Don’t Think Twice 2016

 Title Don't Think Twice

 Original Title Don't Think Twice

 Release Date 22 July 2016

 Production Cold Iron Pictures, The Film Arcade

 Director Mike Birbiglia

 Author —

 Writer Mike Birbiglia

 Runtime 1 h 30 min

 Tagline The spotlight's not for everyone.

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POLA X (1999)

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The Best of Me (2014)

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

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White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.

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Dracula Untold (2014)

Dracula Untold tells the story of Transylvanian prince Vlad III Țepeș, whose period of peace is threatened by Sultan Mehmed II, who demands 1,000 of his kingdom's boys, including Vlad’s own son, Ingeras, to join his army.

In order to save his son, his wife Mirena, and the kingdom he loves, Vlad journeys to Broken Tooth Mountain, where he encounters an ancient sorcerer, Caligula, and enters into a Faustian bargain—one that gives the prince the strength of 100 men, the speed of a falling star and enough power to destroy his enemies. However, he will be afflicted with an insatiable thirst to drink human blood. This ultimately leads him to embrace his destiny as the mythological vampire Dracula.

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Fury (2014)

The film is set during the last month of the European Theater of war during World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push into Nazi Germany, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a M4A3E8 Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

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Hazel Grace Lancaster is an intelligent and sarcastic Indianapolis teenager coping with terminal thyroid cancer that has metastasized to her lungs. Believing her to be depressed, Hazel's mother urges her to attend a cancer patients' support group at a local church to make friends. During a support meeting, Hazel meets Augustus Waters, a teen who had suffered from osteosarcoma that caused him to lose his leg. After the meeting Augustus invites Hazel to his house, where they bond over their similar interests and views on cancer. Before she leaves, they agree to read each other's favorite novels. Hazel recommends to Augustus An Imperial Affliction, a novel about a cancer-stricken girl named Anna that parallels Hazel's own experience. After Augustus finishes reading her book, he is frustrated upon learning that the novel ends abruptly without a conclusion. Hazel explains that the novel's mysterious author, Peter van Houten, had retreated to Amsterdam following the novel's publication and has not been heard from since.

Weeks later, Augustus reveals to Hazel that he has tracked down Van Houten's assistant, Lidewij, and, through her, has managed to start e-mail correspondence with Van Houten. Hazel writes to van Houten with questions regarding the novel's ambiguous ending, to which van Houten replies explaining that he can only answer Hazel in person. Hazel proposes the trip to her mother, but is rejected because of financial and medical constraints. Later, Augustus surprises Hazel with tickets to Amsterdam, attained through a charitable foundation similar to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, namely The Genie Foundation.

Days before the trip, Hazel suffers an episode of pleural effusion and is sent to the ICU, prompting her doctors to question the safety of overseas travel. The medical team argues against the trip but eventually complies with Hazel's parents to accommodate her travel. When Hazel and Augustus first arrive in Amsterdam, they go to a restaurant and find out that Van Houten paid for a meal and champagne on their behalf. Augustus then confesses his love for Hazel that night. Hazel and Augustus finally meet van Houten, but are shocked to find that, instead of a prolific genius, he is a mean-spirited drunk. Lidewij confesses to having arranged the meeting on his behalf, angering van Houten, who proceeds to insult Hazel's cancer and refuses to answer any of her questions. The two leave the author in anger and disappointment.

Accompanied by Lidewij, Hazel and Augustus visit the Anne Frank House. Hazel struggles to climb the many stairs and ladders leading up to the attic but by the end of the tour, Augustus and Hazel share a romantic kiss, followed by applause from the other tourists in the attic. They return to the hotel and have sex for the first time. The next day, Augustus confesses that a recent PET scan revealed his cancer to have relapsed. Resolute, the two affirm their love and support for each other. Upon their return to Indianapolis, Augustus' health significantly worsens. He ends up in the ICU for a few days and realizes that he is really down to his final days. Augustus invites Isaac, his blind best friend, and Hazel to his pre-funeral, where they speak his eulogies. Hazel quotes van Houten about "larger and smaller infinities" and confides that she would not trade their short time together for anything in the world. Augustus dies eight days later.

