Insights from the Cinematic World: drama film

Submarine

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Submarine is a 2010 coming-of-age comedy-drama film adapted from the 2008 novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne. The film is directed by Richard Ayoade and stars Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins and Paddy Considine. The film is Ayoade’s directorial debut.

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Cost of a Soul

Cost of a Soul is a drama film directed and written by Sean Kirkpatrick. The movie’s starring Chris Kerson, Will Blagrove, Judy Jerome, Mark Borkowski, Greg Almquist and Maddie M. Jones. The film tells the story of , Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in.

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Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy is a drama film starring Michael Sheen and Maria Bello. Beautiful Boy is the feature debut for writer/director Shawn Ku. An unconventional love story that explores the journey of a married couple on the verge of separation, who must live with unimaginable heartbreak, and find healing through the darkest days of their lives.

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Another Earth

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Another Earth is a 2011 American science fiction drama film directed by Mike Cahill in his feature film debut. The film stars William Mapother and Brit Marling. It premiered at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

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Water for Elephants

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Water for Elephants is a drama film based on Sara Gruen’s novel of the same name, directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Robert Pattinson as Jacob Jankowski, Reese Witherspoon as Marlena and Christoph Waltz as August. Hal Holbrook will play the older Jacob Jankowski.

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Soul Surfer is about the true story of Bethany Hamilton who's known for surviving a shark attack in which she lost her left arm, and for overcoming the serious and debilitating injury to return to surfing.

Soul Surfer

Soul Surfer is an upcoming 2011 American biographical teen drama film directed by Sean McNamara. The film is an adaptaion of the 2004 non-fiction book Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board by Bethany Hamilton, who lost her left arm in a shark attack when she was 13 years old.

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The King's Speech is the story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.

The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech is a British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. The film won the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award. The film stars Colin Firth as King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as speech therapist Lionel Logue, who helped George VI overcome a stammer.

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Biutiful is about a man embroiled in shady dealings who is confronted by a childhood friend, now a policeman.

Biutiful

Biutiful is a drama film directed by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. It is Iñárritu’s first directorial feature since Babel and his first film in his native Spanish language since his debut feature Amores perros.The film follows Uxbal (Bardem), an underworld figure and devoted single dad, through his attempts to reconcile with a past love and secure a future for his children as his own death draws near.

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Blue Valentine centers on a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.

Blue Valentine

Blue Valentine is a romantic drama film written and directed by Derek Cianfrance that premiered in competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It is co-written by Joey Curtis and Cami Delavigne and stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. The film was scored by Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear.

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The film's script was leaked on the Internet in July 2009. In November 2009, the film's producer Kevin Spacey said "The Social Network is probably going to be a lot funnier than people might expect it to be." The Cardin Courier stated that the film was about "greed, obsession, unpredictability and sex" and asked "although there are over 500 million Facebook users, does this mean Facebook can become a profitable blockbuster movie?".

The Social Network

The Social Network is an upcoming 2010 drama film directed by David Fincher about the founding of the social networking website Facebook. The film features an ensemble cast, which consists of Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Rashida Jones, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara, Malese Jow.

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Plus de 30 ans après la sortie, le film jouit d'une réputation de classique et reçoit encore régulièrement des critiques positives

Rocky

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Rocky is a 1976 sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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