Rise of the Guardians (2012)
Actors
Plot
When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs, and imaginations of children all over the world.
Keywords: boogeyman, bunny, easter-bunny, jack-frost, saint-petersburg, sandman, santa-claus, scene-during-end-credits, tooth-fairy
Genres
Taglines:
Naughty, nice. You better believe.
Legends unite.
Santa Claus Is More Than A Legend
The Sandman Is More Than A Dream
When darkness falls, the Guardians will rise.
The Easter Bunny is more than a fable.
Jack Frost is more than a myth.
The Tooth Fairy is more than a fairy tale.
Quotes:
[from trailer]::North: We go by many names, and take many forms. We bring wonder and hope, we bring joy and dreams. We are the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy, we are the Easter Bunny, and Santa. And our powers are greater than you ever imagine...
[from trailer]::North: It is our job to protect the children of the world. For as long as they believe in us, we will guard them with our lives...
[from trailer]::Pitch: That dream is over! It is time for fear to rule the world!
[from trailer]::North: We have never faced a greater threat. And so, we will fight.
[from trailer]::Tooth: Wings up, ladies, and take no prisoners!
[from trailer]::Bunnymund: You don't want to race a rabbit, mate...
[from trailer]::North: Everyone, to the sleigh! Buckle up!::Bunnymund: Where are the bloody seat belts?::North: [laughs] That was just expression!
[from trailer]::Pitch: My army is ready...
[from trailer]::North: Everyone loves the sleigh...
[from trailer]::Jack Frost: So, the Big Four all together: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman and the Easter Kangaroo.::Bunnymund: Say WHAT? I'm a bunny!
Triptych-à-Tête (2009)
Actors
Plot
A three-part short film about writing and literature. Together, the individual pieces make up a story greater than the sum of its parts. The first part, 'The Gamble' tells the story of a writer plagued with writer's block. When confronted by the mysterious Mr. Block himself with an offer to win the rest of his book in a game of 'simple blackjack,' the writer must choose carefully - for the more he loses, the more he begins to unwrite his story. The second part, 'The Executioner,' introduces Chairman Wales - a colorful CEO who has seen to it that art (unless it has been made solely for entertainment) has been made illegal. Muses are now criminals and forced to stand trial at the foot of Wales's lovely pet - a 19th century French guillotine. They only lack one piece of evidence to proceed - a witness testimony. The final part, 'The Celebration,' tells the story of two kingly brothers who jointly rule over their lands as ghostwriters, dictating the voice of their people. When a woman is discovered who has written her own book, the brothers engage in a rivalry to make her their queen.
Keywords: independent-film, wraparound-story
Genres
Taglines:
A story greater than the sum of its parts.
The Ticking Man (2003)
Actors
Plot
In the remote west coast of Scotland, a drug dealer double-crosses and kills a drug trafficker who imports drugs for him. The dealer is arrested and learns that the murder was witnessed by a couple of anonymous locals. Facing life imprisonment, the dealer decides to hire a hitman to eliminate all the potential witnesses. Outside a rural police station, the hired hitman starts a stopwatch, runs across a road, jumps into his car, and takes off with a screech. He drives full speed through the barren country until he reaches the remote, one street hamlet of Bartoun. He checks his stopwatch. It reads 28 minutes, 36 seconds. He sees a poster advertising a fair in the next village. The residents of Bartoun are advised to meet on main street at noon to get a ride. As the people begin to congregate the next day, the hitman walks toward them and begins shooting. He knows that he has 28 minutes and 36 seconds before the police arrive. Pandemonium ensues as he methodically hunts down his targets and people frantically try to stay alive.
Genres
Taglines:
One hitman has ten targets to kill in 28 minutes 36 seconds
The Student Prince (1998)
Actors
Plot
The Queen's youngest son is off to university, mainly because "I'm hopeless at anything else". Barry, his new bodyguard, has no time for the royal family and left school at fifteen. He certainly didn't volunteer for this job, and is damned if he's going to enjoy it. Yet he can't help liking the hopelessly unworldly young prince, at least, until they both set their eyes on the new American student!
Keywords: college, coming-of-age, royalty
Genres
Quotes:
Chief Superintendent: Congratulations. You've got yourself a place at Cambridge University.::Barry Grimes: Sir?::Chief Superintendent: A promotion. Royal Protection Squad.::Barry Grimes: You call that a promotion?::Chief Superintendent: His Royal Highness starts at All Saints' College and we thought you'd be the ideal companion.::Barry Grimes: Do I have a choice?::Chief Superintendent: [sneers] What do you think this is - a free country?
Mr. Garter: Mr Grimes, can I have a word? This fax came for you. [gleefully] Looks like you're being demoted. Reserve officer accompanying the young princesses on a tour of New Zealand.::Barry Grimes: I *hate* children.::Mr. Garter: [drily] I expect that's why they chose you.
Princess Daisy (1983)
Actors
Plot
The lovely Daisy is the daughter of a Russian prince and an American movie star. After her parents are killed, she flees from her half-brother Ram. She fights her way to the top of the modeling profession and falls in love with a company president. But then, her half-brother arrives on the scene, ready to blackmail and destroy her.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, aristocrat, based-on-novel, haute-monde, incest, madison-avenue-manhattan-new-york-city, manhattan-new-york-city, melodrama
Genres
The Dogs of War (1980)
Actors
Plot
Jamie Shannon is a soldier of fortune -- a mercenary who will stage a coup or a revolution for the right price. He is hired by British mining interests to scout out Zangaro, a small African nation with rich mineral deposits but a brutal and xenophobic dictatorship. Arrested soon after his arrival, Shannon is imprisoned as a spy, badly beaten, and tortured. While in prison he meets one of the country's leading intellectuals, Dr. Okoye, also imprisoned by the regime. Eventually released, he returns to London and is subsequently offered to opportunity to secretly invade Zangaro's capital and lead a military coup. Shannon accepts, but quietly has his own agenda to pursue.
Keywords: africa, african, airplane, airport, animal-in-title, anti-hero, apartment, arms-dealer, army, army-base
Genres
Taglines:
Cry 'Havoc!' And Let Slip The Dogs Of War
Quotes:
Michel: [raising his glass in a toast] Vive la mort ! Vive la guerre ! Vive le sacré mercenaire !
Shannon: [to the other mercenaries] Remember; you have to make it home to get paid.
Shannon: In my jungle, you'd be just another asshole.
Shannon: Shannon says something doubting the effectiveness of Col Bobi's troops::Col. Bobi: If there is one who does not fight, Ill take his head and mount it on the palace gates::Shannon: You and your brother in law have the same easygoing way of doing buisness::Col. Bobi: Olou Kimba does not do buisness. So Sec Bobi will be president. He wants to be God... I want to be RICH!
Drew: [the mercenaries are caught in the middle of a fire fight] What happened to us just providing tactical and logistical support?
Drew: [Shannon is recruiting men] Count me in; I'll go.::Shannon: Don't you want to know where and what?::Drew: Doesn't matter. My wife's six months pregnant. Wherever we're going, it's gotta be better than sittin' around watchin' her get fat.
Shannon: [about his mercenaries] Everybody comes with me, goes home.
Endean: Shannon, get him out of here! This whole country's bought and paid for!::Shannon: You're gonna have to buy it all over again. [shoots Col. Bobi]
Shannon: [to Endean and Bobi, who have arrived after the fighting is over] You're late!