Tag Archives: father daughter relationship

The Weather Man

IMDB Rating: 7.00
16094 votes

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Clever and insightful movie on the subject of growing-up in upper middle class America. Dave Spritz, a weatherman without meteorological qualifications in Chicago, is confronted with his own rage that life hasn't proceeded as he had planned. A talented man who finds it difficult to see his own talent because he compares himself with his Pulitzer winning, distant father is at a low ebb. Not to mention that "fans" delight in recognizing him on the street and throwing food at him. The other problems in his life, an angry ex-wife, a daughter bullied at school and a son just leaving rehab don't help. And Spritz would really rather just think about sex. Through finding a hobby, connecting with his dying father and standing by his kids we see the character grow and become a hero.
Actors
David SpritzNicolas Cage
Robert SpritzelMichael Caine
NoreenHope Davis
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Family Stone

IMDB Rating: 6.30
12580 votes

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The Stone family unites in common cause when their favorite son brings his uptight girlfriend home for the Christmas holiday, with plans of proposing. Overwhelmed by the hostile reception, she begs her sister to join her for emotional support, triggering further complications.
Actors
Julie MortonClaire Danes
Sybil StoneDiane Keaton
Amy StoneRachel McAdams
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

North Country

IMDB Rating: 7.20
8291 votes

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A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go work at the Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.
Actors
Josey AimesCharlize Theron
Karen AimesElle Peterson
Sammy AimesThomas Curtis
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Proof

IMDB Rating: 7.00
9210 votes

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The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.
Actors
CatherineGwyneth Paltrow
RobertAnthony Hopkins
HalJake Gyllenhaal
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Hide and Seek

IMDB Rating: 5.50
15585 votes

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Hide and Seek revolves around a widower (Robert DeNiro) and his daughter (Dakota Fanning). They move to upstate and Emily (Fanning) soon creates an imaginary friend named Charlie...but this act takes an unexpected and terrifying turn, where her father and doctor (Famke Janssen) start to worry about Emily's gruesome habits.
Actors
David CallawayRobert De Niro
Emily CallawayDakota Fanning
KatherineFamke Janssen
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Horror, Thriller | Comments (1)

An American Haunting

IMDB Rating: 4.80
7059 votes

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In 2006, in Red River, Tennessee, a teenager has frequent nightmares. Her mother reads an old letter from 1817 written by her ancestor, Lucy Bell. After a dispute of lands judged by the church, her husband John Bell is cursed by his opponent Kathe Batts, who has a fame of being a witch. From this moment on, an entity threatens John and her daughter Betsy Bell, attacking the girl during the nights. With the support of Betsy's school teacher Richard Powell, who tries to find rational explanations for the manifestation; her brother John Bell Jr.; and their friend James Johnston, who unsuccessfully tries to exorcize the entity from the house, the family does their best to protect Betsy in the haunted house.
Actors
John BellDonald Sutherland
Lucy BellSissy Spacek
Richard PowellJames D'Arcy
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

IMDB Rating: 5.20
4767 votes

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Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children, headed by Eugene Levy
Actors
Tom 'Dad' BakerSteve Martin
Kate 'Mom' BakerBonnie Hunt
Nora BakerPiper Perabo
Also posted in 2005, Adventure, Comedy, Family | Comments (0)

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

IMDB Rating: 6.70
1976 votes

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Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Jack has sheltered Rose from the influences of the outside world, but now Rose's emerging womanhood poses troubling questions about the days ahead. A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism and other altruistic causes, Jack now rages at those who do not share his concerns, like developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges), who is building a housing tract on the edge of his property. When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her sons Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thaddius (Paul Dano) to live with them, Rose feels betrayed and the situation quickly becomes precarious. Rose acts out wildly, creating chaos. As everything flies out of control, Jack finds himself trapped in an impossible place and is forced to take action.
Actors
Rose SlavinCamilla Belle
Jack SlavinDaniel Day-Lewis
KathleenCatherine Keener
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

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)

Wedding Crashers

IMDB Rating: 7.20
43726 votes

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Divorce mediators John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey are business partners and lifelong friends who share one truly unique springtime hobby—crashing weddings! Whatever the ethnicity of the wedding party—Jewish, Italian, Irish, Chinese, Hindu—the charismatic and charming duo always have clever back stories for inquisitive guests and inevitably become the hit of every reception, where they strictly adhere to their proven rules of wedding crashing to meet and pick up women aroused by the very thought of marriage. At the tail end of another successful season of toasting brides and grooms, Jeremy learns that the daughter of Treasury Secretary William Cleary and his wife, Kathleen, is getting married in what is sure to be the Washington D.C. social event of the year. After infiltrating the lavish affair, John and Jeremy quickly set their sights on two bridesmaids, Claire and Gloria Cleary. With the lavish reception in full swing, Jeremy works his game plan to perfection in seducing Gloria, but John's flirtation banter with Claire is unexpectedly impeded by her pompous, Ivy League boyfriend Sack. Having uncharacteristically fallen hard and fast for Claire, John convinces a resistant Jeremy to bend the crashing rules and accept an invitation to an extended weekend party at the Cleary family compound. Once at the palatial waterfront estate, John and Jeremy endure a multitude of comical mishaps at the hands of the dysfunctional members of the Cleary family, but also learn a few unexpected lessons about love and relationships.
Actors
John BeckwithOwen Wilson
Jeremy GreyVince Vaughn
Treasury Secretary William ClearyChristopher Walken
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)
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