In a divided city friendship is the last line of defense. An exploration of the ancestors of Georg Hartmann, a German, and his Jewish partner Abby Kirban, both of whom live in Los Angeles. As the young couple dig up the pasts of their relatives, they learn that Abby’s grandfather worked in a bomb plant…
Category: Drama – Romance Movies
Dan in Real Life (2007)
Tagline: Something’s happening to Dan. It’s confusing. It’s awkward. It’s family. Comic sensation Steve Carell stars as an ordinary guy who accidentally stumbles out of his “play-itsafe” life into the exhilarating world of the unexpected when he falls in love on what was supposed to be a family getaway. Starring alongside standup star Dane Cook…
Death Sentence (2007)
Tagline: Protect what’s yours. Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) is an Everyman with a stable, comfortable life. He goes to work every day at his middle-management job at an insurance company. He goes home every night to his beautiful wife, Helen (Kelly Preston), and his two teenage sons, Brendan (Stuart Lafferty) and Lucas (Jordan Garrett). The…
December Boys (2007)
Tagline: After that summer nothing would ever be the same. Based on the classic Michael Noonan novel, December Boys is the story of four orphan teenagers growing up behind the closed doors of a Catholic convent in outback Australia during the 1960s. As the boys watch younger kids get adopted by loving families, they begin…
Dedication (2007)
Tagline: Life is a thin line between love and fate. Henry Roth is messed up. A New York children’s book author who tells kids that Santa doesn’t exist, he hates sleeping with- and next to- anyone, including his girlfriend and must lay on the floor, usually with heavy objects on top of him just to…
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” [AKA: Scaphandre et le papillon, Le] tells the story Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his…