Archive for the ‘Drama’ Category

Django Unchained

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 155

Language: English

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Plot: Set in the South two years before the Civil War, DJANGO UNCHAINED stars Academy Award®-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive.

Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South’s most wanted criminals with Django by his side. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.

Django and Schultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Academy Award®-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of “Candyland,” an infamous plantation where slaves are groomed by trainer Ace Woody (Kurt Russell) to battle each other for sport. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them. If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival.

 

Not Fade Away

Friday, December 21st, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 106

Language: English

Director: David Chase

Plot: It’s 1964, the Rolling Stones appear on television and three best friends from the suburbs of New Jersey decide to form a rock band.

 

Jack Reacher

Friday, December 21st, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Christopher McQuarrie

Plot: A homicide investigator looks into a mass shooting involving a military sniper.

 

Hyde Park on Hudson

Friday, December 7th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 156

Language: English

Director: Roger Michell

Plot: In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Academy Award nominee Bill Murray) and his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) host the King and Queen of England (Samuel West and Olivia Colman) for a weekend at the Roosevelt home at Hyde Park on Hudson, in upstate New York – the first-ever visit of a reigning English monarch to America. With Britain facing imminent war with Germany, the Royals are desperately looking to FDR for support. But international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR’s domestic establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal weekend an unforgettable one. Seen through the eyes of Daisy (Academy Award nominee Laura Linney), Franklin’s neighbor and intimate, the weekend will produce not only a special relationship between two great nations, but, for Daisy – and through her, for us all – a deeper understanding of the mysteries of love and friendship.

 

Deadfall

Friday, December 7th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 132

Language: English

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky

Plot: Siblings Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde) are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. When a car accident leaves their wheel man and a state trooper dead, they split up and make a run for the Canadian border in the worst of circumstances – a near whiteout blizzard. While Addison heads cross-country, creating mayhem in his wake, Liza is picked up by ex-boxer Jay (Charlie Hunnam), en-route for a Thanksgiving homecoming with his parents, June (Sissy Spacek) and retired sheriff Chet (Kris Kristofferson). It’s there the siblings are reunited in a terse and thrilling showdown that pushes the bonds of family to the limit.

 

End of Watch

Saturday, December 1st, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: David Ayer

Plot: The story of the long term friendship and partnership of 2 cops.

 

On the Road

Saturday, December 1st, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 105

Language: English

Director: Walter Salles

Plot: The screen adaptation of the Jack Kerouac’s cult novel.
Just after his father’s death, Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, meets Dean Moriarty, a devastatingly charming ex-con, married to the very liberated and seductive Marylou. Sal and Dean bond instantly. Determined not to get locked in to a constricted life, the two friends cut their ties and take to the road with Marylou. Thirsting for freedom, the three young people head off in search of the world, of other encounters, and of themselves.

 

Lincoln

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 141

Language: English

Director: Steven Spielberg

Plot: Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

 

28 Hotel Rooms

Friday, November 9th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 124

Language: English

Director: Matt Ross

Plot: Both traveling for work, in a city in which neither lives, a man (Chris Messina) and a woman (Marin Ireland) have a one-night stand. Months later, in another city, they run into each other in a hotel restaurant and sleep together a second time. Though she’s married and he has a girlfriend, they decide to keep meeting.

This begins an unexpected love that slowly evolves into a profound relationship and threatens to impact everything else in their lives. The film unfolds as a collage of moments — some mundane, some profound, some silly, some intimate — that attempts to tell a more complete story of a relationship.

28 HOTEL ROOMS is an intimate portrait of an affair in which follows two people as they wrestle with the intoxication of love and the pain, guilt, and confusion of loving more than one person.

 

Luv

Friday, November 9th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Sheldon Candis

Plot: Eleven-year-old WOODY WATSON is a timid Baltimore orphan who dreams of a better life — and his absent mother who may or may not be in North Carolina fighting drug addiction. Woody also reveres his uncle VINCENT as the father figure he never had. A street hustler and former drug dealer, Vincent’s fresh off an eight-year stint in prison and wants a new direction.

When Vincent bypasses his nephew’s school one day and offers to show Woody how a man handles his business, Woody jumps at the opportunity to join his uncle on a field trip of life lessons.

With a foreclosed warehouse property, Vincent plans to open his own crab shack restaurant. However, when he is denied a bank loan the legitimate way, the temptations of Vincent’s old life working for Baltimore crime boss MR. FISH return to haunt him. A day once bright with optimism quickly spirals downward into a world of violence. Coming of age all too fast by day’s end, Woody starts to doubt his hero and ultimately must decide where he stands.

