Biography: John Cusack is, like most of his characters, an unconventional hero. Wary of fame and repelled by formulaic Hollywood fare, the Chicago-born actor has built a successful career from playing underdogs and odd men out--all the while avoiding the media spotlight. With the exception of mom, Nancy (a former math teacher), the Cusack clan is all show business: father Dick Cusack is an actor and filmmake ... show all John Cusack is, like most of his characters, an unconventional hero. Wary of fame and repelled by formulaic Hollywood fare, the Chicago-born actor has built a successful career from playing underdogs and odd men out--all the while avoiding the media spotlight. With the exception of mom, Nancy (a former math teacher), the Cusack clan is all show business: father Dick Cusack is an actor and filmmaker, and John's siblings Joan Cusack, Ann Cusack, Bill Cusack, and Susie Cusack are all thespians by trade.
Like his brother and sisters, John became a member of Chicago's Piven Theatre Workshop while he was still in elementary school. By age 12, he already had several stage productions, commercial voiceovers, and industry films under his belt. He made his feature film debut at 17, acting alongside Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy in the romantic comedy "Class (1983)".
His next role, as a member of Anthony Michael Hall's geek brigade in "The Sixteen Candles (1984)", put him on track to becoming a teen-flick fixture. Cusack remained on the periphery of the Brat Pack, sidestepping the meteoric rise and fall of most of his contemporaries, but he stayed busy with leads in films like "Sure Thing (1985)" and "Better Off Dead... (1985)".
Young Cusack is probably best remembered for what could be considered his last adolescent role: the stereo-blaring romantic Lloyd Dobler in "The Say Anything... (1989)". A year later, he hit theaters as a grown-up, playing a bush-league con man caught between his manipulative mother and headstrong girlfriend in "Grifters (1990)".
The next few years were relatively quiet for the actor, but he filled in the gaps with off-screen projects. He directed and produced several shows for the Chicago-based theater group The New Criminals, which he founded in 1988 (modeling it after Tim Robbins 's Actors' Gang in Los Angeles) to promote political and avant-garde stage work. Four years later, Cusack's high school friends Steve Pink and D.V. DeVincentis joined him in starting a sister company for film, New Crime Productions. New Crime's first feature was the sharply written comedy "Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)", which touched off a career renaissance for Cusack. In addition to co-scripting, he starred as a world-weary hitman who goes home for his 10-year high school reunion and tries to rekindle a romance with the girl he stood up on prom night (Minnie Driver). In an instance of life imitating art, Cusack actually did go home for his 10-year reunion (to honor a bet about the film's financing) and ended up in a real-life romance with Driver.
Cusack's next appearance was as a federal agent (or, as he described it, "the first post-Heston, non-biblical action star in sandals") in "Con Air (1997)", a movie he chose because he felt it was time to make smart business decisions. He followed that up with Clint Eastwood's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)", in which he played a Yankee reporter entangled in a Savannah murder case. Cusack has always favored offbeat material, so it was no surprise when he turned up in the fiercely original "Being John Malkovich (1999)". Long-haired, bearded, and bespectacled, he was almost unrecognizable in the role of a frustrated puppeteer who stumbles across a portal into the brain of actor John Malkovich. The convincing performance won him a Best Actor nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards. In 2000, Cusack was back to his clean-shaven self in "High Fidelity (2000)", another New Crime production. He worked with Pink and DeVincentis to adapt Nick Hornby 's popular novel (relocating the story to their native Chicago), then starred as the sarcastic record store owner who revisits his "Top 5" breakups to find out why he's so unlucky in love.
