Pumpkin is a 2002 romantic dark comedy film starring Christina Ricci. It is a story of forbidden love between a developmentally-handicapped young man and a sorority girl. The film was directed by Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder and written by Broder.
Carolyn McDuffy (Christina Ricci), in an effort to help her sorority sisters win a coveted award that has eluded them in the past years, joins them in training some handicapped young adults for Challenged Games (a fictional analogy to the Special Olympics). Carolyn is linked with Pumpkin Romanoff (Hank Harris) and is horrified, mostly because she has never been in such an environment. Pumpkin is kind towards her and soon she finds herself falling in love with him because he is genuine, unlike her sorority sisters, as led by Julie Thurber (Marisa Coughlan), and her boyfriend, Kent Woodlands (Sam Ball).
Carolyn experiences backlash and disdain about the relationship from her friends and family, including Pumpkin's own mother, Judy (Brenda Blethyn), despite the fact that Carolyn's love has inspired Pumpkin to get out of his wheelchair and become the best athlete on the team. Judy later walks into her son's room and discovers that Carolyn and Pumpkin have been sexually involved. Pumpkin's mother accuses her of raping her son and says he has no idea what she has done to him. She calls Carolyn's school and Carolyn is kicked out of school and the sorority. Carolyn then drinks medicine in her cabinet in an attempt to overdose and commit suicide, but suffers no ill effect after finding out that she has merely drank saline solution from a contact lens cleaning bottle and Pepto Bismol.
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Pumpkin and his associates, sugar and cinnamon, think they can just push around poor defenceless Egg. But we'll see what the heroic Flour has to say about that! Throw in the deranged Nutmeg and evil Ginger and you've got a battle royal for the ages. This ain't your mom's pumpkin pie!
This ain't your mom's pumpkin Pie.
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The journey through life can be a tough and tedious one, even for a pumpkin. However, it can also be inspirational. A lowly pumpkin, the subject of this short film, is near the end of its life. It seems that behind the beautiful fall backdrops and scenery, a sinister death is impending. However, something else is in store for the pumpkin, and it is forced to examine the definition of life, concepts of transformation, and the need to trust and believe in something outside its understanding.
Wanting to escape was the easy part.
Two Chances... Two Choices... One Life.
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Irwin suddenly creates chaos in Endsville while trick or treating with Mindy. When he decides to open a certain door to a certain house a host of evil events take place. Irwin and his friends heroically try to battle these forces, thus giving birth to the team Underfist.
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Desperation drags a man to start working for an assassin in this thriller. Rob is an all-American guy, but he loses his naiveté when he journeys to London to find his girlfriend. Just before she dumps him, he learns that she has been earning money in the British city by stripping. With empty pockets and a broken heart, Rob does the only thing he can: become an assistant to a hitman named Frank.
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'Dirty Laundry' -The story of one night in an all night Laundromat where the characters air their 'Dirty Laundry' and become clean of their life problems by nights end. This comedic and touching story opens with the lead character MAC awakening from a nightmare at 2:13 AM. When he cannot return to sleep he walks around the corner to the 'all night' Laundromat to wash his clothes. To his surprise, the overnight attendant is JERRY an old friend from high school. As they discuss old times, TAMIKA an attractive woman comes in with her very massive, strong and heinous looking boyfriend JEROME. Mac realizes he once encountered Tamika through a long ago one-night stand. When the menacing looking boyfriend leaves to participate in some illegalities, Mac begins to make jokes about her to Jerry. Tamika overhears them and is so furious; she promises them insufferable pain when Jerome returns. As the night goes on, Jerry tries to calm the mounting situation as Mac continually pushes Tamika's buttons. While Mac and Jerry are awaiting impending doom, numerous colorful characters find their way into the Laundromat such as "MELVIN" a 45-year-old philosophical pizza deliveryman, and "AGNES" an elderly bag lady who talks more to herself than to other people. But, before this very eventful night comes to an end, everyone who enters this Laundromat will find themselves asking question about life, morality and normality.
