A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children’s book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book’s secrets and his place in the story.
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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don’t. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman’s youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the [...]
Tags: airplane, airport, betrayal, blackmail, blood-splatter, boat, boston-massachusetts, car-accident, criminal, criminal-gang, death, double-cross, explosion, gangster, gold, gold-bar, gunfire, gunshot-wound, heist, independent-film, jewel-thief, jewelry, loss-of-father, nephew, one-last-job, police, robbery, security-camera, shootout, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-face, shot-in-the-foot, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, stun-gun, surveillance, tarmac, twist-in-the-end, waitress, wife's-sexual-pretence
As a hurricane approaches the small town of Port Emmett, a varied group of residents are visited by a horror that could not be denied. Fifty years ago a bridge collapsed plunging a circus train into the dark water below. The clown car was never recovered. In ’sins of the father’ tradition, zombie clowns emerge [...]
Tags: evil-clown, gore, zombie, zombie-clown
Every family has its secrets and tries to hold them hidden within domestic walls. However, those of the family of Marcus Aylesbury are in order to become public because of the family’s long date friend Trent, a journalist faithful to his ideals who, put under pressure by his editor, is looking for a “sexy-scoop”…
Tags: female-nudity, man-boy-relationship, stripper
Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage ‘66 Bonneville convertible.
Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. [...]
Tags: accident, alcoholic, arbitrage, bar, based-on-novel, black-comedy, blackmail, bond-salesman, box-office-flop, bronx-new-york, bugged-apartment, bugging, business, chrysler-building-new-york, class-differences, coma, confession, courtroom, cross-cultural-relations, cynical, dachshund, daughter, death, district-attorney, dog, elevator, english, ex-girlfriend, father-son-relationship, fifth-avenue, foreplay, funeral, greed, hit-and-run, homosexuality, humor, infidelity, intoxication, irish, italian, jew, journalist, judge, jury, landing-airplane, lawyer, lies, long-take, lover, lust, manslaughter, mayor, media-coverage, media-exploitation, media-manipulation, mistress, new-york-city, newspaper, office, opera, overhearing, painter, perjury, photocopier, photographer, politics, problem, racial-issues, rain, remand-prison, restaurant, revenge, satire, satirical, seduction, sexuality, society, spill-the-beans, split-screen, stockbroker, subway, tabloid, telephone-box, training-exercise, umbrella, undressing-scene, vanity, walk-the-dog, wall-street, wetting-pants, witness, wrong-number, wrong-turn, yuppie
A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who’s harsh with his son. At his father’s insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he’ll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage [...]
Tags: arrest, audio-surveillance, bar-fight, bar-scene, billiards, blackjack-game, break-up, bridge-financing, broken-leg, business-ethics, business-suit, card-playing, career, casino, childhood-memory, co-worker, criminal-investigation, croupier, desperation, diner-scene, drug-abuse, employer-employee-relationship, father-son-relationship, fbi, fbi-agent, ferrari, financial-problem, financial-ruin, fistfight, gay-slur, greased-back-hair, hotel, illegal-gambling, interrogation, investment, job-interview, judge, kitchen-scene, liar, lies, long-island-new-york, male-bonding, marriage, mentor, millionaire, misogynist, moral-transformation, mother-son-relationship, motivational-speaker, necktie, new-york-city, new-york-skyline, newspaper, nonlinear-timeline, office, photograph, pillow-talk, profit, racial-slur, racism, recital, redemption, redhead, rivalry, salesmanship, savings, scam, secretary, shaved-head, stock, stock-broker, stock-market, stock-salesmen, subway, swearing, telephone-sales, tragedy, train, violence, voice-over, wall-street, watching-tv, wealth, white-collar-crime
In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disapeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps.
Tags: cult-favorite, ice, outer-space, pirate, psychotronic, spoof
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural tallent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.
Tags: blockbuster, castration, costume, desert, dressed-in-chicken-costume, escape, falsely-accused, falsely-convicted, injustice, mistake-of-law, obesity, prison, rodeo
The Planet Express crew must work to fix rips between their universe and another inhabited by a planet-sized, tentacle alien which soon takes over the Earth and uses it’s ability to control Fry to command an entire religion which takes over and convinces the inhabitants of Earth to abandon the Earth to live in a [...]
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