Tag Archives: based on play

An Ideal Husband

IMDB Rating: 6.70
6060 votes

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Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Actors
Lady Gertrude ChilternCate Blanchett
Miss Mabel ChilternMinnie Driver
Lord Arthur GoringRupert Everett
Also posted in 1999, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (2)

Hurlyburly

IMDB Rating: 5.40
4762 votes

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Hurly-burly is an adaptation of David Rabe's well known play about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes who's personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios.
Actors
EddieSean Penn
MickeyKevin Spacey
DarleneRobin Wright Penn
Also posted in 1998, Drama | Comments (0)

A Perfect Murder

IMDB Rating: 6.40
11164 votes

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Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory. Brilliant in her own right, she works at the U.N. and is involved with a struggling artist who fulfills her emotional needs. When her husband discovers her indiscretion, he sets out to commit the perfect murder and inherit her considerable trust fund in the bargain.
Actors
Steven TaylorMichael Douglas
Emily Bradford TaylorGwyneth Paltrow
David ShawViggo Mortensen
Also posted in 1998, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

You’ve Got Mail

IMDB Rating: 6.20
23227 votes

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Kathleen Kelly, owner of a little and famous bookstore for children's books, has an affair. Being together with Frank Navasky, a well-known journalist, she betrays him by e-mailing secretly and anonymously with a (also betraying) man whom she met in a chat room. Suddenly, her business gets endangered by the opening of Fox Books discount store just "around the corner". She meets Joe Fox, son of the owner, and soon gets annoyed by his arrogant way of managing business matters. Although getting advice by her anonymous mail-pal, she has to close down her store. But Joe Fox's life suddenly gets out of control when he learns that his anonymous mail-pal is nobody other than Kathleen Kelly.
Actors
Joe FoxTom Hanks
Kathleen KellyMeg Ryan
Frank NavaskyGreg Kinnear
Also posted in 1998, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Romeo + Juliet

IMDB Rating: 6.80
33660 votes

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Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue. The gun-toting members of the families wage a vicious war on the streets as the star-crossed lovers, their tragic destiny.
Actors
RomeoLeonardo DiCaprio
JulietClaire Danes
TybaltJohn Leguizamo
Also posted in 1996, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Sabrina

IMDB Rating: 6.00
10274 votes

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While she was growing up, Sabrina Fairchild spent more time ] perched in a tree watching the Larrabee family than she ever did on solid ground.As the chauffeur's daughter on their lavish Long Island estate, Sabrina was invisible behind the branches, but she knew them all below... There is Maude Larrabee, the modern matriarch of the Larrabee Corporation; Linus Larrabee, the serious older son who expanded a successful family business into the world's largest communications company; and David, the handsome, fun-loving Larrabee, who was the center of Sabrina's world. Until she was shipped off to Paris. After two years on the staff of Vogue magazine, Sabrina has returned to the Larrabee estate, but now she has blossomed into a beautiful and sophisticated woman. And she's standing in the way of a billion dollar deal.
Actors
Linus LarrabeeHarrison Ford
Sabrina FairchildJulia Ormond
David LarrabeeGreg Kinnear
Also posted in 1995, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

A Few Good Men

IMDB Rating: 7.50
28859 votes

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In this dramatic courtroom thriller, Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), a Navy lawyer who has never seen the inside of the courtroom, defends two stubborn Marines (Wolfgang Bodison and James Marshall) who have been accused of murdering a colleague. He (Cruise) is known as being lazy and had arranged for a plea bargain. Downey's (Marshall) Aunt Ginny appoints Cmdr. Galloway (Demi Moore) to represent him. Also on the legal staff is Lt. Sam Weinberg (Kevin Pollak). The team rounds up many facts and Kaffee is discovering that he is really cut out for trial work. The defense is originally based upon the fact that PFC Santiago, the victim, was given a "CODE RED". Santiago was basically a screw-up. At Gitmo, screw-ups aren't tolerated. Especially by Col. Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson). In Cuba, Jessup and two senior officers (J.T. Walsh and Kiefer Sutherland) try to give all the help they can, but Kaffee knows something's fishy. In the conclusion of the film, the fireworks are set off by a confrontation between Jessup and Kaffee.
Actors
Lt. Daniel KaffeeTom Cruise
Col. Nathan R. JessepJack Nicholson
Lt. Cdr. JoAnne GallowayDemi Moore
Also posted in 1992, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Hook

IMDB Rating: 5.80
22996 votes

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Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again.
Actors
Gwyneth Paltrow
Glenn Close
Capt. James S. HookDustin Hoffman
Also posted in 1991, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | Comments (0)

Desperate Hours

IMDB Rating: 5.10
1411 votes

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Michael Bosworth is a psychotic criminal who is about to go on trial however, he seduces his lawyer into helping him escape. But as they try to make their getaway, she's left behind. He decides to wait for her to come to him, so he decides to hide at the house of the Cornells. Now it appears that the Cornells have problems of their own. The husband and wife are separated. And there's an FBI agent after them who is using the lawyer to lead them to Bosworth.
Actors
Michael BosworthMickey Rourke
Tim CornellAnthony Hopkins
Nora CornellMimi Rogers
Also posted in 1990, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Jacknife

IMDB Rating: 6.30
1277 votes

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A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.
Actors
Joseph 'Jacknife' MegesseyRobert De Niro
Martha FlanniganKathy Baker
David 'High School' FlanniganEd Harris
Also posted in 1989, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)