Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 5:09 amh.
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The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, [...]
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1981, Drama, History, Sport, UK
1910s, 1920s, actress, anti-semitism, athlete, autograph, backstage, based-on-true-story, beach, blockbuster, boys-choir, brother-sister-relationship, cafe, cambridge-england, church-of-england, church-of-scotland, clock, coach, college, conscience, correspondence, country-estate, cricket-game, date, ethics, ethnic-slur, face-slap, faith, famous-score, flashback-sequence, formal-dance, friendship, funeral, gilbert-and-sullivan, hat, headmaster, hotel, hurdles, jewish, law-student, locker-room, london-england, male-nudity, massage, missionary, movie-theater, newsreel-footage, nonlinear-timeline, olympic-athlete, olympic-hopeful, olympics, operetta, paris-france, piano, pier, presbyterian, pride, prince-of-wales, pub, racing, railway-station, rainstorm, religion, reporter, restaurant, rugby, running, scotland, slide-show, slow-motion, steamship, steeplechase, student-athlete, title-from-bible, train, underdog, what-happened-to-epilogue
Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 4:42 amh.
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over [...]
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1993, Biography, Drama, History, USA, War
1930s, 1940s, 1990s, accountant, amputee, anti-semitism, ashes, auschwitz, bankruptcy, based-on-fact, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, bathtub, birthday-cake, birthday-party, black-&-white-to-color, black-and-white-segues-into-color, black-market, blockbuster, blood, blood-splatter, bribe, bribery, bunk-bed, bureaucracy, businessman, candle, caning, catholic-church, cemetery, character's-point-of-view-camera-shot, character-name-in-title, child-execution, child-in-peril, child-murder, children, christ-allegory, cigarette-smoking, coda, color-tints, compassion, concentration-camp, conscience, construction-site, convertible, corporal-punishment, cremation, cruelty, cynicism, czechoslovakia, dead-children, death, degradation, dehumanization, drunk, drunk-soldier, employer-employee-relationship, entrepreneur, epic, evil, execution, extramarital-affair, factory, factory-owner, famous-score, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, finance, fire-hose, forgery, forgiveness, freight-train, friendship, genocide, german, german-soldier, ghetto, gift, good-deed, good-versus-evil, gramophone, group-shower, guilt, haircut, hanged-man, hanging, hate, hatred, hero, heroism, hiding-in-closet, hiding-jews, hiding-place, hiding-under-bed, hitler-youth, holocaust, holocaust-victim-rescuer, honor, hope, human-monster, husband-wife-relationship, idealism, industrialist, jail, jewish, jewish-ghetto, job-interview, krakow-poland, labor-camp, little-boy, little-girl, loss-of-child, luggage, machine-gun, maid, male-frontal-nudity, male-nudity, manicure, marriage, mass-grave, massacre, mercy, mirror, munitions-factory, murder, nazi, nazi-collaborator, nazi-occupied-poland, nazi-retaliation, nazi-uniform, nightclub, no-opening-credits, occupied-nation, one-armed-man, outhouse, party, peace, piano, pistol-whip, polish-jew, prayer, premarital-sex, profiteering, prologue, pyre, rabbi, racial-slur, racism, railway-station, redemption, rescue, responsibility, righteous-among-the-nations, righteous-rage, ring, ruthlessness, sabotage, saboteur, sadism, sentimentalism, sewer, sex, sexuality, shaving, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, shower, slave-labor, smoke, sniper, split-lip, ss, ss-officer, swastika, tooth-extraction, torture, typewriter, urination, violence, war-crime, wedding, wet-t-shirt, what-happened-to-epilogue, whipping, womanizer, work-ethic, wristwatch, wwii
Posted in April 18, 2009 ¬ 1:42 pmh.
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Fact-based story about Jean Harris (Annette Bening), a woman who was accused of murdering famed Scarsdale Diet Dr. Herman (Hi) Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) after being in a relationship with him for 14 years. Depicted as a womanizer, Dr. Tarnower had earlier asked Mrs. Harris, a divorced school teacher, to marry him. But when faced with [...]
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2005, Drama, Thriller, USA
1980s, character-name-in-title, courtroom, doctor, gun, jew, jewish, marriage-proposal, rain, shower
Posted in April 18, 2009 ¬ 11:51 amh.
