Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress, film director and producer. Dern has acted in such films as Smooth Talk (1985), Blue Velvet (1986), Fat Man and Little Boy (1988), Wild at Heart (1990), Jurassic Park (1993) and October Sky (1999). She has won awards for her performance in the 1991 film Rambling Rose, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Actress in a Leading Role". She was awarded a Golden Globe Award for "Best Supporting Actress — Series, Miniseries or Television Film" for her portrayal of Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris in the film Recount (2008). As of February 2012, Dern was starring in HBO’s Enlightened, for which she has won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress — Television Series Musical or Comedy".
Dern was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, and the great-granddaughter of former Utah governor and Secretary of War George Dern. Scottish-American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish was her great-uncle. Laura Dern's film debut was a cameo in her mother's film White Lightning (1973). She also made a brief appearance in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), one of Ladd's signature roles. Her mother objected to her 13-year-old daughter's presence on the set of Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, but Dern sued for emancipation.
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Mark Wong and Chris Slaughter's remake of the classic 'Top Gun' features most of your favorite characters and plot points from the 1986 version, plus just the right amount of comedy that the original lacked. 'Top Gun in 60 Seconds' was even filmed with a real fighter jet. Edgar Wright and the others from the Empire Movie Awards' judges panel loved it because 'Top Gun in 60 Seconds' took home the top prize for the Empire Movie Awards' Done in 60 Seconds competition in March 2010.
Keywords: aerial-combat, aviation, bar, beach-volleyball, bromance, competition, f-14, f-14-tomcat, f-15-strike-eagle, fighter-jet
Viper: Gentlemen, you have the largest egos in the United States Navy.::Viper: We'll make them bigger.
Maverick: So, I'm a hot-shot pilot.::Charlie: Can't sing though.
Charlie: I know everything about jets.::Iceman: [coughs] Bull shit!::Charlie: He's right, I'm just the love interest.
Maverick: I feel the need...::Maverick, Goose: ...the need for speed!
Iceman: You two really are cowboys.::Maverick: What's your problem, Kazanski?::Iceman: You're dangerous... and short.
Goose: Where you going, Scientology class?::Maverick: I'm sorry::Goose: She's a lesbian, man!
Viper: Goose is gone; you've got to let him go.::Maverick: [thump, as Goose's body hits the floor... ]
Viper: Gentlemen, we have a convenient crisis to end the movie!::Viper: Let's go!
Iceman: You can be my wingman anytime!
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BRITTOWN - a motorcycle documentary featuring Meatball from the Hell On Wheels bike shop in Anaheim, California. As a master mechanic, vintage Brit bike connoisseur and dirt-track racer, Meatball splits his time between family, his shop and his rock band Smiling Face Down. Brittown joins Meatball for several months as he heads to races, plays gigs and uses all his skill to turn an old 650 Triumph Bonneville motor into a 130 mph road-ready screamer.
Keywords: bonneville, flat-track, motocross, motorcycle, norton, on-any-sunday, one-word-title, triumph
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Greg Winters is a slacker city trucker whose whole life changes when he accidentally hits a jogger with his cargo truck in the middle of a deserted rural road. Fearful of the repercussions on his already messed up life, Greg flees the scene and manages to hide his clunky damaged truck on the nearby overgrown farm of Martha Thompson, an aging grouchy widow who lives by the scriptures, ideas of traditional family and her trusty shotgun. Greg puts up with Martha's harsh criticism in exchange for a place to lay-low until he can evade the police and repair his delicate relationship with his young daughter, Chelsea. Just when it seems Martha's influence may be having a favorable effect on Greg's attitude, his old ways win out. With fate closing in and time running out, the pressure mounts on Greg to change, the only question is will it be too late?
A reckless trucker. An eccentric widow. A hit & run. And a sheriff on one last case.
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US Army Investigator John Murphy (now a Lieutenant, although he was a Major in the previous Base movie) has been sent to look into a series of suspicious deaths that have been going on under the watch of Colonel Strauss. After going undercover and infiltrating Strauss's unit, Murphy discovers that Strauss and his men are leading a vigilante gang to dispense 'justice' to those they feel have been wrongly acquitted of various crimes.
Keywords: action-hero, ak-47, beretta, blindfold, blood, blood-splatter, blown-to-pieces, brawl, brutality, colonel
The Army has one simple rule... kill or be killed.
No rules. No system. No mercy.
Not a thing in the world . . . except each other!
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Dogfather reads about a goose that laid a golden egg, and kidnaps him to make him lay another one. Trouble is, he didn't actually lay the egg (it was an another goose that decided to keep his mouth shut since he knew the fate of the goose in the story "The Goose that Laid a Golden Egg")
Keywords: the-dogfather
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A collection of brief vignettes. Within the Book of Fairy Tales, we find much-loved stories like these: Sleeping Beauty (chewed out by Prince Charming for sleeping in), Tom Thumb, the Grasshopper and the Ant (the grasshopper can afford to be lazy because he has war bonds), the Boy Who Cried Wolf, Jack and the Beanstalk, the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing ("the fifth columnist of his day"), Aladdin and His Lamp, the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs (only they're aluminum for the war effort), Old Mother Hubbard (but her cupboard isn't bare; she's a "food hoarder"!), and This Little Piggy. The Boy Who Cried Wolf gets his comeuppance.
Keywords: 1001-nights, ant, arabian-nights, axe, beanstalk, disguise, egg, fairy-tale, grasshopper, hoarding