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Randy Newman is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Sound American born on 28 november 1943 at Los Angeles (USA)
Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his distinctive voice, mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for film scores.
Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores include Ragtime, Awakenings, The Natural, Leatherheads, James and the Giant Peach, Meet the Parents, Cold Turkey, Seabiscuit and The Princess and the Frog. He has scored seven Disney-Pixar films: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Cars, Toy Story 3, and most recently, Monsters University.
Newman has been nominated for 20 Academy Awards, winning twice. He has also won three Emmys, six Grammy Awards, and the Governor's Award from the Recording Academy. Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2007, he was inducted as a Disney Legend. Newman was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2013.
Randall Newman est né en 1943 à Los Angeles. Fils d'Adele (née Fox), secrétaire, et d'Irving George Newman, médecin, il passe la majeure partie de sa jeunesse à La Nouvelle-Orléans. Il acquiert ainsi un accent de sudiste et revient vivre à Los Angeles. Là-bas, il est diplômé de l'University High School et s'intéresse de près à la musique. Or, ce choix n'est pas anodin car sa famille baigne dans la musique depuis toujours. Trois de ses oncles paternels sont déjà de grands compositeurs pour Hollywood : Alfred Newman, en partie connu pour avoir signé le célèbre hymne de la 20th Century Fox, Lionel Newman, lauréat de l'Oscar de la meilleure musique de film en 1970 pour Hello, Dolly!, et Emil Newman, qui a conçu plus de 100 musiques de films entre les années 1930 et 1960. Suivront ensuite ses cousins Thomas et David, puis son neveu Joey, eux aussi compositeurs pour le cinéma d'animation.
Les débuts d'un parolier caustique
Il est reconnu comme compositeur et interprète de chansons très originales, parfois acides. Parmi les plus connues : "Sail Away", "Birmingham", "I Love L.A.", "Baltimore", "Louisiana 1927".
Il s’est fait connaître tout d’abord avec le groupe Harpers Bizarre (formé en 1963 et dissous en 1970), et leur succès de 1967 : "59th street bridge song", reprise de la chanson de Paul Simon "Feelin’ Groovy". Il fera ensuite une carrière solo, avec un premier album en 1968 "Randy Newman creates something new under the sun". Ce ne fut pas un succès commercial, mais de nombreux artistes ont repris ses chansons : Alan Price (pianiste du groupe anglais The Animals) , Judy Collins, Van Dyke Parks, the Everly Brothers, Dusty Springfield.
En 1970, Harry Nilsson a enregistré l’album "Nilsson Sings Newman", avec Newman au piano, qui fut apprécié par les critiques musicaux mais n’a pas eu le succès musical espéré, malgré une reprise de "Love Story" qui était sur son premier disque.
Randy Newman n'eut guère plus de réussite auprès du grand public avec son second album "12 Songs" sorti en 1970. Ses chansons assez sophistiquées, qui parlaient notamment du racisme ou de la violence, n’étaient pas dans le ton de l’époque. Son talent de compositeur fut toutefois reconnu avec "Mama told me not to come" et "Old Kentucky home". Pour ce second album, Randy Newman était accompagné d'excellents musiciens de studio comme Ry Cooder, Jim Gordon et Clarence White.
Newman eut son premier succès commercial avec l’album "Sail Away". De nombreuses chansons furent à nouveau reprises par d’autres interprètes comme Ray Charles ("Sail Away") et Joe Cocker ("You Can Leave Your Hat On").
Dans son album suivant, Good Old Boys, Newman a composé des chansons sur le Sud des États-Unis, dans lesquelles il évoque notamment Lester Maddox (ancien gouverneur ouvertement ségrégationniste de Géorgie) : "Rednecks" . Dans "Rednecks", il semble d'abord ironiser sur l'idéologie des "petites gens" du Sud, considérés comme racistes et stupides («We're Rednecks, and we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground»), mais il révèle ensuite combien le Nord a durement traité les Noirs, de telle sorte qu'à la fin, on ne sait quel camp il faut choisir et de quelle "opinion" il se réclame («Now your northern Nigger is a Negro… the north has set the Nigger free, yes he's free to be put in a cage in Harlem in New York City… ». L'album comporte des chansons plus légères ("Rollin") ou tendres ("Marie"). Ce fut un succès commercial, l’album devenant n°36 au Billboard.
