Posts Tagged 'vandalism'

Antitrust

Categories: 2001, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA

This movie is the fictional story of computer programming genius Milo Hoffman after graduating from Stanford and getting out into the competitive world of computer software. In his contemplation of where to begin his career, he is contacted by Gary Winston whose character is loosely based on Bill Gates. Winston is the CEO of a [...]

New Kids, The

Categories: 1985, Drama, Thriller, USA

Abby McWilliams (Loughlin) and her brother Loren (Presby) are particularly normal teenagers. Their parents Mac (Atkins) and Mary Beth (DeBaer) are killed in an accident. It’s decided that Abby and Loren live in Glenby, Florida with their Aunt Fay (Martin) and Uncle Charlie (Jones) who own a gas station and an amusement park. Loren and [...]

Strangers, The

Categories: 2008, Horror, Thriller, USA

After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either [...]

Good Son, The

Categories: 1993, Drama, Horror, Thriller, USA

While 12-year-old Mark Evans is at his mother’s side as she’s dying of cancer at a hospital in Arizona, she makes him promise her that she won’t die. When she does die, Mark is consumed with grief, and is also guilt-ridden because he couldn’t keep his promise to her. Shortly after, Mark’s father Jack is [...]

Coach Carter

Categories: 2005, Drama, Germany, Sport, USA

In 1999, Ken Carter, a successful sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA, where he was a champion athlete. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to [...]

Day of the Locust, The

Categories: 1975, Drama, Thriller, USA

Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930’s Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely, morose accountant. As Tod is drawn deeper into the lurid private lives of [...]

Fiddler on the Roof

Categories: 1971, Drama, Family, Musical, USA

Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A

Categories: 2006, Crime, Drama, USA

Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father’s ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, [...]

Chinatown

Categories: 1974, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, USA

Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn’t drop the case immediately. Gittes pursues the case anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy centering [...]

Chinatown

Categories: 1974, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, USA

Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn’t drop the case immediately. Gittes pursues the case anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy centering [...]

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