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Lucy's life consists of constant loneliness that is until she saves Peter's life. Now she is a part of his family, and with a strong heart and fate on her side, others begin to realize what a terrific person she is, especially Jack, Peter's brother. An extraordinarily true-to-life sequence of events β¦ begin to take place as Lucy and Jack become closer and learn more about each other and themselves than one would ever expect from such coincidental, yet believable events. (Read More)
Themes: | amnesiafalling in lovedatinglonelinessweddingpregnancychristmas |
Locations: | chicago illinoisapartmenttaxibicyclesnowchurchtrainnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipbrother brother relationshipcatholicnursefemale protagonistdoctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | winter |
Story: | snow globewedding invitationkissing under the mistletoegodfather godson relationshipman in a comawaking up from a comaslipping and falling on iceholiday seasoncatholic massice creamsingle womanhigh rise apartment buildingtaxi ridefeeding a cattalking to a cat β¦persian catpet catwedding giftchurch servicealmost hit by a traintrain platformexpress trainchristmas gatheringchristmas daychristmas giftchristmas presentchristmas treeunconventional romancereference to the chicago tribune the newspaperreference to chicago bullsslap on the back of one's headreference to moe howardreference to argentinareference to the chicago cubsreference to indianastepping in dog fecesromantic gesturechicago skylineemployee of the monthdonating bloodreference to nazisreference to dustin hoffmanone testiclereference to the three stoogesplain janedunkin' donutsschoolgirl crushbulletin boardfall downold fashionedrailway platformintensive care unitman faintingreference to italymashed potatoesfamily friendhospital visitheart monitorschool photodelusionalpoinsettiaengagedscantinselshifteggnogstepping in shitegg nogspecialistblood donorhit with a doorjellotv dinnerplaying pokergold watchhot dog vendorends with narrationreference to the popebegins with narrationlonelysecret admirersupervisorreference to paris francemustardmistletoehigh risefarewellgrandmapretendingheart conditionanswering machine messagefamily photographdoughnutposing for a photographcarpethot dog standsmilefunfamily gatheringobituarygodfatherskepticismsnowglobefianceman in a wheelchaircolleaguerocking chairsleeping on a couchspinsterbreast implantglobestairwellreference to john waynebow tieloudspeakerpencilkiss on the lipsvotedoormanfurniturefamily homeinvitationchick flickhospital roomillinoissofafamily businessbusiness cardinfatuationbroken windowsleepsquirreltaking a photographsaving a lifefianceememory lossengagement ringplaying cardssermonchildhood memoryphoto albumparentslandlordfamily dinnerbriefcaselove at first sightfemale leadshoppingimpostormisunderstandingshoespassportmilknew year's evecomaanswering machinecard gamefireplaceiceholidaybrotheractor shares first name with charactermistaken identitymarriage proposalaccidentsubwayfour word titlewomanbasketballneighborcattelephone callpartytitle spoken by characterkiss (See All) |
Leonard Kraditor is a burned-out case, living with his immigrant parents after his fiancee left him, helping out at their Brooklyn dry cleaners, taking photographs, at loose ends, suicidal. In quick succession, he meets two women: Sandra, the daughter of his parents' business associates, frank, dire β¦ct, sensual, Jewish like Leonard; and, his neighbor Michelle, mercurial, rootless, fun, blond, unattainable. Michelle is in love with a married man and cries on Leonard's shoulder; Sandra wants to save him. Is Leonard willing to risk losing Sandra's fidelity for the moments Michelle's moods swing toward him? Can this end well? (Read More)
Locations: | apartmentnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | winter |
Story: | taxi ridefunfamily businessfianceeengagement ringparentslove at first sightnew year's evemarriage proposalsubwayneighbortelephone callpartykiss |
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 β¦ 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: | lonelinesswedding |
Locations: | chicago illinoisapartmentsnowtrain |
Characters: | nursedoctorfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | ice creamlonelysleeping on a couchengagement ringplaying cardsphoto albumshoppingshoesmilkwomanbasketballtelephone callpartykiss |
Brad and Kate have been together three years, in love, having fun, doing all sorts of things together with no intention of marriage or children. Christmas morning, they're on their way to Fiji, having told their two sets of divorced parents that they're off to do charity work. Through a fluke, they β¦have no choice but to visit each of their four idiosyncratic parents. As the day progresses, Brad and Kate remember growing up, each learns more about the other, and Kate realizes that her life may not be as good as it could be. Do they know each other well enough to weather the storms families bring? (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | holiday seasonchristmas daychristmas giftchristmas presentfunhospital roomphoto albumparentstelephone calltitle spoken by character |
