Posts Tagged ‘rags-to-riches’

Tyson (1995)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: George C. Scott | Winfield, Paul | White, Michael Jai | Sikking, James | Warner, Malcolm-Jamal | Lo Bianco, Tony | Gregg, Clark | McCallany, Holt | Hanley, Regal | Murdock, George | Andrew, Mane | Bridges, Jimmy | Callender, Richard | Callie, Dayton | Campisi, Tony
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The story of Mike Tyson. Form his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of “Heavyweight Champion of the World”, and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulant life moves quickly, never focussing for long on anything in particular.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Musical | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Bonham Carter, Helena | Rickman, Alan | Spall, Timothy | Baron Cohen, Sacha | Wisener, Jayne | Campbell Bower, Jamie | Kelly, Laura Michelle | Sanders, Ed | Head, Anthony | Bowles, Peter | Burford, Ian | Harbour, Michael N.
Directors: Burton, Tim
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Based on the 19th century legend of Sweeney Todd and the hit Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd a.k.a Benjamin Barker returns to London after being sent away by Judge Turpin with the help of a sailor, Anthony Hope. He opens a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s Meat Pie Shop were she sells “the worst pies in London.” With the help of Mrs. Lovett, Todd tries to rid of all the people who have ever done him wrong and hopes to be reunited with his daughter, Joanna, who is now Judge Turpin’s ward.

Seabiscuit (2003)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: McCullough, David | Bridges, Jeff | O'Connor, Paul Vincent | Cooper, Chris | Ensign, Michael | Keane, James | Mahaffey, Valerie | Doty, David | Craig, Carl M. | O'Neill, Michael | Corley, Annie | Angarano, Michael | Bowen, Cameron | Luke, Noah | Bess, Mariah
Directors: Ross, Gary
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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters’fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit “fixed us, every one of us.”

Buster (1988)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Collins, Phil | Walters, Julie | Lamb, Larry | Lawrence, Stephanie | Beaven, Ellie | Attwell, Michael | Brown, Ralph | Ellison, Christopher | Hancock, Sheila | Jarvis, Martin | Wood, Clive | Quayle, Anthony | Byrne, Michael | Innocent, Harold | Vansittart, Rupert
Directors: Green, David
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Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can’t contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.

Misérables, Les (1998)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Neeson, Liam | Rush, Geoffrey | Thurman, Uma | Danes, Claire | Matheson, Hans | Brynolfsson, Reine | Vaughan, Peter | Adamson, Christopher | Barlow, Tim | Bateson, Timothy | Birkin, David | Chalupa, Václav | Cregg, Ian | Crompton, Ben | David, Zdenek
Directors: August, Bille
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

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.

ATL (2006)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrews, Greg | Arnold, Monica | Benton, Brandon Bernard | Boyer, Adam | Clark, April | Daniels, Albert | Ewing, Steven R. | Fleming, Alvin Lee | Gipp, Cameron | Hansard, Bart | T.I. | Khadijah | Malika | Crusher, Bone | Harris, Monique
Directors: Robinson, Chris
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As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.

Angel (2007)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Belgium | France | UK
Actors: Garai, Romola | Rampling, Charlotte | Russell, Lucy | Fassbender, Michael | Neill, Sam | Tong, Jacqueline | Duvitski, Janine | Benjamin, Christopher | Powell, Jemma | Woods, Simon | Pargeter, Alison | Matthews, Seymour | Georgeson, Tom | Stubbs, Una | Lavelle, Rosanna
Directors: Ozon, François
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Based on the book by Elizabeth Taylor, “Angel”, this is the story of a young woman with incredible imagination who refuses to accept the world around her, and creates her own realities.

Pursuit of Happyness, The (2006)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | Smith, Jaden | Newton, Thandie | Howe, Brian | Karen, James | Castellaneta, Dan | Fuller, Kurt | Fischer, Takayo | West, Kevin | Cheung, George | Silverman, David Michael | Bove, Domenic | Callan, Geoff | Raven, Joyful | Klace, Scott
Directors: Muccino, Gabriele
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Chris Gardner has big dreams for him and his family but it doesn’t seem to come together for him. Chris has an opportunity to be a stock broker but first he has to go through a grueling internship which means no pay. Chris decides to do it but when his wife leaves and he is evicted, he has to take care of his son on his own. So they find themselves sometimes living on the street and struggling to get by. But Chris is determined to make it.

Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Witherspoon, Reese | Lucas, Josh | Dempsey, Patrick | Bergen, Candice | Place, Mary Kay | Ward, Fred | Smart, Jean | Embry, Ethan | Lynskey, Melanie | Gains, Courtney | Rajskub, Mary Lynn | Mitra, Rhona | Graham, Nathan Lee | Bridgers, Sean | Cooper, Fleet
Directors: Tennant, Andy
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Melanie Carmichael (Reese Witherspoon), an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like husband of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn’t forget about her family back down South - and, more importantly, her husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce paper for almost 5 years. To settle matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. But when things don’t turn out the way she planned them out, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in new york city.