Chicago (i/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion also extends into DuPage County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world on the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city retains its status as an international hub for finance, industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, with O'Hare International Airport being the second busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008[update], the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world, ranking just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.
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Project London is an independent, almost no-budget, feature-length, live action movie with vivid, intense, and marrow-vibrating visual effects and animations created with the open source software Blender (and other traditional software) and 250 (or so) worldwide volunteers. It's the first independent movie from writer director, Ian Hubert and features a story set in Seattle, Washington. This special effects-rich science fiction actioner is about a grief stricken young man who joins a ragtag resistance force and engages in epic battles against Joint Command to avenge his father and save the planet.
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Julie and Jason have been best friends for years with no romantic interest in each other. He sleeps with someone new every few days, and she's looking for Mr. Right. Now in their thirties, they notice that their friends seem to lose all their good qualities when they have children - child rearing and the spark of Eros don't seem to co-exist. So, they decide to have a child together, share in child rearing, but pursue their own romantic lives. Things go well until he meets Mary Jane and she meets Kurt. Both seem like perfect mates. What could go wrong?
Keywords: atheist, baby, baby-boy, baby-monitor, bar, bedroom, best-friend, biological-clock, biracial, biracial-child
Love. Happiness. Kids. Pick two.
Family doesn't always go according to plan.
Ben: So, why didn't you guys ever even try to get together?::Jason Fryman: It's too much familiarity. It's like she's one of my limbs.::Ben: And that's bad, because...?::Jason Fryman: Because I hate myself.
Jason Fryman: You think that we don't love each other? You know, I have loved this girl for nineteen years, Ben. That is fully half my life. I know everything there is to know about her. I know the mood she's in when she wakes up in the morning - always happy, ready for the day. Can you imagine? I know that she is honest; she won't even take the little shampoo bottles from the hotel room, or sneak into the movie theater for a double feature. She always buys a second ticket. Always. I know that we have the same values, we have the same taste, we have the same sense of humor. I know that we both think that organized religion is completely full of shit. I know that if she is ever paralyzed from the neck down, she would like me to unplug her - and I will. I know her position on just about everything, and I am on board. I am on board with everything about her, so you tell me, Ben. What better woman could I have picked to be the mother of my child?
Jason Fryman: Slow painful death by disease... or watching the love of your life die a slow painful death by disease?::Julie Keller: A. Definitely A. Much worse to be without the person you love than to have a slow painful death. [... ] You?::Jason Fryman: Oh, B.::Julie Keller: Really? You would rather watch the love of your life die slowly and painfully?::Jason Fryman: Well, it wouldn't be awesome, but better them than me. Got a lot of good years left.
Jason Fryman: Please, please, just let me fuck the shit out of you right now. And if you're not convinced afterwards that I am into you in every possible way a person can be into another person, then I promise I will never try to kiss you, or fuck you, or impregnate you ever again, as long as I live.
Be the first to strike
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Vance Gordon is a director making a mafia movie, despite setbacks like quitting actors, a cinematographer who has not read the script and a crew member thinking he would be better in the director's chair. Oh, did we mention that the craft services dude, Chicago, ends up playing the lead? But his role is perhaps short-lived unless he can save the film crew, who has been taken hostage by Hollywood superstar Richard Lynch. Can Chicago save the day? Perhaps, if he does what any good actor does. He must improvise.
Keywords: cinema-verite, cult-film, gun-fire, independent-film, mockumentary
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Don Wilson returns to the screen as a man unjustly accused of a brutal crime. Within the prison he must fight for survival, freedom and justice.
Keywords: action-hero, b-movie, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, beating, beefcake-martial-arts, black-belt, blood, blood-spatter, chase
[explaining why he was sent to prison]::Jimmy Boland: They didn't like the color of my skin.
Wheelhead: I got leadership qualities and I look like a towel head.
Samuel Stark: I never met a nigger, Clint - I don't know what a nigger looks like
Samuel Stark: Let the Brother Supreme show us all how it's done.
Samuel Stark: You're so involved with your own hate, you'd rather die than see it go.
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Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa (Louis Jourdan), consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi (Stéphane Audran and David Warner). This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything he's worked for, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife (Cybill Shepherd).
Keywords: american-abroad, animal-in-title, based-on-novel, caper, film-set, finance, fraud, hotel, independent-film, scapegoat
They were after silver and they struck gold.
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A cynical look at the life of a not so nice country-western singer, Maury Dann - played by Rip Torn in one of his most memorable performances. He ruthlessly manipulates every one around him to suit his selfish needs...he even gets his limo driver to take the blame for the death of a fan which he stabbed.
Keywords: american-dream, country-music, deep-south, deliberate, drug-addiction, friendship, grand-ole-opry, groupie, independent-film, infidelity
If you can't smoke it, drink it, spend it or love it... forget it.
For Maury Dann Super-Star, every day is "PAYDAY."
36 hours in the life of a madman.
[To Rosamond.]::Mayleen: If I was a man, I'd ball you, too. God knows you're easy enough.
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In this Warner Bros. short, a Marine in a South Sea island during World War II, Joe Fingers, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities. In the words of one of his buddies, he's either the biggest liar in the world or the most important man in show business. He claims to be a piano player and his stories are brought to life in the minds of the boys, especially those that involve a pretty girl. When a piano arrives on the island in a shipment, he refuses to play, convincing the doubters that he's been telling them lies all along. They change their tune however when a Hollywood movie star stops on the island.
Keywords: braggart, chaplain, chicago-illinois, cigarette-smoking, florida, gung-ho, island, military, musician, pianist
'Handsome': [Referring to a famous singer Joe has told him he knows] So what did she do?::Joe Fingers: She burned. She gave me a look that curled my hair, and she walked out,