Tag: drunk

  • Under the Volcano

    Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul’s self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced…

  • Dance of the Drunk Mantis

    A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from his uncle as he must face his father’s rival, Rubber Legs, another Drunken Fist master who combines it…

  • Greedy

    Meet the McTeagues. They’ve come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle’s will… only he’s not dead yet!

  • Glory Daze

    Jack, a soon-to-be graduate, finds he’s having a difficult time letting go of the college life — and decides maybe he doesn’t have to. Also questioning whether there’s life after college are Jack’s roommates: Rob, who fears domestication; comic-strip artist Mickey, who’s shy around girls; intellectual party animal Slosh; and perpetual student Dennis.

  • La Ciénaga

    The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.

  • The Shipping News

    An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

  • Tart

    A student will do anything to become part of the “in-crowd” at the exclusive school she attends in New York.

  • New Best Friend

    Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into Hadley’s clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous…

  • Friday Night Lights

    A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town’s dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of…

  • The Upside of Anger

    After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself — and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and drinking buddy in next-door neighbor Denny, a former baseball player. As the two grow closer, and her daughters increasingly rely on Denny, Terry starts…

  • In Her Shoes

    Irresponsible party girl Maggie is kicked out of her father’s and stepmother’s home—where she lives for free—and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer Rose. After Maggie’s disruptive ways ruin her sister’s love life, Rose turns her out as well. But when their grandmother, who they never knew existed, comes into their lives,…

  • Lucky Blue

    Olle, an introverted, well-mannered boy with an air of innocence and sincerity about him has been camping with his father at the same camping ground with several other people for years now. A sort of tradition that ends in a karaoke party. Then one summer, a family friend brings her reticent ‘city boy’ nephew, Kevin,…

  • Trucker

    Loner Diane Ford is a truck driver with an 11-year-old son, Peter, whom she never sees, and that’s fine with her. But, when Peter’s father, Len, falls ill, he asks Diane to take care of their son for a while. Eventually, Diane reluctantly agrees, but she quickly realizes that caring for a child interferes with…

  • Restraint

    Two fugitives land in hot water when they take a hostage who poses a threat to their well-being.

  • Arthur

    A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman that his family doesn’t like.

  • Bridesmaids

    Annie’s life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian’s maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she’ll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far…

  • Grabbers

    Something sinister has come to the shores of Erin Island, unbeknownst to the quaint population of this sleepy fishing village resting somewhere off Ireland’s coast. First, some fishermen go missing. Then there is the rash of whale carcasses suddenly washing up on the beach. When the murders start, it’s up to two mismatched cops –…

  • Trust Me

    In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.

  • Passion

    The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.

  • Z for Zachariah

    In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others.…