Tag Archives: father son relationship

Death Sentence

IMDB Rating: 7.10
3518 votes

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When a family falls victim to a vicious attack perpetrated as a gang initiation ritual, the vengeful father vows to track down each person involved in the crime in Saw director James Wan and screenwriter Ian Jeffers feature adaptation of author Brian Garfield's original novel. Aisha Tyler co-stars as the sympathetic homicide detective who questions her pledge to assist Bacon's character after suspecting that he may have turned to murder as a means of exacting his revenge.
Actors
Nick HumeKevin Bacon
Billy DarleyGarrett Hedlund
Helen HumeKelly Preston
Also posted in 2007, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Over the Top

IMDB Rating: 4.20
6946 votes

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Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who's trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his ex-wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son doesn't think too highly of him until he enters the nation-wide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas.
Actors
Lincoln HawkSylvester Stallone
Jason CutlerRobert Loggia
Christina Cutler-HawkSusan Blakely
Also posted in 1987, Action, Drama | Comments (0)

Tommy Boy

IMDB Rating: 6.70
16010 votes

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Tommy Callahan Jr. is a slow-witted, clumsy guy who recently graduated college after attending for seven years. His father, Big Tom Callahan, owns an auto parts factory in Ohio. When Tommy arrives back home, he finds he has a position at the factory waiting for him. His dad also introduces Tommy to the new brake pad division of the factory and to Tommy's soon-to-be stepmother, Beverly, and her son Paul. But when Big Tom dies, the factory threatens to go under unless the new brake pads are to be sold. Therefore, Tommy must go on the road to sell them, along with the assistance of Richard, Big Tom's right-hand man. Will Tommy save the company, or will the factory, and the town, go under?
Actors
Thomas 'Tommy' Callahan IIIChris Farley
Richard HaydenDavid Spade
Thomas 'Big Tom' CallahanBrian Dennehy
Also posted in 1995, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Mary Poppins

IMDB Rating: 7.60
23143 votes

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The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.
Actors
Mary PoppinsJulie Andrews
Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr.Dick Van Dyke
Mr. George W. BanksDavid Tomlinson
Also posted in 1964, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Musical | Comments (0)

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

IMDB Rating: 7.10
52506 votes

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Austin Powers (Myers) is a 60's spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990's. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortuantly for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington (Hurley) to stop the evil Dr. Evil (Myers), who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90's) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil's henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell!
Actors
Austin Powers/Dr. EvilMike Myers
Vanessa KensingtonElizabeth Hurley
Basil ExpositionMichael York
Also posted in 1997, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

First Blood

IMDB Rating: 7.10
27027 votes

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John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet. He is hitchhiking from town to town to see friends from the war. A sheriff tries to make him leave town and when he refuses, arrests him for vagrancy. While in jail, a deputy takes delight in abusing him. Rambo escapes showing his old Vietnam fighting skills and takes to the woods as the sheriff and deputies try and find him in his element. Things get out of hand as Colonel Trautman Rambo's old commander appears to shed light on the situation.
Actors
John J. RamboSylvester Stallone
Col. Samuel TrautmanRichard Crenna
Hope Sheriff Will TeasleBrian Dennehy
Also posted in 1982, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Sleepless in Seattle

IMDB Rating: 6.60
26829 votes

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Sam is a recent widower who is seeking someone new. Sam's son Jonah, is also looking for a new mother, so when Jonah puts his father on national radio, hundreds of women write to him. One of the women is Annie. She's engaged to Walter, but he's a bit strange. Annie goes to great lengths to meet Sam.
Actors
Sam BaldwinTom Hanks
Annie ReedMeg Ryan
WalterBill Pullman
Also posted in 1993, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

War of the Worlds

IMDB Rating: 6.60
83334 votes

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Ray Ferrier is a dock worker who is finishing a night of work in the morning, because he works the night shift. But when he gets home his young daughter Rachel and teenage son Robbie are staying with him at his house in Bayonne, New Jersey, while his pregnant ex-wife Mary Anne and her new husband Tim visit her parents in Boston for the weekend. But then the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense! Witnessing, and barely escaping the horror, first-hand, it's up to Ray to protect his two kids from terrorist and races up to Boston before one of them gets murdered by a large tripod machine in its path!
Actors
Ray FerrierTom Cruise
Rachel FerrierDakota Fanning
Robbie FerrierJustin Chatwin
Also posted in 2005, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Seven Years in Tibet

IMDB Rating: 6.60
17243 votes

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Heinrich Harrer runs from trouble at home in WWII Austria to climb Mt. Nanga Parbat. After meeting unforseen obstacles, he comes into contact with the forbidden city of Lhasa.
Actors
Heinrich HarrerBrad Pitt
Peter AufschnaiterDavid Thewlis
Ngawang JigmeB. D. Wong
Also posted in 1997, Adventure, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Jazz Singer

IMDB Rating: 5.00
966 votes

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Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yussel travels to California to play his music. Swept up by the excitement, he meets a woman who shares his dream. He grows apart from his family, and becomes confused about what he should ultimately do with his life.
Actors
Cantor RabinovitchLaurence Olivier
Jess RobinNeil Diamond
Molly BellLucie Arnaz
Also posted in 1980, Drama, Music | Comments (0)