The needy Gigi Haim is a young woman seeking her prince charming somewhere amongst her unsuccessful dates. After dating estate agent Conor Barry, Gigi anxiously expects to receive a phone call from him. However Conor never calls her. Gigi decides to go to the bar where he frequents to see him, but s β¦he meets his friend Alex who works there. They become friends and Alex helps Gigi to interpret the subtle signs given out by her dates. (Read More)
Themes: | datingwedding |
Locations: | apartment |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | single womankiss on the lipschick flickinfatuationengagement ringmarriage proposalwomantelephone callparty |
In late 1951, Eilis Lacey, a young Irish girl, emigrates to Brooklyn. Sponsored by Father Flood, a priest from her native town Enniscorthy, she is assured to find a full-time job there. But the early days are tough, seasickness being soon replaced by loneliness and homesickness, two feelings all the β¦ more acutely felt by Eilis for having had to leave behind her widowed mother and her dear sister Rose. She nevertheless little by little manages to find her footing by adapting to her job as a salesgirl, by studying bookkeeping at Brooklyn College as well as with a little help from both Father Flood and Mrs. Kehoe, the owner of the boarding school she now lives in. And not only does graduation follow but love shows its face in Tony, an Italian-American plumber, full of adoration and respect for her. They end up marrying, although keeping the thing secret. It is at that point that tragedy strikes inciting Eilis to return to Enniscorthy to support her mother morally. And there a strange thing happens : she gradually gets lured by the charms of her native place, going far as to let herself be wooed by Jim Farrell, a young local. (Read More)
Themes: | falling in lovedatinglonelinessweddingchristmas |
Locations: | apartmenttaxisnowtrainnew york city |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipcatholicfemale protagonistmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | winter |
Story: | church servicechristmas treeengagement ringfamily dinnermarriage proposalwomantelephone calltitle spoken by characterkiss |
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: | weddingpregnancy |
Locations: | apartmenttaxibicycletrainnew york city |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipnursefather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | answering machine messagefamily businesslandlordbriefcaseanswering machinemarriage proposalsubwayneighbortelephone callpartykiss |
It is Christmas time and the McCallister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But the youngest in the family named Kevin got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz and was sent to his room which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the next morning, while the rest of the fam β¦ily was in a rush to make it to the airport on time, they completely forgot about Kevin who now has the house all to himself. Being home alone was fun for Kevin, having a pizza all to himself, jumping on his parents' bed, and making a mess. Then, Kevin discovers about two burglars, Harry and Marv, about to rob his house on Christmas Eve. Kevin acts quickly by wiring his own house with makeshift booby traps to stop the burglars and to bring them to justice. (Read More)
Themes: | lonelinesschristmas |
Locations: | chicago illinoisapartmentsnowchurchtrain |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipbrother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | christmas treetv dinnerfunillinoisholidaybrotherneighbortelephone calltitle spoken by character |
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 β¦ honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her. (Read More)
Themes: | lonelinesswedding |
Locations: | taxichurchnew york city |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | engagedchick flickengagement ringphoto albumlove at first sightwomanbasketballtelephone callpartytitle spoken by characterkiss |
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)
Themes: | weddingpregnancychristmas |
Locations: | chicago illinoisapartmentsnowhospital |
Characters: | nursedoctorfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | christmas treechick flickfireplacemarriage proposalsubwaypartykiss |
