LITTLE WOMEN

GENRE:  Drama/ Family/ Romance
MADE:  1994
CAST:  Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Christian Bale
DIRECTOR:  Gillian Armstrong
WRITER:  Louisa May Alcott, Robin Swicord

PLOT:  The story of Mrs. March and her four daughters.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Gone With The Wind, Jane Eyre, Mermaids

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THESPIAN OF THE WEEK: Kirsten Dunst

Name:  Kirsten Caroline Dunst

AKA:  Kirsten Dunst

Date of birth:  April 30, 1982

From:  New Jersey

Specialty:  Actress 

Three Dunst Films To Watch

Interview With The Vampire

Drama/ Fantasy

The Virgin Suicides

Drama

Melancholia

Sci-fi/ Drama/ Thriller

ALL GOOD THINGS

GENRE:  Drama/ Mystery/ Thriller
MADE:  2010
CAST:  Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella
DIRECTOR:  Andrew Jarecki
WRITER:  Marcus Hinchey, Marc Smerling

PLOT:  Based on New York's unsolved missing persons case, Katie Marks, who was wed to David Marks from a high profile family who had many mental instabilities.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Changeling, Half Nelson, Devil's Advocate

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KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE

GENRE:  Foreign Animation/ Family/ Adventure/ Fantasy
MADE:  1989
CAST:  Kirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma
DIRECTOR:  Hayao Miyazaki
WRITER:  Eiko Kadono, Hayao Miyazaki

PLOT:  A young witch leaves home and begins a delivery service.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Ponyo, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle

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MONA LISA SMILE

GENRE:  Drama/ Romance
MADE:  2003
CAST:  Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stile, Maggie Gyllenhaal
DIRECTOR:  Mike Newell
WRITER:  Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal

PLOT:  Set in the 50's, a liberal and independent female professor at Wellesley's all girl school teaches her students to think differently.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Dead Poet's Society, Good Will Hunting, An Education

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

GENRE:  Drama/ Fantasy
MADE:  1994
CAST:  Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Kirsten Dunst
DIRECTOR:  Neil Jordan
WRITER:  Anne Rice

PLOT:  An ambitious journalist gets the chance for a personal interview with a vampire, where the vampire tells the story of his life, how he was turned to present.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Bram Stoker's Dracula, Underworld, Queen Of The Damned

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MARIE ANTOINETTE

GENRE:  Biographical/ Drama
MADE:  2006
CAST:  Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Molly Shannon
DIRECTOR:  Sofia Coppola
WRITER:  Sofia Coppola

PLOT:  A biography on Marie Antoinette beginning from her time in court until the fall of Versailles.  A story about her woes in her romantic life and her life as queen.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Virgin Suicides, The Duchess, The Young Victoria

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ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

GENRE:  Drama/ Romance/ Comedy
MADE:  2004
CAST:  Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst
DIRECTOR:  Michel Gondry
WRITER:  Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth

PLOT:  A brilliant doctor creates a way to erase certain memories in people, with a flow of grieving patients a couple goes in to erase the memories of each other, this is their story.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Science Of Sleep, The Fountain, Pan's Labyrinth

 

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THE VIRGIN SUICIDES

GENRE:  Drama
MADE:  1999
CAST:  Kirsten Dunst
DIRECTOR:  Sofia Coppola
WRITER:  Jeffrey Eugenides, Sofia Coppola

PLOT:  Set in the suburbs of the 1970s a group of young girls, sisters, end their lives one by one because of the suicide of their youngest sister and the strict religious parents.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  American Beauty, Lost In Translation, Adaptation

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