L’enclume 2010

L'enclume 2010

L’enclume 2010

L’enclume 2010
14min | Short, Comedy, Romance | 1 March 2010 (France)

Storyline:

Once upon a time, in the evening of his Birthday, a boy got from his parents a strange gift: an Anvil from which he would never separate. An uncomfortable load to carry, which will make his life particularly troubled, preventing him from doing what he wants, and even from approaching the girl he loves. But we are in a fairytale…And in fairy tales, everybody get a second chance.

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Struck by Lightning 2012

Struck by Lightning 2012

Struck by Lightning 2012

Struck by Lightning 2012
Not Rated | 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama | 11 January 2013 (USA)

Storyline:

A high school boy, desperate to escape the idiocy of the people in his hometown, tries to create a way in which he can move to New York, attend the college of his dreams and do something other than live in the footsteps of his drunken, divorced mother. Along the way he blackmails his fellow students into contributing to his literary magazine and discovers what it’s like to feel accomplished. Does he get accepted into the college of his dreams? Is he going to make a difference and follow his life goal?

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Nanny McPhee Returns 2010

Nanny McPhee Returns 2010

Nanny McPhee Returns 2010

Nanny McPhee Returns 2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (original title)
PG | 1h 49min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 20 August 2010 (USA)

Storyline:

Nanny McPhee arrives to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman’s children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.

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Nanny McPhee 2005

Nanny McPhee 2005

Nanny McPhee 2005

Nanny McPhee 2005
PG | 1h 37min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 27 January 2006 (USA)

Storyline:

Mr. Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) has just lost his wife and is now left with his seven children who misbehave so much, that all of the nannies have run away. Now he is told by a mysterious voice that he should get Nanny McPhee (Dame Emma Thompson), who is a magical woman with special powers.

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Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010

Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010

Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010

Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010
1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7 July 2010 (France)

Storyline:

When the mother they have never known dies, three half brothers aged 8, 15 and 17 respectively, who were all brought up in different ways, meet for the very first time. They spend the long summer holidays with Nonna, their grandmother, and start sharing secrets and rabbits, polenta and mean tricks, adventures and first time experiences, together. At last their once solitary lives take a new direction.

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The Rocking Horsemen 1992

The Rocking Horsemen 1992

The Rocking Horsemen 1992

The Rocking Horsemen 1992
Seishun dendekedekedeke (original title)
2h 15min | Comedy | 31 October 1992 (Japan)

Storyline:

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara Yasufumi Hayashi) hears “Pipeline” by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called “The Rocking Horsemen.” A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60’s.

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Almost Angels 1962

Almost Angels 1962

Almost Angels 1962

Almost Angels 1962
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Comedy, Family, Music | 20 July 1963 (Japan)

Storyline:

Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented. The standard initiation ordeals which new boys must endure at the hands of their seniors are intensified in his case because he has aroused the jealousy of Peter, the head chorister, by singing a solo which Peter had long sung himself. The fact is that Peter’s voice is breaking, and with a broken voice often comes a broken heart. But, encouraged by the director and all the boys, Peter begins to develop in a new role as composer and conductor.

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Dream a Little Dream 1989

Dream a Little Dream 1989

Dream a Little Dream 1989

Dream a Little Dream 1989
PG-13 | 1h 54min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 3 March 1989 (USA)

Storyline:

The lives of a crusty old scientist and a bratty, teen Michael-Jackson-wannabe are about to intersect in a paranormal way. Coleman Ettinger seeks to break down the door of reality through studied dreaming; Bobby Keller wants Lainie Diamond, the girlfriend of his high school friend Joel, a handsome school jock. As Coleman persuades his wife Gena to join his experiments, an accident knocks their bodies out of existence, along with Bobby’s consciousness. Coleman’s consciousness winds up in Bobby’s body while Gena’s ends up buried and asleep inside Lainie’s. Only when sleeping can Coleman contact Bobby and elicit his help in putting things back, except that Bobby smugly prefers limbo over his aggravated life as a modern teenager.

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