A Jewish male nurse plans to ask his live-in girl friend to marry him. However, he learns that her strict father expects to be asked for his daughter's hand before she can accept. Thus begins the visit from Hell as the two travel to meet Mom and Dad, who turns out to be former CIA with a lie detecto β¦r in the basement. Coincidentally, a sister also has announced her wedding to a young doctor. Of course everything that can go wrong, does, including the disappearance of Dad's beloved Himalayan cat, Jinxie. (Read More)
Themes: | wedding |
Locations: | chicago illinoishospital |
Characters: | nursedoctorfather daughter relationship |
Story: | pet catstepping in shitengagement ringparentsmisunderstandingmarriage proposalcat |
When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, and a war begins between all the well-known families leading to insolence, deportation, murder and revenge, and ends with the favorabl β¦e successor being finally chosen. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingchristmas |
Locations: | churchnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipcatholicnursefather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | godfather godson relationshipgodfatherlove at first sightwomancattelephone calltitle spoken by characterkiss |
Four high-tech industrial spies, Beaupre, Alice, Jernigan and Unger, steal a top-secret microchip, and, to fool customs, hide it in a remote-control toy car. Through a baggage mix-up at the airport, grumpy old Mrs.Hess gets the toy and gives it to her neighbor, 8-year-old Alex. Spies want to get the β¦ toy back before their clients get angry and decide to burglarize every house at Alex's street to find the chip. But Alex is prepared for their visit... (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | chicago illinoisbicycle |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | illinoismisunderstandingfireplaceiceactor shares first name with characterbasketballneighborcat |
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: | pregnancy |
Locations: | chicago illinoischurchhospital |
Characters: | catholicnursedoctorfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | waking up from a comaintensive care unitcomaanswering machineneighbortelephone calltitle spoken by character |
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 β¦, 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: | lonelinesspregnancy |
Locations: | snowchurchhospital |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipdoctorfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | winter |
Story: | church servicebrothermarriage proposalneighbortelephone callparty |
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: | falling in lovedatingwedding |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | family photographfamily dinnerbrotherwomantelephone callkiss |
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: | weddingpregnancy |
Locations: | bicyclesnowchurchtrainhospital |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipnursedoctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | almost hit by a trainhospital visitsaving a lifemarriage proposalneighborcattelephone callkiss |
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 β¦ 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: | datinglonelinesswedding |
Locations: | chicago illinois |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | ice creamstepping in shitfianceeengagement ringbrothermarriage proposaltelephone calltitle spoken by characterkiss |
There's a right way to be single, a wrong way to be single, and then...there's Alice. And Robin. Lucy. Meg. Tom. David. New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, be it a love connection, a hook-up, or something in the middle. And somewhere between the teasing texts and one-nigh β¦t stands, what these unmarrieds all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love. Sleeping around in the city that never sleeps was never so much fun. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancychristmas |
Locations: | apartmenttaxinew york cityhospital |
Story: | single womanchristmas treelonelyfunchick flickwomantelephone callkiss |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin β¦d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
Themes: | datingweddingchristmas |
Locations: | taxibicyclesnowtrainnew york city |
Characters: | nursefemale protagonistfather daughter relationship |
Story: | christmas presentchristmas treesmileengagement ringfireplacemarriage proposalwomantelephone callkiss |
'Louisa May Alcott' (qv)'s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of ho β¦w the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancychristmas |
Locations: | snownew york city |
Characters: | female protagonistdoctorfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | winter |
Story: | pet catchristmas treefireplacemarriage proposalneighborcatparty |
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days.
