Film:
Home Alone, 1990
Starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, John Heard, and John Candy.
Synopsis (From Netflix):
Families suck. That’s the opinion of 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), whose family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on vacation. In no time, Kevin makes the most of the situation, watching forbidden flicks and pigging out [...]
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Home Alone — Christmas and Family
Posted in Comedy, Compassion, Fear, Forgiveness, Home Alone, Love, Responsibility, tagged Art, bahai, Bible, Christ, Christianity, Christmas, church, Faith, Family, Film, Forgiveness, holiday, Home Alone, Joe Pesci, Love, Macaulay Culkin, Movies, Spirit, Unity on December 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Henry Poole is Here — Despair vs. Faith
Posted in Comedy, Compassion, Curiousity, Drama, Fear, Forgiveness, Henry Poole is Here, Independent, Kindness, Love, Sloth, tagged Baha'i Faith, Baha'u'llah, belief, California, Catholic, Catholicism, Cheryl Hines, Christianity, Death, despair, Esperanza, Faith, Family, Film, George Lopez, growth, Hope, hurt, Jesus, LA, Life, Los Angeles, loss, Love, Luke Wilson, miracle, Movies, neighbors, optimism, pain, pessimism, spiritual, Spirituality, transformation on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Film:
Henry Poole is Here, 2008
Starring Luke Wilson, Radha Mitchell, Adriana Barraza, Cheryl Hines, and George Lopez.
Synopsis (from NetFlix):
Rather than living his last days to the fullest after learning he only has six weeks left on earth, Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) cuts himself off from his fiancée and his family — and binges on Twinkies, pizza [...]
Cashback — Boredom, Sexuality, and Beauty
Posted in Cashback, Chastity, Comedy, Drama, Fidelity, Gossip, Idleness, Independent, Sloth, tagged Art, Baha'u'llah, bahai, beauty, British, Cashback, Confucius, Film, independent film, Love, Movies, Religion, Spirit, spiritual, Thoughts on March 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Film:
Cashback, 2006
Starring Sean Biggerstaff and Emilia Fox.
Synopsis (from IMDB):
When art student Ben Willis dumps his girlfriend Suzy, he develops insomnia after finding out how quickly she moved on. To pass the long hours of the night, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket. There he meets a colorful cast of characters, [...]
Groundhog Day — The Day That Never Ends
Posted in Altruism, Arrogance, Comedy, Compassion, Creativity, Forgiveness, Generosity, Groundhog Day, Injustice, Kindness, Love, Persistence, Responsibility, Vanity, tagged 1993, America, Andie MacDowell, Baha'i Faith, Baha'u'llah, betterment, Bill Murray, challenge, change, Chris Elliot, Compassion, effort, Faith, fate, Fear, Film, french, Groundhog Day, help, improvement, movie, Movies, moving pictures, Peace, Pennsylvania, Religion, repetition, suicide, Thoughts, today, weather on February 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Film:
Groundhog Day, 1993
Starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell
Synopsis (from NetFlix):
In this offbeat comedy from director Harold Ramis, self-centered TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pa., to cover the groundhog’s annual appearance. Loathing the event, Connors unleashes his bitterness on his producer (Andie MacDowell) and cameraman (Chris Elliott). The next day, however, [...]
Living Conditions — Check it out!
Posted in Comedy, Living Conditions, tagged Blythe, Cili and Mara, Family, fun, funny, humor, Mara and Cili, Movies, Video, webseries on January 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hi Everyone! I just got back from Israel, and pilgrimage was amazing. I watched some great films on the plane so look out for some hot posts later on this week.
However, while I was away my sister just finished the pilot of her new webseries – Living Conditions. It’s pretty funny, even if I am [...]
The Wedding Dress (TV) — Hope and Expectations
Posted in Altruism, Comedy, Compassion, Cooperation, Creativity, Drama, Forgiveness, Generosity, Kindness, Love, Loyalty, Made for TV, Persistence, Romance/Romantic Comedy, Steadfastness, Trustworthiness, Unity, Wedding Dress, The, tagged Dreams, Film, Forgiveness, Hope, Kathryne Dora Brown, Love, Made for TV, Margaret Collin, marriage, Movies, Neil Patrick Harris, patience, Steadfastness, The, Tyne Daly, Unity, wedding, Wedding Dress on December 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Film:
The Wedding Dress (TV), 2001
Starring Neil Patrick Harris, Tyne Daly, Margaret Collin, and Kathryne Dora Brown.
Synopsis (From NetFlix):
A beautiful wedding dress moves throughout the six degrees of separation when it ends up in the hands of six different brides-to-be and changes their lives forever in ways they could never have expected. Tyne Daly and Neil [...]
The Women — Infidelity, Gossip, and Backbiting
Posted in Backbiting, Betrayal, Classic, Comedy, Drama, Gossip, Greed, Love, Women, The, tagged Backbiting, bahai, betrayal, enemies, Faith, Film, frenemies, friends, friendship, Gossip, infidelity, marriage, Movies, Religion, Spirituality, Thoughts, Women, The on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Film:
The Women, 1939
Starring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, and Joan Fontaine
Synopsis (from NetFlix):
George Cukor directs an all-female cast in this catty tale about battling and bonding that was edgy for its time — and is considered the ultimate women’s movie of the 1930s. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell and other Hollywood leading ladies [...]
Slumdog Millionaire — Love Overcomes Adversity
Posted in Betrayal, Comedy, Compassion, Cooperation, Drama, Fear, Generosity, Greed, Hindi, Independent, Injustice, Loyalty, Persistence, Romance/Romantic Comedy, Slumdog Millionaire, Unity, tagged Art, bahai, betrayal, Destiny, Faith, Film, Forgiveness, Freedom, Generosity, Honesty, India, Journey, Movies, Poverty, Redemption, Religion, Slumdog Millionaire, Thoughts, Travel, Wealth, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? on December 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Film:
Slumdog Millionaire, 2008
Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, and Frieda Pinto
Synopsis (from Fox Searchlight Pictures):
The story of Jamal Malik (Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 [...]
Mean Girls — The Tongue is a Smoldering Fire
Posted in Backbiting, Comedy, Compassion, Gossip, Kindness, Loyalty, Mean Girls, Teen, Trustworthiness, Vanity, tagged Baha'u'llah, bahai, Faith, Film, Gandhi, Gossip, High School, Lindsay Lohan, Mean Girls, Movies, Rachel McAdams, Spirituality, Tina Fey on November 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Film:
Mean Girls, 2004
Starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Tina Fey
Synopsis (from IMDB):
Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) has just returned to the United States with her parents after growing up in Africa. Cady is a teenager, who has been home schooled her whole life. Her first day in class as the new girl will be her first [...]
