Posts Tagged ‘male-bonding’

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

Friday, September 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Kathy Bates | Jackie Chan | Steve Coogan | Robert Fyfe | Jim Broadbent | Ian McNeice | David Ryall | Roger Hammond | Adam Godley | Karen Mok | Howard Cooper | Daniel Hinchcliffe | Wolfram Teufel | Tom Strauss | Kit West | Ewen Bremner
Directors: Frank Coraci
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Based on the classic novel by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (2003) stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. As an adventurer, Passepartout ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg (played by Steve Coogan) on a daring mission to journey around the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the world in 80 days. Along the way, they encounter many interesting 19th Century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage around the world.

Boiler Room (2000)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Giovanni Ribisi | Vin Diesel | Nicky Katt | Scott Caan | Ron Rifkin | Jamie Kennedy | Taylor Nichols | Bill Sage | Tom Everett Scott | Ben Affleck | John Griesemer | David Younger | Russel Harper | Mark Webber | Christopher Fitzgerald
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A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who’s harsh with his son. At his father’s insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he’ll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He’s terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father.

Bubba Ho-tep (2002)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Campbell | Ossie Davis | Ella Joyce | Heidi Marnhout | Bob Ivy | Edith Jefferson | Larry Pennell | Reggie Bannister | Daniel Roebuck | Daniel Schweiger | Harrison Young | Linda Flammer | Cean Okada | Solange Morand | Karen Placencia
Directors: Don Coscarelli
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Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.

Are We Done Yet? (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Ice Cube | Nia Long | John C. McGinley | Aleisha Allen | Philip Daniel Bolden | Jonathan Katz | Linda Kash | Alexander Kalugin | Dan Joffre | Pedro Miguel Arce | Tahj Mowry | Jacob Vargas | Brenda Prieur | Hayes MacArthur | Colin Strange
Directors: Steve Carr
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Newlyweds Nick (Ice Cube) and Suzanne (Long) decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor (McGinley) with a bizarre approach to business.

Strange Wilderness (2007)

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jake Abel | Kevin Alejandro | Joe Don Baker | Terrence Beasor | Ernest Borgnine | Blake Clark | Allen Covert | Peter Dante | Will Deutsch | John Farley | Jeff Garlin | Harry Hamlin | Kevin Heffernan | Jonah Hill | Tom Hippler
Directors: Fred Wolf
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With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.

Fifty Pills (2006)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Lou Taylor Pucci | Kristen Bell | John Hensley | Nora Zehetner | Eddie Kaye Thomas | Monica Keena | Michael Peña | Jane Lynch | John Kapelos | Donnell Rawlings | Rachel Boston | John Marshall Jones | Ron Yuan | Chris J. Johnson | Curran Connor
Directors: Theo Avgerinos
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Darren Giles has lost his college scholarship, can’t work up the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams and doesn’t have the cash to stay in college another semester. Unless he can survive the teenage dominatrix, New York’s largest drug mogul, convince his parents he’s not gay, write a paper on Dante’s Inferno, escape three thugs chasing the wrong guy and sell fifty pills of ecstasy in time to make his tuition payment, he’ll never get the chance to date the girl of his dreams.

Point Break (1991)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Sport | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Keanu Reeves | John C. McGinley | Gary Busey | Patrick Swayze | Lori Petty | James LeGros | John Philbin
Directors: Kathryn Bigelow
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In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves the ex-presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information. Utah meets surfer Bodhi and gets drawn into the lifestyle of his new friend.

The Outsiders (1983)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Dillon | Ralph Macchio | C. Thomas Howell | Patrick Swayze | Rob Lowe | Emilio Estevez | Tom Cruise | Glenn Withrow | Diane Lane | Leif Garrett | Darren Dalton | Michelle Meyrink | Gailard Sartain | Tom Waits | William Smith
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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Based on the S.E. Hinton novel of the same name. The tension between two groups: The Greasers and The Socials “Socs” puts Ponyboy Curtis (Howell) and his best friend Johnny Cade (Macchio) in a bad spot. One night at the movies, Ponyboy and Johnny fall in love with Sherri “Cherry” Valance (Lane) and Marcia (Meyrink) once they get Dally Winston (Dillon), the toughest and meanest of the Greasers to stop attempting to “score” Cherry and Marcia. What Johnny and Ponyboy don’t know is that Cherry and Marcia are girls for the snobbish, popular, and rich group, the Socs. Once Johnny kills Bob Sheldon (Garrett), the toughest and meanest member of the Socs, this begins as the Socs demand a rumble against the Greasers.

Stand by Me (1986)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Wil Wheaton | River Phoenix | Corey Feldman | Jerry O'Connell | Kiefer Sutherland | Casey Siemaszko | Gary Riley | Bradley Gregg | Jason Oliver | Marshall Bell | Frances Lee McCain | Bruce Kirby | William Bronder | Scott Beach | Richard Dreyfuss
Directors: Rob Reiner
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Unable to grasp the fact of his brother’s death, Gordie Lachance feels compelled to travel with three friends to see a dead body that has been found near the railroad tracks.

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Simon Pegg | Martin Freeman | Bill Nighy | Robert Popper | Joe Cornish | Chris Waitt | Eric Mason | Billie Whitelaw | Nick Frost | Peter Wight | Julia Deakin | Tom Strode Walton | Troy Woollan | Rory Lowings | Bill Bailey
Directors: Edgar Wright
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Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman (Frost), who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is address to as an accident, but Angel isn’t going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent “acidents”.