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Eddie Burns (Ving Rhames) un ex detective de homicidios, retirado hace más de quince años por una condición física, reaparece con un estilo a lo Pedro Navaja con un sombrero de ala ancha y un look de "macho man", pero las cosas no son como antes.

¿Qué hace un actor como Ving Rhames, ganador de un "Golden Globe" como mejor actor en la miniserie de televisión "Don King: Only in America" (1997), o un Gary Oldman ganador de un "BAFTA" por el film "Nil by Mouth" (1997), o una Kerry Washington, o un Brian Cox en una película de bajo presupuesto, directa para el videoclub? Kassie (Kerry Washington), desaparece sin dejar rastro, pero su hermano Eddie recibe un video en que se muestra secuestrada, drogada y violada por un antiguo enemigo de este.

Charlie Strom (Gary Oldman) es un siniestro delincuente dedicado a la venta de drogas y pornografía, este tiene a Kassie y tiene toda la intención de torturarla y castigarla en venganza por lo que Eddie le hizo hace quince años atrás.

El film es una historia de venganzas, pero como toda película de serie B, carece de valores cinematográficos, sobre todo un buen guión y una aceptable dirección. ¿Por qué Gary Oldman por el mismo precio no dirigió, teniendo mejor experiencia? La película tuvo un presupuesto $6,5 millones.

A masterpiece of international cinema that tranceeds all unnatural boundaries as it deals with human emotions which know no boundaries. Maria Galana who plays an old woman in the sixties from a village in South Spain. Her four sons have moved away as soon as they could to the north.

Her husband is admitted to one hospital in the city where she finds herself a bit out of place. Her daughter lives in the same city whom her husband hates as she has gone beyond the cultural limitations and has studied. The daughter played by Ana Fernandez is a character who wants to be rich and hates the way her mother has lived her life like one obidient wife.

The movie comes to its real essence when Ana becomes preganant and her boyfriend refuses to take up the responsibility and asks her to abortion. Parallely her monther meets Ana's neighbour-a man in his sixties as well who is as "solas" as Maria even after being married and Ana even after doin what she wanted. Ana's struggle with her identity and her crave to have the child with the fight for her self respect is very well carried by the script.

How the things turn up and how Ana realises the importance of her mother and her life, how her mother manages herself intelligebily between all those who hardly want to see each other, the old man wants to be with lady and the story itself which is itself a pillar in the movie are to be watched out for.

I say its a best movie when one cannot jus leave his/her seat, its when you feel every bit of the characters are going through, its when every node of the music makes your herat beats.... You can expect everything from it that you expect our of a classic!!

Before he strode confidently into Hitchcock territory, filmmaker Brian De Palma began his career in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a series of anti-authority satires. Hi, Mom! (1970) wasn't quite as controversial as its X-rated predecessor, Greetings (1968), but it still has a bite, even today.

Robert DeNiro stars as Jon Rubin, a Vietnam vet looking to find his place in America. He gets the idea of making porno films with a voyeuristic quality, filming the residents of a neighboring apartment building from his window. To get quicker results, he even seduces one woman and tries to perform for the camera, set on a timer. He also auditions for a role in a play entitled "Be Black Baby," in which the white spectators are humiliated by black performers.

The film goes off on many tangents, using black-and-white footage to capture seemingly spontaneous reactions of passersby, but it never loses its obsession with voyeurism and the power of the camera. In many ways, this rambunctious mess gets closer to De Palma's dark heart than many of his later, more artistically successful works. Charles Durning appears in an early role as a slum landlord.

A young mother seeks to find peace in her small town when her son shows signs of extra sensory perception and the skeptical townspeople begin to act uncharacteristically suspicious in director Juan Antonio de la Riva's thought-provoking, magic realist drama.

Juanito is a young boy who lives with his mother Hilaria in the remote Mexican town of Santa Cruz de la Montana. When the young boy begins to display signs of mysterious supernatural abilities and the frightened citizens turn on the child and his concerned mother, Hilaria's burgeoning romance with town chef Albino offers newfound hope that the family will persist even in the most trying of times.

Micaela Nevárez is a Puerto Rican actress who has achieved great fame in independent and European films. She made her film debut in the acclaimed Spanish film Princesas which was directed by Fernando León de Aranoa, in which she played Zulema, an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic trying to make a living as a prostitute on the streets of Madrid, Spain. Her strong convincing performance in this film earned her a Goya Award for Best New Actress in 2006, making her the first Puerto Rican thespian to win this prestigious award.By winning this award, Nevárez became the first Puerto Rican performer to win this prestigious film honor and one of the few Latin American actresses to do so as well. She is preparing to launch her film career in the United States in 2008 with a supporting role in the independent film The War Boys starring Victor Rasuk and Peter Gallagher.

Someone perhaps followed the news in the case of Richard Davis, a soldier who disappeared in 2003 just before being deployed for the second time in Iraq and to which the Army charged with desertion. The tragic story of what really happened is not revealed until his father, who spent 20 years in the army, investigated the disappearance. Davis, in fact, left a night near their base at Fort Benning, Georgia, with four of the soldiers for three months were his comrades in Iraq. I was with them in a bar of "top less" when he began to criticize the atrocities he had seen committing to their own army. And that night he died. He had received at least 33 stab wounds, his body had been sprayed him with gas and set on fire. It turned out that Davis was killed by four other soldiers who served with him in Iraq. The four men have been sentenced to prison, two for life, one for 20 years and another for 5 years. That crime - in which four soldiers were convicted - focuses In the Valley of Elah, title refers to the place where David killed Goliath and he addressed Paul Haggis. And no wonder: the protagonists are Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon, who embody the parents of Davis, and Charlize Theron as a detective who helps the father to seek the truth. Though Haggis has made clear its position on the war - "America should not have been involved in Iraq" --

"Lo que le pasó a Santiago" is a 1989 Puerto Rican film written and directed by Jacobo Morales. The movie tells the story of a recently retired widower who meets a mysterious young lady in his life, disrupting his daily routines. Lo que le pasó a Santiago was the first Puerto Rican production in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. "Lo que le pasó a Santiago" is a real historic moment as far as the national cinema Puerto Rican concerns. Not only for his achievements in terms of criticism but also because it gave the idea of a film Puerto Rican. It was found at the international level that existed an island and an idiosyncrasy and that there was a borincana expression film that deserved greater appreciation. The story of a "viejito" who discovers the love at age 60, was a full achievement in all orders and hence the popularity of the film has not declined over the years.

Jack Fowler (Randy Travis) is a common farmer who abandoned his family to protect and carries eight (8) years fleeing because they had to kill someone (drunk Lenny) that it confused with the ruthless, bloodthirsty and famous gunman Jack Cole.

Lucas Moat (Ernest Borgnine) takes more than a month, along with his two sons, following the trail of the real Jack Cole to avenge the assassination of his brother, as well as other crimes including a child.

Abel Hart (Paul Tinder) is a fugitive, mental unwaged, which have an obsession with wanting to be the real Jack Cole. This also confuses Jack Fowler with Jack Cole and takes advantage of his wife (Mrs. Vaughn Taylor) and son (Alec Medlock) to try to kill him.

The character Eric Roberts (sheriff Hank Bowman) is so insignificant and outside sense that coupled with its dismal performance is the only thing that is bad movie.