Archive for the ‘Romance’ Category

Brideshead Revisited

Friday, July 25th, 2008

All Genres:
Drama, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: UK | Italy | Morocco

Runtime: USA:133 min

Languages: English | Italian | Arabic | Latin | French

Director:

Tagline: Love is not ours to control

 

Writers: Andrew Davies (written by) and Jeremy Brock (written by) …

 

Cast: Matthew Goode … Charles Ryder
Thomas Morrison … Hooper
David Barrass … Ship's Barber
Anna Madeley … Celia Ryder
Sarah Crowden … Lady Guest
Stephen Carlile … English Lord
Peter Barnes … American Professor
Hayley Atwell … Julia Flyte
Patrick Malahide … Mr Ryder
Richard Teverson … Cousin Jasper
Joseph Beattie … Anthony Blanche
Ben Whishaw … Sebastian Flyte
Roger Walker … Lunt
Mark Field … Boy Mulcaster
Mark Edel-Hunt … Oxford Student

 

Plot: A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. add synopsis

 

Awards: 10 nominations

Mamma Mia!

Monday, June 30th, 2008

All Genres:
Comedy, Musical, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: UK | USA | Germany

Runtime: 108 min

Languages: English | Hungarian

Director:

Tagline: Take a trip down the aisle you'll never forget

 

Writers: Catherine Johnson (screenplay) Catherine Johnson (musical book)

 

Cast: Amanda Seyfried … Sophie
Stellan Skarsgård … Bill
Pierce Brosnan … Sam
Nancy Baldwin … Sam's PA
Colin Firth … Harry
Heather Emmanuel … Harry's Housekeeper
Colin Davis … Harry's Driver
Rachel McDowall … Lisa
Ashley Lilley … Ali
Meryl Streep … Donna Sheridan
Julie Walters … Rosie
Christine Baranski … Tanya
Ricardo Montez … Stannos
Mia Soteriou … Arina
Enzo Squillino Jr. … Gregoris

 

Plot: The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular ’70s group ABBA.

 

Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 9 wins & 13 nominations

WALL·E

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

All Genres:
Animation, Adventure, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 98 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: An Adventure Beyond the Ordinar-E

 

Writers: Andrew Stanton (original story) & Pete Docter (original story) …

 

Cast: Ben Burtt … WALL·E / M-O (voice)
Elissa Knight … EVE (voice)
Jeff Garlin … Captain McCrea (voice)
Fred Willard … Shelby Forthright – BnL CEO
MacInTalk … AUTO (voice)
John Ratzenberger … John (voice)
Kathy Najimy … Mary (voice)
Sigourney Weaver … Ship's Computer (voice) rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kim Kopf … Hoverchair Mother (voice)
Sherry Lynn … Additional voices (voice)

 

Plot: In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

 

Awards: Won Oscar. Another 44 wins & 40 nominations

The Love Guru

Friday, June 20th, 2008

All Genres:
Comedy, Romance, Sport

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA | UK | Germany

Runtime: 87 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: His Karma is Huge

 

Cast: Mike Myers … Maurice / Guru Pitka / Young Pitka / Teenage Pitka / Himself
Jessica Alba … Jane Bullard
Justin Timberlake … Jacques 'Le Coq' Grande
Romany Malco … Darren Roanoke
Meagan Good … Prudence Roanoke
Ben Kingsley … Guru Tugginmypudha
Verne Troyer … Coach Punch Cherkov
Jessica Simpson … Herself
Kanye West … Himself
Deepak Chopra … Himself
Rob Blake … Himself
Manu Narayan … Rajneesh
John Oliver … Dick Pants
Stephen Colbert … Jay Kell
Jim Gaffigan … Trent Lueders

 

Plot: Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.

 

Awards: 3 wins & 7 nominations

Two Lovers

Monday, May 19th, 2008

All Genres:
Drama, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 110 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Sometimes we leave everything to find ourselves.

 

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix … Leonard Kraditor
Gwyneth Paltrow … Michelle Rausch
Vinessa Shaw … Sandra Cohen
Moni Moshonov … Reuben Kraditor
Isabella Rossellini … Ruth Kraditor
John Ortiz … Jose Cordero
Bob Ari … Michael Cohen
Julie Budd … Carol Cohen
Elias Koteas … Ronald Blatt
Shiran Nicholson … DJ Juice rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Cale … Jeweler
Kathryn Gerhardt … New Year's Eve Party Guest #3
Nick Gillie … Livery Driver
Carmen M. Herlihy
Samantha Ivers … Stephanie
Anne Joyce … Leonard's ex-fiance
Mari Koda … Popping Dancer
RJ Konner … Upscale Opera Guest
Evan Lewis … Uncle
Marion McCorry … Nurse
David Ross … Waiter
Jeanine Serralles … Dayna
Jose Edwin Soto
Uzimann … Cab Driver
Elliot Villar … Bystander
Mark Vincent … Ronald's driver
Craig Walker

 

Plot: A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor (Phoenix) torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.