The real Cusack has been romantically linked with several celebs, including Driver, Alison Eastwood, Claire Forlani, and current squeeze Neve Campbell. He's also something of a family man, acting frequently opposite sister Joan and pulling other Cusacks into his films on a regular basis. He seems pleased with the spate of projects on his horizon, but admits that he still hasn't reached his ultimate goal: to be involved in a "great piece of art." hide |
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| Lane Meyer is obsessed with his girlfriend Beth and is crushed when she falls for the new captain of the ski team, Roy. After several failed suicide attempts, narrow escapes from the relentless paper boy, and nearly unbearable dinners at home with his crazy family, Lane finds a new love in French exchange student Monique Junot. Meanwhile, he must beat Roy on the slopes to regain his honor. Search keywords
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Categories: 1985, Comedy, Romance, USA
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| Disappointed at the way their lives have turned out, four longtime friends reunite at the ski resort where they used to party and find themselves transported back to the year 1986 by a magical jacuzzi. Adam (John Cusack), Lou (Rob Corddry), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Jacob (Clark Duke) have all seen better days; Adam's and Nick's love lives are in the dumps, Lou is clinging to his hard-partying past, and video-game addict Jacob can't even muster the courage to walk outside. A fun stay at the ski resort where the gang made some of their best memories seems like just the thing to cheer everyone up, but after a night of heavy drinking in the hot tub, the four friends wake up to find they're about to live through the '80s a second time. Determined not to make the same mistakes twice, Adam, Lou, Nick, and Jacob decide to take full advantage of the unique opportunity presented to them, and create the lives they've always wanted. Chevy Chase, Crispin Glover, and Lizzy Caplan co-star. Search keywords
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Categories: 2010, Canada, Comedy, USA
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| Nick "The Zone" Falzone is an air traffic controller at New York TRACON, where it's busy 24 hours a day. He's acknowledged as the best, until a quiet guy Russell Bell arrives on the scene from the Southwest somewhere. Russell and his wife Mary don't quite fit into the close-knit community of controllers and their wives, and a rivalry soon builds. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Comedy, Drama, Germany, USA
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| Gwen and Eddie were at one time Hollywood's premier couple on and off the screen. But during the filming of their latest movie, Gwen took up with a Latin guy she met on the set. She and Eddie have since split up. Now their movie is ready to be shown but the director will only first show it at the press junket. But the studio boss, concerned of what the movie will be, instructs Lee his P.R. man to handle to junket and to try and distract the press from asking about the movie by making them think that Gwen and Eddie are back together. Only problem is that he just fired Lee, but after giving in to Lee's demands he agrees. Lee enlists the aid of Gwen's assistant, Kiki, who is her sister to help. When they get to the junket, things are still tense between them. And Kiki is trying hard to keep in check her feelings for Eddie. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Comedy, Romance, USA
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| Anastasia, the daughter of the last Russian czar, is at a party, when Rasputin, an evil monk, declares a curse on the Romanov family. Anastasia and her grandmother escape with the help of a young kitchen boy Dimitri, but Anastasia falls, hits her head, and loses her memory. Ten years later, Anya (Anastasia) leaves the orphanage where she grew up, and goes to St. Petersburg with her puppy fried Pooka. There she meets a grown-up Dimitri, and his friend, Vladimir, who are holding auditions, for an "Anastasia" to fool the empress, and get a lot of money. They choose Anya, and take her to Paris. Rasputin, who has died, uses minions to try and kill Anya, failing twice. During the course of all these events, Dimitri and Anya fall in love. Search keywords
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Categories: 1997, Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, USA
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| It's a drama about theatre life in the 1930s during the times of the Great Depression, the Red Scare (communism), facism, unions, Hitler, Mussolini, New York mayor Nelson Rockefeller, director Orson Welles, painter Diego Rivera, and William Randolph Hearst. This film focuses on the lives of several people during hard times in New York as many struggle to find their place in America. The main focus of the film is a play entitled "Cradle Will Rock," which tells a pro-union story about lower class workers trying to survive in a growing power-hungry world. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Drama, USA
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| Craig, a puppeteer, takes a filing job in a low-ceilinged office in Manhattan. Although married to the slightly askew Lotte, he hits on a colleague, the sexually frank Maxine. She's bored but snaps awake when he finds a portal leading inside John Malkovich: for 15 minutes you see, hear, and feel whatever JM is doing, then you fall out by the New Jersey Turnpike. Maxine makes it commercial, selling trips for $200; also, she's more interested in Lotte than in Craig, but only when Lotte is inside JM. JM finds out what's going on and tries to stop it, but Craig sees the portal as his road to Maxine and to success as a puppeteer. Meanwhile, Lotte discovers others interested in the portal. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, USA
