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Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a successful sports agent. The biggest clients, the respect, a beautiful fiancee, he has it all. Until one night he questions his purpose. His place in the world, and finally comes to terms with what's wrong with his career and life. Recording all his thoughts in a missβ¦ion statement Jerry feels he has a new lease on life. Unfortunately his opinions aren't met with enthusiasm from his superiors and after dishonorably being stripped of his high earning clients and elite status within the agency Jerry steps out into the sports business armed with only one volatile client (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and the only person with belief in his abilities (Renee Zellweger) with the impossible task of rebuilding what he once had. Along the way he faces the harsh truths which he'd ignored in the past and a host of hardships that he'd never faced before. (Read More)
Themes: | greed abuse dating sexuality redemption loneliness wedding drunkenness pregnancy money marriage friendship |
Mood: | affection |
Locations: | airplane trip singing in a car elevator |
Characters: | secretary single mother sister sister relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | hollywood agent sports agent watching football on tv football player american football blonde woman wedding video marriage proposal goodnight kiss reference to clarence thomas reference to shaquille o'neal reference to john coltrane being asked for an autograph reference to the super bowl singing along with radio β¦mission statement reference to espn kneed in the chest reference to catcher in the rye date with coworker women's group reference to miles davis fax transmission reference to zorro tripping over male wearing an earring male nanny 35 year old asking for a date down on his luck mexican restaurant reebok wishing someone good luck 26 year old touchdown reference to audrey hepburn air quote gesture firing reference to pepsi overhearing a conversation gameboy favor business ethics fireplace poker black romance begins with narration giving the finger au pair little black dress little league moving van egotism character appears on tv wearing sunglasses inside nfl typing kiss on the cheek headset starting over motivational dinner date woman punches a man client earth viewed from space fiance blond boy precocious child male male hug famous line telephone conversation support group opposites attract consciousness reference to albert einstein audio cassette honesty manuscript quitting a job boy with glasses goldfish telling someone to shut up fish tank idealism drunken man selfishness sports team camel sign language divorcee career morality blockbuster agent lifting someone into the air scene during opening credits babysitter loyalty applause single parent kissing while having sex redhead character says i love you product placement fired from the job locker room football bare butt punched in the face blonde sex on couch title spoken by character character name in title two word title sex scene kiss (See All) |
A comedy based on the 1987 professional football players' strike. Gene Hackman plays the coach of the team, Jack Warden is the owner, Brett Cullen is the All-Pro quarterback that goes on strike and Keanu Reeves is the "scab" who replaces the star QB.
Story: | football player american football tripping over wishing someone good luck touchdown sports team sign language scene during opening credits product placement locker room football punched in the face two word title |
Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) have the perfect life together living the American dream... until Emily asks for a divorce. Now Cal, Mr Husband, has to navigate the single scene with a little help from his professional bachelor friend Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). Make that a lot of helβ¦p... (Read More)
Themes: | drunkenness money marriage friendship |
Characters: | sister sister relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposal moving van honesty babysitter applause kissing while having sex character says i love you locker room punched in the face sex scene kiss |
Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.
Themes: | greed wedding drunkenness pregnancy money marriage friendship |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | single mother husband wife relationship |
Story: | wedding video marriage proposal 35 year old 26 year old business ethics quitting a job goldfish fish tank idealism selfishness applause fired from the job bare butt punched in the face title spoken by character β¦sex scene kiss (See All) |
Bright, well-educated, handsome Conor O'Neill's promising future was wrecked by his gambling addiction, which dragged him into heavy drinking and petty crime, but worst of all, the stifling grip of loan-shark bookies. Desperate for a loan, he accepts to stand in for lawyer friend Jimmy Fleming as coβ¦ach of a Chicago black 'projects' ghetto Little League baseball team. His sense of pride, becoming the boys' sole idol, and competition, plus their attractive teacher, motivate Conor. But the crushing loan problem rather requires leaving town. (Read More)
Themes: | redemption |
Story: | asking for a date down on his luck wishing someone good luck little league wearing sunglasses inside audio cassette quitting a job boy with glasses telling someone to shut up sports team scene during opening credits punched in the face two word title |
Football coach Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, tormented man into an inspiration to his community.
