NERUDA

Neruda (2016)

Star Cast	-     Luis Gnecco, Alfredo Castro, Gael Garcia Bernal, Antonio Zegers, Mercedes Moran, Emilio Gutierrez Caba
Director	-       Pablo Larrain
Producer	-     Jeff Skoll, Peter Danner, Renan Artukmac, Ignacio Rey, Gaston Rothschild, Alex Zito
Rating	-       U/A
Year of Release	-       2016
Category	-       French, Spanish
Genre	-       Drama, Biography

Movie Gist     
Neruda is an unconventional biography of Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet & a Noble Prize winner. He becomes fugitive in his own homeland. Neruda joins the Communist Party as serves as a Communist Senator in 1948. Later his party gets banned & he escapes.

THE BASKETBALL DIARIES

The BasketBall Diaries (1995)

Star Cast	-     Leonardo Di Caprio, James Madio, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Mark Wahlberg, Patrick McGaw, Alexander Chaplin, Ernie Hudson
Director	-       Scott Kalvert
Producer	-       Liz Heller, John Bard Manulis
Rating	-       U/A
Year of Release	-       1995
Category	-       Hollywood
Genre	-       Crime, Drama, Biography, Sport

Movie Gist     
The BasketBall Diaries is a movie based on a true story of a memoirist & poet, Jim Carroll. The movie follows the life incidents of Jim & his harrowing downfall from being a star basketball player to getting hooked with heroin. All that Jim is left with are his poetries. However, he is found on the streets by an ex-junkie who undertakes the responsibility of Jim's rehabilitation.

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Star Cast	-    Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtney, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Chaplin
Director	-        David Lean
Producer	-        Carlo Ponti
Rating	-        U
Year of Release	-        1965
Category	-        Hollywood
Genre	-        Drama, Romance, Action, War

Movie Gist     
Another feather in David Lean's hat, Doctor Zhivago is a British-American drama-romance movie based on Boris Pasternak's novel with the same name. The movie has a back-drop of pre-WWI (World War I). The plot revolves around the life & experiences of a married Russian physician & poet who falls in love with a political activist's wife & the hardships that he goes through during WWI & the October Revolution.