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Tag: based on play or musical

  • Madea’s Family Reunion

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    Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles – Vanessa moves into Madea’s house with her 2 young children and Lisa is engaged to a controlling man that her mother set her up with. In addition, Madea has just been court-ordered to become the guardian of…

  • Curse of the Golden Flower

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    During China’s Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

  • Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical

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    Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She’s accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will…

  • Kiss of the Spider Woman

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    Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.

  • Wicked: For Good

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    As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.

  • Juliet & Romeo

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    Set in 1301 at the end of Medieval times, our most famous star-crossed lovers turn the tides on the history Shakespeare based his own story on, as they reveal the truth to the very future of the Empire. But the biggest twist in this most beloved of tales, is leaving the poetry of Iambic Pentameter…

  • Anton Spelec, Sharp-Shooter

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    Anton Špelec (Vlasta Burin) is a producer of musical instruments by trade but a sharp-shooter at heart. He expects to be awarded a medal at a large parade in town where veteran sharp-shooters will be honored. When the town council is one medal short, Anton must wait another year for his prized possession. He drowns…

  • Bug

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    In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.

  • Naked Boys Singing!

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    This whimsical Off-Broadway hit musical is aptly reworked and transferred to the screen. The self-descriptively titled Naked Boys Singing is a musical revue of songs that poke fun at gay life, body image, love, loss and yearning.

  • Sleuth

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    On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife’s heart.

  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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    The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

  • Hairspray

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    Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore’s most popular dance show – The Corny Collins Show – and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.

  • The Karamazov Brothers

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    Dostoevsky’s latter-day opus about the siblings and their father is among the masterpieces of world literature. It asks profound questions about ethics and religion. Is there a God? Does the devil exist? Is everything allowed because we live in a world without morality? And if so, does patricide even constitute a crime? One of the…

  • The Women

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    The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary’s man.

  • Mamma Mia!

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    A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother’s ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.

  • The Tenderness

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    Queen Esmeralda hates men because they have always limited her freedom, so she does not want her two daughters to suffer the same fate. Therefore, when the ship in which they are traveling passes near an apparently deserted island, she invokes a portentous storm.

  • The Incendiary’s Daughter

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  • The Two Orphans

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    Early Croatian film adaptation of the play “The Two Orphans”, a five-act melodrama set during French Revolution.

  • Hamlet

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    David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s award-winning production of Shakespeare’s great play. Director Gregory Doran’s modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, very funny.

  • The Nutcracker

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    In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.

  • The Deep Blue Sea

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    The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.