Faeries
January 1st, 1999 by admin
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Bowfinger
January 1st, 1999 by admin
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| Taglines: | 1: Devious, ruthless, shameless 2: Loser. Faker. 3: The con is on. 4: They’re going to lie, cheat and steal - but in a nice way. |
| Plot Summary: | Hollywood, today: Bobby Bowfinger, a run-down actor-producer-director, is reading a script which a friend has written. Completely convinced of its quality, he decides to take a last shot at fame and fortune. But the script is not that easy to sell, and a famous producer promises him to do it, but there is one condition: Kit Ramsey, Hollywood’s number one star, has to be in it. So, Bobby tries his luck with Kit - who says no - and then decides to shoot the film himself. Together with the cheapest team available in Southern California, an aspiring beauty from Ohio, a diva who is just a little over the hill, a key-holding gofer from a major studio and a goon hired away from burger-flipping, Bobby sets out to shoot the science-fiction-film starring Kit Ramsey - who does not even know he’s being filmed. |
Tags: accountant, actor, actor-playing-multiple-roles, alien, audition, b-movie, blackmail, brother, cameraman, chianti, deception, dog, film-in-film, film-industry, film-making, film-premiere, filmmaking, hollywood, indecent-exposure, mexican, movie-producer, paranoia, raindrop, script-writer, secret-filming, sex, theft, wine, yugo
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Corruptor, The
January 1st, 1999 by admin
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| Taglines: | 1: Geen recht. Geen regels. Geen gerechtigheid. 2: No law. No rules. No justice. [translation Dutch tagline] 3: You can’t play by the rules when there aren’t any. |
| Plot Summary: | A New York police officer (Wahlberg) goes undercover in a dangerous crime scene to investigate abductions and drug-trafficking operations. He obtains backup with the help of another brave Hong Kong police officer (Yun-Fat) who works for the NYPD. They partner up together to stop the operation before the city goes down. The criminal orginization is called the “Fukanese Dragons” who are likely terrorists and illegal immigrants who are about to tear up Chinatown in New York City. |
Tags: betrayal, boss, brooklyn-bridge, chase, chinatown, chinese-mafia, corrupt-cop, corruption, fbi, funeral, gang, gangster, illegal-immigrant, internal-affairs, mafia, murder, new-york, police, ship, shot-through-the-mouth, statue-of-liberty, suicide, tragedy, triad, undercover
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Big Daddy
January 1st, 1999 by admin
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| Taglines: | 1: Nature called. Look who answered. 2: Once you adopt a kid, you’ve got to keep him. |
| Plot Summary: | Sonny Koufax graduated from law school years ago but chose not to take the bar exam. Instead he works as a toll booth collector, and spends his day loafing around. One day his grilfriend decides that she has had enough, and tells Sonny that things have to change or else it’s over. When Sonny’s roommate Kevin leaves for China, a boy is dropped at their place and is told that he is Kevin’s son but Kevin doesn’t know his mother. Sonny takes care of him, and after spending sometime with him decides to adopt hoping that maybe his girlfriend will be impressed. But when he learns that she has a new boyfriend, Sonny tries to have the boy sent back to his mother but when he learns that she died and that he would be sent to an orphanage, Sonny decides to take care of him. |
Tags: adoption, bed-wetting, blockbuster, child, court-case, delivery-boy, father, funny-accent, gay-couple, gay-interest, gay-kiss, gross-out-comedy, homosexuality, hooters, illiteracy, independent-film, kangaroo, law, law-school, obscene-finger-gesture, roller-blader, slacker, toll-booth, urination-scene, vomit, wetting-pants
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Talented Mr. Ripley, The
January 1st, 1999 by admin
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| Taglines: | 1: Everybody should have one talent… what’s yours? 2: How far would you go to become someone else. 3: It’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. |
| Plot Summary: | The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie’s cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom’s talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf’s privileges his own. |
Tags: 1950s, based-on-novel, bath, bathtub-scene, beach, closeted-homosexual, deception, false-identity, father-son-relationship, forgery, gay-interest, grand-piano, high-life, homoeroticism, homosexual, impostor, italy, jazz, lies, mistaken-identity, murder, neo-noir, nudity, opera, piano, playboy, private-detective, psychopath, rejection, rich-snob, saxophone, self-hatred, suicide, underdog, yacht
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Double Jeopardy
January 1st, 1999 by admin
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| Taglines: | 1: Murder isn’t always a crime. |
