Archive for September, 2008
Dog Day Afternoon
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| Taglines: | 1: Anything can happen during the dog days of summer. On August 22nd, 1972, everything did 2: In August, 1972, Sonny Wortzik robbed a bank. 250 cops, the F.B.I., 8 hostages and 2,000 onlookers will never forget what took place. 3: The Most Bizarre Bank Siege Ever 4: The robbery should have taken 10 minutes. 4 hours later, the bank was like a circus sideshow. 8 hours later, it was the hottest thing on live T.V. 12 hours later, it was all history. And it’s all true |
| Plot Summary: | Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a sex change operation. On a hot summer afternoon, the First Savings Bank of Brooklyn is held up by Sonny and Sal, two down-and-out characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with the robbery, Sonny finds that there’s actually nothing much to steal, as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Police Captain Moretti, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city’s entire police force. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, demanding safe escort to the airport and a plane out of the country in return for the bank employees’ safety. |
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National Lampoon’s Animal House
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| Taglines: | 1: “We can do anything we want. We’re college students!” 2: It was the Deltas against the rules… the rules lost! 3: Relive the best 7 years of your college education. 4: We got to do something…You know what we are gonna do ? Toga party ! |
| Plot Summary: | Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. It has a second one full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men who are so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of the second frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus. This film gives high-jinks and fooling around a bad name. P The dean’s plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade to end all parades for all time. |
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Long Riders, The
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| Taglines: | 1: “All the world likes an outlaw. For some damn reason they remember ‘em.” - Jesse James |
| Plot Summary: | The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of of revenge. |
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Shortbus
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| Taglines: | 1: Open Your Mind. And Everything Else. 2: Voyeurism is Participation 3: You’ve got to get on to get off |
| Plot Summary: | Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob and Sophia are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work, because she is a couples counselor who frequently has to deal with the sexual issues other couples have. Two of her patients are Jamie and James, a gay couple who have been monogamous for five years and counting. James wants to bring other men in to the relationship, and his own history with depression may hint at an ulterior motive. Ceth (Pronounced like Seth) may be the perfect addition to their family, but Caleb, a voyeur from across the street, may have his own ideas about that. Sophia visits Severin, a dominatrix with secrets of her own to reveal. |
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Meet the Spartans
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| Plot Summary: | Meet the Spartans is a 2008 film produced and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Similar to past movies, such as Scary Movie, along with its spinoffs Epic Movie and Date Movie, it pokes fun at various movies in a juvenile manner. Although it references many movies, TV shows, people and pop cultural events, it focuses mainly on the film 300. The film is rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor throughout, language and some comic violence. |
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Factotum
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| Taglines: | 1: What matters most is how you well you walk through the fire. |
| Plot Summary: | This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling. |
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Boston Strangler: The Untold Story
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| Plot Summary: | Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders. |
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Shadow Walkers, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Pray They Only Kill You |
| Plot Summary: | Shadow Walkers is a highly suspenseful story of a group of lab technicians and military personnel who awaken in a subterranean laboratory with no memory of who they are. They quickly discover that they are sealed in, with only one way to get out alive. They must travel deeper into the underground facility to an escape tunnel that leads to the surface. Hindered by the fact there is only limited electrical power, they struggle through the darkness where they uncover a hive of genetically mutated creatures that stalk them from the shadows. Bred for combat, these monsters are endowed with razor sharp talons and rows of jagged teeth capable of ripping a man apart. While avoiding danger at every turn, they begin to regain their memories, discovering the origin of the deadly creatures and the part they played in their creation. |
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Felon
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| Plot Summary: | A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system. |
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Waz
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| Taglines: | 1: Love doesn’t hurt. It kills. 2: Would you kill the one you love to save yourself from death? |
| Plot Summary: | A calculating killer coerces a detective to pay for his previous mistakes. |
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