Themes: | falling in loveloneliness |
Locations: | apartmentsnowtrain |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | stairwellchildhood memoryshoesfour word titlewoman |
After his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin and his 8-year-old son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie's death. Eighteen months later Sam is still grieving and can't sleep. Although Jonah misses his mother, he wants his father to get a new wife despit β¦e Sam having not even contemplated dating again. On Christmas Eve, Sam (on Jonah's initiative) ends up pouring his heart out on a national radio talk show about his magical and perfect marriage to Maggie, and how much he still misses her. Among the many women who hear Sam's story and fall in love with him solely because of it is Annie Reed, a Baltimore-based newspaper writer. Annie's infatuation with Sam's story and by association Sam himself is despite being already engaged. But Annie's relationship with her straight-laced fiance Walter is unlike her dream love life in the movie _An Affair to Remember (1957)_ (qv). She even writes to Sam proposing they meet atop the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day. Back in Seattle, Sam has received hundreds of letters from women wanting to meet him. Jonah is excited by one letter in particular from Baltimore and will do whatever he needs to to get his father and Annie together. However, old fashioned Sam wants his future love life to be based on meeting a woman the traditional way and he, in turn, becomes infatuated with an unknown woman he spots a few times in Seattle. Will magic happen twice in Sam's life, and if so will it be with thisβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | datingloneliness |
Locations: | chicago illinoisnew york city |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Story: | engagedfiancechick flickbusiness cardinfatuationsleepfianceenew year's evewomantitle spoken by character |
It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is d β¦ue soon. (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | family relationships |
Period: | winter |
Story: | christmas treeegg nogjellofamily gatheringbroken windowsquirrelfamily dinnershoppingneighbor |
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 β¦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: | pregnancy |
Locations: | taxisnowchurchnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | parentslove at first sightsubwaybasketballtelephone callpartytitle spoken by characterkiss |
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: | datinglonelinesschristmas |
Locations: | snowchurchhospital |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipcatholicdoctorfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | ice creamchristmas presentchristmas treekiss on the lipschildhood memorynew year's evefireplacetelephone callpartykiss |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the β¦concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingpregnancy |
Locations: | taxisnownew york cityhospital |
Characters: | female protagonistdoctormother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | ice creamengagedfiancedoormantelephone callpartykiss |
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)
Themes: | falling in loveweddingpregnancychristmas |
Locations: | trainhospital |
Characters: | catholicnursedoctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | ice creamchristmas presentchristmas treelove at first sightmarriage proposalneighborcattelephone callpartykiss |
When a 'Single White Female' places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she's just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.
Locations: | apartmentnew york city |
Characters: | female protagonist |
Story: | ice creampet catbusiness cardfianceeengagement ringshoppinganswering machinemistaken identitywomanneighbor |
Themes: | datingpregnancychristmas |
Locations: | taxihospital |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipdoctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | ice creamanswering machinemarriage proposalsubwayfour word titlewomantelephone calltitle spoken by characterkiss |
Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is β¦both Simons exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simons horror, James slowly starts taking over his life. (Read More)
Themes: | loneliness |
Locations: | apartmenttrainhospital |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | answering machine messagehospital roombriefcaseshoesmistaken identitysubwaywomanneighbortelephone call |
A man, Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend Clementine underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realizes that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Themes: | amnesialoneliness |
Locations: | snowtrain |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | snow globeinfatuationchildhood memorylove at first sighticesubwaywomantelephone callpartytitle spoken by character |
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: | wedding |
Locations: | bicyclehospital |
Characters: | nursedoctorfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | ice creamchick flickfianceememory lossphoto albumparentsfamily dinnerlove at first sightmarriage proposalwomankiss |
