Archive for the 'Romance' Category

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

By admin on July 22, 2009

Summary:
The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Kaun Banega Crorepati?” (2000) (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) [...]

Table for Three (2009)

By admin on July 21, 2009

Summary:
Scott Teller’s life is turned upside down when he meets Ryan and Mary, a seemingly perfect couple who move into his apartment and his life. He quickly becomes their third wheel. But when Scott meets the girl of his dreams in Leslie he believes that Ryan and Mary are intentionally sabotaging his chances with her [...]

Reflections In the Mud (2009)

By admin on July 21, 2009

Summary:
Leslee Williams is a photojournalist who, despite international recognition and personal beauty, finds romance less than successful. Her hilarious friend, Ray, encourages her as best he can. A chance meeting with Jonathan Powell, a long-lost high school acquaintance, brings love unpredictably into her life. Everything is going fine until one weekend when Jonathan doesn’t return [...]

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2008)

By admin on July 21, 2009

Summary:
Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamor. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of [...]

Wuthering Heights (2009)

By admin on July 17, 2009

Summary:
Braving her father Edgar Linton’s warning not to cross the estate border, young Catherine discovers her charming, but sickly cousin, and the manly Hareton are the heartlessly scorned and abused sons of wealthy Heatcliff on the Earnshaw estate. This launches a flashback how Heathcliff was raised as Cathy’s best friend by her kind father, Mr. [...]

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

By admin on July 13, 2009

Summary:
Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is a notorious photographer who has a bad boy reputation of loving beautiful women and dumping them when they fall in love with him. Beautiful models and celebrities flock to his studio to get their picture taken, usually in lingerie, and throw themselves at him. Conner is so overloaded with women [...]

Coco Chanel (2008)

By admin on July 12, 2009

Summary:
“Coco Chanel” is the rags-to-riches tale charting the rise of one of the most influential fashion icons of the 20th century. From her humble childhood in a French orphanage, through her early days as a young dressmaker’s assistant, to her passionate and tragic love with a dashing Englishman, and ultimately to her success as a [...]

Running on Empty Dreams (2009)

By admin on July 12, 2009

Summary:
Young and athletic Sydney Harris (Kathleen Benner) finds out that she has six months to live unless she and her husband (Jose Rosete) can come up with the money for her medical treatment. Sounds simple enough; get the money, save her life. But her underpaid, working class husband can’t afford the treatment. And time is [...]

The Guitar (2008)

By admin on July 9, 2009

Summary:
“The Guitar” is a story of one woman’s spiritual, emotional and creative transformation. One morning, “mouse-burger” Melody “Mel” Wilder is diagnosed with a terminal illness, fired from her thankless job and abandoned by her boyfriend. With nothing left to lose, given two months to live, she spends her entire life’s savings renting an empty palatial [...]

The Young Victoria (2009)

By admin on July 8, 2009

Summary:
The Young Victoria is intended to blow away the cobwebby image of the grumpy old Empress in her widow’s weeds and show us instead the vibrant, brilliant younger woman who was very much amused by the glorious freedom she suddenly assumed at the age of 18. As a teenage queen, she could savour the delicious [...]

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