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer [...]
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1993, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA
1970s, anti-hero, anti-semitism, based-on-novel, betrayal, billboard, blackmail, blood, blood-splatter, bludgeoning, buoy, champagne, character-name-in-title, chase, cocaine, cocaine-snorting, courtroom, crime-boss, crooked-lawyer, dance-studio, dancer, dancing, death, disco, district-attorney, disturbing, drugs, east-river, elevator, entrepreneur, escalator, ethnic-slur, ex-convict, exotic-dancer, extortion, fall-down-stairs, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, first-person-narrative, flashback-sequence, gangster, gangster-film, go-go-dancer, grand-central-station-new-york, hospital, jailbreak, jewish, knife-in-chest, latinos-versus-italians, long-take, mafia, mob-hit, murder, narration-from-the-grave, neo-noir, new-york-city, nightclub, organized-crime, paraplegic, party, pistol, pole-dancing, police, pool-hall, pool-party, premarital-sex, prison, prison-escape, psychopath, puerto-rican, railway-station, revenge, riker's-island, safe, secret-passage, sex-in-public, shootout, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-face, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, stabbed-in-the-chest, stabbing, steadicam, strip-club, subway, tape-recorder, taxicab, tense, throat-slitting, topless, tragedy, train, twist-in-the-end, unwed-pregnancy, violent-movie, voice-over, vulgarity, wearing-sound-wire, wheelchair, wiretap, yacht
Posted in April 17, 2009 ¬ 8:36 pmh.
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. [...]
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2002, Biography, Crime, Drama, Germany, Thriller, UK, USA
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, accidental-killing, airplane, alley, amusement-park, audition, bag-over-head, bar, bar-fight, based-on-autobiography, based-on-book, berlin-germany, berlin-wall, blood, blood-splatter, cameo, chaperone, cia, death, disturbing, double-agent, double-life, elvis, elvis-impersonator, elvis-presley, face-slap, ferris-wheel, game-show, game-show-host, gay-slur, government-assassin, helsinki-finland, hotel, humor, infidelity, jewish, los-angeles-california, male-nudity, man-with-no-name, mental-breakdown, mexico, movie-theater, murder, necking, new-house, new-york-city, nonlinear-timeline, oral-sex, paranoia, philadelphia-pennsylvania, pistol, pistol-whip, pitch-meeting, playboy-mansion, poison, premarital-sex, prisoner-exchange, prostitute, restaurant, scrabble, secret-agent, sex, sex-between-children, sex-in-shower, shot-in-the-back, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, spy, suicide, surprise-party, swimming-pool, target-shooting, television-broadcasting, television-industry, television-producer, tour-guide, volkswagen-beetle, vulgarity, wedding, wilhelm-scream
Posted in April 9, 2009 ¬ 9:06 amh.
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A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a ‘mom’. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds [...]
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2004, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, USA
abortion, abortion-clinic, abortionist, absurdism, adoption, albino, armless-girl, birth-defect, bizarre, black-comedy, blindness, born-again-christian, brother-sister-relationship, chapter-headings, child-molestation, child-murder, child-prostitution, christian, christian-hate, coming-of-age, conformity, cousin, cynic, cystic-fibrosis, deception, deliberate-cruelty, diner, disability, disturbing, doctor, doll, down-syndrome, dysfunctional-family, eavesdropping, ex-convict, falsely-accused, father-daughter-relationship, freedom-toast, funeral, funeral-wake, hitchhiking, hysterectomy, independent-film, innocence, irreverent, jewish, kansas, loss-of-sister, loss-of-virginity, magic-realism, mama-sunshine, marriage, melodrama, morality, motel, mother-daughter-relationship, murder, music, new-jersey, one-word-title, overweight, palindrome, party, post-september-11-2001, prayer, pregnancy, premarital-sex, pro-choice, pro-life, procreation, profanity, psychological-drama, right-to-life, role-played-by-multiple-actors, runaway, runaway-teen, satire, sex, sex-with-minor, sexual, sexual-victim, shootout, shotgun, singing, sniper, suburban, suburbia, suicide, suicide-by-cop, surreal, teen, teenage-pregnancy, toy-boat, truck-driver, underage-sex, unwed-pregnancy, video-footage, vomit-scene, woods
Posted in February 26, 2009 ¬ 9:59 amh.
