Tag: Maria Bello
Posted on July 1, 2013 |
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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Run-down Precinct 13 is closing its doors forever. But everything changes when a high-security prison transport bus arrives with some of Detroit's most lethal prisoners. Soon, the only thing more dangerous than the criminals on the inside is the rogue gang on the outside. And if they're going to survive the night, two men on opposite sides of the law will have to work together to battle an enemy who doesn't follow the code of cop or criminal.
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, Maria Bello, Ja Rule, Drea de Matteo
Director: Jean-Francois Richet
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Posted on June 6, 2013 |
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Payback (1999)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Porter's a ruthless thug who goes after what he wants with a vengeance. After he's been double-crossed by his partner and wife, he wants some "payback" for the betrayal he's endured and the money he's owed. However after Porter learns that his partner has used the money to join "The Outfit," he decides that they owe him instead. With the aid of a prostitute he used to work for, he pursues what he's entitled to. The theatrical version and director's cut share the same material. Although they are similar, the endings are not. Porter's more edgy, brutal and less humorous in the director's cut. Also the film's color is less noir-suggestive and more dynamic looking. Some of the actors have changed too. Other changes include a score replacement, narration removal, and no softening quips. Either way, 'Payback' is a tour de force of singleminded unfettered brutality!
Starring: Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer, Bill Duke
Director: Brian Helgeland
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Posted on February 24, 2013 |
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Auto Focus (2002)
Biography | Crime | Drama
In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes, a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his…
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman
Director: Paul Schrader
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Posted on February 3, 2013 |
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Towelhead / Nothing Is Private (2007)
Drama
Against the backdrop of the first Gulf War, Jasira Maroun is 13, physically well developed but naïve and unable to say no. As puberty arrives, her mother sends her from Syracuse to Houston to her curt, up-tight, Lebanese-born father. Over the next few months, Jasira must navigate her father's strict indifference, her discovery of sexual pleasure, the casual racism of a neighbor boy and her classmates, the sexual advances of the boy's father, the proffered friendship of a pregnant neighbor, and her attraction to Thomas, an African-American classmate whom her father forbids her to see. Things happen to her, but can she take responsibility and control, or is tragedy inevitable?
Starring: Summer Bishil, Aaron Eckhart, Peter Macdissi, Chris Messina, Maria Bello, Carrie Preston, Chase Ellison
Director: Alan Ball
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Tags: Aaron Eckhart, Alan Ball, Carrie Preston, Chase Ellison, Chris Messina, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi, Summer Bishil
Posted on January 21, 2013 |
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Grown Ups (2010)
Comedy
Five friends and former teammates reunite years later to honor the passing of their childhood basketball coach. With their wives and kids in tow, they spend the Fourth of July holiday weekend together at the lake house where they celebrated their championship years earlier. Picking up where they left off, they discover why growing older doesn't mean growing up.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Rob Schneider
Director: Dennis Dugan
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Posted on December 5, 2012 |
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Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Comedy | Drama
The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs. Nick's son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Cameron Bright, Maria Bello, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, Rob Lowe, William H. Macy, Robert Duvall
Director: Jason Reitman
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Tags: Aaron Eckhart, Adam Brody, Cameron Bright, Jason Reitman, Katie Holmes, Maria Bello, Rob Lowe, Robert Duvall, Sam Elliott, William H. Macy
Posted on December 4, 2012 |
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The Yellow Handkerchief (2008)
Drama | Romance
One lazy afternoon in a backwater Louisiana town, Martine takes a leap into an unfamiliar convertible. The driver, Gordy, an awkward young itinerant who eyed her in the diner earlier, isn't displeased to find this pretty sylph in his front seat. Soon they meet Brett, a laconic, humble man just released from prison. Martine isn't keen on going solo with Gordy, and now it's raining cats and dogs, so she invites Brett along, and the unlikely trio sets out, each person unsure of the destination. What ensues is a journey through the lush green byways of rural Louisiana and into the depths of these characters' souls.
Starring: William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne
Director: Udayan Prasad
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Posted on November 2, 2012 |
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Coyote Ugly (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
Violet Sanford, a girl in her early 20s, goes to the Big Apple to pursue a dream of becoming a songwriter. While waiting for her dream to come true, she lands a day job as a bar maid at a nightclub called Coyote Ugly, the city's newest hot spot. Here, the all-female employees cater to the largely male clientele by treating them with a good deal of sass. As Violet starts work, her aspirations are at least temporarily sidelined by the notoriety she receives at the bar. She also meets the team of sexy, resourceful female employees, who provoke the clientele and press with their mischief. Includes both the theatrical and unrated extended versions.
