Tag Archives: terminal illness

Finding Neverland

IMDB Rating: 8.20
29131 votes

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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes "Peter Pan." After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads' mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow's mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia's health worsens, Barrie's ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.
Actors
Sir James Matthew BarrieJohnny Depp
Sylvia Llewelyn DaviesKate Winslet
Mrs. Emma du MaurierJulie Christie

Stealing Beauty

IMDB Rating: 6.20
6945 votes

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After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris).
Actors
Carlo LiscaCarlo Cecchi
DianaSinéad Cusack
ChristopherJoseph Fiennes

Silk

IMDB Rating: 5.80
1545 votes

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Based on the Alessandro Baricco's novel this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect.
Actors
Hervé JoncourMichael Pitt
Café Verdun Man #1Tony Vogel
VerdunToni Bertorelli

The Living and the Dead

IMDB Rating: 5.80
444 votes

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A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.
Actors
Donald BrocklebankRoger Lloyd-Pack
James BrocklebankLeo Bill
PolicemanNeil Conrich

Superhero Movie

IMDB Rating: 3.80
4719 votes

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Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero.
Actors
Rick Riker/DragonflyDrake Bell
Lou Landers/HourglassChristopher McDonald
Uncle Albert AdamsLeslie Nielsen

An American Werewolf in London

IMDB Rating: 7.40
14578 votes

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Two American students are on a walking tour of England and are attacked by a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, but reverts to it's human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it's existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he find a way to die to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural death.
Actors
David KesslerDavid Naughton
Nurse Alex PriceJenny Agutter
Jack GoodmanGriffin Dunne

For Your Consideration

IMDB Rating: 6.20
4320 votes

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Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors' lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood!
Actors
Marilyn HackCatherine O'Hara
Studio Gate GuardStephen Rannazzisi
Sandy LaneEd Begley Jr.

The Bucket List

IMDB Rating: 7.90
6957 votes

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Corprate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
Actors
Edward ColeJack Nicholson
Carter ChambersMorgan Freeman
ThomasSean Hayes

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.
Actors
Chance the GardenerPeter Sellers
Eve RandShirley MacLaine
Benjamin Turnbull RandMelvyn Douglas

Cronos

IMDB Rating: 6.70
2943 votes

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An aging antique dealer, Jesus Gris, happens upon an elegant mechanized scarab. When opened, it painfully stabs whomever is holding it, but the wound brings youthful vigor and a vampire's need for blood. The device is relentlessly pursued by a dying tycoon, Dieter de la Guardia, whose nephew Angel, reluctant to see his uncle live a moment longer, must still do the old man's bidding. Meanwhile, Gris's desires endanger his own granddaughter, Aurora.
Actors
De la GuardiaClaudio Brook
Angel de la GuardiaRon Perlman
MercedesMargarita Isabel
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