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The Forgotten Woman
2008 • 91 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media
Director: Dilip Mehta
Cast: V. Mohini Giri, Usha Rai, Ginny Shrivastava
Following the international success of Deepa Mehta`s Oscar-nominated film Water, which has achieved, to date, sales of over $15 million
and more than 1,000,000 viewers, Ms. Mehta received thousands of letters from the audience. After viewing the film, many wanted to
know more about the state of widows in India today. The Forgotten Woman was made in direct response to this interest and aims to bring
about an understanding of the destitution and marginalization of many of the millions of widows in India today, who are forced by age-old
Forrest Gump
1994 • 142 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field, Rebecca Williams, Michael Conner Humphreys
Oscar-winner Tom Hanks brings honesty and pathos to his portrayal of a kindhearted man with a subnormal IQ, in the award-winning hit
that was the #1 audience favourite of 1994. Robert Zemeckis directs this extraordinary film about a gentle hero making his way through a
world growing increasingly more complicated.
The Fountain
2006 • 96 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Alexander Bisping, Jamie Isaac Conde, Cliff Curtis
Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan
country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will
save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped
in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.
Four Christmases
2008 • 88 minutes • Colour • Alliance Films Inc
Director: Seth Gordon
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, Tim McGraw
A holiday comedy with a twist, Four Christmases stars Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon as a married couple who struggle to visit all
four of their divorced parents’ homes over the Christmas holiday.
Four Days in September
1998 • 106 minutes • Colour • Alliance Films Inc
Director: Bruno Barreto
Cast: Cláudia Abreu, Alan Arkin, Luiz Armando Queiroz, Othon Bastos, Pedro Cardoso, Jorge Cherques, Nelson Dantas
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties.
Cesare, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil
and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
The Four Feathers
2002 • 125 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Cast: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Sheen, Alek Wek, Kris Marshall
Set in 1898 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his
regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancee give him four white feathers, the
symbol of cowardice, but little do they know he's actually going undercover and plans to redeem his honor.
Fred Claus
2007 • 115 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: David Dobkin
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson, Kevin Spacey, Kathy Bates, Elizabeth Banks
Claus, Santa's bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole.
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