Themes: | friendship |
Mood: | affection |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | football player american football male male hug sports team locker room football title spoken by character character name in title |
Two friends, John (played by Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn), crash weddings to pick up women. One day they crash the wedding of the daughter of the Treasury Secretary, Secretary Cleary (Christopher Walken). Instead of short-term flings they end up being invited to the Clearys' island estate,β¦ and potentially meet the loves of their lives... (Read More)
Themes: | dating redemption wedding marriage friendship |
Characters: | secretary sister sister relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | american football marriage proposal blockbuster redhead bare butt punched in the face blonde kiss |
John makes a Christmas miracle happen by bringing his one and only friend to life, his teddy bear. The two grow up together and John must then choose to stay with his girlfriend or keep his friendship with his crude and extremely inappropriate teddy bear, Ted.
Themes: | abuse wedding drunkenness friendship |
Story: | blonde woman marriage proposal kissing while having sex product placement football bare butt punched in the face blonde title spoken by character character name in title sex scene kiss |
Rocky Balboa is enjoying life. He has a lovely wife, Adrian, had a successful fight with Apollo Creed and is able to enjoy the money he earned from the fight and a new endorsement deal. Unfortunately, Rocky becomes embarrassed when failing to complete an advert and ends up working in a meat packing β¦company. He believes that he will no longer have a career as a boxer. Apollo wants to rematch with Rocky to prove all his critics wrong that he can beat Rocky. Can Rocky once again have a successful fight? (Read More)
Themes: | wedding pregnancy money marriage |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | marriage proposal being asked for an autograph character appears on tv career blockbuster scene during opening credits character says i love you fired from the job locker room punched in the face character name in title two word title |
The Bakers, a family of 14, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in oβ¦rder while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart. (Read More)
Characters: | sister sister relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | american football moving van character appears on tv quitting a job blockbuster redhead locker room football kiss |
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 Meβ¦tzler to run for president as well. Chaos ensues. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | football player blonde woman morality kissing while having sex fired from the job football blonde title spoken by character sex scene kiss |
The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Themes: | redemption |
Locations: | singing in a car |
Characters: | sister sister relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | giving the finger character appears on tv scene during opening credits loyalty applause punched in the face two word title |
Fletcher Reede, a fast talking attorney, habitual liar, and divorced father is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He has a habit of giving precedence to his job and always breaking promises to be with his young son Max, but Fletcher lets Max down once too often, for mβ¦issing his own son's birthday party. But until then at 8:15 Max has decided to make an honest man out of him as he wishes for one whole day his dad couldn't tell a lie. When the wish comes true all Fletcher can do is tell the truth and cannot tell one lie. Uh-oh for Fletcher! (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Mood: | affection |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | secretary |
Story: | marriage proposal giving the finger honesty divorcee career blockbuster lifting someone into the air two word title kiss |
Wealthy businessman Ross Webster ('Robert Vaughn (I)' (qv))discovers the hidden talents of Gus Gorman ('Richard Pryor' (qv)), a mischievous computer genius. Ross decides to abuse his talents, in a way to help Webster with his plans for economic control. When the man of steel interferes, something muβ¦st be done about Supes. When Gus' synthetic Kryptonite fails to kill Superman, it turns him in an evil incarnation of his former self. The tar-laced Kryptonite pits man against himself, setting up the Clark vs. Superman battle. (Read More)
Themes: | abuse redemption wedding drunkenness |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | secretary mother son relationship |
Story: | earth viewed from space lifting someone into the air scene during opening credits single parent redhead product placement punched in the face character name in title two word title |
