Tag Archives: grandmother granddaughter relationship

In Her Shoes

IMDB Rating: 7.00
12756 votes

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Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well.
Actors
MaggieCameron Diaz
ToddAnson Mount
RoseToni Collette
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Rumor Has It…

IMDB Rating: 5.60
8113 votes

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Sarah Huttington, recently engaged, goes home to Pasadena with fiancé Jeff for a family wedding. She hears a rumor that "The Graduate" (book and movie) are based on her family. Did her grandmother and her mom have flings with the same man just before her parents married? Is she a strange man's child; does this explain why she doesn't fit in? Was her mother happy? Is she too facing a loveless marriage? Where can she seek answers: her mother's dead, her father's a pleasant naïf. Ask her salty grandma? Better to ask the man in the triangle, the real Benjamin Braddock. With Jeff's blessing, Sarah heads for San Francisco, looking for the key to her past and to her future.
Actors
Sarah HuttingerJennifer Aniston
Beau BurroughsKevin Costner
Katharine RichelieuShirley MacLaine
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

Hoodwinked!

IMDB Rating: 6.70
9140 votes

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The "Little Red Hiding Hood" fairytale gets an imaginative update. After The Wolf (Patrick Warburton) is found at Granny's charged with an intent to eat an investigation starts up by Nick Fippers (David Odgen Stiers). Red (Anne Hathaway), The Wolf (Warburton), The Woodsman (Jim Beluchi) and Granny (Glenn Close) give their stories, Flippers and Cheif Grizzly (Xzibit) and the rest of the police try to find out who is the Goodie Bandit. Bill: Anthony Anderson, Twitchy: Cory Edwards, Boingo: Andy Dick.
Actors
GrannyGlenn Close
RedAnne Hathaway
The WoodsmanJames Belushi
Also posted in 2005, Animation, Comedy, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Whale Rider

IMDB Rating: 7.90
12227 votes

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On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
Actors
PaikeaKeisha Castle-Hughes
KoroRawiri Paratene
Nanny FlowersVicky Haughton
Also posted in 2002, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Princess Diaries

IMDB Rating: 5.80
11514 votes

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A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia. She must make a choice between continuing the life of a San Francisco teen or stepping up to the throne. While Mia makes up her mind, she's pressed into taking princess lessons from her grandmother.
Actors
Queen Clarisse RenaldiJulie Andrews
Mia ThermopolisAnne Hathaway
JoeHector Elizondo
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Family | Comments (9)

Dante’s Peak

IMDB Rating: 5.50
10536 votes

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USGS scientists Harry Dalton is sent to the small town of Dante's Peak to check on unusual activity. Spurred by the volcano related death of a previous lover, Dalton urges Mayor Rachel Wando to put the city on alert. Dalton's boss, Paul Dreyfus arrives and countermands Dalton demanding scientific proof. When the proof finally arrives, Harry and Rachel must go to the volcano to rescue her two children and ex-mother-in-law. Tension builds as they try to reach safety while the town below is destroyed.
Actors
Harry DaltonPierce Brosnan
Rachel WandoLinda Hamilton
Paul DreyfusCharles Hallahan
Also posted in 1997, Action, Adventure, Drama | Comments (0)
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