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The lives of three young people - a rich student, a girl from the "wrong side of the tracks" and her boyfriend - unexpectedly intersect during one fateful summer in the romantic drama "Here on Earth." Kelley Morse (Chris Klein), who is cocky and brash, normally would never have crossed paths with th β¦e residents of a small town near his posh private school. But when he takes his shiny new Mercedes out for a drive, he locks horns with some of the locals, including Jasper (Josh Hartnett). As Jasper's willful girlfriend Samantha (Leelee Sobieski) looks on, Kelley and Jasper engage in a dangerous car race that turns disastrous, leaving a popular diner owned by Samantha's mother in ruins. Kelley and Jasper are sentenced to a creatively ironic but fitting punishment: They must help rebuild the diner. Not only does this ruin Kelley's summer plans, he also must board at the home of his rival, Jasper. Kelley begins to fulfill his "sentence," but refuses to have anything to do with Jasper and his parents. When Kelley again encounters Samantha, the attraction is immediate and strong. First love blossoms in the Berkshire woods ("a little bit of heaven, here on earth," Samantha calls the pastoral setting), angering Jasper, who has known Samantha practically his entire life. These new feelings and the romantic triangle that develops are only the beginning of a new journey for Kelley, Samantha and Jasper, as they ultimately make life-changing discoveries about themselves and each other. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | suicide of motherpoetryillnesscancerdeath of motherdancejealousysuicidelove |
Locations: | gas stationcourtroomwheelchairkitchenbathtubsmall townforestschoolhospital |
Characters: | doctor patient relationshipsheriffwaitresslove trianglesister sister relationshippriestteenage boyteenage girldoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | terminal illnessexpelled from schoolboys' schoolprivate schoolschool uniformreference to robert frostblack female judgerich boy poor girlyellow roseclass warfarehouse buildingexploding gasoline stationkneevaledictorianrebellious youth β¦county fairgreyhoundelitismcommunity servicemilkingauto repairbuffetlittle sistertalking to an animalbus trippiano teacherdrag racingprobationhide and seekbaseball fieldfourth of julyfisticuffsteenage lovecrutchescar raceshortssandwichgraduationholding handsfamily dinnerfirst kissconvenience storerowboatconstruction sitehitchhikingpicnicbreakfastmousediseasebeer drinkingheavy rainpoemclass differenceshealthpoetlaptopconvertiblelimousinedinerriverhandcuffscollegecar accidentfiretitle spoken by characterphotograph (See All) |
In North Carolina especially in Beaufort a prank on a guy goes wrong and puts the student in the clinic. Carter, a famous student with no plans for the future, is held responsible and forced to join in after-school community service activities as consequence, which include starring as the lead in th β¦e play. And participating in these activities is Jamie Sullivan, the reverend's daughter who has great ambitions and nothing in common with Landon. When Landon decides he wants to take his activities seriously, he asks Jamie for help and begins to spend most of his time with her. But he starts to like her, that he did not expect to do. They relationship, much to the chagrin of Landon's old popular friends and Jamie's strict reverend father. But when a heart-breaking secret becomes known that puts their relationship to the test, it is then that Landon and Jamie realize the true meaning of love and fate. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | cancerjealousylove |
Locations: | wheelchairsmall townschoolhospital |
Characters: | priestteenage boyteenage girldoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | terminal illnesscommunity serviceteenage lovecrutchesfirst kisscar accident |
After Iggy's long-time girlfriend is murdered and the whole town agrees he is the killer, he awakens one morning with horns and the townspeople soon confess their sins. Once knowing the sins of the people, he is facing the true killer of his beloved girlfriend.
