Tag Archives: wish fulfillment

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
Also posted in 2007, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

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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)

Five Children and It

IMDB Rating: 5.50
616 votes

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'It' is a Psammead (voiced by Eddie Izzard), an ancient, ugly and irritable sand fairy the children find one day on a secret beach at their uncle's mansion. It grants them one wish per day, lasting until sunset. But they soon learn it is very hard to think of really sensible wishes, and each one gets them into unexpected difficulties. Magic, the children find, can be as awkward as it is enticing.
Actors
MotherTara Fitzgerald
RobertFreddie Highmore
FatherAlex Jennings
Also posted in 2004, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | Comments (0)

Artificial Intelligence: AI

IMDB Rating: 6.80
53771 votes

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In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting raise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching to the point of creating realistic robots (called mechas) to serve him. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically. A futuristic adaptation of the tale of Pinocchio, with David being the "fake" boy who desperately wants to become "real".
Actors
Brendan Gleeson
DavidHaley Joel Osment
Monica SwintonFrances O'Connor
Also posted in 2001, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

IMDB Rating: 7.70
27548 votes

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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by 'Gene Wilder'(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by 'Jack Albertson' (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?
Actors
Willy WonkaGene Wilder
Grandpa JoeJack Albertson
Charlie BucketPeter Ostrum
Also posted in 1971, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Musical | Comments (0)