Archive for the ‘Drama’ Category
Friday, March 25th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 90
Language: English
Director: John Gray
Plot: It’s early autumn of 1975 in Brooklyn and 18 year-old Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) is killing time, pulling off petty crimes with his street tough older brother Danny (Geoff Wigdor), whom he both idolizes and fears. They both live with their parents, Paddy (Stephen Lang), a longshoreman, and his long suffering wife, Margaret (Karen Allen) who puts up with Paddy’s drinking and abusive behavior, especially to her and Danny . Though Paddy has never been physically abusive to Brian, every time he sees his brother’s suffering, his heart breaks a little more. Brian works for Whitey (Peter Riegert) at the failing Lafayette movie theater. Owing money to local mobsters, Whitey calls in a favor to an old friend who works with The Rolling Stones. They come up with a deal to have the Stones play at Whitey’s theater for one night only before their gig at Madison Square Garden and Brian is put in charge with getting the word out to everyone in the neighborhood. In the twists and turns that follow on that fateful night of the concert, both brothers must reexamine their dreams, and make decisions that will change their lives forever.
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 68
Language: English
Director: Doris Yeung
Plot: After years abroad, a young Asian American woman, Raffi Tang returns to the US when her estranged mother is murdered. She finds herself drawn into a web of deception by her stepfather and his right-hand man. Raffi struggles with investigative incompetence and her own grief, forced to confront some long-buried truths in her family.
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 152
Language: English
Director: Jim Kohlberg
Plot: Based on a case study by Dr. Oliver Sacks (Awakenings), and featuring music from Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Grateful Dead, The Music Never Stopped chronicles the heartwarming journey of a father and son adjusting to cerebral trauma and a lifetime of missed opportunities through the music that embodied the generation gap of the 1960s.
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 60
Language: English
Director: Brad Furman
Plot: In the gripping thriller “The Lincoln Lawyer,” Matthew McConaughey stars as Michael “Mick” Haller, a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime: defending a rich Beverly Hills playboy (Ryan Phillippe) who is accused of attempted murder. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money pay-off swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis of conscience for Haller.
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 126
Language: Dutch
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Plot: Nazi-occupied Holland, 1945. In a snow-covered village, thirteen-year-old MICHIEL (Martijn Lakemeier) is drawn into the Resistance when he aids a wounded British paratrooper. Michiel’s boyish sense of defiance and adventure soon turns to danger and desperation, as Michiel is forced to act without knowing whom to trust among the adults and townspeople around him. Wartime’s harsh reality encroaches on childhood innocence as Michiel confronts good and evil, courage and duplicity, and his own burden of responsibility.
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 123
Language: English (International)
Director: Sherry Horman
Plot: The incredible true story of a Somali nomad who escaped her destiny and became the darling of the fashion world, as well as a champion for women everywhere.
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 120
Language: English (International)
Director: Jordon Scott
Plot: In an austere and remote all girls boarding school, the most elite clique of girls are the illustrious members of the schools’ diving team. DI, LILY, POPPY, LAUREL, ROSIE and FUZZY are the envy of their fellow pupils who watch on as the girls compete for the attention of their glamorous teacher MISS G (Eva Green). MISS G in turn thrives on the attention she receives from her girls and believes it is her role to teach them the ways of the world. As Team Captain, DI is closest of all the girls to MISS G but her position is challenged when a beautiful Spanish girl, FIAMMA, arrives at the school and joins the diving team. DI, pulls rank as team captain and lays down the rules in an attempt to assert her position but MISS G is spellbound by FIAMMA’s beauty and maturity and becomes obsessed with her new favourite girl.
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 132
Language: English
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Plot: Mia Wasikowska (“Alice in Wonderland”) and Michael Fassbender (“Inglourious Basterds”) star in the romantic drama based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, from acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga (“Sin Nombre”). In the story, Jane Eyre flees Thornfield House, where she works as a governess for wealthy Edward Rochester. As she reflects upon the people and emotions that have defined her, it is clear that the isolated and imposing residence – and Mr. Rochester’s coldness – have sorely tested the young woman’s resilience, forged years earlier when she was orphaned. She must now act decisively to secure her own future and come to terms with the past that haunts her, and the terrible secret that Mr. Rochester is hiding and that she has uncovered…
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 133
Language: English
Director: Dana Adam Shapiro
Plot: Increasingly anxious about his impending marriage to Nat (Jones) and thoroughly bored with his day job as a wedding photographer, Theo (Messina) establishes a hobby: he’s hired by clients to clandestinely snap voyeuristic photos of them as they go about their days. Things go smoothly until a sexy exhibitionist (Dohan) leads him into an all-consuming obsession. Stalking her day and night, the woman’s mysterious public trysts send Theo reeling, forcing him to confront uncomfortable truths about his sex life at home. MONOGAMY is an acutely observed portrait of a relationship on the brink, a timely tale of masculinity in crisis in the face of fantasy and fear of commitment.
