Category Archives: Drama
Taken 3
Release 2014
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Olivier Megaton
Writers: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Stars: Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Don Harvey
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2446042/
Ex-government operative Bryan Mills is accused of a ruthless murder he never committed or witnessed. As he is tracked and pursued, Mills brings out his particular set of skills to find the true killer and clear his name.
23 Blast
Release 2014
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Director: Dylan Baker
Writers: Bram Hoover, Toni Hoover
Stars: Mark Hapka, Bram Hoover, Stephen Lang, Max Adler, Alexa PenaVega
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2304459/
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
Dear White People
Release 2014
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Director: Justin Simien
Stars: Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Kyle Gallner, Teyonah Parris, Brandon P Bell
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2235108/
The lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.
The Best of Me
Release 2014
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Director: Michael Hoffman
Writers: J. Mills Goodloe, Will Fetters, Nicholas Sparks
Stars: Michelle Monaghan, James Marsden, Luke Bracey, Liana Liberato, Gerald McRaney
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1972779/
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Wild
Release 2014
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Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Writers: Nick Hornby, Cheryl Strayed
Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Keene McRae, Michiel Huisman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2305051/
A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent catastrophe.
Cake
Release 2014
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Director: Daniel Barnz
Writers: Patrick Tobin
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington, Mamie Gummer
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3442006/
Claire initiates a dubious relationship with a widower while confronting fantastical hallucinations of his dead wife.
Inherent Vice
Release 2014
Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
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Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon
Stars: Joanna Newsom, Katherine Waterston, Joaquin Phoenix, Jordan Christian Hearn, Taylor Bonin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1791528/
In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
The Gambler
Release 2014
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Director: Rupert Wyatt
Writers: William Monahan, James Toback
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Griffin Cleveland, Jessica Lange, Omar Leyva, Anthony Kelley
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2039393/
Lit professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?
Big Eyes
Release 2014
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Director: Tim Burton
Writers: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, Danny Huston
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1126590/
A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
Birdman
Release 2014
Genre Biography, Comedy, Drama
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Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Writers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
Stars: Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Kenny Chin, Jamahl Garrison-Lowe, Zach Galifianakis
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/
A washed-up actor who once played an iconic superhero must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory.