5.4

Jack and Jill vs. the World

2008, USA, Canada

• Actors: Freddie Prinze Jr., Taryn Manning, Peter Stebbings, Ingrid Doucet, Vanessa Parise, Lisa Ciara, Darrin Brown, Claudia Besso, Krista Sutton, Julian Richings, Robert Forster, Ethan Penner, Hannah Lochner, Kelly Rowan, Charles Martin Smith, Chick Roberts, Joan Gregson, Joe Pingue, Robin Dunne, Rosa Laborde, Lara Azzopardi, Steve Carey, Sean T. MacDonald, Joshua Milko
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Vanessa Parise
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In Manhattan, the successful executive Jack is a methodical and controlled man with simple habits that works in an advertisement agency with his coworker George. While smoking a cigarette on the roof of the building of the agency, Jack meets the aspirant actress Jill that has just arrived in New York and is seeking a job. He sympathizes with her situation and gives her name to a Klubendorf commercial in the campaign promoted by his agency. When he takes Jill home, he finds that she lives in a very low-budget hotel and out of the blue, he invites her to stay in the guest room of his fancy apartment for a while. Jill changes the behavior of Jack that becomes happier, and proposes Jack to write together a manifesto where the first rule is "be honest". However, she omits to Jack that she is sick with cystic fibrosis and she would have only a couple of years more. When Jack discovers that Jill is ill, he feels betrayed with her violation of their first rules, and they split. But Jack is changed and sooner he decides to seek out Jill.

  6.4

Land of the Dead

2004, Canada, France, USA

• Actors: Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, Robert Joy, Eugene Clark, Joanne Boland, Tony Nappo, Jennifer Baxter, Boyd Banks, Jasmin Geljo, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Tony Munch, Shawn Roberts, Pedro Miguel Arce, Sasha Roiz, Krista Bridges, Alan Van Sprang, Phil Fondacaro, Bruce McFee, Earl Pastko, Jonathan Whittaker, Jonathan Walker, Peter Outerbridge, Lara Amersey, Michael Belisaro, Gene Mack, Matt Birman, Devon Bostick, Jason Gautreau
• Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): George A. Romero
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Now that zombies have taken over the world, the living have built a walled-in city to keep the dead out. But all's not well where it's most safe, as a revolution plans to overthrow the city leadership, and the zombies are turning into more advanced creatures.

  8.0

Cinderella Man

2004, USA

• Actors: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine, Bruce McGill, David Huband, Connor Price, Ariel Waller, Patrick Louis, Rosemarie DeWitt, Linda Kash, Nicholas Campbell, Gene Pyrz, Chuck Shamata, Ron Canada, Alicia Johnston, Troy Amos-Ross, Mark Simmons, Art Binkowski, David Litzinger, Matthew G. Taylor, Rance Howard, James Ritz, Fulvio Cecere, Clint Howard, Gerry Ellison, Bill Mackie, Ray Marsh, Fernand Chretien
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
• Director(s): Ron Howard
• Available languages:
  • English English.

During the Great Depression, a common-man hero, James J. Braddock--a.k.a. the Cinderella Man--was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom. His career appeared to be finished, he was unable to pay the bills, the only thing that mattered to him--his family--was in danger, and he was even forced to go on Public Relief. But deep inside, Jim Braddock never relinquished his determination. Driven by love, honor and an incredible dose of grit, he willed an impossible dream to come true. In a last-chance bid to help his family, Braddock returned to the ring. No one thought he had a shot. However Braddock, fueled by something beyond mere competition, kept winning. Suddenly, the ordinary working man became the mythic athlete. Carrying the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders, Braddock rocketed through the ranks, until this underdog chose to do the unthinkable: take on the heavyweight champ of the world, the unstoppable Max Baer, renowned for having killed two men in the ring.

  5.4

How to Deal

2002, USA

• Actors: Mandy Moore, Allison Janney, Trent Ford, Alexandra Holden, Dylan Baker, Nina Foch, Mackenzie Astin, Connie Ray, Mary Catherine Garrison, Sonja Smits, Laura Catalano, Ray Kahnert, Andrew Gillies, John White, Alison MacLeod, Bill Lake, Charlotte Sullivan, Philip Akin, Claire Crawford, Ennis Esmer, Thomas Hauff, Darryl Pring, Patrice Goodman, Audrey Gardiner, Jayne Eastwood, Judi Croon, Sandi Ross, Gabrielle Ashry, Dana Reznik, Darrin Brown
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Clare Kilner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Halley is a young high school student who is disillusioned with love after seeing the many dysfunctional relationships around her. Her parents are now divorced and her father has a new young girlfriend she doesn't care for too much. Her mother is now always alone; and her sister is so overwhelmed by her upcoming wedding that she barely leaves the house anymore. On top of that, the shallowness of all the girls and guys at her school convinces Halley that finding true love is impossible. A tragic accident, however, leads her to meeting Macon, and suddenly Halley finds that true love can occur under unusual circumstances.

  6.7

John Q

2001, USA

• Actors: Gabriela Oltean, Denzel Washington, Kimberly Elise, Ron Annabelle, Daniel E. Smith, David Thornton, Barry G. King, Laura Harring, Kevin Connolly, Larissa Laskin, Vanessa Branch, Stephanie Moore, James Finnerty, Anne Heche, James Woods, Michael Jaye, Yanna McIntosh, Linda Massad, Lester Mathews, Noam Jenkins, Allegra Fulton, Darrin Brown, Paul Johansson, Shera Danese, Kirsta Teague, Ethan Suplee, Rick Sood, Shawn Hatosy, Heather Wahlquist, Troy Beyer
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Nick Cassavetes
• Available languages:
  • English English.

John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.

  5.1

Loser

2000, USA

• Actors: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Zak Orth, Thomas Sadoski, Jimmi Simpson, Greg Kinnear, Dan Aykroyd, Twink Caplan, Bobby Slayton, Robert Miano, Mollie Israel, Colleen Camp, Andy Dick, Steven Wright, Brian Backer, Meredith Scott Lynn, Stuart Cornfeld, Taylor Negron, Andrea Martin, Scott Thomson, Kedar Brown, Catherine Black, Rick Demas, Sanjay Talwar, Tracy Dawson, Carolyn Goff, Mike Beaver, Richard Blackburn, Billy Otis, Jenny Kim
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Amy Heckerling
• Available languages:
  • English English.

There is a remarkable similarity to 1960's "The Apartment". Where the leading man falls in love with a woman who is in love with a more powerful character, but that character does not love the woman. The leading man rescues the woman and helps her recover, while helping her to believe that her love cares for her.