Tag Archives: based on book

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IMDB Rating: 7.00
14314 votes

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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.
Actors
Ben CampbellJim Sturgess
Prof. Micky RosaKevin Spacey
ChoiAaron Yoo
Also posted in 2008, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Let’s Go to Prison

IMDB Rating: 5.60
3962 votes

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John Lyshitski is a car stealing slacker, with a weed problem, and has been in Illinois' Rossmore State Penitentiary so many times, he knows it's entire population of both staff and cons by their fast names. Cursed with the old ill luck of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in possession of the wrong car, he's been deemed a lost cause repeat offender in the eyes of everyone else. When the heartless judge, who has been behind most of his sentences, goes to the big court house in the sky, John decides to ruin the man's legacy by having the judge's only offspring, Nelson Biederman IV, thrown in the slammer along with him. Here, the world-class selfish jerk learns a certain old lesson the hard way: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But has John somewhat gone too far in the payback department?
Actors
John LyshitskiDax Shepard
Nelson Biederman IVWill Arnett
BarryChi McBride
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, Crime | Comments (0)

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

IMDB Rating: 6.10
288 votes

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Fact-based story about Ira Einhorn (Kevin Anderson), a 70's peace-nik who is generally credited as one of the founders of Earth Day. In the late 60's and early 70's, Ira lived with Holly Maddux (Naomi Watts). But when she tries to leave him in 1977, she suddenly disappears. Later her body is discovered in a trunk in Einhorn's apartment. Let out on bail, Einhorn flees from the country and manages to elude authorities for years. Meanwhile he is convicted in absentia and sentenced to prison. Holly's father (Tom Skerritt) is determined to see his daughter's murderer brought to justice and has him tracked and is eventually caught in France in 1997. Martin Donovan appears as the assistant D.A. who put the case together. Today, Einhorn is now appealing his conviction.
Actors
Ira EinhornKevin Anderson
Fred MadduxTom Skerritt
Holly MadduxNaomi Watts
Also posted in 1999, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Needful Things

IMDB Rating: 5.80
5177 votes

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The devil in disguise comes to a quiet, peaceful town and opens a store called Needful Things. The store has an item for everyone in town. All the devil asks for in return is a few dirty pranks. Little do they know, that they've sold their souls, and the pranks escalate to murder...
Actors
Leland GauntMax von Sydow
Sheriff Alan J. PangbornEd Harris
Polly ChalmersBonnie Bedelia
Also posted in 1993, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Cabaret

IMDB Rating: 7.70
11958 votes

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Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, fall in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max, a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant, and Brian offers to marry her... All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club, a nightspot where Sally sings.
Actors
Sally BowlesLiza Minnelli
Brian RobertsMichael York
Maximilian von HeuneHelmut Griem
Also posted in 1972, Drama, High IMDB rating, Musical | Comments (0)

Pumping Iron

IMDB Rating: 6.90
2358 votes

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From Gold's Gym in Venice Beach California to the showdown in Pretoria, amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests in this part-scripted, part-documentary film. Five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young deaf Lou Ferrigno, whose father is his coach; the ruthless champ psyches out the young lion. Sardinian Franco Columbu competes in the lightweight class; at home in Italy he solves a tight parking problem by lifting the car into place. Joe Weider is the marketer; Mike Katz and Ken Waller go for the title of Mr. Universe. Bodybuilding and a celebrity-to-be go mainstream.
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HimselfMark F. Barnes
HimselfRoger Callard
HimselfFranco Columbu
Also posted in 1977, Documentary, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

The Witches

IMDB Rating: 6.50
4691 votes

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A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children.
Actors
Miss Eva Ernst/Grand High WitchAnjelica Huston
Helga EveshimMai Zetterling
Luke EveshimJasen Fisher
Also posted in 1990, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

Matchstick Men

IMDB Rating: 7.40
28332 votes

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Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious protégé, are swindling these days are "water filtration systems," bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to win bogus prizes like cars, jewelry and overseas vacations—which they never collect. These scams net the flim-flam men a few hundred here, another thousand there, which eventually adds up to a lucrative partnership. Roy's private life, however, is not so successful. An obsessive-compulsive agoraphobe with no personal relationships to call his own, Roy is barely hanging on to his wits, and when his idiosyncrasies begin to threaten his criminal productivity he's forced to seek the help of a psychoanalyst just to keep him in working order. While Roy is looking for a quick fix, his therapy begets more than he bargained for: the revelation that he has a teenage daughter—a child whose existence he suspected but never dared confirm. What's more troubling, 14-year-old Angela wants to meet the father she never knew. At first, Angela's appearance disrupts her neurotic father's carefully ordered routine. Soon, however, with his own unique spin on parenthood, Roy begins to enjoy a relationship he never dreamed of having with his daughter. But while he develops paternal feelings for the 14-year-old, she's developing a fascination with Daddy's questionable career.
Actors
Roy WallerNicolas Cage
Frank MercerSam Rockwell
AngelaAlison Lohman
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Charlie Wilson’s War

IMDB Rating: 7.50
19676 votes

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A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
Actors
JailbaitShiri Appleby
Larry LiddlePeter Gerety
Avi PerlmanErick Avari
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Sleepers

IMDB Rating: 7.20
31931 votes

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Four boys growing up in Hell's Kitchen play a prank that leads to an old man getting hurt. Sentenced to no less than one year in the Wilkenson Center in upstate New York, the four friends are changed by the beating, humiliation and sexual abuse by the guards sworn to protect them. Thirteen years later and a chance meeting lead to a chance for revenge against the Wilkenson Center and the guards.
Actors
Sean NokesKevin Bacon
Tommy MarcanoBilly Crudup
Father BobbyRobert De Niro
Also posted in 1996, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)