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Following the advice of his dying father, Hal dates only women who are physically beautiful. One day, however, he runs into self-help guru Tony Robbins, who hypnotizes him into recognizing only the inner beauty of women. Hal thereafter meets Rosemary, a largely obese woman whom only he can see as a …vision of loveliness. But will their relationship survive when Hal's equally shallow friend undoes the hypnosis? (Read More)
Themes: | claustrophobiacouragetraumadyingdatingdeath of fatherfeardrinkingjealousydeathfriendship |
Locations: | taxi driversuvapartmentelevatortaxinightclubswimming poolrestaurantbarnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | dream girlself imageself confidencefrench kissmaidnursegirlboychildrendoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship …father son relationship (See All) |
Story: | morphine dripstuck in an elevatortrapped in an elevatorchildren's hospitalreference to george harrisonreference to michelle pfeiffergenetic abnormalitycannonball divepost hypnotic suggestionreference to eric claptoninner beautykissing gamecabin feverreference to ringo starrself help guru …spina bifidafitness centerreference to harry houdinibarbecue grillill childpeace corpswoolly mammothreference to wonder womanreference to paul mccartneyshallownessarrested developmenttoebirth defectovereatingcanoeingmicrosoftfrat packreference to britney spearshyenabarkingreference to the biblesuperficialityseminartailfat suithippopotamusclubbingtricycletranceburn victimgiraffedeathbedmorphinegeneticsreverendimmaturitydepartment storereference to the beatlessarcasmcrutchescanoebrainwashingboston massachusettshypnosisdelusionsexismobesityministerhypocrisyreverse footagecakemachismogympay phonecoffeeeatingsubjective cameraneighborbeerliethongbikinidrinkfoodunderwearcryingtitle spoken by characterdancingcharacter name in titlenuditykiss (See All) |
Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion …s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fatherfeardrinkingjealousyfriendshipdeath |
Locations: | suvbarhospital |
Characters: | boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | reverendcrutchesministereatingneighborbeerliebikinidrinkfoodcryingdancingnuditykiss |
In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home. The only problem is that she's not real - she's a sex doll Lars ordered off the Internet. But sex is not what Lars has in mind …, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship. His sister-in-law is worried for him, his brother thinks he's nuts, but eventually the entire town goes along with his delusion in support of this sweet natured boy that they've always loved. (Read More)
Themes: | dyingfeardrinkingjealousydeathfriendship |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | girlboydoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | reverenddelusioneatingneighbordrinkfooddancingcharacter name in title |
The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordin …ary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancee's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home. (Read More)
Themes: | couragedrinking |
Locations: | taxi driverapartmentelevatortaxinightclubrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | maidgirlboychildrenboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | tricycleministerpay phonecoffeeeatingneighborbeerdrinkfoodcryingdancingkiss |
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: | datingdrinkingjealousyfriendship |
Locations: | nightclubrestaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendfather son relationship |
Story: | arrested developmentimmaturitydepartment storereference to the beatlesmachismogymcoffeeeatingsubjective camerabeerdrinkfoodtitle spoken by characterkiss |
East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set u …p the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot. (Read More)
Themes: | datingdrinking |
Locations: | taxi driverapartmenttaxinightclubbarhospital |
Characters: | nursegirlboydoctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | eatingneighborbeerliedrinkfoodcryingdancing |
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: | dyingfeardrinkingdeathfriendship |
Locations: | apartmentelevatortaxiswimming poolrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | maidnursegirlboyfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | pay phoneeatingneighbordrinkfoodunderwearcryingdancingkiss |
Class struggle becomes all too real as a young doctor moves into a modern apartment block in suburban 1975 London. Drugs, drink & debauchery dissolve into murder, mayhem and misogyny in this pseudo-post-apocalyptic breakdown of societal norms.
