Posts Tagged ‘boy’

Malèna

Malèna

On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna, a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband Nico who...

June 2, 2010
Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an...

February 18, 2010
Flintstones, The

Flintstones, The

The Flintstones and the Rubbles are modern stone-age families. Fred and Barney work at Slate and Company, mining rock. Fred gives Barney some money so he and Betty can adopt a baby. When Fred and Barney take a test to determine who should become the new...

February 18, 2010
Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising

Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who is the target for assassins after cracking a top secret government code.

February 18, 2010
Kindergarten Cop

Kindergarten Cop

John Kimble is a tough city cop who's been on the trail of drug dealer Cullen Crisp for years. He finally tracks Crisp down but it seems the only person that can testify against him is his ex-wife. The problem is she's disappeared and all Kimble knows...

February 18, 2010
NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter, The

NeverEnding Story II: ...

Once again, Bastian is transported to the world of Fantasia which he recently managed to save from destruction. However, the land is now being destroyed by an evil sorceress, Xayide, so he must join up with Atreyu and face the Emptiness once more.

February 18, 2010
Edges of the Lord

Edges of the Lord

A young Jewish boy in Nazi occupied Poland hides with a family of Catholic peasants and a compassionate priest to escape Nazi forces.

February 17, 2010
Birth

Birth

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...

February 17, 2010
Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots...

February 17, 2010
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams

Spy Kids 2: Island of ...

The sequel to Spy Kids; the second film revisits the adventures of the previous film. Carmen and Juni Cortez team up with two other spy kids, Gary and Gerti Giggles, and together they must save the world from the hands of an evil scientist named Romero...

February 16, 2010
Spy Kids

Spy Kids

Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez are the world's best secret agents. Their mission is to assassinate each other. When they get within one inch, they fall in love. They marry, and have two kids, Carmen and Juni. They don't tell their kids. Ten years later, they...

February 16, 2010
NeverEnding Story, The

NeverEnding Story, The

Bastian is a young boy who lives a dreary life being tormented by school bullies. On one such occasion he escapes into a book shop where the old proprieter reveals an ancient story-book to him, which he is warned can be dangerous. Shortly after, he "borrows"...

February 16, 2010