Showing posts with label family relationships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family relationships. Show all posts
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May 03, 2017
The Big Sick (2017) Trailer
The Big Sick
An Awkward Love Story
The Big Sick is an American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Showalter, from a screenplay by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon.
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Based on the real-life courtship between Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, THE BIG SICK tells the story of Pakistan-born aspiring comedian Kumail, who connects with grad student Emily after one of his standup sets. However, what they thought would be just a one-night stand blossoms into the real thing, which complicates the life that is expected of Kumail by his traditional Muslim parents. When Emily is beset with a mystery illness, it forces Kumail to navigate the medical crisis with her parents, Beth and Terry (Holly Hunter and Ray Romano) who he's never met, while dealing with the emotional tug-of-war between his family and his heart.
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2010's,
2017,
bar,
chicago illinois,
Comedy,
Emily V. Gordon,
family relationships,
Holly Hunter,
Kumail Nanjiani Kumail Nanjiani,
marriage,
Michael Showalter,
Romance,
The Big Sick,
uber,
Zoe Kazan
November 26, 2016
Why Him? (2016) Trailer
Why Him?
Of all the guys his daughter could have chosen...
Why Him? is American romantic comedy film directed by John Hamburg and co-written with Ian Helfer.
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Over the holidays, Ned (Bryan Cranston), an overprotective but loving dad and his family visit his daughter at Stanford, where he meets his biggest nightmare: her well-meaning but socially awkward Silicon Valley billionaire boyfriend, Laird (James Franco). The straight-laced Ned thinks Laird, who has absolutely no filter, is a wildly inappropriate match for his daughter. The one-sided rivalry-and Ned's panic level-escalate when he finds himself increasingly out of step in the glamorous high-tech hub, and learns that Laird is about to pop the question.
September 26, 2015
The Suburbanite (1904)
The Suburbanite
The Suburbanite is a 1904 American short comedy silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheion and starring John Troiano.
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"The Suburbanite", 1904, directed by Wallace McCutcheon, is a 9 min (211 m) honest comedy silent film of American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. Simple plot: It shows a family moving to the suburbs, with the movies spilling some of the house objects. Then we see three kids left alone out front to play and apparently they get muddy so they are brought inside. Then, the burly (of course) mother-in-law arrives and then other household help arrives, but the cook is an ornery woman who throws everyone out of the kitchen, even hitting one man over the head with the a frying pan. Subsequently, police are brought in to take her away. All of that, an anti-suburb message.
September 22, 2015
The Country Doctor (1909)
The Country Doctor
The Country Doctor is a 1909 American short silent drama film written and directed by D. W. Griffith.
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While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
September 02, 2015
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy is a 1946 American film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Willis Goldbeck and starring Mickey Rooney and Lewis Stone.
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Andy Hardy (Rooney) returns home from a stint in the Army and is headed back to college. Before leaving however a gorgeous exotic singer literally throws herself at him and he barely notices... you see Andy is in love. Arriving by train at college he throws his heart and soul into rekindling his relationship with his old girlfriend (Granville). Naturally all of Andy's plans for romance turn on him time and again. Only his father Judge Hardy (Stone) can save Andy from himself in this madcap romantic comedy.
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1940's,
1946,
Comedy,
family relationships,
Harry Ruskin,
Lewis Stone,
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy,
Mickey Rooney,
public domain,
Romance,
Sara Haden,
soldier,
teen angst,
William Ludwig,
Willis Goldbeck
August 18, 2015
Back to Bosnia (2005) Trailer
Na put Bosne (kući)
Back to Bosnia (Bosnian: Na put Bosne (kuci )) is a documentary that shows the uphill battle that refugees face when trying to return to Bosnia, or even just to reclaim their properties.
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Filmmaker Sabina Vajraca documents her Bosnian Muslim family's return home to Banja Luka after being forced to flee to the United States.
August 04, 2015
Tokyo Godfathers (2003) Trailer
Tōkyō Goddofāzāzu
Meet the ultimate dysfunctional family.
Tokyo Godfathers (東京ゴッドファーザーズ Tōkyō Goddofāzāzu) is a 2003 anime film directed by Japanese director Satoshi Kon, and co-directed by Shōgo Furuya.
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On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo find a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
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2000's,
2003,
Adventure,
Animation,
Aya Okamoto,
baby,
christmas,
Drama,
family relationships,
Satoshi Kon,
Shôgo Furuya,
Tokyo Godfathers,
tokyo japan,
Tôru Emori,
transvestite,
Yoshiaki Umegaki
July 25, 2015
The Last Kiss (2001) Trailer
L'ultimo bacio
Love. Sex. Surrender.
The Last Kiss (Italian: L'ultimo bacio [ˈlultimo ˈbatʃo]) is a 2001 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Gabriele Muccino.
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2000's,
2001,
box office hit,
Comedy,
Drama,
family relationships,
Gabriele Muccino,
Giovanna Mezzogiorno,
marriage,
pregnancy,
responsibility,
Romance,
Stefania Sandrelli,
Stefano Accorsi,
The Last Kiss
April 21, 2015
Hardflip (2012) Trailer
Hardflip follows the story of Caleb (Randy Wayne;To Save A Life, ABC Family's The Lying Game) a young skater whose ill mother (Rosanna Arquette; Pulp Fiction, The Whole Nine Yards) and absent father (John Schneider; Dukes of Hazard, Smallville) leave him reaching for the only hope he has—becoming a sponsored skater. After finding a stack of old love letters, he sets out to find the father he never knew and inadvertently begins a journey he never could have expected. This story explores what happens when we let go of our anger and pain and forgive those who have hurt us most.
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2010's,
2012,
Action,
Daniel Backman,
Drama,
family relationships,
Hardflip,
John Schneider,
Johnny Remo,
loss of mother,
Randy Wayne,
Rosanna Arquette,
san diego california,
single mother,
suicide attempt
January 16, 2015
December 18, 2014
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) Trailer
The Secret of Roan Inish
The secret's out!
The Secret of Roan Inish is a 1994 American/Irish independent film written and directed by John Sayles.
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10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother washed out to sea in a cradle shaped like a boat; someone in the family believes the boy is being raised by the seals. Then Fiona catches sight of a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish and takes an active role in uncovering The Secret of Roan Inish. Written by John Oswalt. Modified by Nancy Janelle. Written by John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>, <nanc66@gmail.com>
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1990's,
1994,
Drama,
Eileen Colgan,
Family,
family relationships,
Fantasy,
ireland,
island,
Jeni Courtney,
John Sayles,
Mick Lally,
Rosalie K. Fry,
seal,
selkie,
The Secret of Roan Inish
November 05, 2014
Pollyanna (1920)
Pollyanna
Pollyanna is a 1920 American melodrama/comedy film starring Mary Pickford, directed by Paul Powell, and based upon an Eleanor H. Porter novel.
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When Pollyanna is orphaned, she is sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England home town are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna's incurable optimism - exemplified by her "glad game," in which she looks for the bright side of every situation - bring a change to the staid old community.
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1920,
1920's,
Catherine Chisholm Cushing,
Comedy,
Drama,
Eleanor H. Porter,
Family,
family relationships,
Katherine Griffith,
Mary Pickford,
paralysis,
Paul Powell,
Pollyanna,
unrequited love,
Wharton James
October 27, 2014
Re-cycle (2006) Trailer
Gwai wik
The abandoned don't just disappear.
Re-cycle (Cantonese: 鬼域 Gwai wik) is a 2006 cuddly movie directed by the
Pang Brothers and starring Angelica Lee.
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After writing three best-sellers about love story based on her own experiences, the successful writer Tsui Ting-Yin is without inspiration and having difficulties to write her new novel in the horror genre entitled "Re-cycle". While drafting the text, spooky events happen at her apartment and her former boy-friend of eight years ago visits her, after his divorce, proposing Tsui. When Tsui sees a supernatural long-haired character of her book, she follows him and is trapped in his world of terror. But she is saved by the young Ting-yu, who discloses a secret about her to Tsui.
Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Labels:
2000's,
2006,
Angelica Lee,
Cub Chin,
Danny Pang,
Ekin Cheng,
family relationships,
Fantasy,
Horror,
Mystery,
Oxide Pang Chun,
Pou-Soi Cheang,
Re-cycle,
Sam Lung,
stranger,
supernatural,
Thriller,
trauma,
visual effect
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