The Boys Are Back (film) – 2009

The movie "The Boys Are Back" was directed by Scott Hicks (No Reservations) and starring Clive Owen (Trust, Duplicity), Emma Booth (Club Land, Town Creek), Laura Fraser (Nina's Heavenly Delights, The Flying Scotsman), Goerge MacKay (Defiance, The Thief Lord) and Nicholas McAnulty.

Joe Warr (Clive Owen) lives in Australia with his second wife Katy (Laura Fraser) and his second son Artie (Nicholas McAnulty). Katy was diagnosed with cancer and after some times she passes away. Joe a sports writer becomes a single parent and needs deal with all home tasks and take care of little Artie.

Harry is his first son from a previous marriage who lives in Scotland and was invited to stay for a while on Joe’s house.

There are many points in this movie that caught my attention such as a child growing up without father’s presence, parents that always say ‘YES’ for a child and necessity of work against necessity to leave children alone in house. Those points were wisely placed on in the movie with drastic and funny results that could easily happen in the real world.

Particularly a like it and recommend it especially because I grew up as a only child without a figure of a father.

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Love Happens (film) – 2009

Love Happens is a film directed by Brandon Camp and starring Jennifer Aniston (The Bounty Hunter, Marley & Me, He's Just Not That into You) and Aaron Eckhart (Batman - The Dark Knight, No Reservations).

After a terrible car accident, in which his wife dies, Burke Ryan (Aaron) starts to write a self-help book that becomes a best seller. Despite he is a successful PH.D, he is suffering his own personal problems.

During a workshop, he meets Eloise (Jennifer), a funny florist. She brings new life to him and the story between both begins.

The conflict of ideas and beliefs are points that Burke needs to deal with.

The movie is good and you can spend a Sunday afternoon watching it.

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The Lovely Bones (film) - 2009

The Lovely Bones was directed by Peter Robert Jackson (the same director of all The Lord of The Rings and King Kong) tell us a story based on Alice Sebold’s novel in which a teenage girl who has a passion for photography, was sadly kidnapped and murdered. After that, from a parallel world between us and heaven, she watches her family suffering her absence as a result of an unsolved police case.

The bottom lines on this film are polemic questions such as: What will happen after we die? Where are we going? Who will be responsible for us? Why some spirits of dead people still amongst us?

Other important point is how all parents could prevent such terrible incident on real lives, because probably we will never are going to understand completely the behavior of human being and reasons for why they take some actions.

The cast of the film are Mark Wahlberg (The Other Guys, Date Night), Rachel Weisz (The Brothers Bloom, The Whistleblower), Susan Sarandon (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Speed Racer), Saoirse Ronan (City of Ember, Atonement), Rose McIver (Predicament), Michael Imperioli (The Lovebirds, The Higher Force) and Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada, The Terminal).

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Shutter Island (film) - 2010

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (as Edward "Teddy" Daniels), Ben Kingsley (as Dr. John Cawley), Mark Rufallo (as Chuck Aule, Teddy’s partner), Michelle Williams (Dolores Chanal) and directed by Martin Scorsese, the Shutter Island movie is a little bit predicable but in the same time completely intriguer.

The all story happened in 1954 on Shutter Island, Boston Harbor, in which Teddy and Cawley were investigating a mysterious disappearance of Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer) from a locked room on the Ashecliff Hospital, a psychiatric facility.

As I said in the beginning, the movie is predicable and in this way I believe that I must stop here, however the capacity of imagination and untidiness mental of human being is something that intrigue me most.

The movie is ok, nothing in special.

Watch the trailer Shutter Island - 2010