Movies starring Christopher Plummer
| Biography: Plummer, Arthur Christopher Orme |
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 22:06
The Last Station (2009) |
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| In 1910, acclaimed Russian novelist 'Leo Tolstoy' (qv), in the later stage of his life, works rather than a writer but as the leader of the Tolstoyan Movement, whose basic tenets are brotherly love and world peace through pacifism, and a denouncement of material wealth and physical love. His chief follower is Vladimir Chertkov, who does whatever he requires to advance the cause. Chertkov hires a young man named Valentin Bulgakov to be Tolstoy's personal secretary in carrying out this work. Once ensconced in the life on the estate where much of the work is taking place, Bulgakov quickly learns that many there take from the movement only what he/she wants/believes. Also chief amongst the movement's wants is the deeding of all Tolstoy's writings to the people so that after his death it will become public domain. Tolstoy's wife, the Countess Sofya Andreevna Tolstoy, believes that her husband's writings are rightfully hers after he passes, as she wants and believes she deserves the monetary benefits derived from such. This places a strain between those in the movement, especially Chertov and the Tolstoy's daughter Sasha, and the Countess. Bulgatov acts as the mediator between the parties, he who feels he needs to do what is truly in Tolstoy's heart regardless of what Tolstoy may say or do. Search keywords
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 07:06
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) |
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| Marcus Aurelius Antonius, philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir, Commodus. Overhearing this, Cleander, a blind prophet loyal to Commodus, presents Marcus with a poisoned apple. After the funeral, Livius, who does not share Lucilla's ambition for himself or Rome, allows Commodus to proclaim himself emperor. Lucilla marries Sohamus of Armenia. While pestilence ravages Rome, Commodus continues his vain, licentious behavior, neglecting all symptoms of unrest while banishing anyone reminding him of his responsibilities: Livius, Lucilla, Timonides the Greek. Search keywords
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 17:06
Dragnet (1987) |
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| Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange robberies, like i.e. the stealing of one bat, a 30 feet long snake and the mane of a lion from a zoo. All the latest BAIT magazines were also recently stolen, and some chemichals that when are mixed correctly develops a very deadly gas. All these thefts have one thing in common; visit cards with the word "PAGAN" left at the crime scenes. Solving these crimes, including why plenty of police vehicles have been stolen lately, involves the usual; to drink coffee at strip tease bars, rescue kidnapped virgins from drowning and lose the job. Search keywords
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010 04:02
American Tail, An (1986) |
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| Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America, a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World, he keeps up hope, searching for his family, making new friends, and running and dodging the cats he thought he'd be rid off. Search keywords
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010 03:02
The Sound of Music (1965) |
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| Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp's heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy. Search keywords
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 04:02
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) |
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 04:02
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) |
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 04:02
The Insider (1999) |
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| Tratto da un "caso" giudiziario di questi anni, il film racconta dell'incontro fra Jeffrey Wigand, dirigente di una importante compagnia di produzione del tabacco, e Lowell Bergman, produttore del famoso rotocalco televisivo '60 minutes'. Wigand è stato licenziato perchè dissente dalle politiche aziendali ed è convinto dal producer a testimoniare contro i suoi ex-padroni in una causa che dimostri il potere assuefativo della nicotina, cosa su cui si fondano le strategie di vendita delle aziende del tabacco. La CBS, proprietaria del network televisivo, decide all'ultimo momento di non trasmettere l'intervista, per timore di eventuali azioni legali da parte delle industrie del tabacco. Ma Bergman non si arrende e torna alla carica sulla carta stampata. Il caso finisce al Congresso americano che, nell'autunno del 1999, ratifica un accordo col quale i produttori di sigarette dovranno indennizzare gli stati che hanno fatto loro causa con la cifra di 246 miliardi di dollari. Questa la storia reale, ed anche quella del film. Search keywords
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 04:02
The Insider (1999) |
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| Tratto da un "caso" giudiziario di questi anni, il film racconta dell'incontro fra Jeffrey Wigand, dirigente di una importante compagnia di produzione del tabacco, e Lowell Bergman, produttore del famoso rotocalco televisivo '60 minutes'. Wigand è stato licenziato perchè dissente dalle politiche aziendali ed è convinto dal producer a testimoniare contro i suoi ex-padroni in una causa che dimostri il potere assuefativo della nicotina, cosa su cui si fondano le strategie di vendita delle aziende del tabacco. La CBS, proprietaria del network televisivo, decide all'ultimo momento di non trasmettere l'intervista, per timore di eventuali azioni legali da parte delle industrie del tabacco. Ma Bergman non si arrende e torna alla carica sulla carta stampata. Il caso finisce al Congresso americano che, nell'autunno del 1999, ratifica un accordo col quale i produttori di sigarette dovranno indennizzare gli stati che hanno fatto loro causa con la cifra di 246 miliardi di dollari. Questa la storia reale, ed anche quella del film. Search keywords