It's 2:13 AM - It's the all night laundromat - It's time to come clean!
Jerry: Jerry: Did you ever have a relationship where you didn't screw around?::Mac: Yup. Desiree Weaver, Second grade. We only went together from 9 in the morning to a little bit after lunch. That's when she peed on herself in art class. It was terrible::Jerry: I'm serious.::Mac: Me too.::Jerry: That's a damn shame.::Mac: You right. But I could not be seen with the pee pee girl. Hell no.
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Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.
Keywords: 1970s, 1990s, abdomen-slashed, accidental-killing, accidental-shooting, actor-director, actor-director-writer, actress, adrenaline, african-american
Girls like me don't make invitations like this to just anyone!
You won't know the facts until you've seen the fiction.
From the creators of 'True Romance' & 'Reservoir Dogs'
I don't smile for pictures.
Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.
Esmeralda: What is your name?::Butch: Butch.::Esmeralda: What does it mean?::Butch: I'm American, honey. Our names don't mean shit.
Butch: Will you hand me a towel, miss beautiful tulip?::Fabienne: Ah, I like that. I like tulip. Tulip is much better than mongoloid.
Marsellus: In the fifth, your ass goes down. Say it.::Butch: In the fifth, my ass goes down.
Jules: You, flock of seagulls, you know why we're here? Why don't you tell my man Vincent where you got the shit hid at?::Marvin: It's over th...::Jules: I don't remember askin' you a Goddamn thing! You were saying?::Roger: It's in the cupboard. [Vincent starts looking in the upper cupboard] No, no, the one by your kn-knees.::Jules: We happy? [Vincent continues staring at the briefcase's contents] Vincent! We happy?::Vincent: Yeah, we happy.::Brett: I'm sorry, I didn't get your name. I got yours, Vincent, right? But I didn't get yours...::Jules: My name's Pitt. And your ass ain't talkin' your way out of this shit.::Brett: No, no, I just want you to know... I just want you to know how sorry we are that things got so fucked up with us and Mr. Wallace. We got into this thing with the best intentions and I never...::Jules: [Jules shoots the man on the couch] I'm sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn't mean to do that. Please, continue, you were saying something about best intentions. What's the matter? Oh, you were finished! Well, allow me to retort. What does Marsellus Wallace look like?::Brett: What?::Jules: What country are you from?::Brett: What? What? Wh - ?::Jules: "What" ain't no country I've ever heard of. They speak English in What?::Brett: What?::Jules: English, motherfucker, do you speak it?::Brett: Yes! Yes!::Jules: Then you know what I'm sayin'!::Brett: Yes!::Jules: Describe what Marsellus Wallace looks like!::Brett: What?::Jules: Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!
Pumpkin: The way it is now, you're taking the same risk as when you rob a bank. You take more of a risk, banks are easier. You don't even need a gun in a federal bank. I mean, they're insured, why should they give a fuck? I heard of this one guy, walks into a bank with a portable phone. He gives the phone to the teller, a guy on the other end of the line says, we've got this guy's little girl, if you don't give him all your money, we're gonna kill her.::Yolanda: Did it work?::Pumpkin: Fucking-A right, it worked. That's what I'm saying. Knucklehead walks into a bank with a telephone! Not a pistol, not a shotgun, but a fucking phone. Cleans the place out, doesn't even lift a fucking finger.::Yolanda: Did they hurt the little girl?::Pumpkin: I don't know, there probably never was a little girl in the first place. The point of the story isn't the little girl, the point of the story is, they robbed a bank with a telephone.
Jules: Hey kids! How you boys doin'? [to man laying on the couch] Hey, keep chillin'. You know who we are? We're associates of your business partner Marsellus Wallace. You do remember your business partner don't you? Let me take a wild guess here. You're Brett, right?::Brett: Yeah.::Jules: I thought so. You remember your business partner Marsellus Wallace, don't you, Brett?::Brett: Yeah, yeah, I remember him.::Jules: Good. Looks like me an Vincent caught you boys at breakfast. Sorry about that. Whatcha havin'?::Brett: Hamburgers.::Jules: Hamburgers! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast. What kind of hamburgers?::Brett: Ch-cheeseburgers.::Jules: No, no no, where'd you get 'em? McDonalds? Wendy's? Jack in the Box? Where?::Brett: Big Kahuna Burger.::Jules: Big Kahuna Burger. That's that Hawaiian burger joint. I hear they got some tasty burgers. I ain't never had one myself. How are they?::Brett: They're good.::Jules: Mind if I try one of yours? This is yours here, right? [Picks up burger and takes a bite] Mmm-mmmm. That is a tasty burger. Vincent, ever have a Big Kahuna Burger? [Vincent shakes his head] Wanna bite? They're real tasty.::Vincent: Ain't hungry.::Jules: Well, if you like burgers give 'em a try sometime. I can't usually get 'em myself because my girlfriend's a vegitarian which pretty much makes me a vegitarian. But I do love the taste of a good burger. Mm-mm-mm. You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?::Brett: No.::Jules: Tell 'em, Vincent.::Vincent: A Royale with cheese.::Jules: A Royale with cheese! You know why they call it that?::Brett: Because of the metric system?::Jules: Check out the big brain on Brett! You're a smart motherfucker. That's right. The metric system. What's in this?::Brett: Sprite.::Jules: Sprite, good. You mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash this down?::Brett: Go right ahead.::Jules: Ah, hit the spot.
Mia: I do believe Marsellus Wallace, my husband, your boss, told you to take ME out and do WHATEVER I WANTED. Now I wanna dance, I wanna win. I want that trophy, so dance good.
The Wolf: That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten.
Jules: Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass.
[Jules, Vincent and Jimmie are drinking coffee in Jimmie's kitchen]::Jules: Mmmm! Goddamn, Jimmie! This is some serious gourmet shit! Usually, me and Vince would be happy with some freeze-dried Taster's Choice right, but he springs this serious GOURMET shit on us! What flavor is this?::Jimmie: Knock it off, Julie.::Jules: [pause] What?::Jimmie: I don't need you to tell me how fucking good my coffee is, okay? I'm the one who buys it. I know how good it is. When Bonnie goes shopping she buys SHIT. I buy the gourmet expensive stuff because when I drink it I want to taste it. But you know what's on my mind right now? It AIN'T the coffee in my kitchen, it's the dead nigger in my garage.::Jules: Oh, Jimmie, don't even worry about that...::Jimmie: [interupting] No, No, No, No, let me ask you a question. When you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said "Dead Nigger Storage"?::Jules: Jimmie, you know I ain't seen no...::Jimmie: [cutting him off again; getting angry] Did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said "Dead Nigger Storage"?::Jules: [pause] No. I didn't.::Jimmie: You know WHY you didn't see that sign?::Jules: Why?::Jimmie: 'Cause it ain't there, 'cause storing dead niggers ain't my fucking business, that's why!
Pumpkin
You?re hollow within
More how I?m to slowly
Let their harm
Give us some
It?s sad until
Like flowers untamed
Shine out ends
I find what will make him love me
Life is our find
Hollow is he
I can?t breathe and I can?t see
MTV moves too fast, I refuse to understand
You go your way and I?ll see mine
Feels like wasted time
And it feels like I must be blind
How?d you like yourself?
You don?t know yourself
To a hollow kind, don?t mind
Love is some of you
Don?t dabble in fall of failure
How, how bad, ooh, ooh
I smell of she and I fail to be
Well anyway, well anyway, well anyway
See how high
Go on
I can?t see, and I can?t breathe
I can?t see, and I can?t breathe
I can?t see, and I can?t breathe
I can?t see, and I can?t breathe