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HBO Films est la société de production et de distribution de téléfilms, de mini-séries télévisées et de films de cinéma du groupe américain de télévision par câble HBO.
Parmi les productions de HBO Films pour la télévision, on peut citer Frères d'armes et Angels in America. Parmi les succès de HBO Films au cinéma, on peut citer Elephant de Gus Van Sant qui a obtenu la Palme d'or au Festival de Cannes et American Splendor, le premier film de la société à avoir été nommé aux Oscars. En général, pour ses activités cinéma, HBO travaille en partenariat avec Fine Line qui fait elle aussi partie du groupe de médias Time Warner.
HBO s'est lancé dans la production en 1983 sous le nom de HBO Pictures. La première production de HBO, The Terry Fox Story, est le premier téléfilm à avoir été produit pour la télévision payante. HBO Films est né de la fusion de HBO Pictures avec une autre des sociétés de production de HBO : HBO NYC (anciennement HBO Showcase).
Les productions de HBO sont souvent considérées comme des œuvres ambitieuses et de qualité. Elles ont récolté plusieurs centaines de Emmy Awards et de Golden Globe Awards. À titre d'exemple, HBO Films a remporté l'Emmy Award du meilleur téléfilm de 1993 à 1999 et en 2001 et 2002.
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(2004)Filmography of HBO Films (119 films)
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, 1h30Directed by Martha Coolidge
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Jeu, Films about toys, Children's films
Actors Sammi Hanratty, Annabeth Gish, Kaitlyn Dever, Timothy Bottoms, Michael Learned, Adair Tishler
Chrissa Maxwell and her family move from Iowa to Minnesota in order to be closer to Chrissa's grandmother, Louise "Nana" Hanlon, after their grandfather died. At her new school, Chrissa has a hard time making friends and soon finds herself bullied by Tara James, Sonali Matthews and Jayden Johnson, a trio of girls called the Mean Bees.
, 1h23Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Time travel films, Comedy science fiction films
Actors Chris O'Dowd, Dean Lennox Kelly, Marc Wootton, Anna Faris
Ray (Chris O'Dowd) has been fired from his job as a costumed guide in a theme park attraction called "Star Ride". Ray's good friends Pete (Dean Lennox Kelly) and Toby (Marc Wootton) work at the theme park restaurant and they all decide to go to a cinema and pub after they leave.
Taking Chance (2009)
, 1h17Directed by Ross Katz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Kevin Bacon, Tom Aldredge, Mike Colter, Nicholas Art, Blanche Baker, Guy Boyd
The film opens on a black screen, with white letters describing the date and place, as we hear radio chatter about a "suspicious vehicle" followed by the sound of an explosion and gunfire. We then cut to see two Marines driving, wearing dress blue uniforms, to an unmarked house in the middle of the night and knocking on the door. Finally we cut to Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl (played by Kevin Bacon) searching on his computer the casualty report for the Middle East. After a couple clips of Michael running through the woods, service members' coffins getting put into an airplane, and some driving. We find the Lt. Col. at work giving a presentation to several other Marines. Then the Lt. Col. makes his way home with his family for a short while, then the camera cuts to five Marines in woodland MarPat camouflage taking US Flag draped coffins off of an airplane in the rain. After a short clip of the Lt. Col. eating dinner with his family, we find him looking at the casualty report yet again but this time he writes down some information. The movie then cuts to him in an interview with a higher ranking Marine and he asks to escort a Marine named PFC (Private First Class) Chance Phelps. He says it is because the PFC is from his hometown, then we see him discuss his choice with his wife. After he explains that he is doing this only because the PFC is from his hometown and has no other meaning, the film cuts to several people doing medical procedures on a dead body which one can assume to be PFC Phelps. After the morticians are shown, the film then cuts to the Lt. Col. leaving and telling his wife goodbye.
Grey Gardens (2009)
Directed by Michael Sucsy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about films, Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Malcolm Gets, Daniel Baldwin, Kenneth Welsh
The film is based on the life stories of the eccentric paternal aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy, both named Edith Bouvier Beale. The elder Edith Bouvier Beale was the sister of Jackie Kennedy's father John Vernou Bouvier III and was referred to as "Big Edie", her daughter was referred to as "Little Edie". The Beale women were members of NYC high society, but in their later years, withdrew from the New York City life, taking shelter at their Long Island summer home/estate Grey Gardens.
