Chak de! India (2007), Three Colors: Blue (1993), Loving Vincent (2017), Rushmore (1998), 42 (2013), Amazing Grace (2006), Dinosaur 13 (2014), Let Him Have It (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Petition movies.
Storyline: After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: death of friend, reprisal, grief, stress, outlaw gang, gang leader, gang member ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1972, the politically naïve Bernie McPhelimy (Dame Julie Walters) is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot and killed by the I.R.A., and her neighbors are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear and confusion, she dares to stand up and condemn the killings. Criticizing both factions equally, her public call for a ceasefire is interpreted by many as an attack against the I.R.A., and as her fledgling peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.—Dave F
Plot Keywords: optimism, northern ireland, murder, mother daughter relationship, love, husband wife relationship, peer pressure ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally asks him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to the decisive victory over Santa Anna and the Mexican army to gains Texas' independence.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: texas, petition, artillery, flintlock rifle, 1830s, horseback riding, arrest ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is the story of a teenager named Gracie Bowen, who lives in South Orange, New Jersey, is crazy about soccer, as are her three brothers and former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and father in the nightly practices, she is discouraged by everyone except her elder brother, Johnny. Her father does not believe that girls should play soccer and tells her that she is neither tough enough nor talented enough to play with the boys team. Undeterred, Gracie finds reserves of strength she never knew existed, and persists in changing everyone's beliefs in what she is capable of, including her own. She faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer. But as the beautiful and strong person that she has always been but she also brings her family together in the face of their own tragedy.—Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}
Plot Keywords: dance club, grief, tears, crying, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, coffin ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Peggy (Molly Shannon) is single, childless, in her forties, a lonely executive assistant in a friendly office. Her dog Pencil is the love of her life, and when he dies after eating some sort of toxin, Peggy's life spins out of her control: a friendly neighbor invites her for dinner; a friendly staff member at her vet's calls with an abused dog he recommends she adopt - she does, and also finds herself attracted to this fellow. She becomes a vegan, supports animal-rights causes, and embroils her brother's young children in these concerns. Saving dogs and other animals become such a passion that her mental health and her job may be in danger. Are regaining control and finding love beyond her reach?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: family relationships, christmas present, check, champagne, cell phone, celibacy, cafe ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
Plot Keywords: deception, dancing, club, city hall, california, bribe, aunt ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.
Plot Keywords: cobbler the shoemaker, coca cola, mother son relationship, car accident, lower east side manhattan new york city, kidnapping, jew ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the bosom of Suburbicon--a family-centred, all-white utopia of manicured lawns and friendly locals--a simmering tension is brewing, as the first African-American family moves in the idyllic community, in the hot summer of 1959. However--as the young patriarch, Gardner Lodge, and his family start catching a few disturbing glimpses of the once-welcoming neighbourhood's dark underbelly--seemingly random acts of unprecedented violence paired with a gruesome death will blemish, irreparably, Suburbicon's picture-perfect facade. Who would have thought that darkness resides even in Paradise?
Plot Keywords: murder, funeral, wheelchair, satire, riot, taking a bath, anger ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sassy postgrad Elle Woods is all about animal rights. In fact, she puts her nuptial plans on hold to head to Washington, D.C. to get an anti-animal testing bill passed. Her building's doorman quickly shows her the ways and workings of our nation's capital.
Plot Keywords: beauty salon, transvestism, elevator, dog, convertible, congressman, farce ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Conrad and Sally Walden (Spencer Breslin and Dakota Fanning) are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat ('Mike Myers') walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until things get out of hand, and The Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back.
Plot Keywords: cat, talking cat, dog, party, sidekick, surrealism, suitor ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. But the killer is about to discover that this generation's young women aren't willing to become hapless victims as they mount a fight to the finish.
Plot Keywords: christmas horror, title directed by female, characters killed one by one, misogyny, slasher, f rated, triple f rated ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Big Jim Johnson is a cattleman who wants to run all the settler's off the land. He has a number of hired guns including Johnny Dawson. Doctor Bill Dawson comes to town and wants to see the trouble stop, but all that he sees is Sullivan murdered and a Judge who is working for Johnson. Johnny is ordered to get rid of the Doc, who has decided to side with the settlers. Johnny as no choice but to side with his brother against Johnson, and that is a tall order.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: governor, gunfighter, gunfight, gunshot wound, handyman, henchman, homecoming ...
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