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Celebrity 1998

Celebrity ver2.jpgCelebrity is a 1998 comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The screenplay focuses on the divergent paths a couple takes following their divorce.
     Lee Simon (Kenneth Branagh) is an unsuccessful novelist turned travel writer who immerses himself in celebrity journalism following a midlife crisis and subsequent divorce from his insecure wife, Robin (Judy Davis), a former English teacher, after sixteen years of marriage.
As he stumbles his way through both professional encounters and sexual escapades with performers, models, and other players in the world of entertainment, Lee increasingly questions his purpose in life. He blows numerous opportunities due to his fame-seeking and neuroses.
Meanwhile, Robin trades her many neuroses for a makeover and a job with television producer Tony Gardella (Joe Mantegna) that leads to her own celebrity interview program. She takes advantage of numerous opportunities and ends up happy and successful.
Initial release: September 7, 1998
Director: Woody Allen
Running time: 113 minutes
Screenplay: Woody Allen
Budget: 12 million USD

Jerry Maguire 1996

Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American comedy-drama sports film starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Renée Zellweger. It was written, co-produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe. The film was inspired by sports agent Leigh Steinberg, who acted as Technical Consultant on the crew.It was released in North American theaters on December 13, 1996, distributed by Gracie Films and TriStar Pictures.
       Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a glossy 35-year-old sports agent working for Sports Management International (SMI). After suffering a nervous breakdown as a result of stress and a guilty conscience, he writes a mission statement about perceived dishonesty in the sports management business and how he believes that the business should be operated. He distributes copies of it, entitled "The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business". His honesty touches his co-workers, and they greet him with applause, but the management sends Bob Sugar (Jay Mohr), Jerry's protégé, to fire him. Jerry and Sugar call all of Jerry's clients to try convincing them not to hire the services of the other. Jerry speaks to Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), one of his clients who is disgruntled with his contract. Rod tests Jerry's resolve through a very long telephone conversation, culminating in the famed "Show me the money!" scene. Meanwhile, Sugar secures most of Jerry's previous clients. Frank "Cush" Cushman (Jerry O'Connell), a superstar quarterback prospect from Southern Methodist University expected to be number one in the NFL Draft, also stays with Jerry after he makes a visit to the Cushman home. Leaving the office, Jerry announces that he will start his own agency and asks if anyone is willing to join him, to which only 26-year-old single mother Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger) agrees. The two had previously bumped into each other in the airport, and Dorothy had told Jerry personally how inspiring she found his "memo."
Release date: December 13, 1996 (USA)
Director: Cameron Crowe
MPAA rating: R
Music composed by: Nancy Wilson
Awards: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, National Board of Review Award for Best Actor, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance, BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Breakthrough Performer, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Comedy or Musical, People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie, BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Child Performer.

Risky Business 1983

Risky Business.jpgRisky Business is a 1983 American teen comedy-drama film written by Paul Brickman in his directorial debut. It stars Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay. The film launched Cruise to stardom.
        Joel Goodson (Tom Cruise) is a high school student who lives with his wealthy parents in the North Shore area of suburban Chicago. His father wants him to attend Princeton University, so Joel's mother tells him to tell the interviewer, Bill Rutherford, about his participation in Future Enterprisers, an extracurricular activity in which students work in teams to create small businesses.When his parents go away on a trip, Joel is left with explicit instructions not to touch the stereo system and not to use his father's beloved Porsche. Joel's friend, Miles (Curtis Armstrong), convinces him to take advantage of his newfound freedom to have some fun. On the first night, he raids the liquor cabinet, plays the stereo loudly, and dances around the living room in his underpants, socks, and pink dress shirt to "Old Time Rock and Roll". Later, he and his friend Barry (Bronson Pinchot) take the Porsche out and drive it recklessly.
Initial release: August 5, 1983 (USA)
Director: Paul Brickman
Running time: 99 minutes
Music composed by: Tangerine Dream
Screenplay: Paul Brickman


Rock Star 2001


Rock star ver1.jpgRock Star is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Herek and starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston. It tells the story of Chris "Izzy" Cole, a tribute band singer whose ascendance to the position of lead vocalist of his favorite band was inspired by the real-life story of Tim "Ripper" Owens, singer in a Judas Priest tribute band who was chosen to replace singer Rob Halford when he left the band.
 Chris Cole (Mark Wahlberg) is a fanatical admirer of a 1980s heavy metal band called Steel Dragon. By day, Chris is a photocopier technician and by night, he is the lead singer of a Steel Dragon tribute band called Blood Pollution (the name is taken from a Steel Dragon song).
Initial release: September 4, 2001 (USA)
Director: Stephen Herek
Music composed by: Trevor Rabin
Initial DVD release: April 9, 2002 (Hungary)
Screenplay: John Stockwell

