Sep 13
Plot:
Alex Rose (Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Barrymore) are a young, professional, New York couple in search of their dream home. When they finally find the perfect Brooklyn brownstone they are giddy with anticipation. The duplex is a dream come true, complete with multiple fireplaces, except for one thing: Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essel), the cranky old lady who lives on the rent-controlled top floor. Assuming she is elderly and ill, they take the apartment but their hopes are quickly dashed when they realize that Mrs. Connelly is an energetic senior who enjoys watching her television at top volume day in and day out and rehearsing in a brass band. A writer, Alex is attempting to finish his novel against a looming deadline. However, each day as he begins to write, he is interrupted by Mrs. Connelly’s numerous demands and requests and what begins as a nuisance quickly escalates into an all-out war. When Nancy loses her job and the pair are trapped at home together with Mrs. Connelly, their rage turns to homicidal fantasy as they plot ways to get rid of their no-good neighbour…
IMDB rating: 5.60 out of 10.0 (8981 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
ambulance,
boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship,
chocolate,
christmas,
coffee-shop,
computer,
con-artist,
duplex,
fall-down-stairs,
fiancé-fiancée-relationship,
fire,
fired,
firetruck,
gun,
harpoon,
hitman,
hospital,
house-warming,
irish-american,
landlord-tenant-relationship,
laptop,
laptop-computer,
manhattan,
manhattan-new-york,
metro,
money,
moving-van,
music-rehearsal,
new-york,
new-york-city,
novel,
novelist,
old-woman,
parrot,
plumber,
policeman,
popcorn,
real-estate-agent,
rug,
scam,
starbucks,
television,
tenant,
twist-in-the-end,
writer,
writer's-block,
writing
Sep 13
Plot:
This is the sequel to “Romancing the Stone” where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the “jewel”. Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another… What is the story of this “jewel”?
IMDB rating: 5.70 out of 10.0 (7573 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
arabian,
author,
blockbuster,
boat-ride,
boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship,
camel,
chase-on-train-roof,
con-artist,
dagger,
desert,
destiny,
dictator,
donkey,
escape,
exploding-airplane,
exploding-boat,
exploding-building,
fall-from-height,
female-nudity,
fight-on-train-roof,
fighter-jet,
fire,
fisticuffs,
ghetto-blaster,
greek-island,
helicopter,
holy-man,
jogging,
jump-from-height,
knife-throwing,
magician,
middle-east,
motorcycle,
nomad,
novelist,
pirate,
prisoner,
reception,
rescue,
road,
romance-novelist,
sandstorm,
sequel,
sufi,
swashbuckler,
sword-fight,
tank,
title-spoken-by-character,
train,
train-ride,
tribal-dance,
typewriter,
tyrant,
water-skiing,
wedding,
wedding-party,
writer,
writer's-block,
yacht
Sep 12
Plot:
Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris’ now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club’s highest paid star and the city’s most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.
IMDB rating: 7.70 out of 10.0 (69224 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
1890s,
1900s,
absinthe,
acting,
anachronistic,
apartment,
attempted-murder,
attempted-rape,
bittersweet,
bohemian,
cancan,
cancan-dance,
courtesan,
dance,
dance-hall,
death-threat,
dinner,
doomed-romance,
dream,
duke,
dying,
eiffel-tower-paris,
fat-suit,
fetish,
flashback-sequence,
france,
freedom,
french-maid,
gun,
india,
indian-music,
investor,
jealousy,
la-bohème,
la-dame-aux-camellias,
la-traviata,
liberty,
maharajah,
maid-uniform,
midget,
mistaken-identity,
moulin-rouge,
narcolepsy,
nightclub,
no-opening-credits,
orpheus-and-eurydice,
parallel-story,
paris-france,
play-director,
play-rewrite,
play-within-film,
playwright,
poet,
poetry,
pop-music,
postmodernism,
prostitution,
rape,
red-curtain,
reverse-footage,
rich-snob,
rock-music,
satire,
schoolgirl,
schoolgirl-uniform,
seduction,
stage,
surreal,
tango,
terminal-illness,
theater,
title-spoken-by-character,
told-in-flashback,
toulouse-lautrec,
tragedy,
true-love,
tuberculosis,
turn-of-the-century,
windmill,
woman-in-uniform,
writer,
writer's-block,
writer-hero,
writing