At the funeral, Hazel is astonished to find van Houten in attendance. He explains that he and Augustus maintained correspondence after Amsterdam and that Augustus had demanded he make up for ruining their trip by attending his funeral. He confides in Hazel that his novel is based on his own daughter, Anna, who died from cancer at a young age. In an attempt for forgiveness, van Houten tries to reveal the fate of Anna's mother and gives Hazel a piece of paper. Hazel, still upset with his behavior, crumples up the paper and asks him to leave. Later, while talking with Isaac, Hazel learns that Augustus had asked van Houten for assistance in writing his eulogy. Realizing what van Houten had given her, she retrieves the crumpled paper and reads Augustus' words, which state his acceptance of death and his love for Hazel, a sentiment she returns. The film ends with Hazel lying on her back on her lawn looking up at the stars; she smiles as she remembers Augustus.

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The Giver (2014)

In the year 2048, after a war, the community has decided to get rid of different races and feelings. All the citizens have had their memories erased; except for the Receiver of Memory. As the Receiver of Memory is the only individual in the community who has the memories from before, he must advise the Chief Elder, and the other Elders, on the decisions for the community. Jonas is to become the next Receiver of Memory, and progressively receive memories, from the past receiver, The Giver. Jonas learns of the Giver's past and of his child, Rosemary. She preceded Jonas as Receiver of Memory, and was so distraught from the memories that she committed suicide, by what the Community call releasing. They regard its nature as mysterious; the audience learn that it is death by lethal injection. Jonas begins to teach his findings to his friend Fiona, who he decides to share the idea of feelings with. Fiona is unsure of how she feels about feelings, but they kiss while together privately.

Jonas also shares his memories with the baby his father brought home to their house, Gabe, and develops a close relationship with him after discovering he shares the same mark on his wrist Jonas does, the mark of a potential Receiver of Memory. Jonas decides that everyone should have the memories of the past and eventually, the Giver and Jonas decide that the only way they can help the community is to go past the border of what they call Elsewhere, beyond the community, therefore releasing the memories back into the community. Jonas sneaks out at curfew, and decides to get Gabe at the Nurturing Center, who is to be released of weakness. Asher, his other longtime friend besides Fiona, tries to stop him before he leaves the neighborhood, but Jonas quickly punches him. Asher lies on the ground, stunned, and Jonas rides his bike to the Nurturing Center. He tells Fiona his plan and wants to take her with him, but she refuses and instead helps him retrieve Gabe. Before he leaves, she kisses him and helps him escape.

Meanwhile Jonas's mother and Asher, go to the Chief Elder to tell them Jonas is missing. Guards are sent to contain Jonas, who they say has become "dangerous", but Jonas gets one of their motorcycles and drives off the cliff near the Giver's dwelling into "The Elsewhere". Asher is assigned, by the Chief Elder, to use a drone to find Jonas and "lose" him but when Asher finds Jonas stumbling through the woods, he captures him with the drone. After Jonas implores Asher to think that if he ever cared for Jonas to let him go, Asher drops him into a river, setting him free. Jonas stumbles through the land of Elsewhere, while Fiona has been condemned to be "released" for helping him. Just as she is about to be released by Jonas's father, the Giver steps in and stalls the Chief Elder with memories of his daughter, Rosemary, trying to call out the Chief Elder, in which she succeeded. Eventually, Jonas finds a sled like one he rode in a memory from the Giver and makes his way beyond the border of Elsewhere, releasing memories and color back into the community and saving Fiona because Jonas's father realizes what he was really doing. Jonas and Gabe return to the house of his memories, where people are singing Christmas carols, and his voiceover says that back in the community, he swears he hears music too, or maybe just an echo.