Themes: | illnesscancerdeath of motherjealousylove |
Locations: | small townforesthospital |
Characters: | waitresslove trianglepriestteenage boyteenage girldoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | terminal illnessfirst kissheavy raindinerhandcuffsfiretitle spoken by characterphotograph |
Melanie Carmichael, an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like fiancee of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn't forget about her family back down South. More importantly, h β¦er husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce papers seven years ago. To set matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. When things don't turn out the way she planned them, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in New York City. (Read More)
Themes: | dance |
Locations: | kitchensmall town |
Characters: | sherifflove trianglefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | county fairfirst kissconstruction sitebeer drinkingheavy rainclass differencesconvertiblelimousinedinerhandcuffsphotograph |
L.A. soft-porn writer Carter Webb is frustrated enough, after his actress girlfriend dumps him, to need a serious break. He decides to spend it with his grandmother, who can't really take care of herself and her Detroit suburb house anyway. Helpful Carter soon overcomes mishaps to bond with the foxy β¦ neighbor across the street and her daughters. Helping them actually helps him regain perspective and self-confidence. (Read More)
Themes: | illnesscancerdeath of motherlove |
Locations: | kitchenforesthospital |
Characters: | waitresssister sister relationshipteenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | diner |
A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man wh β¦ose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | cancerlove |
Locations: | bathtub |
Characters: | teenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | terminal illnesshitchhikingheavy rainlaptopdinerhandcuffscar accidenttitle spoken by characterphotograph |
A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar β¦ is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out? (Read More)
Themes: | suicide of motherdeath of mothersuicide |
Locations: | bathtubschool |
Characters: | waitresssister sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | private schoolschool uniformdinercar accidentfiretitle spoken by characterphotograph |
At 16, Nick Twisp is wry about his teen funk: he lives in Oakland with his sex-addled mother; his father's child support is her meal ticket. While camping in Ukiah, Nick meets Sheeni: for him, it's love at first sight. Nick has to figure out how to get his father a job in Ukiah, then how to get sent β¦ to live with his father, then how to get close to Sheeni, whose religious parents may want her sent away from temptation to a boarding school. There's also Sheeni's all-American boyfriend to contend with. Overwhelmed by the challenges, Nick's about to give up when he conjures an alter ego who whispers revolt into his ear. Nick is not altogether hapless, but can this end well? (Read More)
Themes: | love |
Locations: | forestschool |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | teenage loveholding handsfamily dinnerfirst kissbreakfastpoempoetconvertiblecar accidentfirephotograph |
Amal is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she is inexperienced in that matter. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her β¦ but is too shy to do anything about it. For a number of reasons, Elin ends up at Agnes' birthday party as the only guest. They have a girl's night out together but after that Elin desperately avoids Agnes, refusing to even consider her own feelings toward Agnes. (Read More)
Themes: | poetrylove |
Locations: | wheelchairsmall townschool |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipteenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | teenage lovefirst kisshitchhikingtitle spoken by characterphotograph |
In idyllic Mid-Coast Maine, the Fowler family's only son Frank comes home from his freshman year at college for summer vacation. His mother Ruth, the school choir director, is unhappy with Frank dating soon-to-be divorced mother Natalie who is several years his senior, but Frank's father Matt, the t β¦own doctor, doesn't see a problem. While Frank considers holding off his future for Natalie, her jilted husband causes them all problems until an unthinkable tragedy shakes the community to its very core. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | jealousy |
Locations: | courtroomsmall townforestschool |
Characters: | love triangledoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | convenience storeclass differencescollege |
In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story for an old woman who has senile dementia with memory loss. In the late 1930s, wealthy seventeen year-old Allie Hamilton is spending summer vacation in Seabrook. Local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at a carnival and they soon fall in love with β¦each other. One day, Noah brings Allie to an ancient house that he dreams of buying and restoring and they attempt to make love but get interrupted by their friend. Allie's parents do not approve of their romance since Noah belongs to another social class, and they move to New York with her. Noah writes 365 letters (A Year) to Allie, but her mother Anne Hamilton does not deliver them to her daughter. Three years later, the United States joins the World War II and Noah and his best friend Fin enlist in the army, and Allie works as an army nurse. She meets injured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital. After the war, they meet each other again going on dates and then, Lon, who is wealthy and handsome, proposes. Meanwhile Noah buys and restores the old house and many people want to buy it. When Allie accidentally sees the photo of Noah and his house in a newspaper, she feels divided between her first love and her commitment with Lon. Meanwhile Duke stops reading to the old lady since his children are visiting him in the nursing home. (Read More)
