Archive for August, 2008
Bounty, The
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| Taglines: | 1: After 200 years, the truth behind the legend. 2: They were friends through hell. They became enemies in Paradise. |
| Plot Summary: | The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat. |
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Impulse
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| Plot Summary: | Acting on impulse, CLAIRE DENNISON, enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath. |
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Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot
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| Taglines: | 1: He may be a total disaster… but at least he’s entertaining. |
| Plot Summary: | A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette’s syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together. |
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Buried Alive
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| Plot Summary: | A college prank at an abandoned house accidentally awakens a frightening spirit. |
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12 Angry Men
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| Taglines: | 1: …it explodes like twelve sticks of dynamite! 2: Life Is In Their Hands — Death Is On Their Minds! 3: they have twelve scraps of paper… twelve chances to kill! |
| Plot Summary: | Heralded as one of the all-time great theatrical releases, “12 Angry Men” focuses on a jury’s deliberations in a capital murder case. A 12-man jury is sent to begin deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of an 18-year-old Latino accused in the stabbing death of his father, where a guilty verdict means an automatic death sentence. The case appears to be open-and-shut: The defendant has a weak alibi; a knife he claimed to have lost is found at the murder scene; and several witnesses either heard screaming, saw the killing or the boy fleeing the scene. Eleven of the jurors immediately vote guilty; only Juror No. 8 (Mr. Davis, played by Henry Fonda) casts a not guilty vote. At first Mr. Davis’ bases his vote moreso for the sake of discussion after all, the jurors must believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty. As the deliberations unfold, the story quickly becomes a study of the jurors’ complex personalities (which range from wise, bright and empathetic to arrogant, prejudiced and merciless), preconceptions, backgrounds and interactions. That provides the backdrop to Mr. Davis’ attempts in convincing the other jurors that a “not guilty” verdict might be appropriate. |
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Black Irish
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| Taglines: | 1: You can’t choose family. |
| Plot Summary: | This tale chronicles the trials and tribulations of Cole McKay, 15, an obedient son who yearns for the attentions of his emotionally remote father. Cole is by turns nurtured and abandoned by the rest of his family; his sister Kathleen, older derelict brother Jack, and rigid mother Margaret. As the tale unfolds each family member undergoes a crisis of their own, their individual arcs interweaving until a heart-wrenching climax. |
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Zombies, The
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| Plot Summary: | A parody on the 50’s style sitcom, the story of a Zombie couple and what happens when they become aware that they are being watched by a viewing audience. |
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Tingler, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Amazing NEW TERROR Device Makes You A Living Participant in the FLESH-CRAWLING ACTION! PERCEPTO! 2: Fright-Filled SHOCK Thriller! 3: Ghastly Beyond Belief! 4: In Screamarama 5: When the screen screams you’ll scream too…if you value your life! |
| Plot Summary: | The coroner and scientist Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) is researching the shivering effect of fear with his assistant David Morris (Darryl Hickman). Dr. Warren is introduced to Ollie Higgins (Philip Coolidge), the relative of a criminal sentenced to the electric chair, while making the autopsy of the corpse, and he makes a comment about the tingler-effect to him. Ollie asks for a lift to Dr. Warner, and introduces his deaf-mute wife Martha Higgins (Judith Evelyn), who manages a theater of their own. Dr. Warner returns home, where he lives with his unfaithful and evil wife Isabel Stevens Chapin (Patricia Cutts) and her sweet sister Lucy Stevens (Pamela Lincoln). Dr. Warner, upset with the situation with his wife, threatens and uses her as a subject of his experiment. When Martha dies of fear, Dr. Warner makes her autopsy and finds a creature that lives inside every human being, feeds with fear and is controlled by the scream. Once Martha was not able to scream, the tingler was not rendered harmless and became enormous. When the living being escapes, Dr. Warner and Ollie chase it in a crowded movie theater. |
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Teeth
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| Plot Summary: | High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group’s most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad’s increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth. |
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Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Aslan Is On The Move 2: Evil Has Reigned For 100 Years… 3: Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny. 4: The beloved masterpiece comes to life December 9 5: The White Witch Cometh 6: There are many stories of Narnia. The first is about to be told. |
| Plot Summary: | Based on the classic novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia. |
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