Tagline: A Life Misunderestimated. A Yale graduate, a transplanted son of Texas, a onetime drunk, a recent convert, George W. Bush was many things but, fundamentally, he was a baseball fan. He always appreciated the elegance of baseball and certainly respected the game’s doubleheaded elements of luck and skill. Had things gone differently, he would…
Category: Drama – Romance Movies
Water Lilies (Naissance des Pieuvres) (2008)
Water Lilies (French: Naissance des Pieuvres meaning “birth of the octopuses”) is a 2007 French film and the debut as a screenwriter and director of Céline Sciamma. The film tracks the sexual awakenings of three 15-year-old female friends in a middle class suburb of Paris over the course of a single summer. Finding privacy in…
The Wrestler (2008)
Back in the late ’80s, Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, twenty years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any real…
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2008)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is Cristian Mungiu’s staggering story of friendship and sacrifice during the last days of Romanian communism. This stunning film, which won the 2007 Cannes Palme d’Or and the Fipresci Prize for Film of the Year, was also featured at the Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals and…
21 (2008)
Tagline: Inspired by the true story of five students who changed the game forever. “21,” based on Ben Mezrich’s best-selling nonfiction book “Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions,” revolves around a group of young men who become experts in the art of card counting. Ben…