Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts
February 04, 2018
July 30, 2015
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) Trailer
Les invasions barbares
A provocative new comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.
The Barbarian Invasions (French: Les Invasions barbares) is a 2003 French-Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand.
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During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
July 25, 2015
Freeheld (2015) Trailer
Freeheld
Freeheld is American drama film directed by Peter Sollett and written by Ron Nyswaner.
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New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
July 23, 2015
Simon (2004) Trailer
Simon
Hij verandert je leven (He will change your life)
Simon is a 2004 Dutch drama film directed by Eddy Terstall.
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One of the characters is Camiel, a gay dentist who marries his lover and the other is Simon (Cees Geel), a heterosexual drugs dealer and lady magnet. They become close friends in the late 1980s, but Camiel does something that interrupts their friendship.
After fourteen years Camiel and Simon meet again. Simon is now terminally ill with cancer.
Simon has a daughter, Joy (Nadja Hüpscher) and a son, Nelson (Stijn Koomen). They develop a friendship with Camiel and his husband and after Simon's death Camiel adopts them.*Wikipedia*
Labels:
2000's,
2004,
cancer,
Cees Geel,
Comedy,
dentist,
Drama,
drugs,
Eddy Terstall,
gay,
Marcel Hensema,
Rifka Lodeizen,
Simon,
soft drugs
July 02, 2015
Ironweed (1987) Trailer
A schizophrenic drifter spends Halloween in his home town after returning there for the first time in decades.
April 08, 2015
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) Trailer
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Me & Earl & the Dying Girl is American drama film directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and written by Jesse Andrews, based on Andrews' 2012 debut novel of the same name.
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ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL is the uniquely funny, moving story of Greg (Thomas Mann), a high school senior who is trying to blend in anonymously, avoiding deeper relationships as a survival strategy for navigating the social minefield that is teenage life. He even describes his constant companion Earl (RJ Cyler), with whom he makes short film parodies of classic movies, as more of a 'co-worker’ than a best friend. But when Greg’s mom (Connie Britton) insists he spend time with Rachel (Olivia Cooke) – a girl in his class who has just been diagnosed with cancer - he slowly discovers how worthwhile the true bonds of friendship can be.
March 22, 2015
The Doctor (1991) Trailer
The Doctor
An Uplifting Story About Finding New Meaning In Life.
The Doctor is a 1991 drama film directed by Randa Haines.
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An uplifting story of a man who becomes an extraordinary surgeon, as well as an extraordinary person, once he experiences firsthand what it's like being an ordinary patient. Touching hearts of critics and audiences alike, THE DOCTOR promises to entertain and inspire you from beginning to end.
Labels:
1990's,
1991,
cancer,
Christine Lahti,
Drama,
Ed Rosenbaum,
Elizabeth Perkins,
hospital,
medical profession,
radiation treatment,
Randa Haines,
Robert Caswell,
surgeon,
The Doctor,
William Hurt
March 04, 2015
Self/less (2015) Trailer
Self/less
Self/less is drama film directed by Tarsem Singh and written by David Pastor and Àlex Pastor. The film stars Michelle Dockery, Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley, Victor Garber, Matthew Goode, Derek Luke and Natalie Martinez.
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In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man (Academy Award® Winner Ben Kingsley) dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origin and the organization that will kill to protect its cause.
Labels:
2010's,
2015,
Àlex Pastor,
body transfers,
cancer,
David Pastor,
Drama,
elderly man,
kill to protect,
Matthew Goode,
Michelle Dockery,
Ryan Reynolds,
Sci-Fi,
Self/less,
Tarsem Singh,
Thriller,
young man
February 09, 2015
The girl with the nine wigs (2013) Trailer
Labels:
2010's,
2013,
21 year old,
based on novel,
cancer,
Comedy,
David Rott,
diary,
Drama,
hair color,
Karoline Teska,
Kati Eyssen,
Lisa Tomaschewsky,
Marc Rothemund,
Sophie van der Stap,
The girl with the nine wigs
Waiting for Forever (2010) Trailer
Waiting for Forever
Waiting for Forever is a 2010 American romance film directed by James Keach, starring Rachel Bilson and Tom Sturridge.
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Who decides what is normal? A unique love story about friendship and a view of the world from different perspectives, "Waiting for Forever" explores the connections people make in the face of life's changes. Best friends while they were growing up, Emma (Rachel Bilson) and Will (Tom Sturridge) lost touch a long time ago-as far as she knows. To Will, Emma never stopped being the most important person in his life. Believing them to be forever linked, he goes wherever she goes. Will doesn't have a home, a car, or a "real" job. He survives on his talent as a juggler and entertainer-talents honed through years of showing off for Emma. When her father gets sick, Emma returns to their hometown, trying to leave behind her complicated love life and failing career as a TV actress. As its characters face love, death and their own preconceptions, "Waiting for Forever" questions the realities of life.
Labels:
2010,
2010's,
actress,
bed,
brother brother relationship,
cancer,
Drama,
father figure,
James Keach,
Rachel Bilson,
Richard Jenkins,
Romance,
Steve Adams,
Tom Sturridge,
Waiting for Forever
February 01, 2015
Dying Young (1991) Trailer
Dying Young
She's giving him something nobody else could. A reason to live.
Dying Young is a 1991 American romance film, directed by Joel Schumacher.
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After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die. Written by Harald Mayr <marvin@bike.augusta.de>
Labels:
1990's,
1991,
Campbell Scott,
cancer,
cartoon on tv,
Drama,
Dying Young,
house by ocean,
Joel Schumacher,
Julia Roberts,
Klimt,
Marti Leimbach,
nurse,
Richard Friedenberg,
Romance,
Vincent D'Onofrio
January 13, 2015
My Life Without Me (2003) Trailer
My Life Without Me
My Life Without Me is a 2003 Canadian drama film directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, and Leonor Watling.
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A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.
January 12, 2015
Fine Things (1990) Trailer
Fine Things
Fine Things, also known as Danielle Steel's Fine Things, is a 1990 romantic drama television film directed by Tom Moore.
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Standard romantic melodrama from novelist Danielle Steele finds a couple embroiled in marital conflict with a nasty child-custody battle at its center.
Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Labels:
1990,
1990's,
cancer,
D.W. Moffett,
Danielle Steel,
death,
Drama,
ex husband ex wife relationship,
Fine Things,
Judith Hoag,
melodrama,
Parenthood,
Peter Lefcourt,
Romance,
Tom Moore,
Tracy Pollan,
TV Movie
December 27, 2014
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) Trailer
The Haunting in Connecticut
What if the only explanation for what you saw was unbelievable?
The Haunting in Connecticut is a 2009 American psychological horror film produced by Gold Circle Films and directed by Peter Cornwell.
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Charts one family's encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the dead, returns to unleash horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family. Written by Lionsgate
Labels:
2000's,
2009,
Adam Simon,
cancer,
Drama,
Elias Koteas,
funeral parlor,
Horror,
Martin Donovan,
mortuary,
Peter Cornwell,
reverend,
The Haunting in Connecticut,
Thriller,
Tim Metcalfe,
Virginia Madsen,
vomit
October 09, 2014
In Love We Trust (2007) Trailer
A divorced couple learns that the only way to save their little daughter Hehe, who suffers from
a blood disease, is to have another child. Now both remarried, Mei Zhu and Xiao Lu are forced
to test their love and their commitment to one another by putting their current relationships in
danger. A story of parenthood, love, married life, betrayal, trust and giving, which touches
upon changes in contemporary society and family life, as well as the moral and ethical
dilemmas brought on by modernity.
September 21, 2014
July 20, 2014
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