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A WALK TO REMEMBER(2002)

Monday, 6 June 2011   Ressacca   No Comments





Director: Adam Shankman
Story: Nicholas Sparks ,Karen Janszen
Genres: Romance
Rating: ****


Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPRIr4llFBM


In Beaufort, a group of students pull a prank on a student which goes terribly wrong and puts him in the hospital. The blame for the prank is put on Landon Carter who is a popular boy with no defined set of plans for the future. He is asked to participate in school community activities as his punishment which includes starring in the spring school play. Jamie Sullivan is the reverend’s daughter who actively participates in after school activities and has great ambitions and is totally opposite of Landon. Landon decides to take his activities seriously and asks Jamie for her help which makes both of them spend a lot of time together which unexpectedly makes him fall for her. As the relationship commences, Landon’s old friends and Jamie’s strict reverend father are not happy. But then eventually Jamie lets Landon reveals the biggest secret of her life which creates testing times for the relationship. Will the relationship be able to sustain the future or is the future bleak? Starring Mandy Moore and Shane West and directed by Adam Shankman, A Walk To Remember qualifies as a must watch.



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THE UGLY TRUTH (2009)

Thursday, 2 June 2011   Ressacca   No Comments






Director:  Robert Luketic

Story:   Karen McCullah Lutz

Genres: Drama,Romance.

Rating: ***



Link – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-wMe9vxkWI


What happens when a chauvinist male meets a control freak female with a checklist? The sparks are bound to fly, as it happens in THE UGLY TRUTH. Starring Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl, comes a total rom-com directed by Robert Luketic. Based in the town of Sacramento, Abby Richter(Katherine Heigl) produces a morning news show called SACRAMENTO AM that's about to be canceled. To boost ratings, her boss hires Mike Chadway(Gerard Butler), a local cable call-in host who promotes the ugly truth who believes that sex is the only answer to all problems and men are simple and they cannot be tamed. All that attracts man to a woman is her looks. Abby takes a serious offence to his sensibilities because she has a checklist about the perfect man, and she's found him in her new neighbour, Colin, an orthopedic surgeon. Mike offers to help her reel in Colin his way if she promises to work cordially and stop giving him a hard time. She accepts the deal, ratings go up, and with Mike's help, so does Colin's interest in her. But is Colin really the perfect guy of Abby’s dream or does imperfection sweeps her heart away. Find out in this roller coaster ride, about what men and women actually want from a relationship and how life comes to a standstill due to twisted circumstances.





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EXECUTIVE DECISION (1996)

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Director:  Stuart Baird

Story: Jim Thomas, John Thomas

Link  : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ms91m1bCXQ

Rating: ****

In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jet liner  with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His suspicions are soon confirmed, Hassan's men have obtained a large cache of stolen Soviet nerve gas, and they are using the 747 to smuggle the deadly gas into the United States, where they intend to use it to wipe out Washington D.C. and possibly the entire East Coast. As the jet approaches the U. S., engineer Dennis Cahill (Oliver Platt) designs a plan in which a military plane will be able to transfer U.S. soldiers onto the 747 and regain control of the plane and its deadly cargo. However, when Travis dies in the course of the mission, intelligence agent Dr. David Grant (Kurt Russell) is forced to take his place alongside explosives expert Cappy (Joe Morton), commando Rat (John Leguizamo), and stewardess-turned-anti-terrorist Jean (Halle Berry).


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