Little Criminals fut aussi une réussite, avec notamment "Short People" une chanson ressentie comme assez ambiguë par ceux qui ne comprennent pas qu'on peut se moquer des nains tout en décrivant leur univers mental et les souffrances que le fait d'être petit et le regard des autres leur infligent. Newman raconte les nains comme il chante les Sudistes, avec un mélange de rire sarcastique et d'empathie basé sur le fait que les personnes réelles ne sont ni entièrement bonnes ni entièrement mauvaises. Et que ceux qui donnent ordinairement au monde des leçons de morale sont bien souvent ceux qui devraient être les derniers à en donner...
Un artiste à part entière
En 1973, l'ex-Beatle Ringo Starr chante Have you seen my baby, composée par Randy Newman, dans l'album Ringo.
En 1983, il composa Trouble in Paradise qui eut plus de succès que ses albums antérieurs, grâce notamment à I Love L.A.. Plus tard, en 1990, il adapta Faust de Goethe dans un album-concept (Randy Newman tient le rôle du diable) et un spectacle musical.
Il a donné son dernier concert en France le 28 février 2000 à La Cigale, à Paris.
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Birth name Randall Stuart Newman
Nationality USA
Birth 28 november 1943 (80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Annie Award
Nationality USA
Birth 28 november 1943 (80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Annie Award
Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores include Ragtime, Awakenings, The Natural, Leatherheads, James and the Giant Peach, Meet the Parents, Cold Turkey, Seabiscuit and The Princess and the Frog. He has scored seven Disney-Pixar films: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Cars, Toy Story 3, and most recently, Monsters University.
Newman has been nominated for 20 Academy Awards, winning twice. He has also won three Emmys, six Grammy Awards, and the Governor's Award from the Recording Academy. Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2007, he was inducted as a Disney Legend. Newman was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2013.
Biography
Les Newman : une famille de compositeursRandall Newman est né en 1943 à Los Angeles. Fils d'Adele (née Fox), secrétaire, et d'Irving George Newman, médecin, il passe la majeure partie de sa jeunesse à La Nouvelle-Orléans. Il acquiert ainsi un accent de sudiste et revient vivre à Los Angeles. Là-bas, il est diplômé de l'University High School et s'intéresse de près à la musique. Or, ce choix n'est pas anodin car sa famille baigne dans la musique depuis toujours. Trois de ses oncles paternels sont déjà de grands compositeurs pour Hollywood : Alfred Newman, en partie connu pour avoir signé le célèbre hymne de la 20th Century Fox, Lionel Newman, lauréat de l'Oscar de la meilleure musique de film en 1970 pour Hello, Dolly!, et Emil Newman, qui a conçu plus de 100 musiques de films entre les années 1930 et 1960. Suivront ensuite ses cousins Thomas et David, puis son neveu Joey, eux aussi compositeurs pour le cinéma d'animation.
Les débuts d'un parolier caustique
Il est reconnu comme compositeur et interprète de chansons très originales, parfois acides. Parmi les plus connues : "Sail Away", "Birmingham", "I Love L.A.", "Baltimore", "Louisiana 1927".
Il s’est fait connaître tout d’abord avec le groupe Harpers Bizarre (formé en 1963 et dissous en 1970), et leur succès de 1967 : "59th street bridge song", reprise de la chanson de Paul Simon "Feelin’ Groovy". Il fera ensuite une carrière solo, avec un premier album en 1968 "Randy Newman creates something new under the sun". Ce ne fut pas un succès commercial, mais de nombreux artistes ont repris ses chansons : Alan Price (pianiste du groupe anglais The Animals) , Judy Collins, Van Dyke Parks, the Everly Brothers, Dusty Springfield.