Sex and the City (2008)
, 2h25Directed by Michael Patrick King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Feminist films, La mode, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Jennifer Hudson
Carrie walks through the streets of New York City thinking about events that have happened to her and her friends during Sex and the City. Charlotte is now happily married to Harry Goldenblatt, but she had a hard time getting pregnant - so they adopted a Chinese girl named Lily; Miranda has settled down in Brooklyn with Steve (David Eigenberg) to raise their son Brady together; and Samantha has relocated her business to Los Angeles to be close to Smith (Jason Lewis), who is now a superstar, although she misses her old life and takes every opportunity to fly East to be with Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte.
, 1h40Directed by Patricia Rozema
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Children's films
Actors Abigail Breslin, Chris O'Donnell, Julia Ormond, Max Thieriot, Jane Krakowski, Wallace Shawn
In June 1934, Kit Kittredge (Abigail Breslin) is determined to become a reporter, and she writes articles on the typewriter in her attic while drama unfolds beneath her. The mortgage on her house is about to be foreclosed because her father lost his car dealership and couldn't keep up with the payments. He has gone to Chicago, Illinois to search for work, and to make some income her mother takes in an odd assortment of boarders, including magician Mr. Berk, dance instructor Miss Dooley, and mobile library driver Miss Bond.
Sugar (2008)
, 2hDirected by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Baseball films
Actors Algenis Perez Soto, Michael Gaston, André Holland, Richard Bull, Ellary Porterfield, Karolina I. Wydra
Miguel "Sugar" Santos (Perez Soto) spends his weekends at home, passing from the landscaped gardens and manicured fields on one side of the guarded academy gate to the underdeveloped, more chaotic world beyond. In his small village outside San Pedro de Macorís, Miguel enjoys a kind of celebrity status. His neighbors gather to welcome him back for the weekend; the children ask him for extra baseballs or an old glove. To his family, who lost their father years before, Miguel is their hope and shining star. With the small bonus he earned when he signed with the academy some time ago, he has started to build his family a new house—one that has a bigger kitchen for his mom and a separate room for his grandmother.
Rocket Science (2007)
, 1h41Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Margo Martindale, Nicholas D'Agosto, Vincent Piazza, Jonah Hill
Hal Hefner is a fifteen-year-old student of Plainsboro, New Jersey with a pronounced stutter. His older brother Earl is an obsessive-compulsive kleptomaniac, his father Doyle has recently walked out on the family after a heated argument, and his mother Juliet has begun to date the father of his school friend, Heston.
, 2h12Directed by Yves Simoneau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin, Colm Feore, Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse
The plot, which is based on events covered by several chapters of Brown's book as well as other sources, revolves around four main characters: Charles Eastman né Ohiyesa (Beach), a young, mixed-race Sioux doctor educated at Dartmouth and Boston University, who is held up as proof of the success of assimilation; Sitting Bull (Schellenberg), the Sioux chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land, the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas; U.S. Senator Henry L. Dawes (Quinn), an architect of government policy for allotment of Indian lands to individual households to force adoption of subsistence farming; and Red Cloud (Tootoosis), whose decision to make peace with the American government and go to a reservation disturbed Sitting Bull.
As You Like It (2006)
, 2h7Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Kevin Kline, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sacha Bennett, Romola Garai, Alfred Molina, Richard Briers
See the Plot for the original Play.
