- Far more terrifying than what was seen in theaters, this special unrated version of DARK WATER is a thoroughly absorbing, suspense-filled thriller starring Jennifer Connelly. Dahlia Williams (Connelly) and her 5-year-old daughter are ready to begin a new life together. But their new apartment dilapidated and worn suddenly seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of d
Hot Hollywood stars Antonio Banderas (SPY KIDS) and Jennifer Connelly (A BEAUTIFUL MIND) heat up this sexy and intriguing thriller! Francisco Leal (Banderas) is an on-the-edge photographer whose work with a beautiful magazine reporter (Connelly) uncovers a government's nightmare: a secret so deadly the military will stop at nothing to eliminate them! Now, as they are thrown together into danger ... and drawn closer by passion ... they must risk everything for a chance at freedom! It's an exciting st! ory of courage and compassion that's captivated critics and moviegoers everywhere!CAREER OPPROTUNITIES - DVD MovieIf you're a lifetime member of the Jennifer Connelly fan club, you'll be in the passionate minority of people (100% male) who won't care that this 1991 comedy is wallowing in its own oily puddle of lameness. The gorgeous Ms. Connelly is conspicuously put on display in this typically lightweight fluff from writer-producer John Hughes. Frank Whaley does his best to liven up the male-fantasy plot about a semi-nerdy teen who gets a night-watchman job in a variety store, only to find himself locked in overnight with the local knockout (Connelly), who's as rich as she is beautiful. She's also really unhappy with her home life and her bully boyfriend (Dermot Mulroney), so it's Frank's big opportunity to make his move as a sympathetic Romeo. Shallow and contrived, the movie does have its standard moments of John Hughes delicacy, and a cameo by the late John Candy scores! bonus points for comedy. Still, it's clear that the movie exi! sts prim arily to satisfy adolescent lust--and with Connelly as the object of desire, this otherwise tiresome comedy is a triumph of wish-fulfillment casting.
--Jeff Shannon The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with
The Tea Rose and continued with
The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the limits of endurance in the most forbidding corners of the earth. Into this volatile time, Jennifer Donnelly places her vivid and memorable characters:
--Willa Alden, a passionate mountain climber who lost her leg while summiting Kilimanjaro with Seamus Finnegan, and who will never forgive him for saving her life;
--Seamus Finnegan, a polar explorer who tries to forget Willa as he marries a beautiful young schoolteacher back home in England
--Max von Brandt, a handsome German sophisticate who courts high ! society women, but has a secret agenda in wartime London.
Many other beloved characters from The Winter Rose continue their adventures in The Wild Rose as well. With myriad twists and turns, thrilling cliffhangers, and fabulous period detail and atmosphere, The Wild Rose provides a highly satisfying conclusion to an unforgettable trilogy.
Praise for The Winter Rose
"If Jennifer Donnelly doesn't watch out, she's going to get a reputation. With the publication of The Winter Rose, she proves that her first fast, fat and fun historical novel--The Tea Rose--wasn't a fluke. She's a master of pacing and plot, with enough high points scattered throughout to keep your pulse racing . . . I read the last third at near-choking speed . . . I imagine you will, too."
--Washington Post Book World
"I loved this book. It is truly seductive, hard to put down, filled with mystery, secret passions, uniq! ue locations, and a most engaging heroine . . . She captivates! from th e first page to the last."
--Barbara Taylor Bradford, author of A Woman of Substance and Playing the Game
"Mix Gangs of New York, Romeo and Juliet, and Oliver Twist, and get a passionate tale propelled by sophisticated plotting, cleverly disguised motives, and intriguingly entangled characters."
--Booklist
"A lush story of epic proportions . . . Donnelly peoples her book with larger-than-life characters whose tragedies and triumphs lift your heart and soul."
--Romantic Times Book Review
WAKING THE DEAD - DVD MovieActor-turned-director Keith Gordon has crafted a touching love story that transcends time, political ideology, and even death. The movie opens in 1974 as Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) watches a TV news report announcing the death in Chile of three American activists, including Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly), his one true love. The story flashes back to when they first met, showing h! ow he was always more conservative, with grand political aspirations, but the relationship worked because they both shared dreams of making the world a better place, one from inside the system and the other from outside. The movie also flashes forward to his life in the early '80s, when he gets tapped to run for Congress. He starts having visions of her, but he is never quite sure if she's a hallucination arising out of his stress, a manifestation of his political consciousness, an out-and-out ghost, or maybe she's still alive somehow. Whatever she is, his deep longing for her is making him crack up. Gordon smartly jumps the story back and forth in time, forgoing an "objective" reality in favor of a more subjective and emotional one. It is a structure based on memory, and that in tandem with the content is what makes
Waking the Dead a very powerful film indeed.
