Tag Archives: Family

Nanny McPhee

IMDB Rating: 6.90
5643 votes

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Mr. Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) has just lost his wife and is now left with his seven children who misbehave so much that all the nannies have run away. Now he is told by a mysterious voice that he should get Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) who is a magical woman with special powers.
Actors
Nanny McPheeEmma Thompson
Cedric BrownColin Firth
EvangelineKelly Macdonald
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Proposition

IMDB Rating: 7.50
7378 votes

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Rural Australia in the late nineteenth century: Capt. Stanley and his men capture two of the four Burns brothers, Charlie and Mike. Their gang is held responsible for attacking the Hopkins farm, raping pregnant Mrs. Hopkins and murdering the whole family. Arthur Burns, the eldest brother and the gang's mastermind, remains at large has and has retreated to a mountain hideout. Capt. Stanley's proposition to Charlie is to gain pardon and - more importantly - save his beloved younger brother Mike from the gallows by finding and killing Arthur within nine days.
Actors
Samuel StoteTom Budge
Charlie BurnsGuy Pearce
Martha StanleyEmily Watson
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Upside of Anger

IMDB Rating: 7.10
7330 votes

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A sharp-witted suburban wife, Terry Wolfmeyer, is left to raise her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic when she falls for her neighbor Denny, a once-great baseball star turned radio d.j. This leaves her daughters out on a limb. They are forced to juggle their mom's romantic dilemmas as well as their own.
Actors
Terry Ann WolfmeyerJoan Allen
Denny DaviesKevin Costner
Andy WolfmeyerErika Christensen
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Zathura: A Space Adventure

IMDB Rating: 6.30
6346 votes

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Danny and Walter are two brothers who barely get along even while driving their parents to distraction as their older sister tries to ignore them. Despite their squabbling, the brothers manage cooperate enough to play an old mechanical board game named Zathura. However, after their first move, they find that the game has apparently flung them, their sister and their entire house into outer space. Furthermore, the brothers surmise the only way to return home is to finish the game. However with almost every move, new dangers arise as the siblings find themselves learning to cooperate in ways they never expected as they realize what they mean to each other.
Actors
DannyJonah Bobo
WalterJosh Hutcherson
AstronautDax Shepard
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Pride & Prejudice

IMDB Rating: 7.80
23448 votes

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The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.
Actors
Elizabeth BennetKeira Knightley
Mary BennetTalulah Riley
Jane BennetRosamund Pike
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (1)

Boogeyman

IMDB Rating: 3.80
8151 votes

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Set in Chicago, 'Boogeyman' tells the haunting tale of a young man traumatized by memories of terrible events he experienced in his childhood bedroom and who, years later, reluctantly returns home to face his fears of a monstrous entity that could be real or merely a figment of his imagination.
Actors
TimBarry Watson
Kate HoughtonEmily Deschanel
Franny RobertsSkye McCole Bartusiak
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Horror, Mystery | Comments (1)

Around the Bend

IMDB Rating: 6.30
1554 votes

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Four generations of men who haven't seen each other in years are suddenly brought together by the chance to uncover the truth about their family's past. It's a journey that takes them out on the road to a world full of surprises - some comic, some dramatic, and all of them personal.
Actors
Henry LairMichael Caine
Zach LairJonah Bobo
Jason LairJosh Lucas
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Stepford Wives

IMDB Rating: 5.20
10503 votes

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Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a successful TV producer on the verge of yet another Emmy-winning streak of TV shows when she is fired from her job at a prestigious network. She then has a mental breakdown and her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) and their two children (Dylan Hartigan, Fallon Brooking) move to Stepford, Conneticut, the most perfectly perfect little town there ever was. The women of Stepfrod spend all day knitting, gardening, exercising in beautiful dresses, and are the most splendid of all women on Earth. Soon, Joanna along with her best-selling author buddy, Bobbie (Bette Midler) and Democratic, flamboyant fairy friend Roger (Roger Bart) realize that something isn't right in Stepford. All is not as perfect as it seems...especially after Roger and Bobbie are turned into perfect portraits of Stepford. Why are the women of Stepfrod so perfect? What do the Stepford Husabnds have to do with the scheme? Will Joanna ultimately uncover the truth? Or are the Stepford coming for her to make her a blonde, bubbly piece of perfection?
Actors
Joanna EberhartNicole Kidman
Walter KresbyMatthew Broderick
Bobbie MarkowitzBette Midler
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (3)

A Cinderella Story

IMDB Rating: 5.30
6867 votes

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Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Sam Martin is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.
Actors
SamHilary Duff
FionaJennifer Coolidge
AustinChad Michael Murray
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Romance | Comments (1)

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

IMDB Rating: 5.50
3853 votes

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TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid. Several folk who are also involved in Dickie's special world include: Sidney, Dickie's longtime friend and agent; Cyndi, his on-again, off-again girlfriend; Peggy, Dickie's real mother; George, Dickie's adopted father figure; and Grace, his adopted mother figure.
Actors
Dickie RobertsDavid Spade
Grace FinneyMary McCormack
George FinneyCraig Bierko
Also posted in 2003, Comedy | Comments (2)
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