Divorcee Scott Calvin is disgusted to learn that his ex and her husband have tried - and failed - to break it easy to their 6-year-old son Charlie that Santa isn't real. On Christmas Eve, Scott reads The Night Before Christmas... then receives an unexpected visitor on his roof. When he's startled by β¦ Scott's calling out and falls, the Santa impersonator disappears, leaving only an 8-reindeer sleigh and a suit with instructions to put it on if he's involved in an accident. Scott does, and is transported around the town dropping gifts through chimneys until he's taken to the North Pole and informed by a group who claim they're elves that he is now Santa. Charlie is proud of his dad's new job, though Scott's convinced it's a dream. Until his hair turns white, his beard refuses to stay shaved, he gains weight inexplicably, even for his sudden love of junk food... Now he's accepted it, there's just one problem: how to keep it secret from his disbelieving family? (Read More)
Locations: | chicago illinoissnow |
Characters: | doctorfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | holiday seasonchristmas daychristmas treeegg nogsnowglobebusiness cardfireplaceaccident |
In 1902, in London, the spinster Beatrix Potter lives with her bourgeois parents. Her snobbish mother, Helen Potter, had introduced several bachelors to Beatrix until she was twenty years old, but she had turned them all down. Beatrix Potter has been drawing animals and making up stories about them β¦since she was a child, but her parents have never recognized her as an artist. One day, Miss Potter offers her stories to a print house, and a rookie publisher, Norman Warne, who is delighted with her tales, publishes her first children's book. This success leads Norman to publish two other books, and Miss Potter meanwhile becomes the best friend of his single sister Millie Warne. Soon Beatrix and Norman fall in love with each other, but Helen does not accept that her daughter would marry a "trader". However, Beatrix's father Rupert Potter proposes that his daughter spend the summer with his wife and him in their country house in Lake District, and if she is still interested in Norman after the summertime, he would bless their marriage. When Miss Potter stops receiving letters from Norman, she is disappointed. Then one day she receives a letter from Millie explaining what had happened to Norman. (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfemale protagonistfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | single womanchristmas presentchristmas treespinsterengagement ringchildhood memoryparentsfireplacemarriage proposalpartykiss |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
Themes: | loneliness |
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | ice creamfarewellplaying cardsparentsbriefcasecomacard gameholidaytelephone call |
Following the death of his father in Mexico, Stephane Miroux, a shy insecure young man, agrees to come to Paris to draw closer to his widowed mother Christine. He lands a boring job at a calendar-making firm and falls in love with his charming neighbor Stephanie. But conquering her is no bed of rose β¦s for the young man and the only solution he finds to put up with the difficulties he is going through is escape into a dream world... (Read More)
Themes: | dating |
Locations: | apartmenttaxi |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | broken windowsleeplandlordbriefcaseshoesanswering machinemarriage proposalneighbortelephone callpartykiss |
Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his mother's immediate reaction is that he'll put his eye out. He then decides on a perfect theme for his teacher but her reaction is like his. He fantasi β¦zes about what it would be like to be Red Ryder and catch the bad guys. When the big day arrives he gets lots of present under the tree including a lovely gift from his aunt that his mother just adores. But what about the BB gun? (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | christmas daychristmas presentchristmas treefamily homechildhood memoryfamily dinnertelephone call |
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 β¦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: | christmas |
Locations: | taxisnowtrainnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | nursedoctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | pet catchristmas treeanswering machine messageanswering machinebrotherneighborcattelephone calltitle spoken by characterkiss |
Frances Mayes is a San Francisco-based literature professor, literary reviewer and author, who is struggling in writing her latest book. Her outwardly perfect and stable life takes an unexpected turn when her husband files for divorce. He wants to marry the woman with whom he is having an affair. Fr β¦ances supported her husband financially as he was writing his own book, and he sues her for alimony despite her financial difficulties. And he wants to keep the house. Frances eventually accepts her best friend Patti's offer of a vacation, a gay tour of Tuscany which Patti and her lesbian partner Grace originally purchased for themselves before Patti found out that she is pregnant. The gift is a means to escape dealing with the divorce, from which Patti feels Frances may never recover emotionally without some intervention. Feeling that Patti's assessment may be correct in that she has too much emotional baggage ever to return to San Francisco, Frances, while in Tuscany, impulsively ditches the tour to purchase an aged villa, which ends up being a fixer-upper. Frances has many obstacles in eking out a productive and happy life in her new surroundings, that happy life which she hopes will eventually include rediscovering romantic love. In a discussion with sympathetic real estate agent Signor Martini, Frances outlines what emotionally she wants to accomplish with the villa, despite none of those items in a substantive material sense currently being in her life. In response, Martini tβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | weddingpregnancychristmas |
