Archive for the 'Biography' Category
Queen, The
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public’s demand for an overt display of mourning.
Queen, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.60 out of 10 (14182 votes)
Director: Stephen Frears
Actors: Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, Sylvia Syms, Tim McMullan, Robin Soans, Lola Peploe, Douglas Reith, Joyce Henderson, Pat Laffan, Amanda Hadingue, John McGlynn, Gray O’Brien, Dolina MacLennan,
Tags: Biography, Drama, 1990s, archive-footage, based-on-fact, bereavement, buckingham-palace, car-trouble, castle, critically-acclaimed, deer, dog-lover, england, etiquette, flower, funeral, funeral-procession, great-britain, grief, hunting, husband-wife-relationship, kilt, kitchen-scene, london-england, loss-of-loved-one, monarchy, mother-daughter-relationship, mother-son-relationship, newspaper-headline, paparazzi, politician, politics, portrait-sitting, prime-minister, princess-diana, public-relations, queen, royal-family, royalty, scottish-accent, scottish-highlands, speech, stag, title-spoken-by-character, travel, westminster-abbey
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Pursuit of Happyness, The
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman in little needed medical bone density scanners while his wife toiled in double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream with his son even when the odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father and son struggle through homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and the overall punishing despair in a quest that would make Gardner a respected millionaire.
Pursuit of Happyness, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.40 out of 10 (21312 votes)
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Actors: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller, Takayo Fischer, Kevin West, George Cheung, David Michael Silverman, Domenic Bove, Geoff Callan, Joyful Raven, Scott Klace,
Tags: Biography, Drama, 1980s, ambition, american-football, based-on-true-story, blockbuster, break-up, bus, chinatown, eviction, father-son-relationship, financial-problem, hippie, hit-by-car, homeless-shelter, homelessness, hospital, intentionally-misspelled-title, marriage, motel, rags-to-riches, rubik's-cube, salesman, san-francisco-california, single-father, stadium, stockbroker, taxicab, timelapse-photography, title-spoken-by-character, troubled-marriage, unhappy-marriage
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Lords of Dogtown
A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.
Lords of Dogtown DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.60 out of 10 (6403 votes)
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Actors: John Robinson, Emile Hirsch, Rebecca De Mornay, William Mapother, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Victor Rasuk, Nikki Reed, Heath Ledger, Vincent Laresca, Brian Zarate, Pablo Schreiber, Elden Henson, Michael Angarano, Mitch Hedberg, Benjamin Nurick,
Tags: Sport, Biography, Drama, Action, 1970s, alcoholic-mother, beach, beer-drinking, betrayal, brain-tumor, broken-arm, brother-sister-relationship, drug-use, enemy, first-love, friendship, gang, gang-banger, jealousy, los-angeles-california, mentor, mother-son-relationship, party, racial-slur, rival, shaved-head, skateboard, skateboarding, surfing, swimming-pool, tattoo, teenage-boy, venice-beach
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Domino
The daughter of an actor with a high-society woman, Domino Harvey, bored with her life, decides to join the team of Ed Mosley and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafia’s money is stolen from an armored truck, while Mosley and his crew are in action participating of a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation becomes out of control when the sons of a rival mobster are kidnapped while FBI is monitoring the two gangs of mobsters.
Domino DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.90 out of 10 (14928 votes)
Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Riz Abbasi, Delroy Lindo, Mo’Nique Imes-Jackson, Ian Ziering, Brian Austin Green, Joe Nunez, Macy Gray, Shondrella Avery, Dabney Coleman, Peter Jacobson, Kel O’Neill, Lucy Liu,
Tags: Biography, Drama, Crime, Thriller, Action, afghanistan, arrest, autograph, black-humor, blood-disease, blood-splatter, bomb, bounty-hunter, casino, character-name-in-title, dead-man-switch, dismemberment, dog, double-cross, drug-abuse, drugged-drink, exotic-dancer, exploding-truck, explosive, fast-motion, fbi, federal-bureau-of-investigation, flashback-sequence, funeral, gag, girl, goldfish, grandmother, gun, handcuffs, handgun, helicopter, helicopter-crash, interrogation, kidnap, knife-throwing, lap-dance, las-vegas-nevada, latino, laundry, machine-gun, mafia, mask, mescaline, model, motel, murder, nun, nunchauks, outdoor-sex, pistol, raid, reality-tv, religion, road-trip, satire, shooting, shootout, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, shotgun, sorority, split-screen, strip-club, surveillance-camera, swat-team, swimming-pool, talk-show, title-spoken-by-character, toilet, topless, traffic-accident, tragedy, underwater, violence, violent-movie, voice-over-narration, vulgarity, wiretapping
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Jarhead
Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows “Swoff” (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper’s rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don’t understand against an enemy they can’t see for a cause they don’t fully fathom… Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford’s scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff’s friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.