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrβ¦owing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize. (Read More)
Themes: | dating wedding marriage friendship |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposal motivational reference to albert einstein career blockbuster agent applause punched in the face kiss |
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 shiβ¦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)
Mood: | affection |
Characters: | single mother mother son relationship |
Story: | male nanny quitting a job fish tank blockbuster lifting someone into the air scene during opening credits babysitter title spoken by character character name in title |
A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America's nascent pro-football league in 1925. Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero, is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodβ¦ge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. The captain hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country's attention. Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford, America's favorite son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. This new champ is almost too good to be true, and Lexie Littleton aims to prove that's the case. A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carter's war story. But while she digs, the two teammates start to become serious off-field rivals for her fickle affections. As the new game of pro-football becomes less like the freewheeling sport he knew and loved, Dodge must both fight to keep his guys together and to get the girl of his dreams. Finding that love and football have a surprisingly similar playbook, however, he has one maneuver he will save just for the fourth quarter... (Read More)
Themes: | drunkenness |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | sports agent football player american football marriage proposal sports team locker room football punched in the face kiss |
After hearing a popular DJ rail against yuppies, a madman carries out a massacre in a popular New York bar. Dejected and remorseful, the DJ strikes up a friendship with Parry, a former professor who became unhinged and then homeless after witnessing his wife's violent death in the bar shooting. The β¦DJ seeks redemption by helping Parry in his quest to recover an item that he believes is the Holy Grail and to win the heart of the woman he loves. (Read More)
Themes: | redemption friendship |
Locations: | elevator |
Story: | wearing sunglasses inside audio cassette telling someone to shut up fish tank scene during opening credits applause character says i love you title spoken by character character name in title |
Dan is a 51 year old executive who learns that his company is being restructured and he is being demoted. Carter, who is 26, replaces him. Dan who has two teenage daughters with another on the way, decides to suck it up and work for Carter. Dan and Carter's working relationship is tested when Carter⦠begins a relationship with Alex, who is Dan's daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | dating pregnancy marriage friendship |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | sister sister relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | reference to pepsi male male hug goldfish applause product placement punched in the face |
The story picks up four weeks after the first film, and already Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, strange contractor, and the worst vacation of her life.
Themes: | dating wedding |
Story: | blonde woman marriage proposal opposites attract blockbuster kissing while having sex blonde character name in title kiss |
In the sumer of 1976, 30-year old Vince Papale is having a tough run of luck. He's been working as a substitute teacher for two days a week but has just found out that his job has been eliminated because of budget cuts. His wife gives up on him saying he'll never amount to anything and asks for a diβ¦vorce. He works as a bartender and plays football with his friends. When the the new coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Dick Vermeil, announces that he will hold open tryouts for the team, Vince reluctantly decides to give a try. Based on a true story. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage friendship |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | watching football on tv american football character appears on tv lifting someone into the air locker room football |
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 β¦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 player american football sports team redhead fired from the job locker room football title spoken by character |
Preston, Idaho's most curious resident, Napoleon Dynamite, lives with his grandma and his 32-year-old brother (who cruises chat rooms for ladies) and works to help his best friend, Pedro, snatch the Student Body President title from mean teen Summer Wheatley.
