Tag: aunt

  • A Dangerous Woman

    Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha’s unusual traits is that she doesn’t lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the shifty Getso. Conflict seems to follow Martha, since she also becomes romantically involved…

  • Bogus

    Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy’s imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.

  • James and the Giant Peach

    When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.

  • Sabrina Goes to Rome

    Sabrina goes to Rome, with Salem stowaway-ed in her backpack, to free her 16th-century aunt Sophia who was banished for divulging her powers to a non-witch.

  • A Lesson Before Dying

    In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn’t have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and…

  • Off Season

    After the death of his parents, 10-year-old Jackson Mayhew moves in with his Aunt. But when he befriends an elderly man, he begins to suspect that the old man is actually Santa Claus.

  • The Girl Next Door

    In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth’s depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy whose life…

  • Prom Night

    Donna’s senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

  • Magic in the Moonlight

    Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

  • The Mick

    Mackenzie “Mickey” Murphy is a hard-living, foul-mouthed, cigarette-smoking woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, CT to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister who fled the country to avoid a federal indictment. She quickly learns what the rest of us already know – other people’s children are awful.