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Gone Girl (2014)

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

In 1991 Manhattan, Mathew Scudder, an off-duty New York Police Department (NYPD) officer, is unexpectedly caught up in an armed robbery at a bar where officers drink for free. Scudder guns down the would-be thieves, however one of his bullets inadvertently strikes a seven year old girl, killing her instantly. Shaken from the experience, Scudder quits the force, and spends the next eight years in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) while moonlighting as a an unlicensed private eye.

One night, after an AA meeting, Scudder is approached by the brother of a man named Kenny seeking to employ the PI to locate his wife's killer. Kenny explains that his wife was abducted for a ransom, the kidnappers killed his wife after he paid the $400,000 ransom, cutting her up in small pieces before returning her in the dismembered state to Kenny. Reluctantly, Scudder accepts the job.

At a local library, Scudder meets an adolescent named TJ, who helps Scudder by locating information on the net concerning similar cases to Kenny's. Scudder eventually traces the kidnappers' MO, and meets a cemetery groundsman who discovered one of the victim's remains while fishing trash bags out of a pond. After trailing the groundsman back to his house Scudder learns that he was an accomplice for one of the murders, and has had trouble getting over his role in the homicide. The groundsman explains that he met the two men that Scudder is after in a movie store; both men apparently shared a fetish-like interest in death. Scudder learns one of the two men goes by the name Ray, but before he can glean any further information, the groundsman abruptly kills himself by stepping off the roof of his apartment building. Upon further investigation, Scudder determines that the two men he is after were at one point somehow affiliated with the DEA, and have been targeting drug dealers from whom to extort money.

In a residential neighborhood, Ray and his accomplice prepare to abduct another woman, however Ray waves the kidnapping at the last minute. As the two prepare to leave Ray observes the target's daughter leave a house, and retools their kidnapping attempt to take the girl. When Scudder learns of the kidnapping he has TJ bring a box or his old police equipment to the victim's house, and instructs the victim to refuse payment unless they can prove the girl is still alive, correctly guessing that the kidnappers will kill the girl regardless of whether the ransom is paid. Scudder lures Ray and his accomplice out by forcing them to pick up the ransom in person. After the ransom is paid, a shoot-out occurs, injuring Ray. Ray and his partner flee the drop site, unaware that in the ensuing shoot out TJ managed to sneak into their van.

At their safe house, Ray attempts to get medical treatment for his gunshot wounds, however Ray's partner elects to kill him instead. After TJ calls Scudder with the safe house's location, Scudder and his ad hoc team arrive, precipitating a brief struggle. Scudder's people successfully restrain the second man, at which point Scudder instructs TJ to return to his place. After offering Kenny the chance to turn him in or obtain his revenge, Kenny opts for the latter, but the restrained second man escapes and kills Kenny before he can fulfill his wish. Another struggle ensues between Scudder and the second murderer, which ends when Scudder shoots the man in the head at close range. As the police arrive to secure and the scene and wrap up the case Scudder then returns to his apartment.

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Tusk (2014)