En 1970, Harry Nilsson a enregistré l’album "Nilsson Sings Newman", avec Newman au piano, qui fut apprécié par les critiques musicaux mais n’a pas eu le succès musical espéré, malgré une reprise de "Love Story" qui était sur son premier disque.
Randy Newman n'eut guère plus de réussite auprès du grand public avec son second album "12 Songs" sorti en 1970. Ses chansons assez sophistiquées, qui parlaient notamment du racisme ou de la violence, n’étaient pas dans le ton de l’époque. Son talent de compositeur fut toutefois reconnu avec "Mama told me not to come" et "Old Kentucky home". Pour ce second album, Randy Newman était accompagné d'excellents musiciens de studio comme Ry Cooder, Jim Gordon et Clarence White.
Newman eut son premier succès commercial avec l’album "Sail Away". De nombreuses chansons furent à nouveau reprises par d’autres interprètes comme Ray Charles ("Sail Away") et Joe Cocker ("You Can Leave Your Hat On").
Dans son album suivant, Good Old Boys, Newman a composé des chansons sur le Sud des États-Unis, dans lesquelles il évoque notamment Lester Maddox (ancien gouverneur ouvertement ségrégationniste de Géorgie) : "Rednecks" . Dans "Rednecks", il semble d'abord ironiser sur l'idéologie des "petites gens" du Sud, considérés comme racistes et stupides («We're Rednecks, and we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground»), mais il révèle ensuite combien le Nord a durement traité les Noirs, de telle sorte qu'à la fin, on ne sait quel camp il faut choisir et de quelle "opinion" il se réclame («Now your northern Nigger is a Negro… the north has set the Nigger free, yes he's free to be put in a cage in Harlem in New York City… ». L'album comporte des chansons plus légères ("Rollin") ou tendres ("Marie"). Ce fut un succès commercial, l’album devenant n°36 au Billboard.
Little Criminals fut aussi une réussite, avec notamment "Short People" une chanson ressentie comme assez ambiguë par ceux qui ne comprennent pas qu'on peut se moquer des nains tout en décrivant leur univers mental et les souffrances que le fait d'être petit et le regard des autres leur infligent. Newman raconte les nains comme il chante les Sudistes, avec un mélange de rire sarcastique et d'empathie basé sur le fait que les personnes réelles ne sont ni entièrement bonnes ni entièrement mauvaises. Et que ceux qui donnent ordinairement au monde des leçons de morale sont bien souvent ceux qui devraient être les derniers à en donner...
Un artiste à part entière
En 1973, l'ex-Beatle Ringo Starr chante Have you seen my baby, composée par Randy Newman, dans l'album Ringo.
En 1983, il composa Trouble in Paradise qui eut plus de succès que ses albums antérieurs, grâce notamment à I Love L.A.. Plus tard, en 1990, il adapta Faust de Goethe dans un album-concept (Randy Newman tient le rôle du diable) et un spectacle musical.
Il a donné son dernier concert en France le 28 février 2000 à La Cigale, à Paris.
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Leatherheads (2008)
, 1h54Directed by George Clooney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors George Clooney, John Krasinski, Renée Zellweger, Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Root, Wayne Duvall
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating59%
"Dodge" Connelly (George Clooney) is captain of the Duluth Bulldogs, a struggling professional American football team circa 1925. Dodge is determined to save both his team and pro football in general when the players lose their sponsor and the league is on the brink of collapse. He convinces Princeton University's college football star, Carter "the Bullet" Rutherford, to join the Bulldogs, hoping to capitalize on Carter's fame as a decorated hero of the First World War (like Alvin York, he single-handedly captured a large group of German soldiers). In addition to his legendary tales of combat heroism, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed and skill on the field. As a result of his presence, both the Bulldogs and pro football in general begin to prosper.
