Movies tagged with the "glamour" keyword

Genres: Drama | Sport | Actors: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, Jim Brown, Lawrence Taylor, Bill Bellamy, Andrew Bryniarski, Lela Rochon, Lauren Holly, Ann-Margret, Aaron Eckhart, Directors: Oliver Stone,  Plot Summary: When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney (Denis Quaid) out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. Having ridden the bench for years because of a string of bad luck stories and perhaps insufficient character, Willie Beaman (Jamie Foxx) seizes what may be his last chance, and lights up the field with a raw display of athletic prowess. His stunning performance over several games is so outstanding and fresh it seems to augur a new era in the history of this Miami franchise, and forces aging coach Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) to reevaluate his time-tested values and strategies and begin to confront the fact that the game, as well as post-modern life may be passing him by. Adding to the pressure on D'Amato to win at any cost is the aggressive young President/Co-owner of the team, Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), now coming into her own after her father's death. Christina's driving desire to prove herself in a male dominated world is intensified by her focus on the marketing and business of football, in which all coaches and players are merely properties.

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Genres: Comedy | Drama | Actors: Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson, Mary Coughlan, Conor McEvoy, Ruth McCabe, Charlene McKenna, Seamus Reilly, Peter Owens, Emmet Lawlor McHugh, Bianca O'Connor, Paraic Breathnach, Pat McCabe, Owen Roe, Directors: Neil Jordan,  Plot Summary: In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.

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Genres: Comedy | Drama | Actors: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant, Luke Mably, Marc Warren, Terence Rigby, James Dreyfus, Peter Bowles, Ayesha Dharker, Robert Powell, Henry Goodman, Maynard Eziashi, Leslie Phillips, Honor Blackman, William Hootkins, Directors: Brian W. Cook,  Plot Summary: Based on true events, the story is of a man who bluffed his way into London's high society by pretending to be legendary director Stanley Kubrick during the shooting of Eyes Wide Shut in 1998 and 1999.

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Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Actors: William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Maria Bello, Shawn Hatosy, Ron Livingston, Paul Sorvino, Estella Warren, Arthur J. Nascarella, Joey Fatone, M.C. Gainey, Ellen Greene, Don Scribner, Tony Longo, Richard Israel, Timothy Landfield, Directors: Wayne Kramer,  Plot Summary: The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas' aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.

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Genres: Comedy | Drama | Actors: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Adrian Grenier, Tracie Thoms, Rich Sommer, Daniel Sunjata, David Marshall Grant, James Naughton, Tibor Feldman, Rebecca Mader, Jimena Hoyos, Gisele Bündchen, Directors: David Frankel,  Plot Summary: Miranda Priestley, of "Runway" magazine tears up the landscape as a demanding fashion editor. She is a terror to everyone who is around her as is quickly depicted in the opening scenes of the movie. Her first assistant strives to please her and tries to emulate her, but one can sense that she is not quite as hard as she tries to put on. Into this mix comes a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry, has never read the magazine, and doesn't know who Miranda Priestley is. She only sees this as a stepping stone to another journalism position. Showing no fashion sense and immediately scorned by everyone, Miranda nonetheless hires her as the second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, you can sense that she is trying to force her to quit, but it makes the young woman dig in to please her boss. With the help of one of the magazine's fashion editors, she gets a complete makeover and a new security. However, with her new appearance and the demands placed on her, she starts to lose her friends, family and her live-in boy friend. As she is whisked away to Paris with Miranda and faces all of the glamor that could be hers, including a flashy if not artificial freelance journalist, she is forced to make the decision of where she wants to be in her life.

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Genres: Crime | Drama | Actors: Nutsa Kukhianidze, Ouassini Embarek, Marc Lavoine, Nick Nolte, Tchéky Karyo, Gérard Darmon, Saïd Taghmaoui, Patricia Kell, Julien Maurel, Emir Kusturica, Roland Munter, Warren Zavatta, Théo Trifard, Sarah Bridges, Nicolas Dromard, Directors: Neil Jordan,  Plot Summary: Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera, aging gambler Bob Montagnet is about to gamble it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectatcular sleight of hand—two heists, one real, one not, but which is which? Under the watchful eye of Roger, a policeman who would as soon save his longtime opponent as arrest him, Montagnet assembles a team that consists of partners Paulo and Raoul, technical mastermind Vladimer, former-drug-dealer-turned-informant Said, Anne, a young Eastern girl Montagnet rescued from prostitution, and the perfect complement to a double theft—identical twins Albert and Bertram.

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Genres: Drama | Actors: Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King, Robin Gammell, John Bennett Perry, Mariel Hemingway, Francesco Scavullo, Meg Wyllie, Inga Swenson, Lauren Jones, William Paul Burns, Way Bandy, Harry King, Sean Byrnes, Catherine McLeod, Directors: Lamont Johnson,  Plot Summary: A model (played by Margaux Hemingway) is raped by her younger sister's (Mariel Hemingway) teacher. He gets off on a technicality and proceeds to attempt to rape the younger sister.

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Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Actors: Seth Green, Macaulay Culkin, Diana Scarwid, Dillon Woolley, Chloë Sevigny, Marilyn Manson, Dylan McDermott, Mia Kirshner, Wilmer Valderrama, Elliot Kriss, Natasha Lyonne, Daniel Franzese, Janis Dardaris, Wilson Cruz, Manny Perez, Directors: Fenton Bailey,  Randy Barbato,  Plot Summary: Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980's thru the 1990's, a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter 'Michael Alig' (qv), a party organizer, whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend, roommate, and drug dealer, Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana, Alig moved to New York, and came to be an underground legend, known for his excessive drug use and outrageous behavior in the club world. At his peak, he had his own record label, and magazine, and hosted Disco 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the '90s. He was doing a lot of drugs, and as his addiction got worse, his party themes became darker and more twisted. Alig's saga reached its tragic crescendo when he viciously murdered his drug dealer, Angel, by injecting him with Drano and throwing him in the East River. The power he wielded on the club scene made him feel untouchable, so he didn't hestitate to boast of the murder. The press thought it was a publicity stunt—until Angel's body washed ashore.

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