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| Craig, a puppeteer, takes a filing job in a low-ceilinged office in Manhattan. Although married to the slightly askew Lotte, he hits on a colleague, the sexually frank Maxine. She's bored but snaps awake when he finds a portal leading inside John Malkovich: for 15 minutes you see, hear, and feel whatever JM is doing, then you fall out by the New Jersey Turnpike. Maxine makes it commercial, selling trips for $200; also, she's more interested in Lotte than in Craig, but only when Lotte is inside JM. JM finds out what's going on and tries to stop it, but Craig sees the portal as his road to Maxine and to success as a puppeteer. Meanwhile, Lotte discovers others interested in the portal. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, USA
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| When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash. Search keywords
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Categories: 1993, Comedy, Crime, Drama, USA
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| An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Action, Canada, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
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| John colleges (jib) decided to go cross-country to visit his friend in California during the winter break Gibson. Bikini his friends "who dressed in a pretty solid guarantee is" on hold. Meanwhile, Allison is cute (but slightly retained) also decided to cal anal girl in the head at the University of the jib. Appears in the rest of her boyfriend. ARISONJIBU with the road trip from hell, and will be promoted along the way somewhere, be allowed to find each other's company. Now, the jib, "or will they be sure? "
大学新入生のジョン（ジブ）ギブソン冬休み中にカリフォルニア州で彼の友人を訪問するクロスカントリー行くことにしました。ビキニ友人が彼を"確実なものである保証を着たかわいい人は"待機中。一方、アリソンは、かわいい（しかしやや保持）ジブの大学での少女の頭を肛門も校正することを決めた。休憩中の彼女のボーイフレンドが表示されます。アリソンジブと一緒に、地獄からの道路の旅行には、どこかの道に沿って推進されると、お互いの会社を見つける許容される。今、何ジブの"確実なものになるのだろうか？ " Search keywords
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Categories: 1985, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, USA
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| Jonathan Träger and Sara Thomas met while shopping for gloves in New York. Although buying for their respective lovers, the magic was right, and a night of Christmas shopping turned into romance. Jon wanted to examine things further, but Sara was not sure whether their love was meant to be. They decided to test fate by splitting up and see if fate brought them together again ... Many years later, after having lost each other that night, both are engaged to be married. Still, neither can shake the need to give fate one last chance to reunite them. Jon enlists the help of his best man to track the girl he can not forget, starting with the store where they met. Sara asks her new age musician fiance for a break before the wedding, and with her best friend in tow, flying from California to New York hope fate will bring her friend back. Dangerous situations and classic Shakespearean confusion bring the two close to meeting a number of times, but fate will have the last word on whether it was meant to be.
Jonathan Trager og Sara Thomas opfyldt samtidig med shopping for handsker i New York. Selv om opkøb for deres respektive kærester, det magiske havde ret, og en nat i julen shopping omdannet til romantik. Jon ønskede at undersøge tingene nærmere, men Sara var ikke sikker på, at deres kærlighed var tænkt som. De besluttede at prøve skæbne ved at opdele op og se, om skæbnen bragte dem sammen igen ... Mange år senere, efter at have mistet hinanden den aften, både er engageret til at blive gift. Stadig, hverken kan ryste det er nødvendigt at give skæbne en sidste chance for at genforene dem. Jon enlists hjælp fra sin bedste mand til at spore den pige han kan ikke glemme, begyndende med den forretning, hvor de mødtes. Sara spørger hendes nye alder musiker forlovede for en pause, før brylluppet, og med hendes bedste ven på slæb, flyver fra Californien til New York håber skæbne vil bringe hendes ven tilbage. Farlige situationer og klassiske Shakespearean forvirring bringe de to tæt på at opfylde en række gange, men skæbnen vil have det sidste ord om, hvorvidt det var meningen at den skal være. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, USA
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| "Igor" is an in joke irreverent comedy which brings a new twist in the type of classical monster. In the world filled with scientists madmen and Mediocre Inventions, the helper of hunchbacked laboratory of a gifted scientific villain has big dreams to become a scientist madman himself and to earn the Mediocre Fair of annual Science.
"Igor" est une comédie pour plaisanter irrévérencieuse qui apporte un nouveau tortillon au genre de monstre classique. Dans un monde rempli des Scientifiques Fous et les Méchantes Inventions, l'assistant de laboratoire bossu d'un méchant scientifique doué a de grands rêves de devenir un Scientifique Fou lui-même et gagner la Méchante Foire de Science annuelle. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Animation, Comedy, USA
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| Peter Burton and Tim Garrity are both when they go to the legal school. Tim comes from a family tributary, while Peter comes from the class of work, of which it links if it disgraces somewhat. Tim a noble person who wants to do what is certain, while Peter when what he takes to be successful disposed to do everything. And this includes the extortion and the intimidation. And when his last scheme burns Tim, Tim decides to discover if Peter deliberadamente betrayed it or if the man links work, John Palmeri does the fez and if so to do them answer for him.
