Posts Tagged ‘addiction’

Factotum (2005)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: France | Germany | Norway | Sweden | USA
Actors: Matt Dillon | Lili Taylor | Marisa Tomei | Fisher Stevens | Didier Flamand | Adrienne Shelly | Karen Young | Thomas Lyons | Dean Brewington | James Cada | James Michael Detmar | Kurt Schweickhardt | Dee Noah | James Noah | Michael Egan
Directors: Bent Hamer
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, author’s fictitious alter ego *quot; of Handy man Charles Bukowski*quot; which goes for a walk around Los angeles, THIS trying to make maintain by jobs which do not mingle of his primary interest, which writes. Along the way, it pushes back entertainment given by the women, by drinking and by playing.

Ce drame centre sur Hank Chinaski, l’alter ego fictif d’auteur "de Factotum Charles Bukowski", qui se promène autour de Los Angeles, CA essayant de se faire entretenir par les emplois qui ne se mêlent pas de son intérêt primaire, qui écrit. Le long de la voie, il repousse les distractions offertes par les femmes, en buvant et en jouant.

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Frank Sinatra | Eleanor Parker | Kim Novak | Arnold Stang | Darren McGavin | Robert Strauss | John Conte | Doro Merande | George E. Stone | George Mathews | Leonid Kinskey | Emile Meyer | Jered Barclay | Leonard Bremen | Paul E. Burns
Directors: Otto Preminger
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Frankie Machine is a businessman of experienced card and addict of heroin of the past. When he returns at home of the chain, he struggles to find a new support and avoid to decline in the inclination.

Frankie Machine é um negociante de cartão experimentado e viciado de heroína do passado. Quando ele volta em casa da cadeia, ele luta para encontrar um novo sustento e evitar decair na inclinação.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

Monday, May 12th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Don Abernathy | Patrick J. Adams | George Anton | Michael William Arnold | Christopher Ausburn | Caleb Babcock | Raymond J. Barry | Paul Bates | Terrence Beasor | Matt Besser | Jay Bird | Rian Bishop | Jack Black | Clement Blake | Ian Bodell
Directors: Jake Kasdan
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The history *quot; on top and below and wieder*quot; of the musician Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) whose songs would change a nation. On his Rock’N-role spiral, coxswain’s sleep with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 children and 14 stepkids, stars during his own TV show of the 70s, collects friends in the interval of Elvis to the Beatles to a chimpanzee, and is accustomed in (and then kicks) every narcotic famously to the man, but in spite of all his, coxswain grows into a national icon and earns, in the end, the love of a good woman.

Die Geschichte "oben und unten und wieder" des Musikers Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly), wessen Lieder eine Nation ändern würden. Auf seiner Rock’N-Rollenspirale, Steuermann-Schlaf mit 411 Frauen, heiratet dreimal, hat 22 Kinder und 14 stepkids, Sterne in seiner eigenen TV-Show der 70er Jahre, sammelt Freunde im Intervall von Elvis zu den Beatles zu einem Schimpansen, und wird an gewöhnt (und tritt dann) jedes Rauschgift bekannt dem Mann, aber trotz all dessen, Steuermann wächst in eine nationale Ikone hinein und verdient schließlich die Liebe einer guten Frau.

Bound by Honor (aka “Blood in, blood out”) (1993)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Damian Chapa | Jesse Borrego | Benjamin Bratt | Enrique Castillo | Victor Rivers | Delroy Lindo | Tom Towles | Carlos Carrasco | Teddy Wilson | Raymond Cruz | Valente Rodriguez | Lanny Flaherty | Billy Bob Thornton | Geoffrey Rivas | Karmin Murcelo
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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Based on experience real of life of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the movie concentrates on stepbrothers Paco and Cross, and his cousin biracial Miklo. This is opened in 1972, when the three are members of an East L. To. the band known like *quot; the Madmen of Vatos*quot;, and the history concentrates in like a violent crime and the influence of drugs they change his lives. The Miklo is imprisoned and sent to Quentin San, where he does *quot; one casa*quot; for him. Cross becomes an exceptional artist, but an addiction conquers the heroine with tragic results. The Paco makes to be caught and an enemy with his *quot; carnal*quot;, Miklo.