Themes: | wedding friendship |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | football player american football famous line boy with glasses sign language locker room title spoken by character character name in title |
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon charms his younger relatives Miles and Maizy with β¦his hefty cooking and his new way of doing the laundry. His carefree style does not impress everyone though - especially his rebellious teenage niece, Tia, and his impatient girlfriend, Chanice. With a little bit of luck and a lot of love, Uncle Buck manages to surprise everyone in this heartwarming family comedy. (Read More)
Themes: | drunkenness |
Mood: | affection |
Story: | singing along with radio telling someone to shut up babysitter character says i love you product placement punched in the face title spoken by character character name in title two word title |
An emotionally fragile woman recently released from a mental hospital for self mutilation goes to school to gain secretarial skills to gain employment. She has an alcoholic father and a co-dependent mother who are clueless as to who she really is which a tormented soul who really wants to find sometβ¦hing with which she can find success. She is a great secretary and finds a job with a unique, old fashioned, but off center in charge boss with a somewhat sadistic sexual proclivity. She grows and evolves and so does he. (Read More)
Themes: | dating wedding drunkenness |
Mood: | affection |
Characters: | secretary husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposal typing applause fired from the job title spoken by character sex scene kiss |
John Kimble is a tough city cop who's been on the trail of drug dealer Cullen Crisp for years. He finally tracks Crisp down but it seems the only person that can testify against him is his ex-wife. The problem is she's disappeared and all Kimble knows is the name of the school in Oregon where her soβ¦n attends. When things don't quite go to plan, Kimble finds he has to go undercover on his toughest assignment yet - Kindergarten teacher! (Read More)
Themes: | redemption friendship |
Characters: | single mother mother son relationship |
Story: | tripping over wearing sunglasses inside dinner date fiance telling someone to shut up blockbuster lifting someone into the air scene during opening credits applause single parent locker room punched in the face two word title |
Taking over England's top football club Leeds United, previously successful manager Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manβ¦ager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor who has loyally stayed with Brighton & Hove Albion. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | singing in a car |
Story: | football player egotism career fired from the job locker room football |
John and Jane Smith are a normal married couple, living a normal life in a normal suburb, working normal jobs...well, if you can call secretly being assassins "normal". But neither Jane nor John knows about their spouse's secret, until they are surprised to find each other as targets! But on their qβ¦uest to kill each other, they learn a lot more about each other than they ever did in five (or six) years of marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | wedding drunkenness money marriage friendship |
Locations: | singing in a car elevator |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | wedding video marriage proposal sign language blockbuster kissing while having sex punched in the face character name in title kiss |
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new respoβ¦nsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted, however, refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage friendship |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | single mother husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | selfishness divorcee career blockbuster single parent fired from the job character name in title |
In London, the public relation Helen is fired from her position in a PR company. While returning home, she does not catch the train in the subway. But in another possibility of her life, she catches the train in the subway. The story shows two parallel lives of Helen: in one life, she stays with her⦠boyfriend Gerry, and in the other life, she finds that Gerry cheats her with Lydia and falls in love with James Hammerton. (Read More)
Themes: | dating drunkenness pregnancy friendship |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | wishing someone good luck honesty scene during opening credits character says i love you fired from the job two word title kiss |
Marisa Ventura is a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City, who works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, Marisa meets Christopher Marshall, a handsome heir to a political dynasty, who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. β¦Fate steps in and throws the unlikely pair together for one night. When Marisa's true identity is revealed, the two find that they are worlds apart, even though the distance separating them is just a subway ride between Manhattan and the Bronx. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | single mother mother son relationship |
Story: | firing favor starting over precocious child applause single parent fired from the job locker room |
After a fateful mistake costing his career, an ex-soccer player bum meets a shaolin kung fu student trying to spread the word of kung fu. The ex-soccer player helps reconcile with his five brothers, and teaches them soccer, adding shaolin kung fu as a twist.
Themes: | greed redemption drunkenness money friendship |
Story: | sports team career lifting someone into the air product placement fired from the job football bare butt punched in the face |
A day in the life of the employees of Empire Records. Except this is a day where everything comes to a head for a number of them facing personal crises - can they pull through together? And more importantly, can they keep their record store independent and not swallowed up by corporate greed?
