Ulee is called one day by his incarcerated son, Jimmy, asking for a favor. Jimmy will repay his debts if they save his wife, Helen, from hoodlums. Ulee must now risk his and his family’s lives to save Helen.
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Tag Archives: 1990s
Le Garcu / Le garçu (1995) Maurice Pialat, Gérard Depardieu, Géraldine Pailhas, Antoine Pialat, Drama
Antoine is four years old. His father Gerard leaves his mother Sophie. Gerard has several mistresses, but never knows how to leave them. Sophie takes a new lover, Jeannot.
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Paupjeonya / The Night Before the Strike (1990) Dong-hong Jang, Yun-hyeon Jang, Su Young Gong, Eun-Chae Kim, Drama
Dongseong Metal employs over 200 impecunious workers at its production plant. One day, a new worker named Ju Wan-ik joins the Forging Team, and the team members welcome him with drinks and good cheer. Read More »
Tic Tac (1997) Daniel Alfredson, Oliver Loftéen, Tuva Novotny, Jacob Nordenson, Drama, Thriller
The lives of various Swedes intersect in this drama, which takes place over the course of one day and night. As despondent schoolboy Micke (Oliver Lofteen) plans to set his school on fire, young thugs Jorma (Mats Helin) and Lasse (Emil Forselius) while their time away at a bar. Read More »
To Sleep with Anger (1990) Charles Burnett, Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Drama
African-American drifter Danny Glover shows up at the LA doorstep of his old pal Paul Butler. In the spirit of auld lang syne, Butler takes Glover in, though his wife (Mary Alice) is not happy with this intrusion. Read More »
Hu Du Men / Stage Door (1996) Kei Shu, Josephine Siao, Anita Yuen, Daniel Hiu Tung Chan, Comedy, Drama
Cross the Hu-du-men – the demarcation between the back and front stage in Cantonese opera, and you leave yourself behind to absorb totally in your character. Read More »
Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites / Five Days, Five Nights (1996) José Fonseca e Costa, Paulo Pires, Sinde Filipe, Vítor Norte, Drama
Portugal by the end of the 40’s. André escapes from jail and has to leave the country. In Oporto, some of his friends find him a guide, a drunken quarrelsome smuggler named Lambaça, who knows Trás-os-Montes border well.
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Traveller (1997) Jack N. Green, Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg, Julianna Margulies, Crime, Drama, Romance
A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended.
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A Tempestade da Terra / Earth Storm (1998) Fernando D’Almeida e Silva, Maria de Medeiros, João Grosso, Ângelo Torres, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year’s eve at 1957 gives way to 1958.
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Yom Yom / Day after day (1998) Amos Gitai, Moshe Ivgy, Hanna Maron, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Comedy, Drama
A slice of life – day after day – in Haifa, where Moshe and Didi’s marriage is on the rocks, affairs are casual, and Moshe’s angst about health, his parents, sex, communication, and business are pervasive and existential.
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