Deadline (2004), Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985), Stevie (2002), Scott Turow's Innocent (2011), The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005), Steel City (2006), The Breakfast Club (1985), The Blues Brothers (1980) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Illinois movies.
Storyline: In 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty after university students uncovered new evidence proving the innocence of 13 men on death row. This documentary follows the hearings held by a panel Ryan appointed to study the issue and interviews activists, scholars and prisoners, while examining the history of the American death penalty. As Ryan's time in office comes to an end, he must decide what steps to take to reform the judicial system.
Plot Keywords: governor, student, author, warden, judge, activist, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Big Bird, whisked away to Illinois by a misguided social worker, sets out to rejoin his friends in New York.
Plot Keywords: social worker, heartwarming, endearing, illinois, farm, carnival, household ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After not seeing his younger friend for several years, documentary director Steve James decides to catch up with the Illinois boy he once mentored. No longer the nerdy preteen James once knew, Stephen Fielding is now a damaged adult who has had repeated problems with the law. While reproaching himself for not maintaining a closer relationship with his old friend, James tries to understand Fielding's evolution from abused child to a man convicted of serious crimes.
Plot Keywords: mentor, criminal, mother, grandmother, police officer, dark, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a judge (Bill Pullman) is accused of murdering his wife, an affair from his past threatens to destroy his defense.
Plot Keywords: judge, son, wife, tense, disturbing, dark, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Filmmaker Taggart Siegel captures two turbulent decades in the life of John Peterson, an Illinois farmer who not only tends the land but also delves into writing and performance art. A man who would as soon work the fields in a feather boa as in a pair of jeans, Peterson rises out of the bankruptcy and depression plaguing Midwest farm communities in the 1980s and saves his livelihood through organic agriculture.
Plot Keywords: farmer, father, mother, elderly person, engaging, inspiring, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As his brother (Clayne Crawford) muddles through a workaday job, and his father (John Heard) sits in a jail cell after a fatal drunk-driving crash, P.J. Lee (Thomas Guiry) works as a dishwasher in a Midwestern mill town. P.J. halfheartedly pursues a relationship with local girl Amy Barnes (America Ferrera) and temporarily bunks with his ex-Marine uncle, but family troubles weigh on him. Barely 20 but already worn down, P.J. might be the only person who can help his family heal.
Plot Keywords: young man, father, marine, daughter, mill worker, gritty, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Beyond being in the same class at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois, Claire Standish, Andrew Clark, John Bender, Brian Johnson and Allison Reynolds have little in common, and with the exception of Claire and Andrew, do not associate with each other in school. In the simplest and in their own terms, Claire is a princess, Andrew an athlete, John a criminal, Brian a brain, and Allison a basket case. But one other thing they do have in common is a nine hour detention in the school library together on Saturday, March 24, 1984, under the direction of Mr. Vernon, supervising from his office across the hall. Each is required to write a minimum one thousand word essay during that time about who they think they are. At the beginning of those nine hours, each, if they were indeed planning on writing that essay, would probably write something close to what the world sees of them, and what they have been brainwashed into believing of themselves. But based on their adventures during that ...
Plot Keywords: jock, bad boy, popular girl, outcast, nerd, principal, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to help, and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from God" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?
Plot Keywords: musician, police officer, woman, nun, ex-girlfriend, amusing, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The path of Francesca Johnson's (Meryl Streep's) future seems destined when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life. While her husband and children are away at the Illinois State Fair in the summer of 1965, Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood) happens to turn into the Johnson farm and asks Francesca for directions to Roseman Bridge. Francesca later learns that he was in Iowa on assignment from National Geographic Magazine. She is reluctant seeing that he's a complete stranger, and then she agrees to show him to the bridges and gradually she talks about her life from being a war-bride from Italy which sets the pace for this bittersweet and all-too-brief romance of her life. Through the pain of separation from her secret love and the stark isolation she feels as the details of her life consume her, she writes her thoughts of the four-day love affair which took up three journals. The journals are found by her children after the lawyer ...
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, lover, child, lawyer, tender, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
Plot Keywords: father, wife, son, daughter, cousin, neighbor, hysterical ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During World War II when all the men are fighting the war, most of the jobs that were left vacant because of their absence were filled in by women. The owners of the baseball teams, not wanting baseball to be dormant indefinitely, decide to form teams with women. So scouts are sent all over the country to find women players. One of the scouts, passes through Oregon and finds a woman named Dottie Hinson, who is incredible. He approaches her and asks her to try out but she's not interested. However, her sister, Kit who wants to get out of Oregon, offers to go. But he agrees only if she can get her sister to go. When they try out, they're chosen and are on the same team. Jimmy Dugan, a former player, who's now a drunk, is the team manager. But he doesn't feel as if it's a real job so he drinks and is not exactly doing his job. So Dottie steps up. After a few months when it appears the girls are not garnering any attention, the league is facing closure till Dottie does something that ...
Plot Keywords: baseball catcher, baseball pitcher, baseball player, baseball team owner, baseball fan, coach, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When her father is killed, leaving her destitute, Selina Peake (Colleen Moore) becomes a teacher in rural Illinois and marries impoverished farmer Pervus DeJong (John Bowers). Raised in a wealthy environment, Selina finds her new life hard, but takes comfort in her son, Dirk (Ben Lyon), and farms the land herself after Pervus dies. After struggling for years, Selina earns enough for Dirk to be educated as an architect, but a scandalous affair with a married woman threatens her son's career.
Plot Keywords: mother, farmer, son, husband, married woman, teacher, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This documentary gives women a voice in the choices they've had to make regarding their pregnancies.
Plot Keywords: woman, mother, abortionist, emotional, engaging, gripping, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lindsay Lohan stars as Cady Heron, a 16 year old homeschooled girl who not only makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett), the ex-boyfriend of queenbee Regina George (Rachel McAdams), but also unintentionally joins The Plastics, led by Regina herself. Join Cady as she learns that high school life can and will be really tough.
Plot Keywords: high-school student, popular girl, ex-boyfriend, friend, parent, teacher, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wayne is still living at home. He has a world class collection of name tags from jobs he's tried, but he does have his own public access TV show. A local station decides to hire him and his sidekick, Garth, to do their show professionally and Wayne & Garth find that it is no longer the same. Wayne falls for a bass guitarist and uses his and Garth's Video contacts to help her career along, knowing that Ben Oliver, the sleazy advertising guy who is ruining their show will probably take her away from him if they fail.
Plot Keywords: talk show host, best friend, musician, slacker, producer, girlfriend, hilarious ...
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