Archive for August, 2008
No Country for Old Men
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| Taglines: | 1: One discovery can change your life. One mistake can destroy it. 2: There Are No Clean Getaways |
| Plot Summary: | Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande. |
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Pumping Iron
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| Plot Summary: | From Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach California to the showdown in Pretoria, amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests in this part-scripted, part-documentary film. Five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young deaf Lou Ferrigno, whose father is his coach; the ruthless champ psyches out the young lion. Sardinian Franco Columbu competes in the lightweight class; at home in Italy he solves a tight parking problem by lifting the car into place. Joe Weider is the marketer; Mike Katz and Ken Waller go for the title of Mr. Universe. Bodybuilding and a celebrity-to-be go mainstream. |
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Edmond
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| Taglines: | 1: Every fear hides a wish. 2: If anything can go wrong, it will - and at the worst possible time |
| Plot Summary: | A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller’s for a Tarot reading: “You are not where you belong,” she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman’s club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he’s found them. Where does he belong? |
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Bottom Live 3: Hooligan’s Island
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| Plot Summary: | Filmed in Bristol during their ‘97 stage tour, Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall again adopt their characters of Eddie and Richie from the television series “Bottom”, this time being stranded on a desert island with no food, and even worse, no booze or pornography to keep them occupied. Things get even worse during the second act when they discover that a French visitor has left a large nuclear device on the island during the night to conduct weapons testing in the pacific. |
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Paris, Texas
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| Plot Summary: | A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before. As his memory returns, he makes contact with various people from his past. |
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Nightmare on Elm Street, A
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| Taglines: | 1: A scream that wakes you up, might be your own… 2: If Nancy Doesn’t Wake Up Screaming She Won’t Wake Up At All… 3: She is the only one who can stop it… if she fails, no one survives. 4: Sleep Kills 5: Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep…or you’ll meet the terrifying Freddy. |
| Plot Summary: | On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson (Langenkamp) and a group of her friends including Tina Gray (Wyss), Rod Lane (Garcia) and Glen Lantz (Depp) are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger (Englund). Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you? |
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Cabin Boy
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| Taglines: | 1: He’s Sailing High On The High Seas, Without A Rudder, A Compass, Or A Clue |
| Plot Summary: | Snobby school boy goes left, and mistakes the “Filthy Whore” for his millionaire dad’s yacht. He joins four filthy fishermen for hijinx on the high seas. |
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Calendar Girls
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| Taglines: | 1: A Full Monty-female style! 2: Drop everything this holiday season. 3: Some ladies will do anything for a good cause. 4: They dropped everything for a good cause. |
| Plot Summary: | In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke (Julie Walters) has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women’s Institute, where he said that “the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire”, and “the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious”, her best friend Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives. |
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Serial Mom
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| Taglines: | 1: At least she meant well 2: Every Mom Wants to Be Wanted, But Not For Murder One! 3: She’s a fabulous, loving, caring mother, who er… …happens to be a serial killer! |
| Plot Summary: | A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase, and the police get closer to the truth, threatening the family’s picture perfect world. |
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Beer League
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| Taglines: | 1: His team has the biggest balls in the league. 2: No Gut, No Glory 3: Step Up. Shape Up. Sober Up. |
| Plot Summary: | Beer, broads and baseball combine with hilarious results in ARTIE LANGE’S BEER LEAGUE…an over-the-top comedy about a group of misfits whose weekly softball games seem to have a lot more to do with getting into fights for macho dominance than hitting home runs. Artie is an unemployed and unmotivated drunk that is predictably still living with his mother. He is on a losing softball team, and he and his teammates are facing the end of softball as they know it if they can’t pull it together. When love enters his life, it unexpectedly alters Artie’s low self-esteem, and the odds for winning, not only the league trophy, but a new life, are certainly looking up. He and his teammates will have to go for the win, and survive all the comedy and chaos along the way. |
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