Themes: | greed sexuality friendship |
Story: | gameboy audio cassette quitting a job character says i love you punched in the face blonde title spoken by character |
As a child piano prodigy, 'David Helfgott' (qv)'s musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father, Peter. When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship, his career as a pianist blossoms. However, the pressures of his newfound fame, coupled with the echoes of his tumultuous⦠childhood, conspire to bring Helfgott's latent schizophrenia boiling to the surface, and he spends years in and out of various mental institutions. (Read More)
Themes: | abuse wedding |
Story: | marriage proposal boy with glasses telling someone to shut up career blockbuster scene during opening credits blonde |
Tess McGill is a frustrated secretary, struggling to forge ahead in the world of big business in New York. She gets her chance when her boss breaks her leg on a skiing holiday. McGill takes advantage of her absence to push ahead with her career. She teams up with investment broker Jack Trainer to woβ¦rk on a big deal. The situation is complicated after the return of her boss. (Read More)
Themes: | wedding drunkenness |
Characters: | secretary |
Story: | business ethics career product placement two word title sex scene |
Against the backdrop of aged has-been rock star Billy Mack's Christmas themed comeback cover of "Love Is All Around" which he knows is crap and makes no bones about it much to his manager Joe's chagrin as he promotes the record, several interrelated stories about romantic love and the obstacles to hβ¦appiness through love for Londoners are presented in the five weeks preceding Christmas. Daniel's wife has just passed away, leaving him to take care of his adolescent stepson Sam by himself. Daniel is uncertain how to deal with Sam and his problems without his wife present, especially in light of a potential budding romance within their household. Juliet and Peter have just gotten married. They believe that Peter's best friend and best man Mark hates Juliet but won't say so to his or her face. Others looking at the situation from the outside believe Mark is jealous of Juliet as he is in love with Peter himself. Jamie, a writer, is taking a writing retreat by himself in rural France following catching his latest girlfriend in an indiscretion. Jamie ends up spending much time in France with Aurelia, the Portuguese woman hired as the housekeeper. The question becomes not only if they can communicate their day-to-day needs with each other as she speaks no English, he speaks no Portuguese, and neither speaks French well, but communicate what seems to be their increasing mutual attraction to each other. Sarah has been in love with her co-worker Karl for the two years they have worked toβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | loneliness wedding marriage friendship |
Characters: | secretary husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | wedding video marriage proposal goodnight kiss manuscript blockbuster character says i love you product placement blonde title spoken by character two word title sex scene kiss |
Teenager Holly Hamilton is tired of moving every time her single mom Jean has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man.. an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean aβ¦nd boost her shaky self-esteem. When the virtual relationship takes off, Holly finds herself having to produce the suitor, borrowing her friend's charming and handsome Uncle Ben as the face behind the e-mails, notes and gifts. Holly must resort to increasingly desperate measures to keep the ruse alive and protect her mom's newfound happiness, almost missing the real perfect man when he does come along. (Read More)
Themes: | dating friendship |
Characters: | single mother |
Story: | blonde woman marriage proposal date with coworker woman punches a man single parent title spoken by character |
After years of looking for Mr. Right, Charlotte 'Charlie' Cantilini finally finds the man of her dreams, Kevin Fields, only to discover that his mother, Viola, is the woman of her nightmares. A recently fired news anchor who is afraid she will lose her son the way she has just lost her career, Viola⦠determines to scare off her son's new fiance by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law. While Viola's long-time assistant Ruby does her best to help Viola execute her crazy schemes, Charlie decides to fight back and the gloves come off as the two women battle it out to see just who is the alpha-female. (Read More)
Themes: | wedding marriage friendship |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposal fiance divorcee career fired from the job |
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: | pregnancy marriage |
Mood: | affection |
Characters: | single mother husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | little league blockbuster single parent punched in the face sex scene kiss |
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, β¦making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast. (Read More)
Themes: | redemption friendship |
Characters: | single mother mother son relationship |
Story: | opposites attract blockbuster single parent bare butt punched in the face title spoken by character kiss |
Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Frank's childhood wasn't a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn't really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must β¦change. (Read More)
Themes: | greed redemption loneliness friendship |
Story: | egotism selfishness lifting someone into the air fired from the job title spoken by character character name in title |