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The Goonies are a group of friends living in a village, the groups leader Mikey Walsh, his older brother Brand and gang members Andy, Data, Stef, Mouth, and Chunk are being evicted from their homes which are to be demolished. Setting out to find a way of saving their homes, The Goonies find a treasure [...]
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1985, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery, USA
affection, against-the-odds, asthma, attic, beach, bicycle, blender, blockbuster, booby-trap, brother-brother-relationship, bullet-hole, cellar, cheerleader, child's-point-of-view, child-abuse, child-in-peril, children, class-differences, coin, confession, convertible, corpse, counterfeit, country-club, cult-favorite, deformity, dental-braces, development, dungeon, dynamite, exercise-machine, fake-suicide, first-kiss, foreclosure, freezer, friendship, frozen-corpse, fugitive, group-vomit, hidden, hidden-treasure, hit-in-crotch, home-alone, housing, humor, intentional-mistranslation, inventor, jail-break, jewish, kids-and-family, language-barrier, lifting-person-in-air, michelangelo's-david, mistaken-identity, mother-son-relationship, newspaper, octopus, one-night, organ, outlaw, overweight-child, pacific-northwest, pirate, pirate-ship, police, police-chase, profanity, quirky, real-estate, rescue, rescue-from-drowning, restroom, rube-goldberg, shower-room, skeleton, slapstick, small-town, statue, subterranean, swashbuckler, swimming, switchblade, teen, television-reporter, thunderstorm, title-spoken-by-character, toilet, toupee, trap, treasure, treasure-hunt, treasure-map, truffle, tunnel, underwater, urination-scene, vomit, walking-the-plank, water-slide, wishing-well, young-love
Posted in February 19, 2009 ¬ 11:08 amh.
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Butch “Bullet” Stein is a Jewish junkie from the mean streets of Brooklyn, is paroled after eight years in prison. Butch rips off a runner for local drug dealer, Tank, and is soon right back into his old habits of snorting coke and shooting up heroin with his best friend Lester. Enraged by Butch’s affront [...]
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1996, Action, Crime, Drama, USA
artist, boxer, brooklyn-new-york, closeted-gay-man, dog, drug-dealer, drugs, dysfunctional-family, eye-patch, fist-fight, gay-slur, graffiti, gun, independent-film, jewish, male-nudity, male-underwear, nightclub, police, prison, racial-slur, racial-tension, robbery, stabbed-in-the-eye, tragedy, vietnam-vet, vulgarity
Posted in February 13, 2009 ¬ 11:37 amh.
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“Rachel Getting Married” is a contemporary “drama with an aggressive sense of humor” about the return of an estranged daughter to the family home for her sister’s wedding. Kym’s reemergence throws a wrench into the family dynamics, forcing long-simmering tensions to surface in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking. “Rachel Getting Married” paints a colorful, nuanced [...]
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2008, Drama, Romance, USA
accidental-drowning, african-american, band, bride, bridesmaid, car-crash, connecticut, crying, death, drowning, drug-addiction, dysfunctional-family, face-slap, family-relationships, family-reunion, groom, husband-wife-relationship, interracial-marriage, interracial-relationship, jazz-band, jew, jewish, love, maid-of-honor, male-female-relationship, reconciliation, singer, singing, sister-sister-relationship, song, tears, wedding, wedding-reception
Posted in February 13, 2009 ¬ 11:37 amh.
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“Rachel Getting Married” is a contemporary “drama with an aggressive sense of humor” about the return of an estranged daughter to the family home for her sister’s wedding. Kym’s reemergence throws a wrench into the family dynamics, forcing long-simmering tensions to surface in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking. “Rachel Getting Married” paints a colorful, nuanced [...]
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2008, Drama, Romance, USA
accidental-drowning, african-american, band, bride, bridesmaid, car-crash, connecticut, crying, death, drowning, drug-addiction, dysfunctional-family, face-slap, family-relationships, family-reunion, groom, husband-wife-relationship, interracial-marriage, interracial-relationship, jazz-band, jew, jewish, love, maid-of-honor, male-female-relationship, reconciliation, singer, singing, sister-sister-relationship, song, tears, wedding, wedding-reception
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