Archive for the 'Romance movies' Category
He Was a Quiet Man
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| Taglines: | 1: A daily routine that changes from one moment to another. 2: Bob Maconel is about to have a very bad day… 3: He seemed like such a nice guy.. He pretty much kept to himself… 4: Sometimes a handicap is all in the mind… |
| Plot Summary: | A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he’s screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him? |
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Truth About Cats & Dogs, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Brian’s about to discover the woman he loves isn’t the woman he loves. |
| Plot Summary: | Janeane Garofalo plays Dr. Abby Barnes, the “Truth About Cats and Dogs” radio question-and-answer show host who unwittingly entices a listener over the radio with her soothing voice and personality. This listener, Brian, tries to meet the Abby from the radio, but Noelle, played by Uma Thurman, is mistaken for the real thing when Brian comes to the studio. Instead of clearing things up right away, the self-conscious Abby allows her best friend, Noelle, a tall, stunning blonde, to take her place for a while. Abby takes on the made-up persona of Donna, while thinking Brian would never go for her, a short, cute, brunette, who thinks she’s unattractive. As the real Abby woos Brian over the phone and radio, Noelle, the pseudo-Abby, takes her place in the flesh. As time goes on, Abby feels more and more confident that Brian would rather have the beautiful Noelle than the simply attractive Abby. |
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Rob Roy
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| Taglines: | 1: Honor made him a man. Courage made him a hero. History made him a Legend |
| Plot Summary: | In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour. |
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Bonnie and Clyde
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| Taglines: | 1: “The strangest damned gang you ever heard of. They’re young. They’re in love. They rob banks.” 2: A brilliantly made, groundbreaking film that chronicles the short lives of America’s most infamous criminals. 3: They met in 1930. She was stark naked, yelling at him out the window while he tried to steal her mother’s car. In a matter of minutes they robbed a store, fired a few shots and then stole somebody else’s car. At that point they had not yet been introduced. 4: They’re young… they’re in love… and they kill people. |
| Plot Summary: | A bored small-town girl and a small-time bank robber leave in their wake a string of violent robberies and newspaper headlines that catch the imagination of the Depression-struck Mid-West in this take on the legendary crime spree of these archetypal lovers on the run. |
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Batman Returns
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| Taglines: | 1: Returns June 19 2: The Bat, the Cat, the Penguin |
| Plot Summary: | Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light. Earlier however, Selina Kyle, Max’s secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman. Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman. |
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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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