, 1h11Directed by Phil Nibbelink
Origin USA
Genres Animation, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about suicide, Théâtre, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Romeo and Juliet, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Children's films
Actors Daniel Trippett, Phil Nibbelink, Chip Albers, Michael Toland, Sam Gold
Rating36%
Warring Capulets (Michael Toland) and Montagues (Stephen Goldberg), portrayed as Steller and California sea lions respectively, have their feud watched sadly by Capulet's only daughter, Juliet (Patricia Trippett). A fight on the shore is ended when the Prince (Phil Nibbelink), a large and monstrous elephant seal, appears and warns the two groups that, should there be any more disturbance, the seal who caused it shall be exiled to Shark Island, a fin shaped rock where a shark lives. Romeo (Daniel Tripett), Montague's only son, is depressed, wishing to fall in love with someone. His humorous friend, Mercutio (Chip Albers), urges him and another of his friends, Benvolio (Sam Gold), to go to a Capulet party later that evening. They attend the party, covered in white sand to look like Capulets, and Romeo falls in love with Juliet at first sight. Juliet, however, was promised by her father to marry the Prince, who attends the party. Romeo and his friends manage to wreak havoc, and are revealed to be Montagues. Later that evening, the play's balcony scene is recreated on a cliff on the beach where a tree grows. Romeo promises Juliet that they shall marry the next morning, and she will not have to marry the Prince.
Cars (2006)
, 1h56Directed by John Lasseter, Joe Ranft
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Shalhoub, Michael Wallis
Roles Conductor
Rating71%
In a world populated by anthropomorphic vehicles, the last race of the Piston Cup championship ends in a three-way tie between retiring veteran Strip "The King" Weathers, infamous runner-up Chick Hicks, and rookie Lightning McQueen. The tiebreaker race is scheduled for one week later at the (fictional) Los Angeles International Speedway in California. Lightning is desperate to win the race, since it would allow him to leave the unglamorous sponsorship of Rust-Eze, a rust treatment for old cars, and allow him to take The King's place as the sponsored car of the lucrative Dinoco team. Eager to start practice in California as soon as possible, he pushes his big rig, Mack, to travel all night long. While McQueen is sleeping, the exhausted Mack drifts off and is startled by a gang of four reckless street racers, causing McQueen to fall out the back of the trailer and into the road. McQueen wakes in the middle of traffic and speeds off the highway to find Mack, only to end up in the run-down desert town of Radiator Springs, and inadvertently ruining the pavement of its main road.
Meet the Fockers (2004)
, 1h50Directed by Jay Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Theresa Polo
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62%
Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Ben Stiller) and his fiancée Pam Byrnes (Polo) decide to introduce their parents to each other. They first fly to Oyster Bay, New York, on Long Island, to pick up Pam's father, retired CIA operative Jack Byrnes (De Niro), her mother Dina (Danner) and one-year-old nephew Little Jack. But rather than going to the airport as planned, Jack decides to drive the family to Miami to meet the Fockers in his new RV.
Seabiscuit (2003)
, 2h20Directed by Gary Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film, Sport hippique
Actors Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, William H. Macy, Elizabeth Banks, Eddie Jones
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating72%
Three men, Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire), Charles S. Howard (Jeff Bridges), and Tom Smith (Chris Cooper) come together as the principal jockey, owner, and trainer of the championship horse Seabiscuit, rising from troubled times to achieve fame and success through their association with the horse.
Mike's New Car (2002)
, 3minutesDirected by Pete Docter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Children's films
Actors John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Jacques Frantz, Éric Métayer, Denis Mercier, Alain Zouvi
Roles Music
Rating70%
Mike is obsessed with his new six-wheel drive car, and insists on showing it off to his pal Sulley. Unfortunately for Mike, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Sulley plays with the ultra-adjustable seats until an annoyed Mike asks him to stop. Mike starts the engine and the seatbelt reminder tone sounds. Sully manages to get his seatbelt on easily, but Mike finds his seatbelt stuck and accidentally locks himself out of the car while trying to unstick it. Sulley, trying to be helpful but confused by the massive amount of buttons on the dashboard, pops the hood open. When Mike goes over to close it, Sulley ends up trapping Mike in the engine compartment. Mike manages to escape, re-enters the car, and is exasperated by the continuous seatbelt reminder tone. Sulley reaches for another button on the dash, as when Mike managed to put his seat-belt on, he turned the windshield wipers on by accident. Mike shouts, "Don't touch anything!" and pushes a button that launches the entire car into chaotic malfunction, including conga music playing loudly on the car's stereo system. Mike finally ends the chaos by pulling the key out of the ignition, and Sulley adds insult to injury when, in an attempt to realign the rearview mirror, he breaks it off. Mike gets angry, orders Sulley out of the car, and speeds away, wrecking the car completely. Sulley mutters, "Huh, that's weird, the airbag didn't go off." Right on cue, the airbag inflates, and its force sends Mike flying back up the street. Sulley catches Mike, who mourns for his old car before agreeing to walk to work while the credits roll.
