Monthly Archives: November 2007 »
Awake
Forget about werewolves and vampires, this is what grown-ups have actual nightmares about: being paralyzed and mute. But it gets worse. You’re lying on an operating table about to be cut open and you
Read More »The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Imagine that you’re a successful and charismatic magazine editor. You’re 43 years old and have a passion for life. Then you have a stroke. Then you slip into a coma for 20 days. When
Read More »The Great Debaters
We’ve all see the movies based on inspiring true stories where the underdog team from the small school gets the last-minute touchdown or makes the three-pointer to defeat the reigning champs
Read More »Juno (2007)
Juno is a smart teenager, but she still got pregnant from her dalliance with her geeky classmate Paulie Bleeker. What’s a young woman to do? Her spunky friend Leah has an idea: go shopping
Read More »Cassandra’s Dream
Brothers Terry and Ian are two grown men on different paths. While clean-cut Ian helps to manage their father’s restaurant, working-class Terry is struggling to recover from his drinking and gambling habits
Read More »The Bucket List
Edward and Carter are two men whose lives have taken very different roads. But their paths are joined when they are both diagnosed with terminal cancer. The Bucket List The Scoop Join Jack Nicholson
Read More »The Perfect Holiday
All Nancy wants for Christmas is a nice, normal man. She’s certainly earned it — raising three active kids without much help from her flashy ex-husband
Read More »Persepolis
ight-year-old Marjane is precocious and outgoing, and dreams one day of being a prophet who saves the world. But Tehran in 1978 isn’t the best place for a girl like Marjane, as the new
Read More »Atonement
13-year-old Briony Tallis and her family live a life of exquisite privilege in the English countryside in 1935. The idyllic lifestyle affords the girl an imagination perfectly suited to the writer she hopes to
Read More »Youth Without Youth
One stormy evening in 1938, 70-year-old professor Dominic Matei is stuck by lightning. Without explanation, he rapidly begins to regenerate and rejuvenate until his youth is restored
Read More »Grace Is Gone
Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father {John Cusack} takes his two daughters on a road trip
Read More »The Water Horse
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend. The Water Horse Angus, a young Scottish boy, finds an unusual egg on the beach. He takes it home
Read More »The Kite Runner
Just because you leave a horrible situation for a better one doesn’t mean that everything is fine, and it doesn’t mean you forget those you left behind. This is true for Amir, the son
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