General manager (sometimes abbreviated GM) is a descriptive term for certain executives in a business operation. It is also a formal title held by some business executives, most commonly in the hospitality industry.
A manager may be responsible for one functional area, but the General Manager is responsible for all areas. Sometimes, most commonly, the term General Manager refers to any executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement. This is often referred to as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. This means that a General Manager usually oversees most or all of the firm's marketing and sales functions as well as the day-to-day operations of the business. Frequently, the General Manager is responsible for effective planning, delegating, coordinating, staffing, organizing, and decision making to attain desirable profit making results for an organization (Sayles 1979).
In many cases, the general manager of a business is given a different formal title or titles. Most corporate managers holding the titles of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or President, for example, are the General Managers of their respective businesses. More rarely, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), or Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) will act as the General Manager of the business. Depending on the company, individuals with the title Managing Director, Regional Vice President, Country Manager, Product Manager, Branch Manager, or Segment Manager may also have general management responsibilities. In large companies many vice presidents will have the title of General Manager when they have the full set of responsibility for the function in that particular area of the business and are often titled Vice President and General Manager.
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Two generations of professional baseball players return for a reunion game at one of their minor league stops en route to the big leagues. Unbeknownst to them, the owner of the club, on his way to a month of rustic living in the high Asian elevations, and desiring a connection to home, arranges an inducement to get the players to reveal novel anecdotes from their past 'on and off the field' baseball lives. The only apparent commonality between the two groups is their success on the ball field, each team providing the locals with the only two minor league championships for the small town nestled in the valley of the Allegheny Mountains.
Baseball, Behind the doors and under the sheets.
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This film takes viewers into the world of subtle racism and prejudice. A middle aged African-American couple goes out to a restaurant to celebrate success and enjoy each others company when they encounter a rude waiter that judges them on the color of their skin as oppose to the content of their character. This power couple is not the type to shiver when facing adversity and discrimination that being so; a lesson in poise and spiritual assertiveness can be observed through the viewing of this film.
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Mr. Stowlicker's life of pragmatic predictability begins to unravel with the unexplained arrival of simple plastic balls - an echo from his past - short circuiting his meticulously planned daily routine and forcing him to confront the event that caused his life to become stuck in a holding pattern.
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Isabelle, a beautiful nursing student, is starting her internship at a prestigious hospital. She meets Dr. Philip there, feels attracted to him from the beginning and starts suffering from strange fainting; so he calls her Bambi: her legs don't support her. Patients mysteriously start to disappear from their rooms; so Bambi and Dr. Philip start a cat vs. mouse paranoid game, in order to catch the probable killer.
Keywords: female-nudity, forest, hospital, nudity, nurse, question-in-title, question-mark-in-title, syringe
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Russ Duritz is a wealthy L.A. image consultant, but as he nears 40, he's cynical, dogless, chickless, estranged from his father, and he has no memories of his childhood. One night he surprises an intruder, who turns out to be a kid, almost 8 years old. There's something oddly familiar about the chubby lad, whose name is Rusty. The boy's identity sparks a journey into Russ's past that the two of them take - to find the key moment that has defined who Russ is. Two long-suffering women look on with disbelief: Russ's secretary, Janet, and his assistant, the lovely Amy, to whom Rusty takes a shine. What, and who, is at the end of this journey?
Keywords: 1960s, 2000s, airport, alternative-history, anchorwoman, bachelor, biplane, birthmark, boxing, boxing-gloves
Nobody ever grows up quite like they imagined.
Rusty Duritz: Isn't it cool we both have to go to the bathroom at the same time?::Russ Duritz: Yes. I'll cherish this moment for a lifetime.
Rusty Duritz: How old are you?::Russ Duritz: Forty. In a couple days.::Rusty Duritz: That is old! I'm turning eight. In a couple days.::Russ Duritz: Eight. You're eight. I'm eight.::Rusty Duritz: This is scary.::Russ Duritz: No. This is hilarious.
Rusty Duritz: So, I'm forty, I'm not married, I don't fly jets, and I don't have a dog? I grow up to be a loser.
