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The family of "Big Daddy" Pollitt convenes at his and Big Momma's vast 28,000 acre East Mississippi plantation for his sixty-fifth birthday, although it may as well be for his funeral on the belief that he is dying. Despite his latest medical report being clean, in reality he truly does have termina …l colon cancer, something the doctor only tells Big Daddy's two sons, Gooper Pollitt, a lawyer, and Brick Pollitt, who recently left his job as a sportscaster. Brooding Brick and his wife Maggie Pollitt, who have driven up from New Orleans for the occasion, are going through a long rough patch in their marriage. Brick wanted to split, but Maggie convinced him to stay married on the condition that she not pressure him for sex. In their troubles, Brick has turned to the bottle, leading to a drunken incident which has left Brick currently on crutches. Maggie believes Gooper and his wife Mae Pollitt are trying to orchestrate Brick out of Big Daddy's will. Brick and Maggie's saving grace is Big Daddy has greater affinity for them than Gooper and Mae. Maggie is beautiful and Brick was a star athlete, specifically in football and track. As Gooper and Mae have a sixth child on the way, Maggie also believes they could combat anything Gooper and Mae could do by having a child of their own. In his current state, Brick has contempt for everyone and everything around him, which includes Big Daddy's money. All Brick and Maggie's problems seem to center on their respective relationships with Bric… (Read More)
Subgenre: | gay interest |
Themes: | inheritancewealthgreedalcoholismdysfunctional familycancerdepressionobsessionseductiondrunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | stormairport |
Characters: | trying to get pregnantmother in law daughter in law relationshipaunt nephew relationshipaunt niece relationshipuncle niece relationshipuncle nephew relationshipmaidhomosexualityalcoholiclittle boylittle girllawyerbrother brother relationshipchildrendoctor …husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships (See All) |
Story: | birthday cakemarital reconciliationex football playerbirthday partyfootball teamterminal cancerfootball playeramerican footballcorporate lawyerpregnancy issuefaked pregnancymarriage problemsunhappy marriagedysfunctional marriagefood thrown into someone's face …woman takes off stockingfather and son talkpretending to be pregnantathletic fieldhomosexual jockremoving nylon stockingsports announcerhero worshiphurdlesplaster castprivate planedressing gownlove hateleg in a castwanting a babysouthern bellebroken ankledrinking problemconceptionoverbearing fathersouthern gothicnylon stockingsgrandchildgay subtextfather in law daughter in law relationshipfamily gatheringcrutchdomineering fathermemphis tennesseepatriarchcigarhomosexual subtextmississippitycoontoy gunmorphinesexual frustrationdocumentchangedrunk drivingsouthern u.s.piano playinglast will and testamentcrutchesman cryingreflectionlingerie slipfamily secretcellarthirty somethingone dayrainstormthunderstormgrandfatherreconciliationnicknamewhiskeyloss of friendice creamdiseasehathypodermic needlecakedrugfemale stockinged legsathletedestructionloyaltyterminal illnessbasementconvertiblesuitcaseargumentcontroversyfootballmansionbirthdayliebased on playpartysingingbare chested male (See All) |
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancymarriage |
Characters: | little boylittle girlbrother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakebirthday partygrandfatherbirthdayliepartysinging |
Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as …he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Read More)
Themes: | cancerdrunkennessmarriage |
Characters: | little boylittle girlbrother brother relationshipchildrendoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday caketerminal cancermarriage problemsice creamhypodermic needlecaketerminal illnessbirthdaysingingbare chested male |
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, … even on a fishing trip. (Read More)
Themes: | alcoholismcancerdrunkennessjealousymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakedysfunctional marriagefather in law daughter in law relationshiptoy gunlingerie slipcontroversybirthdayliepartybare chested male |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
Themes: | wealthdepressionobsessiondrunkennesspregnancymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | maidlawyerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakebirthday partydysfunctional marriagedomineering fathertoy gundrunk drivingsuitcasepartysingingbare chested male |
Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is pretty boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that he has stomach cancer and has less than a year to live. After the initial depression he sets a …bout living for the first time in over 20 years. Then he realises that his limited time left is not just for living life to the full but to leave something meaningful behind... (Read More)
Themes: | cancerdepressiondrunkennessmarriage |
Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipuncle nephew relationshipchildrendoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partynylon stockingsfather in law daughter in law relationshipnicknameterminal illnessbirthdaypartysinging |
Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acro …ss two generations. (Read More)
Themes: | wealthdrunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | aunt niece relationshipchildrendoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partyprivate planetycoonlast will and testamentthunderstormice creamconvertiblemansionbirthdaypartysinging |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree …dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familycancerdrunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipchildrendoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partyterminal illnessconvertibleparty |
In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneous …ly linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before. (Read More)
Themes: | cancerdepressionpregnancyfriendship |
Characters: | maidhomosexualitydoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | birthday cakebirthday partyhomosexual subtextreflectionparty |
At the age of 21, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time... The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father (Bill Nighy) tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change w …hat happens and has happened in his own life-so he decides to make his world a better place...by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as you might think. Moving from the Cornwall coast to London to train as a lawyer, Tim finally meets the beautiful but insecure Mary (Rachel McAdams). They fall in love, then an unfortunate time-travel incident means he's never met her at all. So they meet for the first time again-and again-but finally, after a lot of cunning time-traveling, he wins her heart. Tim then uses his power to create the perfect romantic proposal, to save his wedding from the worst best-man speeches, to save his best friend from professional disaster and to get his pregnant wife to the hospital in time for the birth of their daughter, despite a nasty traffic jam outside Abbey Road. But as his unusual life progresses, Tim finds out that his unique gift can't save him from the sorrows and ups and downs that affect all families, everywhere. There are great limits to what time travel can achieve, and it can be dangerous too. (Read More)
Themes: | cancerdrunkennesspregnancymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | uncle niece relationshipuncle nephew relationshipalcoholiclawyerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partychangelingerie slipnicknameterminal illnessbirthdayparty |
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to wri …te with. (Read More)
Themes: | depressiondrunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriage |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipchildrendoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakebirthday partywhiskeymansionbirthdaysinging |
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage - but when an unexpected tragedy hit …s their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (Read More)
Themes: | cancerdepressionpregnancymarriage |
Characters: | little girldoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partyman cryinghatterminal illnessargumentbirthdaybased on playsingingbare chested male |
Violet Weston ('Meryl Streep' (qv)) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol. She's a difficult woman to deal with and her husband has finally had enough. Violet's family gathers including middle daughter Ivy, youngest daughter Karen (with her new fiance), eldest daughter Barbara (with her …separated husband and teenage daughter), and her sister Mattie Fae (with her husband and son in tow). A family tragedy causes tensions to run high and secrets to come out. The Weston women will be forced to examine themselves and their lives whether they want to or not. Welcome to Osage County, Oklahoma in the sweltering heat of August. (Read More)
Themes: | alcoholismdysfunctional familycancermarriage |
Characters: | aunt niece relationshipuncle niece relationshipuncle nephew relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | family gatheringlast will and testamentfamily secretwhiskeyterminal illnessliebased on playsinging |
When Ruby Baker's parents are killed in a car accident, she and her brother, Rhett, must travel to Malibu, to live with Terrence and Erin Glass, their former neighbors. At first, all seems well. Ruby is making new friends at school and Rhett is getting more video games and flashy toys than he's ever … had in his life. When Ruby speaks to her family's estate lawyer, he tells her that her parents have left Rhett and her $4 million. Suddenly, Ruby begins to notice odd behavior from Terry and Erin. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritancewealthdrunkennessfriendship |
Characters: | uncle niece relationshipuncle nephew relationshipmaidlawyerdoctormother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | morphinedrunk drivinghypodermic needleargumentmansion |
Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt hi …m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familyobsessionseductionjealousymarriage |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | birthday partyunhappy marriagerainstormconvertiblepartybare chested male |
Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and de …fend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familycancerdrunkennesspregnancymarriage |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationshiplittle girllawyerbrother brother relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | morphineman cryingterminal illnessbasementsuitcaseliebare chested male |
Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The intr …overt freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world. (Read More)
Themes: | cancerdepressionseductionjealousyfriendship |
Characters: | aunt nephew relationshiplittle boybrother brother relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakefootball playeramerican footballnicknameice creamfootballbirthdaypartysinging |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con …vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
Themes: | alcoholismdrunkennesspregnancymarriage |
Characters: | little boylittle girllawyerdoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakebirthday partychangethirty somethinghypodermic needlebirthdaypartysinging |
In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kiting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the … death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kiting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption. (Read More)
Themes: | marriagefriendship |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipuncle nephew relationshiplittle boybrother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partycrutchmorphinesuitcasecontroversybirthdayliepartysinging |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
Themes: | drunkennessmarriagefriendship |
Characters: | mother in law daughter in law relationshipmaidchildrendoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | father in law daughter in law relationshipice creamhypodermic needlecaketerminal illnesssuitcaseliesinging |
Cole is an aspiring DJ who spends his days scheming with his childhood friends and his nights working on the one track that will set the world on fire. All of this changes when he meets a charismatic but damaged older DJ named James, who takes him under his wing. Things get complicated, however, whe …n Cole starts falling for James' much younger girlfriend, Sophie. With Cole's forbidden relationship intensifying and his friendships unraveling, he must choose between love, loyalty, and the future he is destined for. (Read More)
Themes: | greedalcoholismdrunkennessfriendship |
Characters: | alcoholicfather son relationship |
Story: | birthday cakepiano playingloss of friendcakedrugloyaltybirthdaypartybare chested male |
A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as …she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life... The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family's world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba's marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familydepressionmarriagefriendship |
Characters: | little boylittle girlchildrenhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakepatriarchice creamcakeargumentbirthdaypartybare chested male |
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull … it off? (Read More)
Themes: | wealthgreedobsessionseduction |
Characters: | aunt niece relationshiplittle girllawyerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | last will and testamentreflectionwhiskeyconvertiblesuitcasemansionlie |
The Father turns 60. His family, which is a big one of the kind, gathers to celebrate him on a castle. Everybody likes and respects the father deeply...or do they? The youngest son is trying to live up to the father's expectations. He is running a grill-bar in a dirty part of Copenhagen. The oldest …son runs a restaurant in France, while the sister is a anthropologist. The older sister has recently committed suicide and the father asks the oldest son to say a few words about her, because he is afraid he will break into tears if he does it himself. The oldest son agrees without argument. Actually he has already written two speeches. A yellow and a green one. By the table, he asks the father to pick a speech. The father chooses green. The oldest son announces that this is the Speech of Truth. Everybody laughs, except for the father who gets a nervous look on his face. For he knows that the oldest son is about to reveal the secret of why the oldest sister killed herself. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familydepressiondrunkennesspregnancyfriendship |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | uncle niece relationshipuncle nephew relationshipbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partyfamily gatheringpatriarchfamily secretargumentbirthdaypartysinging |
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacey is Duane's ste …ady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives. (The movie was adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry). (Read More)
Themes: | inheritancewealthdepressionjealousymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | alcoholicbrother brother relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | football teamfootball playeramerican footballhero worshipconvertiblefootballpartysinging |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o …f The Beatles. (Read More)