Friends Wallace Bryton (Justin Long) and Teddy Craft (Haley Joel Osment) host the popular podcast The Not-See Party, where they find and mock humiliating viral videos. He announces plans to fly to Canada to interview the Kill Bill Kid, an Internet celebrity famous for severing his leg. In flashbacks spread through the film, it’s revealed that Wallace was originally a failed standup comic who became popular with his increasingly vicious podcasts, which upsets his girlfriend Ally (Génesis Rodríguez) and leads to fights accusing him of selling out.  Upon arriving in Manitoba, Wallace learns that the Kill Bill Kid has killed himself. Upset that he flew to Canada for nothing, Wallace decides to stay an extra day and find another person to interview. He finds a handbill from someone offering a room in his home for free and the guarantee of hearing a lifetime of interesting stories. His interests piqued, Wallace arrives at the mansion of Howard Howe (Michael Parks), a retired seaman in a wheelchair. Howe tells the story of how a walrus he named Mr. Tusk rescued him after a shipwreck. Wallace passes out from the drugs laced in Howe's tea.  The next morning, Wallace wakes up to find himself strapped into a wheelchair and his left leg amputated. Howe tells him he saw a Hobo spider crawl out of his pant leg and a local doctor had to amputate it to save Wallace’s life. Wallace realizes Howe’s insanity when Howe not only reveals that he can still walk, but lays out his plans for Wallace: having an obsession with the walrus, he plans to fit Wallace into a perfectly constructed walrus costume. Wallace's attempts to contact Ally and Teddy fail when neither answer their phone before Howe knocks him unconscious.  Now aware that Wallace is in danger, Ally and Teddy fly to Canada to look for him. Back at the mansion, as Howe continues to mutilate and alter Wallace, he tells his backstory as a Duplessis orphan and how years of physical, psychological and sexual abuse throughout his childhood have driven him completely mad and cemented years of hatred towards mankind. Wallace is sewn into a walrus pelt made of human skin, the tusks made of the tibia bones from Wallace’s severed legs.  Local detective Frank Garmin (Ralph Garman) puts Ally and Teddy in touch with Guy Lapointe (Johnny Depp), an alcoholic Quebec ex-cop who has been hunting Howe for years. Lapointe reveals that Howe, nicknamed “The First Wife", has been kidnapping and murdering people for years and believes Wallace may still be alive, but not as they remember him. They eventually find Howe’s address through two convenience store clerks (Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp) Wallace had met earlier.  As the three arrive at Howe’s house, Wallace’s psyche has been completely broken and conditioned to be like that of a walrus. Howe reveals that his real obsession comes from killing and eating Mr. Tusk six months after living on the island and, out of guilt for his human qualities, has changed all these people into his beloved savior in a chance to relive their last day and give him another chance at survival. Dressed in his own homemade pelt, Howe and Wallace engage in a fight that ends in Wallace killing Howe with his tusks. Ally, Teddy, and Lapointe find the enclave and Wallace bellows at them.  One year later, Wallace, still sewn into the pelt, lives in a wildlife sanctuary. Ally and Teddy visit him and feed him a mackerel. Ally, remembering a discussion she had with Wallace the day before he left for Canada about how crying separates humans from animals, tells Wallace she still loves him before walking off crying. Tears run down Wallace’s face as he bellows.

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Beastly

Beastly is a 2011 romantic fantasy drama film loosely based on Alex Flinn's 2007 novel of the same name. It is a retelling of the fairytale Beauty and the Beast and is set in modern-day New York City. The film was written and directed by Daniel Barnz and stars Vanessa Hudgens and Alex Pettyfer.

Beastly was expected to be distributed to theaters by CBS Films on July 30, 2010. However, the film's release was delayed until March 18, 2011, in order to avoid a clash with the release of Charlie St. Cloud, which starred Zac Efron, Hudgens's then-boyfriend with whom she had a strong following at the time, but in January 2011, the release was moved forward to March 4, 2011.

Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer), the arrogant and vain son of wealthy and equally arrogant and vain news anchor Rob Kingson (Peter Krause), bullies the witch Kendra Hilferty (Mary-Kate Olsen) who magically transforms handsome Kyle into a bald, tattooed, and scarred shell. If Kyle does not find someone who loves him by the next spring he will remain in this ugly state forever. Kyle is taken to live in a private house with their maid Zola Davies (Lisa Gay Hamilton) and the blind tutor Will (Neil Patrick Harris). Both are a comfort to Kyle when his father begins to neglect him.

As spring draws closer, Kyle finds himself infatuated with Lindy Taylor (Vanessa Hudgens), a girl from whom he had kept his distance at his former school. He sees her father, a drug addict, engaged in an altercation with two drug dealers and shoots one dead while the other vows to kill Lindy. "Hunter" (Kyle) persuades Lindy’s father to allow her to move in with Kyle. Lindy is furious about hiding and doesn't speak to Kyle. But, eventually, Kyle reveals his state, and they begin to warm up to each other. Kyle writes a letter professing his love for Lindy but does not give it to her for fear of rejection. He visits Kendra to plead for more time; she refuses, but agrees to restore Will's vision and grant green cards to Zola's three children in Jamaica if he gets Lindy to fall in love with him.