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
, 1h32Directed by Lee Unkrich, Pete Docter, David Silverman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Time travel films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Mary Gibbs, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly
Roles Songs
Rating80%
The parallel city of Monstropolis is inhabited by monsters and powered by the screams of children in the human world. At the factory of Monsters, Inc., employees called "scarers" venture into children's bedrooms to scare them and collect their screams, using closet doors as portals. This is considered a dangerous task because the monsters believe children are toxic and that touching them would be fatal. However, production is falling as children are becoming harder to scare and the company's chairman Henry J. Waternoose III is determined to find a solution. The top scarer is James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, who lives with his friend and assistant Mike Wazowski and has a rivalry with the ever-determined chameleon-like monster Randall Boggs. During an ordinary day's work on what is known as the "Scarefloor", another scarer accidentally brings a child's sock into the factory, causing the Child Detection Agency (CDA) to arrive and cleanse him. Mike is frequently ridiculed by the company's clerk Roz for never completing his paperwork on time.
Meet the Parents (2000)
, 1h48Directed by Jay Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about religion
Actors Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Theresa Polo, James Rebhorn, Jon Abrahams
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating69%
Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Ben Stiller) is a nurse living in Chicago, who intends to propose to his girlfriend Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo), a schoolteacher. His plan is disrupted when Pam's sister Debbie becomes engaged and he finds out that Debbie's fiance, Dr. Robert "Bob" Banks had asked Pam's father for permission before proposing. Greg and Pam travel to Pam's parents' house in Oyster Bay, Long Island to attend the wedding. Greg hopes to propose to Pam in front of her family after receiving her father's permission, but this plan is put on hold when the airline loses his luggage, including the engagement ring.
Toy Story 2 (1999)
, 1h33Directed by Lee Unkrich, John Lasseter, Ash Brannon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Jeu, Musical films, Films about toys, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles, Jim Varney
Roles Songs
Rating78%
Woody prepares to go to cowboy camp with Andy, but his right arm is accidentally torn. Andy decides to leave him behind, and his mother puts him on a shelf. The next day, Woody discovers that Wheezy, a penguin squeaky toy, has been shelved for months due to a broken squeaker. When Andy's mother puts Wheezy in a yard sale, Woody rescues him, only to be stolen by a greedy toy collector, who takes him to his residential 23-story apartment. Buzz Lightyear and all of Andy's other toys identify the thief from a commercial as Al McWhiggin, the owner of a toy store called Al's Toy Barn. Buzz, Hamm, Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, and Rex all set out to rescue Woody.
Pleasantville (1998)
, 2hDirected by Gary Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about television, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J. T. Walsh, Reese Witherspoon
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating74%
David (Tobey Maguire) and his twin sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) lead different high-school social lives. Jennifer is shallow and extroverted; David is introverted and spends most of his time watching television. One evening while their mother (Jane Kaczmarek) is away, they fight over the TV. Jennifer wants to watch a concert on MTV, but David wants to watch a marathon of Pleasantville, a black and white 1950s sitcom about the idyllic Parker family. During the fight, the remote control breaks, and the TV cannot be turned on manually.
