Tag Archives: rich snob

The Family Man

IMDB Rating: 6.50
20656 votes

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A modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn't leave his college girlfriend for a London trip. He's married to Kate, lives in Jersey and has two kids. He, of course, desperately wants his life back for which he has worked 13 years for. He's president of P. K. Lassiter Investment House and not a tire salesman at Big Ed's. He drives a Ferrari and not a mini-van that never starts. And most importantly he doesn't wake up in the morning with kids jumping on the bed. After a bad start, day by day he's more confident in his new life and starts to see what he's been missing. Turns out money's good to have but that's not everything.
Actors
Don Cheadle
Nicolas Cage
Jeremy Piven
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (11)

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IMDB Rating: 6.80
28152 votes

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The architect Michael Newman has a typical middle-class family with his lovely and gorgeous wife Donna and their son Ben and daughter Samantha, and a constant visit of his parents. However, Michael is workaholic and under stress, trying to satisfy his boss with overwork and get a partnership in his company, giving priority to his work and neglecting the family issues. When the tired Michael goes to a department store to buy an universal remote control, he rests on a bed and he meets the weird salesman Morty that offers him a remote control capable of controlling his own universe. Michael uses too much and loses the control of the device, having his own life controlled by the remote control. Then Michael sees the worthwhile parts of his personal life he missed while working, and in the end of his life he lately concludes that the family comes first.
Actors
Michael NewmanAdam Sandler
Donna NewmanKate Beckinsale
MortyChristopher Walken
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Gosford Park

IMDB Rating: 7.20
24002 votes

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Set in the 1930's the story takes place in an old fashioned English country house where a family has invited many of their friends up for a weekend shooting party. The story centers around the McCordle family, particularly the man of the house, William McCordle. Getting on in years William has become benefactor to many of his relatives and friends. As the weekend goes on and secrets are revealed, it seems everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money, but how far will they go to get it...?
Actors
Constance TrenthamMaggie Smith
William McCordleMichael Gambon
Sylvia McCordleKristin Scott Thomas
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (12)

Moulin Rouge!

IMDB Rating: 7.70
69224 votes

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Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.
Actors
SatineNicole Kidman
ChristianEwan McGregor
Toulouse-LautrecJohn Leguizamo
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating, Musical, Romance | Comments (22)

Vanilla Sky

IMDB Rating: 6.80
50444 votes

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David Aames takes all he has for granted; his wealth, his inherited publishing company, his good looks - his relationships. Especially his relationships. It catches up to him when a friend/sometimes sex-partner can't see their relationship the way he sees it. From that point, the movie takes a Lynchian twist that ultimately and literally pulls us into Aames' tortured psyche.
Actors
David AamesTom Cruise
Sofia SerranoPenélope Cruz
Julianna 'Julie' GianniCameron Diaz
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (21)

Miss Congeniality

IMDB Rating: 6.20
24762 votes

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When a serial killer indicates that his next target is the Miss United States beauty pageant, the F.B.I. decides that they must get an undercover agent as a participant in the contest. A search uncovers no suitable candidate other than a bumbling female agent (Sandra Bullock). Reluctantly, her captain (Ernie Hudson) agrees to let her join the team working the case. The team is led by a womanizing agent (Ben Bratt) who has an apparent reluctant attraction to Bullock's character. She enters as Miss New Jersey, replacing a contestant who was discovered to have acted in a porno film. The pageant managers (Candice Bergen, William Shatner) are immediately aghast about the agent appearing in the pageant, but arrange a top handler (Michael Caine) to come give her a quick makeover, with the expected outstanding results. Unfortunately, she still is bumbling. When the killer is suddenly caught, everything seems to be over, except the female agent tries to convince her boss that something is still not right. She has discovered that the pageant managers are being dismissed after 21 years for younger people, and Bergen's character may not be as solid as she seems on the surface.
Actors
Gracie HartSandra Bullock
Victor MellingMichael Caine
Eric MatthewsBenjamin Bratt
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (24)

The Talented Mr. Ripley

IMDB Rating: 7.10
37955 votes

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The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.
Actors
Tom RipleyMatt Damon
Marge SherwoodGwyneth Paltrow
Dickie GreenleafJude Law
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (28)

Cruel Intentions

IMDB Rating: 6.60
39996 votes

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Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won't be able to bed Annette (a virgin, who wants to wait until marriage) before the start of the school year. If he loses, Kathryn gets his Roadster, if he wins, he gets Kathryn
Actors
Drew Snyder
Kathryn MerteuilSarah Michelle Gellar
Sebastian ValmontRyan Phillippe
Also posted in 1999, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

House on Haunted Hill

IMDB Rating: 5.10
14042 votes

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When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House" with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave. All of them are sure it is some made up story just to mess with their heads a little and test their courage. But, once they stay in the house they start to think about the mistake they made in coming there when mysterious things start to happen.
Actors
Stephen H. PriceGeoffrey Rush
Evelyn Stockard-PriceFamke Janssen
Eddie BakerTaye Diggs
Also posted in 1999, Horror, Thriller | Comments (8)

The Game

IMDB Rating: 7.60
41222 votes

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Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.
Actors
Kimberly Russell
Harrison Young
Joe Frank
Also posted in 1997, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)