Themes: | poetrylove |
Locations: | wheelchairbathtubhospital |
Characters: | love triangleteenage boyteenage girldoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | teenage lovefamily dinnerrowboatpoemclass differencesrivercollegephotograph |
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 β¦overt freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world. (Read More)
Themes: | poetryillnesscancerdancejealousysuicidelove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | priestteenage boyteenage girldoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | teenage lovegraduationholding handsfirst kisscollegecar accidentphotograph |
A musical about teens in love in the 50's! It's California 1959 and greaser Danny Zuko and Australian Sandy Olsson are in love. They spend time at the beach, and when they go back to school, what neither of them knows is that they both now attend Rydell High. Danny's the leader of the T-Birds, a gro β¦up of black leather jacket-wearing greasers while Sandy hangs with the Pink Ladies, a group of pink-wearing girls led by Rizzo. When they clash at Rydell's first pep rally, Danny isn't the same Danny from the beach. They try to be like each other so they can be together. (Read More)
Themes: | dancejealousylove |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | auto repairdrag racinggraduationconvertibledinercar accident |
Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, β¦not the answering of them. (Read More)
Themes: | poetryillnesssuicide |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girldoctor |
Story: | private schoolschool uniformholding handspicnicpoemclass differencesphotograph |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Themes: | poetry |
Locations: | bathtubschoolhospital |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipteenage boyteenage girldoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | teenage lovefirst kissbreakfastpoemfiretitle spoken by characterphotograph |
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 β¦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: | illnesscancerdeath of mother |
Locations: | courtroomsmall townhospital |
Characters: | sheriffwaitressdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | terminal illnessconvenience storebreakfastdinercar accidentphotograph |
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 β¦ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Themes: | illnesscancerdancejealousysuicidelove |
Locations: | courtroombathtubschool |
Characters: | waitressboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | school uniformfirst kisslaptoprivercar accidentphotograph |
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: β¦ one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family. But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | dancelove |
Locations: | gas stationsmall townforest |
Characters: | waitressboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | fourth of julyconvenience storerowboatheavy raindinerfirephotograph |
59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terr β¦aced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. (Read More)
Themes: | poetrycancerdeath of motherlove |
Locations: | wheelchairkitchenhospital |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipteenage boyteenage girldoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | auto repairholding handsbreakfastfirephotograph |
Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him, taking Rayette with him. There he ge β¦ts confronted with his rich, cultured family that he had left behind. (Read More)
Themes: | love |
Locations: | gas stationwheelchairsmall town |
Characters: | waitressboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | hitchhikingclass differencesdiner |
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year's high school student election. But school civics teacher Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks popular varsity football player Paul Me β¦tzler to run for president as well. Chaos ensues. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | love triangleteenage boyteenage girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | teenage lovegraduationclass differenceslimousinetitle spoken by character |
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 β¦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: | illnessjealousylove |
Locations: | small townschool |
Characters: | sheriffwaitressteenage boyteenage girldoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | graduationpoemconvertiblecollege |
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 β¦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)
Locations: | small townschool |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | private schoolschool uniformteenage lovefirst kissclass differenceslimousinetitle spoken by character |
Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tole β¦rates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have? (Read More)
Locations: | wheelchairkitchensmall townhospital |
Characters: | doctor patient relationshipwaitressdoctormother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | diner |
Life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramon's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gif β¦t of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramon taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not move himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others. (Read More)
Themes: | poetrysuicidelove |
Locations: | courtroomwheelchairbathtubhospital |
Characters: | priestteenage boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | terminal illnesspoemcar accident |
Single father Dan Burns dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch.
