is a celebrity version of Garrison Keillor's radio show of the same name. The movie takes place during the last live performance of the show as the new radio network owners have sent an axeman (Tommy Lee Jones)to close the show. Another fantasy element is thrown in as an angel (Virginia Madsen) stalks the theater to take one of the performers. Keillor essentially plays himself, even using his own name for the character. Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep play the singing Johnson Sisters, with Lindsay Lohan as a suicide-obsessed daughter of Streep. Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are hilarious as the slightly off-color singing cowboy duo, Dusty & Lefty. Kevin Kline is a security guard who act as the narrator. Maya Rudolph also appears as a pregnant stage coordinator. Contains some mild sexually-oriented jokes.
Actors
DustyWoody Harrelson
AxemanTommy Lee Jones
Guy NoirKevin Kline
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

King Kong

IMDB Rating: 7.80
77047 votes

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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.
Actors
Ann DarrowNaomi Watts
Carl DenhamJack Black
Jack DriscollAdrien Brody
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Wicker Park

IMDB Rating: 6.60
5037 votes

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In Chicago, the former photographer and presently advertising executive Mathew (Josh Hartnett) is closing a business deal in a fancy restaurant with a Chinese representative, when he sees a woman that looks like his former passion Lisa (Diane Kruger). Two years ago, Lisa and Matthew had a love affair, and Lisa simply vanished when Matthew invited her to move with him to New York, where he had the invitation for a better job, and Matthew is still obsessed for her. Matthew decides to follow Lisa, and when he meets her, he realizes that Lisa is indeed another woman (Rose Byrne) with the same name. Matthew stays in Chicago with his friend Luke (Matthew Lillard) and decides to investigate the mystery.
Actors
MatthewJosh Hartnett
AlexRose Byrne
LukeMatthew Lillard
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (3)

Shakespeare in Love

IMDB Rating: 7.40
54953 votes

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Romantic comedy set in London in the late 16th century: Young playwright William Shakespeare struggles with his latest work "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter". A great fan of Shakespeare's plays is young, wealthy Viola who is about to be married to the cold-hearted Lord Wessex, but constantly dreams of becoming an actress. Women were not allowed to act on stage at that time (female roles were played by men, too), but dressed up as a boy, Viola successfully auditions for the part of Romeo. Soon she and William are caught in a forbidden romance that provides rich inspiration for his play.
Actors
Philip HensloweGeoffrey Rush
Hugh FennymanTom Wilkinson
LambertSteve O'Donnell
Also posted in 1998, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

IMDB Rating: 6.90
9119 votes

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Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron's stories are taken to be outrageous and fanciful lies. This is the origin of the name of the psychiatric diagnosis of "Munchausen's Syndrome", a particularly bizzare form of hypochondria.
Actors
Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von MunchausenJohn Neville
Desmond/BertholdEric Idle
Sally SaltSarah Polley
Also posted in 1988, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Once Upon a Time in America

IMDB Rating: 8.20
23571 votes

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Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson (Robert De Nero) and his lifelong partners in crime; Max (James Woods), Cockeye (William Forsythe) and Patsy (James Hayden) and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.
Actors
David 'Noodles' AaronsonRobert De Niro
Maximilian 'Max' BercoviczJames Woods
Deborah GellyElizabeth McGovern
Also posted in 1984, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Bugsy Malone

IMDB Rating: 6.20
2387 votes

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A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan".
Actors
Bugsy MaloneScott Baio
Blousey BrownFlorrie Dugger
TallulahJodie Foster
Also posted in 1976, Comedy, Crime, Family, High IMDB rating, Musical | Comments (0)