Three years and 10 successful title defenses after beating Apollo Creed, with whom he has become great friends, a now wealthy Rocky Balboa is considering retirement. Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to Clubber Lang, who inadvertently causes the death of Rocky's trainer Mickeyβ¦. Rocky sinks into a depression, and Apollo decides to train Rocky for a rematch against Lang so Rocky can try to win the title back. (Read More)
Themes: | redemption drunkenness marriage friendship |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | character appears on tv famous line blockbuster scene during opening credits product placement locker room punched in the face character name in title two word title kiss |
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: | marriage friendship |
Story: | blond boy precocious child boy with glasses goldfish divorcee lifting someone into the air applause single parent two word title kiss |
A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses β¦this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day. (Read More)
Themes: | redemption drunkenness friendship |
Story: | marriage proposal wearing sunglasses inside dinner date idealism lifting someone into the air scene during opening credits character says i love you title spoken by character two word title kiss |
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 thβ¦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)
Themes: | dating redemption wedding marriage friendship |
Characters: | single mother mother son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposal opposites attract scene during opening credits single parent character says i love you punched in the face kiss |
Peter Klaven's world revolves around his real estate work and Zooey, his soon-to-be fiancee. After he pops the question, she calls her best friends and they go into wedding planning mode. Peter has no male friends and that poses problems: will he turn out to be a clingy guy, and who will be his best⦠man? Zooey, her friends, and Peter's brother Robbie offer help that results in awkward moments. Then, at an open house Peter's hosting, he meets Sydney, an amiable, low-key guy. They trade business cards, and Peter calls him to meet for drinks. A friendship develops that's great at first but then threatens Peter's engagement and career. Can guys be friends and couples be in love? (Read More)
Themes: | dating loneliness wedding drunkenness marriage friendship |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposal divorcee career locker room title spoken by character kiss |
84 years later, a 100 year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship β¦with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiance, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | single mother |
Story: | giving the finger woman punches a man fiance famous line telling someone to shut up blockbuster lifting someone into the air single parent kissing while having sex character says i love you punched in the face title spoken by character sex scene kiss |
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Themes: | loneliness wedding drunkenness pregnancy money friendship |
Characters: | secretary husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | male wearing an earring 35 year old divorcee football kiss |
Peter Colt, an English tennis player in his thirties whose ranking slipped from 11th to 119th in the world, considers he never really had to fight for anything as his wealthy but all but close family easily put him through studies and allowed him to pursue his tennis ambitions, bravely exchanges jokβ¦es with his German sparring partner Dieter Prohl, in a similar position, but feels it's about time to admit he's getting too old to compete with fitter coming men (or boys) and intends, after a last Wimbledon, to take a job with the prestigious tennis club instead. Just then, by accident, he bumps into Lizzie Bradbury, the American rising star of female tennis, falls in love with her and finds her interest in him changes his entire perception, even gives him the strength to win again. But where will it lead them, especially when her overprotective father-manager Dennis Bradbury proves determined to nip their relationship in the bud, believing it detrimental to her career? (Read More)
Themes: | marriage friendship |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | sports agent career agent applause locker room bare butt punched in the face title spoken by character |
In New Orleans, English teacher of the high school Rampart High, Will Gerard, and his wife, musician Laura Gerard, are in love with each other. One night, Laura leaves a rehearsal and is assaulted, while Will is playing chess with his friend Jimmy. Will is visiting her in hospital when, out of the bβ¦lue, a stranger named Simon tells him that he belongs to an organization of vigilantes and offers to eliminate the assailant. In return, the organisation would want a favor from Will in the future. Will agrees, and the criminal is murdered. Six months later, Simon collects his debt with Will. He demands that Will kill Alan Marsh, a pedophile. Will accidentally kills Alan and soon he learns that the victim was an awarded journalist that was investigating the organization. Now he seeks evidences to prove his innocence but the network of the organization is powerful and is seeking Will out to eliminate him. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | blonde woman favor scene during opening credits kissing while having sex character says i love you product placement punched in the face blonde title spoken by character two word title kiss |