Tag Archives: disfigurement

Forever Mine

IMDB Rating: 4.90
734 votes

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 Storyline
Two stories, 14 years apart, converge in a suburb of New York. Manuel Esquema, an international financier, whose face is badly scarred, is flying from Miami to help a New York politician negotiate a plea bargain with the Justice Department. Years before, this financier was a fresh-faced cabaña boy at a Miami Beach resort who fell in love with a young woman on holiday with her husband. The husband is now the pol, and he thinks he dispatched the cabaña boy long ago. What are Esquema's plans: revenge, mercy, or a complicated plan to seek again the woman's love?
Actors
Manuel Esquema/Alan RiplyJoseph Fiennes
Mark BriceRay Liotta
Ella BriceGretchen Mol
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Man Without a Face

IMDB Rating: 6.40
5847 votes

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The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was incinerated and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He is also suspected of being a pedophile. He is befriended by Chuck, causing the town's suspicion and hostility to be ignited. McLeod inculcates in his protege a love of justice and freedom from prejudice which sustains him beyond the end of the film.
Actors
Justin McLeodMel Gibson
Charles E. 'Chuck' NorstadtNick Stahl
Catherine PalinMargaret Whitton
Also posted in 1993, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

House of Wax

IMDB Rating: 6.90
1780 votes

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A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men have a fight. The sculptor is knocked out in the scuffle and left to "perish" among the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. The opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the city morgue. His assistant begins to suspect his boss of foul play, especially after the deranged wizard of wax begins eyeing his assistant's lovely girlfriend's friend as a model for a waxed figure of Marie Antoinette.
Actors
Prof. Henry JarrodVincent Price
Lt. Tom BrennanFrank Lovejoy
Sue AllenPhyllis Kirk
Also posted in 1953, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)
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