Tag Archives: drug abuse

Fast Food Nation

IMDB Rating: 6.30
7998 votes

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Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear) is the Mickey's food restaurant chain's Marketing Director. He is the inventor of the "Big One" the hamburger best seller of Mickey's. An independent research reports the presence of cow's feces in the Big One. So Don is sent to Cody, Colorado, to verify if the slaughterhouse, main supplier of Mickey's, is efficient as it appears and the production process is regular. During his investigations he discovers the horrible truth behind a simple hamburger; the reality is not like we think it is. Don discovers that the mass production system involves from the temp workers like Amber (Ashley Jonhson), to the exploitation of Mexican irregular immigrants. It is not only the meat that is crush in the mincing machine, but all our society.
Actors
RaulWilmer Valderrama
SylviaCatalina Sandino Moreno
CocoAna Claudia Talancón
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Traffic

IMDB Rating: 7.80
56634 votes

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A modern day look at America's war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who's just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband's drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse's business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.
Actors
Javier RodriguezBenicio Del Toro
Manolo SanchezJacob Vargas
Desert Truck DriverAndrew Chavez
Also posted in 2000, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Kids

IMDB Rating: 6.70
18576 votes

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Disturbing, dark, low-budget independent film about teen-agers growing up in poverty in New York City. The story focuses on Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), a teen who has a goal to de-flower as many virgins as he can. When one of his old encounters discovers that she is H.I.V.-positive, after only one encounter with a guy, Telly remains undaunted.
Actors
TellyLeo Fitzpatrick
Girl #1Sarah Henderson
CasperJustin Pierce
Also posted in 1995, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

21 Grams

IMDB Rating: 7.90
55235 votes

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This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.
Actors
Paul RiversSean Penn
Cristina PeckNaomi Watts
MichaelDanny Huston
Also posted in 2003, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Boiler Room

IMDB Rating: 6.80
16301 votes

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A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who's harsh with his son. At his father's insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he'll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He's terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father.
Actors
Seth DavisGiovanni Ribisi
Chris VarickVin Diesel
Greg WeinsteinNicky Katt
Also posted in 2000, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Living and the Dead

IMDB Rating: 5.80
444 votes

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A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.
Actors
Donald BrocklebankRoger Lloyd-Pack
James BrocklebankLeo Bill
PolicemanNeil Conrich
Also posted in 2006, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The 40 Year Old Virgin

IMDB Rating: 7.50
60514 votes

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Andy at the age of 40 still hasn't had sex. He lets his secret slip at a poker game with his buds from work. After the revealing all his friends are on a mission to help get him laid. Along the way Andy meets a nice mom: Trish who fall head over heels for each other.
Actors
Andy StitzerSteve Carell
TrishCatherine Keener
DavidPaul Rudd
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Basketball Diaries

IMDB Rating: 6.90
12964 votes

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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.
Actors
Jim CarrollLeonardo DiCaprio
Jim's MotherLorraine Bracco
Chanting WomanMarilyn Sokol
Also posted in 1995, Biography, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time

IMDB Rating: 6.40
291 votes

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Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.
Actors
SamSteve John Shepherd
BeanBen Waters
CharlieAlec Newman
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music | Comments (0)

The Cooler

IMDB Rating: 7.00
12555 votes

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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas' aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.
Actors
Bernie LootzWilliam H. Macy
Shelly KaplowAlec Baldwin
Natalie BelisarioMaria Bello
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)
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