After the Wedding (Efter brylluppet) is a Danish movie released in 2006. The film is directed by Susanne Bier and stars Mads Mikkelsen and Sidse Babett Knudsen. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but lost out to The Lives of Others. The film had its North American premiere as a gala at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. [1], and is scheduled to open in limited release in New York City on 2007-03-30 and in Los Angeles on 2007-04-06. [2] The UK release was Friday 9 March 2007. Jacob Petersen manages an Indian orphanage. With a small staff, he works as hard as he can to keep the orphanage afloat. The project has been in danger of collapse for eight years and now faces bankruptcy. A Danish corporation offers a substantial donation to maintain the orphanage, but Jacob is told that he must return to Denmark (where he grew up) to receive the funds. Apparently the CEO of the corporation wishes to shake Jacob\'s hand. Jacob travels to Copenhagen and checks into a luxurious suite at a five-star hotel, paid for by the corporation: quite a contrast from his living conditions in India. When Jacob meets with Jørgen (the CEO of the corporation), Jørgen says he is still considering which project to fund. This surprises Jacob, who had understood that the decision was already made. Since Jørgen\'s daughter Anna is to marry on the next day, he invites Jacob to the wedding. Coincidentally, Jacob meets his former girlfriend Helene there. She was the love of his life and went to India with him, but when he was unfaithful with her best friend, she left him and went back to Denmark. She is now the wife of Jørgen. During Anna\'s speech at the marriage festivities, Jacob learns she is not the biological daughter of Jørgen. His suspicion that she might be his is confirmed by Helene the next day. Jacob is angry to have learned of his daughter only after two decades. Helene claims that they had tried to track him down in India but were unsuccessful. She is compelled to tell Anna of Jacob now; the two meet and get along rather well. Despite all these issues, Jacob does meet Jørgen again over the funding of his Indian orphanage. Jørgen offers to create a foundation in Jacob\'s and Anna\'s name and fund it with a large sum of money. One of the conditions of the contract, however, would be that Jacob move to Denmark. Jacob initially finds himself unable to comply, because back in India waits eight-year-old Pramod, whom he has been raising since birth. He also does not want to be bought by Jørgen. When Jacob storms out, Jørgen explains to him his real motivation: Jørgen is terminally ill and will soon die. He has brought Jacob to Denmark so he can care for Anna, Helene and Jørgen\'s little twin sons. Jacob is so angered, however, that he hastily leaves for his hotel room. When Anna turns up there crying her eyes out because her newlywed has been unfaithful, Jacob realizes that he should be there for his daughter and that he can help tens of thousands of Indian orphans that way, as well. He signs the contract with Jørgen. Jørgen dies. On Jacob\'s next visit to India, construction work at the orphanage is well under way. Jacob asks Pramod whether he would like to come to Denmark with him, but partly because Jacob used to rail against rich people, Pramod decides to stay in his home country. [edit] Cast * Mads Mikkelsen as Jacob Petersen * Rolf Lassgård as Jørgen Lennart Hansson * Sidse Babett Knudsen as Helene Hansson * Stine Fischer Christensen as Anna Louisa Hansson * Christian Tafdrup as Christian * Mona Malm as Mrs. Hansson * Meenal Patel as Mrs. Shaw * Neeral Mulchandani as Pramod

Because I Said So is a 2007 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo and Stephen Collins. This film is rated PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue, some mature thematic material and partial nudity. It was released on February 2, 2007. The movie opens at a wedding. The bride, Maggie (Lauren Graham), her sister Mae (Piper Perabo) and mother, Daphne (Diane Keaton), are trying to set the youngest sister, Milly (Mandy Moore), up with a bachelor at the reception. As they send her off to introduce herself, Daphne warns her not to do her nervous laugh. Almost as soon as she starts talking to the guy, she breaks out into snorting laughter. At another wedding, Mae is the bride and Milly has stolen away into a bedroom with a guy that she met at the wedding. She uses her cell phone to call her sisters because she thinks the guy might have \

