Synopsis CPL 1 - 3 - Criterion Pictures
Synopsis CPL 1 - 3 - Criterion Pictures
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<strong>Criterion</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
30 MacIntosh Blvd., Unit 7 • Vaughan, Ontario • L4K 4P1<br />
800-565-1996 Fax: 866-664-7545 • www.criterionpic.com<br />
Dinner for Schmucks<br />
2010 • 114 minutes • Colour • Paramount <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
Director: Jay Roach<br />
Cast: Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Steve Carell, Lucy Punch<br />
An extraordinarily stupid man possesses the ability to ruin the life of anyone who spends more than a few minutes in his company.<br />
The Dinner Game<br />
1999 • 80 minutes • Colour • Maple <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
Director: Francis Veber<br />
Cast: Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte, Francis Huster, Alexandra Vandernoot, Daniel Prévost<br />
Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a<br />
guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.<br />
Discreet Charms of the Bourgeoise<br />
1972 • 105 minutes • Colour • Films Inc<br />
Director: Luis Buñuel<br />
Cast: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Cassel<br />
A Buñuel joke on his audience, using friends' attempts to have a dinner party as an excuse for series of surrealistic sequences. Reality<br />
and illusion soon blend into one, with delicious comic results.<br />
The Dish<br />
2001 • 101 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers<br />
Director: Rob Sitch<br />
Cast: Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long, Patrick Warburton<br />
Set in July 1969, a small group of scientists in Australia are brought together by a NASA representative sent to coordinate the broadcast of<br />
the Apollo XI moonwalk through the use of their receiver dish.<br />
Disturbia<br />
2007 • 104 minutes • Colour • Paramount <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
Director: D.J. Caruso<br />
Cast: Kurt David Anderson, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Charles Carroll, Matt Craven, Dominic Daniel, Cathy Immordino, Shia LaBeouf, Elyse<br />
Mirto<br />
After his father's death, Kale Brecht (LaBeouf) becomes sullen, withdrawn, and troubled -- so much so that he finds himself under a courtordered<br />
sentence of house arrest. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale. He becomes a voyeur as his interests turn outside the<br />
windows of his suburban home towards those of his neighbors, one of which Kale begins to suspect is a serial killer.<br />
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood<br />
2002 • 116 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers<br />
Director: Callie Khouri<br />
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd, Sandra Bullock, James Garner, Maggie Smith<br />
This classic Southern tale of life, love and family follows a group of lifelong friends as they stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a<br />
young playwright unravel the truth about her eccentric mother, find forgiveness and come to terms with her painful past.<br />
Le Divorce<br />
2003 • 117 minutes • Colour • Fox Searchlight<br />
Director: James Ivory<br />
Cast: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston, Matthew Modine, Bebe Neuwirth, Stephen Fry<br />
In this modern-day comedy of manners, American sisters Isabel (Kate Hudson) and Roxy (Naomi Watts) come face to face with the<br />
complicated social mores of French society. Pregnant and jilted by her scoundrel husband, Roxy is headed for LE DIVORCE, while Isabel<br />
leaps into l’amour with a married French diplomat who happens to be the uncle of Roxy’s soon-to-be-ex. Culture clash and scandal ensue<br />
as the sisters learn what it really takes to be an American in Paris.<br />
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