Themes: | death of mother |
Locations: | bathtubschool |
Characters: | love triangledoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | hide and seekfamily dinnerbreakfastphotograph |
John Travolta plays George Malley, who owns the local auto repair shop in a small California town. After celebrating his birthday with friends at the local bar/hang-out, George heads for home. He pauses to watch a strange light in the sky, then collapses for a few seconds in the middle of the desert β¦ed street. In the days and weeks that follow, George finds his IQ and consciousness expanding dramatically, and develops telekinetic abilities. Despite his attempts to explain what has happened to him, with just a very few exceptions, most of the local townspeople treat the "new" George as a freak. His state of isolation becomes even more pronounced when his new-found abilities allow him to correctly predict an earthquake, and outside authorities become interested in what's happened to him. (Read More)
Themes: | love |
Locations: | small townhospital |
Characters: | doctor patient relationship |
Story: | terminal illnessauto repairfamily dinnerdiseasebeer drinking |
After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling β¦ that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother's former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidence to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discovers the truth about the fire in the boat house. (Read More)
Themes: | death of mothersuicide |
Locations: | bathtubforest |
Characters: | sheriffsister sister relationshipteenage boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | terminal illnessheavy rainlaptopdinerfirephotograph |
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. I β¦n the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life. (Read More)
Themes: | illnesscancersuicidelove |
Locations: | courtroombathtubhospital |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | terminal illnessfamily dinnerlimousinephotograph |
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 β¦idable absences while time traveling - and then returning with increasing knowledge of their future - makes things ever more difficult for Clare. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | death of motherlove |
Locations: | wheelchairbathtubforesthospital |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipteenage girldoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | dinercar accident |
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 β¦dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | cancerjealousylove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | doctormother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | terminal illnessconvertiblecollegecar accident |
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 β¦ss two generations. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | illnessjealousylove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | waitresslove trianglesister sister relationshippriestteenage boyteenage girldoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | class differencesconvertiblediner |
As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits t β¦hem. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousylove |
Locations: | schoolhospital |
Characters: | waitresslove triangleteenage boyteenage girldoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | school uniformfirst kiss |
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: | jealousylove |
Locations: | wheelchairhospital |
Characters: | doctor patient relationshiplove trianglesister sister relationshipdoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | picniclimousinephotograph |
'Erin Brockovich-Ellis' (qv) is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation β¦ for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation. (Read More)
Themes: | illnesscancer |
Locations: | courtroomsmall town |
Characters: | waitressdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | terminal illnesspicnicdiseasecar accidenttitle spoken by characterphotograph |
At the age of 38, Mark O'Brien, a man who uses an iron lung, decides he no longer wishes to be a virgin. With the help of his therapist and his priest, he contacts Cheryl Cohen-Greene, a professional sex surrogate and a typical soccer mom with a house, a mortgage and a husband. Inspired by a true st β¦ory, The Sessions, follows the fascinating relationship which evolves between Cheryl and Mark as she takes him on his journey to manhood. (Read More)
Themes: | poetryjealousy |
Locations: | wheelchairbathtubhospital |
Characters: | priestteenage boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | picnicpoempoetcollege |
To escape an abusive boyfriend, without announcing her plans in advance, Jean Gilkyson takes her young daughter Griff to the Wyoming ranch of her father-in-law, Einar. Jean and Einar are disaffected, as he blames her for the death of his son in a car accident. Einar is taking care of his friend Mitc β¦h, who was attacked by a bear, and Einar does not know that he has a granddaughter. While Mitch heals and forgives the bear, Einar also changes his feelings regarding Jean, finally understanding that accidents happen and accepting her and loving Griff. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousylove |
Locations: | small townhospital |
Characters: | sheriffwaitressteenage girldoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | crutchessandwichcar accidentphotograph |
1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), and β¦life will never be the same again. (Read More)
Themes: | poetrydance |
Locations: | wheelchairsmall townforest |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | fourth of julyfirst kisspicnicpoemriverphotograph |
Teenager Ethan Wate is obsessed with his urge to finish high school and go on to college in order to leave the small town of Gatlin, South Carolina behind, until a mysterious girl begins to inhabit his dreams. When he meets Lena Duchannes, a newcomer who has just enrolled in his school, Ethan knows β¦she is the girl in his dreams. Lena is rejected by the rest of her classmates for being the niece of Macon Ravenwood, whom the town's superstitious residents consider to be a devil-worshiper. But Ethan gives her a ride anyway and they fall in love. Lena reveals to her new boyfriend that she is a witch, and that on her sixteenth birthday she will be claimed by either the forces of light or of darkness. She will remain in the light, but only if she does not remain in love with Ethan. To make matters worse, her evil mother, Sarafine, is casting spells to push Lena to the dark side. Ethan joins her in a search to find a magic spell to save their doomed love. Will the lovers succeed? (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | poetrylove |
Locations: | small townforestschool |
