Sean Penn leads an all-star cast (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, Ray Walston) in this hilarious portrayal of a group of southern California high school students and their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Amy Heckerling’s directorial debut brings to life first-time screenwriter Cameron Crowe’s insider’s view of teenage American life in the 1980’s. Featuring decade-defining music from The Go-Go’s, Oingo Boingo and The Cars.
Mayor Tom Tinsdale plans a bridge as his legacy, precursor to Middleton, Delaware’s annexation to the city across the river. His wife Martha spearheads the opposition, but instead of her, the committee unanimously calls for Cassie to stand for mayor. Jake is preoccupied with controlling demonstrations, but soon finds indications that the merger may not be so good after all. Brandon is composing a song to get him into music academy, but counts for lyrics on buddy Wesley, an incorrigible womanizer, whom Lori has an instant crush on. Cassie invites her just-discovered maternal niece Abigail, who has a mild criminal past and a knack for junior magic.
Cassie Nightingale is given little time to plan her stepson Brandon’s wedding to Tara. In addition, Martha, Middleton’s new mayor, wants Cassie to head a silent auction fundraiser for the Middleton Botanical Gardens. When Audrey arrives in town looking for a job, Cassie hires her to work in her store, Bell, Book & Candle. Audrey even offers to help with the auction. However, Cassie becomes suspicious when items for the auction go missing. She must use her powers, and the help of Martha and husband/police chief Jake, to uncover the truth.
Follows a land surveyor on an assignment to measure an ancient forest for a developer but soon loses his reason in a supernatural environment that has its own plans.
With the manipulative Tara Reata a destructive force in many lives, relationships collapse as secrets unfold in a complex emotional drama about life, loss and reconciliation.
A family with an abusive father, a sensitive son, and a mother out of her depth: we see them when Michael is about 12 and when he’s in his 30’s, a writer of romance novels, going home for his mother and sister’s college graduations. We go back and forth between the two periods: when Michael is a boy, the pressure builds to the point when the thin thread keeping them as a family threatens to break, and there’s a fight. During Michael’s trip home, there’s an unexpected death which prolongs his stay and brings to the light his relationship with his father, his aunt, and her young children. Michael’s estranged wife joins them for the funeral.
Imagine a shop that for generations has sold all the accoutrements for the perfect suicide.This family business prospers in all its bleak misery, until the day it encounters joie de vivre in the shape of younger son, Alan. What will become of The Suicide Shop in the face of Alan’s relentless good cheer, optimism and determination to make the customers smile?
Five strangers are taken hostage and forced to fight to the death as a form of initiation into a bizarre, violent brotherhood.
ROBOTECH is a sweeping science-fiction anime epic of humans defending their home world against alien domination. The saga is told through the eyes of characters caught up in a series of wars that erupts when a mysterious spacecraft crashlands on Earth at the turn of the millennium. The secrets of alien knowledge aboard this vessel were unlocked, leading to the development of “Robotechnology” and the creation of a vast arsenal of robotic “mecha” to defend the Earth against the alien threats that would eventually strike to lay claim to the mysterious power source known as “protoculture.”
Ten years after the events of the original movie, Victor Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and proceeds to kill once more.
Breathtaking! You will be surprised how good this movie is! Every once in a while comes a movie that hits like a sucker punch to the gut and haunts you long after you’ve left the theater. Such is the case with Gone Baby Gone. This is one of the best detective movies that is suspenseful from beginning to end.. It will grip you and will not make you forget.
It is an intense look inside an ongoing investigation about the mysterious disappearance of a little girl. As two young private detectives (Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan) hired to take the case get closer to finding her, they discover that nothing is as it seems and more dangerous than they ever thought possible. Also starring Academy Award® winners Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) and Ed Harris (Pollack).
Wow! Not since “Presumed Innocent” have I been so deliciously unable to predict an ending! The Life of David Gale is possibly the film of a lifetime… this is one of the most meaningful and insightful films created in years. Thought provoking and terrifying that will make you ask – What Is the Worth of a Man’s Life? The Life of David Gale is the perfect film to entertain and make you think.
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row – Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is falsely accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself… hence begins a race against time to discover what really happened at the crime scene.
