movie: whatever works (2009)

Whatever Works

Director: Woody Allen

Year: 2009

Character: Melodie

Cast: Larry David, Patricia Clarkson, Henry Cavill.

The film follows an eccentric New Yorker played by Larry David who abandons his upper class life to lead a more bohemian existence. He meets a young girl from the south and her family and no two people seem to get along in the entanglements that follow.

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movie: the wrestler (2008)

The Wrestler

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Year: 2008

Character: Stephanie Robinson

Cast: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei.

A drama centered on retired professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson as he makes his way through the independent circuit, trying to get back in the game for one final showdown with his former rival.




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movie: the life before her eyes (2008)

The Life Before Her Eyes

Director: Vadim Perelman
Year: 2008
Character: Young Diana
Cast: Uma Thurman, Eva Amurri, Sherman Alpert, Gabrielle Brennan, Adam Chanler-Berat, Isabel Keating.

A drama about a woman, Diana (Uma Thurman), she's a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her perfect life and sanity on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school day that took her best friend's life. She has flashbacks of her high school days (young Diana is played by Evan), with her best friend Maureen, plot typical teenage strategies: cutting class, fantasizing about boys, and vow to leave their sleepy suburb at the first opportunity. The older Diana, however, is haunted by the increasingly strained relationship she had with Maureen as day of the school shooting approached. These memories disrupt the idyllic life she's now leading with her professor husband Paul and their young daughter Emma. As older Diana's life begins to unravel and younger Diana gets closer and closer to the fatal day, a deeper mystery slowly unravels.




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movie: across the universe (2007)

Across The Universe

Director: Julie Taymor
Year: 2007
Character: Lucy
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther, TV Carpio, Bono Vox, Salma Hayek.

A dock worker Jude travels from Liverpool to America in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There he mets Max and falls in love with his younger sister, Lucy. When Max is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism. Their story is told by songs of The Beatles that defined that time.



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movie: king of california (2007)

King of California

Director: Mike Cahill

Year: 2007

Character: Miranda

Cast: Michael Douglas, Willis Burks II, Paul Lieber.

An unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia.





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movie: running with scissors (2006)

Running With Scissors

Director: Ryan Murphy
Year: 2006
Character: Natalie Finch
Cast: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Joseph Cross, Alec Baldwin, Gwyneth Paltrow.

Young Augusten Burroughs (Cross) absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father (Baldwin) and an unstable mother (Bening), he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch (Cox), and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.




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movie: down in the valley (2005)

Down In The Valley

Director: David Jacobson

Year: 2005

Character: Tobe

Cast: Edward Norton, David Morse, Rory Culkin, Bruce Dern, Kat Dennings.

Set in the present-day San Fernando Valley, the project revolves around a delusional man, Harlan, who believes he's a cowboy and the relationship that he starts with a rebellious young woman, Tobe.