Tagline: No stray gets turned away. Hotel for Dogs is an American family comedy film based on the 1971 Lois Duncan novel of the same name. The film, directed by Thor Freudenthal and adapted by Jeff Lowell, Bob Schooley, and Mark McCorkle, stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Troy Gentile, Kyla Pratt, Johnny Simmons, Lisa…
How About You Production Notes (2009)
About the Story Ellie Harris (Hayley Atwell) goes to her sister Kate’s (Orla Brady) residential home, Woodlane, in search of a job. Ellie has some trouble adjusting to her new job but quickly befriends a resident named Alice (Joan O’Hara). Ellie decides to have talks with Alice and neglects parts of her job, much to…
How About You (2009)
How About You is an Irish film directed by Anthony Byrne. The film is based on a short story sometimes published as “How About You” and sometimes published as “The Hard Core” in a collection of short stories titled “This Year It Will Be Different” by Maeve Binchy. How About You tells the story of…
Hunger (2009)
A drama documenting the last six weeks in the life of Irish Republican Army (IRA) member Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) who led the 1981 hunger strike to protest the treatment of his fellow prisoners. The final months of Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army activist who protested his treatment at the hands of British prison…
The Hurt Locker Production Notes (2009)
True Fiction: The Script The Hurt Locker, winner of the 2008 Venice Film Festival SIGNIS Grand Prize, is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military’s unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives in one of the world’s most dangerous places….
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Tagline: War is a drug. In the summer of 2004, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty) of Bravo Company are at the volatile center of the war, part of a small counterforce specifically trained to handle the homemade bombs, or Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), that account for more than half…