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Canada:14A certified movies
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Fact-based story about Jean Harris (Annette Bening), a woman who was accused of murdering famed Scarsdale Diet Dr. Herman (Hi) Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) after being in a relationship with him for 14 years. Depicted as a womanizer, Dr. Tarnower had earlier asked Mrs. Harris, a divorced school teacher, to marry him. But when faced with upcoming nuptials, he backed out. The story depicts Mrs. Harris as a distraught and obsessive woman who may have been suffering from some mental illness and based on a note sent to the doctor, may have been suicidal at the time of the murder. She contended that Dr. Tarnower was shot while the two wrestled with a gun she was going to use to kill herself. Contains profanity and sexual situations, including implied masturbation. |
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...She had a crush on the literature teacher Mr. Bill Natolly (Matthew Marsden), and was interested in witchcraft. Unpopular teenage girl Tamara (Jenna Dewan) was unintentionally killed by her classmates as a result of a prank when they decided to cover up and to bury her young body. She returns from the death realm for the revenge as a sexy, seductive vixen overtaking her former offenders. She also tries to take Bill from his beloved wife. |
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Danielle (Julie Benz) is the leader of a clique of arrogant, mean high school girls; she and her rich friends Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback) and Brooke (Monica Keena) care only about their pampered selves (although Brooke has periodic misgivings). No one really hangs out with them except a dumb jock named Gavin, and the class nerd Jonathan, and poor Danielle is getting nowhere with the popular guy Drew (Jonathon Brandis), even after she and friends accidentally killed his last girlfriend. It's been a year, and Drew still ignores her - but he doesn't ignore the new foreign exchange student Katarina (Suzanna Urszuly). Since Katarina can't take a hint, Danielle begins plotting her downfall. But there's a slight problem: Danielle and her friends begin experiencing a level of high weirdness in which all three of them rapidly age. This serves to make Danielle more desperate than ever. She'll sacrifice anything, even Drew, to get her youth and looks back. |
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Devastated by the abuse from her husband, Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) gets a divorce and returns to her hometown in North Minnesota. With two kids to take care of, Josey takes a back-breaking job at the iron mine where she becomes one of only a handful of female employees and faces harsh reality. Along with the other women, she endures humiliation and sexual harassment from the male miners who brook no competition from womanhood. Despite the risk of losing her good-paying job, Josey finds the courage to take legal action against the company in order to stand up for herself and her fellow female coworkers. As a result, the case becomes the first sexual harassment lawsuit in the history of the United States to be won. |
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In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called "Mam's Law". Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay. |
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Based on the cult-hit animated television series The Family Guy, this feature-length comedy movie centers on the dysfunctional Griffins family consisting of Peter (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), the unintelligent, bumbling patriarch of the family; his loving and patient wife Lois (voiced by Alex Borstein); his oldest kid Meg (voiced by Mila Kunis), a nerdy student unpopular in high school; his middle kid, backward Chris (voiced by Seth Green); Stewie (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), the youngest and smartest kid who is bent on world domination, and Brian (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), a melancholic talking dog. The movie follows Stewie and Brian as they embark on an incredible journey in search of Stewie's real father. Their adventure leads to a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, Peter is spotted by a TV producer and given the opportunity to host his own show "You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?" Peter immediately becomes so popular that Tom Tucker, a newscaster at Quahog 5, begins to feel envious of his success and tries the darndest to get rid of him. |
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Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Jack has sheltered Rose from the influences of the outside world, but now Rose's emerging womanhood poses troubling questions about the days ahead. A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism and other altruistic causes, Jack now rages at those who do not share his concerns, like developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges), who is building a housing tract on the edge of his property. When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her sons Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thaddius (Paul Dano) to live with them, Rose feels betrayed and the situation quickly becomes precarious. Rose acts out wildly, creating chaos. As everything flies out of control, Jack finds himself trapped in an impossible place and is forced to take action. |
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In a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school, student Brendan Frye's piercing intelligence spares no one. He's not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does - until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily, reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. His feelings for her still run deep; so much so, that he becomes consumed with finding his troubled inamorata. To find her, he enlists the aid of his only true peer, the Brain, while keeping the assistant vice principal only occasionally informed of what quickly becomes a dangerous investigation. Brendan's single-minded unearthing of students' secrets thrusts him headlong into the colliding social orbits of rich-girl sophisticate Laura, intimidating Tugger, substance-abusing Dode, seductive Kara, jock Brad and - most ominously - non-student the Pin. Only by gaining acceptance into the Pin's closely guarded inner circle of crime and punishment that Brendan will be able to uncover hard truths about himself, Emily and the suspects that he is getting closer to. |
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Set in Wichita, Kansas, the black comedy centers on mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) and his associate Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) who decide to give themselves a Christmas present and embezzle $2 million in cash from Charlie's crime boss, Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). The lawyer is impatient to slip out of town with the alluring strip club owner Renata (Connie Nielsen). But you never know what surprises are in store for you. For Charlie, Christmas Eve proves to be a great surprise... |