--Andy SpletzerDon Johnson ("Nash Bridges"), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting) and Jennifer Connelly (Da! rk City) heat up the screen in this torrid erotic thriller fro! m the ac claimed director of Easy Rider. Exploding in a series of suspenseful twists and passionate encounters, this "ingenious" (Los Angeles Daily News) film will keep you guessing until its final, shocking climax! Harry Madox (Johnson) is a handsome drifter who is not above larceny to make ends meet. After staging a daring daylight robbery at a local bank, he receives an alibi from an unexpected ally: Dolly Harshaw (Madsen), a sexy and mysterious local woman who has her own plans for him. But when Harry falls for another beautiful woman (Connelly), he incurs Dolly's wrath and finds himself caught in a maze of jealousy, betrayal and murder from which escape is impossible and danger is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
The Hot Spot is best known to lecherous film buffs for Jennifer Connelly's topless scene, but this sultry southern noir deserves more than prurient interest. It's arguably Dennis Hopper's best directorial effort (OK, so that's not saying much), and Charles Williams's sou! rce novel
Hell Hath No Fury finds Hopper in a comfortable B-movie milieu, riffing on
Double Indemnity with an overripe tale of sex, greed, and blackmail in an unnamed Texan town. Fresh from the final season of
Miami Vice, Don Johnson stars as a shifty drifter, conning his way into a salesman job on a used-car lot, where the boss's insatiable wife (Virginia Madsen) offers him sexual favors and a lovely secretary's (Connelly) innocence is threatened by a percolating scandal. Nobody's
really innocent, of course, and Hopper spices this languid web of secrets with enough trashy misbehavior to qualify
The Hot Spot as a bona fide guilty pleasure.
--Jeff ShannonThe Hot Spot is best known to lecherous film buffs for Jennifer Connelly's topless scene, but this sultry southern noir deserves more than prurient interest. It's arguably Dennis Hopper's best directorial effort (OK, so that's not saying much), and Charles Williams's source no! vel
Hell Hath No Fury finds Hopper in a comfortable B-m! ovie mil ieu, riffing on
Double Indemnity with an overripe tale of sex, greed, and blackmail in an unnamed Texan town. Fresh from the final season of
Miami Vice, Don Johnson stars as a shifty drifter, conning his way into a salesman job on a used-car lot, where the boss's insatiable wife (Virginia Madsen) offers him sexual favors and a lovely secretary's (Connelly) innocence is threatened by a percolating scandal. Nobody's
really innocent, of course, and Hopper spices this languid web of secrets with enough trashy misbehavior to qualify
The Hot Spot as a bona fide guilty pleasure.
--Jeff ShannonJennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American film actress and former child model.
Connelly started modeling after a friend of her parents suggested that she should audition.
She appeared in magazine, newspaper and television advertising.
She made her motion picture debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America.
Continuing ! as a model, Connelly starred as a teenager in films such as Labyrinth and Career Opportunities.
She gained critical acclaim following her work in the 1998 science fiction film Dark City and for her portrayal of Marion Silver in Darren Aronofsky's 2000 drama, Requiem for a Dream. In 2002, Connelly won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and many other awards for her role as Alicia Nash in Ron Howard's 2001 John Nash biopic A Beautiful Mind.
Other film appearances by Connelly include the 2003 Marvel superhero film Hulk, the 2005 thriller Dark Water, the drama Blood Diamond, the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and the romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You. Since 2005, Connelly has served as Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education for the United States.
Magazines, including Time,Vanity Fair, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times, have included her on their lists of the most beautiful women.
This book is your ultimate res! ource for Jennifer Connelly. Here you will find the most up-to! -date in formation, photos, and much more.
In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away: Seven Minutes in Heaven (film), Labyrinth (film), Some Girls (film), The Hot Spot, Career Opportunities (film), The Rocketeer (film), Higher Learning, Mulholland Falls, Inventing the Abbotts, Dark City (1998 film), Waking the Dead (film), Requiem for a Dream, Pollock (film), A Beautiful Mind (film), Hulk (film), Betty Ross, House of Sand and Fog (film), Dark Water (2005 film), Little Children (film), Blood Diamond (film), Reservation Road, The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film), Inkheart (film), He's Just Not That into You (film), 9 (2009 film), Creation (2009 film), What's Wrong with Virginia, The Dilemma
Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the! convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.Far more terrifying than what was seen in theaters, this special unrated version of DARK WATER is a thoroughly absorbing, suspense-filled thriller starring Jennifer Connelly. Dahlia Williams (Connelly) and her 5-year-old daughter are ready to begin a new life together. But their new apartment â€" dilapidated and worn â€" suddenly seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and other strange happenings in the deserted apartment above send Dahlia on a haunting and mystifying pursuit â€" one that unleashes a torrent of living nightmares.In many ways Dark Water improves upon the memorable Japanese film it's based on. The earlier version was directed by Hideo Nakata (whose excellent shocker Ringu was remade in America as The Ring), but in the hands of director Walter Salles (T! he Motorcycle Diaries) and screenwriter Rafael Yglesias, t! his psyc hological horror story gets an intelligent and more chillingly effective overhaul. The story is rooted in themes of love and loss that Yglesias similarly explored in his excellent screenplay for Peter Weir's Fearless, here focusing on young mother Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) as she endures difficult divorce proceedings and settles into a low-rent apartment in New York's cramped Roosevelt Island community, near Manhattan, with her young daughter Cecilia (Ariel Gade). Amidst seemingly endless rainfall, Dahlia's world slowly unravels, and Connelly is superb as a woman seemingly on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or is she? Could it be that Cecilia's imaginary friend, and the apartment's persistent leaks of dark, dripping water, are the ghostly manifestations of a young girl who had been abandoned by the previous tenant? Creepy atmosphere and high anxiety are expertly maintained by Salles, and supporting roles for Tim Roth, John C. Reilly and especially Pete Postlethwait! e give the film an added edge of mystery. The tension builds slowly (gore-mongers and action fans may be disappointed), but the cumulative effect is palpably unnerving, inviting favorable comparison to Rosemary's Baby. Unlike some other remakes of Japanese horror hits, Dark Water doesn't feel redundant; it stands on its own thanks to the impressive work of everyone involved. --Jeff Shannon
