Archive for the 'Musical' Category
Stomp the Yard
After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.
Stomp the Yard DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 2.30 out of 10 (4381 votes)
Director: Sylvain White
Actors: Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Ne-Yo, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Brian J. White, Laz Alonso, Valarie Pettiford, Jermaine Williams, Allan Louis, Harry J. Lennix, Chris Brown, Oliver Ryan Best, Richmond Duain Martyn, Justin Hires, Michael Ngaujah,
Tags: Musical, Romance, Drama, african-american, all-black-cast, atlanta-georgia, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brother-brother-relationship, bunny-costume, college-campus, competition, dance-contest, dancer, dancing, death, family-relationships, father-daughter-relationship, fight, fraternity, gun, los-angeles-california, loss-of-brother, love, love-at-first-sight, male-female-relationship, mother-son-relationship, murder, rabbit-suit, rivalry, shot-in-the-chest, slow-motion, step-dancing, streetfight, teenage-boy, teenage-girl, uncle-nephew-relationship, warehouse
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Corpse Bride
Blue-tinted, eye-ball-popping, maggot-infested beauty Emily (Bonham Carter) has become known as the Corpse Bride after waiting for her fiancé where the couple planned to rendezvous before getting hitched. When her groom arrives, he kills her, and she rests in the ground to wait for her soul mate, whether he knows he is the Corpse Bride’s groom or not. It’s a cold dark night, the moon is full, the stars are bright and the forest is a little bit creepy. Wandering through the black mangled trees, Victor (Depp) just can’t memorize his wedding vows. Victor’s hesitance towards marriage causes him to jumble the words. Two prominent families have arranged their children to be married in order to overcome financial difficulties. As the objects of betrothal, Victor and Victoria (Watson) met for the first time the night before their wedding. It only makes sense that Victor, a groom with cold feet, would have trouble remembering tedious wedding vows. Thus Victor ends up in the dark forest ringing his hands and muttering his vows, the vows that the Corpse Bride hears, bringing her out of the grave. Victor suddenly finds himself married to another woman, a voluptuous bombshell bride who also happens to be dead. Whisked away to the Land of the Dead, Victor finds out that living amongst corpses is not as easy as it seems. Heads easily loose their owners and eyes never seem to stay in their sockets, an adjustment that Victor seems reluctant to accept. Once taken into the Land of the Dead, it is nearly impossible to return, causing Victor to choose between risking Victoria’s life or giving up his own.
Corpse Bride DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.40 out of 10 (10978 votes)
Director: Tim Burton; Mike Johnson
Actors: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley, Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Jane Horrocks, Enn Reitel, Deep Roy, Danny Elfman, Stephen Ballantyne,
Tags: Animation, Musical, Fantasy, Family, Romance, Comedy, 19th-century, arranged-marriage, disembodied-hand, disembodied-head, dog, europe, eyeball, fishmonger, folk-tale, impoverished-nobility, piano, resurrection, skeleton, stop-motion, title-spoken-by-character, undead, wedding-ring, woods
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Rent
This film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal), two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Tracie Thoms, and Taye Diggs also star.
Rent DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.10 out of 10 (13722 votes)
Director: Chris Columbus
Actors: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, Tracie Thoms, Taye Diggs, Julia Roth, Porscha Radcliffe, Stephen Payne, Darryl Chan, Ken Clark, Julia Ormond, David Fine,
Tags: Musical, Romance, Drama, 1980s, 1990s, aids, answering-machine, apartment-eviction, art, balcony, based-on-book, based-on-musical, based-on-play, bicycle, bisexual, black-comedy, bohemia, boyfriend-boyfriend-relationship, candle, celebration, christmas, cocaine, cross-dresser, cross-dressing, death, drag, drag-queen, drug-abuse, drug-addict, drug-addiction, drug-rehab, drugs, eviction, female-nudity, filmmaker, first-gay-sexual-experience, friendship, funeral, gay, gay-couple, gay-interest, gay-lead-character, gay-love, gay-marriage, gay-relationship, guitar, heroin, hiv, hiv-aids, hiv-positive, holiday, homeless, homosexual, homosexual-kiss, homosexuality, interracial-relationship, james-bond-spoof-scene, lesbian, lesbian-kiss, life, love, mooning, motorcycle, mugging, musician, neighbors, new-year's-eve, new-york, new-york-city, notice-of-eviction, performance-artist, pool-table, pulitzer-prize, rent, riot, same-sex-situation, subway, support-group, tango, tenement, title-spoken-by-character, transvestism, transvestite, video-camera, vodka, youth
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Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
This film tells the tale of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.80 out of 10 (1843 votes)
Director: Andy Fickman
Actors: Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell, Neve Campbell, Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer, John Kassir, Amy Spanger, Robert Torti, Steven Weber, Kevin McNulty, Stephen J.M. Sisk, Stephen E. Miller, Robert Clarke, Ruth Nichol, Lynda Boyd,
Tags: Musical, Drama, Comedy, 1930s, animated-sequence, anti-establishment, based-on-play, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, campy, cannabis, carelessness, classroom, cult-tv, dance-scene, dominatrix, drug-abuse, drug-addict, drug-addiction, drugs, fear, fiend, film-within-a-film, high-school, insanity, instructional-film, jesus-christ, kitsch, loss-of-child, madness, marijuana, music, polish-american, political, pot, pot-smoking, propaganda, random-sex, satan, satire, scarecrow, sin, small-town-life, social-issues, song, spoof, teen-life, teenage-girl, waitress, zombie
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Balto III: Wings of Change
The mail in the north used to be delivered by dogsled, but the success of airplane delivery leaves Balto and the other sled dogs feeling neglected. However, when a delivery plane crashes on a mountain side, the sled dogs get the opportunity to show their worth. This story also prominently features Balto’s son, Kodi, who was among the puppy litter that we met in Balto II: Wolf Quest.
