Tag Archives: california

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

IMDB Rating: 6.60
20184 votes

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When best friends Bill S. Preston and Ted "Theodore" Logan are in danger of being seperated and having their band, Wyld Stalyns broken up because they're failing history, a time traveler from the future gives them a telephone booth so they can travel through time and ace their history report.
Actors
Ted LoganKeanu Reeves
Bill S. Preston, Esq.Alex Winter
RufusGeorge Carlin
Also posted in 1989, Adventure, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Get Shorty

IMDB Rating: 6.90
23778 votes

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Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he's struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he's snagged up by a producer. The rest is history.
Actors
James Gandolfini
David Paymer
Rene Russo
Also posted in 1995, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

1941

IMDB Rating: 5.50
9282 votes

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Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.
Actors
Samuel Fuller
John Candy
Warren Oates
Also posted in 1979, Comedy, War | Comments (0)

Under the Tuscan Sun

IMDB Rating: 6.60
8606 votes

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Academy Award nominee 'Diane Lane (I)' (qv) stars as 'Frances Mayes' (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer's block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on 'Frances Mayes' (qv)' memoir of the same name.
Actors
FrancesDiane Lane
PattiSandra Oh
KatherineLindsay Duncan
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (1)

Joe Dirt

IMDB Rating: 5.20
11279 votes

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David Spade plays Joe, whose search for his family has him hittin' the road and keepin' it real with every lowlife he meets, including a sweet hottie (Brittany Daniel), a janitor (Christopher Walken), and a pychotic cannibal (Brian Thompson) with whom he has a brief interlude. Through it all, Joe keeps on truckin' . . . all the way to L.A., where a shock jock DJ (Dennis Miller) targets Joe as the butt of his show. But Joe's plucky spirit encourages listeners to cheer him on and help him find a better family than the one he thought he wanted. Rock on!
Actors
Joe DirtDavid Spade
BrandyBrittany Daniel
Zander KellyDennis Miller
Also posted in 2001, Adventure, Comedy, Romance | Comments (0)

Seabiscuit

IMDB Rating: 7.50
21002 votes

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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters'fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit "fixed us, every one of us."
Actors
NarratorDavid McCullough
Charles HowardJeff Bridges
Bicycle SupervisorPaul Vincent O'Connor
Also posted in 2003, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, Sport | Comments (4)

Sideways

IMDB Rating: 7.80
47569 votes

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Miles Raymond, a failed writer and divorcé who teaches junior high school English takes his best friend, former hot actor Jack, on a weeklong drive up to California's wine country. There they explore the nature of their failures and question their relationships. Jack, about to get married, has an affair with a woman and wonders whether he should call off his wedding. Miles questions whether or not he made the right choice while trying to form a relationship with the woman's best friend, a fellow oenophile who is a waitress at a restaurant that he frequents often when visiting that part of the country.
Actors
MilesPaul Giamatti
JackThomas Haden Church
MayaVirginia Madsen
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (1)

Lions for Lambs

IMDB Rating: 6.10
4631 votes

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Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest's fates.
Actors
Professor Stephen MalleyRobert Redford
Janine RothMeryl Streep
Senator Jasper IrvingTom Cruise
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller, War | Comments (0)

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

IMDB Rating: 5.70
1236 votes

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Tim Kearney is an incarcerated former Marine who is offered freedom by DEA agent Tad Gruzsa in exchange for impersonating recently-late drug lord Bobby Z. Things don't go as planned, however, and Kearney ends up on the run with Bobby Z's 12-year-old son.
Actors
Tim KearneyPaul Walker
Tad GruzsaLaurence Fishburne
Bobby ZJason Lewis
Also posted in 2007, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Fearless

IMDB Rating: 7.00
6879 votes

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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
Actors
Max KleinJeff Bridges
Laura KleinIsabella Rossellini
Carla RodrigoRosie Perez
Also posted in 1993, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)