Themes: | drinking |
Locations: | apartmentelevator |
Characters: | maidgirlboydoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | stuck in an elevatorgymcoffeeeatingsubjective cameraliedrinkfoodunderweartitle spoken by characterdancingkissnudity |
Made of Honor revolves around Tom and Hannah, who have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her "maid" of … honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingjealousyfriendship |
Locations: | taxirestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | maidboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | reverendcakeliedrinkfoodunderweartitle spoken by characterdancingkiss |
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, … and potentially meet the loves of their lives... (Read More)
Themes: | datingdeath of fatherdrinkingdeathfriendship |
Characters: | maidgirlboyfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | frat packreference to the bibleimmaturityministerhypocrisyeatingbeerliedrinkfoodunderwearcryingdancingkiss |
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: | couragedeath of fatherfeardrinkingjealousydeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | nursegirlboychildrendoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | toeeatingsubjective cameradrinkfoodcharacter name in title |
In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for fr …eedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother's heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent's house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fatherdrinkingjealousyfriendshipdeath |
Locations: | taxi drivertaxinightclubrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | maidgirlboydoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | reverse footagemachismobeerliedrinkfoodunderwearcryingdancingkiss |
Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other people's blood to live he's faced …with a choice. How much can love forgive? Set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982. (Read More)
Themes: | couragefeardrinkingdeathfriendship |
Locations: | apartmenttaxiswimming poolbarhospital |
Characters: | girlboychildrenboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendfather son relationship |
Story: | eatingneighborbeerliedrinkfoodunderwearnuditykiss |
It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic setup that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the mome …nt he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void awaiting her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff overhear his description of Heaven, believe every word, and tell others. Soon Mark is a prophet, his first inventive screenplay makes him rich, and he's basically a good guy. But will that be enough for Anna? (Read More)
Themes: | dyingdatingfeardrinkingjealousydeathfriendship |
Locations: | elevatorrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | boychildrendoctorfriendmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | deathbedgeneticsbeerliedrinkcryingkiss |
A thought-provoking and haunting exploration of how reality and dream-states may combine to form complex interactions. The line between the imagination and reality blurs when an accomplished Psychiatrist takes on a patient that appears to be suicidal.
Themes: | dyingdeath of fatherdrinkingdeath |
Locations: | taxi driversuvtaxinew york city |
Characters: | boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | eatingsubjective cameraneighbordrinkfoodunderwearcryingtitle spoken by characterdancingkiss |
Sex addict and colonial theme park worker, Victor Mancini, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mom's hospital bills while she suffers from an Alzheimer's disease that hides the truth about his childhood. He pretends to choke on food in a restaurant and the person who "saves" him will feel …responsible for Victor for the rest of their lives. (Read More)
Themes: | dyingdeathfriendship |
Locations: | restaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | nurseboydoctorfriendfather son relationship |
Story: | department storesarcasmdelusionmachismoeatingsubjective camerabeerliefoodcrying |
Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other … hand, doesn't have a job or a family. He used to have both until a terrible loss, and the grief caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. But when Charlie's problems become too much to deal with, Alan is determined to help Charlie come out of his emotional abyss. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fatherdrinkingjealousydeathfriendship |
Locations: | taxi drivertaxinightclubrestaurantbarnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | childrenfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | coffeeeatingbeerdrinkfoodcryingtitle spoken by character |
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: | traumafeardrinkingjealousy |
Locations: | elevatortaxinew york cityhospital |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | tricycledepartment storehypnosiseatingliedrinkfoodcryingdancingkissnudity |
2 Jours - 2 Days follows two days in the relationship of a New York based couple - a French photographer Marion and American interior designer Jack - as they attempt to re-infuse their relationship with romance by taking a vacation in Europe. Their trip to Venice didn't really work out, - they both …came down with gastroenteritis. They have higher hopes for Paris. But the combination of Marion's overbearing non-English-speaking parents, flirtatious ex-boyfriends, and Jack's obsession with photographing every famous Parisian tombstone and conviction that French condoms are too small, only adds fuel to the fire. Will they be able to salvage their relationship? Will they ever have sex again? Or will they merely manage to perfect the art of arguing? (Read More)
Themes: | traumadrinkingjealousyfriendship |
Locations: | taxi drivertaxirestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | doctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | eatingbeerliedrinkfoodcryingtitle spoken by characterdancingkiss |
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York …and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingjealousyfriendship |
Locations: | taxirestaurantnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | girlboyfriendfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | ministereatingbeerliedrinkfoodcryingtitle spoken by characterdancingcharacter name in titlekiss |
After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school - until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
Themes: | datingdrinkingfriendship |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurant |
Characters: | girlboyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | kissing gamehypocrisyministermachismogymbeerliedrinkcryingkiss |
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.
