Archive for the 'Romance movies' Category
In Her Shoes
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| Taglines: | 1: Friends. Rivals. Sisters. |
| Plot Summary: | Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad’s house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose’s apartment. Then, while searching in her father’s desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. |
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Summer of Sam
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| Taglines: | 1: It Was A Time They’d Never Forget 2: No one is safe from son of sam 3: The summer of ‘77 was a killer…….. |
| Plot Summary: | Spike Lee’s take on the “Son of Sam” murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. |
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Romeo and Juliet
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| Taglines: | 1: No ordinary love story… 2: The 1968 Royal Film Performance [UK Theatrical] |
| Plot Summary: | Shakespeare’s classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet’s daughter Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love with her. She returns his affections, but they both know that their families will never allow them to follow their hearts. |
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Sleeping Beauty
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| Taglines: | 1: Ablaze With Wonder! 2: Awaken to a World of Wonders! 3: Now the magic moment! Full-length feature fantasy - Beautiful beyond belief 4: See It With Someone You Love. 5: Wondrous to see… Glorious to hear… A magnificent new motion picture! |
| Plot Summary: | When a new princess is born to King Stefan & his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony, three good fairies - Flora, Fauna & Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But an evil sorceress named Maleficent shows up, and because of a rude remark by Merryweather, she places a curse on the princess - that she will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow the princess - named Aurora - to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love. The fairies take Aurora to their cottage in the woods to keep her away from the eyes of Maleficent, and raise her as their own child, named Briar Rose. On her 16th birthday Aurora meets Prince Phillip, the son of a king whose own kingdom will soon merge with King Stefan’s - and falls in love. Maleficent manages to kidnap the Prince and her horrible prophecy is fulfilled when she tricks Aurora into touching a spinning wheel created by Maleficent herself! Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the 3 good fairies head to Maleficent’s castle at the Forbidden Mountain, and spring the Prince loose. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent’s army of brutes, and the power of Maleficent’s evil spells - which include a thorn forest as thick as weeds around King Stefan’s castle, and a fight against Maleficent when she turns herself into a dragon! Is the Prince strong enough to withstand the powers of the evil sorceress? |
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Hottie and the Nottie, The
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| Plot Summary: | Nate moves to L.A. to track down Cristabel, the woman he’s been in love with since childhood, only to discover that his plan to woo her only has one hurdle to overcome: what to do with June, Cristabel’s ever-present, not-so-hot best friend? What’s even more complicating is Nate’s growing feelings for June, whose true beauty starts to emerge. |
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My Blueberry Nights
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| Plot Summary: | A young woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way. |
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Youth Without Youth
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| Plot Summary: | A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life. |
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RocketMan
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| Taglines: | 1: He’s just taking up space! 2: One Man’s Dream… Is NASA’s Nightmare! |
| Plot Summary: | Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there. |
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Cooler, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Love …you have to play to win 2: When your life depends on losing… the last thing you need is lady luck. |
| Plot Summary: | The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas’ aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse. |
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True Romance
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| Taglines: | 1: Not since Bonnie and Clyde have two people been so good at being bad. 2: Stealing, Cheating, Killing. Who said romance is dead? |
| Plot Summary: | Clarence Worley, a penniless hipster in Detroit with a love for Elvis meets a mysterious hooker paid to meet him named Alabama on his birthday in a theater at night. Falling in love, he makes it his mission to dispose of her past, namely her violent pimp, Drexl Spivey. Defeating him and unknowingly taking a vast fortune of Cocaine, the two fight to sell the white gold in Los Angeles as Drexl’s associates fight to reclaim it in a bloody romantic thriller full to the brim with style. |
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