Films I Watched Today

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18th October 2013 - Forrest Gump

Year: 1994

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

Description: The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a naïve and slow-witted yet athletically prodigious native of Alabama who witnesses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in the United States; more specifically, the period between Forrest's birth in 1944 and 1982.

Quote: My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

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14th October 2013 - Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol

Year: 1987

Director: Jim Drake

Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow

Description: The misfit Police Academy (1984) graduates now are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime once again plaguing the streets.

Quote: 

Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry: You want to become one with the gun. Feel the gun, caress the gun until it's a living, breathing, vibrating extension of yourself.

Mahoney: I look for the same in a woman.

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13th October 2013 - Best Man Down

Year: 2012

Director: Ted Koland

Starring: Justin Long, Jess Weixler, Tyler Labine

Description: A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.

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12th October 2013 - Silver Linings Playbook

Year: 2012

Director: David O. Russell 

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker

Description: After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

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10th October 2013 - The Addams Family

Year: 1991

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld  

Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya, Christina Ricci

Description: Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.

Quote: Gomez: We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you.

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7th October 2013 - The Usual Suspects

Year: 1995

Director: Bryan Singer

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Giancarlo Esposito

Description: A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.

Quote: Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone.

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5th October 2013 - Mr. Bean's Holiday

Year: 2007

Director: Steve Bendelack

Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Willem Dafoe, Steve Pemberton

Description: Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two come back together. On the way he discovers France, bicycling, and true love, among other things.

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4th October 2013 - Cold Souls

Year: 2009

Director: Sophie Barthes

Starring: Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, Dina Korzun

Description: Giamatti stars as a fictionalised version of himself, an anxious, overwhelmed actor who decides to enlist the service of a company to deep freeze his soul. Complications ensue when his soul gets lost in a soul trafficking scheme which has taken his soul to St. Petersburg. The film then follows Giamatti desperately trying to recover his soul.

Quote: 

Dr. Flintstein: Well, when you have a tumour, you get rid of it. A twisted soul is like a tumour. It's better to get rid of it.

Giamatti - Paul: I don't think that my soul is twisted, Doctor.

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3rd October 2013 - Blue Jasmine

Year: 2013

Director: Woody Allen

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Andrew Dice Clay, Bobby Cannavale, Louis C.K.

Description: Woody Allen trades New York City for San Francisco with his comedy-drama Blue Jasmine, starring Cate Blanchett as a troubled former Manhattanite who moves to the City by the Bay to live with her sister after her wealthy husband divorces her. Forced to put her life back together piece by piece while under the effect of powerful anti-depressants, she dates a series of men, attempts to build a career, and slowly learns how to count on herself to survive.

Quote: Can you please not fight in here? I don't think I can take it. For some reason, my Xanax isn't kicking in.

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2nd October 2013 - Clear History

Year: 2013

Director: Greg Mottola 

Starring: Larry David, Bill Hader, Philip Baker Hall, Jon Hamm, Kate Hudson, Michael Keaton, Danny McBride, Eva Mendes, Amy Ryan, J.B. Smoove, Conan O'Brien, Paul Scheer

Description: A disgraced former marketing executive plots revenge against his former boss, who made billions from the electric car company they started.

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1st October 2013 - Groundhog Day

Year: 1993

Director: Harold Ramis

Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott

Description: A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again.

Quote:

Rita: Do you every have déjà vu?

Phil: Didn't you just ask me that?

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30th September 2013 - Seven Psychopaths

Year: 2012

Director: Martin McDonagh

Starring: Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Michael Pitt

Description: A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

Quote: 

Hans: An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

Billy: No, it doesn't. There'll be one guy left with one eye. How's the last blind guy gonna take out the eye of the last guy left?

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29th September 2013 - The Bonfire of the Vanities

Year: 1990

Director: Brian De Palma 

Starring: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Morgan Freeman

Description: After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.

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27th September 2013 - The Intouchables

Year: 2011

Director: Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano

Starring: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot

Description: After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker.

Quote: Philippe: My true disability is not having to be in a wheel chair. It's having to be without her.

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26th September 2013 - Eraserhead

Year: 1977

Director: David Lynch 

Starring: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates

Description: Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Quote: Lady in the Radiator: [singing] In Heaven, everything is fine. In Heaven, everything is fine. You've got your good things. And I've got mine.

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25th September 2013 - Into The Wild

Year: 2007

Director: Sean Penn

Starring: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Stewart, Zach Galifianakis

Description: After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.

Quote: "Mr. Franz I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one."

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23rd September 2013 - The Breakfast Club

Year: 1985

Director: John Hughes 

Starring: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy

Description: Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Quote: We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.