Providence (1977)
A Movie of Rare Intelligence
ジャンル : ドラマ, ファンタジー, コメディ
上映時間 : 1時間 50分
演出 : Alain Resnais
脚本 : David Mercer
シノプシス
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.
消防士として日々体を張って勇敢に炎に立ち向かい、仲間の窮地も救ってきたケイレブ。そんな消防士のかがみと言える彼も、プライベートでは妻キャサリンとの冷え切った夫婦関係に悩まされ、深い溝を埋められないまま離婚の危機を迎えていた。これまで、あまり妻のことに意を介さず、金銭面など自分のことしか考えてこなかったケイレブ。するとある日、彼は父から“Ｔｈｅ Ｌｏｖｅ Ｄａｒｅ”という日記のような物を受け取る。そこには４０日間に渡って相手に示す様々な愛の表現が記されていた。
On Christmas Eve, divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover Santa Claus has fallen off their roof. When Scott takes the reins of the magical sleigh, he finds he is now the new Santa, and must convince a world of disbelievers, including himself.
今年は恒例のクリスマスパーティーをしないと決めたクランク夫妻。ツリーもなし、飾りつけもなしと決め込んだ2人に、近所の風当たりは強くなっていき...。
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a horrible revenge.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.
70～80年代のポルノ業界を舞台にした作品。ディスコで皿洗いをしていたエディは股間のモノの大きさを買われポルノ男優としてデビュー、成功を収める。しかし次第に彼は傲慢になり……。
バルセロナを舞台に四角関係の恋愛を描いたロマンティック・コメディ。アメリカ人女性ふたりとスペイン人の画家、そして彼の元妻が各々の個性や恋愛観のもとに駆け引きを繰り広げる。スカーレット・ヨハンソンやハビエル・バルデムなどの演技に注目の一作。
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.
強大な力を持つヒーロー、ハンコックだが、酒好きでキレやすく市民には歓迎されていない。ある日、事故を防ぐために電車をエルボーで止めたハンコック。このときに助けられたPRマンのレイは、嫌われ者のハンコックに真のヒーローになってもらうべくさまざまな戦略を練る。
Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer is after her, and V realizes the suburbs are the perfect place to hide. But things get a lot more complicated when V falls in love with Tom, a single father who is unaware of her real profession.
ミツバチがアメリカからいなくなり、突然人々が自殺を始めた。髪留めで自らの首を刺す女性、工事現場で次々と飛び降りる作業員たち。果たしてこの行動の原因は何なのか?テロか、放射能汚染か、環境汚染か。
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
仕事に人生をささげた大富豪エドワード（ジャック・ニコルソン）と、家族のために地道に働いてきたカーター（モーガン・フリーマン）は、入院先の病室で知りあった。共に余命は6か月。やりたいことをすべてやり尽くそうと決意し、無謀にも病院を脱出。“やりたいことリスト”を手に、さまざまなことに挑戦する。
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.
Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic publisher.
