Quote of the day :

"..But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.." (Miep Gies - Freedom Writers)

The Bucket List

What will You do if You know that your life is no longer? These two old-men have their own way to spend the rest of their lives.

Into the Wild

Story about Christopher McCandless, a college graduate from Emory University, rejects a materialist and conventional life. He destroys all of his credit cards and identification documents, donates nearly his entire savings of $24,000 to Oxfam.

Patch Adams

It tells the true life story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams and the book Gesundheit: Good Health is a Laughing Matter by Adams and Maureen Mylander.

Fireproof

40 days struggle to become a better husband and make his wife love him again when their marriage was almost over

127 Hours

Tell about mountain climber Aron Ralston, who became trapped by a boulder in Robbers Roost, Utah in April 2003. His desire to stay alive, make him do everything possible to release him.

Showing posts with label Perseverance. Show all posts
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Friday, April 1, 2011

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

9:47 AM  INSPIRING MOVIE  No comments

Director: Ron Howard

Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris and Jennifer Connellys

 

      A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Christopher Plummer and Paul Bettany.

     In 1947, John Nash (Russell Crowe) arrives at Princeton University as a new graduate student. He is a recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Prize for mathematics; although he was promised a single room, his roommate Charles Herman (Paul Bettany), a literature student, greets him as he moves in and soon becomes his best friend. Nash also meets a group of other promising math and science graduate students, Martin Hansen (Josh Lucas), Richard Sol (Adam Goldberg), Ainsley (Jason Gray-Stanford), and Bender (Anthony Rapp), with whom he strikes up an awkward friendship. Nash admits to Charles that he is better with numbers than he is with people.

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Monday, March 21, 2011

Rudy (1993)

9:36 PM  INSPIRING MOVIE  No comments

Director: David Anspaugh

Stars: Sean Astin, Jon Favreau and Ned Beatty 

 

      Daniel Eugene "Rudy" Ruettiger grows up in Joliet, Illinois, dreaming of playing college football at the University of Notre Dame. While achieving some success with his local high school team (Joliet Catholic), he lacks the grades and money to attend Notre Dame, not to mention talent and physical size. Ruettiger was much smaller than an average football player, standing just 5'6" (1.68 m) and weighing 165 lb (75 kg).


     Ruettiger takes a job at a local steel mill like his father Daniel Ruettiger, Sr. (a Notre Dame fan); he prepares to settle down. But when his best friend Pete is killed in an explosion there, Rudy decides to follow his dream of attending Notre Dame and playing for the Fighting Irish.

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