Sorry for Kung Fu (2004)
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 10分
演出 : Ognjen Sviličić
シノプシス
Mirjana is returning to Croatia from Germany where she spent some time as a refugee. She is pregnant. Now, when the war in Croatia is over and her visa expired, Mirjana is coming back to her family in a remote and devastated village. Her family is trying to move on with their lives after the war. They rebuild their house and they are trying to find a new husband for their pregnant daughter. Being patriarchal and devoted to their tradition they believe a woman needs to have a husband and a child has to have a father. Of course, the child and the father have to be of the same nationality. Problems start when Mirjana gives a birth to a boy with Asian features. The family and the neighbors are shocked. Mirjana¡¦s rigid father refuses to accept a grandchild of a different nationality, not to mention the one of a different race! Mirjana and her son are forced to leave. She returns only when her father falls seriously ill and requests to see his grandson before he dies.
Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child. His intention is to be "born again" into the real world. The only one who can stop Freddy is his dead mother, but can Alice free her spirit in time to save her own son?
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
新生児を含む3児の母であるマーロは、兄から夜のベビーシッターをプレゼントされる。最初は躊躇していたが、思慮深く、意外性があり、時に挑戦的なタリーというナニーとすぐに絆を深めていく。
監督はジョシュ・ゴードン＆ウィル・スペック、出演はジェニファー・アニストン、ジェイソン・ベイトマン。子どもを望むアラフォー女性をめぐるハートフル・ラブコメディ。ニューヨークで働いてきたキャリアウーマンのアラフォー女性キャシー。彼女は、親友のウォーリーが反対するも人工授精で子どもを持つことを決める。ウォーリーはパーティーで酔ってしまい、誤ってドナーの精子をダメにしてしまったためやむなく自分のモノと交換する。7年後、息子のセバスチャンを連れて戻ってきたキャシーに会ったウォーリーは、自身にそっくりなセバスチャンを見て動揺してしまう…。
西暦2027年11月。人類は希望を失い、世界は恐慌状態におちいっていた。なぜか出産の能力が失われ、18年間にわたって全く子供が生まれないのだ。英国は軍事力で徹底的に抑圧することにより、秩序を維持していた。検問所に向かう途中、セオたちの車は暴徒の襲撃にあい、ジュリアンが撃たれて絶命。組織のアジトに逃げ込んだセオは、キーから衝撃の事実を告白される。なんと彼女は子供を身ごもっており、間もなく出産を迎えるというのだ。セオは彼女を連れ、命がけの逃避行を開始する。
In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficult home life by following the rules. That is until an indiscretion creates a series of devastating consequences. As Celina faces the compounded obstacles of being young and alone, she sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future that sets new precedents for the time.
1994年、ルワンダの首都キガリ。高級ホテル「ミル・コリン・ホテル」で働く支配人のポールは毎日順調に仕事をこなしていたが、ある晩、ホテルからの帰宅途中に街で火の手が上がっているのを発見する。＜アフリカのルワンダで内紛による大量虐殺の危機から人々を救った、実在のホテルマンの勇気と良心を描いたドラマ。主演はドン・チードル。テリー・ジョージが脚本、監督、製作を手がけ、1200人もの命を守り抜く男の勇姿をヒロイックに描き出す。日本公開は危ぶまれていたが、若者によるインターネットでの署名運動で公開が実現した。＞
Although deeply in love with her boyfriend — and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him — a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading her into ever more risky situations, including a developing one with the headmaster.
A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
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レネー・ゼルウィガー主演の大ヒット・ラヴ・コメディ『ブリジット・ジョーンズの日記』シリーズの第3弾。43歳となり、いまだ独身のブリジット・ジョーンズ。テレビ局の敏腕プロデューサーとなった彼女に、ドラマチックな出会いが訪れる。
Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that—like George—will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.
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Mollie and James are together and raising a family, which now consists of an older Mikey and his baby sister, Julie. Tension between the siblings arises, and as well with Mollie and James when Mollie's brother Stuart moves in. Mikey is also learning how to use the toilet for the first time.
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
デートが大失敗に終わった上昇志向が強い男女が、ひょんなことから親友の娘を交えて共同生活を送るハメになるラブ・コメディー。テレビ界で活躍するグレッグ・バーランティが監督を務め、個人的な不仲の感情と仕事の予定を調整しながら、まるで本当の家族のように暮らし始める男女の姿をコミカルに描く。男女を演じる『男と女の不都合な真実』のキャサリン・ハイグル、『トランスフォーマー』のジョシュ・デュアメルの奮闘に注目。
ナイジェリアでクーデターが起き、反乱軍によって大統領一家が殺され同国は深刻な内戦状態に突入する。アメリカ政府は、まだナイジェリア国内に残るアメリカ人全員の速やかなる救出を決定。ジャングルの奥深くで難民の治療に当たっていた女医リーナ・ケンドリックスの救助には、米海軍特殊部隊シールのウォーターズ大尉が向かうことになった。
1944年、アメリカ。12歳のジョニーは兄のジャックと共に両親の畑仕事を手伝っていた。しかし、一家の貧しい生活は一向に楽にならず、父は酒に溺れる日々だった。そんなジョニーの心のなぐさめとなったのは、兄ジャックの優しさと、ラジオから流れてくるゴスペルやカントリー音楽だった。ある時、最愛の兄が突然の事故でこの世を去ってしまう。出来のいい息子を失ったショックでますます荒れる父親とジョニーとの確執は広がっていく。そして、空軍に入隊したジョニーは実家を離れ、ドイツに駐屯する。除隊後に初恋の女性ヴィヴィアンと結婚、子供も授かった。訪問セールスの仕事の合間に友人とゴスペル・バンドを組んで音楽を楽しむジョニーだったが、家計は苦しく、徐々に夫婦の仲も冷え切っていく。
そんなある日、ジョニーは街角で偶然見かけたレコード会社で、オーディションの機会を得る。そこで空軍時代に書いた囚人の心の叫びとも言える歌を熱唱し、その実力を認められる。そして瞬く間にプロのミュージシャンとしての第一歩を踏み出すことになった。早速、同じレコード会社のジェリー・リー・ルイスやエルヴィス・プレスリーらと全米中をツアーでまわっていた時、ジョニーは少年時代からの憧れだったジューン・カーターと出会い、すぐに意気投合する。この出会いが、これからの彼らの長い運命の始まりとなるのだった……。
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Ivan is a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War. His father, Izidor, was a well-known political prisoner in the former Yugoslavia, and is now standing as an independent candidate for the Croatian Parliament. Then a face from the past re-appears: an impoverished Serbian refugee called Simo, who has recently returned to the town. As an ex-communist official, Simo imprisoned Izidor decades ago. He knows certain facts about Izidor that could destroy his reputation and wreck his political campaign. Simo demands money, in return for his silence and he also has a secret rendezvous with Ivan's mother, Ana. Soon a long-buried secret surfaces once more - with huge repercussions for Ivan. He starts to provoke hard-line Croatians by singing Serbian nationalistic songs, daring them to kill him.
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