Smart People (2008)
Sometimes the smartest people have the most to learn
ジャンル : コメディ, ドラマ, ロマンス
上映時間 : 1時間 35分
演出 : Noam Murro
脚本 : Mark Poirier
シノプシス
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
1959年、バーモントにある全寮制の名門進学校にやって来た新任の英語教師。破天荒な授業を通して、詩の美しさや人生の素晴らしさを説く教師に惹かれていった生徒たちは、彼がかつて学生だった頃に作っていた“死せる詩人の会”という同好会を自分たちの手で復活させる。ドラマの背景となる、初秋から冬にかけてのニューイングランド地方の風景も美しい。
中年の真面目な高校教師が、キャバレーのダンサーに惚れ込み、ドサ回りの道化役者となって……。ほろ苦い人間像を描き、マレーネ・ディートリッヒ、エミール・ヤニングスを代表する映画史に残る1作。
深い心の傷を負った天才青年と、同じく失意の中にいた精神分析医がお互いにあらたな旅立ちを自覚して成長してゆく姿を描く感動のヒューマン・ドラマ。ボストンに住む青年ウィルは、幼い頃から天才ゆえに周囲から孤立していた。だが、彼の才能に気付いた数学教授のランボーは、ウィルに精神分析医のショーンを紹介する。ウィルはショーンにしだいに心を開いてゆくが、彼の才能に気付いた政府機関や大企業が接近してくる。
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
複雑な親子の幸せ探しを描き、多くの映画祭で高く評価されたハートフル・ストーリー。女性になる手術を控えた性同一性障害のブリーフと、彼を父とは知らず一緒に旅することになった息子・ブリーフのふれあいを描く。
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes a backseat when a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door.
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - starting with table manners - Nathan's lover Lila fights to preserve the man's simian past, which represents a freedom enviable to most.
A guy who does glamour shots for models and the like gets mixed up in a series of mutilation killings. The murders bare a resemblance to those committed by Jack the Ripper, and the victims are all models. Naturally, the photographer becomes a suspect. He also falls for one of his models and must try to protect her from the true killer.
Six high school seniors on a camping trip are ambushed by killer rednecks who kill their victims and sell the remains to a local hamburger joint.
A group of medical students take a weekend to fix up an old house where a mass murder occurred 10 years earlier.
A cannibal hermit living in the woods preys on campers and hikers for his food supply.
Sweeney Todd, a barber, and Maggie Lovett, a baker, join forces to commit a series of brutal, gory murders in London with a little help from Tobias Ragg, an employee of Maggie's bakery. They abduct a number of customers from the barber shop and kill them, baking them into meat pies which are sold to the public.
A young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the young woman, and finds out that they have much more in common than she realized.
Two brothers, both of whom are warlocks, use their powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune.
The government has quarantined a small town where either a disease similar to rabies has appeared in the local human population or where (what seems impossible) the dead are beginning to come back to life and attack the living. Having missed most of the evacuation while barricaded inside of an old house, Ben, his younger sister Erin, and their friends remain trapped within the quarantine zone. Hell-bent on getting his sister to safety at all costs, Ben must lead the group across a ravaged city filled with flesh craving zombies in search of a working radio to contact the military and ensure them a ride on the last evacuation helicopter out of the quarantine zone. But with pre-existing personal tensions in the group and an entire city of zombies driven by hunger to find and kill anyone they come across, the odds are stacked against them.
Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in poorer districts of South Central Los Angeles.