 

Awards: 6 nominations

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

All Genres:
Drama, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: Spain | USA

Runtime: 96 min

Languages: English | Catalan | Spanish

Director:

Tagline: Life is the ultimate work of art

 

Cast: Rebecca Hall … Vicky
Scarlett Johansson … Cristina
Chris Messina … Doug
Patricia Clarkson … Judy Nash
Christopher Evan Welch … Narrator (voice)
Kevin Dunn … Mark Nash
Julio Perillán … Charles
Juan Quesada … Guitarist in Barcelona
Richard Salom … Art Gallery Guest #1
Maurice Sonnenberg … Art Gallery Guest #2
Javier Bardem … Juan Antonio Gonzalo
Manel Barceló … Doctor
Josep Maria Domènech … Julio Josep
Emilio de Benito … Guitarist in Asturias
Jaume Montané … Juan Antonio's Friend #1

 

Plot: Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

 

Awards: Won Oscar. Another 19 wins & 28 nominations

The Edge of Love

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

All Genres:
Biography, Drama, Romance, War

Release Year: 2008

Country: UK

Runtime: 110 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: The only thing dangerous than war… is love.

 

Cast: Simon Armstrong … Wilfred Hosgood
Ben Batt … Sergeant
Geoffrey Beevers … Registrar
Rachel Bell … Midwife
Paul Brooke … Mr. Justice Singleton
Huw Ceredig … John Patrick
Richard Clifford … Alistair Graham
Richard Dillane … Lt Col David Talbot Rice
Joel Dommett … Train Soldier
Rachel Essex … Mel
Craig Gallivan … Sailor Beating Dylan
Callum Godfrey … Boy on Train
Simon Kassianides … Partisan
Keira Knightley … Vera Phillips
Anne Lambton … Anita Shenkin

 

Plot: Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.

 

Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination

Blindness

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

All Genres:
Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Release Year: 2008

Country: Canada | Brazil | Japan

Runtime: 121 min

Languages: English | Japanese

Director:

Tagline: Lust is blind.

 

Writers: José Saramago (novel) Don McKellar (screenplay)

 

Cast: Yusuke Iseya … First Blind Man
Jason Bermingham … Driver #1
Eduardo Semerjian … Concerned Pedestrian #1
Don McKellar … Thief
Ciça Meirelles … Driver #2
Antônio Fragoso … Concerned Pedestrian #2
Lilian Blanc … Concerned Pedestrian #3
Douglas Silva … Onlooker #1
Daniel Zettel … Onlooker #2
Yoshino Kimura … First Blind Man's Wife
Joe Pingue … Taxi Driver
Susan Coyne … Receptionist
Fabiana Guglielmetti … Mother of the Boy (as Fabiana Gugli)
Mitchell Nye … Boy
Danny Glover … Man with Black Eye Patch

 

Plot: A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant “white blindness”. Those first afflicted are quarantined…

 

Awards: 12 wins & 14 nominations

Sex and the City

Monday, May 12th, 2008

All Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 145 min | 151 min (extended cut)

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Get Carried Away.

 

Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker … Carrie Bradshaw
Kim Cattrall … Samantha Jones
Kristin Davis … Charlotte York
Cynthia Nixon … Miranda Hobbes
Chris Noth … Mr. Big
Candice Bergen … Enid Frick
Jennifer Hudson … Louise
David Eigenberg … Steve Brady
Evan Handler … Harry Goldenblatt
Jason Lewis … Jerry 'Smith' Jerrod
Mario Cantone … Anthony Marentino
Lynn Cohen … Magda
Willie Garson … Stanford Blatch
Joanna Gleason … Therapist
Joseph Pupo … Brady Hobbes

 

Plot: A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her. add synopsis

 

Awards: 1 win & 10 nominations

Made of Honor

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

All Genres:
Comedy, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA | UK

Runtime: 101 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: It takes a real man to become a maid of honor.

 

Cast: Patrick Dempsey … Thomas 'Tom' Bailey
Michelle Monaghan … Hannah
Kevin McKidd … Colin McMurray
Kadeem Hardison … Felix
Chris Messina … Dennis
Richmond Arquette … Gary
Busy Philipps … Melissa
Whitney Cummings … Stephanie
Emily Nelson … Hilary
Kathleen Quinlan … Joan
Selma Stern … Grandma Pearl
Sydney Pollack … Thomas Bailey Sr.
James Sikking … Reverend Foote
Kevin Sussman … Tiny Shorts Guy
Beau Garrett … Gloria

 

Plot: A guy in love with an engaged woman tries to win her over after she asks him to be her maid of honor.

