Tag Archives: friendship

Going in Style

IMDB Rating: 7.00
766 votes

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Joe, Al, and Willie are three old men who have resigned themselves to dying. One night, Joe hatches a scheme to put a bit of excitement back into their lives: robbing a bank....
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JoeGeorge Burns
AlArt Carney
WillieLee Strasberg
Also posted in 1979, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Vertigo

IMDB Rating: 8.60
70622 votes

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John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.
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Det. John 'Scottie' FergusonJames Stewart
Madeleine ElsterKim Novak
Judy BartonKim Novak
Also posted in 1958, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Muppets Take Manhattan

IMDB Rating: 6.60
4925 votes

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The Muppets are back in a brand-new full-length musical comedy! After graduating college, the Muppets travel to Manhattan to have someone produce their musical "Manhattan Melodies". When it doesn't happen, the gang splits up. Kermit makes friends with Jenny (Juliana Donald) and Piggy is jealous, thinking that Kermit found a new girl. Now Rowlf is a vet secretary, Fozzie's living in a cave, and Piggy is working at a hotel with her partner, but apparently they get fired and now Piggy lives next door to where Kermit works at Pete's with Jenny. When Jenny and Kermit find producer-in-training Ronny Coleman (Lonny Price), he promises to produce their show. The gang returns to Manhattan, but after getting hit by a car in joy, Kermit gets amnesia and now finds work making ads with other frogs. When Kermit is found at Pete's, they try to restore his memory.
Actors
Kermit the FrogJim Henson
RowlfJim Henson
Dr. TeethJim Henson
Also posted in 1984, Comedy, Family, High IMDB rating, Musical, Romance | Comments (0)

Fried Green Tomatoes

IMDB Rating: 7.40
19225 votes

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Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.
Actors
Evelyn CouchKathy Bates
Idgie ThreadgoodeMary Stuart Masterson
Ruth JamisonMary-Louise Parker
Also posted in 1991, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Someone Like You…

IMDB Rating: 5.80
7859 votes

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After a series of ill-fated relationships, Jane (Ashley Judd) has finally met Mr. Right, Ray (Greg Kinnear) - he's emotionally available, and not afraid of commitment. Six weeks into their blissful courtship, he asks her to move in with him, and they start looking at apartments. But little by little Ray starts to pull away, until Jane realizes that once again she's been dumped. Jane's womanizing coworker, Eddie, just happens to be looking for a roommate, and Jane reluctantly moves in. Desperate to understand what happened and get over Ray, Jane comes up with a theory of interpreting male-female relations by observing the behaviors of wild animals. She shares this idea with a friend who works at a men's magazine (Marisa Tomei) and is given an anonymous editorial column devoted solely to her thoughts on the matter. But no one could have predicted the chord she'd strike among women with her theory, and the column's wild success makes Jane start to question her conclusions - and opens her eyes to what might be right in front of her.
Actors
Jane GoodaleAshley Judd
Ray BrownGreg Kinnear
Eddie AldenHugh Jackman
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Romance | Comments (0)

Naked Weapon

IMDB Rating: 5.50
2054 votes

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Like a contagious virus, pretty and athletic girls in their teens start dissappearing around the globe one after another. The mastermind behind these abductions is Madame M (Almen Wong), who plans to train these girls into professional killers. After several years of gruesome training, only Charlene (Maggie Q), Katt (Anya) and Jill (Jewel Lee) survive and become the world's most sought after professional killers. On a recent mission to assassinate someone in Hong Kong, however CIA agent Jack (Daniel Wu), who vows to help her reclaim her past by eliminating Madame M.
Actors
Fiona BirchMarit Thoresen
Madam MAlmen Wong Pui-Ha
Jack ChenDaniel Wu
Also posted in 2002, Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Sweet Land

IMDB Rating: 7.30
1451 votes

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As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf's postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry...
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Young IngeElizabeth Reaser
Old IngeLois Smith
Young LarsPatrick Heusinger
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

13 Going on 30

IMDB Rating: 6.10
24438 votes

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It's 1987, and geeky Jenna wants to be popular. After her 13th birthday party goes awry, Jenna wishes she could just be 30 instead - only to wake up and discover that she's flash-forwarded 17 years. Now a sexy, successful magazine editor, Jena finds out that being an adult isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be.
Actors
Jenna RinkJennifer Garner
Matt FlamhaffMark Ruffalo
Lucy WymanJudy Greer
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Color Purple

IMDB Rating: 7.60
21677 votes

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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
Actors
AlbertDanny Glover
Celie JohnsonWhoopi Goldberg
Shug AveryMargaret Avery
Also posted in 1985, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Good Will Hunting

IMDB Rating: 8.00
111585 votes

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Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean's coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.
Actors
Sean MaguireRobin Williams
Will HuntingMatt Damon
Chuckie SullivanBen Affleck
Also posted in 1997, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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