Boogie Nights 1997

Boogie nights ver1.jpgBoogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, the script focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher, Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through his fall during the excesses of the 1980s. The film also features cameos by porn actresses Nina Hartley (as Little Bill's promiscuous wife) and Veronica Hart (as the custody hearing judge for Amber Waves' court case). The film is an expansion of Anderson's short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988).
Initial release: October 10, 1997 (USA)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cinematography: Robert Elswit
Awards: MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Drama, British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Independent Film - English Language, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Drama, Satellite Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble

The Kid 1921

The Kid poster.jpgThe Kid was Charles Chaplin's first self-produced and directed feature film; 1914's 6-reel Tillie's Punctured Romance was a Mack Sennett production in which Chaplin merely co-starred.The story with a smile and perhaps a tear, begins with unwed mother Edna Purviance leaving the Charity Hospital, babe in arms. Her burden is illustrated with a title card showing Christ bearing the cross. The father of the child is a poor artist who cares little for of his former lover, carelessly knocking her photo into his garret fireplace and cooly returning it there when he sees it is too badly damaged to keep. The mother sorrowfully leaves her baby in the back seat of a millionaire's limousine, with a note imploring whoever finds it to care for and love the child. But thieves steal the limo, and, upon discovering the baby, ditch the tot in an alleyway trash can. Enter Chaplin, out for his morning stroll, carefully selecting a choice cigarette butt from his well used tin. He stumbles upon the squalling infant and, after trying to palm it off on a lady with another baby in a carriage, decides to adopt the kid himself. Meanwhile Purviance has relented, but when she returns to the mansion and is told that the car has been stolen, she collapses in despair. Chaplin outfits his flat for the baby as best he can, using an old coffee pot with a nipple on the spout as a baby bottle and a cane chair with the seat cut out as a potty seat. Chaplin's attic apartment is a representation of the garret he had shared with his mother and brother in London, just as the slum neighborhood is a recreation of the ones he knew as a boy.Five years later, Chaplin has become a glazier, while his adopted son (the remarkable Jackie Coogan) drums up business for his old man by cheerfully breaking windows in the neighborhood. Purviance meanwhile has become a world famous opera singer, still haunted by the memory of her child, who does charity work in the very slums in which he now lives. Ironically, she gives a toy dog to little Coogan. Chaplin and Coogan's close calls with the law and fights with street toughs are easily overcome, but when Coogan falls ill, the attending doctor learns of the illegal adoption and summons the Orphan Asylum social workers who try to separate Chaplin from his foster son. In one of the most moving scenes in all of Chaplin's films, Chaplin and Coogan try to fight the officials, but Chaplin is subdued by the cop they have summoned. Coogan is roughly thrown into the back of the Asylum van, pleading to the welfare official and to God not to be separated from his father. Chaplin, freeing himself from the cop, pursues the orphanage van over the rooftops and, descending into the back of the truck, dispatches the official and tearfully reunites with his son. Returning to check on the sick boy, Purviance encounters the doctor and is shown the note which she had attached to her baby five years earlier. Chaplin and Coogan, not daring to return home, settle in a flophouse for the night. The proprietor sees a newspaper ad offering a reward for Coogan's return and kidnaps the sleeping boy. After hunting fruitlessly, a grieving Chaplin falls asleep on his tenement doorstep and dreams that he has been reunited with the boy in Heaven (that flirtatious angel is Lita Grey, later Chaplin's second wife). Woken from his dream by the cop, he is taken via limousine to Purviance's mansion where he is welcomed by Coogan and Purviance, presumably to stay. Chaplin had difficulties getting The Kid produced. His inspiration, it is suggested was the death of his own first son, Norman Spencer Chaplin a few days after birth in 1919. His determination to make a serio-comic feature was challenged by First National who preferred two reel films, which were more quickly produced and released. Chaplin wisely gained his distributors' approval by inviting them to the studio, where he trotted out the delightful Coogan to entertain them. Chaplin's divorce case from his first wife Mildred Harris also played a part; fearing seizure of the negatives Chaplin and crew escaped to Salt Lake City and later to New York to complete the editing of the film. Chaplin's excellent and moving score for The Kid was composed in 1971 for a theatrical re-release, but used themes that Chaplin had composed in 1921. Chaplin re-edited the film somewhat for the re-release, cutting scenes that he felt were overly sentimental, such as Purviance's observing of a May-December wedding and her portrayal as a saint, outlined by a church's stained glass window.~ Phil Posner, All Movie Guide
Initial release: January 21, 1921 (USA)
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Running time: 68 minutes
Screenplay: Charlie Chaplin
Music composed by: Charlie Chaplin

