Tag Archives: innocence

The Basketball Diaries

IMDB Rating: 6.90
12964 votes

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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.
Actors
Jim CarrollLeonardo DiCaprio
Jim's MotherLorraine Bracco
Chanting WomanMarilyn Sokol
Also posted in 1995, Biography, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

Being There

IMDB Rating: 7.90
16999 votes

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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.
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Chance the GardenerPeter Sellers
Eve RandShirley MacLaine
Benjamin Turnbull RandMelvyn Douglas
Also posted in 1979, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Stand by Me

IMDB Rating: 8.10
55531 votes

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Unable to grasp the fact of his brother's death, Gordie Lachance feels compelled to travel with three friends to see a dead body that has been found near the railroad tracks.
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Chris ChambersRiver Phoenix
Gordie LachanceWil Wheaton
Teddy DuchampCorey Feldman
Also posted in 1986, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

Bridget Jones’s Diary

IMDB Rating: 6.90
36193 votes

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Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her many imperfections. As a New Year's Resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss (Hugh Grant) takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones and the ups and downs of their ill-fated relationship prove hilarious and touching at once. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance (Colin Firth) who Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly attractive.
Actors
Honor Blackman
Embeth Davidtz
Bridget JonesRenée Zellweger
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (17)

The Sentinel

IMDB Rating: 6.20
10776 votes

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Special Agent Pete Garrison is convinced that a Neo-Nazi Aryan Disciple has managed to infiltrate the White House. When a White House Agent is murdered, Garrison is framed and blackmailed over an affair with the First Lady Sarah Ballentine. He is relieved of his duties, but Garrison won't stop in trying to prove his innocence, and save the life of the President. While attempting to uncover the person behind it all, he comes into confrontation with his protege, Agent Breckinridge.
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Agent Pete GarrisonMichael Douglas
David BreckinridgeKiefer Sutherland
First Lady Sarah BallentineKim Basinger
Also posted in 2006, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Mr. Deeds

IMDB Rating: 5.40
19964 votes

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When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds. Of course, Deeds' sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn't necessarily need to change him.
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Longfellow DeedsAdam Sandler
Babe Bennett/Pam DawsonWinona Ryder
Emilio LopezJohn Turturro
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Romance | Comments (13)

American Pie

IMDB Rating: 6.80
61079 votes

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At a high-school party, four friends (Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz) find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to try to be the first to "score." And of course, the senior prom is their last best chance. As the fateful date draws near, the boys wonder who among them will get lucky. More importantly, do they really want to do it at all?
Actors
Jim LevensteinJason Biggs
Chris 'Oz' OstreicherChris Klein
Kevin MyersThomas Ian Nicholas
Also posted in 1999, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Hudsucker Proxy

IMDB Rating: 7.40
14623 votes

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When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries.
Actors
Norville BarnesTim Robbins
Amy ArcherJennifer Jason Leigh
Sidney J. MussburgerPaul Newman
Also posted in 1994, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)