A year with many works of art in the world of cinema but also in other areas. 2006 was the year when the giant Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion USD. A very good collection of movies that were released in 2006.
10. Little Children
Sarah has a marriage devoid of love… spends her days with her daughter at the pool and in the park but still wants more. Brad is home, and Ronnie just out of jail and lives with his mother. Larry is a retired cop and between Sarah and Brad begins a romantic connection. Ronnie and Larry have some problems and Brad must learn for the exam. All these names and situations are quite strange but all destinies and troubled souls whose destiny is to be intertwined.
09. Casino Royale
Daniel Craig, an actor criticized others and acclaimed by many others, manages to successfully cope with this trying to play the role of James Bond. Although a little sting, proves more specific qualities of the Agent 007: well done, intelligent and calculated and not the least charming. The movie received a more than generous budget: 150 million dollars. If we take into account the receipts taken, the props and equipment used and not least the quality of action during 144 minutes, we will realize that it has deserved every penny.
Olive, aged seven years, has only one desire: to win the Little Miss Sunshine beauty contest. Accompanied by her dysfunctional family, Olive embarks on an adventurous journey to California. The father, Richard, desperately trying to sell “The Path to Success in 9 Steps”. Mother, Sheryl (Toni Collette) tries to her brother problems under silence, the suicidal expert in Proust’s work, just out of hospital after he was fired by its lover.
07. Children of Men
Earth, 2027: hopes for the future decreased. I am almost 19 years since the last birth of a child and with each passing year, inexplicably, without a birth on the whole earth, mankind is approaching of extinction, asking the last rights for the future. While most people choose to embrace the inevitable and turn to separatism, illegal and nihilism, others fight for a united planet and people’s rights being endangered.
Stranger Than Fiction is the story of Harold Crick. Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is the fiscal agent who lived the same boring routine for 12 years under his ultra performant watch. So, he wakes up in every morning at the same time, goes to work, do the same thing, returns home with the same bus and is sleeping alone in every night. That is until one day when Harold hears a voice narrating all her actions. He finally realizes that he can control and learn to accept it until the voice tells him that he will die soon.
05. Apocalypto
The action takes place during the Mayan civilization. Quiet life of a man’s interrupted by a violent invading army, and he begins a risky journey into a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. A change driven by the power of fate and love for his wife and family, he will make a desperate attempt to return home and try to save his lifestyle.
04. Babel
The movie talks about the destinies of people from different backgrounds, people who have absolutely no connection between them, but whose lives come to intersect at some point. Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett) are married and spend their holiday in Morocco hoping to solve a couple problems, but everything is shattered when she is shot by two Moroccan children who were testing the new father’s gun. The two panic and hide this event of their father, but police do research and will lead to them.
You could say that Nick does not have a job even easier in these times of neo-puritan culture. Faced with zealots who advocate for the ban on smoking and with an opportunistic senator (William H. Macy) who wants to put poison labels on cigarette sign, Nick must give to any gimmick, to defend his livelihoods.
02. Volver
The movie opens in a cemetery of a village where women live much longer than men, so a place full of widows. Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) is here with her sister, Soledad (Lola Duenas), and daughter of fourteen years, Paula (Cobo Yohan), to care for his mother’s grave, died with her father in a fire. Taking advantage of the presence in this place, the three women make a visit to Aunt Paula, arrived at an age when not distinguish very well the present and the past, so when she says that their mother cares for she every day, they put everything to her mental state and overlook.
01. Brick
The plot represents the murder of Emily, the former girlfriend of Brendan. After he found the corpse, Brendan tries to uncover the killer, with the help of his good friend, Brain, was forced even to infiltrate in a clan that distributes drugs, led by The Pin. Things get complicated when Laura shows up on stage, the little angel.
