Jesse James [Brad Pitt] was one of the country’s first bona fide celebrities. There have been countless books written and tales told about America’s most famous outlaw—all of them colorful and fascinating, all focused on his larger-than-life public persona and daring exploits, and most of them bearing only incidental reference to the truth. To those…
Author: madeinatlantis
The Astronaut Farmer (2007)
Tagline: If we don’t have our dreams, we have nothing. Charles Farmer is a former astronaut-in-training who was discharged from the military before he could fulfill his dream of becoming a vital part of NASA. Having missed the opportunity to travel into space, he decides to build a replica of the historic Mercury-Atlas in the…
August Rush (2007)
August Rush tells the story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and a sheltered young cellist (Keri Russell) who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York’s Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets…
Atonement (2007)
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By…
Awake (2007)
Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen) is in love with Sam (Jessica Alba), his mother’s personal assistant who is mad and half sick of mental psychonomia. Clay requires a heart transplant. Dr. Jack Harper (Terrence Howard) is Clay’s heart surgeon and friend. Clay asks Dr. Harper to arrange his elopement with Sam. They marry privately at midnight,…
Away From Her (2007)
Tagline: Sometimes you have to let go of what you can’t live without. “Away From Her” is the lyrical screenplay adaptation of celebrated author Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” A beautifully moving love story that deals with memory and the circuitous, unnamable paths of a long marriage. Married for almost…