Themes: | depressiondrunkennessfriendship |
Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipuncle nephew relationshiplittle boyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | birthday cakebirthday partyargumentbirthdayliepartysinging |
We like Florence: she's considerate, sweet, pretty, and terrific with kids and dogs. She's twenty-five, personal assistant to an L.A. family that's off on vacation. Her boss's brother comes in from New York City, fresh from a stay at an asylum, to take care of the house. He's Roger, a forty-year-old … carpenter, gone from L.A. for fifteen years. He arrives, doesn't drive, and needs Florence's help, especially with the family's dog. He's also connecting with former band-mates - two men and one woman with whom he has a history. He over-analyzes, has a short fuse, and doesn't laugh at himself easily. As he navigates past and present, he's his own saboteur. And what of Florence? is Roger one more responsibility for her or something else? (Read More)
Themes: | depressiondrunkennesspregnancyjealousyfriendship |
Characters: | aunt niece relationshipuncle niece relationshiplittle boylittle girlbrother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | marital reconciliationfemale stockinged legssuitcasebirthdaypartysingingbare chested male |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the …concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
Themes: | obsessionpregnancyjealousymarriage |
Characters: | aunt niece relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakeice creambirthdayliepartysinging |
Middle aged Sy Parrish works as a technician at a one hour photo lab located in a SavMart store in a suburban mall. Sy is a lonely man, never having had any friends. He knows much about his customers through the photographs they have developed. But he knows more about the Yorkin family - specificall …y Nina Yorkin and her adolescent son Jake Yorkin, the two in the family who drop off and pick up the family's photofinishing - the family about whom he is obsessed, than anyone else. Nina's husband, Will Yorkin, is incidental to his obsession since Sy has only seen him in photographs. Sy's obsession includes fantasizing about being their favorite "Uncle Sy". He has even been making an extra set of prints for himself of all of their photographs since Jake was a newborn. After an incident at work and after Sy finds out more about the family through a set of photographs, he decides to right the injustices he sees in the only way he knows how. His actions demonstrate his true mental state. (Read More)
Themes: | depressionobsessiondrunkennessmarriage |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipalcoholiclittle boychildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakebirthday partyargumentfootballbirthdaybare chested male |
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cous …in, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. (Read More)
Themes: | wealthalcoholismdrunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | aunt niece relationshipmaidalcoholicbrother brother relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakesouthern bellesouthern u.s.crutchesbirthdayliepartysinging |
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Conf …ronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide-driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancymarriage |
Characters: | little boybrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage problemsdressing gownfamily gatheringnicknamebasementconvertible |
When Henry DeTamble meets Clare Abshire in a Chicago library they both understand that he is a time traveler, but she knows much more about him as he has not yet been to the times and places where they have already met. He falls in love with her, as she has already with him, but his continuing unavo …idable absences while time traveling - and then returning with increasing knowledge of their future - makes things ever more difficult for Clare. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | alcoholiclittle girldoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakebirthday partymansionbirthdaypartybare chested male |
Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's r …eal concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and "chickie" games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familydrunkennessmarriagefriendship |
Characters: | maidchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | dysfunctional marriagegay subtexthomosexual subtexttoy gunconvertiblemansionbirthdayliebare chested male |
Eccentric actor Daniel Hillard is an amusing and caring father. But after a disastrous birthday party for his son, Daniel's wife Miranda draws the line and files a divorce. He can see his three children only once a week which doesn't sit well with him. Daniel also holds a job at a TV studio as a shi …pping clerk under the recommendation of his liason. But when Miranda puts out an ad for a housekeeper, Daniel takes it upon himself to make a disguise as a Scottish lady named Mrs Doubtfire. And Daniel must also deal with Miranda's new boyfriend Stu Dunemyer. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familyjealousy |
Characters: | lawyerchildrenfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday cakebirthday partybirthdayparty |