The criminal who threatened Lindy’s life lands in jail. Lindy’s father overdoses and is in the hospital. Kyle permits Lindy to leave and see her father and drives her to the station. He gives her the letter but regrets doing so as she tells him he’s a good friend. Lindy calls him after reading the letter, but being heartbroken Kyle does not answer the phone. Persuaded by Will and Zola, Kyle goes to meet Lindy one last time before she leaves on a school trip to Machu Picchu. Kyle tells her to go, and as she leaves, Lindy professes her love for "Hunter" (Kyle), saying the words "I Love You" to break Kyle's "Hunter" curse. Kyle’s normal self is restored, and Lindy runs out looking for "Hunter". But Lindy does not recognize him until she calls Hunter's phone, and Kyle's phone starts ringing. When Lindy realizes that Hunter is in fact Kyle the two share a passionate kiss in the side of the street.

Will wakes up one morning and can see again and Zola finds three green cards for her children in the mail from the government. Kendra approaches Rob Kingson's office as a new intern, implying that Kendra will likely do the same thing to Rob as she did to Kyle. Then, in the credits, we see Lindy and Kyle on holiday together in different countries.

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A Millionaire's First Love

Kang Jae-kyung (Hyun Bin) is your typical rich kid. He is arrogant, drives sporty cars, attends the big clubs and rides through school corridors on his motorcycle. As his 18th birthday approaches, he is set to inherit his grandfather’s fortune, but first Jae-kyung is required to transfer to a new school in Gangwon Province and graduate. Until then all access to his penthouse, cottage and credit cards are denied. Should he fail to graduate or drops out then he loses everything. If he wishes to give up, he will only receive 0.1% of his over-all inheritance. With this in mind, he heads out to the countryside, to a small town in which daily life is far removed from what he is used to.

Shortly after settling into his new home, he meets 18-year-old Choi Eun-hwan (Lee Yeon-hee), who happened to run into him back in Seoul. They don’t exactly hit it off; he’s far too stubborn and cool for school. Conversely, she sees hope for him and sets out to make him see it for himself. They eventually draw closer, thanks to a set of coincidences and school projects. Jae-kyung learns of Eun-hwan's terminal disease and does what he can to make her happy. He even tells his lawyer that he would give up his inheritance so he could buy an orphanage for her.

One day during the rehearsal of a play at school, Jae-kyung notices that the play is resembles the incident that had happened in his life. He recalls a childhood memory of being at the orphanage at Gangwondo, where he had met Eun-Whan and had made a promise to return in ten days. He finds Eun-Whan and tells her that he did not remember her or his promise because his parents had died in a car accident on that same day and his memories were thus erased. He tells her he loves her and they kiss.

The day of the play comes and Jae-kyung asks his classmate to trade places as a favour; him as the Colonel rather than the maid. He goes to Eun-whan's side and she asks him if he could put on the socks he bought her earlier. While they are dancing, she feels a sudden pain and goes backstage much to Jae-kyung's worry. However, she returns. Eun-whan's mother has also come to see the show.

Later, they celebrate the success of the play. The couple sit on a swing, Eun-whan tells Jae-kyung "Sarang-hae" (Korean: "I love you.") and that she's sleepy. Before falling asleep, she tells Jae-kyung to wake her up after 3 minutes. Soon after, the first snow comes.

On their graduation day, Choi Eun-whan receives the Award of Friendship but does not attend the ceremony as she never woke up. A bouquet of white flowers sits in her seat instead, next to Jae-kyung's chair. He stays for a while and walks outside carrying the flowers. His grandfather's lawyer comes, congratulates him and tells him that the inheritance is now his.

