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Edmond

IMDB Rating: 6.30
3371 votes

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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller's for a Tarot reading: "You are not where you belong," she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman's club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he's found them. Where does he belong?
Actors
EdmondWilliam H. Macy
Fortune TellerFrances Bay
WifeRebecca Pidgeon
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Cherry Crush

IMDB Rating: 5.70
841 votes

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Jordan Wells, a talented, seventeen-year-old photographer struggles between falling in line with his father's plans for his future and following his desire to pursue photography. After he gets throw out of his upscale prep school for taking provocative pictures of some of the girls in his class, he transfers into a public school and becomes involved with Shay, a beautiful girl from the other side of the tracks. As the passion of their relationship heats up, Jordan soon finds himself an accessory to murder —twice.
Actors
Jordan WellsJonathan Tucker
Shay BettencourtNikki Reed
Desiree ThomasJulie Gonzalo
Also posted in 2007, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Secretary

IMDB Rating: 7.20
18801 votes

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Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.
Actors
Jeremy Davies
Maggie Gyllenhaal
James Spader
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

As Good as It Gets

IMDB Rating: 7.70
61556 votes

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New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.
Actors
Melvin UdallJack Nicholson
Carol ConnellyHelen Hunt
Simon BishopGreg Kinnear
Also posted in 1997, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Fracture

IMDB Rating: 6.80
3180 votes

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Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in predictable ways.
Actors
Ted CrawfordAnthony Hopkins
Willy BeachumRyan Gosling
Joe LobrutoDavid Strathairn
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Bobby

IMDB Rating: 7.10
6138 votes

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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Squid and the Whale

IMDB Rating: 7.70
10777 votes

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The patriarch (Jeff Daniels) of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but he has settled into a teaching job. When his wife (Laura Linney) discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family, leaving two teenage sons to forge new relationships with their parents. Linney's character begins dating her younger son's tennis coach. Meanwhile, Daniels' character has an affair with the student his older son is pursuing.
Actors
Frank BerkmanOwen Kline
Bernard BerkmanJeff Daniels
Joan BerkmanLaura Linney
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | 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)

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)

Shopgirl

IMDB Rating: 6.70
7466 votes

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The story follows Mirabelle, a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcee Ray Porter (Steve Martin) and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.
Actors
Ray PorterSteve Martin
MirabelleClaire Danes
JeremyJason Schwartzman
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)