This boxset contains the following films: The Kingdom (Dir. Peter Berg) (2007): Oscar winners Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper team up with Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman to ignite the screen in The Kingdom a high-intensity action thriller. After a deadly terrorist attack in Riyadh Saudi Arabia takes the lives of many innocent American civilians the FBI decides to take action by sending a team to capture those responsible. Hot shot Special Agent Ronald Fluery (Jamie Foxx) gets the task of a lifetime when he is picked to lead the elite group into conflict. With agents Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner) Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman) and Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper) at his side Fluery is confident that they will be able to infiltrate and bring down the terrorist cell within a week's time. Once there however the group finds themselves crippled by the disorienting culture the scorching heat and the dirty labyrinthine politics. It isn't long before the foursome begins to doubt the reliability of their supposed informants and allies which eventually leads them to question their own abilities. With local law enforcement more of a hindrance than help Fluery finds unexpected aid from a sympathetic Saudi police captain. Soon the FBI unit picks up the track leading them to the inevitable showdown with the opposing force. Based on the Riyadh compound bombings which took place on May 12 2003 in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Jarhead (Dir. Sam Mendes) (2005): Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this critically acclaimed brilliantly unconventional war story from Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes. Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows Swoff (Gyllenhaal) from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty where he sports a sniper rifle through Middle East deserts that provide no cover from the heat or Iraqi soldiers. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully grasp.
The Kingdom (Dir. Peter Berg) (2007): After a deadly terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, takes the lives of many innocent American civilians, the FBI decides to take action by sending a team to capture those responsible. Hot shot Special Agent Ronald Fluery (Jamie Foxx) gets the task of a lifetime when he is picked to lead the elite group into conflict. With agents Janet Mayes, (Jennifer Garner), Adam Leavitt, (Jason Bateman), and Grant Sykes, (Chris Cooper), at his side, Fluery.
Adam Brody (The O.C.) leads a talented young cast in this road trip comedy. Brody and friends across America grinding rails busting big moves and relentlessly pursuing bigger air as they seek to find fame fortune - and girls - on the US pro skateboarding circuit.
Tea With Mussolini (Dir. Franco Zeffirelli 1999): Florence 1934. A diverse group of cultured ladies meet for tea each afternoon: Lady Hester Random widow of the British Ambassador to Italy Arabella an artist and singer Georgie the exuberant American archaeologist and the brash and uninhibited Elsa. One of their fold Mary becomes surrogate mother to a young boy Luca and he is soon virtually adopted and brought up by the group of ladies. But the shifting political climate begins to have serious consequences for this unconventional community and the maturing Luca must face up to a personal challenge of independence. How To Make An American Quilt (Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse 1995): Berkeley graduate student Finn (Winona Ryder) is spending the summer at the home of her sparring grandmother and great aunt (Oscar-winners Ellen Burstyn & Anne Bancroft). Their house is a quiet haven where Finn intends to finish her latest thesis and think over a marriage proposal. But when she meets sexy smoldering Leon things begin to get complicated. As she wrestles with her decision the women in her grandmother's quilting bee confide to her the stories of the loves that shaped their own lives. How to Make an American Quilt brings unbridled passion true love betrayal joy and heartbreak vividly to life in a touchingly funny cinematic tapestry that celebrates finding your way and following your heart. A Thousand Acres (Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse 1997): Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-selling novel A Thousand Acres (penned by Jane Smiley) follows the saga of the Cook family headed by the indomitable patriarch Larry Cook (Jason Robards). Cook's kingdom is a fertile farm that spans 1 000 acres but the seeds of its destruction are sown when he impulsively decides to distribute it among his three daughters Ginny (Jessica Lange) Rose (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Caroline (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The apportioned land soon begins to divide the family. Long-guarded secrets unspoken rivalries and denied desires buried just beneath the surface of their respective lives are unwillingly unearthed with profound catastrophic and ultimately liberating repercussions...
A timeless adventure a passion for wealth and power. Only the strongest will survive. A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
""A highly original work...fuelled by a gifted cast and a deeply moving script this suspenseful and provocative debut film is guaranteed to spark conversation"" LA Outfest ""Provocative...taut and well observed""Variety ""An intriguing if not chilling look at a future that is distressingly not inconceivable."" PlanetOut John Baumgartner's debut is a provocative and new film asks the disturbing and challenging question: if you could take a pill to make you straight would you? Chronically single average and unhappy Tim is a frustrated gay man who is desperately short of love even though he is surrounded by good friends. Out of desperation he volunteers for a controversial pharmaceutical study which is designed to make gay men straight. In a last ditch effort to find love and happiness he decides that becoming heterosexual will solve all his problems and make life easier. The drug seems to work for him and he meets Tanya and they embark upon a whirlwind romance cutting him off from his old life. However it soon becomes clear that the drug is wearing off and his life suddenly spirals downward into turmoil and feigns illness to avoid intimacy with Tanya. A final tragedy shocks Tim into facing reality and brings to the forefront the things that really matter in life.
A New York writing professor, Frannie Avery (Ryan), has an erotic affair with a police detective (Ruffalo) investigating a murder in her neighborhood of a beautiful young woman.
In the Warren House if you're not part of the problem you're not part of the family. Edward and Jill Warren have always done what they thought was best for their children. Their good intentions however eventually strangle the children emotionally making it impossible for them to break the ties and grow up. When a family secret surfaces and results in tragedy the Warren family is forced to finally face each other...and life.
Set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, WHITE BOY RICK is based on the moving true story of a bluecollar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe Jr., who became an undercover police informant and later a drug dealer, before he was abandoned by his handlers and sentenced to life in prison.
From the visionary mind of writer director Brandon Cronenberg (Antiviral), Possessor is a game-changing sci-fi thriller about elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough, Mandy). Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people's bodies to execute high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her. Possessor features a stellar cast including Christopher Abbott (It Comes at Night, The Sinner), Rossif Sutherland (Guest of Honour), Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey), Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight).
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