Envy is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Barry Levinson. It stars Ben Stiller and Jack Black.
Tim Dingman (Ben Stiller) and Nick Vanderpark (Jack Black) are best friends, neighbors and co-workers at 3M. Nick is constantly coming up with crazy ideas to get rich quick, and when he invents Vapoorize, a spray that instantly removes dog feces, he actually succeeds. As Nick's wealth continues to grow, so does Tim's envy, as he had initially scoffed at the idea and squandered an opportunity to invest and become mega-rich himself. Nick is blissfully unaware of Tim's jealousy, and his generosity only serves to make Tim more envious of him. Meanwhile Nick's wife Natalie (Amy Poehler) decides to run for state senate but is continually plagued by questions about her husband's product.
After Tim's wife Debbie (Rachel Weisz) and children temporarily leave and he is fired from 3M, Tim's jealousy reaches new levels. In a bar he meets J-Man (Christopher Walken), a bizarre drifter, who lends a sympathetic ear and offers advice. After a drunken night out, Tim believes that he accidentally kills Nick's beloved horse, Corkey, and buries the horse in his abandoned swimming pool.
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In 1869, a small group of men battle a demonic evil unleashed in Hatchet County, Virginia. Believing themselves victorious, the posse disbands; two members stay to watch over the area and all is quiet for the next four years. In 1873, Hell breaks loose in Hatchet County! This time all of its citizens, along with their two protectors, are forced to fight against 7 powerful demons, each representing the one of the 7 deadly sins.
Keywords: demon, reconstruction
When college student, Kelly, tries to summon the virtues to help her friends, she gets more than she bargained for.
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When a turn of the century prison reformatory is slated for demolition, a grisly discovery is made. Hidden deep underground beneath the west cell block is a sub-basement structure that has not been entered in 100 years. Inside are the skeletal remains of several brutally slain children. As a CSI team arrives at the prison, an even more disturbing discovery is made that will eventually unveil a legion of seven demons and their even more chilling origins: each demon is responsible for one of the seven deadly sins. Seven deadly sins...Seven deadly demons...Seven more deadly ways to die...
Keywords: angel, guardian, prison, supernatural
Not All Angels Are Guardians
"Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the end of sex and violence on television!"
Sgt. Floyd Pepper: Can you believe this cat?::Sam The Eagle: I am not a cat, I am a bird.::Sgt. Floyd Pepper: You may be a bird, but you ain't the bird.
Sam The Eagle: Do we want an eighth deadly sin for the pageant?::Nigel: Which one?::Sam The Eagle: [Into phone] Who's your eight? [To Nigel] Wearing funny pants to a funeral.
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Stanley is a short order cook, infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works at Wimpy Bar with him. Despondent, he prepares to end it all when he meets George Spiggott AKA the Devil. Selling his soul for 7 wishes, Stanley tries to make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist. As each fails, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and how much more he has to live for. He also meets the seven deadly sins who try and advise him.
Keywords: accent, actor-playing-multiple-roles, actress-playing-multiple-roles, alias, alternative-reality, amusement-park, animated-sequence, anniversary, attempted-suicide, baboon
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in their first starring comedy! [UK}
Wait till you see Dudley Moore as 'The Nun' [USA]
Stanley Moon: You painted a beautiful dream and shoved me into a nightmare.
George Spiggott: What terrible sins I have working for me. I suppose it's the wages.
George Spiggott: You fill me with inertia.
Stanley Moon: [reading Faustian contract] "I, Stanley Moon, hereinafter and in the hereafter to be known as 'The Damned' - " The damned?
Stanley Moon: Well, I suppose Lust and Gluttony really have to be rather near the bathroom.
[reading Stanley's suicide note]::Margaret Spencer: "Dear Miss Spencer, This is just to say cheerio. Yours Sincerely, Stanley Moon. P.S.: I leave you my collection of moths."
Lilian Lust: Can you hear my pores breathe?
Lilian Lust: Hot toast - or buttered buns?
George Spiggott: Don't let me interfere with your doing away with yourself.
George Spiggott: You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.
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Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.
Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, deal-with-the-devil, hell
The story of a scientist who sells his soul to the devil
Doctor Faustus: [speaking about Helen of Troy] Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Illium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
[Mephistopheles has come to Faustus' study]::Doctor Faustus: Where are you damned?::Mephistopheles: In hell.::Doctor Faustus: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?::Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. / Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God / And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, / Am not tormented with ten thousand hells / In being deprived of everlasting bliss?