Peter Burton e Tim Garrity ambos encontram-se quando eles vão à escola legal. Tim vem de uma família afluente, enquanto Peter vem da classe de trabalho, da qual ele se envergonha pouco. Tim uma pessoa nobre que quer fazer o que é certo, enquanto Peter disposto a fazer tudo o que ele tome para ter êxito. E isto inclui a extorsão e a intimidação. E quando o seu esquema último queima Tim, Tim decide descobrir se Peter deliberadamente o traiu ou se o homem ele trabalha, John Palmeri o fez o faça e se assim fazê-los respondam por ele. Search keywords
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Categories: 1991, Drama, USA
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| A political satire sentence in Turaqistan, a country which, that by an American private union is taken from a former US vice president (Aykroyd) is led. To monopolise the opportunities the war-sly nation offers, does of the CEO of the union an uneasy killer (Cusack) to kill a Nahostölminister. Now, with his own growing demons fighting, the murderer must be economical on the fair producer of the union to pull away this last success, while he maintains his lid, while he organises the noteworthy wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (flour pudding) an incredible popstar eastern to means, and keeps a reporter of the erotic left wing (Tomei) under control.
Ein politischer Satire-Satz in Turaqistan, ein Land, das, das von einer amerikanischen privaten Vereinigung besetzt ist von einem ehemaligen US-Vizepräsidenten (Aykroyd) geführt ist. Um die Gelegenheiten die Krieg-gerissenen Nationsangebote zu monopolisieren, stellt der CEO der Vereinigung einen beunruhigten Killer (Cusack) an, um einen Nahostölminister zu töten. Jetzt, mit seinen eigenen wachsenden Dämonen kämpfend, muss der Mörder für den Messe-Erzeuger der Vereinigung ausgeben, um diesen letzten Erfolg wegzuziehen, indem er seinen Deckel aufrechterhält, indem er die bemerkenswerte Hochzeit von Yonica Babyyeah (Mehlpudding) ein unerhörter mittelöstlicher Popstar organisiert, und einen Reporter des erotischen linken Flügels (Tomei) unter Kontrolle behält. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| The teacher Sarah at preschool (Diane Lane) parted from her beloved man before eight moths, but she is still alone very vulnerably and. Their family presses them to find new man. Surely, and her sister Carol (Elizabeth Perkins) put her profile on the side PerfectMatch. com. She has engagements with a stranger with odd guys, but she likes particularly Jake (John Cusack) who parted three months ago and still misses his former woman. Jake also likes them, but Sarah has a bedside table with bobsleigh (Dermot Mulroney), the father of one of her students, and on her given Jakes. Later Sarah thinks that Jake is her perfect match.
Der vorschulische Lehrer Sarah (Diane Lane) schied von ihrem geliebten Mann vor acht Motten, aber sie ist noch sehr verwundbar und allein. Ihre Familie drückt sie, um einen neuen Herrn zu finden. Recht, und ihre Schwester Carol (Elizabeth Perkins) stellen ihr Profil auf die Seite PerfectMatch. com. Sie hat Verabredungen mit einem Unbekannten mit sonderbaren Kerlen, aber sie mag besonders Jake (John Cusack), der vor drei Monaten schied und noch seine ehemalige Frau vermisst. Jake mag sie auch, aber Sarah hat einen Nachttisch mit Bob (Dermot Mulroney), der Vater von einem ihrer Studenten, und auf ihr gegebenen Jakes. Spätere Sarah findet, dass Jake ihr vollkommenes Match ist. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Comedy, Romance, USA
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| The teacher of widower and the trainer of basketball and baseball Ray Keene lost his wife who died of the cancer two years ago. When his adolescent son Chris Keene is seized by the police that smokes the pot, Ray invites him to go of excursion and camp in the forests to increase his obligations. Meanwhile, the mercenary killer Frank Carden is detained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after a cars accident in the middle of a contract to kill an important target. While Frank travels in the way escorted by three agents of Federal Bureau of Investigation, his men try to rescue he, but his cars falls in a river and it is taken by the movement. Ray helps the hurt agent and Frank slapped to leave the river, and feels responsible to deliver Frank to the justice. The ancient police officer and the obstinate Beam do not listen to Frank's offer to leave alone he and travel round the forests with Chris, trying to find a sure place. But the men of Frank and a secret agent in the team chase the group with different lethal intentions.
