Tag Archives: housewife

Madigan

IMDB Rating: 6.70
871 votes

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Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.
Actors
Det. Daniel MadiganRichard Widmark
Commissioner Anthony X. RussellHenry Fonda
Julia MadiganInger Stevens
Also posted in 1968, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Brokeback Mountain

IMDB Rating: 7.80
66254 votes

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A raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond—by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.
Actors
Ennis Del MarHeath Ledger
Jack TwistJake Gyllenhaal
Joe AguirreRandy Quaid
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Funny Games U.S.

IMDB Rating: 6.80
4190 votes

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In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake.
Actors
GeorgeTim Roth
PaulMichael Pitt
PeterBrady Corbet
Also posted in 2007, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Serial Mom

IMDB Rating: 6.30
7577 votes

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A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase, and the police get closer to the truth, threatening the family's picture perfect world.
Actors
Beverly R. SutphinKathleen Turner
Eugene Sutphin, D.D.S.Sam Waterston
Misty SutphinRicki Lake
Also posted in 1994, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

IMDB Rating: 6.80
42283 votes

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Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) is the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the '70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Applegate), Ron is willing to play along at first-as long as Veronica stays in her place, covering cat fashion shows, cooking, and other "female" interests. But when Veronica refuses to settle for being eye candy and steps behind the news desk, it's more than a battle between two perfectly coiffed anchor-persons... it's war.
Actors
Ron BurgundyWill Ferrell
Veronica CorningstoneChristina Applegate
Brian FantanaPaul Rudd
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (4)

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)

Christmas with the Kranks

IMDB Rating: 4.60
4414 votes

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Allen portrays Luther Krank who, fed up with the commerciality of Christmas, decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday celebration.
Actors
Luther KrankTim Allen
Nora KrankJamie Lee Curtis
Vic FrohmeyerDan Aykroyd
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Family | 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)

Lost in Translation

IMDB Rating: 7.90
77219 votes

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Bob Harris is an American film actor, far past his prime. He visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and he meets Charlotte, the young wife of a visiting photographer. Bored and weary, Bob and Charlotte make ideal if improbable traveling companions. Charlotte is looking for "her place in life," and Bob is tolerating a mediocre stateside marriage. Both separately and together, they live the experience of the American in Tokyo. Bob and Charlotte suffer both confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves and the Japanese. As the relationship between Bob and Charlotte deepens, they come to the realization that their visits to Japan, and one another, must soon end. Or must they?
Actors
CharlotteScarlett Johansson
Bob HarrisBill Murray
Ms. KawasakiAkiko Takeshita
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (2)

Unfaithful

IMDB Rating: 6.60
10337 votes

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Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she's approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her...
Actors
Constance 'Connie'/'Con' SumnerDiane Lane
Charlie SumnerErik Per Sullivan
Edward 'Ed' SumnerRichard Gere
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (7)
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