Posts Tagged ‘new-year’s-eve’

Apartment, The (1960)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lemmon, Jack | MacLaine, Shirley | MacMurray, Fred | Walston, Ray | Kruschen, Jack | Lewis, David | Holiday, Hope | Shawlee, Joan | Stevens, Naomi | Seven, Johnny | Jameson, Joyce | Waterman, Willard | White, David | Adams, Edie | Burt, Benny
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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On 1st November 1959, in New York, C.C. “Bud” Baxter is a popular clerk of “Consolidate Life”, an insurance company with 31,259 employees. The secret of his success is a well located apartment where he lives that he sublets for his superiors, making him climb to the executive position of 2nd Administrative Assistant very early. He likes the elevator girl Fran Kubelik, a reserved woman considered a “jackpot” among the executives. Fran is the secret lover of the director Jeff D. Sheldrake, a married man that seduced her convincing that he will divorce his wife to stay with her. When Fran tries to commit suicide in Baxter’s apartment after a meeting with Jeff, she stays with Baxter while recovering, and he falls in love for her. Later he has to come up to a decision between his excellent position in the company and his love.

Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Borgnine, Ernest | Red Buttons | Lynley, Carol | McDowall, Roddy | Stevens, Stella | Winters, Shelley | Albertson, Jack | Martin, Pamela Sue | O'Connell, Arthur | Shea, Eric | Sadoff, Fred | Allen, Sheila | Arvan, Jan | Webster, Byron
Directors: Neame, Ronald
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At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90′ tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.

Trading Places (1983)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Denholm | Aykroyd, Dan | Woods, Maurice | Fisher Jr., Richard D. | Gallagher, Jim | DiSabatino, Anthony | Behrend, Bonnie | Merrill, Sunnie | Newell, James | St. John, Mary | Tremena, Bonnie | Schwartz, David | Bellamy, Ralph | Ameche, Don | Degidon, Tom
Directors: Landis, John
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.

When Harry Met Sally… (1989)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Crystal, Billy | Ryan, Meg | Fisher, Carrie | Kirby, Bruno | Ford, Steven | Persky, Lisa Jane | Nicastro, Michelle | Palmer, Gretchen | Beuth, Robert Alan | Burdick, David | Viviani, Joe | Kozak, Harley Jane | Hunt, Joseph | Rooney, Kevin | Luz, Franc
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem: “Can a man and a woman be friends, without sex getting in the way?”

Money Train (1995)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Harrelson, Woody | Lopez, Jennifer | Blake, Robert | Cooper, Chris | Grifasi, Joe | Sowers, Scott | Sudduth, Skipp | Laresca, Vincent | Vasquez, Nelson | Patrick, Vincent | Turturro, Aida | Guess, Alvaleta | Pastore, Vincent | Tawil, David
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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Two foster brothers (Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes) work as transit cops. While one’s life is as good as it gets, the other’s is a pit. After losing his job, getting dumped by his brother, and getting the crap kicked out of him by a loan shark for the umpteenth time, He implements his plan to steal the “money train,” a train carrying the New York Subway’s weekly revenue. But when things go awry, will his brother be able to save him in time?

Rent (2005)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rapp, Anthony | Pascal, Adam | Dawson, Rosario | Martin, Jesse L. | Heredia, Wilson Jermaine | Menzel, Idina | Thoms, Tracie | Diggs, Taye | Roth, Julia | Radcliffe, Porscha | Payne, Stephen | Chan, Darryl | Clark, Ken | Ormond, Julia | Fine, David
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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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.

Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Duvall, Robert | Keaton, Diane | De Niro, Robert | Cazale, John | Shire, Talia | Strasberg, Lee | Gazzo, Michael V. | Spradlin, G.D. | Bright, Richard | Moschin, Gastone | Rosqui, Tom | Kirby, Bruno | Sivero, Frank | De Sapio, Francesca
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bullock, Sandra | Pullman, Bill | Gallagher, Peter | Boyle, Peter | Warden, Jack | Johns, Glynis | Mercurio, Micole | Bernard, Jason | Rispoli, Michael | Walker, Ally | Keena, Monica | Rudnick, Ruth | Wright, Marcia | Cusack, Dick | Morris, Thomas Q.
Directors: Turteltaub, Jon
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Lucy’s life consists of constant lonliness that is until she saves Peter’s life. Now she is a part of his family, and with a strong heart and fate on her side, others begin to realize what a terrific person she is, especially Jack, Peter’s brother. An extraordinarily true-to-life sequence of events begin to take place as Lucy and Jack become closer and learn more about each other and themselves than one would ever expect from such coincidental, yet believable events.

Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Robbins, Tim | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Newman, Paul | Durning, Charles | Mahoney, John | True-Frost, Jim | Cobbs, Bill | Campbell, Bruce | Bugin, Harry | Seitz, John | Grifasi, Joe | Brocksmith, Roy | Wylie, John | Hobson, I.M. | Allen, Gary
Directors: Coen, Joel | Coen, Ethan
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When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries.

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Ryan, Meg | Pullman, Bill | Malinger, Ross | O'Donnell, Rosie | Hoffmann, Gaby | Garber, Victor | Wilson, Rita | Garrick, Barbara | Lowell, Carey | Hyde Pierce, David | Ivey, Dana | Reiner, Rob | Farrell, Tom Riis | du Rand, Le Clanché
Directors: Ephron, Nora
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Sam is a recent widower who is seeking someone new. Sam’s son Jonah, is also looking for a new mother, so when Jonah puts his father on national radio, hundreds of women write to him. One of the women is Annie. She’s engaged to Walter, but he’s a bit strange. Annie goes to great lengths to meet Sam.