Learners (2007)
Sometimes Life Takes You in a New Direction...
Gênero : Comédia, Drama
Runtime : 1H 20M
Director : Francesca Joseph
Sinopse
Bev is a downtrodden housewife who's failed her driving test eight times, having only been instructed by her impatient husband Ian. After registering with a driving school, she develops a crush on her instructor, Chris.
Um famoso repórter do Cazaquistão viaja aos Estados Unidos para fazer um documentário sobre os hábitos dos cidadãos norte-americanos, provocando situações absurdas por onde passa.
A história decorre em Chicago, durante os anos da Depressão. Michael Sullivan é um gangster conhecido como Anjo da Morte. Paralelamente, Sullivan é um dedicado chefe de família, marido irrepreensível e pai de dois rapazes. Mas quando estes dois mundos colidem, levando as vidas da sua mulher e do seu filho mais novo, Sullivan embarcará numa viagem de vingança juntamente com o seu filho sobrevivente.
Rose Dooley (Maeve Higgins) é uma simpática instrutora de direção que possui habilidades sobrenaturais. Sempre requisitada para ajudar seus vizinhos, ela é chamada por Martin (Barry Ward) para examinar sua filha Sarah (Emma Coleman). Mal sabem eles que a adolescente está sendo oferecida em sacrifício por um rock star falido.
Les (Corey Haim) é um adolescente tentando aprender como dirigir e chamar a atenção de Mercedes (Heather Graham), uma garota popular do colégio. Les consegue um encontro com a garota e, para imprecioná-la, decide dirigir, mesmo não tendo uma licensa. Além de ir para o encontro sem a permissão dos pais, Les ainda pega emprestado o estimado carro do avô, um Cadillac.
Em uma manhã tranquila, Fred (Stanley Tucci) bate à porta do apartamento da bela Velvet (Alice Eve). Os dois não se vêem há mais de quatro anos, então a garota fica surpresa ao notar que o convidado chega com uma mala, cheio de expectativas. Aos poucos, enquanto se explicam, a antiga relação entre os dois é apresentada. Histórias de infidelidade e prostituição marcam o cruel jogo de manipulação entre eles.
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Bev is a downtrodden housewife who's failed her driving test eight times, having only been instructed by her impatient husband Ian. After registering with a driving school, she develops a crush on her instructor, Chris.
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.
The movie continues the story from the TV series which ended with a cliff hanger where the wife (Sonia Sui) was deciding whether to return to her cheating husband (James Wen) or have a relationship with her boss (Chris Wang). 4 years after the divorce, her cheating husband, Wen Rui Fan, comes back in hopes of re-kindling their love. Will An Zhen return back to him or move on to a new love?
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
Babis and Dinos have a driving school in partnership with several customers. And while fetching Dinos manages to combine a joy of life with his conquests, the Wretch Babis, left the thicker, the poor and elderly clients faculty ..
A car mechanic saves his friend from getting fired when money is missing at his office.
Two undercover police officers must try to prevent a multi-million dollar nuclear arms deal among several mob factions.
In the GDR, purchasing a car was such a difficult process that many families applied for one years in advance. For example, Gisela secretly orders a Wartburg model after the birth of her first child. By the time the vehicle is ready, her daughter is a teenager, and Gisela's husband, who actually prefers walking, has already bought a second Wartburg from a friend in financial trouble. As a result, the couple decides to sign up for driving school together.
Instrutor de auto-escola num colégio tem de enfrentar turma de bagunceiros estudantes, ensinando-os a dirigir, sob a ameaça de perder o emprego e a sanidade mental.
Kiyotaka Sato (Shuhei Nomura) is a university student. He is sociable, but he looks like he doesn't have interest in those around him. During his summer vacation, Kiyotaka Sato plans to get his driver's license to impress schoolmate Matsuda (Yukino Kishii). At this time, a yakuza boss (Ken Mitsuishi) orders Todoroki (Kento Kaku) to get his driver’s license. Todoroki doesn't show his feelings outwardly. Later, Todoroki drives a car without a driver’s license and he hits Kiyotaka Sato. To cover up the accident, Kiyotaka Sato is placed in a car and taken to away. He arrives at an unofficial driving school. The driving school is run by the Uehara family. There, Kiyotaka Sato and Todoroki learn that they graduated from the same high school. They spend their summer at the driving school.
An artist fired from his job comes home and discovers that his wife is having an affair and that she is leaving with her lover. He then sets off in pursuit of them, but in the process runs into another woman who is on the run from her crazed lover who is chasing her as much to get his stolen motorcycle back as he is to actually find her.
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to China (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who regretfully declines, citing respect for his wife.Carol sees as her only choice to accompany Walter to the village, where she meets booze-soaked Tim. He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospital-convent and Carol begins to re-evaluate her self-absorbed life and character. Working at the convent, Carol learns she is pregnant. She tells Walter she's unsure who is the father and he regrets her honesty. Shortly after, Walter contracts cholera and dies. Carol returns to Hong Kong and an uncertain future.
A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't get any better when Fridolf invites the clerk Lisa, who is newly employed and feels lonely, to his home, a visit that his jealous wife Selma does not appreciate.
A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kindergarten.