Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Nowhere Boy [2010]


Nowhere Boy is a 2009 British-Canadian biopic about John Lennon's adolescence, the creation of his first band, The Quarrymen, and its evolution into The Beatles. The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The film is scheduled to receive its US release on October 8, 2010, coinciding with that weekend's celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Lennon's birth (October 9, 1940).
Release date: October 8, 2010

Fair Game [2010]


Fair Game is a thriller film starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. The film is based on the true story of Valerie Plame, and is based on Plame's memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. Plame is revealed to be a CIA agent by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Release date: November 5, 2010

Conviction [2010]


Conviction is a 2010 drama film starring Hilary Swank, Juliette Lewis, Minnie Driver, and Sam Rockwell. The film is based on the true story of Betty Anne Waters (Swank), an unemployed single mother who puts herself through law school at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island in order to represent her brother (Rockwell), who has been wrongfully convicted of murder.
Release date: October 15, 2010