 

Jack and Diane

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 112

Language: English

Director: Bradley Rust Gray

Plot: Jack and Diane are two teenage girls who meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously, quickly striking up a passionate love affair. But when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week, she tries to push her away. Diane struggles to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire is giving her monster-like visions. JACK AND DIANE also stars Dane DeHaan (“True Blood”), Michael Chernus (Love and Other Drugs) and Lou Taylor Pucci (Carriers). The film features animation from the Brothers Quay, and creature effects by Gabe Bartalos (Cremaster 2 and 4).

 

Flight

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Plot: In this action-packed mystery thriller, Academy Award winner, Denzel Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot, who miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on that plane?

 

Holy Motors

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 104

Language: French

Director: Leos Carax

Plot: Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine “appointments,” transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. Fetched in the morning by Céline, his trusty chauffeur
on this surreal journey, Oscar begins the day as a captain of industry. Then he becomes a gypsy crone, begging for spare change on a bridge over the Seine.

Inside a digital production facility, he’s a ninja warrior transformed by cuttingedge technology into a reptilian sex god. Next he’s a gibberish-spewing troglodyte who kidnaps a fashion model from a photo shoot in Père-Lachaise
cemetery, ferrying her to his underground lair in the sewers. Then he’s the melancholy father of a teenage daughter, followed by a shadowy assassin sent to kill his own doppelgänger, a dying old man, and finally a thwarted lover revisiting a flame from his past atop a decaying Right Bank department store next to the Pont-Neuf. Monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, futuristic sex fantasia – HOLY MOTORS is all of these and, then again, none of these. It is a ravishing, shape-shifting, fever dream of becoming, unraveling and starting all over again. From celluloid magic to the digital data stream, Monsieur
Oscar’s epic journey of the soul is all of our dreams.

 

Darling Companion

Thursday, November 1st, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 141

Language: English

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Plot: A man and woman’s best friend, their dog, goes missing.

 

LE FILS DE L’AUTRE

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 60

Language: French

Director: Lorraine Levy

Plot: “The Other Son” is the moving and provocative tale of two young men — one Israeli, the other Palestinian — who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions facing them and their respective families.

Joseph (Jules Sitruk), an 18-year-old musician preparing to join the Israeli army for his mandatory military service, lives at home in a comfortable suburb of Tel Aviv with his parents, France-born physician Orith (Emmanuelle Devos) and Israel-born army commander Alon Silbers (Pascal
Elbé). A blood test for Joseph’s military service reveals that he is not their biological son. During the Gulf War Joseph was evacuated from a clinic along with another baby, and the pair were given back to the wrong families. While Palestinian Joseph went to Tel Aviv with the Silbers, their actual Jewish son, Yacine (Medhi Dehbi), was brought to the West Bank by an Arab couple, Said (Khalifa Natour) and Leila (Areen Omari). The revelation turns the lives of the two families upside-down, forcing them to reassess their respective identities, values, and beliefs.

 

Chasing Mavericks

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Michael Apted

Plot: CHASING MAVERICKS is the inspirational true story of real life surfing phenom Jay Moriarity (played by newcomer Jonny Weston). When 15 year old Jay discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, is not only real, but exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson (played by Gerard Butler) to train him to survive it. As Jay and Frosty embark on their quest to accomplish the impossible, they form a unique friendship that transforms both their lives, and their quest to tame Mavericks becomes about far more than surfing. Chasing Mavericks was made with the help of some of the biggest names in the surfing world, and features some of the most mind-blowing real wave footage ever captured on film.

 

Cloud Atlas

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Tom Tykwer

Plot: “Cloud Atlas” explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Each member of the ensemble appears in multiple roles as the stories move through time.

 

The Sessions

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Ben Lewin

Plot: THE SESSIONS is based on the witty and touching autobiography of Mark O’Brien, a man confined to an iron lung for the majority of his life due to a child bout of polio. At the age of 38, Mark decides to fulfill one of his lifelong dreams – to lose his virginity. What follows is a truly unconventional journey, portrayed by Academy Award-nominee John Hawkes

 

Smashed

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 84

Language: English

Director: James Ponsoldt

Plot: An alcoholic couple’s life changes when the wife tries to get sober.

 

3,2,1 FRANKIE GO BOOM

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 142

Language: English

Director: Jordan Roberts

Plot: Frank Bartlett (Charlie Hunnam, SONS OF ANARCHY) has been tortured, embarrassed and humiliated by his brother Bruce (Chris O’Dowd, BRIDESMAIDS)–usually on film–his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.