Category Archives: Drama
We Bought a Zoo
Release 2011
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Director: Cameron Crowe
Writers: Aline Brosh McKenna, Cameron Crowe, Benjamin Mee
Stars: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Colin Ford, Maggie Elizabeth Jones
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389137/
Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.
The Lincoln Lawyer
Release 2011
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Director: Brad Furman
Writers: John Romano, Michael Connelly
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, Josh Lucas
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189340/
A defense attorney has a crisis of conscience when he represents a wealthy client who has a foolproof plan to beat the system.
Decoding Annie Parker
Release 2013
Genre Drama
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Director: Steven Bernstein
Writers: Adam Bernstein, Steven Bernstein, Michael Moss
Stars: Aaron Paul, Alice Eve, Maggie Grace, Rashida Jones, Corey Stoll
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464191/
Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease and comedy, the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer.
Snitch
Release 2013
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Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Writers: Justin Haythe, Ric Roman Waugh
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pepper, Jon Bernthal, Susan Sarandon, Michael K. Williams
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0882977/
A father goes undercover for the DEA in order to free his son who was imprisoned after being set up in drug deal.
The Best Man Holiday
Release 2013
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Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Stars: Monica Calhoun, Morris Chestnut, Melissa De Sousa, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2083355/
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
The Trials of Cate McCall
Release 2013
Genre Drama
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Director: Karen Moncrieff
Stars: Kate Beckinsale, David Lyons, Taye Diggs, James Cromwell, Nick Nolte
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323973/
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
The Lifeguard
Release 2013
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Director: Liz W. Garcia
Stars: Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Alex Shaffer, Joshua Harto
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2265534/
A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.
The Help
Release 2011
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical
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Director: Tate Taylor
Writers: Tate Taylor, Kathryn Stockett
Stars: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454029/
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
Side Effects
Release 2013
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Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: Scott Z. Burns
Stars: Rooney Mara, Carmen Pelaez, Marin Ireland, Channing Tatum, Polly Draper
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2053463/
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.