Tag Archives: book

Bee Season

IMDB Rating: 5.50
1879 votes

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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty...
Actors
SaulRichard Gere
MiriamJuliette Binoche
ElizaFlora Cross
Also posted in 2005, Drama | Comments (0)

A Love Song for Bobby Long

IMDB Rating: 7.20
5615 votes

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Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines. These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson's faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long's life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.
Actors
Bobby LongJohn Travolta
Pursy WillScarlett Johansson
Lawson PinesGabriel Macht
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

IMDB Rating: 6.90
24236 votes

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Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.
Actors
Count OlafJim Carrey
KlausLiam Aiken
VioletEmily Browning
Also posted in 2004, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (5)

Equilibrium

IMDB Rating: 7.70
38637 votes

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In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. Whe he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.
Actors
SeamusDominic Purcell
John PrestonChristian Bale
Errol PartridgeSean Bean
Also posted in 2002, Action, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

IMDB Rating: 7.30
48758 votes

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In his second term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is warned by an elf named Dobby that disaster will strike when he returns to Hogwarts. Besides the fact that he is still disliked by Professor Snape (Alan Rickman) and hated by Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), Harry gets off to a great start with his two best friends, Ron Weasly (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), and famous writer Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh) has joined the Hogwarts staff and is the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. But now, Hogwarts students are strangely being turned into stone. But who is the one doing it, Malfoy, gamekeeper Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane), or, even, Harry? But what if it's Lord Voldemort trying to make his evil return?
Actors
Alfie Enoch
Kenneth Branagh
Miriam Margolyes
Also posted in 2002, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (14)

The Lost Empire

IMDB Rating: 4.30
473 votes

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American Businessman and China Scholar, Nick Orton is enlisted by the Buddhist goddess of mercy to save his world from de-evolving to the time of the Demon Master Shu and the 5 Traditional Masters who wish for no progress to ever happen. Nick is given help in the form of The Handsome Monkey king, Pigsy and Friar Sand who must do battle with dragons, demons and a heavenly legal system to assure that Earth remains as it should be.
Actors
Nicholas OrtonThomas Gibson
Kwan YingLing Bai
Monkey KingRussell Wong
Also posted in 2001, Adventure, Fantasy | Comments (0)

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

IMDB Rating: 7.40
20952 votes

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In Jersey City, an African American hit man follows "Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai." He lives alone, in simplicity with homing pigeons for company, calling himself Ghost Dog. His master, who saved his life eight years ago, is part of the local mob. When the boss' daughter witnesses one of Ghost Dog's hits, he becomes expendable. The first victims are his birds, and in response, Ghost Dog goes right at his attackers but does not want to harm his master or the young woman. On occasion, he talks with his best friend, a French-speaking Haitian who sells ice cream in the park, and with a child with whom he discusses books. Can he stay true to his code? And if he does, what is his fate?
Actors
Ghost DogForest Whitaker
LouieJohn Tormey
Sonny ValerioCliff Gorman
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (6)

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)

The English Patient

IMDB Rating: 7.10
27970 votes

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Beginning in the 1930's, "The English Patient" tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.
Actors
Count Laszlo de AlmásyRalph Fiennes
HanaJuliette Binoche
David CaravaggioWillem Dafoe
Also posted in 1996, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, War | Comments (0)

The Shawshank Redemption

IMDB Rating: 9.10
180199 votes

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Andy Dufresne, is sent to Shawshank Prison for the murder of his wife and secret lover. He is very isolated and lonely at first, but realises there is something deep inside your body, that people can't touch and get to....'HOPE'. Andy becomes friends with prison 'fixer' Red (Morgan Freeman), and Andy epitomises why it is crucial to have dreams. His spirit and determination, leads us into a world full of imagination, filled with courage and desire. Will Andy ever realise his dreams...?
Actors
Andy DufresneTim Robbins
Ellis Boyd 'Red' ReddingMorgan Freeman
Warden NortonBob Gunton
Also posted in 1994, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)