Themes: | dyingfeardrinkingdeathfriendship |
Locations: | elevatorbarhospital |
Characters: | nursegirlboychildrendoctorfriendfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | pay phoneneighborbeerdrinktitle spoken by character |
Under the watchful eye of his mentor Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. Jack has reached a crossroads, however, as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted h …is relationship with his wife and kids. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. And as he reflects on his life, now Deputy Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save him. (Read More)
Themes: | couragedeath of fatherfeardrinkingdeathfriendship |
Locations: | barhospital |
Characters: | nursegirlboyfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | burn victimmachismocoffeedrinkunderweartitle spoken by characterdancing |
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 q …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: | drinkingfriendshipdeath |
Locations: | suvelevatortaxinightclubrestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | boyfriendfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | peace corpsdepartment storegymeatingneighborbeerliedrinkfoodunderweardancingcharacter name in titlekiss |
Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer damaged from a past relationship encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment whose awkwardness is perplexing. Beth and Adam's ultimate connection leads to a tricky relationship that exemplifies something universal: … truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fatherfeardrinkingjealousy |
Locations: | apartmentrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | childrenboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | eatingsubjective cameraneighborliedrinkfoodunderwearcryingtitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titlekiss |
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: | dyingfeardrinkingdeath |
Locations: | nightclubrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | nursegirlboychildrendoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | cakeeatingsubjective camerathongdrinkfoodunderwearcryingtitle spoken by characterdancingkiss |
Jon and Wendy Savage are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from the abuse of their abusive father, Lenny Savage. Suddenly, a call comes in that his girlfriend has died, he cannot care for himself with his dementia and her family is dumping him on his children. Despite t …he fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel obliged to take care of him. Now together, brother and sister must come to terms with the new and painful responsibilities with their father now affecting their lives even as they struggle with their own personal demons Lenny helped create. (Read More)
Themes: | dyingdeath of fatherdrinkingjealousydeath |
Locations: | taxirestaurantbarnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | nursechildrendoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | eatingsubjective cameraneighborliedrinkfoodcryingtitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titlekiss |
Themes: | feardrinkingdeathfriendship |
Locations: | taxiswimming poolrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | friendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | pay phonecoffeeeatingbikinidrinkfoodunderwearcryingtitle spoken by characterdancingcharacter name in titlekissnudity |
Everything is connected: an 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his lover; a thriller about a conspiracy at a nuclear power plant; a farce about a publisher in a nursing home; a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea; and the tale of a tribe living on post-apoc …alyptic Hawaii far in the future. (Read More)
Themes: | couragedyingdrinkingdeathfriendship |
Locations: | elevatortaxiswimming poolrestaurantbar |
Characters: | nursegirlboychildrendoctorfriendfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | stuck in an elevatorpay phoneeatingsubjective cameradrinkfoodcryingtitle spoken by characterkiss |
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: | dating |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | girlboychildrendoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | canoegymeatingfoodcryingdancingcharacter name in titlekiss |
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: | datingdeath of fatherjealousy |
Locations: | taxi driverelevatortaxirestaurantbarnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | childrendoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | liethongcryingdancingkiss |
In colorful, bustling modern-day Manhattan, Rafi Gardet, a beautiful 37-year-old photography producer reeling from a recent divorce, meets David Bloomberg, a handsome 23-year-old painter recently out of college. Rafi's therapist, Dr. Lisa Metzger, who is working to help Rafi overcome her fears of in …timacy, finds out that Rafi's new lover is--unfortunately for Lisa--her only son, David. Both David and Rafi must contend with their 14-year age gap, vastly different backgrounds and the demands of David's traditional mother. Despite their intense attraction, the charmed couple soon realizes that vastly different ages and backgrounds create much conflict. A Jewish hip-hop lover and closet painter who still lives with his grandparents, David has little in common with Rafi--a non-practicing Catholic from a wealthy, broken family who travels in the sophisticated, high-end world of fashion. (Read More)
Themes: | datingdrinkingdeathfriendship |
Locations: | elevatortaxinightclubswimming poolrestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | eatingbeerliedrinkfoodunderwearcryingdancingkiss |
Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot h …im, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void? (Read More)
Themes: | traumadyingdeath of fatherfearjealousydeathfriendship |
Locations: | apartmentelevatortaxibarhospital |
Characters: | boydoctorfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | pay phoneeatingsubjective camerathongfoodunderwearcryingdancingkiss |
The acerbic, hilarious Claire Bennett becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, she also grapples with her own, very raw personal tragedy.