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 02:02
Wolf (1994) |
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 02:02
Wolf (1994) |
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 20:12
Dracula 2000 (2000) |
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| In the millenium version of this classic Gothic horror we find Abraham Van Helsing (Plummer), who has tangled with Count Dracula (Butler) in the past, working as an English antiques dealer. Simon (Miller) is a vampire hunter in training under his apprenticeship. Van Helsing and Simon travel from London to New Orleans to rescue Van Helsing's daughter Mary (Waddell) from the family's life long nemesis - Dracula. Search keywords
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009 22:11
Somewhere in Time (1980) |
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| The movie opens with college student Richard Collier gathering rave reviews for his new play. At the party, he comes face to face with an old woman who presses something in his hand and whispers, "Come back to me." He opens his hand to find an old pocket watch. Cut to several years later. Playwright Collier is in the midst of a break-up and writers block. He leaves the city for awhile to think things out and finds himself near his alma mater at the Grand Hotel. While wandering around the hotel, he finds a photograph of a beautiful young woman. Richard is entranced, and tries to find out all he can about her. During the course of his research he learns she was Elise McKenna, an actress from the turn of the century. He also discovers that she was the mysterious old woman who gave him the watch. Finally determining that he must meet her somehow, he employees self-hypnosis and wills himself back to 1912. He meets Elise and they fall in love, which does not make her manager, William Fawcett Robinson, happy at all. Will their love survive Robinson's disapproval? Will Richard be able to stay in 1912? Search keywords
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 18:10
9 (2009) |
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| When 9 (voice of Elijah Wood) first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they'll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them. Search keywords
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 14:07
Up (2009) |
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| A young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure spirited girl named Ellie. They both dream of going to a Lost Land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. Then, when he inadvertently hits a construction worker, he is forced to go to a retirement home. But before they can take him, he and his house fly away. However he has a stowaway aboard. An 8 year old boy named Russell, whose trying to get an assisting the elderly badge. Together, they embark in an adventure, where they encounter talking dogs, an evil villain and a rare bird named Kevin. Search keywords
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Friday, June 5th, 2009 15:06
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) |
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| An accident on the Klingon moon Praxis forces the reluctant Klingon Empire into a peace treaty with the Federation. Kirk, despite his mistrust of the Klingons after they murdered his son at Genesis, is forced to escort a Klingon cruiser carrying the Klingon Chancellor to Earth for the meetings. During the voyage the Klingon cruiser is attacked, and Kirk & McCoy are taken prisoner after the Chancellor is murdered by two Starfleet crewmen. Spock immediately begins an investigation, while Kirk & McCoy are sentenced to life on Rura Penthe - a deep-frozen asteroid. Spock, meanwhile, has discovered that a Klingon Bird of Prey - one that can fire when cloaked, and under the command of Kingon General Chang - is the ship responsible for firing on the Chancellor, and the 2 assassins came from the Enterprise. A rescue of Kirk & McCoy is successful, after which they discover a conspiracy among Starfleet, Klingon, and Romulan officials whose plan is to incite a full-blown war! The Enterprise & Excelsior - under the command of Hikaru Sulu - head for a deadly rendezvous with General Chang at the peace summit to prevent war from breaking out...but will they be too late? Search keywords
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Friday, February 27th, 2009 14:02
Starcrash (1978) |
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| A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartham. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing. Search keywords
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 15:02
Murder by Decree (1979) |
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| Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons. Homes races to save the life of Annie Crook who has been forcibly incarcerated in an insane asylum and that of her friend Mary Kelly, in whom she has entrusted her secret. Search keywords
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 15:01
Blizzard (2003) |
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| A young girl's aunt tells her story of a young person is Skater and enchanted reindeer.