Starring: Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, John Goodman, Melanie Lynskey, Bridget Moynahan
Director: David McNally
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Posted on September 22, 2012 |
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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
As five women and one enigmatic man meet to discuss the works of Jane Austen, they find their love lives playing out in a 21st century version of her novels. Sylvia, is shocked when her husband Daniel, leaves her after 20 plus years and three children. Jocelyn, her unmarried best friend, distracts herself from her unacknowledged loneliness by breeding dogs. Prudie is a young French teacher, in possession of a worthy husband yet distracted by persistent fantasies about sex with another man. The many times married Bernadette develops a yearning for one more chance at happiness. Beautiful, risk-taking Allegra, Sylvia and Daniel's lesbian daughter, has quit talking to her lover. And Grigg, a young science fiction fan and computer whiz, seems horribly both out of place and obliviously at ease as the only man to be invited into the book circle.
Starring: Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy, Marc Blucas, Maggie Grace, Jimmy Smits, Kevin Zegers, Lynn Redgrave
Director: Robin Swicord
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Tags: Amy Brenneman, Emily Blunt, Hugh Dancy, Jimmy Smits, Kathy Baker, Kevin Zegers, Lynn Redgrave, Maggie Grace, Marc Blucas, Maria Bello, Robin Swicord
Posted on May 18, 2012 |
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Duets (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. There's the struggling singer who dreams of making it to the big time, a frustrated salesman who ends up on an unexpected road trip, the dysfunctional family performers which includes a con-artist and his long lost daughter, and an escaped convict with the voice of an angel. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come together for a blow-out sing-off.
Starring: Huey Lewis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Giamatti, Maria Bello, Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman
Director: Bruce Paltrow
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Posted on November 14, 2011 |
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Carjacked (2011)
Thriller
During a routine stop at a gas station, Lorraine (Bello), a vulnerable single mom, and her 5 year-old son (Connor Hill) are overtaken by Roy (Dorff), a vicious bank robber on the run. He forces her to drive to meet up with his accomplice who still has money from the heist. Possibly facing not only her death, but her son's, Lorraine's fight for survival summons up an inner strength and courage that she never thought she had.
Starring: Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff, Connor Hill, Joanna Cassidy
Director: John Bonito
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Posted on September 4, 2011 |
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
A despotic Emperor (Jet Li) in 50 B.C. is punished for his evil when a witch lays a curse on him, turning him and his army into terra cotta for all time. Forward to 1946, where Rick (Brendan Fraser) and Evelyn (Maria Bello) have retired to Oxfordshipre, England, having worked as British spies during WWII. They?re offered one last mission from the Foreign Office. Their assignment: courier a precious artifact back to the museum in Shanghai, China. Back in Asia: China is in turmoil but Jonathan (John Hannah) owns an Egyptian-themed bar in Shanghai. Unbeknownst to his parents, now grown-up Alex O'Connell (Luke Ford) is following in the family business as a young archaeologist on a dig in north-central China. He makes the discovery of a lifetime: the tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which has been buried for millennia. The Emperor's monument is transported back to Shanghai where another plot is in motion: a military zealot intends to awaken the Emperor and aid him in the re- conquest of China and the raising of his terra cotta army of ten thousand clay warriors.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, Luke Ford, Michelle Yeoh
Director: Rob Cohen
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Posted on August 25, 2011 |
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Beautiful Boy (2010)
Drama
A married couple copes with life after their 18 year-old son kills several people and himself at his college campus.
Starring: Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Kyle Gallner, Logan South, Bruce French, Austin Nichols
Director: Shawn Ku
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Posted on August 8, 2011 |
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Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A happy couple with a seemingly perfect life has their daughter abducted. Over the course of a day, the kidnapper dismantles the family's lives with brutal efficiency.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Maria Bello, Gerard Butler
Director: Mike Barker
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Posted on August 4, 2011 |
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
From all outward appearances, Pippa Lee leads a charmed existence. She is the devoted wife of an accomplished publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of two grown children, and a trusted friend and confidant to all who cross her path. But as Pippa dutifully follows her husband to a new life in a staid Connecticut retirement community, her idyllic world and the persona she has built over the course of her marriage will be put to the ultimate test. In truth, looks are deceiving, and this picture-perfect woman has seen more than her fair share of turmoil in her youth. Embarking on a bittersweet journey of self-discovery, accompanied by a new, strange and soulful acquaintance, Pippa must now confront both her volatile past and the hidden resentment of her seemingly perfect life in order to find her true sense of self.
Starring: Robin Wright Penn, Mike Binder, Alan Arkin, Winona Ryder, Blake Lively, Maria Bello
Director: Rebecca Miller
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Posted on July 10, 2011 |
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The Cooler (2003)
Drama | Romance
In an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.
Starring: William H. Macy, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin
Director: Wayne Kramer
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