Dumb and Dumber (1994), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), High Society (1956), A Wake in Providence (1999), Bleed for This (2016), Dan in Real Life (2007), Donald Cried (2016), Me, Myself & Irene (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Rhode Island movies.
Storyline: Harry and Lloyd are two good friends who happen to be really stupid. The duo set out on a cross country trip from Providence to Aspen, Colorado to return a briefcase full of money to its rightful owner, a beautiful woman named Mary Swanson. After a trip of one mishap after another, the duo eventually make it to Aspen. But the two soon realize that Mary and her briefcase are the least of their problems.
Plot Keywords: idiot, housewife, chauffeur, killer, blind boy, best friend, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families. Frank Gilbreth, Sr., was a pioneer in the field of motion study, and often used his family as guinea pigs (with amusing and sometimes embarrassing results). He resisted popular culture,railing against his daughters' desires for bobbed hair and cosmetics.—Becki Bozart <beckeye@aone.com>
Plot Keywords: father, mother, daughter, son, doctor, heartwarming, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his ex-wife's Tracy Lord's family estate. She is on the verge of marrying a man blander and safer than Dex, who tries to win Tracy's heart again. Mike Connor, an undercover tabloid reporter, also falls for Tracy while covering the nuptials for Spy magazine. Tracy must choose between the three men as she discovers that "safe" can mean "deadly dull" when it comes to husbands and life.
Plot Keywords: musician, socialite, reporter, fiancé, endearing, charming, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An aspiring Italian-American actor, Anthony (Vincent Pagano) is in for plenty of family drama when he brings his lovely African-American girlfriend, Alissa (Victoria Rowell), back home for his grandfather's funeral. Though race is an issue with some of Anthony's extended family members, there are many other odd topics that come to the fore, including his cousins' Mafia delusions. Luckily, Anthony's open-minded Aunt Lidia (Adrienne Barbeau) is on hand to help smooth things over.
Plot Keywords: actor, girlfriend, mother, aunt, uncle, cousin, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On November 1988, Vinny Pazienza boxes Roger Mayweather for the WBC World Light Welterweight Title. He arrives late to the weigh-in, as he has been riding a stationary bicycle in order to make the weight limit. Vinny's final weight is 140 pounds even, which qualifies him for the fight. Instead of resting up for the fight, Vinny spends the night at a casino. The following day, he loses to Mayweather. At one point during the fight, Vinny is hit after the bell. His boxing manager Lou Duva causes a scene by going after Mayweather, but is punched as a result. Following the match, Duva tells the media that Vinny should retire from boxing. This angers Vinny's father Angelo (who serves as his coach), and he confronts Duva. In the ensuing argument, Vinny announces that he wants another fight, and hires Kevin Rooney as his coach..
Plot Keywords: boxer, champion, trainer, wife, family member, friend, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Single father Dan Burns dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch.
Plot Keywords: advice columnist, beautiful woman, brother, widower, mother, father, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: With sudden passing of his grandmother, Peter Latang returns to his hometown and encounters his long lost, childhood friend, Donald Treebeck. What begins as a simple favor, turns into a long day's journey into the past.
Plot Keywords: man, childhood friend, neighbor, family member, co-worker, businessman, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charlie is a Rhode Island state trooper with a multiple personalities. He is otherwise mild-mannered and non confrontational until somebody or something pushes him a little too far. That's when his maniacal alter-ego, Hank, takes over. Charlie is assigned on a routine mission to return alleged fugitive Irene back to upstate New York, but they wind up on the run from corrupt police officers. And their escape would be a lot simpler on everybody involved if Hank didn't keep stepping in at the most inopportune times....
Plot Keywords: police officer, father, son, alter ego, criminal, beautiful girl, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The love which binds mother and daughter -- seen through the prism of one mother's life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance, a content wife and mother, and Nina, a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But who is this "Harris," wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother? While Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life and their own lives, their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years before, when she was Ann Grant, a young woman who has come from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn. The bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother for support. Ann stays close to her friend...
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, lover, emotional, melodramatic, rhode island, family home ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A boy from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, caught up in the drug scene of the mid-70s, gets in trouble one too many times with the law. To stave off a jail term, his father arranges for him to be placed into a prep school in Cornwall, Connecticut. The terms: Graduate, or else.—Matt Cotnoir <theman@ids.net>
Plot Keywords: high-school student, best friend, brother, father, love interest, heartwarming, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamoured of her, and enjoys the thrust and parry of legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: lawyer, chairman, executive, company president, stepdaughter, witty, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Greek military hero named Darios visits his uncle in Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossus of Apollo to guard its harbor and is planning an alliance with Phoenicia which would be hostile to Greece. Darios flirts with the beautiful Diala, daughter of the statue's mastermind, while becoming involved with a group of rebels headed by Peliocles. These rebels seek to overthrow the tyrannical King Serse as does Serse's evil second-in-command, Thar. The rebels' revolt seems to fail, with Peliocles and his men being captured and forced to provide amusement in the local arena, but an earthquake eventually upsets, not only the Colossus in the harbor, but the balance of power in Rhodes as well.—Wiki
Plot Keywords: king, soldier, maiden, daughter, rebel, artist, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Rhode Island, in the Italian-American family Sposato, Danni is going to marry Geoffrey Brancato. Danni lives with her parents Santo and Irena and is the third and 'the good daughter' of her family. Her three sisters come for her wedding: the older Nikki, a successful TV starlet, who works in a TV show very similar to 'Baywatch'. Nikki brings her boy-friend and manager Marty Weinberg to be introduced to her family. Chrissy, who deals with investments in Wall Street; and the rebel younger Toni , who plays in a rock-and- roll band with her lesbian lover Amy Kayne. Together, they have meals in the restaurant of Tom Terranova, the former and first love of Nikki. Many discussions of the Sposato family show wounds not healed, when the characters expose their real feelings.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: bride, groom, sister, boyfriend, lesbian, mother, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned, as some thugs and the FBI try to recover the painting and Roz gets attracted not only to the landscape...—Thomas Meyer <i03a@zfn.uni-bremen.de>
Plot Keywords: thief, girlfriend, crime boss, fbi agent, neighbor, cashier, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man (Matt Foyer) tells his psychiatrist of the struggles that led to his downfall, beginning at his great-uncle's bedside, where he receives a key to a locked collection of his papers. The papers reveal a lifelong obsession with an underwater deity, Cthulhu, around which a cult has formed. Using the style of a 1920s silent film, director Andrew Leman retells H.P. Lovecraft's short story, in which the documents reveal individuals who had contact with Cthulhu.
Plot Keywords: professor, psychiatrist, student, sailor, inspector, patient, eerie ...
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