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Joey Drayton brings her fianc?, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a [...]
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1967, Drama, Romance, USA
african-american, airport, art-dealer, art-gallery, bittersweet, black-comedy, blockbuster, car-accident, class-differences, clergy, cocktail-bar, comedy-of-manners, cross-cultural-relations, culture-clash, dinner-party, doctor, drive-in-restaurant, dysfunctional-family, engagement, family, father-daughter-relationship, father-son-relationship, fired, generation, housekeeper, ice-cream, interracial-marriage, interracial-romance, intimate, love, maid, mailman, marriage, may-december-romance, melodrama, miscegenation, monsignor, mother-daughter-relationship, mother-son-relationship, older-man-younger-woman, one-day, parenthood, profanity, publisher, race-relations, racial-issues, racial-slur, racism, racist, san-francisco-california, sentimental, shaving, social-commentary, taxicab, title-spoken-by-character, vacation, widower, world-health-organization
Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 5:10 amh.
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After Daniel and Miyagi defeats the Cobra Kais, and after Miyagi humiliates their master, Kreese. All of his students desert him and he hasn’t had any new ones. Kreese decides to close the dojo, he then goes to to his friend, Terry, who is also the dojo’s owner, to turn the keys, and announces that [...]
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1989, Action, Family, Sport, USA
financial-problem, harassment, kids-and-family, mansion, martial-arts, mentor, racial-slur, revenge, sequel, third-movie-syndrome, vietnam, vietnam-veteran
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Picks up where the first movie (Karate Kid) leaves off. Mr. Miyagi and Daniel take a trip to Okinawa to visit Mr Miyagi’s dieing father. After arriving Mr Miyagi finds he still has feelings for an old love. This stirs up trouble with an old rival that he originally left Okinawa to avoid. In the [...]
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1986, Action, Family, Romance, Sport, USA
blockbuster, bully, bully-comeuppance, courage, cowardice, fight-to-the-death, forgiveness, harassment, karate, kids-and-family, limousine, martial-arts, mentor, okinawa-japan, racial-slur, revenge, sequel, showdown, tea-ceremony
Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 5:06 amh.
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Johnny Hooker is a young con-man who is being taught by Luther. One day they pull one of their con jobs and net themselves a huge roll. What they don’t know is that the man they conned is the courier for a numbers runner. And it turns out that the boss, Doyle Lonigan, considers it [...]
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1973, Comedy, Crime, USA
1930s, alley, backstage, bank, bar, barbershop, bathtub-scene, betrayal, big-con, blockbuster, bodyguard, brothel, burlesque, caper, card-playing, cardsharp, carousel, casino, chapter-headings, chase, cheating-at-cards, chicago-illinois, clothes-on-shower, con, con-artist, counterfeit, courier, cult-favorite, diner, drugstore, drunk-scene, famous-score, fbi, gambling, gangster, gimp, golf, great-depression, hangover, heist, horse-racing, house-painter, job-interview, long-con, mafia, manicure, mentor, mob-hit, mugging, murder, new-york-city, off-track-betting, organized-crime, peoria-illinois, pickpocket, poker, poker-player, police, police-brutality, police-chase, police-corruption, police-detective, premarital-sex, profanity, racial-slur, ragtime, railway-station, restroom, revenge, roulette, scene-based-on-painting, shot-in-the-forehead, silencer, sting-operation, stripper, tailor, taxicab, telegraph-office, telephone-box, tough-guy, train, train-station, twist-in-the-end, waitress, wipe
Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 4:56 amh.
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Billy and Sydney think they’re the best basketball hustlers in town, so when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. To add to their problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair of gangster types.
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1992
basketball, buddy, buddy-comedy, caper, con-artist, friendship, gambling, gay-slur, racial-slur, racial-stereotype, vulgarity
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 June 2, 2009 ¬ 4:39 amh.
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It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal “Easy” Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend’s bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA’s Black community. This [...]
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1995, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, USA
1940s, african-american, alcohol, based-on-book, based-on-novel, biracial, blood-splatter, comic-relief, detective, dress, femme-fatale, film-noir, historical, investigation, jazz-club, jazz-music, knife, los-angeles, middle-class, missing-person, murder, neo-noir, plot-twist, police-brutality, political, profanity, racial-slur, racism, sex, shootout, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, stabbed-in-the-neck, suspense, tension, violence
Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 4:34 amh.
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Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents’ friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He [...]
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1999, Biography, Drama, Germany, USA
1960s, affair, asylum, authority, bad-girl, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, borderline-personality-disorder, cat, coming-of-age, deliberate-cruelty, diary, disorder, doctor, doctor-patient-relationship, drugs, eating-disorder, escape, escape-from-mental-institution, female-bonding, hanging, identity-crisis, incest, institutional-life, intimacy, lesbian-kiss, melodrama, mental-illness, mental-institution, nurse, patient, physical-abuse, psychiatric-ward, psychiatrist, psychological-drama, psychology, racial-slur, racism, reverse-footage, rich-snob, self-mutilation, sexuality, social-worker, sociopath, suicide, suicide-attempt, summer-of-love, vulgarity, writing
Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 4:34 amh.
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Realizing that the FBI and their by the book tactics may be unsuccessful, the Chinese consul recruits the aid of a loyal Hong Kong inspector to help rescue his kidnapped daughter. Outlawed by the FBI, the inspector must form an unlikely partnership with a cocky, street smart LAPD officer who prefers doing things his own [...]
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1998, Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, USA
art-exhibition, blockbuster, bloopers-during-credits, bomb, bomb-squad, bravery, buddy-cop, california, car, chevrolet-corvette, consulate, detective, exploding-car, explosion, father-daughter-relationship, fbi, friend, helicopter, hero, hostage, interracial-friendship, kidnapping, los-angeles-california, martial-arts, police, racial-slur, ransom, title-spoken-by-character, tour-bus, trust, twist-in-the-end, undercover
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Realizing that the FBI and their by the book tactics may be unsuccessful, the Chinese consul recruits the aid of a loyal Hong Kong inspector to help rescue his kidnapped daughter. Outlawed by the FBI, the inspector must form an unlikely partnership with a cocky, street smart LAPD officer who prefers doing things his own [...]
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1998, Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, USA
art-exhibition, blockbuster, bloopers-during-credits, bomb, bomb-squad, bravery, buddy-cop, california, car, chevrolet-corvette, consulate, detective, exploding-car, explosion, father-daughter-relationship, fbi, friend, helicopter, hero, hostage, interracial-friendship, kidnapping, los-angeles-california, martial-arts, police, racial-slur, ransom, title-spoken-by-character, tour-bus, trust, twist-in-the-end, undercover
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