Given a grim diagnosis during a routine doctor's check-up, a man who once had it all finds his attempt to disappear into a working-class suburb and spend his remaining days subsisting on vodka and junk food hopelessly disrupted when he falls for the beautiful divorcée next door and a busybody neighbour notices a miraculous stain on his stucco wall. Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) had a comfortable life and a beautiful fiancée. But just when it seemed that the future couldn't look any brighter for Henry, a visit to the doctor's office casts a dark cloud over his sunny outlook. Shattered, Henry wants nothing more in life than to simply vanish into his surroundings, and what better way to accomplish that feat than to purchase a cookie-cutter house in a working-class suburb and spend his final days awaiting the inevitable in peaceful solitude. Unfortunately for Henry, his new neighbours aren't about to let the handsome neighbourhood newcomer spend his days sulking. The first to stop by and welcome Henry to his new home is local yenta Esperanza (Adriana Barraza), who comes knocking on his door with a fresh plate of homemade tamales and laundry list of questions. Later, after taking notice of sad-eyed divorcée Dawn (Radha Mitchell) and her taciturn eight-year-old daughter, Millie (Morgan Lily), who hasn't spoken a work since her father left, Henry finds his self-imposed exile shattered when Esperanza notices a stain on his stucco wall that seems to possess miraculous powers. Before Henry can say "Hail Mary," Esperanza is leading pilgrimages to the "holy site" in his backyard and inviting Father Salizar (George Lopez) to give his blessings to the sacrosanct blemish. As skeptical as Henry may be about the healing powers of the curious apparition, however, his growing friendship with young Millie not only brings him closer to Dawn, but also proves to him that there's no escaping the power of hope. Cheryl Hines, Richard Benjamin, and Jessica Walter co-star in a wry existential comedy drama penned by first-time feature film screenwriter Albert Torres, and directed by Mark Pellington (Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies).
Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
HAPPY GO LUCKY
Sally Hawkins and Eddie Marsan star in director Mike Leigh's seriocomedy concerning an eternally optimistic teacher living and working in North London. Thirty-year-old teacher Poppy (Hawkins) always has a smile on her face, and does her best to brighten the days of those around her by making small talk and cracking jokes. For the past ten years, Poppy has lived with her best friend, Zoe (Alexis Zegerman), a fellow teacher whose wry outlook on life serves as the perfect counterbalance to Poppy's effervescent charm. One day, Poppy decides that it's time to take driving lessons and enrolls in the Axle School of Motoring. Almost instantly, Poppy and her stressed-out instructor, Scott (Eddie Marsan), clash. Still, it seems that there's more to this relationship than surface appearances would suggest. After accompanying her colleague Heather (Sylvestra Le Touzel) to a dance class taught by a particularly passionate instructor (Karina Fernandaz), Poppy connects with kindly school social worker Tim (Samuel Roukin). Of course, Tim can't help but fall for a woman of such boundless compassion, but how will Poppy's increasingly jealous driving instructor react to the news of her most recent romance?
Sunday, May 13, 2012
GREEN FLASH
Baseball lovers have Bull Durham, football lovers have Friday Night Lights, and now volleyball enthusiasts get a chance to see their favourite sport shine on the silver screen with this tale of a fallen sports star who gets his second shot at greatness. Cameron Day (David Charvet) was a college basketball player whose proficiency on the court came at the sacrifice of his sanity. The mental demands of being a professional athlete were just too much for Cameron to handle, and just he was set to break big in the world of professional sports, the once-promising athlete mysteriously vanished for ten long years. Now that Cameron has learned how to effectively harness his inner anger, the time has come for him to have another go at greatness -- only not on the basketball court but on the pro beach volleyball circuit. Upon arriving in Manhattan Beach, CA, from Manhattan, the wayfaring athlete finds inspiration in Mia (Torrey DeVitto), an artistically inclined beach beauty who has never cared too much for jock types like Cameron. Regardless of her reluctance to date an athlete, however, Mia helps to enlighten Cameron by teaching him about the Green Flash: that fleeting moment when the sun falls over the horizon and all of natures become completely brilliant for a fraction of a second. Despite his early success, Cameron feels as is he has not experienced his own personal Green Flash just yet, though now as he makes it his mission to win the Manhattan Beach Open, he senses that true greatness could finally be within reach.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a romantic comedy drama about a guy who tries to get over his high profile ex-girlfriend. Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) is a struggling musician who is left heartbroken after his TV star girlfriend of six years, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), dumps him. Peter unsuccessfully tries to become a womanizer and after suffering a nervous breakdown, that nearly cost him his job, he decides to go on a vacation to Hawaii. However, fate plays a cruel joke as Sarah also comes to exactly the same resort, along with her new rock-star boyfriend Aldous (Russell Brand). Sarah’s new lifestyle causes pain to Peter as he finds comfort with a flirtatious resort employee Rachel (Mila Kunis) and other oddballs.
