Posts tagged 'Drama'
In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright) owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) and others…
Adapted and directed by Dan Rush, and based on a short story by Raymond Carver, Everything Must Go tells the story of Nick Porter (Will Ferrell) a career salesman whose days of being on top are long gone. The same day Nick gets fired, for falling…
Water for Elephants a gorgeously dream-like drama based on the novel of the same name is about a young man named Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattinson) who was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the…
Starring Russell Crowe, The Next Three Days is Paul Haggis’s latest, a dizzying mishmash of drama, thriller and heist in all in one. The film is a remake of the 2008 French release Anything for Her (Pour elle).
When Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) is arrested for…
The King’s Speech tells the story of Albert Frederick Arthur George (who later became King George VI), the father of current British monarch Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates (the controversial and insidious King Edward VIII), George (known by the moniker ‘Bertie’) reluctantly assumes the throne. Beleaguered…
Tron Legacy is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital…
Eat Pray Love gives Julia Roberts an infrequent chance at a lead role in this year’s visually breathtaking romantic drama. Based on the memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, this globe-trotting tale will undoubtedly tease the thirst for travel.
Liz Gilbert…
Teen heart-throb Robert Pattinson stars in his third Hollywood hype Remember Me opposite Lost’s Aussie, Emilie de Ravin. Not to be confused with Melvyn Bragg’s novel, this romantic drama set in New York paints a sentimental image of love, loss and learning.
The Blind Side is a biography/drama based on a true story about the remarkable American football player Michael Oher who started life at the lowest rung of the socio-economic ladder and with the help of a caring woman and her family – rises to the very top – not…
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