Characters: | sister sister relationshippriestteenage boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | teenage lovecollegecar accidentfirephotograph |
Benjamin Stone is a young doctor driving to L.A where he was offered a new job as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. He gets off the highway to avoid a traffic jam, but gets lost and ends up crashing into a fence in the small town of Grady. He is sentenced to 32 hrs of community service at the loca β¦l hospital. All he wants is to serve the sentence and get moving, but gradually the locals become attached to the new doctor, and he falls for the pretty ambulance driver, Lou. Will he leave? (Read More)
Locations: | small townhospital |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | county faircommunity serviceconvertiblecar accidenttitle spoken by character |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | love |
Locations: | wheelchairhospital |
Characters: | priestdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | heavy rainriverhandcuffscar accidenttitle spoken by characterphotograph |
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 β¦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: | poetrycancersuicide |
Characters: | sheriffsister sister relationshipteenage girldoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | terminal illnesspoempoetphotograph |
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who asks their estran β¦ged son Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on. (Read More)
Themes: | illnesscancer |
Locations: | wheelchairhospital |
Characters: | priestdoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | terminal illnesspoetcollege |
A successful operative for an elite private intelligence firm is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Themes: | illness |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | doctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | terminal illnesshitchhikingclass differencesriverhandcuffstitle spoken by characterphotograph |
Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in any of his classes, but where he's the king of extracurricular activities - from being in the beekeeping society to writing and producing plays, there's very l β¦ittle after school he doesn't do. His life begins to change, however, when he finds out he's on academic probation, and when he stumbles into love with Miss Cross, a pretty teacher of the elementary school at Rushmore. Added to the mix is his friendship with Herman Blume, wealthy industrialist and father to boys who attend the school, and who also finds himself attracted to Miss Cross. Max's fate becomes inextricably tied to this odd love triangle, and how he sets about resolving it is the story in the film. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousylove |
Locations: | schoolhospital |
Characters: | love triangleteenage boyteenage girl |
Story: | private schoolprobationclass differencestitle spoken by character |
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has β¦fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick! (Read More)
Themes: | illnesscancerjealousysuicidelove |
Locations: | wheelchairsmall townforestschoolhospital |
Characters: | waitressteenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | collegefire |
At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Paige, a pre-med student and a farm girl from Manitowoc, meets Eddie, a fellow student from Denmark, whom she first dislikes but later accepts, likes, and loves. Paige takes Eddie to her home for the Thanksgiving weekend. Paparazzi find and photograph the c β¦ouple, and Paige learns that Eddie is truly Crown Prince Edvard. Failing health causes King Haraald to abdicate in favor of Edvard, so Eddie returns to Copenhagen, then Paige follows her heart to Copenhagen, where Edvard warmly welcomes her, takes her to the castle, and introduces her to the royal family. Queen Rosalind first expresses opposition to Paige but later relents; King Haraald soon warms to her; Edvard proposes, Paige accepts, and he gives her a ring. However, Paige recalls her previous dream of going to Doctors Without Borders, so she breaks off and returns to school. Still, though, Edvard shows up at Paige's graduation and suggests an alternate plan. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | illnesslove |
Locations: | school |
Story: | car racegraduationpicnicclass differenceshealthcollegephotograph |
Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His roommate, Neil Perry, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their β¦ new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each does so in his own way, and is changed for life. (Read More)
Themes: | poetrysuicide |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlfather son relationship |
Story: | boys' schoolprivate schoolvaledictorianpoettitle spoken by character |
1934. Young adults Bonnie Parker, a waitress, and Clyde Barrow, a criminal just released from prison, are immediately attracted to what the other represents for their life when they meet by chance in West Dallas, Texas. Bonnie is fascinated with Clyde's criminal past, and his matter-of-factness and β¦bravado in talking about it. Clyde sees in Bonnie someone sympatico to his goals in life. Although attracted to each other physically, a sexual relationship between the two has a few obstacles to happen. Regardless, they decide to join forces to embark on a life of crime, holding up whatever establishments, primarily banks, to make money and to have fun. They don't plan on hurting anyone physically or killing anyone despite wielding loaded guns. They amass a small gang of willing accomplices, including C.W. Moss, a mechanic to fix whatever cars they steal which is important especially for their getaways, and Buck Barrow, one of Clyde's older brothers. The only reluctant tag-along is Buck's nervous wife, Blanche Barrow, a preacher's daughter. The gang's life changes after the first fatal shot is fired. Following, their willingness to shoot to kill increases to protect themselves and their livelihood. Their notoriety precedes them, so much so that no matter what one's opinion is of them, most want to have some association to the Barrow gang, to help them, to be spoken in the same breath as them, or to capture and or kill them. Of the many people they encounter in their crime spree, tβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | love |
Locations: | gas stationsmall townforesthospital |
Characters: | sheriffwaitressboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | convenience storerowboatpicnicpoemdinerhandcuffscar accidenttitle spoken by characterphotograph |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
Themes: | poetryillness |
Locations: | small townforest |
Characters: | waitressteenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | graduationhitchhikingpoemdinerriverfiretitle spoken by characterphotograph |