La Sceneggiatura (2006)

作家エマ・ドナヒューのベストセラー小説をブリー・ラーソン主演で映画化。監禁された女性とその部屋で生まれ育った息子が外界へと脱出。そこから始まるさまざまな葛藤や苦悩、感動を描き上げていく。

休暇を過ごすため田舎にある母方の祖父母の家を訪れた姉弟は、優しく穏やかな二人に歓迎されるが、三つの奇妙な約束を伝えられる。楽しい時間を過ごす、好きなものは遠慮なく食べる、そして夜9時半以降は部屋から出てはいけないという内容だった。しかし、夜に変な気配を察知し起きてしまった姉弟は、恐怖のあまり約束を破ってドアを開けてしまい……。＜『シックス・センス』などで知られるM・ナイト・シャマラン監督が手掛けたスリラー。三つの奇妙な約束事がある祖父母の家にやって来た姉弟が体験する恐怖を描く。『パラノーマル・アクティビティ』シリーズなどのジェイソン・ブラムと『マッド・ナース』などのマーク・ビエンストックが、本作の製作陣にも名を連ねている。約束が破られたら何が起こるのか、様子が変な祖父母や夜中に聞こえる音、襲ってくる女など、随所に伏線の張り巡らされた予測不能な展開に引き込まれる。＞

クリスマス・イヴの夜。ハリントン一家は、毎年恒例のクリスマス・パーティに出席するため、おばあちゃんの家へと向かっていた。２０年以上も同じ道を通ってきたフランクだったが、この日彼は、なんとも魅惑的な近道を発見し、ひとけのないその道に車を進めた。ところが、どうしたことか行けども行けども目的地にたどり着かず、道はどんどん暗く薄気味悪くなっていった。やがて一家は、赤ん坊を抱え道端にたたずむ白いドレスの女と遭遇する。それを境に、一家の不吉な予感はいよいよ現実のものとなっていく。

南仏プロヴァンスを舞台に、頑固で気難しい祖父と疎遠だった三人の孫たちのひと夏のストーリーを美しい情景を織り交ぜて描く。ジャン・レノ、アンナ・ガリエナら豪華キャストが出演している。

Travis and his sister, Whitney, visit their grandparents for the summer and fall through a magical portal which transports him to the world of American hero Paul Bunyan and his big, blue, talking ox, Babe.

The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.

A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but they end up summoning more than they bargained for.

Xiaogin transferred to the third school during his fifth year at high school. During the winter vacation, his grandparents tricked him into returning to the hotel which was founded by his parents. Xiaogin’s classmates Little Princess and Lu Qun tagged along uninvited to escape being bullied at school. While the three boys were temporarily staying at Xiaogin’s family hotel, they quickly found out that the hotel was in terrible shape and was also haunted. Xiaogin and his friends have developed an extremely close friendship while they are trying to step closer to the truth. Will they find out the secret that hides underneath the steaming hot springs?

Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore. Eventually, a romance helps Greta face down her demons.

While sorting her dead grandmother's affairs, a young woman boards in a southern mansion and soon discovers the matriarch may desire more than just her company.

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

Centered around a group of individuals, who come to experience magical moments over the course of one day. Full of the power of family, love and the spirit of forgiveness. Each individual comes to realize that Christmas, more than any other time of the year, is full of wonder and surprises.

The Worth Family has been divided for years but when the matriarch, Grandma Mabel dies suddenly, the family has to come together. The story of Family Squares takes the Worth Family on a journey discovering that not only did Grandma Mabel keep some secrets, so did everyone else. They find their way back to each other and realize that while you can’t choose your family, you can choose to be friends with them.

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl who helps her with her son and they fall in love.

While coming to terms with his dad's recent passing in a tractor accident, 13-year-old George McCray is living with his grandparents on their Kansas farm. George misses his mom, Jill, who has moved to Minnesota to deal with her grief, but there is the promise of their reunion at Christmas. George feels needed on the farm as he helps his grateful grandfather Bo with daily chores and comforts his grandmother Cora. He has also made friends with Mary Ann and became attached to Tucker, the smart and friendly dog the McCrays take in when his troubled owner Frank Thorne lands in jail.

Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while living with their grandfather.

Stuck at the family store, a young man dreams of getting romantically involved, but can never find time to meet the right woman. Of course, his friends think they can help, and he soon finds himself in love with an attractive young lady, but the conflicting advice from his friends never seems to end. When things take a turn for the worse, he is confronted with he dark side of human relationships, as he tries to maintain his sense of values against an onslaught of lies and deceit.

Lizuca is only six years old, not much older than her pet dachshund Patrocle, when her mother dies and she is left to live with her grandparents on their farm. Before long, Lizuca's father comes to take her away to live with him and his new bride, a vile woman who considers children the bane of all existence. Lizuca and the dachshund escape the wicked stepmother and spend the night in a hollow tree, a tree that changes into an enchanted land where Lizuca (like Alice through the Looking Glass) discovers a world of characters in the form of bees, frogs, the four seasons, Snow White, her dwarves, and other fairy tale creatures. This magic place is threatened by the evil stepmother's plan to sell the grove that protects the secret land to developers -- a decision that puts the woman on trial before this perfidy can be realized.

'Salt Mango Tree' explores certain systems at work in the current educational and social establishments and how aspirations are high to climb the haloed social ladder of the expected norm.