Later, Jae-kyung builds a house with numerous windows in memory of Eun-whan. He states that after 50 first snows hit its windows, they will meet again.

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Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do (2008)

Jung-won wears a funny dragon suit, while working at the amusement park, and pours soda on Eun-gyu, because of his taunts. A short while later, Jung-won finds out that Eun-gyu has moved into the house next to hers. Eun-gyu now threatens to tell Jung-won’s parents that she works part-time at a local mart. To keep Eun-gyu quiet, Jung-won agrees to carry his guitar for a week.
Jung-won then starts to develop feelings for Eun-gyu, who is the lead singer of a band called Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do. Eun-gyu also starts to develop similar feelings for Jung-won. The two soon become a couple.
With an odd twist of fate, Jung-won went to the band's rehearsal room and meets a familiar person from her past, a boy named Hee-won. Their relationship makes everything more complicated. For 10 years, Jung-won and Hee-won were close friends, but because Jung-won made Hee-wons family got broken because she told to the police that Jung-wons father beat somebody down, they stopped talking to each other completely. And Hee-won, seeking revenge at Jun-won, allow his "friends" to beat her, rendering her crippled. Jung-won is now surprised to learn that her ex-close friend is now best friends with her boyfriend.
Hee-won admits that he still likes his best friend despite what she did and he wants her back. Jun-won accepts him back into her life despite what he did and when Hee-won makes her choose between him and Eun-gyu, Jun-won makes the choice of going with Hee-won. Which leaves Eun-gyu devastated. He gives her one last chance to come back to him or else he will never be able to sing again. But she breaks his heart once more and chooses Hee-won after he begged her.
A few months after it happened Jun-won hears that Eun-gyu had gotten into an accident and was diagnosed with temporary amnesia — he forgets all about her. She then spends all her time trying to get him to remember. The last scene is an re-enactment of the band's last show, the one in which Eun-gyu gave her a last chance. The movie ends with him remembering everything and begging Jun-won not to leave him again. She promises she never will. As the final credits roll we see how all of their lives improved.

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Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)

Lee Yong-go is a mentally impaired father with the intellect of a six-year-old, who lives in a run-down house along with his daughter of the same age, Ye-sung. One day, he gets into a physical altercation with the police commissioner, who has just purchased the last Sailor Moon backpack for his daughter, a gift Yong-go was saving up to buy for Ye-sung. Soon after, the police commissioner's daughter dies in a freak accident, in which she slips on ice and suffers a fatal blow to the back of her head while she is taking Yong-go to another store that sells the same backpack. When he tries to resuscitate her, a woman witnesses him and mistakes him to be molesting her. Yong-go is falsely accused of the abduction, murder, and rape of a minor. The police quickly take advantage of his disability and force him to admit to committing the crimes, while ignoring exonerating evidence. Yong-go, who is sentenced to death, is imprisoned and assigned to Cell No. 7, the harshest cell in a maximum security prison.

At first, the other men in the cell, lead by gang leader Jang Min-hwan, do not take kindly to Yong-go after reading in his file that he murdered and molested a child, but when Yong-go saves Min-hwan from being fatally stabbed by a rival gang leader, Min-hwan repays the favor by smuggling Ye-sung into Cell No. 7. Over time, they come to believe in his innocence, and make it their goal to help reverse the verdict at Yong-go's retrial.

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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

Literature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey.

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If I Stay (2014)

Mia Hall: Mia is a quiet, kind and musically gifted girl. Above all things, she loves her family, her cello and her friends. Mia struggles with belonging, often feeling like she is out of place next to her rock and roll, rebellious family and boyfriend. She recently begins to view her heritage with a tiny degree of doubt, due to her lack of similarities in character and demeanor .

Adam Wilde: Mia's boyfriend. He is very handsome, and loves music. He plays guitar and sings for his band "Shooting Star" .