Friday, May 11, 2012
FOUR CHRISTMASES
Directed by Seth Gordon, Four Christmases is a comedy drama about an upscale happily married couple Brad and Kate who are forced to spend their Christmas holiday visiting all four of their divorced parents. Kate and Brad find themselves stranded at the airport when all departing flights are cancelled, and with an overzealous television reporter breathing down their neck they are forced to go to four different households to visit Kate mothers Marilyn (Mary Steenburgen), and her pastor father Phil (Dwight Yoakam). They also visit gruff father of Brad, Howard (Robert Duvall), and his bullying brothers, Dallas (Jon Favreau) and Denver (Tim McGraw) besides his New Age mother, Paula (Sissy Spacek).
Thursday, May 10, 2012
FROZEN RIVER
A desperate single mother living in upstate New York resorts to smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States as a means of making ends meet in first-time feature director/screenwriter Courtney Hunt's emotionally wrenching drama, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Ray Eddy is in an impossible position; its two days before Christmas and her husband has suddenly disappeared with all of the family savings. Now, as the newly single mother of two realizes the futility of attempting to cover the house payments on her meager Yankee One Dollar Store wages, her children are forced to exist on a nutritionally devoid diet of popcorn and Tang. Deciding that her only hope for survival is to find a man who will support her and her children, Ray sets out to find a husband but instead makes the acquaintance of street-smart Mohawk Lila Little wolf. Lila, too, has been struggling to keep her head above water amidst economic despair, and has recently stumbled across a rather unconventional solution to her dire financial situation. Lately, Lila has been earning a living by smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S., but her tribal elders vehemently disapprove of the scheme and have recently attempted to stop it by forbidding the local auto dealers from selling her a car. As fate would have it, Ray's Dodge Spirit may just be the only thing the destitute mother can count on anymore, and as this unlikely pair gas up the tank for a daring dash across the iced-over St. Lawrence River, their fates become forever intertwined in ways that neither could have ever anticipated.
GARDEN PARTY
Filmmaker Jason Freeland draws inspiration from the eponymous song for this tale of five lost souls attempting to navigate the treacherous urban landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. April is an ambitious beauty in search of success, but can she learn to get by and keep on her clothes at the same time? Sally St. Clair is a sexy realtor with a secret past. She's got a great eye for spotting lost souls, and thrives on giving them direction in life. One of those lost souls is Nathan, her new assistant. Nathan moved to Los Angeles from Nebraska seeking to find success as a dancer, but now most of his time is spent making photocopies for Sally and her clients. One of those clients is Todd, a porn-addicted artist who agrees to help Sally get revenge for a past indiscretion in exchange for her helping him realize his greatest fantasy. Meanwhile, as starry-eyed street musician Sammy moves in with Nathan, the new roommates both have disparate ideas about the direction their relationship is headed, and everyone involved becomes hopelessly ensnared in Sally's kinky entanglements.
GRAN TORINO
Directed by Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino is the story of a racist, prejudiced and displeased Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), who refuses to adapt to the changes in his crime-ridden Michigan neighbourhood and the world around him. When his young Hmong neighbour, Thao (Bee Vang), tries to steal his most prized possession, the 1972 Gran Torino, his well-maintained semi-automatic rifle, which saved his life numerous times during the war, Walt decides to reform the teenager. During his reform process, Walt is unwillingly drawn into the life of Thaos family, and soon finds himself not only facing his own blinding prejudice head-on, but also protecting the family from the various gangs that swarm the neighbourhood.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
GRACE IS GONE
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Monday, May 7, 2012
GOOD DICK
Good Dick is a modern fairy tale about a troubled, reclusive young woman and the persistent video clerk who draws her out of her claustrophobic world by starting up a unique courtship with her. As they become closer, her sexual antipathy is met with his unflinching optimism, until finally her aggressive defences overwhelm them both and the relationship bursts apart. Profoundly affected by his presence in her life, she finds that she has the courage to face her past.
GOSPEL HILL
Gospel Hill is one of the best drama movies directed by Giancarlo Esposito. The plotline of the movie narrates the lives of two men in an imaginary town South Carolina (Julia). Paul Malcolm (Samuel L. Jackson), a slain activist, is the father of John Malcolm (Danny Glover). His wife Sarah (Angela Bassett) was a schoolteacher. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is a white ex-sheriff who didn’t reached to the base of the slay. But everything changes when a development corporation comes to the town with the strategies to destroy town's significant African-American society of “Gospel Hill”. This society was already troubled and was in poor condition. However, Sarah opposes their plan. In the meantime, a youthful white teacher (Julia Stiles) also comes in the story. It is quite interesting to see how things move and how everything gets sorted out.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
PEOPLE LIKE US
From DreamWorks Pictures comes "People Like Us," a drama/comedy about family, inspired by true events, starring Chris Pine ("Star Trek") as Sam, a twenty-something, fast-talking salesman, whose latest deal collapses on the day he learns that his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home, where he must put his father's estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. In the course of fulfilling his father's last wishes, Sam uncovers a startling secret that turns his entire world upside down: He has a 30-year-old sister Frankie whom he never knew about (Elizabeth Banks). As their relationship develops, Sam is forced to rethink everything he thought he knew about this family--and re-examine his own life choices in the process.