 

Awards: 1 nomination

Deception

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 107 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: When you're in this world, no one is who they seem, and everyone is playing the game.

 

Cast: Ewan McGregor … Jonathan McQuarry
Hugh Jackman … Wyatt Bose
Michelle Williams … S
Bruce Altman … Lawyer #1
Andrew Ginsburg … Lawyer #2
Stephanie Roth Haberle … Assistant Controller
Christine Kan … Tennis Player #1
Dante Spinotti … Herr Kleiner / Mr. Moretti
Karolina Muller … Waitress (as Karolina Müller)
Agnete Oernsholt … Woman at Waldorf Astoria
Melissa Rae Mahon … Velvet Rope Dancer #1
Rachel Montez Collins … Velvet Rope Dancer #2
Holly Cruikshank … Velvet Rope Dancer #3
Deborah Yates … Tango Dancer
Bill Camp … Clancey Controller

 

Plot: An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman’s disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.

Baby Mama

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

All Genres:
Comedy, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: Argentina:99 min | USA:99 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Would you put your eggs…in this basket?

 

Cast: Tina Fey … Kate Holbrook
Amy Poehler … Angie Ostrowiski
Greg Kinnear … Rob Ackerman
Dax Shepard … Carl Loomis
Romany Malco … Oscar
Sigourney Weaver … Chaffee Bicknell
Steve Martin … Barry
Maura Tierney … Caroline
Stephen Mailer … Dan
Holland Taylor … Rose Holbrook
James Rebhorn … Judge
Denis O'Hare … Dr. Manheim
Kevin Collins … Architect / Rick
Will Forte … Scott
Fred Armisen … Stroller Salesman

 

Plot: A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.

 

Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations

What Happens in Vegas

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

All Genres:
Comedy, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 99 min | 101 min (extended edition)

Languages: English | Serbo-Croatian

Director:

Tagline: Get Lucky.

 

Cast: Cameron Diaz … Joy McNally
Ashton Kutcher … Jack Fuller
Rob Corddry … Hater
Lake Bell … Tipper
Jason Sudeikis … Mason
Treat Williams … Jack Fuller Sr.
Deirdre O'Connell … Mrs. Fuller
Michelle Krusiec … Chong
Dennis Farina … Banger
Zach Galifianakis … Dave the Bear
Queen Latifah … Dr. Twitchell
Krysten Ritter … Kelly
Ricky Garcia … Fuller Closets Worker
Andrew Daly … Curtis
Benita Robledo … Maid

 

Plot: Set in Sin City, story revolves around two people who discover they’ve gotten married following a night of debauchery… add synopsis

 

Awards: 2 wins & 3 nominations

Delgo

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

All Genres:
Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 94 min

Languages: English

Director: Marc F. Adler

Jason Maurer

Tagline: In a divided land, a troubled youth and some unlikely friends must save the world from itself.

 

Writers: Marc F. Adler (story) Scott Biear (story)

 

Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr. … Delgo (voice)
Chris Kattan … Filo (voice)
Jennifer Love Hewitt … Princess Kyla (voice)
Anne Bancroft … Sedessa (voice)
Val Kilmer … Bogardus (voice)
Malcolm McDowell … Raius (voice)
Michael Clarke Duncan … Elder Marley (voice)
Louis Gossett Jr. … King Zahn (voice)
Eric Idle … Spig (voice)
Burt Reynolds … Delgo's Father (voice)
Kelly Ripa … Kurrin (voice)
Sally Kellerman … Narrator (voice)
Jed Rhein … Ando
Melissa Suzanne McBride … Miss Sutley / Elder Pearo (voice) (as Melissa McBride)
Jeffrey Winter … Giddy / Lockni Man (voice) (as Jeff Winter)

 

Plot: Delgo, an adventurous but naive teenager, must rally his group of friends to protect their world from conflict between the Lockni and Nohrin people.

The Forbidden Kingdom

Friday, April 4th, 2008

All Genres:
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA | China | Australia | South Korea

Runtime: 104 min

Languages: English | Mandarin

Director:

Tagline: The path is unsafe. The place is unknown. The journey is unbelievable.

 

Cast: Jet Li … The Monkey King / The Silent Monk
Michael Angarano … Jason Tripitikas
Jackie Chan … Lu Yan / Old Hop
Yifei Liu … Golden Sparrow / Chinatown Girl
Collin Chou … Jade Warlord
Juana Collignon … Southie Girl
Morgan Benoit … Lupo
Bingbing Li … Ni Chang
Jack Posobiec … Southie
Thomas McDonell … Young Southie
Zhi Ma Gui … Old Woman
Shen Shou He … Farmer
Bin Jiang … Young Village Man
Shaohua Yang … Jade Soldier
Yu Yuan Zeng … Inn Keeper

 

Plot: A discovery made by a kung fu obsessed American teen sends him on an adventure to China, where he joins up with a band of martial arts warriors in order to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

 

Awards: 4 nominations

Leatherheads

Monday, March 24th, 2008

All Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA | Germany

Runtime: 114 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: In the beginning, the rules were simple. There weren't any.