Locations: | apartmentsnowchurchtrain |
Characters: | catholicfemale protagonistfamily relationships |
Story: | ice creamchick flicklandlordlove at first sightwomanneighborcatkiss |
Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who enlist into the Army to fight in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela, and their wedding party also serves as the men's farewell party. After some time and many horrors, the three friends fall in the hand β¦s of the Vietcong and are brought to a prison camp in which they are forced to play Russian roulette against each other. Michael makes it possible for them to escape, but they soon get separated again. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingpregnancy |
Locations: | taxibicyclehospital |
Characters: | catholicnursedoctorfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | mustardfarewellreference to john waynemarriage proposalwomanbasketballtelephone callpartykiss |
During childhood, Fred Claus suffered his younger brother Nick's saintliness. Jump ahead: Fred is a fast-talking, genial but self-centered guy in Chicago looking for $50,000 to open an off-track-betting shop. When one scam goes awry, he calls Nick at the North Pole for a loan: Nick will give him the β¦ money only if Fred comes up to help a few days with the Christmas rush. After his girlfriend dumps him, Fred heads north. Santa's facing an audit from an efficiency expert, and it's not pleasant. Fred's job is to review charts and determine who's naughty and who's nice. Is there any fraternal feeling left, can either learn from the other, and what about Santa getting fired? (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | chicago illinoissnow |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | christmas presentchristmas treesnowglobefireplaceholidaybrother |
Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to Greg's parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name their son Gayl β¦ord M. Focker? (Read More)
Themes: | weddingpregnancy |
Locations: | chicago illinoishospital |
Characters: | nursefather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | pet catphoto albumparentsshoppingcat |
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 h β¦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: | lonelinessweddingchristmas |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | winter |
Story: | christmas giftchristmas treesecret admirermistletoelove at first sightholidaymarriage proposalwomantelephone callpartytitle spoken by characterkiss |
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 β¦. 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: | falling in love |
Locations: | taxibicycletrain |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | single womanlove at first sightmisunderstandingmistaken identitywomantelephone callpartykiss |
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: | lonelinessweddingpregnancychristmas |
Locations: | taxibicycletrain |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipdoctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | winter |
Story: | family dinnerholidaytelephone callkiss |
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, then she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pur β¦suing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance. (Read More)
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | female protagonistfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | chick flickfianceebrothermarriage proposalaccidentwoman |
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: | christmas |
Locations: | taxinew york city |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | christmas treecolleaguevoteinvitationchick flickfianceemistaken identitysubwaywomanparty |
Michele seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michele's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious β¦ and thrilling game-a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancychristmas |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipcatholicfemale protagonistmother son relationship |
Story: | reference to the popecomawomanneighborcatpartytitle spoken by character |
In London, Iris Simpkins writes a wedding column in a newspaper and nurtures an unrequited love for her colleague Jasper Bloom. Near Christmas, she is informed that Jasper is engaged to marry another colleague, and her life turns upside down. In Los Angeles, the movie-trailers maker Amanda Woods has β¦ just split with her unfaithful boyfriend Ethan and wants to forget him. Through a house exchange website, Amanda impulsively swaps her mansion for Iris' cottage in Surrey for the holidays. While in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris' brother and book editor Graham and they fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Iris meets her new next door neighbor the ninety year old screenplay writer Arthur, who helps her retrieve her self-esteem, and the film composer Miles, with whom she falls in love. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingchristmas |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | christmas treeengagedcolleaguelove at first sightnew year's eveholidaybrotherneighbortelephone call |