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The Quiet American (2002) Phillip Noyce, Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Thi Hai Yen Do

rarefilm — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 11:36:05 +0000

British Thomas Fowler enjoys his life in Saigon working as a reporter for the London Times, covering the war in Vietnam between the colonial French powers and the Communists, who seem to be winning the war. In the later stages of his career, he takes his job lightly now, filing stories only on occasion, and no longer doing field work. But most importantly, this posting allows him to escape from what he considers a dreary life in London, including an unsatisfying marriage to a Catholic woman, who will never grant him a divorce, which in turn allows him to have an affair with a young Vietnamese ex-taxi dancer named Phuong, whom he loves and would marry if he were able. Phuong’s sister doesn’t much like Fowler, if only because he cannot provide a stable future for her. His idyllic life is threatened when the head office suggests he go back to London. In this way, he decides to write a major story to prove to his superiors that he should stay in Saigon. In 1952, Fowler is called into the …

Also Known As (AKA): Der stille Amerikaner, O Americano Tranqüilo, Un Américain bien tranquille, El americano impasible

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File Name : The.Quiet.America.2002.720p.mkv
File Size : 2165.34 MB
Resolution : 1280×720
Duration : 01:40:40

Quality: BRRip
Language: English
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Vietnam, Australia, France, Canada
Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War

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Blast from the Past (1999) Hugh Wilson, Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken

rarefilm — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 21:56:27 +0000

Adam Weber is the child of an eccentric inventor and his wife. Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers in their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam Weber must venture out into Los Angeles and obtain food and supplies for his family. He meets Eve, who reluctantly agrees to help him out.

Also Known As (AKA): Eve und der letzte Gentleman, Buscando a Eva, Première sortie, Sbucato dal passato, O Namorado Atómico

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File Name : Blast.From.The.Past.1999.720p.mkv
File Size : 2001.91 MB
Resolution : 1280×720
Duration : 01:52:06

Quality: BRRip
Language: English
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

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The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) Philip Ridley, Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd, Viggo Mortensen

rarefilm — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:10:15 +0000

After the death of his strictly religious parents, forlorn young Darkly gets lost in the woods. A truck driver, Jude, rescues the exhausted man, who has only a bible for comfort. He brings him to the house of Callie and Clay, two lovers who live in the forest. While Clay is away in the forest, beautiful Callie nurses Darkly back to health, and he develops an obsession with her that is totally contrary to his upbringing – a sexual obsession. When Clay returns home and Darkly sees the two lovers kiss, it is too much for him. Every night he hears them making love. Darkly’s descent into madness has begun… An extremely dramatic and exciting ending!

Also Known As (AKA): Le jour du châtiment, Die Passion des Darkly Noon, Passeggiata nel buio, Sinistre ossessioni, A Paixão de Darkly Noon

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File Name : The_Passion_of_ Darkly_Noon_1995.mkv
File Size : 1019.93 MB
Resolution : 640×304
Duration : 01:36:36

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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Twenty Bucks (1993) Keva Rosenfeld, Linda Hunt, Brendan Fraser, Elisabeth Shue, Comedy, Drama

rarefilm — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:23:50 +0000

The film follows a $20 bill from its ATM birth to its eventual demise. Along the way, the note weaves in and out of the lives of a street person, an aspiring writer, a stripper, two thieves, and many others in surprising and inventive ways.

Most movies begin at their beginnings and march sternly toward their ends, convinced that the universe makes sense, and that effect follows cause. Once in a long while a film will try to subvert that certainty. Bunuel’s “The Phantom of Liberty” (1974) told one story for awhile, and then peeled off to follow another set of characters, and then another. Richard Linklater’s “Slacker” (1991) did the same thing, bouncing from one person to the next on a kind of guided tour of Austin, Texas.

And now here is the beguiling “Twenty Bucks,” which follows a $20 bill as it slips from one hand to another. There’s no deep point to be made; the device is simply an excuse to tell half a dozen short stories. But the very lightness of the premise gives the film a kind of freedom. We glimpse revealing moments in lives, instead of following them to one of those manufactured movie conclusions that pretends everything has been settled.

The bill originally finds its way into the hands of a street person (Linda Hunt), who is sure it will win her the lottery. Along the way it becomes a wedding gift, given to the groom (Brendan Fraser) by his wealthy future father-in-law (George Morfogen), as a warning that riches will not fall from trees. Then it finds its way into the garter belt of a stripper (Melora Walters) at the groom’s bachelor party, and from there it indirectly leads to the best of the film’s vignettes.

That’s the one involving Christopher Lloyd (the mad inventor in the “Back To The Future” movies) and Steve Buscemi, who run into each other by chance. Lloyd asks Buscemi if he’ll help him out with a few jobs he had in mind. He wants to pull some stickups. Buscemi thinks he’s crazy, but isn’t reluctant to go along, and then the caper takes on a crazy logic of its own.

Sometimes an actor will walk into a movie for 15 minutes or so, and show you such strength that you look at him altogether differently. That’s what Lloyd does here (Buscemi has done it too, in movies like “Reservoir Dogs” and “Mystery Train”). He doesn’t play the holdup man as a bad guy, but as a well-spoken, intelligent, logical, firm-minded character who has a chilling reserve. By the time his segment arrives at its unexpected conclusion, I was so absorbed, I’d basically forgotten about the 20 bucks and the rest of the movie.

But the rest is good, too, including a vignette starring Elizabeth Shue as a would-be writer who keeps getting put down. The story of Endre Boehm’s original screenplay is almost as problematic as the fate of the $20 bill. He wrote this story in 1935. It gathered dust for more than half a century before he handed it to his son, Leslie, who read it, liked it, did a rewrite, and saw it into production. Some of the language and situations (like the stripper at the bachelor party) were no doubt not in the original version, but the spirit seems to come through unchanged: A wonderment at the unpredictable world we live in, and the way chance plays a role in our lives, even when we’d like to think we’re calling the shots.

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