Basado en las experiencias de vida verdaderas del poeta Jimmy Santiago Baca, la película se concentra en hermanastros Paco y Cruz, y su primo biracial Miklo. Esto se abre en 1972, cuando los tres son miembros de un Este L. A. la cuadrilla conocida como "los Locos de Vatos", y la historia se concentra en como un delito violento y la influencia de narcóticos cambian sus vidas. El Miklo es encarcelado y enviado a Quentin San, donde él hace "una casa" para él. Cruz se hace un artista excepcional, pero una adicción a la heroína le vence con resultados trágicos. El Paco se hace pillarse y un enemigo con su "carnal", Miklo.

Two for the Money (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sport | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Matthew McConaughey | Rene Russo | Armand Assante | Jeremy Piven | Jaime King | Kevin Chapman | Ralph Garman | Gedde Watanabe | Carly Pope | Charles Carroll | Gerard Plunkett | Craig Veroni | James Kirk | Chrislyn Austin
Directors: D.J. Caruso
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Brandon loves Long football: An injury holds him from pros, but the premonition of his attack conductor does him an excellent prophet of the results of plays. Needing money, he leaves Vegas for Manhattan to work for Walter Abrams who recommends to players. Walter has a goopy woman, a young daughter, and a blossoming business, but he has problems: A bottom heart a faith is he a Master-Handhaber, and hardly under control held devotions. He does Brandon again, and a respect of the father’s son grows. Then things fail. Walter can lead a deceitful one. The difference against the Brandon rack.

Brandon Lang liebt Fußball: Eine Verletzung hält ihn vom pros ab, aber das Vorgefühl seines Angriffsdirigenten macht ihn einen hervorragenden Propheten der Ergebnisse von Spielen. Geld brauchend, verlässt er Vegas für Manhattan, um für Walter Abrams zu arbeiten, der Spielern empfiehlt. Walter hat eine vernarrte Frau, eine junge Tochter, und ein blühendes Geschäft, aber er hat Probleme: Ein Hintern-Herz ein Glaube ist er ein Master-Handhaber, und kaum unter Kontrolle gehaltene Hingaben. Er macht Brandon wieder, und eine Beziehung des Vaters-Sohns wächst. Dann gehen Dinge schief. Walter kann einen betrügerischen führen. Die Verschiedenheit gegen das Brandon-Gestell.

Thumbsucker (2005)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Lou Taylor Pucci | Tilda Swinton | Vincent D'Onofrio | Keanu Reeves | Benjamin Bratt | Kelli Garner | Vince Vaughn | Chase Offerle | Dakota Goldhor | Walter Kirn | Kit Koenig | Sarah Lucht | Arvin V. Entena | Eric Normington | Allen Go
Directors: Mike Mills
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Justin (Lou Taylor Pucci) is an adolescent’s boy, who has an oral obsession with his thumb. To his mother (Tilda Swinton) it seems to be a normal housekeeper, but she has his obsession itself also, like a compressing in a star for the television (Benjamin Bratt). The only person who is knowing Justin’s problem is his father (Vincent D’Onofrio), manager in a shop, but to none of his advices it seems to be working for Justin. The child is employed in a workshop of discussion, but the thing is not well, because he has his mind in a pretty companion of class and, naturally, in his thumb, affecting the whole rest of his classes. In this way, Justin is a child of lonely person in the school, which it prefers to be locked in the bathroom and to suck his thumb. Justin’s dentist (Reeves of Keanu), a person of hippie mystic, will try to help to surpass his problem of thumb, for the hypnosis. But the psychologist of the school will diagnose Justin with the Disorder of Deficit of Attention, and will prescribe it some drugs. Repentinamente, Justin’s problem with his thumb will disappear, being a brilliant hyperactive person, gaining several contests of discussion and the wonder of his teacher (Vince Vaughn). Nevertheless, the most serious problems will come for Justin with his mother, his father and with an inclination of drug.