Although cheerful, friendly, intelligent, well-dressed, authentic and wealthy, Charlie Bartlett has problems. With his father gone and his mother loopy and clueless, he's been expelled from every private school for his victimless crimes. Now he's in a public school getting punched out daily by the s …chool thug. He ever longs to be popular - the go-to guy - and the true crux of his troubles is that he invariably finds the means to this end, whatever that might be. At Western Summit High, he makes peace with his tormentor by going into business with him - listening to kids' problems and selling them prescription drugs. Charlie's a hit, but attraction to Susan (daughter of the school's laissez-faire principal), new security cameras on campus, a student's overdose, and Charlie's open world view all converge to get him in serious trouble. Can this self-made physician possibly heal himself and just be a kid? (Read More)
Themes: | wealthalcoholismdysfunctional familydepressiondrunkennessfriendship |
Characters: | alcoholicmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | football teamfootball playeramerican footballice creammansionpartysingingbare chested male |
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the fou …r leading characters in a box and strips them apart. (Read More)
Themes: | wealthdepressionobsessionjealousymarriage |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | childrendoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | dysfunctional marriagedressing gownbirthdayliebased on play |
In November, 1970, virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, W.V.) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight, students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college …president, Don Dedman, must find a coach, who then must find players. They petition the NCAA to allow freshmen to play, and coach Jack Lengyel motivates and leads young players at the same time that he reexamines the Lombardi creed that winning is the only thing. The father and the fiancee of a player who died find strength to move on. Can Marshall win even one game in 1971? (Read More)
Story: | football teamfootball playeramerican footballloss of friendathleteconvertiblefootball |
Dean Pereira and Cindy Heller Pereira are a young, working class married couple - Dean currently working as a painter, and Cindy working as a nurse in a medical clinic - with a young daughter named Frankie. Despite their relatively tender ages, they are both ravaged by the life they've eked out toge …ther and by the experiences they've had leading into their marriage. Dean, a high school drop out, comes from a broken home, where he never really had a mother figure. He never saw himself getting married or having a family despite falling in love at first sight with Cindy. He doesn't have any professional ambition beyond his current work - which he enjoys since he feels he can knock off a beer at 8 o'clock in the morning without it affecting his work - although Cindy believes he has so much more potential in life. Cindy also comes from a dysfunctional family, with her own mother and father not setting an example of a harmonious married or family life. One of her previous serious relationships was with Bobby Ontario, that relationship which has a profound affect on many aspects of her marriage to Dean. Dean and Cindy head off on an overnight getaway together without Frankie, the getaway which may provide a clearer picture if their marriage can survive its many issues. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familydepressiondrunkennesspregnancymarriage |
Characters: | little girldoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage problemsunhappy marriagedysfunctional marriagegrandfatherhypodermic needlesuitcaseargumentcontroversysingingbare chested male |
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Themes: | wealthdrunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | aunt niece relationshiplawyerdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | birthday cakethirty somethingbirthdayparty |
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy wei …ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familycancerdepressiondrunkennessjealousyfriendship |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationshiplittle girllawyerbrother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | birthday partynicknamebirthdayliepartybare chested male |
Pizza delivery man Victor is having an argument with Elena, whom he met a few days ago, but she was high then and doesn't want to hear about him. Reacting to the noise, two cops, young David and older Sancho, arrive at the scene, the gun accidentally goes off.. Four years later David is a wheelchair … basketball star, he's married to Elena, Victor is released out of prison and their destinies begin to cross again. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritancecancerseductionpregnancyjealousymarriage |
Characters: | childrenhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | toy gundiseaseargumentbirthdayliesinging |
Returning from Navy service in World War II, Freddie Quell drifts through a series of breakdowns. Finally he stumbles upon a cult which engages in exercises to clear emotions and he becomes deeply involved with them.