El profesor de viudo y el entrenador de baloncesto y béisbol Ray Keene perdieron a su esposa que murió del cáncer hace dos años. Cuando su hijo adolescente Chris Keene es agarrado por la policía que fuma el pote, Ray le invita a ir de excursión y acampar en los bosques para aumentar sus obligaciones. Mientras tanto, el asesino mercenario Frank Carden es detenido por la Brigada de Investigación Criminal después de un accidente de coches en medio de un contrato para matar un objetivo importante. Mientras Frank viaja en el camino escoltado por tres agentes de Brigada de Investigación Criminal, sus hombres tratan de rescatar él, pero sus caídas de coches en un río y es llevado por el movimiento. Ray ayuda al agente herido y Frank abofeteado a dejar el río, y se siente responsable para entregar a Frank a la justicia. El antiguo policía y el Rayo obstinado no escuchan la oferta de Frank de dejar en paz él y viajes por los bosques con Chris, tratando de encontrar un lugar seguro. Pero los hombres de Frank y un agente secreto en el equipo persiguen el grupo con intenciones letales diferentes. Search keywords
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Categories: 2006, Crime, Drama, Germany, Thriller, USA
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| To hear his wife it was killed by the war of Iraq, a father takes his two daughters as a trip of the way.
Para oír a su esposa fue matado con la guerra de Iraq, un padre toma a sus dos hijas por un viaje del camino. Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Drama, USA
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| In Welville, in the Stream of Battle, eccentric rich Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (a historical face) runs a farm of smart health for the rich men, an idea in front of her time, based on extreme vegetarianism, no sex, masturbation or even sensual stimulation, but therapy due to laugh and fact to purge the 'polluted ' body, mainly by exercises, often in full air, evil regime, her flakes of corn of invention, the laxatives, the anal remedy of yoghurt, enemas and violent mechanical cleaning. Eleanor Lightbody drags her unhealthy husband, unbeliever Will in therapy; the couple is almost immediately separated and fact to become horny for the more available members of the opposite sex. Kellogs the adopted son obstinately stubborn (among more than 30 rascals) George is a grubby embarrassment, reimbursed only to go away. Panic Charles Ossining by arriving in the Stream of Battle he notes that the destiny of his aunt made him the partner in the empty shell - the company of natural food By - fo, not the plant of corn-flakes planned; however with ancient Welville-employé and the name of George they hope to become rich in their own mark of corn-flakes. When an electrical therapy goes fatally badly and several other patients die, the incredulous turns of Will's reservation to panic.
Dans Welville, au Ruisseau de Bataille, Dr riche excentrique. John Harvey Kellogg (une figure historique) dirige une ferme de santé chic pour les riches, une idée devant son temps, basé sur le végétarisme extrême, aucun sexe, la masturbation ou la stimulation même sensuelle, mais la thérapie du fait de rire et le fait de purger le corps 'pollué', principalement par les exercices, souvent dans le plein air, le régime malfaisant, ses flocons de maïs d'invention, les laxatifs, la cure d'yogourt anale, les lavements et le nettoyage mécanique brutal. Eleanor Lightbody traîne son mari maladif, incrédule Will à la thérapie; le couple est presque immédiatement séparé et le fait de devenir corné pour les membres plus disponibles du sexe opposé. Kellogs le fils adopté obstinément entêté (parmi plus de 30 gosses) George est un embarras crasseux, remboursé juste pour s'absenter. Charles Ossining panique en arrivant dans le Ruisseau de Bataille il constate que la fortune de sa tante l'a rendu le partenaire dans la coquille vide - la compagnie d'aliment naturel Par - fo, pas l'usine de corn-flakes planifiée; cependant avec un ancien Welville-employé et le nom de George ils espèrent devenir riches de leur propre marque de corn-flakes. Quand une thérapie électrique va mortellement mal et plusieurs autres patients meurent, les tours de réticence incrédules de Will de paniquer. Search keywords
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Categories: 1994, Comedy, USA
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| The life of Samantha goes downhill fast. The 15 year-old is used up in the most popular boy at school, and the geekiest boy is used up at school in them. Their sister marrying, and with the whole excitement the rest of her family forgets her birthday! Add all grandparents terribly embarrassing to a pair, a foreign currency student called the Long Duc willy, and we have the profit of a screamingly funny trip in the young womanhood.
Das Leben von Samantha geht schnell abwärts. Der Fünfzehnjährige ist in den populärsten Jungen in der Schule verknallt, und der geekiest Junge in der Schule ist in sie verknallt. Ihre Schwester verheiratend, und mit der ganzen Aufregung der Rest ihrer Familie vergisst ihren Geburtstag! Fügen Sie all das zu einem Paar schrecklich peinlicher Großeltern, eines Devisenstudenten genannt der Lange Duc Pimmel hinzu, und wir haben den Profit einer urkomischen Reise ins junge Frausein. Search keywords
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Categories: 1984, Comedy, Drama, Romance, USA
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