Gattaca Corp. is an aerospace firm in the future. During this time society analyzes your DNA and determines where you belong in life. Ethan Hawke’s character was born with a congenital heart condition which would cast him out of getting a chance to travel in space. So in turn he assumes the identity of an [...]
Tags: ambition, assault, astronaut, autopsy, bare-butt, beach, birth, blood, blood-test, broken-leg, brother-brother-relationship, cellular-biology, character's-point-of-view-camera-shot, convertible, crime-scene, dancing, discrimination, eugenics, flashback-sequence, fraud, future, future-noir, futuristic, gene-manipulation, hair, impostor, janitor, launch, male-nudity, marriage, medal, mistaken-identity, morgue, murder, nearsightedness, paraplegic, perfection, police, police-detective, premarital-sex, presumed-dead, profanity, recital, restaurant, Romance, self-immolation, shower-scene, sibling-rivalry, skin-care, skinny-dipping, space-travel, spiral-staircase, suicide, swimming, telescope, title-spoken-by-character, treadmill, twist-in-the-end, undressing-scene, urination-scene, urine-sample, vacuum-cleaner, wheelchair
Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of “robotophobic” Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner’s (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, [...]
Tags: 2030s, android, artificial-intelligence, asthma, attempted-murder, babe-scientist, based-on-novel, blockbuster, blood, brawl, broken-arm, bullet-time, car-accident, car-chase, cat, chase, chicago-illinois, christ-allegory, computer, corporate-crime, corpse, crime-scene, crushed-head, cybernetics, death, death-of-child, demolition, diner, dream, drowning, dystopic-future, evil-robot, exploding-body, exploding-car, fall-from-height, flashback-sequence, future, futuristic, futuristic-train, grandmother, hit-by-car, hologram, homeless, human-versus-computer, humanoids, interracial-relationship, interrogation, investigation, laboratory, law, male-nudity, man-versus-machine, mistaken-identity, motorcycle, murder, murder-investigation, murder-suspect, neck-breaking-scene, nightmare, no-opening-credits, paranoia, paranoid, part-animation, police, police-detective, police-investigation, prejudice, product-placement, prosthetic-limb, rebellion, revolution, riot, road-accident, robot, robot-as-menace, robot-as-pathos, robot-vs.-robot, scar, science-runs-amok, secret, sentience, set-in-future, shot-in-the-back, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, shower, shower-scene, stylized, suicide, technology, television-news, train, trust, tunnel, twist-in-the-end
A rookie firefighter tries to earn the respect of his older brother and other firefighters while taking part in an investigation of a string of arson/murders. This detailed look into the duties and private lives of firemen naturally features widespread pyrotechnics and special effects.
Tags: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, arson, axe, blockbuster, brother, brother-brother-relationship, brothers, burn-injury, chicago-illinois, danger, death, explosion, fire, fire-hose, firefighter, firefighting, funeral, helmet, irish-american, male-nudity, pretty-girl, psycho, psychopath, pubic-hair, pyromania, pyromaniac, rescue, shower
Barely escaping from nefarious dognappers, an adorable puppy named Beethoven adopts the unsuspecting Newton family — and promptly grows up into 185 pounds of romping, drolling, disaster-prone St. Bernard! Unfortunately, even after proving his canine credentials to mom and the kids, the heroic hound gets nowhere with uptight dad, George (Charles Grodin). But when a [...]
Tags: animal, animal-actor, animal-urination-scene, character-name-in-title, child-driving-car, desertion, dog, dog-actor, dysfunctional-family, escapade, escape, fairy-tale, first-of-series, humor, kidnap, kids-and-family, life-changing, pet, poetic-justice, redemption, rescue, saint-bernard-dog, self-discovery, suburban, suburbia, veterinarian
In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella’s father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies, Cinderella’s wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house. Meanwhile, across town in [...]
Tags: ball, beautiful-woman, blockbuster, castle, cat, character-name-in-title, cinderella, cinderella-story, classic, disney, disney-animated-feature, dog, fairy-godmother, fairy-tale, glass-slipper, goofy-holler, heroine, horse, kids-and-family, magic, marriage, midnight, mouse, mushroom-cloud, prince, Romance, stepmother, stepsister, stylized, villainess
Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon), a dedicated Doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When her sister with two kids set her up on a date, she gets into a tragic car crash and gets in a coma. Meanwhile, an artist named David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) moves into San Francisco and coincidentally, into [...]
Tags: afterlife, alcoholic, apartment, bar, based-on-novel, bookstore, car-accident, catholic-priest, coma, death, doctor, dry-cleaning, exorcism, fate, fire-alarm, first-aid, flirting, friendship, garden, ghostbuster, holy-water, hospital, key, life-support, loneliness, loss-of-wife, male-female-relationship, neighbor, niece, out-of-body-experience, priest, real-estate-agent, refrigerator, restaurant, road-accident, rooftop, san-francisco-california, secret, security-guard, shower, sister-sister-relationship, snow-globe, sofa, title-based-on-song, widower, workaholic
Baby Bink couldn’t ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he’s just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink’s parents; especially the three enterprising kidnapers who pretend to be photographers [...]
Tags: baby, baby-at-a-construction-site, construction-site, fairy-tale, gorilla, hit-in-crotch, kidnapper, kidnapping, kids-and-family, monkey, nanny, police, slapstick, zoo
Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment’s notice, to far-flung locales - and away from his girlfriend Kelly, played by Helen Hunt. Chuck’s manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes [...]
Tags: airplane-accident, blockbuster, burial, cabin-fever, cargo-plane, castaway, christmas, coconut, coral, fire, hunger, imaginary-friend, inanimate-object-in-cast-credits, ingenuity, isolation, loneliness, lost-love, mail-carrier, presumed-dead, product-placement, raft, rain, sailing, self-dentistry, spear-fishing, storm, stranded, suicidal-thoughts, suicide-attempt, survival, thirst, time, tooth-extraction, tropical-island, volleyball, whale
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese [...]
Tags: chase, counterfeit, culture-clash, cut-off-finger, decapitation, desert-eagle, detective, internal-affairs, japan, karaoke, katana-sword, mafia, martial-arts, motorcycle, murder, neo-noir, new-york, nightclub, police, severed-head, shootout, street-racing, throat-slitting, violence, yakuza