Themes: | greeddrunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriage |
Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipalcoholiclittle girldoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | whiskeycontroversyliepartysingingbare chested male |
John LeCarre's spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a criminal past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The …tailor also has a wife, who works for the canal administrator, and a huge debt. The spy's mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal, but he's really in business for himself, blackmailing the tailor into spinning a fantastic tale about the canal being sold to China and former mercenaries ready to topple the current government. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritanceseductiondrunkennessmarriage |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partysuitcasebirthdayliesinging |
The story of Ray Charles, music legend. Told in his adult live with flashbacks to his youth we see his humble origins in Florida, his turbulent childhood which included losing his brother and then his sight, his rise as pianist in a touring band, his writing his own songs and running his own band an …d then stardom. Also includes his addiction to drugs and its affect on his working life and family life. (Read More)
Themes: | wealthdrunkennesspregnancymarriage |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | birthday cakebirthday partyhypodermic needlesuitcasebirthdayliesinging |
A family of police officers - patriarch, two sons, and a son-in-law - deals with corruption in a precinct in Washington Heights. Four officers die in an ambush at a drug dealer's apartment. It's brother Francis's precinct, so when the investigation led by brother Ray finds hints of police corruption …, there's pressure to close ranks and save Frankie's career. Dad, a police brass, promises Ray that he and Frankie can clean things up, and Ray should focus on catching the drug dealer who killed the cops. Meanwhile, brother-in-law Jimmy, a hothead and an enforcer, is visited at home by a lowlife. Is Jimmy involved in the corruption? Where can this take the family? (Read More)
Themes: | cancerdrunkenness |
Characters: | alcoholicbrother brother relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | american footballdomineering fatherpatriarchdrugloyaltyliebare chested male |
The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene ('Carey Mulligan' (qv)), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak ('Matthias Schoenaerts' (qv)), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy ('Tom Sturridge' (qv)), a handsome and reckless Serg …eant; and William Boldwood ('Michael Sheen (I)' (qv)), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritanceobsessionpregnancyjealousymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | aunt niece relationshipuncle niece relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | last will and testamentthunderstormloyaltypartysingingbare chested male |
Themes: | obsessionpregnancyjealousymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | little boylittle girllawyerbrother brother relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | birthday partynicknameice creamliebare chested male |
Bill Parrish, media tycoon, loving father and still a human being, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. One morning, he is contacted by the Inevitable - by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death itself enters his home and his life, personified in a man's body: Joe Black has arrived. His inten …tion was to take Bill with him, but accidentally, Joe's former host and Bill's beautiful daughter Susan have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on earth as well as in Susan, who has no clue who she's flirting with. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | birthday partytycooncakemansionbirthdaybased on playpartybare chested male |
Echoes of "Madame Bovary" in the American suburbs. Sarah's in a loveless marriage to an advertising executive, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is an immature househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two yea …rs for indecent exposure to a minor - living with his elderly mother, May; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie's mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead? (Read More)
Themes: | marriagefriendship |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | lawyerchildrenhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | football teamamerican footballunhappy marriagedysfunctional marriagereflectionrainstormsuitcaseliebare chested male |
The son of Zamindar Narayan Mukherjee, Devdas (Shahrukh Khan) was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He grew up in the lush village of Taj Sonapur, where he spent his childhood, indulged by his lovely playmate Paro (Aishwarya). They grew up sharing a special relationship, in which they existed o …nly to each other. Oblivious of all the differences of status and background, a bond that would never break grew between them. Slowly, it changed to love but it was still unsaid. But the reverie was broken when his family sent Devdas to London for education. Paro's world crashed knowing that her Devdas would be gone and she lit a diya, for it signified the fast coming back of her loved one. Years passed and Devdas returned. Devdas was besotted by her stunning beauty and longed to have her back. But Zamindar Narayan Mukherjee (Vijay Crishna), Devdas' father, met Paro's mother Sumitra's (Kiran Kher) marriage proposal with condescending arrogance. It caused a rift between the families and even though Devdas tried to convince his father, only antagonism came his way. Finally, he moved away from Paro and wrote a letter to her, asking her to forget him. Only, he didn't realize that he would never be able to forget her ever! And much later, when he reached out to her, it was too late as she was far too humiliated. She scorned him for not standing by her and they parted forever with a heart-broken Paro entering into a chaste marriage with a wealthy, much older man, Zamindar Bhuvan (Vijayen… (Read More)
Themes: | wealthalcoholismdrunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | mother in law daughter in law relationshipalcoholiclawyerbrother brother relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | father in law daughter in law relationshipterminal illnessmansionliesinging |