Kim Schein: Mia's best friend. They are said to be very alike and are perceived as "dark and studious"—assumptions that often work to their advantage. Kim is sarcastic, and obedient to her emotional mother. She and Mia are inseparable, which is apparent by lengths she goes to get Adam in to the hospital to see Mia despite their never having liked each other, as is seen in countless flashbacks .

Teddy Hall: Mia's little brother. Mia is extremely fond of Teddy, saying he is like her own kid. Teddy admires Mia and the two are very close. Throughout the book, Mia worries the most about Teddy, as it is unclear at first whether he has died alongside his parents in the accident.

Kat Hall: Mia's mother who is "tough as nails, tender as kittens." She loves rock music and her family, of whom she is protective and fiercely loyal. She previously had issues with Mia's love for classical music, but accepts it as part of Mia's life. She is not the cook of the family.

Denny Hall: Mia's father, who is quite rebellious but also mature. He steps up to be father and eventually gives up his band in favor of teaching. He is hesitant to admit that he still likes the thought of the band. Both of Mia's parents approve of and even love Mia's boyfriend Adam.

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Eden

This story is based true-to-life  were every young lady is involved most especially for those who loves night out with friends without thinking of their parents rules and regulation at their young ages. I don't think this is released here in the Philippines maybe it's because of  the story , for me its not important how bad the characters showed here its the lesson itself is the most important thing we need to understand. They've open our eyes that this is  happening in the real world and we have to think of a solution on how to stop this.

At the beginning of the story there is family who owned a shop ( taxidermy - stuffing of animal skin and put it as a display) the young lady  named Hyun Jae is a sweet eighteen-year-old Korean-American girl living with her parents somewhere in New Mexico who immigrated in US eight years earlier. She has a friend named Abby who is living next door , she is the one who give bad influences to Hyune Jae, one night when Hyune Jae's mother allow her to go to a friend and let her finish the task until 10 pm only and she needs to come home on time.That night they went to a local bar in town where she used her fake i.d given by her friend Abby and met this guy wearing a fire-fighter uniform after a long night her friend suddenly disappear so that the guy he met will take her home. This guy pull over in a parking lot and kiss Hyune Jae but all of a sudden there is another car stops at their back then the guy with a fire fighter look leave their car and talk to unknown person driving the other car, when Hyune Jae noticed  a policeman uniform and the fire fighter suite is fake she decided to run outside the car to escape but she was bumped to her head and woke up inside a trunk of a car with an identified man who calls her "baby girl".

After several hours on the road, Jae arrives at an isolated warehouse situated in the middle of a Nevadan desert, where she is put in a sketchy hospital room and has her braces and other belongings forcibly removed. Confused and terrified, Jae meets the leader of the operation, the surprisingly relaxed and friendly corrupt federal marshal Bob Gault (Beau Bridges), and his overseer, Vaughan (Matt O'Leary), a short-tempered and drug-addicted striver. After confirming her suspicions that she is now part of a sex-trafficking corporation, Gault christens her with her new name, Eden, named after the place where she and her family used to live, and tells her that any acts of trouble could end with the harm of her family. Gault tells her that she has a few days to accept this reality and after that, she would start working for him.

Jae, now Eden, spends the next few days getting to know the horrors of her new life as a forced prostitute. Living with many other underage girls from all parts of the world who are frequently sent out for “dates” with clients, all of the workers, including Eden, are consistently drugged into complacency. First, she is forced to dress in an erotic outfit with another girl and driven to a studio to star in an adult video. Several days later, Vaughan takes Eden to meet her first customer, where she promptly attempts her first escape by injuring her client and running to a neighboring house for help. Vaughan quickly captures Eden and, after convincing the disgruntled neighbors not to call the cops, takes her back to the warehouse where she is punished by being forced to lie in a tub full of ice for several hours. On one occasion, Eden is taken to a fraternity house along with two other girls and were gang raped by dozens of fraternity members. During her time on lockdown, Eden befriends a young, Hispanic girl named Priscilla (Jeannine Monterroza), who warns her not to let the leaders of the organization know her real age. Before she can learn more, Priscilla is abruptly taken to an unknown destination, and Eden is left alone once again.