En ung piges tante fortæller hende historien om en ung is Skater og en fortryllet rensdyr. Search keywords |
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 19:11
The Man Who Would Be King (1975) |
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| " The Man Who would Be the King" is approximately two ambitious ex-soldiers placed in India who tried to become the chiefs of an entire country. After finishing his trip of the duty in India, Daniel Dravot y Peachy Carnehan they have decided that India is "too small to like them," then they decide to bribe a local chief and start his money, in order to buy twenty rifles of Martini, which they will use to assume villages in Kafristan. They are opposite many challenges and dangers along the way, enclosed difficult area, hostile natives, glacial temperatures, and a high avalanche in the mountains. They finally come to a small people, Urheb, where they find Ootah and Billy Fish, an Indian who speaks English; he then becomes his translator. They then train to the natives of this people to use the rifles, and soon to conquer the village after the people. During a battle, Daniel is struck by an arrow that seemingly sticks of his breast. The ignorant natives believe that he must be Dios not to have died, and to fall down and to begin to adore him. Daniel and Peachy decide that it would be easier for "God" to assume the country, then they feign that Daniel is a God, the son of Alejandro Magno who has returned after 2200 years to govern again Kafristan. The entire country celebrated the return of his new chief, the Son of Second ("Alexander). As a sign of his admiration, the fullest of holes of holy men gives to Daniel all the gold and wealth left by Alexander in 328 B. C. It is enough to do them the men richest in the world. Everything is fine up to Daniel's ego and avarice obtains the best of him. He asks Peachy to double when he walks in front of him. He later says to Peachy that he has decided to remain, and now he believes that he is the son of Alexander ('in the spirit, anyways"), and that to realize his destination, he will marry Roxanne, as his "father Alexander" did not do before him. Kafiri believes that a mortal one cannot marry God, but Daniel goes forward anyhow. Peachy was done to leave with his part of the treasure, but Daniel convinced him to remain "for the good of the old time" for the wedding. In the ceremony, Roxanne, believing that she would die prompt, bites Daniel, drawing the blood. The entire crowd realizes that since Danny bleeds, that he is a man, not God, and that he them has been cheating the entire time. Peachy fills with enthusiasm Daniel and they escape with his twenty soldiers, shooting the monks' crowd that they them tried to kill. They are captured finally, and Daniel is forced to do strike in a rope bridge. The monks cut the ropes, and Daniel with valor falls down to his death. Peachy is crucified later; when they come to see him on the following day, he is still alive, and they say that it is a miracle through that he lived and they reduce him. He finally bends in the vale and recovers at the head of Danny, still taking the crown. He returns it to Rudyard Kipling, a writer for the Star of the North, like the test that Daniel carried out his target, and became the King of Kafristan. The topics developed in the history: 1. ambition 2. friendship 3. capture of risks 4. perseverance (without giving up) 5. to be able 6. honor and dignity.
" El Hombre Que Sería el Rey" es aproximadamente dos ex-soldados ambiciosos colocados en India quién intentó hacerse los jefes de un país entero. Después de terminar su viaje del deber en India, Daniel Dravot y Peachy Carnehan han decidido que India es "demasiado pequeña para gustar de ellos," entonces ellos deciden sobornar a un jefe local y arrancar el dinero de él, a fin de comprar veinte rifles de Martini, que ellos usarán para asumir pueblos en Kafristan. Ellos están enfrente de muchos desafíos y peligros a lo largo del camino, incluso terreno difícil, naturales hostiles, temperaturas glaciales, y un alud alto en las montañas. Ellos finalmente vienen a un pequeño pueblo, Urheb, donde ellos encuentran Ootah y Billy Fish, un indio que habla inglés; él entonces se hace su traductor. Ellos entonces entrenan a los naturales de este pueblo usar los rifles, y pronto conquistar el pueblo después del pueblo. Durante una batalla, Daniel es golpeado por una flecha que aparentemente se pega de su pecho. Los naturales ignorantes creen que él debe ser Dios para no haber muerto, y caerse y comenzar a adorarle. Daniel y Peachy deciden que sería más fácil para "Dios" asumir el país, entonces ellos fingen que Daniel es Dios, el hijo de Alejandro Magno que ha vuelto después de 2200 años para gobernar otra vez Kafristan. El país entero celebró la vuelta de su nuevo jefe, el Hijo de Segunda ("Alexander"). Como una señal de su admiración, el más lleno de agujeros de hombres santos da a Daniel todo el oro y riqueza dejada por Alexander en 328 B. C. Es bastante hacerlos los hombres más ricos en el mundo. Todo va bien hasta ego de Daniel y avaricia consigue el mejor de él. Él pide a Peachy doblarse cuando él anda delante de él. Él más tarde dice a Peachy que él ha decidido quedarse, y ahora cree que él es el hijo de Alexander ('en el espíritu, anyways"), y que para realizar su destino, él se casará con Roxanne, como su "padre Alexander" no hizo antes de él. Kafiri cree que un mortal no puede casarse con Dios, pero Daniel sigue adelante de todos modos. Peachy fue hecho marcharse con su parte del tesoro, pero Daniel le convenció de quedarse "para el bien del viejo tiempo" para la boda. En la ceremonia, Roxanne, creyendo que ella moriría pronto, muerde a Daniel, dibujando la sangre. La muchedumbre entera realiza que ya que Danny sangra, que él es un hombre, no Dios, y que él ha estado engañándolos el tiempo entero. Peachy entusiasma a Daniel y ellos se escapan con sus veinte soldados, disparando a la muchedumbre de monjes que intentaron matarlos. Ellos son finalmente capturados, y Daniel es obligado a hacer huelga en un puente de cuerda. Los monjes cortan las cuerdas, y Daniel con valentía se cae a su muerte. Peachy es crucificado más tarde; cuando ellos vienen para verle al día siguiente, él todavía está vivo, y ellos dicen que es un milagro que él vivió y ellos le reducen. Él finalmente se baja en el valle y recupera a la cabeza de Danny, todavía llevando la corona. Él lo devuelve a Rudyard Kipling, un escritor para la Estrella del Norte, como la prueba que Daniel llevó a cabo su objetivo, y se hizo el Rey de Kafristan. Los temas se desarrollaron en la historia: 1. ambición 2. amistad 3. toma de riesgos 4. perseverancia (no rindiéndose) 5. poder 6. honor y dignidad. Search keywords
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