Archive for the ‘ Bittersweet ’ Category
Title: Hesher
Genre: Drama
Director: Spenser Susser
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Devin Brochu, Rainn Wilson
Summary: A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
Rated: Bittersweet
Title: 127 Hours
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn
Summary: A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
Rated: Bittersweet
Title: White Olean
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Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Kosminsky
Starring: Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Renee Zellweger
Summary: A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Rated: Bittersweet, Reader Poll
Title: Repo! The Genetic Opera
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Starring: Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head, Alexa Vega
Summary: A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.
Rated: Bittersweet
Title: Repo Men
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber
Summary: Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.
Rated: Bittersweet
Title: The Safety of Objects
Genre: Drama
Director: Rose Troche
Starring: Glenn Close, Kristen Stewart
Summary: A series of overlapping stories about four suburban families dealing with different maladies. Esther Gold’s life is consumed by caring for her comatose son; Jim Train is sent into a tailspin when he’s passed over for a promotion; Annette Jennings’ family is struggling in the wake of her divorce; Helen Christianson is determined to shake up her mundane life.
Rated: Bittersweet
Title: Igby Goes Down
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Burr Steers
Starring: Kieran Culkin, Jeff Goldblum, Susan Sarandon
Summary: A young man’s peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Rated: Bittersweet
Title: Party Monster
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloe Sevigny
Summary: The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose to the top…and there was no place to go but down. Based on the book “Disco Bloodbath” by James St. James.
Rated: Happy
Sub-category: So There Is Hope for Humanity
Title: SLC Punk!
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director: James Merendino
Starring: Matthew Lilliard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish
Summary: It’s 1985 and Stevo is that rare animal, a punk rocker in the Mormon stronghold of Salt Lake City, Utah. He’s just graduated from college with honors and now his life is a nutty roller coaster ride of rock shows, stealing cars, beating up rednecks, and non-stop partying with his buddy, Heroin Bob, and his girlfriend. But with the scene getting lame and Stevo going nowhere fast, he has to put his punk ideals to the test.
Rated: Bittersweet
Title: Highway
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Director: James Cox
Starring: Jared Leto, Selma Blair, Jake Gyllenhaal
Summary: Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn’t tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot’s drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack’s feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain’s memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family.
Rated: Bittersweet
