Archive for July, 2005

SHOPGIRL

Monday, July 18th, 2005

Shop_1 Actors:
Steve Martin
Claire Danes
Jason Schwartzman
Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
Frances Conroy
Sam Bottoms
Rebecca Pidgeon
Joshua Snyder
Yorgo Constantine
Kimberly Demarse
Shane Edelman
Anne Marie Howard

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Plot:
Shopgirl is a funny and poignant story of love in the modern age. The film catches a glimpse inside the lives of three very different people on diverse paths, but all in search of the same thing. Mirabelle (Claire Danes) is a "plain Jane" overseeing the rarely frequented glove counter at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. An artist struggling to keep up with even the minimum payment on her credit card and student loans, she keeps to herself until a rich, handsome fifty something named Ray Porter sweeps her off her feet. Simultaneously, Mirabelle is being pursued by Jeremy, a basic bachelor who’s not quite as cultured and successful as Ray. When fate steps in, the outcome may not always be a storybook ending, because in the end - it was life

Happy Endings

Monday, July 18th, 2005

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Plot:
Mamie (LISA KUDROW) is being blackmailed. This filmmaker named Nicky (JESSE BRADFORD) claims to know Mamie’s son – the one she gave up for adoption – but Nicky won’t introduce her to him unless he can film their reunion. Enter Javier (BOBBY CANNAVALE), Mamie’s massage therapist boyfriend, who convinces Nicky to film him instead. Now they’re all making a movie about massage. And ‘happy endings’…

Charley (STEVE COOGAN) has a longtime boyfriend named Gil (DAVID SUTCLIFFE). Their best friends, Pam (LAURA DERN) and Diane (SARAH CLARKE), once tried using Gil as a sperm donor. They said his sperm didn’t take, but Charley thinks those control-freak lesbians are lying. Pam and Diane’s two-year-old son looks exactly like Gil. And it’s time to set the record straight…

Jude (MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL) is pissed. Not at anyone in particular. Just in general. When her cousin kicks her out of the house, Jude shacks up with Otis (JASON RITTER), who’s still trying to convince his father, Frank (TOM ARNOLD), that he’s straight. Frank’s a widower. And he’s rich. So Jude decides to sleep with him, too. Really. The last thing she expected was to fall in love…

Just when you thought you knew everything about love and dysfunction, along comes HAPPY ENDINGS, Lions Gate Films’ hilarious and heartfelt new comedy by writer/director Don Roos (THE OPPOSITE OF SEX, BOUNCE).

Featuring a talented ensemble cast that includes Tom Arnold, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Sarah Clarke, Steve Coogan, Laura Dern, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow, Jason Ritter and David Sutcliffe, HAPPY ENDINGS deftly weaves together multiple stories to create a sharp, witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictability of life itself. A feast of buried secrets, missed opportunities and welcome second chances, this wildly original comedy proves that the happiest ending of all is the one you least expect.


432x25201 Cast:

Lisa Kudrow
Tom Arnold
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Jesse Bradford

Steve Coogan
Laura Dern
Jason Ritter
Bobby Cannavale
Sarah Clarke
David Sutcliffe

PROOF

Monday, July 18th, 2005

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Plot:
"Proof" follows a devoted daughter (Paltrow) who comes to terms with the death of her father (Hopkins) a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental insanity — and is forced to face her own long-harbored fears and emotions. She adjusts to his death with the help of one of her father’s former mathematical students (Gyllenhaal) who searches through her father’s notebooks in the hope of discovering a bit of his old brilliance. While coming to terms with the possibility that his genius, which she has inherited, may come at a painful price, her estranged sister (Davis) arrives to help settle their father’s affairs.

Actors:
Gwyneth Paltrow
Anthony Hopkins
Jake Gyllenhaal
Hope Davis
Gary Houston
Anne Wittman
Daniel Hatkoff
John Keefe
Colin Stinton
Leigh Zimmerman