Showing posts with label Blythe Danner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blythe Danner. Show all posts

25 September 2012

The Lucky One


Logan is a marine serving in Iraq. While there, he finds a photo of a girl with "keep safe" written on the back. He is admiring it when his unit is attacked. He survives and credits the photo for saving him. He tries to find the owner but can't, assuming he was killed. When he goes back to the States, he finds it difficult to adjust and is still haunted by what happened. Analyzing the photo, he finds in the background a landmark that tells him she is in Louisiana. He then goes there and finds her. He learns her name is Beth. He tries to tell her what happened but can't get the words out. She assumes he's there to apply for the job they advertised looking for someone to help at her family's business, a dog kennel. He says yes but at first she gets an uneasy feeling from him but her grandmother decides to give him a chance. It isn't long that he makes a connection with her son. He then discovers that it was her brother who had the picture only he doesn't remember him. He sees that her brother's death has a profound effect on her. Eventually they get close which makes her grandmother happy but not her ex who is a deputy sheriff who's always threatening to take their son away from her.
Year: 2012

05 October 2011

Meet the Fockers


Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to Greg's parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name their son Gaylord M. Focker?
Year: 2004

03 October 2011

Meet The Parents


A Jewish male nurse plans to ask his live-in girl friend to marry him. However, he learns that her strict father expects to be asked for his daughter's hand before she can accept. Thus begins the visit from Hell as the two travel to meet Mom and Dad, who turns out to be former CIA with a lie detector in the basement. Coincidentally, a sister also has announced her wedding to a young doctor. Of course everything that can go wrong, does, including the disappearance of Dad's beloved Himalayan cat, Jinxie.
Year: 2000

27 September 2011

The Last Kiss


Michael and Jenna, having been a couple for three years, want to get married and start a family. These plans seem to be well on their way when Jenna announces that she's pregnant. But Michael is worried that his life and his youth will over for good. At a wedding of a friend, he meets a free-spirited college co-ed, Kim, who opens his eyes and leads him on a dangerous path away from Jenna. Meanwhile, none of the relationships of the people surrounding Michael and Jenna are happy and stable. Michael's friend Izzy is unwilling to let go of his childhood sweetheart Arianna; Kenny is a handsome stud who fears commitment to his latest conquest Danielle; and Chris is a co-worker who is dominated by his neurotic and overbearing wife over raising their newborn son. Even Jenna's parents, Stephen and Anna, are experiencing problems in their long-suffering marriage.
Year: 2006

10 May 2011

Waiting for Forever


Best friends while they were growing up, Emma and Will lost touch a long time ago—as far as she knows. Will tells this story to a man and woman who are giving him a ride to his home town. Upon reaching, he goes to see his brother, Jim. After seeing his brother, he goes to see his longtime friend Joe, along with his wife and son. He tells them that today or tomorrow is the day he will tell Emma that he love her. 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. Emma's boyfriend follows her home and confesses her infidelity to her father. Meanwhile, Emma and Will spend the entire day together, reminiscing on times passed until she admits her unfaithfulness and selfishness to her boyfriend, who desires to marry her. She later discovers Will has been following her around and asks him to promise her not to follow her any longer. Will complies then leaves town. Following the recent leave of Will, Emma's father dies. Emma goes to talk to Joe for him to tell him to tell Will that she is sorry for what she had done to him. Jim comes to Emma's home to give her a letter that was sent to him. Jim tells her that he is in San Fransisco performing at Fisher Man's Bay. She goes to San Fransisco to look for him and while she does this she reads the letter he had sent her. Upon reaching near the Bay, she stops and ask some homeless men if they had seen a man that juggles and wears pajamas. They say he is currently performing and she thanks them by hugging them and leaves to go see him. When she sees Will, she remembers all the good times they had and the showing off he did for her. When Will sees her he stops what he is doing and moves on to the next stunt. He shows off for her by playing with sticks and lights them on fire showing off for her further. He finishes what he is doing and drops his hat for people to drop money in it, when he walks over to Emma he affectionately asks her: "Are you following me?" and she laughs.
Year: 2011

16 January 2011

Little Fockers


It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get "in" with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, however, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan-including Pam's lovelorn ex, Kevin-descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house. But with all the misunderstandings, spying and covert missions, will Greg pass Jack's final test and become the family's next patriarch...or will the circle of trust be broken for good?
(January 15, 2011)