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The Cure are an English alternative rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with its debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre.
After the release of Pornography (1982), the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired. With the 1982 single "Let's Go to Bed" Smith began to place a pop sensibility into the band's music (as well as a unique stage look). The Cure's popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States where the songs "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" and "Friday I'm in Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart. By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world. The band is estimated to have sold 27 million albums as of 2004. The Cure have released thirteen studio albums, 10 EPs and over thirty singles during the course of their career. Since 2010, they have been working on a fourteenth studio album.
The Cure is a 1995 comedy-drama film starring Brad Renfro and Joseph Mazzello about two boys searching for the cure of AIDS, from which one of them is suffering. It was produced by Eric Eisner and Mark Burg.
Set in a small town of Stillwater, Minnesota, Erik (Brad Renfro) is an adolescent loner with a vain and selfish workaholic mother, Gail (Diana Scarwid) who hardly spends time with him. Dexter (Joseph Mazzello) is his neighbor who lives behind Erik, who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion. Initially, Erik is put off by Dexter, but the two soon become good friends despite their differences. Erik seeks a family in Dexter and his congenial mother, Linda (Annabella Sciorra), due to his strained relationship with Gail, but keeps the friendship a secret from her, knowing that she won't approve.
Gail discovers the friendship one night after Linda comes over to ask Erik about something Dexter ate in the boys' quest to find a natural cure for his disease. She is furious and warns Linda to keep Dexter away, showing that not only is she selfish and neglectful, but bigoted and somewhat racist. Linda, who resents Gail because of her ways, refuses to listen and encourages the friendship. When the boys read an article in a tabloid about a doctor in distant New Orleans who claims to have found a cure for AIDS, they set out on their own down the Mississippi River in the hope of finding a means of saving Dexter's life.
Actors: Lee Thongkham (director), Lee Thongkham (producer), Jimmy Dempster (actor), Jimmy Dempster (producer), Andrew Shelton (actor), Maria Young (miscellaneous crew), Cher Davis (actress), Sher Shearey (actress), Darin Ferraro (actor), Benny Bernard (actor), Audrey Dempster (actor), Stacey Brohn (actress), Jodie Young (actor), Kim Santiago (actress), Luis Valladares (actor),
Genres: Action, Short, Thriller, War,Actors: Abi Lawal (miscellaneous crew), Leo Asemota (actor), Leo Asemota (producer), Leo Asemota (writer), Leo Asemota (director), Leo Asemota (editor), Anslem Herelle (producer), Jeanette Steinsland (miscellaneous crew), Joseph Ewohime (actor), Tope Obasa (actress), Zein Oduro (actress), Agnes Amure (producer), Stacey Amankwah (actress),
Genres: Fantasy, Short,Actors: Leo Asemota (actor), Leo Asemota (producer), Leo Asemota (writer), Leo Asemota (director), Leo Asemota (editor), Anslem Herelle (producer), Agnes Amure (producer), Joseph Ewohime (actor), Stacey Amankwah (actress), Tope Obasa (actress), Zein Oduro (actress),
Genres: Fantasy, Short,Actors: Michel Portal (composer), Maurice Barrier (actor), Nathalie Baye (actress), Isabelle Sadoyan (actress), Tchéky Karyo (actor), Jean-Claude Carrière (writer), Gérard Depardieu (actor), Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (actor), Dominique Pinon (actor), André Chaumeau (actor), Maurice Jacquemont (actor), Alain Frérot (actor), Denise de Casabianca (editor), Marcel Champel (actor), Anne-Marie Marchand (costume designer),
Plot: During the medieval times, Martin Guerre returns to his hometown in the middle of France, after being away in the war since he was a child. Nobody recognise him, and the people who knew him suspect he is not Martin, but he knows all about his family and friends, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?
Keywords: based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, character-name-in-title, foreign-language-adaptation, france, impersonation, medieval-times, peasant, sixteenth-centuryActors: Frank Lloyd (director), Snitz Edwards (actor), Halliwell Hobbes (actor), Brandon Hurst (actor), Terry O. Morse (editor), Emmett King (actor), Fred Kohler (actor), Conrad Nagel (actor), George C. Pearce (actor), Yola d'Avril (actress), Harry Cording (actor), Loretta Young (actress), Frank Lloyd (producer), Rex Dunn (composer), Olive Tell (actress),
Plot: Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his heirs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
Keywords: alcoholic, amnesia, based-on-novel, beating, brother-in-law, canadian, engagement, false-accusation, forest, gambler