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Entries Tagged as 'Unconventional romance'

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

September 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Synopsis
In the town of “Signal,” Wyoming in 1963, two ranch hands file in and are hired by a rancher (Randy Quaid) whose sheep need to pasture on “Brokeback Mountain.” The camp tender, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) doesn’t say much, only that he used to come from ranch people. The herder, Jack […]

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Tags: Based on short story · Father/daughter relationship · Unconventional romance · Western

Garden State (2004)

August 25th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Synopsis
Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff) receives a message from his estranged father that his mother has died. Wrapped in a cocoon of anti-depressant drugs, a sterile Los Angeles apartment and a thankless job waiting tables at a chic Vietnamese restaurant, “Large” returns to suburban New Jersey for the funeral. Confiding to his icy […]

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Tags: Bathtub scene · Cult favorite · Dreams and visions · Drunk scene · Father/son relationship · Music · Psychoanalysis · Unconventional romance

Chasing Amy (1997)

August 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

Synopsis
Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) and Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) - two guys from Highlands, New Jersey who made good self-publishing their own comic book - bust up the convention they’re signing copies of their work Bluntman and Chronic at when they seem to outrage Black militant cartoonist Hooper X (Dwight Ewell) arguing […]

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Tags: Cult favorite · Famous line · Unconventional romance

Valley Girl (1983)

August 11th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Synopsis
Winding down a shopping spree at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, Julie (Deborah Foreman) reports on her social situation to friends Suzi (Michelle Meyrink), Loryn (Elizabeth Daily) and Allyson (Camille Calvet). When her ex Tommy (Michael Bowen) corners her on the escalator, Julie reads him the riot act: “It’s like I’m totally not […]

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Tags: Coming of age · Cult favorite · Drunk scene · Father/daughter relationship · High school · Music · Unconventional romance