A year passes, and at nineteen Eden has slowly begun to understand the inner workings of the sex trade and knows she has little time left before she is no longer useful to the corporation. When she tells Vaughan that he’s being consistently scammed in their gigs, Vaughan realizes Eden’s potential and takes her under his wing, forming an uneasy alliance. Drawing her out of the “field” of sex work, he gives her an office job answering phone calls from clients and allowing her to join him on trips running errands for the company. During one of these excursions, Vaughan eventually teaches Eden how to drive, and during the lesson, when a drugged Eden attempts to play the role she used on her past clients, Vaughan flinches and tells her he’s “not one of those motherfuckers.” As a tentative bond forms between the two, with Eden staying with Vaughan even when he brutally murders Gault during a boat trip after the disposal of two bodies, Vaughan eventually takes her to the house of Mario (Eddie Martinez), a man who delivers the babies of some of the sex slaves and sells them for the company’s profit. Recognizing Mario as the man who called her “baby girl” and the one who brought her to the warehouse in the trunk of his car, Eden grows suspicious and explores his house, discovering a pregnant Priscilla who is pleasantly ignorant of the fate of her unborn child. Promising she will return, Eden leaves visibly disturbed, attracting Vaughan's notice. Apprehensive, Vaughan makes her to prove her loyalty to the organization by forcing her to almost execute one of the sex workers, stopping Eden at the last second and hugging her, finally giving her his full trust.

When Eden and Vaughan return to the warehouse, they are told that one of their men betrayed the company and that they all need to make an abrupt relocation to an unidentified spot. As all of the sex workers are packed into vans and their belongings are burned and disposed of, Eden and Vaughan go to a safe house to collect what they need before the trip. Once there, Vaughan reveals to Eden that they are moving to Dubai, before leaving her on the couch to find a duffel bag in one of the rooms. Realizing that Dubai is much too far away to have any hope of ever returning home, Eden decides that she must make her escape now. Acting quickly, Eden takes Vaughan’s crack pipe from the table and sprays poisonous fumes through the tube before placing it strategically in the same spot. When Vaughan returns, he tells her that she doesn’t have the worry about Dubai and that they are “partners” that could easily take over the business. Off her nod, he takes a hit from his pipe, begins to choke from the lethal fumes, and dies as Eden tenderly strokes his hair. Eden then cuts her location bracelet from her ankle and drives Vaughan’s car to Mario’s house, where she tricks him into leading her to Priscilla’s room before injecting him with poison. Running into Priscilla’s room, Eden reveals to Priscilla that her baby was sold and that they have to leave. The two of them step over Mario’s body and drive off into the desert until they reach a pay phone. The last scene is Eden calling her house and talking to her mother for the first time in two years.

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Bedevilled (2010)

"Kim Bok-nam salinsageonui jeonmal" (original title)

Hae-won is a middle-rank officer working in a Seoul bank. A severe, tense single woman, she is being brought down by the work-related stress and the hypercompetitive environment she finds herself in. Desperate, she takes up an offer from a long-forgotten friend and takes off for a private vacation in Mudo, a desolate Southern island in which she had spent childhood. Arriving at the island, she is warmly welcomed by Bok-nam, with whom she had a close friendship when both were in their teens but whose constant letters she's since ignored. Life on the backward, undeveloped island is hard, and Bok-nam is treated as little more than a slave by her abusive husband Man-jong, his brother and the local old women. All of Bok-nam's love is reserved for her young daughter Yeon-hee, with whom she tries to escape from the small, claustrophobic island. But when that results in tragedy, the woman finally snaps, unleashing all her demons, as Bok-nam takes a sickle in her hand.

REVIEW:

I'm quite disappointed with how the movie ends but in some ways, I like it. The cast's are good but there was a point that I get really bored that I almost want to stop watching. For those who love horror and crime stories this would be a good one for the list.



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