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Entries Tagged as 'Father/son relationship'

Boogie Nights (1997)

October 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Synopsis
In the San Fernando Valley of 1977, busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) catches the eye of Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), maker of “adult films, exotic pictures” at the nightclub where Eddie works. Jack lives in Reseda with Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), a coke sniffing adult film star whose line of work has […]

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Tags: Bathtub scene · Black comedy · Coming of age · Cult favorite · Dreams and visions · Drunk scene · Famous line · Father/son relationship · Master and pupil · No opening credits · Prostitute · Rated X · Shootout

A River Runs Through It (1992)

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Synopsis
As an old man threads a fishing line on the Big Blackfoot River, a narrator (Robert Redford) begins: “Long ago, when I was a young man, my father said to me, ‘Norman, you like to write stories.’ And I said, ‘Yes, I do.’ Then he said, ‘Some day when you are ready, […]

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Tags: Based on book · Brother/brother relationship · Coming of age · Father/son relationship · Master and pupil · Small town · Sports · Train

Poltergeist (1982)

September 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Synopsis
Five year old Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O’Rourke) wakes in the middle of the night and wobbles downstairs, where the TV has been left on, transitioning to white noise. She talks to the static, waking the household. Life in the Southern California suburb of “Cuesta Verde” is otherwise uneventful: Steven (Craig T. […]

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Tags: Bathtub scene · Beasts and monsters · Famous line · Father/son relationship · Mother/daughter relationship

The Shining (1980)

September 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Synopsis
Mild mannered Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) arrives for an interview at the luxurious Overlook Hotel in Colorado. General manager Mr. Ullman (Barry Nelson) explains his duties as caretaker will be to maintain the hotel when it shuts down for six months during the winter. Jack maintains that the isolation will give him […]

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Tags: Ambiguous ending · Based on novel · Dreams and visions · Famous line · Father/son relationship · Midlife crisis · Mother/son relationship · Psycho killer · Woman in jeopardy