Movies found: 9, viewing from 1 to 9
L.A. Confidential
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1997
Country: USA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Graham Beckel, Steve Rankin, Guy Pearce, Paul Guilfoyle, Kevin Spacey, James Cromwell, Danny DeVito
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.
The River Wild
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Meryl Streep, William Lucking, Glenn Morshower, Benjamin Bratt, John C. Reilly, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Gail is a professional at water rafting. She twigs every day, and she is in a very good shape. She takes her family, one day, to a rafting trip down the river, but she has no idea that the planed trip is about to become a nightmare. Two escaping robbers with a handgun, meet the family in the way, and join them to the trip. Only later the Gail realize that their new friends are dangerous criminals, but it's too late. The two men force them to stay together, and to keep cruising down the river. The family's life are risked not only by the two men, but also by the river which becomes more stormy and wilder.
Wonder Boys
Year: 2000
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Japan
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Katie Holmes, Tobey Maguire, Michael Douglas, Jane Adams, Robert Downey Jr., Frances McDormand, Philip Bosco
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Grady Tripp is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer's block. Whilst doing this, he also manages to get the chancellor pregnant. In the meantime, he and a college student, James Leer are trying to find a rare jacket once owned by Marilyn Monroe, and a college girl, Hannah Green boarding with Grady has a bit of a crush on him.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Year: 1992
Country: USA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Ernie Hudson, Julianne Moore, John de Lancie, Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Annabella Sciorra, Mitchell Laurance
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Peyton Flanders seemed to be the perfect nanny, but secretly she was out to wreck the lives of the family she was supposed to be helping. Before becoming the nanny, Peyton had a miscarriage, and blamed it on Claire (the mother). Claire suspects nothing, having never met Peyton before.
Bad Influence
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: James Spader, Rob Lowe, Kathleen Wilhoite, Tony Maggio, Christian Clemenson, Susan Lee Hoffman, Marcia Cross
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then disappears. Later that night, while jogging, Michael runs into the stranger on a pier. He introduces himself as Alex, and the two go out to an under- ground club. Within a matter of days, Alex wheedles his way into Michael's life and turns it upside down, and Michael doesn't realize that Alex is a dangerous sociopath until it's too late.
Too Big to Fail
Genres: Drama
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Ben Livingston, John Heard, Cynthia Nixon, William Hurt, Kathy Baker, Edward Asner
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonder...
Lucky You
Year: 2007
Country: USA, Australia
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Saverio Guerra, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Danny Hoch, Charles Martin Smith, Eric Bana, Robert Downey Jr.
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In Las Vegas, Huck Cheever is a poker player, brilliant but also prone to let emotion take over. It's the week of the poker world series, and Huck must come up with the $10,000 entry fee, which he wins, loses, borrows, and loses - and even steals part of from Billie Offer, an earnest young woman who's new in town and who catches Huck's eye. By the time the tournament starts, Huck owes everyone. Complicating things is the arrival of Huck's father, whom Huck detests for having left his mother, a champion player in town to win. Can Huck learn to play poker the way he lives and to live the way he plays poker? Or is his only flush the sound of his...
8 Mile
Year: 2002
Country: Germany, USA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Michael Shannon, Evan Jones, Brittany Murphy, Mike Bell, Kim Basinger, Omar Benson Miller, Taryn Manning
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A rap version of "Saturday Night Fever." B-Rabbit, a wannabe rapper from the wrong side of Detroit's 8 Mile, has problems: he dumps his girlfriend when she tells him she's pregnant; to save money to make a demo tape, he moves into his alcoholic mom's trailer; his job's a dead end, and he's just choked at the local head-to-head rap contest. Things improve when he meets Alex - an aspiring model headed for New York - and a fast-talking pal promises to set up the demo. Then new setbacks: Alex isn't faithful, mom rejects him, rifts surface with his friends, and he's mugged by rivals. Everything hinges on the next rap showdown at the club. Can B-Ra...
In Her Shoes
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2005
Country: Germany, USA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Mark Feuerstein, Cameron Diaz, Richard Burgi, Toni Collette, Brooke Smith, Anson Mount, Candice Azzara
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well.