Jarhead DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.30 out of 10 (29913 votes)
Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Lo Ming, Kevin Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Damion Poitier, Riad Galayini, Craig Coyne, Katherine Randolph, Rini Bell, Dendrie Taylor, James Morrison, Arman Zajic, Brianne Davis, Jamie Foxx,
Tags: Biography, War, Drama, Action, 1980s, 1990s, accidental-killing, anti-war, based-on-novel, black-comedy, breasts, burn-victim, burnt-body, cheating-wife, christmas-party, corpse, dark-humor, dead-animal, death, desert-storm, drunkeness, exploding-building, exploding-car, female-nudity, fire, friendly-fire, gulf-war, helicopter, homophobic, horse, infidelity, loss-of-friend, machine-gun, male-bonding, male-nudity, marine, marine-creed, masturbation-scene, oil-field, pep-talk, person-on-fire, pistol, platoon, prank, pride, reveille, rifle, sergeant, severed-foot, severed-leg, sex-talk, shot-in-the-head, shower-scene, sniper, title-spoken-by-character, u.s.-marine-corps, urination-scene, violence, vomit-scene, wagner-ride-of-the-valkyries, wetting-pants
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World’s Fastest Indian, The
In `60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his own obsession and a Kiwi #8 wire mentality, spends his retirement rebuilding the bike and following his dream to go to Speed Week at Salt Lake in Utah. Under funded, without the support of a team and against all the odds he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a world land spend record, not once, but again and again.
World’s Fastest Indian, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.00 out of 10 (7959 votes)
Director: Roger Donaldson
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell, Aaron Murphy, Tim Shadbolt, Annie Whittle, Greg Johnson, Antony Starr, Kate Sullivan, Craig Hall, Jim Bowman, Alison Bruce, Phoebe Falconer, Charles Pierard, Barry Ryan,
Tags: Sport, Biography, Drama, Adventure, ambition, ambulance, based-on-fact, beach, birthday-party, boat, boat-ride, bonneville-salt-flats, california, chicken, cigarette-smoking, desert, eccentric, egg, fish-out-of-water, gas-station, graveyard, heart-attack, hitchhiker, hotel-room, interracial-relationship, interracial-romance, little-boy, motel, motorcycle, motorcycle-crash, motorcycle-race, native-american, neighbor, new-zealand, old-man, one-night-stand, pill, premarital-sex, prostitute, road-movie, salt-lake-city-utah, snake, taxicab, tire, title-spoken-by-character, transexual, urination-scene, used-car-salesman, what-happened-to-epilogue
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Walk the Line
While growing up in the Great Depression era, Johnny Cash(Joaquin Phoenix) takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany. While there, he buys his first guitar and writes his own music, and proposes to Vivian. When they got married, they settled in Tennessee and with a daughter, he supported the family by being a salesman. He discovers a man who can pursue his dreams and ends up getting a record with the boys. Shortly after that, he was on a short tour, promoting his songs, and meets the already famous and beautiful June Carter(Reese Witherspoon). Then as they get on the long-term tours with June, the boys, and Jerry Lee Lewis, they have this unspoken relationship that grows. But when June leaves the tour because of his behavior, he was a drug addict. His marriage was also falling apart, and when he sees June years later at an awards show, he forces June to tour with them again, promising June to support her two kids and herself. While the tour goes on, the relationship between June and John grow more,and his marriage to his first wife ends. June finds out about the drugs, and help him overcome it. True love and care helped John eventually stop the drug usage, and finally proposes to her in front of an audience at a show.
Walk the Line DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.00 out of 10 (44349 votes)
Director: James Mangold
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller, Larry Bagby, Shelby Lynne, Tyler Hilton, Waylon Payne, Shooter Jennings, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Dan Beene, Clay Steakley, Johnathan Rice,
Tags: Music, Biography, Romance, Drama, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, accident, amphetamine, army, biographical, bittersweet, blood, break-up, broken-glass, church, concert, country-music, death, death-of-child, divorce, drug-addict, drug-addiction, drug-dealer, drug-possession, drunkeness, duet, epilogue, explosion, father-son-relationship, fishing, germany, guitar, husband-wife-relationship, infidelity, johnny-cash, las-vegas, loss-of-brother, loss-of-son, marriage, marriage-proposal, memphis-tennessee, morality, music-store, music-tour, musician, nostalgic, obsessive-love, opposites-attract, physical-abuse, prison, record-producer, shotgun, singer, songwriter, star-crossed-lovers, title-based-on-song, title-spoken-by-character
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Alexander
Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.
Alexander DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.40 out of 10 (30272 votes)
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jared Leto, Colin Farrell, David Bedella, Jessie Kamm, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Connor Paolo, Patrick Carroll, Brian Blessed, Peter Williamson, Morgan Christopher Ferris, Robert Earley, Aleczander Gordon, Christopher Plummer, Gary Stretch,
Tags: Biography, War, Drama, Adventure, Action, 3rd-century-b.c., 4th-century-b.c., alexandria-egypt, ancient-egypt, ancient-greece, archery, arena, army, assassination, babylon, battle, battle-scene, bear, bisexual, bisexuality, cavalry, cave, cave-painting, character-name-in-title, chariot, combat, dance, death-of-hero, death-of-protagonist, desert, doctor, eagle, elephant, epic, euthanasia, executing-the-wounded, execution, face-slap, father-son-relationship, female-nudity, gay-interest, general, gift, gladiator, gore, greek-mythology, harem, historical, homosexual-love, homosexuality, honor, impalement, india, jealousy, king, loss-of-father, lost-love, macedonia, male-nudity, melodrama, metaphor, monkey, mother-son-relationship, oedipus-complex, persia, poison, political, princess, profanity, psychedelic, queen, ring, shield, snake, snake-bite, stabbing, sword, sword-and-sandal, thunderstorm, tiger, told-in-flashback, treason, unhappy-marriage, wedding, wedding-night, wrestling
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