The movie opens with archived footage with Bluesman Son House saying that the worst kind of blues are the blues caused by love. Rae (Christina Ricci) and Ronnie (Justin Timberlake) have a romp in the sack before Ronnie has to head off to the army. Afterwards his nerves cause him to throw up while Rae soothes him. Rae has a chronic cough, but is hesitant to go to the grocery store to pick up medicine. Ronnie gives Rae a watch identical to his. Every night the two watches will beep at the same time and they'll think of each other. Gill (Michael Raymond-James) picks up Ronnie in his pickup truck and they head off leaving Rae crying on the lawn. Rae's hunger for sex starts almost immediately and she writhes on the ground like she's possessed. Reverend R.L. (John Cothran Jr.) is trying to calm down Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson). Lazarus goes inside a small cafe and sits with his wife. She's leaving him for his younger brother because living with Laz makes her feel old. Rae meets up with the local drug dealer Tehronne (David Banner) to quench her hunger for sex. She apparently meets him for sex every time Ronnie heads out of town. Rae leaves and, still persistently coughing, heads towards the grocery store where her mom works. She and her mom have a very tenuous relationship. Lazarus goes home and mows down all of his wife's roses with his tractor. That night Rae goes to a party and gets drunk and stoned to ease her depression over Ronnie leaving her that morning. Gill is at the party and watches her get more and more messed up to the point of playing topless football with some guys and then having sex with one of them on the grass. He picks her up and takes her in his truck. She tries to defend her actions by saying that she begged Ronnie to stay. Gill attempts to have sex with her, but she laughs at him. This infuriates Gill who starts beating her. She is not moving, so he panics and dumps her out of the truck onto the road. Lazarus is at a bar that used to be a hot spot because people would come to see him play the blues. Now that bar is pretty empty. His brother comes in and says that he is upset that the meeting Lazarus had with his wife did not go better and he wanted to try to make sure there was no bad blood between them. Bad blood is an understatement, because Laz smashes a bottle, throws his brother on a pool table and tells him that Cain and Abel would have nothing on them if he ever saw his brother again. A drunken Lazarus goes home and gathers all of his wife's belongings in garbage bags and throws them outside. The next morning he takes the trash to the end of his driveway and sees Rae laying in the road, half naked and beaten unconscious. He sees she's alive, but realizing a black man would be very suspect if he tried to take a battered white girl to the police or hospital, decides to nurse her back to health himself. She regains consciousness long enough to see he's black and says the name, "Tehronne". Laz goes into town and questions Tehronne about the girl, thinking maybe he beat her. Tehronne tells Lazarus that Rae is the town tramp who has sex with everybody. He says he's not pimping her, so she's free if Lazarus wants a shot at her. Lazarus realizes that Tehronne didn't have anything to do with the beating. He goes to the pharmacy and sees Angela, the pharmacist (S. Epatha Merkerson). He tells her that he's taking care of his niece because his brother doesn't have any money. She has a cough. Angela gives him some cough medicine and says that it's free. Over the next two days Laz nurses Rae back to health. She has fever dreams of a man with a zippo coming in to rape her. She also runs out of the house in a daze searching for Ronnie, thinking she can hear the sound of his watch beeping. Lazarus decides he's going to take it on himself to try to make Rae's head right too. To keep her from running off again, he chains her to the radiator. Her fever breaks and she finally comes to. She's obviously upset that she's chained to the radiator and tells Lazarus if he wants sex, fine, she just has to be on her way. He tells her he doesn't want sex, he wants to make her right. She tries a couple times to seduce him, but to no avail. Lazarus goes into town to get her a dress so she'll feel more lady like. He gives Angela a basket of things he made from his garden. Angela asks how his niece's cough is. Lazarus tells her that she's much better now. While he's in town, a young delivery boy comes over and Rae has sex with him. Lazarus comes home and chases him off. The Reverend R.L. also comes over, worried because he's been trying to call Lazarus for days, but he hasn't answered. Lazarus has hidden the phone to keep Rae from calling anyone. R.L. sees that Lazarus has Rae chained up inside and asks if he's crazy. A black man keeping a white woman captive could get himself killed. Lazarus explains the situation to R.L. and asks for help. R.L. goes inside and talks to Rae. Rae tells him that she thinks the idea of going to heaven just because you apologize for any wrong you did in the world just before you die is silly. R.L. tells her that he kinda thinks the idea of heaven is a little silly and he feels God is someone you turn to when you need help in doing the right thing in life, not someone you apologize to at the end of life. R.L., Rae, Lazarus and the delivery boy all share a meal that Rae even helped cook. Meanwhile, Ronnie comes home and goes to a bar. Inside he finds Gill. He explains that he had to come home because the army discharged him because of his nerves. He also tells him that he's been unable to get in touch with Rae and asks if Gill knows where she is. Gill tells him that she probably ran off with someone as soon as Ronnie left. Lazarus and Rae share some post meal moonshine and Laz proposes a toast to freedom. Rae laughs and says that he's funny. Laz unlocks the chain and says it's not his part to try and change her. That's really up to her. She asks if he'll do something for her. He says he'll do anything she wants. Ronnie and Gill go to Ronnie's house and sees it's exactly the same as when Ronnie left. Gill tells Ronnie that Rae is a slut who sleeps with everyone as soon as he leaves. He tells him that he even gets with Rae and that's why he knows where everything is in their house. Ronnie gets upset and beats Gill, grabs a gun and leaves. Lazarus takes Rae into town. He has lunch with Angela while Rae goes to the grocery store to talk to her mom. She tells her mom that all she wants to know is was her mom aware of that fact that she was being molested. Her mom gets defensive and tells her not to put the blame on her because she's a slut. She also tells her that the only regret she has is that she didn't get an abortion. Lazarus sees the commotion at the grocery store, runs in and takes Rae out. Angela follows and asks if Rae is really his "niece". Lazarus and Rae go to Lazarus' old hangout from the beginning of the movie. As they walk in, Rae thinks she hears Ronnie's watch. The bar is packed. Everyone is there to see Lazarus play the blues. Lazarus puts on a great show and everyone dances and has a good time, including Rae. Through a window, Ronnie watches Rae dance with all the guys. Archived footage of Son House says that sometime the blues are so bad, they'll make a man kill. The next morning at Lazarus' home, Rae sings and tries to play a song on the guitar about how much she loves Ronnie. Laz wakes up and tells her he'll play and she can close her eyes and sing. While they play, Ronnie comes in with his gun. Rae opens her eyes and sees Ronnie standing there with the gun to Lazarus' head. Ronnie hits Lazarus. Laz taunts Ronnie telling him if he wants to shoot him for sleeping with his girl, to just shoot him. Ronnie can't shoot him so Lazarus takes the gun away from him. Ronnie starts to have a panic attack so Rae soothes him. Lazarus calls R.L. over to help mediate the situation. Rae comes clean to Ronnie and tells him that she loves him, but they're both messed up and need each other. She hopes that he'll accept and help her. They reconcile. Lazarus goes to Angela and asks for one more favor. She's to be the maid of honor at Rae and Ronnie's wedding. Laz gives Rae away. As Ronnie and Rae drive off to start their new life together, Angela and Lazarus hold hands. While driving, Ronnie panics when his car is surrounded by semi trucks. He pulls over in a panic and Rae soothes him. It'll be a rough road, but a road they travel together.

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