In ordinary usage, price is the quantity of payment or compensation given by one party to another in return for goods or services.
In modern economies, prices are generally expressed in units of some form of currency. (For commodities, they are expressed as currency per unit weight of the commodity, e.g. euros per kilogram.) Although prices could be quoted as quantities of other goods or services this sort of barter exchange is rarely seen. Prices are sometimes quoted in terms of vouchers such as trading stamps and air miles. In some circumstances, cigarettes have been used as currency, for example in prisons, in times of hyperinflation, and in some places during World War 2. In the black economy, barter is also relatively common.
In many financial transactions, it is customary to quote prices in other ways. The most obvious example is in pricing a loan, when the cost will be expressed as the percentage rate of interest. The total amount of interest payable depends upon the loan amount and the period of the loan. Other examples can be found in pricing financial derivatives and other financial assets. For instance the price of inflation-linked government securities in several countries is quoted as the actual price divided by a factor representing inflation since the security was issued.
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Price (Bryce Blais)goes to a Middle East country on a pretext of being a tourist. However his real purpose is to find his best friend/lover Bo (Drew Boylan) who suddenly disappear without a trace. In a country where homosexual acts alone can get you beheaded, can Price find Bo without revealing his true purpose? To what end does Price willing to pay and do in order to find Bo? And then there is Marwan (Khaled Haider) a taxi driver/tourist guide of Price and Combs (Dale Dymkoski) a detective, what secrets do these two men holds in helping Price finds Bo? In the end, can Price handle the truth regarding the true reason of Bo's disappearance?
Keywords: bare-chested-male, desert, gay-kiss, gunshot, hotel-room, men-in-underwear, missing-lover, photography, ruins, tour-guide
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Professor William Conroy, otherwise a model citizen, serves jail time for a car accident which proved fatal for his lover and student. In prison, he hears 'too much' about the murder of fellow inmate Evan, whose assertions he ignored that the deaths in their penitentiary multiplied suspiciously. Dirty jailer, Price, accidentally messes up the warden's instructions to get Conroy murdered by ruthless killer Lawrence during a transport. Conroy has some trouble convincing even his lawyer Eric Hawthorne he's the target of a manhunt. They and investigative reporter David Dart discover the dirty part played by Jim Corcoran's rich and influential 'Justice for victim families' vigilante society.
Keywords: boy, father-son-hug, handcuffs, hugging, jail, one-word-title, prison, punishment, trial
He's closing in on the truth. The killers are closing in on him.
William Conroy: Do you know the reason people drink coffee?::Cab Driver: No why?::William Conroy: People have a thing about stuff they drink.::William Conroy: they believe it gives them some type of control over the illusion of being tired.::Cab Driver: I'm not following you.::William Conroy: Your not following me? let me tell you something buddy this concept that you have where you think I'm a type of leader that can be followed is wrong dead wrong.::Cab Driver: Ok jack you lost me.
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A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that the scientist may have been killed to cover up a secret government plot concerning mind-control drugs that have been tested on unknowing civilians, and he becomes involved with the scientist's daughter, who is trying to clear her father's name.
Keywords: australian-noir, conspiracy, cover-up, death-of-mother, father-daughter-relationship, female-nudity, femme-fatale, government, independent-film, investigation
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A wisecracking newspaper reporter comes up with what he believes to be the ultimate publicity stunt: have the newspaper offer a $5000 prize to whoever can find Jimmy Valentine, a once notorious safecracker who seemed to have just disappeared from the scene, supposedly retired, but the reporter decides to try to collect the prize himself.
Keywords: melodrama, newspaper
getting caught, it's the pits, we learn to get away with
it, and just like that oh no, oh no, oh no caught again
help yourself to servitude, redadjust your attitude and
just like that you're nothing, something, but nothing
that you want to be
that's the price you pay for the truth
that's the price you pay for the truth
that's the price you pay
you burn just a little as you learn a little more
Seroquel for the moods
but there is nothing for being rude
and just like that, it's nothing, something
but nothing that you want to feel
you learn just a little as you burn a little more
We were lovers on the beach
the waves were curlin' round our feet
we were lovers in the back of the car
told each other we would never be apart
These days it's sad but it's true
Every word I say is bouncin' off on you
for you baby I ruin my hands
you've got me cleanin' the pots & the pans
I sold my soul
she's got me in the palm of her hand
I've got a feelin' I've made a mistake
since none of my friends come around no more
I've got a funny feelin' somethin's wrong
no more ringin' the phone no knockin' on my door
Chorus:
O what a price I've got to pay
lovin' you
This ghostlike feelin's gettin' stronger
I just can't hide no longer
I hate to see it fade away
the truth I've got to face someday
Chorus:
O what a price I've got to pay
lovin' you
I've got to pay
lovin' you
She's like a nightclub in the mornin'
she's the bitter end
like a desinfected toilet
only clean around the bend
she's countin' up the bottles
she's checkin' out the gossip
she got nightmares of a rapist
she don't know what love is
Chorus:
O what a price I've got to pay
lovin' you
I've got to pay