In the 5 years since Daniel Pearl’s death, nearly 230 journalists have been killed in the line of duty. On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia Bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi…
Category: Drama – Romance Movies
Across the Universe (2007)
Tagline: All you need is love. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, Revolution Studios’ Across the Universe is a groundbreaking movie musical, springing from the imagination of renowned writer director Julie Taymor, and and writers Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais, that brings together an original story and 33 revolutionary songs – including “Hey…
Alpha Dog (2007)
Tagline: How did a crime with this many witnesses go so far? “You ever have that dream: the one where you did something… You don’t know why, but you can never go back?” – Johnny Truelove Versatile filmmaker Nick Cassavates directs an impressive group of both young and veteran performers in Alpha Dog—inspired by actual…
Amazing Grace (2007)
Behind the song you love is a story you will never forget. In 1796 William Wilberforce is severely ill and taking a recuperative holiday in Bath, Somerset, with his cousin, Henry Thornton. It is here that William is introduced to his future wife, Barbara Spooner. Although he initially resists any romantic overtures, she convinces him…
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…