Starter for 10 (2006)
, 1h32Directed by Tom Vaughan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors James McAvoy, Alice Eve, Rebecca Hall, Dominic Cooper, James Corden, Catherine Tate
In 1985, Brian Jackson is a first-year university student and information sponge. Since his working-class childhood in Southend-on-Sea, Brian has loved the TV quiz show University Challenge, whose famous catchphrase—"Your starter for 10"—gives the film its title. Soon after arriving at Bristol University, Brian attends a party where he meets the politically conscious Rebecca, with which he seems to have an instant connection. Brian attempts to join their University Challenge team but narrowly fails to secure a spot when he helps another potential candidate, Alice, cheat on the qualifying test. Brian falls for the glamorous Alice and tries to date her, despite her multiple signals that she only sees him as a platonic friend. As the term starts, Brian is invited to join the University Challenge team after one of the other members falls ill. The captain of the team, Patrick Watts, is a stuck-up post-grad who has managed to remain team captain despite never having achieved success on University Challenge. Brian immediately impresses the rest of the team with his wealth of trivia knowledge and uses his time with the team to get closer to Alice, eventually getting invited to her house for Christmas vacation. Unfortunately, Brian embarrasses himself in front of her family by getting stoned while trying to impress Alice. He returns to campus to spend the rest of his vacation and meets back up with Rebecca. They once again hit it off, but as they are hooking up, he inadvertently calls her "Alice", offending her and ruining the moment. Following his romantic failures, he talks with Spencer, his friend from back home who informs him that he is in legal trouble due to his criminal pursuits. Brian invites him to campus for a party before he has to face the judge.
Pu-239 (2006)
, 1h37Directed by Scott Z. Burns
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Paddy Considine, Radha Mitchell, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Oscar Isaac, Jason Flemyng, Steven Berkoff
Timofey Berezin (Paddy Considine) works at a former top-secret, badly run and aged nuclear reprocessing facility plant in Skotoprigonyevsk-16, a former closed city and a naukograd. At the film's outset, he is exposed to radioactive contamination while selflessly trying to stop a criticality malfunction. The facility's draconian managers maintain his exposure was a survivable 100 rems, while accusing him of sabotage and suspending him without pay. Loyal coworkers, however, help Timofey discover the truth that he was exposed to 1,000 rems of radiation. Suffering from acute radiation poisoning, he has only days to live.
The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
, 1h31Directed by Mary Harron
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, BDSM in films
Actors Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Ann Dowd, Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Sarah Paulson
Bettie Page is an ambitious, naïve, and devout young Christian woman who longs to leave Nashville, Tennessee following a childhood of sexual abuse, a failed wartime marriage, and a gang rape. In 1949, she departs for New York City, where she enrolls in an acting class. Amateur photographer Jerry Tibbs discovers her walking on the beach at Coney Island and she agrees to model for him. He suggests she restyle her hair with the bangs that would become her trademark.
The Girl in the Café (2005)
, 1h34Directed by David Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Bill Nighy, Kelly Macdonald, Marit Velle Kile, Anton Lesser, Paul Ritter, Ken Stott
Un haut fonctionnaire travaillant pour le Chancelier de l'Échiquier, Lawrence, tombe amoureux de Gina, une jeune femme rencontrée par hasard dans un café de Londres. Ce dernier l'emmène à un sommet du G8 à Reykjavik, où elle confronte le Premier Ministre sur la question de la dette du tiers-monde et la pauvreté en Afrique, au grand embarras de Lawrence et à la colère de ses employeurs. Cependant, Lawrence se rend compte qu'elle a raison et essaie d'aider à persuader le chancelier et d'autres personnes au sommet de faire quelque chose pour résoudre les problèmes concernés.
Last Days (2005)
, 1h37Directed by Gus Van Sant
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, LGBT-related films, Musical films
Actors Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green, Ricky Jay, Rodrigo Lopresti
Grunge rocker Blake escapes rehab and walks home through a long forest, also swimming through a lake then lighting a fire for the night. The next day, he gets home and changes his clothes. He walks around in the house with a shotgun pointing it at his sleeping roommates Scott, Luke, Asia, and Nicole. He is greeted by Yellow Pages representative Thadeus A Thomas who talks to him about placing an ad in the upcoming book. He receives a phone call from his record company telling him that he and his band (Which also has Scott and Luke) have to do another tour and they have to make those dates. He goes upstairs and falls asleep on the floor in one of the rooms. Asia now waking up finds him asleep and two boys at the door. Scott and Luke answer the door and the two boys are there to talk to them about their church down the street. Blake changes into different clothes and leaves the house going to the shed outside as the christian boys leave.