Archive for the 'Biography movies' Category
Factory Girl
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| Taglines: | 1: The Fame. The Spotlight. The Scandal. The Party’s About To Begin. 2: When Andy met Edie, life imitated art. |
| Plot Summary: | A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality… |
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Infamous
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| Plot Summary: | On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay? |
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Papillon
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| Taglines: | 1: For Papillon survival was not enough …. he had to be free 2: The greatest adventure of escape ever filmed! 3: Two men with nothing in common but a will to live and a place to die |
| Plot Summary: | Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment. |
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Goodbye Bafana
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| Taglines: | 1: Based on the memoirs of Nelson Mandela’s prison guard |
| Plot Summary: | GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner’s name was Nelson Mandela. |
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Becoming Jane
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| Taglines: | 1: “A woman especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.” -Jane Austen 2: Becoming a woman. Becoming a legend. 3: Between sense and sensibility and pride and prejudice was a life worth writing about. 4: Her own life is her greatest inspiration. |
| Plot Summary: | The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter’s future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire - then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters - family, friends and fortune. |
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To Hell and Back
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| Taglines: | 1: The Exciting True-Life Story Of America’s Most Decorated Hero |
| Plot Summary: | True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger siblings on the death of his mother and decided to join the military at the age of 18 to provide for them. His many acts of bravery and heroism during the US military advance through Italy, France and into Germany earn him increasing rank and responsibility as well as the respect of his comrades in arms. Eventually he receives two dozen of the highest medals the US and France can bestow, culminating in the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor. |
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Shine
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| Taglines: | 1: A father whose life was his family. A son whose music was his life. 2: A true story of the mystery of music and the miracle of love |
| Plot Summary: | Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall. |
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Blow
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| Taglines: | 1: Based on a True Story. |
| Plot Summary: | George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970’s. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover. |
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Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The
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| Plot Summary: | Robert Ford, who’s idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader. |
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Buster
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| Taglines: | 1: A Family Man… A Dreamer… A Thief 2: Charming, lovable… and wanted for the crime of the century! 3: He’ll steal your heart! 4: Phil Collins is BUSTER 5: The greatest train robber of all time. |
| Plot Summary: | Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can’t contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom. |
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