MAGIC MIKE
Set in the world of male strippers, "Magic Mike" is directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars Channing Tatum ("Dear John," "Step Up") in a story inspired by his real life. The film follows Mike (Tatum) as he takes a young dancer called The Kid (Pettyfer) under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphan hood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
THE ROME WITH LOVE
Just like the coming of the seasons, one can always count on an annual film submission from writer/director Woody Allen. There’s, arguably, no one more prolific in the commercial mainstream film industry than Allen.
Allen is also coming off the financial and critical success of his modern classic Midnight in Paris. Even after all these years it seems that WoodyAllen is on top of his film making game. This latest work marks the return to the screen as an actor for Allen, albeit in a supporting role. It’s his first appearance in one of his films since his 2006 movie Scoop. Based on the trailer of To Rome with Love, this movie seems to be tapping into Woody Allen’s more silly side. Of course with Roberto Benigni in the cast, it’s hard to avoid that sort of tone. It’s great to see Academy Award winner Judy Davis back in one of Woody’s films. Also other Woody Allen film alumni’s include Alec Baldwin (Alice) and Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona). Interestingly enough, Ellen Page, Greta Gerwig and Jesse Eisenberg also appear in the film and their trademark wit and sarcasm seem to be a perfect fit for a Woody film.
In any event, I’m really looking forward to To Rome with Love. I admit that I’m a sucker for Woody Allen films. Even his misfires are better then 95% of the movies out there.
To Rome with Love is scheduled for release in New York and Los Angeles on June 22, 2012. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page and Woody Allen. The film is written and directed by Woody Allen.
Allen is also coming off the financial and critical success of his modern classic Midnight in Paris. Even after all these years it seems that WoodyAllen is on top of his film making game. This latest work marks the return to the screen as an actor for Allen, albeit in a supporting role. It’s his first appearance in one of his films since his 2006 movie Scoop. Based on the trailer of To Rome with Love, this movie seems to be tapping into Woody Allen’s more silly side. Of course with Roberto Benigni in the cast, it’s hard to avoid that sort of tone. It’s great to see Academy Award winner Judy Davis back in one of Woody’s films. Also other Woody Allen film alumni’s include Alec Baldwin (Alice) and Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona). Interestingly enough, Ellen Page, Greta Gerwig and Jesse Eisenberg also appear in the film and their trademark wit and sarcasm seem to be a perfect fit for a Woody film.
In any event, I’m really looking forward to To Rome with Love. I admit that I’m a sucker for Woody Allen films. Even his misfires are better then 95% of the movies out there.
To Rome with Love is scheduled for release in New York and Los Angeles on June 22, 2012. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page and Woody Allen. The film is written and directed by Woody Allen.
YOUR SISTER'S SISTER
In "Your Sister's Sister," set against the damp foliage of the Pacific Northwest, "Humpday" star Mark Duplass plays Jack, still reeling from his brother's death a year earlier. His close friend Iris (Emily Blunt), who happens to also be the ex of Jack's brother, ships him off to her family's remote vacation home so he can be alone to get himself back together.
Jack unexpectedly finds Iris' sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) there for similar purposes and the two quickly get to know each other over an evening of tequila. When Iris arrives unannounced the next morning, it sets off a chain reaction of revelations and shifting dynamics.
Jack unexpectedly finds Iris' sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) there for similar purposes and the two quickly get to know each other over an evening of tequila. When Iris arrives unannounced the next morning, it sets off a chain reaction of revelations and shifting dynamics.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
LOLA VERSUS
Greta Gerwig plays Lola, a 29-year-old woman dumped by her longtime boyfriend Luke (Kinnaman) just three weeks before their wedding. With the help of her close friends Henry (Linklater) and Alice (Lister-Jones), Lola embarks on a series of desperate encounters in an attempt to find her place in the world as a single woman approaching 30.
BEL AMI
"Bel Ami" is the story of Georges Duroy, who travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitutes embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.
6 MONTH RULE
A romantic, charming, and poignant look at relationships, seen from the eyes of Tyler (Weaver), who follows a set of rules in order to avoid emotional attachment. He frequently boasts that there is no woman so perfect that you can't get over her in six months. His best friend (Martin Starr) has just become Tyler's main project, as he tries to teach his buddy all about the joys of cold-hearted bachelorhood. However, when he keeps bumping into a fascinating woman (Morales), he discovers that no philosophy is set in stone.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
FOR GREATER GLORY
What price would you pay for freedom? In "For Greater Glory," an impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as General Gorostieta (Andy Garcia), the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife (Eva Longoria) watch Mexico fall into a violent civil war. Yet the man who hesitates in joining the cause will soon become the resistance's most inspiring and self-sacrificing leader, as he begins to see the cost of religious persecution on his countrymen... and transforms a rag-tag band of rebels into a heroic force to be reckoned with. The General faces impossible odds against a powerful and ruthless government. Yet it's those he meets on the journey youthful idealists, feisty renegades and, most of all, one remarkable teenager named Jose who, reveal to him how courage and belief are forged even when justice seems lost.
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