God has a grand design… Guess who has to build it? When Universal Pictures’ comedy Bruce Almighty arrived at the summer box office on Memorial Day weekend in 2003, it blew audiences and box-office records away. Director / Producer Üom Shadyac had crafted yet another film that spoke to moviegoers’ desires to suspend disbelief and…
Category: Family Films
Evening (2007)
Tagline: Her greatest secret was her greatest gift. Evening unites a stellar cast, and is based on the beloved novel by Susan Minot and adapted for the screen by Ms. Minot and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours), under the direction of Lajos Koltai (Fateless), who was previously an Academy Award nominated cinematographer. Evening…
Firehouse Dog (2007)
The world’s most famous – and Hollywood’s most pampered – pooch is separated from his owner and ends up as the mascot of a hapless fire station. There, he helps a 12-year-old boy and his father, a veteran fire chief, turn the station into the city’s finest. Rex, Hollywood’s top-grossing canine, is known for his…
Full of It (2007)
He couldn’t make it big, so he made it up. “Full of It” is a comedy about what happens to a habitual liar whose tall tales suddenly come true. Ryan Pinkston (Punk’d) stars as a 17-year-old who desperately tries to fit in at a new school by telling elaborate lies to impress the school’s most…
The Game Plan (2007)
“The Game Plan” tells the story of rugged superstar quarterback Joe Kingman (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), whose Boston-based team is chasing a championship. A ‘serial bachelor’, Kingman is living the ultimate fantasy: he’s rich, famous and the life of the party. But this dream is suddenly sacked for a loss when he discovers the 7-year-old…
Georgia Rule (2007)
Tagline: Mother. Daughter. Grandmother. In this family, attitude doesn’t skip a generation. “What do you think the rules were? Why would I waste my time on someone I didn’t care about?” — Georgia For the past 30 years, director Garry Marshal has mastered the genre of comedy/drama. He has drawn in audiences with his subtle…