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Entries from November 2008

The Remains of the Day (1993)

November 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Synopsis
At Darlington Hall, a mansion in the English countryside, American millionaire and former Congressman Jack Lewis (Christopher Reeve) acquires the estate at auction and saves it from being demolished. He inherits aging butler James Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) who nobly presides over a staff that is a skeleton of what it was before World War II. [...]

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Tags: Based on novel · Father/son relationship · Unconventional romance

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

November 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Synopsis
On the 6th of January 1917, five condemned French soldiers are brought to a trench in Somme: a once cheerful carpenter, who accidentally shot himself scattering away rats; a welder so disillusioned by the war that he burns his hand in an attempt to win a discharge; a brave farmer (Clovis Cornillac) who wounds [...]

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Tags: Based on novel · Crooked officer · Dreams and visions · Interrogation · Military · Museums and galleries · Prostitute · Train

Jackie Brown (1997)

November 22nd, 2008 · 6 Comments

Synopsis
In the city of Hermosa Beach, gun smuggler Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) entertains dim-witted prison buddy Louis Gara (Robert DeNiro) with his knowledge of the firearms trade. Ordell’s girlfriend – an insolent, bong loving beach bunny named Melanie (Bridget Fonda) – is hardly impressed. “He’s just repeating shit he overheard. He ain’t any [...]

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Tags: Based on novel · Cult favorite · Femme fatale · Gangsters and hoodlums · Heist · Interrogation · Midlife crisis · Unconventional romance

The Blues Brothers (1980)

November 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Synopsis
Upon his release from Joliet Correctional Center, “Joliet” Jake Blues (John Belushi) is met by his brother Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) in an old Mt. Prospect police car. Elwood takes Jake directly to St. Helen Blessed Shroud Orphanage to visit The Penguin (Kathleen Freeman), the nun who raised them. She reveals that the Cook [...]

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Tags: Brother/brother relationship · Concert · Cult favorite · Dreams and visions · Famous line · Femme fatale · Interrogation · Master and pupil · Music