Balto III: Wings of Change DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.90 out of 10 (155 votes)
Director: Phil Weinstein
Actors: Sean Astin, Jodi Benson, Keith Carradine, Bill Fagerbakke, Charles Fleischer, Charity James, Maurice LaMarche, Kathy Najimy, David Paymer, Kevin Schon, Jean Smart, Carl Weathers, Josh Shada,
Tags: Musical, Animation, Family, Adventure, sequel, third-part
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What a Girl Wants
Daphne, a seventeen-year-old girl from New York goes to England in search of her father, who does not know he had a child with an American girlfriend he met while working in Morocco, and whose aristocratic family did not approve of the woman.
What a Girl Wants DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.70 out of 10 (6285 votes)
Director: Dennie Gordon
Actors: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver James, Christina Cole, Sylvia Syms, Soleil McGhee, Peter Reeves, James Greene, Steven Osborne, Mike Toller, Tom Penn,
Tags: Family, Musical, Romance, Drama, Comedy, Adventure, big-ben, billboard, camel, cellular-phone, chandelier, clumsiness, dancing, double-decker-bus, election-campaign, england, fall-into-water, fashion, fashion-show, father-daughter-relationship, gala, high-society, leather-pants, london-england, media-circus, member-of-parliament, mirror, morocco, motorcycle, parliament, reconciliation, regatta, remake, rock-band, rowboat, royalty, scandal, shopping, singer, skeet-shooting, swing, target-practice, teenager, tiara, tour-guide, wedding
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Return to Never Land
The classic tale of ‘Peter Pan’ continues in Disney’s sequel ‘Return to Never Land’. In a world besieged by World War II, Wendy, now grown up, tries to give her own children hope by telling them of her magical experiences with Peter Pan in Never Land. However, Jane, Wendy’s 12-year-old daughter, sees it all as make believe and refuses to believe in the tales. That is, until the villainous Captain Hook mistakes her for Wendy and abducts her to Never Land in an attempt to lure and capture Peter Pan. Peter Pan’s quest to return Jane safely home is jeopardized until she can begin to believe in the magic of imagination.
Return to Never Land DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.60 out of 10 (1522 votes)
Director: Robin Budd
Actors: Harriet Owen, Blayne Weaver, Corey Burton, Jeff Bennett, Kath Soucie, Andrew McDonough, Roger Rees, Spencer Breslin, Bradley Pierce, Quinn Beswick, Aaron Spann, Dan Castellaneta, Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Clive Revill,
Tags: Musical, Animation, Fantasy, Family, Adventure, 1940s, based-on-novel, betrayal, disney-animated-feature, fairy, family-relationships, flying, hook-for-hand, island, kids-and-family, london-england, mermaid, mother-daughter-relationship, octopus, old-friends, peter-pan, pirate, pirate-ship, reunion, second-part, sequel, treasure, troubled-teen, woman-heroine, wwii, young-love
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Moulin Rouge!
Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris’ now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club’s highest paid star and the city’s most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.
Moulin Rouge! DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.70 out of 10 (69224 votes)
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, Jacek Koman, Matthew Whittet, Kerry Walker, Caroline O’Connor, Christine Anu, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Lara Mulcahy, David Wenham, Kylie Minogue,
Tags: Musical, Romance, Drama, 1890s, 1900s, absinthe, acting, anachronistic, apartment, attempted-murder, attempted-rape, bittersweet, bohemian, cancan, cancan-dance, courtesan, dance, dance-hall, death-threat, dinner, doomed-romance, dream, duke, dying, eiffel-tower-paris, fat-suit, fetish, flashback-sequence, france, freedom, french-maid, gun, india, indian-music, investor, jealousy, la-bohème, la-dame-aux-camellias, la-traviata, liberty, maharajah, maid-uniform, midget, mistaken-identity, moulin-rouge, narcolepsy, nightclub, no-opening-credits, orpheus-and-eurydice, parallel-story, paris-france, play-director, play-rewrite, play-within-film, playwright, poet, poetry, pop-music, postmodernism, prostitution, rape, red-curtain, reverse-footage, rich-snob, rock-music, satire, schoolgirl, schoolgirl-uniform, seduction, stage, surreal, tango, terminal-illness, theater, title-spoken-by-character, told-in-flashback, toulouse-lautrec, tragedy, true-love, tuberculosis, turn-of-the-century, windmill, woman-in-uniform, writer, writer's-block, writer-hero, writing
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