Away from Her 2007   PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Sarah Polley
Cast: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Kristen Thomson, Alberta Watson, Thomas Hauff, Katie Boland
Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) have been married for more than 40 years when Grant notices that Fiona has trouble remembering things. She is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and decides it is time to move into Meadowlake nursing home. Meadowlake's rules allow new patients no visitors for the first 30 days. Grant honors the rule, returns for a visit after the orientation period, and is devastated when he realizes that Fiona does not remember him. Even more difficult to face is the fact that Fiona's affections have transferred to a fellow patient: mute, wheelchair bound Aubrey (Michael Murphy). Now, Grant must gradually accept that loving is also letting go. The film received two Academy Award nominations including Best Actress (Christie). 1 User Review
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| | evie 05/08/2007 | | We cried, laughed and cried some more. A wonderful love story. |
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Deeply 2000  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sheri Elwood
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Julia Brendler, Trent Ford, Brent Carver, Alberta Watson, Peter Donaldson, Tara Rosling, Anthony Higgins, Jessica Turner
Young Claire (Julia Brendler) travels to a remote island to recover from the untimely death of her lover and is taken under the wing of Celia (Lynn Redgrave), an eccentric writer. Celia shares her manuscript with Claire, which tells the story of another young woman, Silly (Kirsten Dunst), who lived there 50 years earlier and dealt with the curse that has haunted the island for hundreds of years. Average fare, with a fine performance by Redgrave.
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 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2000  R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Cast: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Michael Pitt, Andrea Martin, Alberta Watson, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Ben Mayer-Goodman, Rob Campbell, Michael Aranov
Based on his off-Broadway play, this is writer/star John Cameron Mitchell's story about a transsexual, Hedwig Schmidt (John Cameron Mitchell), who is touring America with her rock band playing the Bilgewater Inns' family restaurants. During the performances, Hedwig wittily muses about the circumstances behind a life choice for surgery to change him from a boy into a girl. Great music, great humor, great film.
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The Life Before This 1999  R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti
Cast: Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pantoliano, Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Leslie Hope, David Hewlett, Joel S. Keller, Jacob Tierney, Fab Filippo, Alberta Watson
"The Life Before This" begins when two robbers, with the police in hot pursuit, dart into a coffee shop and kill some of the patrons. Then the story switches to flashbacks revealing stories of how the victims ended up being in that wrong place at the wrong time.
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A Lobster Tale 2006 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Adam Massey
Cast: Colm Meaney, Alberta Watson, Graham Greene, Jack Knight, Dale Ewing, Joe Pingue, Bruce McFee, Keir Gilchrist, Erik Knudsen, Deborah Grover, Chris Benson, Gerry Quigley, Jonathan Whittaker, Kevin Jubinville, Ken James
Cody Brewer (Colm Meaney) is a Maine lobster fisherman who is struggling to make ends meet, and his wife Martha (Alberta Watson) and young son Jake (Jack Knight) also have problems. Everything changes when a strange moss is caught in Cody's net, and Cody discovers that the moss has magical powers, which allow it to perform miracles. Cody is relieved when he sees that the powers affect not only the Brewer family but bring good things for the whole community as well.
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The Lookout 2007 R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Scott Frank
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Matthew Goode, Bruce McGill, Alberta Watson, Alex Borstein, Sergio Di Zio, David Huband, Laura Vandervoort, Greg Dunham
Kansas City high-school jock Chris Pratt (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) had it all until a tragic accident changed his life, and he was left with neurological damage. Now, a few years later, Chris works as a bank janitor and shares an apartment with blind, wise-cracking telemarketer Lewis (Jeff Daniels) who he met in rehab. One day, Gary Spargo (Matthew Goode) and his girlfriend Luvlee (Isla Fisher) enter Chris' life with plans to rob his bank and use the easily manipulated Chris as their lookout. Lewis is suspicious, but will he be able to intervene?
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 The Prince & Me 2004 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Martha Coolidge
Cast: Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Ben Miller, James Fox, Miranda Richardson, Eliza Bennett, Alberta Watson, John Bourgeois, Joanne Baron, Richard Lee, Stephen Singer, Zachary Knighton, Stephen O'Reilly, Elisabeth Waterston, Devin Ratray
Pre-med student Paige (Julia Stiles) meets foreign exchange student Eddie (Luke Mably), and, after a disastrous introduction, they fall in love. But Eddie has a secret: his real name is Prince Edvard Valdemar Dangaard, and he is enjoying his "gap" year as an American university student before returning to Denmark and taking over his princely duties. Of course, the secret is soon revealed, and Paige questions whether she wants to be a future queen or stick to dreams of becoming a doctor.
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The Soldier 1982  R, 96 min.
Genre: Action
Director: James Glickenhaus
Cast: Ken Wahl, Klaus Kinski, William Prince, Alberta Watson, Jeremiah Sullivan, Zeljko Ivanek, Steve(2) James, Jeffrey Jones
When the CIA uncovers a plan to destroy the world's oil supply, it calls in its superagent, the Soldier, who takes on the Russian terrorists involved in the plot.
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Spanking the Monkey 1994 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Jeremy Davies, Alberta Watson, Benjamin Hendrickson, Carla Gallo, Matthew Puckett, Judette Jones, Elizabeth Newett, Zak Orth, Josh Phillip Weinstein, Nancy Fields
College student Ray Aibelli (Jeremy Davies) must give up his summer internship when his mother, Susan (Alberta Watson), becomes incapacitated with a broken leg. Home care takes on new meaning when their relationship becomes incestuous. This is the story of a dysfunctional family and the psychological problems that go along with the situation.
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The Sweet Hereafter 1997  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Atom Egoyan
Cast: Ian Holm, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, Peter Donaldson, Bruce Greenwood, David Hemblen, Sarah Polley, Brooke Johnson, Arsinee Khanjian, Tom McCamus, Caerthan Banks, Alberta Watson, Stephanie Morgenstern, Kirsten Kieferle, Earl Pastko
Set in British Columbia, this mystery involves the stories of a tragic accident of a school bus filled with 14 children; the relationships of the residents of their town; and, particularly, the incestuous relationship of a father and his daughter. Attorney Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) has his work cut out for him in uncovering events leading to the disaster. Egoyan was nominated for a Best Director Oscar.
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| 1. Away from Her (2007)
2. Deeply (2000)
3. Hackers (1995)
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2000)
5. The Hitman (1991)
6. The Keep (1983)
7. The Life Before This (1999)
8. A Lobster Tale (2006)
9. The Lookout (2007)
10. The Prince & Me (2004)
11. The Soldier (1982)
12. Spanking the Monkey (1994)
13. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
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