Tag Archives: mother son relationship

Last Action Hero

IMDB Rating: 5.50
17875 votes

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Danny Madigan knows all the first 3 Jack Slater movies in and out. The 4th one is just about to be released too, and with a magical ticket Danny really gets to know that movie in and out too, literaly speaking. During one of the action climaxes Danny is transported into the movie, into a world following other rules than the real one. Benedict, one of the evil guys, gets hold of the ticket and escapes out to the real world, a world where evil guys can actually win. Danny and Jack follows him back to the real world to get back the ticket and stop Benedict from killing the actor playing Jack.
Actors
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jack Slater/HimselfArnold Schwarzenegger
Danny MadiganAustin O'Brien
Also posted in 1993, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | Comments (0)

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

IMDB Rating: 3.20
6547 votes

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A tough detective's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.
Actors
Sgt. Joe BomowskiSylvester Stallone
Tutti BomowskiEstelle Getty
Lt. Gwen HarperJoBeth Williams
Also posted in 1992, Action, Comedy | Comments (0)

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

IMDB Rating: 5.10
15684 votes

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Kevin McAllister and his family are planning to go to Miami, Florida during the holiday season this time around. At the airport, Kevin becomes seperated from his family and ends up on an airplane to New York City. Kevin manages to stop a taxi cab and has the driver take him to the Plaza Hotel, and using his father Peter's credit card, Kevin rents out a suite. While in New York, Kevin befriends E. F. Duncan, a friendly toy store owner, and Kevin also befriends a homeless Pigeon Woman then Kevin runs into his old enemies Harry and Marv, who have escaped from prison. When Kevin discovers that Harry and Marv plan to rob Mr. Duncan's toy store on Christmas Eve, Kevin makes plans to stop them. Kevin's mother Kate, upon realizing that she and the family have become seperated from Kevin, frantically tries to find Kevin.
Actors
Kevin McCallisterMacaulay Culkin
Harry LimeJoe Pesci
Also posted in 1992, Action, Comedy, Crime, Family, Thriller | Comments (0)

Desperate Hours

IMDB Rating: 5.10
1411 votes

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Michael Bosworth is a psychotic criminal who is about to go on trial however, he seduces his lawyer into helping him escape. But as they try to make their getaway, she's left behind. He decides to wait for her to come to him, so he decides to hide at the house of the Cornells. Now it appears that the Cornells have problems of their own. The husband and wife are separated. And there's an FBI agent after them who is using the lawyer to lead them to Bosworth.
Actors
Michael BosworthMickey Rourke
Tim CornellAnthony Hopkins
Nora CornellMimi Rogers
Also posted in 1990, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Grifters

IMDB Rating: 7.00
5734 votes

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When con artist Roy Dillon (Cusack) is visited by his Mother, Lilly (Huston), who is also a con artist, she sends Roy off to the hospital because of a blow to the gut he suffered while working the grift. Roy's girlfriend, Myra (Bening), the third con artist, comes to visit Roy, and we discover that Lilly and Myra don't get along. After he is released from the hospital, Roy and Myra go on a little trip, where he is propositioned to be partners in crime with Myra. Everything soon falls apart for the three con artists, which leads to a bloody climax.
Actors
Lilly DillonAnjelica Huston
Roy DillonJohn Cusack
Myra LangtryAnnette Bening
Also posted in 1990, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Goodfellas

IMDB Rating: 8.60
81023 votes

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This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960's and 70's New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry's best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.
Actors
Jimmy ConwayRobert De Niro
Henry HillRay Liotta
Tommy DeVitoJoe Pesci
Also posted in 1990, Biography, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Born on the Fourth of July

IMDB Rating: 7.00
17970 votes

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The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Actors
Ron KovicTom Cruise
Mr. KovicRaymond J. Barry
Mrs. KovicCaroline Kava
Also posted in 1989, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

Driving Miss Daisy

IMDB Rating: 7.40
9930 votes

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An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.
Actors
Hoke ColburnMorgan Freeman
Daisy WerthanJessica Tandy
Boolie WerthanDan Aykroyd
Also posted in 1989, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Empire of the Sun

IMDB Rating: 7.50
12089 votes

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An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents.
Actors
Jim 'Jamie' GrahamChristian Bale
BasieJohn Malkovich
Mrs. VictorMiranda Richardson
Also posted in 1987, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (1)

Scarface

IMDB Rating: 8.00
38403 votes

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When Castro opened the port at Mariel Harbor, thousands of Cubans fled to the United States. One is a young tough named Antonio (Tony) Montana, who, with his friend Manny Ray, starts in with Miami's cocaine trade. He survives attack by chainsaw after a deal goes bad, and several other attempts by other dealers to eliminate him. Eventually the grandiose Montana becomes head of a cocaine cartel. But his enemies start coming after him, and his paranoia threatens to drive Montana's empire into the ground...
Actors
Tony MontanaAl Pacino
Manny RiberaSteven Bauer
ElviraMichelle Pfeiffer
Also posted in 1983, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)