Justin (Lou Taylor Pucci) é um rapaz de adolescente, que tem uma obsessão oral com o seu polegar. Sua mãe (Tilda Swinton) parece ser um governanta normal, mas ela tem a sua própria obsessão também, como um esmagamento em uma estrela pela televisão (Benjamin Bratt). A única pessoa que está sabendo o problema de Justin é o seu pai (Vincent D’Onofrio), gerente em uma loja, mas nenhum dos seus conselhos parece estar trabalhando para Justin. A criança é contratada em uma oficina de debate, mas a coisa não está estando bem, porque ele tem a sua mente em um bonito companheiro de classe e, naturalmente, no seu polegar, afetando todo o resto das suas classes. Deste modo, Justin é uma criança de pessoa solitária na escola, que prefere trancar-se na casa de banho e sugar o seu polegar. O dentista de Justin (Revésperas de Keanu), uma pessoa de hippie místico, tentará ajudar a superar o seu problema de polegar, pela hipnose. Mas o psicólogo da escola diagnosticará Justin com a Desordem de Déficit de Atenção, e o prescreverá algumas drogas. Repentinamente, o problema de Justin com o seu polegar desaparecerá, ficando uma pessoa genial hiperativa, ganhando vários concursos de debate e a admiração do seu professor (Vince Vaughn). Sem embargo, os problemas mais sérios virão para Justin com sua mãe, o seu pai e com uma inclinação de droga.

Party Monster (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: Netherlands | USA
Actors: Seth Green | Macaulay Culkin | Diana Scarwid | Chloƫ Sevigny | Dillon Woolley | Marilyn Manson | Dylan McDermott | Mia Kirshner | Wilmer Valderrama | Elliot Kriss | Natasha Lyonne | Daniel Franzese | Janis Dardaris | Wilson Cruz | Manny Perez
Directors: Fenton Bailey | Randy Barbato
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The sentence in the New York club scene of the end of the 1980s in the course of the 1990s, a fairy tale which the increase and case of the advocate of the club child ‘Michael Alig’ (qv), a party organizer tapes whose excessive life was sent, down quickly growing when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend, roommate, and drug dealer, hinge Melendez. Originally from Indiana moved Alig to New York, and came to be a subterranean legend, known for his excessive narcotic use and incredible behaviour in the club world. At his point he had his own record company, and magazine, and organised disco in 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the 90s. He did many narcotics, and because his devotion became worse, his party subjects were turned more darkly and more. Be the saga of Alig achieved ones tragic crescendo when he murdered maliciously his drug dealer, hinge, while he injected him with Drano and threw him in the east river. The power which he exercised on the club scene can be felt untouchable him, he did not act hestitate to the boastfulness of the murder. The press thought that it was an advertisement stunt*mdash; until the body of the angel in the land washed.

Der Satz in der New Yorker Klub-Szene des Endes der 1980er Jahre im Laufe der 1990er Jahre, ein Märchen, das den Anstieg und Fall des Befürworters des Klub-Kindes ‘Michael Alig’ (qv), ein Parteiveranstalter aufzeichnet, dessen ausschweifendes Leben gesandt wurde, nach unten schnell wachsend, als er sich im Fernsehen rühmte, dass er seinen Freund, Zimmergenossen, und Rauschgifthändler, Angel Melendez getötet hatte. Ursprünglich von Indiana bewegte sich Alig nach New York, und kam, um eine unterirdische Legende, bekannt für seinen übermäßigen Rauschgift-Gebrauch und unerhörtes Verhalten in der Klub-Welt zu sein. An seiner Spitze hatte er seine eigene Plattenfirma, und Zeitschrift, und veranstaltete Disko 2000, eine der größten Klub-Nächte in New York in den 90er Jahren. Er tat viele Rauschgifte, und weil seine Hingabe schlechter wurde, wurden seine Parteithemen dunkler und mehr gedreht. Die Saga von Alig erreichte sein tragisches crescendo, als er bösartig seinen Rauschgifthändler, Angel ermordete, indem er ihn mit Drano einspritzte und ihn im Ostfluss warf. Die Macht, die er auf der Klub-Szene ausübte, ließ ihn sich unantastbar fühlen, so tat er nicht hestitate zur Prahlerei des Mords. Die Presse dachte, dass es eine Werbung stunt*mdash war; bis sich der Körper des Engels am Land wusch.