Archive for the 'Drama movies' Category
Walk All Over Me
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| Plot Summary: | A small town girl runs into big time trouble as she takes on her roommates identity as a dominatrix to pay the bills. |
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MirrorMask
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| Taglines: | 1: An extraordinary dream quest to rescue a world out of balance. 2: Enter A World Where Dreams Are Real |
| Plot Summary: | Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister. |
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Black Cauldron, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Hidden by darkness. Guarded by witches. Discovered by a boy. Stolen by a king. Whoever owns it will rule the world. Or destroy it. 2: Seven years in the making - In the celebrated Disney tradition comes our 25th animated motion picture. |
| Plot Summary: | Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. With the aid of a stubborn princess, an exaggerating bard, and a pestering creature called Gurgi, Taran will try to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, elves, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory. |
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Cabaret
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| Taglines: | 1: Life is a Cabaret 2: The Award-Winning Smash Hit Musical [UK Video] |
| Plot Summary: | Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, fall in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max, a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant, and Brian offers to marry her… All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club, a nightspot where Sally sings. |
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Get Shorty
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| Taglines: | 1: Attitude Plays a Part. 2: The Mob Is Tough. But It’s Nothing Like Show Business. |
| Plot Summary: | Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he’s struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he’s snagged up by a producer. The rest is history. |
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Good Night, The
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| Taglines: | 1: A comedic fantasy. 2: Dreaming is believing |
| Plot Summary: | Gary Shaller is at a crossroads in his life: his job is going nowhere, his wife, Dora, drives him crazy, and he passed his thirtieth birthday four years ago. Add to that his best friend Paul seems to become more successful every time he breathes. Gary is feeling depressed and dejected… until he meets Anna. She’s beautiful and smart; she’s sexy and funny. Best of all, she’s crazy about Gary. Anna is the girl of Gary’s dreams…literally. And that’s the problem. Gary can only see Anna in his dream life, so he’s got to find a way to carry on the most satisfying relationship of his life, in his dreams. His quest for lucid dreaming techniques introduces Gary to some crazy characters who ultimately give him a new perspective on life. |
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Hero Wanted
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| Taglines: | 1: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. |
| Plot Summary: | After he awakens in a hospital, a man tracks down and murders the man that left him and a bank teller for dead during a robbery, only to end up having the slain thief’s associates come after him in retaliation. |
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Children of Men
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| Taglines: | 1: He must protect our only hope. 2: In 20 years, women are infertile. No children. No future. No hope. But all that can change in a heartbeat. 3: No child has been born for 18 years. 4: No children. No future. No hope. 5: The future’s a thing of the past. 6: The last days of human race. 7: The last one to die please turn out the light. |
| Plot Summary: | With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England’s Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo’s bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret? |
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Penelope
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| Taglines: | 1: A fairytale like no other. 2: She’s been hiding all her life. Now she’ll show the world just who she really is. |
| Plot Summary: | This is the story of a named Penelope, who is the victim of a curse placed on a wealthy family by a witch. After generations ago, a witch placed a curse on the Wilhern family that would result in the next girl being born into the clan having the face of a pig. The otherwise-normal girl Penelope is forced to endure life with a pig’s snout instead of a conventional nose, which has sent many a potential suitor running off into the streets, shouting in terror. Eventually, she runs away from her sheltered existence and overprotective parents, to explore the world on her own. As she meets new friends and a potential lover who doesn’t run away, she begins to discover happiness - while all the while her parents believe the only way she can be happy is through an arranged marriage, which will hopefully break her curse. |
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New Jack City
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| Taglines: | 1: They’re a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime. 2: Where survival depends on friends, trust and power… An organized crime family out to run this city is up against cops who knows its streets. |
| Plot Summary: | In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie’s mother as part of a gang initiaton. Also involved is Pookie, a former crackhead who wants to bring down Nino as well. |
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