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Two mid-aged divorcees Jeremy Klein (Vince Vaughn) and John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) are a pair of longtime friends who work for a law firm, helping contentious couples mediate their divorces, continuously crashing weddings to meet girls. They can get into any wedding and into the heart of every bridesmaid, for one night, of course. Suddenly one of them falls for Claire, also a bridesmaid, who is a daughter of an influential and eccentric politician, and soon guys get into spending a wild weekend at the family's palatial waterside estate and find themselves quickly over their heads. |
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Four adopted brothers — Bobby (Mark Wahlberg), Angel (Tyrese Gibson), Jeremiah (André Benjamin), and Jack (Garrett Hedlund) — reunite at the funeral of their foster mother, Evelyn Mercer (Fionnula Flanagan), who was murdered during a grocery store robbery. They decide to take the matter of her death into their own hands in order to track down the killer and exact revenge on him. Ignoring the police orders, they start combing the city of Detroit. As they dig deeper and deeper into the case, all evidence seems to point to local crime boss Victor Sweet (Chiwetel Ejiofor)... |
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You never know what might happen in the future. Successful architect Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) had a good and happy marriage with a best-selling writer, Anna (Chandra West), and a young kid, Mike (Nicholas Elia). Little did he expect that his peaceful life would be shattered some day. After his pregnant wife went missing and was later found dead, Jonathan got in touch with a paranormal expert, Raymond Price (Ian McNeice), who claimed to be communicating with Anna via Electronic Voice Phenomenon. Raymond also informed him that voices and faces of the dead could be heard and seen on a detuned radio and TV. Tormented by grief, Jonathan decided to try to come in contact with the spirit realm. |
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After the young woman found murdered, several senior school students start to spread the online rumors about the serial killer Cry_Wolf is on the loose. Pulling everybody's leg, guys start to describe the next victims, the game is to see how many people they can convince - and if anyone will uncover the lie. To their horror, the new murders are soon to be, and slaughtered are just the very people they described. |
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The movie is the sequel to the original Deuce Bigalow (Rob Schneider) story. This time the awkward fish tank cleaner and former gigolo Deuce Bigalow goes to Amsterdam to meet up his pimp friend T.J. Hicks (Edie Griffin). Having arrived in Europe, pathetically acoompanied by the leg of his recently eaten by a shark bride, Deuce learns that a mysterious murderer is maniacally eliminating the city's man-whores. What's more - T.J. Hicks is generally mistaken for a male prostitute slayer. Bigalow has to reveal the real serial killer and rebuild his friend's good name. |
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In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding. |
| Faith of My Fathers
[2005,
USA]
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| John McCain's father gave him the courage to be a soldier. Five years as a POW gave him the courage to be a hero. |
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The story of John McCain's experience as a Vietnam War POW. Base on the memoir of the same title. |
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Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis), an ex-LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved to a smaller town with his family due to dramatic hostage situation he was unable to solve properly: a young mother and her child were killed. Now he is a police officer in a quiet town of Bristo Camino, where he serves as a chief of a police. When three delinquent teenagers follow a family home intending to steal their car, they involuntarily pick the wrong house on the wrong day. Panicked, the teenagers take the family hostage, placing Talley in exactly the kind of situation he never wanted to face again. He is about to take situation off his hands, but a house belongs to a corrupt accountant, cops are in over their heads, so Talley should take the situation under his control again in order to save his own family. The point is that the compound has digital information inside, which is time sensitive and invaluable to the mysterious criminals and critical to the enterprise the accountant is connected with. They will stop at nothing to get what belongs to them, and Talley finds himself being between a rock and a hard place. |
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stars as a couple who live a boring life - 6 years in marriage, nothing new. But events unexpectedly take a new turn when the couple turns out to be a pair of highly paid assassins, who know nothing about real life of each other and even working for the competing organizations. Truth is disclosed at the moment when they are both assigned by their employers to kill the same person. While the deceived bosses are trying to ruin the couple, the real fun begins. Lots of dizzy stunts and a bit of a sexy humour are presented in this action thriller laced with comedy. |
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Widowed psychologist David Callaway (Robert De Niro) tries to do his best for his traumatized 9-year-old daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) to get over the loss of her mother (Amy Irving). However, the little girl needs far more care and attention than her loving and solicitous father can lavish on her. And Emily finds comfort in her imaginary friend Charlie with whom she enjoys playing hide-and-seek. At first, David sees this make-believe friendship as a good way for his kid to experience positive emotions. But when 'Charlie' begins making Emily commit weird, and sometimes mad, acts, David calls his colleague Katherine (Famke Janssen) for assistance.
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In the Texas desert nearby the border of Mexico, Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cedillo), a Mexican illegal immigrant working as a cowboy, ends up being mistakenly shot and killed by tough border patrolman Mike Norton (Barry Pepper). Scared to death, Mike quickly buries the body and does not report anything. A week later, Estrada’s body is accidentally found and reburied in a local cemetery. But when Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), a rancher and Estrada’s best friend, finds out the killer’s identity, he abducts Norton and forces him to disinter the body. With the body tied to a mule and his captive in tow, Pete undertakes a perilous and surreal journey horseback into Jimйnez, Mexico in order to give Estrada his third and final burial.
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