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Rio Movie Review

Rio Rio Movie Review

Rio Movie Synopsis:

Year: 2011
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Writer: Carlos Saldanha, Earl Richey Jones
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Karen Disher

In Rio de Janeiro, baby macaw, Blu, is captured by dealers and smuggled to the USA. While driving through Moose Lake, Minnesota, the truck that is transporting Blu accidentally drops Blu’s box on the road. A girl, Linda, finds the bird and raises him with love. Fifteen years later, Blu is a domesticated and intelligent bird that does not fly and lives a comfortable life with bookshop owner Linda. Out of the blue, clumsy Brazilian ornithologist, Tulio, visits Linda and explains that Blu is the last male of his species, and he has a female called Jewel in Rio de Janeiro. He invites Linda to bring Blu to Rio so that he and Jewel can save their species. Linda travels with Blu and Tulio to Rio de Janeiro and they leave Blu and Jewel in a large cage in the institute where Tulio works. While they are having dinner, smugglers break into the institute and steal Blu and Jewel to sell them. Linda and Tulio look everywhere for Blu, who is chained to Jewel and hidden in a slum. Meanwhile, Jewel and Blu escape from their captors and befriend a group of birds that help them to get rid of the chains. It is Carnival and the smugglers and mean cockatoo, Nigel, do not intend to give up Blu and Jewel, and chase the birds through the crowded streets.

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The Perfect Family Movie Review

The Perfect Family Movie Synopsis:

Year: 2011
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Anne Renton
Writer: Paula Goldberg, Claire V. Riley
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Emily Deschanel, Jason Ritter, Richard Chamberlain

Eileen Cleary has just been nominated for Catholic Woman of the year when her family drop a bombshell. Over the dinner table she discovers that not only is her son leaving his wife and children for the local beautician, but her daughter is 5 months pregnant and about to marry her girlfriend. Desperate to win the award, Eileen is conflicted between shame over her family and still desiring to do the right thing by them. Unable to accept either of their choices her family begins to splinter, with even her husband threatening to leave. Ultimately this is a feel-good movie and Eileen proves herself to be a person worthy of both the award and her family.

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Heaven Strewn Movie Review

Heaven Strewn Movie Synopsis:

Year: 2011
Duration: 1 h 18 min
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: J.T. Gurzi
Writer: J.T. Gurzi
Cast: Wyatt Denny, Rob Tepper, Alexandra Williams, Magdaleno Robles Jr.

Mickey is looking to recover his losses from a botched counterfeiting transaction and has learned the coordinates of a looming drop by those who burned him. Now, he must persuade his best friend, Jasper, to help him under the ruse of meteorite hunting. But, Jasper has imperative issues of his own. His girlfriend’s pregnant and his job as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Chronicle is in peril. Eventually convinced to hit the road, the pair stumbles onto a major find; a discovery thrusting each into immediate danger and threatening to radically transform the fabric of their friendship.

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The Roommate Movie Review

The Roommate Movie Synopsis:

Year: 2011
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Director: Christian E. Christiansen
Writer: Sonny Mallhi, Nick Bylsma
Cast: Minka Kelly, Leighton Meester, Cam Gigandet, Shirley Norris

Fresh from Des Moines, Iowa, Sara Matthews has just landed in Los Angeles as a college freshman studying fashion design. She meets handsome Stephen, party-lover Tracy, and roommate Rebecca. Rebecca is nice, sweet and ready to share everything with Sara. It could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But Tracy is convinced that there’s something seriously wrong with Rebecca and bad things start happening to everyone close to Sara. If Sara is to have a normal college experience, she’s going to have to get to the bottom of what’s up with Rebecca and quickly get out of her clutches.

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Summertime Movie Review

Summertime Movie Synopsis:

Year: 2011
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Max Weissberg
Writer: Max Weissberg
Cast: H.R. Britton, Noa Bronshtein, Michele Cesari, Shirley Dluginski

Eight people unknowingly form a circle – either through a friendship, attempted love, or brief sexual encounter. The tighter their circle gets, the more the spokes begin to twist and to bend. One of the persons in the circle is Julia, an actress, who thinks she’s gotten her big break when she lands the role of Anya, the daughter of a Russian arms dealer. The director of the film has some radical theories on directing and believes that Julia, instead of relying on lines and a script, must become Anya. She must learn how to negotiate with hit men, handle a gun and enter into the mind of a criminal. When Julia finds out she is not the only ‘Anya,’ however, the circle begins to break.

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Movie Review

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Movie Synopsis:

Year: 2011
Duration: 2 h
Genre: Drama, History
Director: Wayne Wang
Writer: Angela Workman, Ronald Bass
Cast: Bingbing Li, Gianna Jun, Vivian Wu, Russell Wong

In 19th-century China, seven year old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong – or ‘old sames’ – bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan. In a parallel story in present day Shanghai, the laotong’s descendants, Nina and Sophia, struggle to maintain the intimacy of their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives, and a relentlessly evolving Shanghai. Drawing on the lessons of the past, the two modern women must understand the story of their ancestral connection, hidden from them in the folds of the antique white silk fan, or risk losing one another forever.

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Swerve Movie Review

Swerve Swerve Movie Review

Swerve Movie Synopsis:

Year: 2011
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Craig Lahiff
Writer: Craig Lahiff
Cast: Jason Clarke, Emma Booth, David Lyons, Travis McMahon

Colin happens upon a road accident where he finds a dead man, a beautiful woman, and a suitcase full of money. After trying to do the right thing he soon finds himself caught up in a dangerous scheme.

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