Themes: | traumadrinkingfriendshipdeath |
Locations: | suvswimming poolrestaurantbar |
Characters: | maidnursefriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cakedrinkfoodtitle spoken by character |
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Themes: | dyingdatingdeath of fatherdrinkingdeathfriendship |
Locations: | elevatorhospital |
Characters: | girlboyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sarcasmeatingliedrinkfoodcrying |
Santiago's father, Hernan Munez, smuggled his penniless Mexican family over the US border to seek a better, albeit modest future in L.A. Eldest son Santiago dreams of more, like native Angelinos, then joining Hernan's gardening firm. His change arrives when a British ex-pro spots him as an exception …al soccer natural and promises he can arrange a real British talent scout to check him out. Although that falls trough and dad forbids it, Santiago accepts grandma's savings to try out with English premier league club Newcastle. Despite his asthma, he gets in and befriends the freshly transferred, desperately undisciplined bad boy star scorer, party animal Gavin Harris, who becomes his bothersome house-mate, a recipe for trouble and yet each's salvation. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fatherdrinkingdeath |
Locations: | taxinightclubswimming poolrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | nurseboyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | gymbeerdrinkunderwearcryingtitle spoken by characterdancingkiss |
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: | dyingdatingfeardrinkingjealousydeathfriendship |
Locations: | taxinightclubrestaurantbar |
Characters: | girlboyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendfather son relationship |
Story: | beerliedrinkunderwearcryingdancingkiss |
This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the social scene and forget about his 6 year relationship.
Themes: | couragedatingdrinkingfriendship |
Locations: | apartmentnightclubrestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriend |
Story: | machismocoffeebeerdrinkunderwearcryingdancingkiss |
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best fri …ends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingdeathfriendship |
Locations: | taxinightclubrestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | girldoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendhusband wife relationship |
Story: | machismobeerthongdrinkfoodunderwearcryingdancingcharacter name in titlekiss |
Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had … no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities. (Read More)
Themes: | drinking |
Locations: | elevatortaxinew york city |
Characters: | girlboydoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | frat packdepartment storecoffeeeatingliedrinkfoodunderweardancingcharacter name in titlenuditykiss |
William Miller is a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming-of-age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
Themes: | death of fatherdrinkingfriendship |
Locations: | elevatorswimming poolbarnew york city |
Characters: | boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendmother daughter relationship |
Story: | reference to the beatlesboston massachusettspay phoneeatingbeerdrinkfoodunderwearcryingdancingkiss |
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken … behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingfriendshipdeath |
Locations: | apartmentnightclubswimming poolrestaurantbar |
Characters: | nursedoctorfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | pay phoneeatingbeerliebikinidrinkfoodunderwearcryingdancingkiss |
In San Francisco, we follow Johnny, a man who has a girlfriend, Lisa, and also his best friend, Mark. Lisa has been cheating on Johnny with Mark and Johnny doesn't know! Will Johnny ever find out? Will Mark still be Johnny's best friend?