 

Cast: John Krasinski … Carter Rutherford
David de Vries … Princeton Reporter #1 (as David DeVries)
Rick Forrester … Princeton Reporter #2
Craig S. Harper … Princeton Reporter #3 (as Craig Harper)
George Clooney … Jimmy 'Dodge' Connelly
Malcolm Goodwin … Bakes
Matt Bushell … Curly
Tommy Hinkley … Hardleg
Tim Griffin … Ralph
Robert Baker … Stump
Nick Paonessa … Zoom
Lance Barber … Toledo Referee
Wayne Duvall … Coach Frank Ferguson
Nicholas Bourdages … Bug
Jason Drago … Toledo Player

 

Plot: A romantic comedy set in the world of 1920s football, where the owner of a professional team drafts a strait-laced college sensation, only to watch his new coach fall for his fianc

Meet the Browns

Friday, March 21st, 2008

All Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: USA:100 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Check your baggage at the door.

 

Cast: Tyler Perry … Madea / Joe
David Mann … Leroy Brown
Tamela J. Mann … Cora Brown
Angela Bassett … Brenda Brown
Lance Gross … Michael Brown
Chloe Bailey … Tosha Brown
Mariana Tolbert … Lena Brown
Rick Fox … Harry
Sofía Vergara … Cheryl
Irma P. Hall … Mildred
Frankie Faison … L.B. Brown
Margaret Avery … Sarah Brown
Jenifer Lewis … Vera
Lamman Rucker … Will
Kristopher Lofton … Calvin

 

Plot: A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father — a man she never met. There, her clan is introduced to the crass, fun-loving Brown family.

 

Awards: 2 nominations

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Monday, March 10th, 2008

All Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 111 min | 118 min (unrated version)

Languages: English | Hawaiian

Director:

Tagline: From the guys who brought you "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up"

 

Cast: Jason Segel … Peter Bretter
Kristen Bell … Sarah Marshall
Mila Kunis … Rachel Jansen
Russell Brand … Aldous Snow
Bill Hader … Brian Bretter
Liz Cackowski … Liz Bretter
Maria Thayer … Wyoma
Jack McBrayer … Darald
Taylor Wily … Kimo
Davon McDonald … Dwayne the Bartender (as Da'Vone McDonald)
Steve Landesberg … Dr. Rosenbaum
Jonah Hill … Matthew the Waiter
Paul Rudd … Chuck
Kala Alexander … Greg
Kalani Robb … Helpful Hawaiian Waiter

 

Plot: Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex … and she’s bringing along her new boyfriend.

 

Awards: 1 win & 10 nominations

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Friday, March 7th, 2008

All Genres:
Comedy, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: UK | USA

Runtime: 92 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Every Woman Will Have Her Day

 

Cast: Amy Adams … Delysia Lafosse
David Alexander … Chestnut Seller
Clare Clifford … Margery
Christina Cole … Charlotte Warren
Stephanie Cole … Miss Holt
Beatie Edney … Mrs. Brummegan
Shirley Henderson … Edythe DuBarry
Ciarán Hinds … Joe Bloomfield
Sarah Kants … Annabel Darlington
Sally Leonard … Woman at Train Station
Frances McDormand … Miss Guinivere Pettigrew
Katy Murphy … Miss Holt's Assistant
Lee Pace … Michael Pardue
Tom Payne … Phil Goldman
Tim Potter … Nightclub Patron

 

Plot: Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

 

Awards: 1 nomination

Meet Dave

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

All Genres:
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 90 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Eddie Murphy in Eddie Murphy in Meet Dave

 

Cast: Eddie Murphy … Dave Ming Cheng / The Captain
Elizabeth Banks … Gina Morrison
Gabrielle Union … No. 3 – Cultural Officer
Scott Caan … Officer Dooley
Ed Helms … No. 2 – 2nd In Command
Kevin Hart … No. 17
Mike O'Malley … Officer Knox
Pat Kilbane … No. 4 – Security Officer
Judah Friedlander … Engineer
Marc Blucas … Mark Rhodes
Jim Turner … Doctor
Austyn Myers … Josh Morrison (as Austyn Lynd Myers)
Adam Tomei … No. 35
Brian Huskey … Lieutenant Right Arm
Shawn Christian … Lieutenant Left Arm

 

Plot: A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.

 

Awards: 4 nominations