Tagline: Three relationships. Three disasters. Will, a 30-something Manhattan dad in the midst of a divorce, is surprised when his 10-year-old daughter, Maya (Breslin), starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. His story begins in 1992, as a…
Category: Drama – Romance Movies
Doubt (2008)
John Patrick Shanley brings his play DOUBT to the screen, in a story about the quest for truth, the forces of change, and the devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by moral conviction. It’s 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), is trying to…
Drillbit Taylor (2008)
Tagline: You get what you pay for. Ryan, Wade and Emmit attend their first day at high school and they’re pumped…until they meet up with Filkins, a school bully who comes off like a little Hannibal Lecter. After being harrased by a school bully, two teenagers hire a former soldier of fortune (Wilson) as a…
The Duchess (2008)
Tagline: There were three people in her marriage. The scandalous rise and fall of the Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. Like Princess Diana, her direct descendent, she was beautiful, glamorous and adored by the public. Keira Knightley plays the 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire. An ancestor of Princess Di, she lived an extravagant, profligate…
The Edge of Heaven (2008)
Retired widower Ali (Tuncel Kurtiz) sees a solution to loneliness when he meets prostitute Yeter (Nursel Kose) Ali proposes to the fellow Turkish native to live with him in exchange for a monthly stipend. Ali’s son Nejat (Baki Davrak) a university professor, seems disapproving about his boorish father’s choice. But the young German man quickly…
The Express (2008)
Tagline: He changed our country… One yard at a time. The life story Ernie Davis, the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy, whose NFL career was cut short by leukemia. Based on a true story, The Express follows the extraordinary life of college football hero Ernie Davis (Rob Brown), the first African-American to…