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 136
Language: English
Director: Asiel Norton
Plot: As a family struggles to survive in rural America during the Great Depression, their daughter’s secret affair begins a journey into the unknown. From writer/director, Asiel Norton, comes this story about the eternal laws of survival and existence, and how one act can begin the dissolution as well as the rebirth of a family.
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 148
Language: English
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Plot: Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie’s older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon’s arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast–one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect…and bait.
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 151
Language: English
Director: Crayton Robey
Plot: The Boys in the Band is a groundbreaking play that earned historical significance by being the first successful work to authentically depict gay characters. Over a year before the Stonewall rebellion, the play found surprising success and became a must-see phenomenon around the world. It had an impact on mainstream and gay audiences in a way no creative work about homosexuals had ever done before. It stood alone for years as the premiere depiction of the gay lifestyle.
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 126
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Plot: Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, KILL THE IRISHMAN chronicles Greene’s heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob. Turning the tables on loan shark Shondor Birns (Christopher Walken) and allying himself with gangster John Nardi (Vincent D’Onofrio), Greene stops taking orders from the mafia and pursues his own power. Surviving countless assassination attempts from the mob and killing off anyone who went after him in retaliation, Danny Greene’s infamous invincibility and notorious fearlessness eventually led to the collapse of mafia syndicates across the U.S. and also earned him the status of the man the mob couldn’t kill.
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 133
Language: French
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Plot: Academy Award®-winner Juliette Binoche gives one of the finest performances of her career (for which she won the best actress award at Cannes) in CERTIFIED COPY, the first European film from Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY). The film is a playful and provocative romance set against the lush, golden landscapes of Tuscany, a captivating story of a couple’s apparent chance meeting and a masterful game of hide and seek exploring the nature of love, marriage and art.
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Friday, March 4th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 150
Language: English
Director: Daniel Barnz
Plot: Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer) has it all looks, intelligence, wealth and opportunity and a wicked
cruel streak. Prone to mocking and humiliating aggressively unattractive classmates, he zeroes in
on Goth classmate Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen), inviting her to the school’s extravagant environmental
bash. Kendra accepts, and, true to form, Kyle blows her off in a particularly savage fashion. She
retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he despises. Enraged by
his horrible and unrecognizable appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only solution to
the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is a task he considers impossible.
Repulsed by his appearance, Kyle’s callous father (Peter Krause) banishes him to Brooklyn with a
sympathetic housekeeper (LisaGay Hamilton) and blind tutor (Neil Patrick Harris). As Kyle ponders
how to overcome the curse and get his old life back, he chances upon a drug addict in the act of
killing a threatening dealer. Seizing the opportunity, Kyle promises the addict freedom and safety for
his daughter Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens) if she will consent to live in Kyle’s Brooklyn home. Thus
begins Kyle’s journey to discover true love in this hyper-modern retelling of the classic “Beauty and
the Beast” story
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 125
Language: English
Director: Rick Bieber
Plot: The 5Th Quarter movie trailer – starring Ryan Merriman, Aidan Quinn, Andie MacDowell, Andrea Powell, Michael Harding, Jillian Batherson. Directed by Rick Bieber. Theatrical Release Date: 3/1/2011
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 113
Language: English (International)
Director: Elliott Lester
Plot: A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 55
Language: Arabic
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Plot: Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps through the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay – come what may. This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria, from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996.
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 60
Language: French
Director: Xavier Dolan
Plot: Part gleaming farce, part-tough-minded exploration of the inherent insanity of love and desire, HEARTBEATS centers on two close friends: Francis (Xavier Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri). At a dinner party one evening they meet Nicolas (Niels Schneider), a striking young man from the country who has just recently arrived in town. His boyish charm and classical good looks create an irresistible mystique that neither of the two friends can shake.
The threesome begins to spend more and more time together. But the more intimate they get, the more remote and unattainable Nico becomes, sending Francis and Marie’s comic obsession into overdrive. And as their hunger for Nicolas’ affections grow, the more their once cast-iron friendship begins to crack and shift to rivalry.
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2011
Runtime: 139
Language: English
Director: David G. Evans
Plot: Everything can change in an instant … and take a lifetime to unravel. When Mac McDonald loses his son in an accident, years of bitterness and pain erodes his love for his family and leaves him angry with God … and everyone else. Can Mac and his new patrol partner, Sgt. Sam Wright, somehow join forces to help one another when it’s impossible to look past their differences–especially the most obvious one? Every day, we have the opportunity to rebuild relationships and heal wounds by extending and receiving God’s grace. Offer THE GRACE CARD … and never underestimate the power of God’s love.
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