Category Archives: Miramax Films

The Tempest

Posted on March 30, 2011 by admin

In her big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s mystical thriller The Tempest, Academy Award-nominated Julie Taymor (Across the Universe, Frida, Titus) brings an original dynamic to the story by changing the gender of the sorcerer Prospero into the sorceress Prospera, portrayed by … Continue reading →

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The Switch

Posted on March 26, 2011 by admin

I can’t wait around for something that may never happen! Neurotic, self-absorbed and pessimistic Wally Mars’ (Jason Bateman) financial success with New York stock trading partner Leonard (Jeff Goldblum) does little to shake his fundamentally gloomy perspective on the world. … Continue reading →

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Underclassman

Posted on March 10, 2011 by admin

A baby-faced 24-year-old detective, who never gets the respect he deserves because of his boyish looks, goes undercover in an elite private school where he stumbles upon an international auto-theft ring. Nick Cannon plays Tracy “Tre” Stokes, a streetwise LA … Continue reading →

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Proof

Posted on March 9, 2011 by admin

Proof is the compelling story of an enigmatic young woman haunted by her father’s past and the shadow of her own future, exploring the links between genius and madness, the tender relationships between fathers and daughters and the nature of … Continue reading →

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The Libertine

Posted on March 9, 2011 by admin

He didn’t resist temptation. He pursued it. ‘The Libertine’ follows the adventures of John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, in London of the 17th century. He has a passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry, and he writes … Continue reading →

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Smart People

Posted on March 5, 2011 by admin

Sometimes the smartest people have the most to learn. Lawrence Wethrehold is a widowed, acerbic and self-absorbed literature professor who has alienated his son and turned his daughter into an overachieving, friendless teen. He falls for Janet, one of his … Continue reading →

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Doubt

Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin

John Patrick Shanley brings his play “Doubt” to the screen, in a story about the quest for truth, the forces of change, and the devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by moral conviction. It’s 1964, St. Nicholas … Continue reading →

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Brideshead Revisited

Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin

Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), Oxford student Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to Brideshead, the ancestral home, he falls in love with his friend’s … Continue reading →

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin

Laugh like your country depends on it. Eight year-old Bruno is the sheltered son of a Nazi officer whose promotion takes the family from their comfortable home in Berlin to a desolate area. Bruno ignores his mother’s repeated instructions not … Continue reading →

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Blindness

Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin

An outbreak of blindness sweeps an unidentified town. Ruffalo will play a doctor who loses his sight along with everyone else in town, except the doc’s wife. When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of … Continue reading →

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