It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

On Christmas eve, all of the citizens of the small town of Bedford Falls pray to the heavens to help George Bailey. It's then decided that Clarence, an angel who hasn't earned his wings, to help George. Before he does, he should know who George Bailey. George Bailey grew up in Bedford Falls, which is a small town, he dreams of somebody leaving it and making his mark on the world. His family's business is all what stands between the good citizens and Mr. Potter, a rich miser who takes sick pleasure in taking from everybody, without even caring how it affects them. George was all set to leave when his father died and George had to take care of the business. George would forever be stymied with his plans to leave and when he thinks that he is nothing but a failure, he decides to kill himself and that's when Clarence comes in and tries to convince him that he has made something with his life and that he had a "Wonderful Life".

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*Tagline: Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! How could it be anything else?
*哇,百大之11耶~
*天使顯靈後的手法,原來早在50幾年前就有,印象中蝴蝶效應也有相同的情節,還有哪些呢?想不起來~
*導演: Frank Capra~

Gladiator (2000)

In Gladiator, victorious general Maximus Decimus Meridias has been named keeper of Rome and its empire by dying emperor Marcus Aurelius, so that rule might pass from the Caesars back to the people and Senate. Marcus' neglected and power-hungry son, Commodus, has other ideas, however. Escaping an ordered execution, Maximus hurries back to his home in Spain, too late to save his wife and son from the same order. Taken into slavery and trained as a gladiator by Proximo, Maximus lives only that he might someday take his revenge and fulfill the dying wish of his emperor. The time soon comes when Proximo's troupe is called to Rome to participate in a marathon of gladiator games held at the behest of the new emperor, Commodus. Once in Rome, Maximus wastes no time in making his presence known, and is soon involved in a plot to overthrow the emperor with his former-love Lucilla, Commodus' sister, after whom he lusts, and also the widowed mother of Lucius, heir to the empire after his uncle, and democratic-minded senator, Gracchus.

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*Tagline: What We Do In Life Echoes In Eternity.
*加油,加油,趕進度囉~

Vanity Fair (2004)

The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

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*Tagline: All's fair in love & war.
*dvd翻譯有問題 =.=

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr Bennet is an english gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife. The Bennets 5 daughters; the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately for the Bennets, if Mr Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependant on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival in the neighbourhood of the rich gentleman Mr Bingley, who rents a large house so he can spend the summer in the country. Mr Bingley brings with him his sister and the dashing (and richer) but proud Mr Darcy. Love is soon in the air for one of the Bennet sisters, while another may have jumped to a hasty prejudgment. For the Bennet sisters many trials and tribulations stand between them and their happiness, including class, gossip and scandal.

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*Tagline: A romance ahead of its time.
*原來這就是傲慢與偏見,Bridget Jone's Diary根本就是完全移植過去的嘛~
*這部電影最過癮的地方,不在視覺,而在聽覺,好像在聽音樂會一樣...OST太好聽了,一直聽,一直聽~
*Composer - Dario Marianelli是義大利人,作品還有The Brothers Grimm, The Warrior~

City Hall (1996)

One seemingly routine morning, a little boy is shot dead in the cross fire between a drug dealer and a narcotics detective in a predominantly black New York City neighborhood. John Pappas, the idealistic mayor of the city, cleverly prevents a race riot, and everything seems to be OK. However, things get complicated again when Kevin Calhoun, Pappas's loyal chief of staff, who is even more idealistic than Pappas himself, begins to wonder why the drug dealer, who just happens to be the son of the local Mafia boss, was out on the streets in the first place after receiving a sentence of five year's probation for a conviction which would normally warrant a 10 to 20-year jail term. Further complicating matters is Marybeth Cogan who represents the widow of the narcotics detective. She is trying to find out why the pension for the cop is being withheld and she brings Calhoun deeper into a scandal that makes him take a second look at what he once took for granted.

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*Tagline: It started with a shootout on a rainswept street and ended in a scandal that shattered New York.
*兩個字: 無聊,只對Al Pacino在教堂那段演講印象深刻~

Proof (2005)

The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.



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*Tagline: If you don't believe in yourself, who will believe in you?
*這句更棒: The biggest risk in life is not taking one.
*誰說普立茲獎翻拍的電影一定很無聊?這部倒是挺有趣的哦!感覺是披了高深數學外皮的愛情故事~
*類似這種精神病的電影,總是一面倒的打壓患者...手法蠻一致的~
*Anthony Hopkins在這部片子中扮演跑龍套的老杯杯~

It Happened One Night (1934)

Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her father's yacht and out of King's clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of- work reporter Peter Warne. Actually, Warne doesn't give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story.

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*Tagline: Together for the first time!
*百大之35~
*在片中,Peter Warne被他的朋友稱做"the King",正是他私底下的綽號呢~
*No. 12 - Claudette Colbert,在法國,巴黎出生的女星,三歲時,舉家搬至美國,Colbert從小就立志要從事表演,在她20歲時,她在百老匯初登板,演出The Wild Wescotts;經濟大蕭條時期,劇院紛紛關閉,1927年,Colbert開始參與電影的拍攝,可惜第一部電影成了票房大毒藥;一直到1934年,和Clark Gable,合作推出這部曠世經典...
*不過呢,Colbert當初可是一點兒也不喜歡這部電影,她接演的原因很簡單---導演Frank Capra承諾替她加薪兩倍...甚至提名了女主角,也懶得出席奧斯卡頒獎典禮(當年Bette Davis的呼聲最高),不過呢,小道消息傳出她得獎,所以,打算直接去旅行的她,穿著休閒服發表她的得獎感言;誰知這也是她唯一的一座小金人呢?

Domino (2005)

Based on the true story of Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley), daughter of film actor Laurence Harvey. Tired and unsuited to the pretentiousness of her high-society LA life, Domino leaves the glittarti behind and sets off to become a bounty hunter. She quickly falls under the wing of veteran hunter Ed Mosley (Mickey Rourke) and his crew and becomes an unlikely natural in the art of bounty hunting. But things really heat up when a gang of masked men begin a series of armored car heists, and before long the mob, a crazed TV producer, the FBI and a terminally ill child have all got caught up in the crazy situation.

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