| Plot Summary: | Libby Parsons is happily married to Nick and has a wonderful son, Matty. One day while spending the night on their boat, Libby wakes up and finds Nick gone and blood all over the boat and a bloody knife. When an investigation begins, it’s discovered that Nick was financial trouble and had a two million dollar insurance policy. Though claims that she knew nothing about it, she would be convicted and sent to prison. She entrusts Matty to her friend, Angela and it’s during one of her calls to Matty that she learns that Nick is alive. And she also learns that since she’s already been convicted of killing Nick already, she can kill him and not be charged. After seven she’s paroled and placed in the custody of Travis, a parole officer. |
Tags: art, auction, bar, beneficiary, buried-alive, cemetery, coffin, convicted-felon, faking-own-death, falsely-convicted, far-fetched, ferry, french-quarter, fugitive, injustice, internet, new-orleans-louisiana, nightclub, nudity, parole-officer, parolee, police, revenge, southern-u.s., staged-death, twist-in-the-end, women's-correctional-facility, women's-prison
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Straight Shooter
January 1st, 1999 by admin
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| Taglines: | 1: Ein Mann wird zum Störfall |
| Plot Summary: | After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire “Straight Shooter” alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favoured and now work the nuclear power plant Atar II to kill one of them each day until the plant is shut down. His former drill sergeant, Frank Hector, who now owns several night clubs and brothels, is the only one who might be able to stop the maniac killing specialist. Frank is flown in instantly, but soon has to find out that his former comrade’s actions might be a result from an event long ago. |
Tags: american-abroad, amuck, cancer, corrupt-politician, dancing, elevator-scene, exploding-house, female-district-attorney, female-politician, flashback-sequence, french-foreign-legion, gas-mask, hand-grenade, helicopter, hospital, independent-film, killer, loss-of-child, loss-of-wife, morgue, nightclub, nuclear-power-plant, profanity, revenge, shot-in-the-forehead, silencer, slow-motion-scene, sniper, sunglasses, swat-team
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Prophet, The
January 1st, 1999 by admin
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| Plot Summary: | A federal agent who has the ability to see into the future (as a result of a secret experiment that was conducted on him when he was a child) is ordered to find the others who were part of that experiment. But, they keep getting killed just before he can bring them in, and now someone wants him dead too. |
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My Last Love
January 1st, 1999 by admin
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| Plot Summary: | Susan Morton (Nancy Travis) is an attorney and a single mother to her 12-year old daughter, Carson (Jamie Renee Smith). When Susan (Nancy Travis) is diagnosed with cancer, she moves from Chicago to California, where she grew up, and she brings Carson along with her. On the west coast, she meets Michael Blake (Scott Bairstow), who is currently a low-paid waiter, and falls in love with him. Michael make friends with Susans daughter, Carson, but he leaves Susan, when she tells him that she has cancer. Carson convinces him to come back though. Meanwhile, Susan is concidering to have Carson stay with Susans parents, Phil (James Karen) and Marnie (Holland Taylor), when she dies, after Susans ex-husband, Peter, turns down the offer of letting Carson stay with him. Michael then offers to take care of Carson, since they get along so well, making Susans parents upset. Susan dies two weeks later, and Carson decides to stay with Michael instead of her grandparents. |
Tags: cancer, death
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
January 1st, 1999 by admin
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| Taglines: | 1: The battle between the good and the bad is bound to get ugly. |
| Plot Summary: | In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps. Explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but nice) Amber Atkins won’t be stopped. There could well be more death and disappointment to come. |
Tags: amputated-arm, asian-american, beauty-pageant, black-comedy, cadaver, catfight, corruption, deaf, fake-documentary, family, farce, funeral, funny-accent, high-school-wrestling, mental-retardation, mentally-impaired, miss-america-song-spoofed, mock-documentary, pedophile, sign-language, small-town, stereotype, strauss-also-sprach-zarathustra, swan, trailer-trash, undertaker, what-happened-to-epilogue
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Planets, The
January 1st, 1999 by admin
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| Plot Summary: | Interesting narrative, excellent computer generated images (for its time), extensive interviews with numerous scientists (mostly Americans and Russians-thank goodness this documentary isn’t biased towards any country) and a memorable soundtrack combined to make compelling viewing for anyone interested in astronomy. |
Tags: jet-propulsion-laboratory, nasa, non-fiction, planet, science, solar-system, space, space-exploration, space-race
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