Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Do the Right Thing (1989), Friday (1995), The Castle (1997), The Joneses (2016), Lymelife (2008), Blue in the Face (1995), Little Men (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Neighborhood Dynamics movies.
Storyline: A New York adman (Cary Grant) and his calm wife (Myrna Loy) buy a big old fixer-upper in rural Connecticut.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, family, dream, marriage, suburban life, construction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday. As he does everyday, Sal Fragione opens the pizza parlor he's owned for 25 years. The neighborhood has changed considerably in the time he's been there and is now composed primarily of African-Americans and Hispanics. His son Pino hates it there and would like nothing better than to relocate the eatery to their own neighborhood. For Sal however, the restaurant represents something that is part of his life and sees it as a part of the community. What begins as a simple complaint by one of his customers, Buggin Out - who wonders why he has only pictures of famous Italian-Americans on the wall when most of his customers are black - eventually disintegrates into violence as frustration seemingly brings out the worst in everyone.
Plot Keywords: race relations, racial discrimination, police brutality, urban life, cultural differences, social injustice, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's Friday and Craig Jones (Ice Cube) has just gotten fired for stealing cardboard boxes. To make matters worse, rent is due, he hates his overbearing girlfriend, Joi (Paula Jai Parker), and his best friend, Smokey (Chris Tucker), owes the local drug dealer money -- and that's all before lunch. As the hours drag on, Jones and Smokey experience the gamut of urban life, complete with crackheads, shoot-outs and overly sexual pastors, concentrated into one single, unbelievable Friday.
Plot Keywords: comedy, black culture, urban life, friendship, drugs, neighborhood dynamics, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Melbourne family is very happy living where they do, near the Melbourne airport (according to Jane Kennedy, it's "practically their back yard"). However, they are forced to leave their beloved home, by the Government and airport authorities. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their house, taking their case as far as the High Court.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, australian, legal, underdog, working class, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Moby Longinotto's feature documentary debut tells the story of Jheri Jones, a 74 year old transgender divorcee, and her family in Bible Belt Mississippi. Reconciled after years of estrangement, and now living with two of her four sons in her trailer park home, Jheri embarks on a new path to reveal her true self to her grandchildren while her son Trevor begins a surprising journey of his own. THE JONESES is a compelling documentary about an unorthodox family and the deeply complex personal bonds that make or break us.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, family, social satire, black comedy, american film, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in the late 70's, seen through the innocent eyes of a fifteen year old boy, SCOTT, "Lymelife" is a unique take on the dangers of the American Dream. This funny, sad, violent and sometimes tragic look at first love, family dynamics and divorce weaves an intricate tapestry of American life during a time of drastic economic and emotional change.
Plot Keywords: family, coming of age, drama, american, 1980s, suburban life, marital crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Wayne Wang's follow-up movie to Smoke (1995) presents a series of improvisational situations strung together to form a pastiche of Brooklyn's diverse ethnicity, offbeat humor, and essential humanity. Many of the same characters inhabiting Auggie Wren's Brooklyn Cigar Store in Smoke (1995) return here to expound on their philosophy of smoking, relationships, baseball, New York City, and Belgian Waffles. Most of all, this is a movie about living life, off-the-cuff.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, independent film, improvisation, ensemble cast, dialogue-driven, mockumentary, sequel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Despite dissimilarities, two middle-school boys from one-child households (Jake and Tony) form a natural friendship when Jake moves with family into his recently deceased grandfather's Brooklyn apartment above the dress shop business of Tony's mother. Extrovert Tony plays soccer, desires to become an actor (like Jake's father) and is sociable, while introvert Jake likes to draw, build his portfolio and be somewhat reclusive. Their best friend status is challenged by Jake's parents inheriting ownership of the building where Tony's mother runs her dress business, asking for three times the rent she previously paid within the upscaling neighborhood. The boys retaliate with silence, but it will likely not be enough.—statmanjeff
Plot Keywords: coming of age, family, friendship, class conflict, new york, adolescence, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, indie film, heartwarming, humor, family bond, life struggles ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tucson, Arizona, circa 1910: Emily Hefferan wants a divorce. In flashback, she recalls twenty years of marriage to Jim Hefferan, who sinks every cent of each new windfall in harebrained investments. Emily only keeps a roof over the family by taking in boarders...more and more of them. But Jim's latest deal goes just a little too far.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, drama, marriage, nostalgia, slice of life, relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can't imagine the trouble that awaits them. Andy has quit his job as a sports journalist and is planning to use the peace and quiet of the country to write the Great American Novel. From the moment the movers' truck gets lost with their furniture, though, there's little peace and less quiet. From a manical mailman to a dead body buried in the garden, Andy is distracted by the town and its wacky inhabitants. His effort at a novel is mediocre, at best, and he's threatened by Elizabeth's foray into writing when she attempts a children's book. Can the Farmers survive the townsfolk and each other?
Plot Keywords: comedy, rural life, marriage, humor, 1980s, american film, neighborhood dynamics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In conservative West Orange, New Jersey, the Ostroff and Walling families are very close. David Walling and Terry Ostroff are inseparable best friends and run together everyday. David has problems with his wife, Paige. He frequently sleeps alone in his office. Their daughter, Vanessa, is frustrated because she has not succeeded in her career as a designer. Their son, Toby, is moving to China on a temporary assignment. Terry's wife, Cathy, ignores him. Their daughter Nina moved to San Francisco five years ago. Near Thanksgiving, Nina's boyfriend Ethan betrays her at his birthday party and Nina returns to her parents house. Nina argues with her mother and draws closer to David. Soon they have an affair and fall in love, turning the lives of the people close to them upside-down.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, family, ethics, midlife crisis, suburban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: June was once a known counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. She now lives alone in her South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world. It's the notorious "Summer of Sam" and June only has to look out of her window to see the violence escalating with the brutal summer heat. The city is on a knife's edge, a pressure-cooker about to explode into the incendiary 1977 New York blackout riots.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, suspense, crime, drama, independent film, female lead, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Thrilled with the idea of becoming famous, the Webbers -- Gerald (Jeffrey Tambor) and Emma (Rita Taggart) and their children, Miranda (Jennifer Tilly) and Johnny (David Arquette) -- agree to become the subjects of a reality television show. The program is a hit, as viewers obsess over Miranda's social life and psychiatrist Gerald's professional challenges. But, as the pressures of living in public increase every day, the Webbers have second thoughts about the show.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, tv movie, usa, 1990s, humor, everyday life ...
Movie Details Click Here !