[Seeing that Russ and Rusty are the same person]::Amy: I wish I was standing on a carpet.::[faints]
Russ Duritz: There's safety in sandwiches.
Russ Duritz: Look at him. It's so embarrassing.::Amy: You're not embarrassing. You're adorable... then. You're adorable then.
Rusty Duritz: When do I learn how to drive?::Russ Duritz: When you're sixteen.::Rusty Duritz: When do I get a car?::Russ Duritz: When you're eighteen.::Rusty Duritz: When do I get a hickey?::Russ Duritz: [smile] When you're seventeen.::Rusty Duritz: When do I find out what a hickey is?::Russ Duritz: Not tonight.
Rusty Duritz: Holy smokes... 99 channels and there's nothing on!
Russ Duritz: Toshiya, let me ask you something. If you get called a jerk four times in a single day, does that make it true?::Amy: What, only four? Did you get up late?::Russ Duritz: Excuse me, I'm asking Toshiya.::Toshia: Four times is a pattern. It have to be five times to be a fact.::Russ Duritz: Thank you. See? There's hope after all.::Amy: Jerk.
Russ Duritz: Stop biting your nails.::Amy: *Nail.* I only bite one. What's it to you, anyway?::Russ Duritz: It matters because you work for me. When you bite your nails, you're advertising nervousness and insecurity.::Amy: Really? Advertising all that with one little nail?::[pushes up her nose at him]::Amy: What's this advertise?
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Keiko Nadachi is a substitute weather-girl for Michiko Kawai on J-TV. As a way of signing off, she hikes up her skirt and flashes her underwear at the audience. This move makes her an instant cult TV figure and a celebrity. Then Kaori comes back to work and an all-out war erupts between the two of them, with an old high school flame of Keiko's trapped in the middle.
Keywords: attraction, bare-breasts, based-on-comic, bathroom, beating, bubble-bath, caress, clumsiness, cruelty, desire
A Cool, Nonsense, Weird, Fantastic Film Made In Japan!
The Forecast is Really Heating Up!
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Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Keywords: accountant, afterlife, american-football, angel, athlete, back-from-the-dead, based-on-play, bicycle-accident, birthday, birthday-cake
Mr. Jordan: He's been drugged by those two downstairs. This is a murder. See how he's slowly sliding into the water?
Former owner: He got my team. The son of a bitch got my team.::Advisor to former owner: What kind of pressure did he use, Milt?::Former owner: All I asked was sixty-seven million, and he said "okay."::Advisor to former owner: Ruthless bastard.
[Tony Abbott, after ushering the shreiking Mrs. Julia Farnsworth out of her husband's office, millionaire Mr. Farnsworth who is meeting with Miss Betty Logan, returns to the office and, from the doorway, says]::Tony Abbott: Sorry to disturb you, Mr. Farnsworth. Mrs. Farnsworth saw a mouse.::Betty Logan: She just saw a mouse?::Tony Abbott: No. Before. Outside. But she relives it.
Max Corkle: You be the trainer and I'll start on Sunday.::Joe Pendleton: I'm starting against Dallas? What about Jarrett?::Max Corkle: They don't want to go with Jarrett. They want to go with you. Happy Birthday, Joe!
Joe Pendleton: She loves me, Mr. Jordan!::Mr. Jordan: Joe, you must abide by what is written.
Joe Pendleton: Do I... play Polo?::Sisk: Not really, sir.
Mr. Jordan: The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity with which others are trying to prove him wrong.
Julia Farnsworth: You locked me in a closet!
Bentley: [On the landing of the elegant stairway, near the closet where Mr. Farnsworth/Joe Pendleton meets with Mr. Jordan, invisible to everyone but himself] I noticed there are two cups.::Everett: Well, Sisk felt that since Mr. Farnsworth was pretending to talk to someone, he might want to pretend to give him cocoa, too.
Max Corkle: [whilst training Pendleton in the spacious mansion grounds] This isn't going to work. You're playing football with a bunch of butlers!