The Great Dictator 1940

The Great Dictator.jpgThe Great Dictator is a 1940 American comedy-drama and anti-Nazi film starring, written, produced, scored, and directed by Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films. Wikipedia
Initial release: October 15, 1940 (New York City)
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Screenplay: Charlie Chaplin
Characters: Hynkel, A Jewish Barber
Awards: New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, Kinema Junpo Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Plot:During a battle in the last months of World War I, the protagonist, an unnamed soldier (known only in the credits as A Jewish Barber, played by Charlie Chaplin), is fighting for the Central Powers in the army of the fictional nation of Tomainia,[7] comically blundering through the trenches in combat scenes. Upon hearing a fatigued pilot pleading for help, the Barber attempts to rescue the exhausted officer, Commander Schultz. The two board Schultz's nearby airplane and fly off, barely escaping enemy ground fire. Schultz reveals that he is carrying important dispatches that could win the war. However, the plane loses fuel and crashes in a marsh. They both survive, but the Barber suffers from memory loss. As medics arrive, Commander Schultz gives them the dispatches, but is told that the war has just ended and Tomainia lost.

About Last Night (2014)

About Last Night One Sheet.jpg New love for two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.
Director: Steve Pink
Stars: Kevin Hart, Joy Bryant, Regina Hall, Bryan Callen
The Buzz: Scrappy director Steve Pink is aboard this contemporary version of the 1986 romantic comedy, and I'm guessing the update with have a lot to say about trying to build a relationship in an era where privacy is hard to come by. Bachelorette (2012) director/writer Leslye Headland handled the adaptation, so the scenarios and dialogue could get filthy -- perhaps an open field for Kevin Hart to let loose like he does on stage.

Crazy, Stupid, Love. 2011

CrazyStupidLovePoster.jpgCrazy, Stupid, Love. 2011
Crazy, Stupid, Love. is a 2011 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, and written by Dan Fogelman. It stars Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, John Carroll Lynch, Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon. Wikipedia
Initial release: July 29, 2011 (USA)
Directors: John Requa, Glenn Ficarra
Running time: 140 minutes
Screenplay: Dan Fogelman
Music composed by: Christophe Beck, Nick Urata

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The Artist 2011

The-Artist-poster.pngThe Artist is a 2011 French romantic comedy-drama film in the style of a black-and-white silent film. It was written, directed, and co-edited by Michel Hazanavicius, produced by Thomas Langmann and starred Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood, between 1927 and 1932, and focuses on the relationship of an older silent film star and a rising young actress as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the "talkies".
Initial release: October 12, 2011 (Belgium, France)
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Featured song: Pennies from Heaven
Screenplay: Michel Hazanavicius
Awards: Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, BAFTA Award for Best Film, César Award for Best Film, Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, Cesar Award for Best Original Score, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, César Award for Best Director, César Award for Best Actress, Cannes Best Actor Award, BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Composer, European Film Award for Best Composer, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, César Award for Best Cinematography, Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, César Award for Best Production Design, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, AACTA International Award for Best Actor, Satellite Award for Best Art Direction and Production Design, Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography, Australian Film Institute International Award for Best Actor, AACTA International Award for Best Film, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, AACTA International Award for Best Direction, BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography, Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature, BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Costume Design, Goya Award for Best European Film, BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design, DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Film

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Spring Breakers 2013 Yahoo Trailer


It's surely not everyone's cup of tea. In fact, two of our staffers counted it among the worst movies of the year (different strokes, right?). But give it a chance: Harmony Korine's ridiculously entertaining pop exploitation film is like an avant garde frat party. It's also the best thing James Franco has ever done; he is a certified quote machine as the cornrowed, grill-teethed "gangsta" Alien. Among the passionate community of this movie's fans, "Y'all my mutha f--kin' soulmates" is the new "You complete me," and it's "Spring Break FOREVER.

A Thousand Words 2012

A Thousand Words Poster.jpgA Thousand Words is a 2012 comedy-drama film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Brian Robbins. It was released in theaters on March 9, 2012, four years after it was filmed in 2008. Wikipedia
Initial release: March 9, 2012
Director: Brian Robbins
Running time: 91 minutes
Music composed by: John Debney
Initial DVD release: June 26, 2012 (USA)


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