A Bug's Life (1998)
, 1h35Directed by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Circus films, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about insects, Children's films
Actors Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, David Hyde Pierce, Phyllis Diller
Roles Songs
Rating71%
Flik, an individualist and would-be inventor, lives in a colony of ants in the middle of a dried creek. They are led by Princess Atta and her mother, the Queen. The colony is oppressed by a gang of marauding grasshoppers, led by Hopper, that arrive every season demanding food from the ants. One day, when the annual offering is accidentally knocked into a stream by Flik's latest invention, a grain-harvesting device, the grasshoppers demand twice as much food as compensation. The ants trick Flik into accepting his plan to recruit "warrior bugs" to fight off the grasshoppers. While Flik actually believes in the plan, the other ants see it as an opportunity to get rid of Flik and save themselves trouble.
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
, 1h37Directed by George Miller
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Pregnancy films, Films about cats, Films about dogs, Films about pigs, Films about apes, Political films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Magda Szubanski, James Cromwell, Mary Stein, Elizabeth Daily, Danny Mann, Paul Livingston
Roles Songs
Rating57%
Set after the events of the first film, Babe (now voiced by Elizabeth Daily) and his master, farmer Arthur Hoggett (James Cromwell), are given a welcome home parade after Babe's success as a "sheepdog". One day, Babe inadvertently causes an accident to befall Arthur, who ends up in the hospital. Esme is unsuccessful tending the farm on her own. A few days later, two men from the bank tell her she and Arthur have not paid their rent on time, and at the end of the month, Esme and Arthur will soon be evicted from their farm. Among the many letters from their fans, Esme locates one saying that if she enters Babe in a sheepdog herding contest, held at a fair far away, she will win a large amount of money. She decides to enter Babe instead, and they leave the farm together.
You've Got Mail (1998)
, 1h59Directed by Nora Ephron
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about computing, Films based on plays
Actors Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Katie Sagona, Parker Posey, Dave Chappelle
Roles Songs
Rating66%
Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) is involved with Frank Navasky (Greg Kinnear), a leftist postmodernist newspaper writer for The New York Observer who's always in search of an opportunity to root for the underdog. While Frank is devoted to his typewriter, Kathleen prefers her laptop and logging into her AOL email account. There, using the screen name 'Shopgirl', she reads an email from "NY152", the screen name of Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) whom she first met in an "over-30s" chatroom. As her voice narrates her reading of the email, she reveals the boundaries of the online relationship; no specifics, including no names, career or class information, or family connections. Joe belongs to the Fox family which runs Fox Books — a chain of "mega" bookstores similar to Borders or Barnes & Noble. Kathleen, on the other hand, runs the independent bookstore The Shop Around The Corner that her mother ran before her. The two are shown passing each other on their respective ways to work, revealing that they frequent the same neighborhoods in upper west Manhattan. Joe arrives at work, overseeing the opening of a new Fox Books in New York with the help of his best friend, branch manager Kevin (Dave Chappelle). Meanwhile, Kathleen and her three store assistants, George (Steve Zahn), Aunt Birdie (Jean Stapleton), and Christina (Heather Burns) open up her small shop that morning.
Cats Don't Dance (1997)
, 1h15Directed by Mark L. Dindal
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about religion, Films about cats, Musical films, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films
Actors Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Ashley Peldon, Jasmine Guy, John Rhys-Davies, Natalie Cole
Roles Songs
Rating69%
In 1939, Danny, an optimistic cat, dreams of Hollywood stardom, so he travels from Kokomo, Indiana to Hollywood in hopes of starting a career there. He is selected by Farley Wink to feature in a film called Little Ark Angel that is in production alongside a cat named Sawyer. Upon meeting Tillie, Cranston, Frances, and T.W., he is dismayed on learning how minor his role is and tries to weasel his way into more time in the limelight. Danny winds up angering Darla Dimple, a popular, extremely spoiled child actress and star of the film, so she assigns her Valet Max to intimidate Danny into no longer trying to enlarge his part.
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
, 1h19Directed by Henry Selick
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Horror, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about children, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'une plante
Actors Simon Callow, Paul Terry, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Jane Leeves, Miriam Margolyes
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating66%
James Henry Trotter is a young boy who lives with his parents by the sea in England. On James' birthday, they plan to go to New York City and visit the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world. However, before that happens, his parents are killed by a ghostly rhinoceros from the sky and James finds himself living with his two neglectful and cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge.