Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, a recovering alcoholic is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration when her estranged ex-bother-in-law arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret.
Different Drummers is based on a true story about two unusual boys in Spokane, Washington in the mid 1960s. In this more innocent time, when body builder Jack Lalanne ruled the airwaves, the two heroes, a couple of elementary school students, make a bold attempt to triumph over mortality through friendship. Eleven year old David is slowing down and is now wheelchair-bound by muscular dystrophy, while Lyle can't stop speeding up. Back then, he was referred to as having a condition called MDB (Minimal Brain Dysfunction) but today he would be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. Lyle wants more than anything to get David out of his wheelchair and running again, and he concocts a wild scheme involving a science project, some firemen, drummers, the school principal, a cop and a hand-walk across the school gymnasium, among other things. It works like this Inspired by his TV idol, Lalanne, and his message of intestinal fortitude and willpower, Lyle manages to convince David that ...
“The Chosen Ones” turns on 15-year-old, Ulises, who is being groomed by his father to enamor young girls, tricking them into prostitution. But he falls in love with Sofia, his first victim, who’s just 14. To save her, his father demands he seduces a second girl, entangling Ulises in the world of juvenile prostitution that he was trying to avoid, from which escape come at a very high price.
HBO电影频道投拍新片《选票风波》(Recount),回顾了2000年美国总统大选阶段闹得天翻地覆的佛州计票风波。 影片剧本由曾出演《奔腾年代》和《欢乐谷》的演员丹尼·斯特朗创作,故事从选举日当天发生的事说起,讲到五周后佛罗里达州最高法院做出裁决,回顾发生在佛州的这场计票风波。据HBO高层表示,影片的重点将落在渗透于新闻事件中的“人性”上。《选票风波》定于08年春季美国总统大选高潮期在HBO电视台播出。HBO电影频道高层科林·卡伦德表示,除了政客、投票人等,影片还将聚焦那场事件中的很多小人物,“男人、女人、丈夫、妻子……所有那些不由自主卷入那场事件的人。” 反映美国2000年大选内幕的电视电影《Recount》主演名单日前公布,凭《美国丽人》一夺奥斯卡影帝的凯文·斯派西将在片中扮演副总统戈尔的幕僚,《皇牌大间谍》导演则接任西德尼·波拉克执导此片。 凯文斯派西曾一度被“小金人后反应”困扰,像哈利·贝瑞一样,这位表演技艺稳健,擅长驾御各种性格人物的演技派在得奖后就一直没接过配得上影帝称号的好角色,《Recount》一片让人看到他翻身的曙光,斯派西在片中将扮演戈尔总统的副参谋长荣·克莱因(Ron Klain),他也是协助戈尔针对当年投票结果对佛罗里达州征服提出诉讼的法律顾问。 2000年大选是美国历史上最有争议的大选。虽然民主党候选人阿尔·戈尔在普选中领先,但是计票结果却显示共和党人乔治·沃克·布什以微弱优势获得了选举人票的多数。民主党对佛罗里达州的计票工作提出质疑,要求对有争议的选票重新计数。最后,美国最高法院判定布什赢得佛州选举,从而也赢得了大选。 大选结束后不久,著名导演西德尼·波拉克应美国HBO有线电视公司邀请,着手拍摄一部描述这场选举的影片。但前不久老导演以病痛为由辞去导演一职,现在由拍过《皇牌大间谍》的杰伊·罗奇接手。加盟主演阵容的还有怪才导演大卫·林奇的御用女主角劳拉·邓恩,她扮演的凯瑟琳·哈里斯(Katherine Harris)时任佛罗里达州州务卿,就是她运用手中权利为布什在争议中争得胜利。老演员约翰·赫特将扮演美国前国务卿沃伦·克里斯托弗(Warren Christopher)。 “怎么叫做政治家?政治家就是找有钱的人要钱,找穷人要选票。就是让有钱人和穷人都相信自己会维护他们的利益。”——美国一位幽默大师如是说。 Recount, recount, recount......, Too close to call, too close to call,...... 2000年12月13日晚上8时,民主党总统候选人戈尔在华盛顿的副总统官邸发表输诚演说,美国历史上持续事件最长的总统大选在一连串的重新计票声中,以极具争议的数百票之差落下了帷幕。一些时事评论家认为,克林顿总统抢走了一个古巴小男孩,失去了迈阿密的西裔铁票,使得民主党在势均力敌的总统大选中痛失江山。“关键的少数”在关键时刻扮演了关键角色。
比利(丹尼斯·霍珀 Dennis Hopper 饰)和怀特(彼得·方达 Peter Fonda 饰)用一次毒品交易的钱骑着他们的机车上路了,他们的目的地,是新奥尔良的狂欢节。在路上,他们经过了离群索居的波西米亚人群落,短暂逗留的数天里目睹了他们自由放浪但也贫穷困苦的生活。在德克萨斯州,他们仅因为行为举止诡异就被警察关进了监狱,在那里,他们遇见了律师汉森(杰克·尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰),汉森帮助他们逃离了牢狱之灾,他们怂恿汉森同他们一起上路。抵挡不住内心的骚动,汉森同意了。三人来到一个保守的小镇,在那里受尽了居民的白眼。不受欢迎的三人只得露宿荒野,夜里,当地的居民乔装袭击了他们,汉森被打死。比利和怀特虽然震惊,但这一切都没能阻止他们前进的脚步。到达目的地的两人并没有感到喜悦,有的只是无尽的空虚,沮丧的两人打道回府,但令人意外的是,一个卡车司机和他的双杆猎枪使得他们的行程截然而止。 这是影史上最伟大的公路电影,也是为数众多的公路电影的鼻祖。
Coming as it does from the depths of the Stalinist regime, the Russian Road to Life is a remarkably optimistic film. A host of nonprofessional children are cast as Moscow street kids, left homeless by the Bolshevik revolution. They get into all sorts of melodramatic scrapes until they're rounded up by kindly, altruistic Soviet functionaries. The children are reformed (in the nicest possible way) and made useful members of society. Road to Life is simplistic in its solutions to society's problems, albeit no more so than the usual Hollywood product from the same period.
Followed by Darby Harper, who is granted the ability to see ghosts after suffering a near death experience in her childhood. Then, she runs a side business counseling local spirits in her spare time.
Set in London, SPOTLESS is the story of a troubled crime scene cleaner, Jean, whose tidy life is turned upside down when his outlaw brother Martin crash lands into his world, entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.