Themes: | drinkingjealousyfriendshipdeath |
Locations: | apartment |
Characters: | boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendmother daughter relationship |
Story: | superficialityimmaturityhypocrisycakemachismocoffeeeatingliedrinkunderwearcryingkiss |
Elizabeth Masterson, a dedicated doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When her sister with two kids set her up on a date, she gets into a tragic car crash and goes into a coma. Meanwhile, a landscape architect named David Abbott moves to San Francisco and, coincidentally, into E …lizabeth's apartment for rent. While at the apartment, Elizabeth's spirit haunts him. She doesn't remember who she is, who her family is or what she did - All that she remembered was her apartment and where everything was. To settle the arguments, David agrees to figure out who Elizabeth really is. When they get close to figuring out who she is, they eventually find love with one another and as they finally know who she really is, they learn that fate really has put them both together. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingfriendship |
Locations: | apartmentelevatorrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | nursegirldoctorfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | coffeeneighborthongdrinkunderwearkissnudity |
In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerin are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
Themes: | dyingfeardrinkingdeathfriendship |
Locations: | taxirestaurantbar |
Characters: | boychildrendoctorfriendhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | crutchesmachismosubjective camerabeerdrinkunderwearcryingdancing |
In Mexico City, late teen friends Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata are feeling restless as their respective girlfriends are traveling together through Europe before they all begin the next phase of their lives at college. At a lavish family wedding, Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa Cortes, the twenty-som …ething wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano, the two who have just moved to Mexico from Spain. Tenoch and Julio try to impress the beautiful Luisa by telling her that they will be taking a trip to the most beautiful secluded beach in Mexico called la Boca del Cielo (translated to Heaven's Mouth), the trip and the beach which in reality don't exist. When Luisa learns of Jano's latest marital indiscretion straight from the horse's mouth, she takes Tenoch and Julio's offer to go along on this road trip, meaning that Tenoch and Julio have to pull together quickly a road trip to a non-existent beach. They decide to head toward one suggested by their friend Saba, who seems a little confused himself of this beach's location. On the road trip, which ends up not being totally harmonious, the three go on a trip of discovery. For Luisa, she has to figure out what to do with her immediate future based on the news from Jano and a secret she is keeping. And Tenoch and Julio have to figure out what their friendship really means as they grow up. (Read More)
Themes: | datingfeardrinkingjealousyfriendshipdeath |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurant |
Characters: | doctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | immaturitycoffeeeatingsubjective camerabeerliethongbikinidrinkfoodunderwearcryingdancingkissnudity |
A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling up to London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date …. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget. There is drinking, truths, an old stalker class mate with a long standing crush, lost divorce papers, lost hopes, competitive indoor sports and yeah Jack finding out the truth that Nancy isn't his blind date. 'Man Up' a romantic comedy about taking chances, finding about being yourself, making decisions and rolling with the consequences. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingfriendship |
Locations: | taxibar |
Characters: | self imagefriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | immaturitysarcasmeatingbeerliedrinkfoodcryingdancingkiss |
In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept "phil …istines" - people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with "philistines". Their sons, the teenager Walt and the boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors. Frank drinks booze and smears with sperm the books in the library and a locker in the dress room of his school. The messed-up and insecure Walt uses Roger Water's song "Hey You" in a festival as if it was of his own, and breaks up with his girlfriend Sophie. Meanwhile Joan has an affair with Frank's tennis teacher Ivan and Bernard with his student Lili. (Read More)
Themes: | datingdrinkingfriendship |
Locations: | elevatorrestaurantnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | french kissnursegirlboydoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | eatingbeerliedrinkfoodunderwearcryingkiss |
England's Prince Albert must ascend the throne as 'King George VI' (qv), but he has a speech impediment. Knowing that the country needs her husband to be able to communicate effectively, Elizabeth hires Lionel Logue, an Australian actor and speech therapist, to help him overcome his stammer. An extr …aordinary friendship develops between the two men, as Logue uses unconventional means to teach the monarch how to speak with confidence. (Read More)
Themes: | dyingdeath of fatherfeardrinkingfriendshipdeath |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | self confidencenursedoctorfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | eatingsubjective camerabeerliedrinkfoodcryingtitle spoken by characterdancingkiss |
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: | datingdrinkingfriendship |
Locations: | taxi driverelevatortaxirestauranthospital |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfriendhusband wife relationship |
Story: | reference to the beatlespay phoneliedrinkfoodcryingkiss |