Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

Actors: David Ryall (actor), Sammo Hung Kam-Bo (actor), Will Forte (actor), Ewen Bremner (actor), Richard Branson (actor), Roger Hammond (actor), Ken Lo (actor), Ian McNeice (actor), Jim Broadbent (actor), John Cleese (actor), Steve Coogan (actor), Jackie Chan (actor), Jackie Chan (actor), Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor), Rob Schneider (actor),

Plot: Set in 1872, the story focuses on Passepartout, a Chinese thief who steals a valuable jade Buddha and then seeks refuge in the traveling companionship of an eccentric London inventor and adventurer, Phileas Fogg, who has taken on a bet with members of his gentlemen's club that he can make it around the world in a mere 80 days, using a variety of means of transportation, like boats, trains, balloons, elephants, etc. Along the way, Passepartout uses his amazing martial arts abilities to defend Fogg from the many dangers they face.. One major threat to their adventure is a detective that's following them. Why? Just as Fogg and Passeportout left London, a major bank was robbed, with Fogg suspected of using the "around the world" trip as an excuse to escape.. Their path from London and back includes stops in Paris, Turkey, India, China and USA...

Keywords: 1870s, 19th-century, action-hero, around-the-world, around-the-world-in-80-days, asian-man, asian-woman, assassin, aviation, bank-robbery
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Western,
Taglines: The race begins: June 16. Let your imagination soar.

Quotes:

[Passepartout is fighting while the caged Phileas coaches him]::Phileas Fogg: Watch out to the right! [Passepartout misses] No, my right. [Passepartout is hit]::Passepartout: Stop helping me!

[Monique has just knocked out General Fang with a martial arts strike]::Passepartout: [astonished] She must be the eleventh tiger!::Monique La Roche: [curls fingers into claws] Meow.

Lord Kelvin: Well done, Salisbury! I shall name a beef-based entrée after you in your honor.

Steamer Captain: You had me at the nipples.

Phileas Fogg: Here comes Mr. Grumpy... and the Leather-ettes.

Monique La Roche: Where's your proof?::Lord Kelvin: This is the Royal Academy of Science! We don't have to prove anything!

Lord Kelvin: What's this obstruction blocking my jade reserves? This will certainly have to be demolished.::Lord Salisbury: But that is the Great Wall of China sir!::Lord Kelvin: ...It's not that great.

Phileas Fogg: I am a British Citizen, I have nothing to fear! [Gunshot goes off in background]... except bullets.

Lord Kelvin: What's the point in hiring a corrupt inspector when he can't even abuse the Law properly?

Phileas Fogg: This is what happens when you leave home. You meet... people.

The Final Curtain (2002)

Actors: Ralph Brown (actor), Patrick Malahide (actor), Mark Thomas (composer), Peter O'Toole (actor), Aidan Gillen (actor), Ian McNeice (actor), Mark Williams (actor), Dominic Cooper (actor), Todd Boyce (actor), Heather Storr (miscellaneous crew), Will Tyler (miscellaneous crew), Julia Sawalha (actress), Adrian Lester (actor), Henry Goodman (actor), Malcolm Tierney (actor),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: 2 popular game shows. 2 popular hosts. No scruples.

Quotes:

JJ Curtis: You're a novelist. And I'm a game show host. As you see it, I'm at the trashier end of popular culture. It's gaudy, it's lowbrow. I understand.

JJ Curtis: You see, mine is a fascinating life. Born into poverty. Left school at twelve. Merchant navy. Last days of music hall. Pirate radio. Pioneer of television. A household name. Not bad for a boy from nowhere.

JJ Curtis: Amazing, really, what a man can achieve with one bent journalist and an envelope stuffed full of £5 notes - money well spent.

Karen Willet: Unfortunately, Dave's renewed popularity only gave him more confidence in his crusade against that *godfather* of family entertainment.

JJ Curtis: This is my life, my book, my monument. There's no need for anybody else.

JJ Curtis: [in the confessional box] It's been some time father.::Priest: How long?::JJ Curtis: Thirty seven years.

Jonathan Stitch: It *was* an accident, wasn't it?::JJ Curtis: Up to a point. I mean, I had no way of calculating the actual voltage. There is always an element of chance in these sort of things.

JJ Curtis: Johathan. Do you know Dave? He is one of the new breed. Genetically modified horseshit.

Madame Curie (1943)

Actors: Miles Mander (actor), James Kirkwood (actor), Gene Lockhart (actor), Teddy Infuhr (actor), Ray Collins (actor), Albert Bassermann (actor), Van Johnson (actor), William Edmunds (actor), George Davis (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Edward Fielding (actor), Victor Francen (actor), Howard Freeman (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), George Meader (actor),

Plot: Biopic of the famed scientist and the work she did with her husband Pierre in the discovery of radium. Marie was a student at the Sorbonne studying for her Master's degree in physics when they first met. She received permission to use space in Professor Pierre Curie's laboratory. They soon fall in love and are married, working together on trying to isolate a radioactive substance Marie has identified as radium. Years of painstaking research and experimentation led to success and Marie and Pierre Curie shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. Sadly, Pierre was killed crossing the street in the rain when he was run over by a horse and wagon. Marie continued to work and make major contributions to science.

Keywords: based-on-book, character-name-in-title, croquet, granddaughter, husband-wife-relationship, lab-assistant, laboratory, lecture-hall, marie-curie, marriage
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: MR. and MRS. MINIVER together again

Quotes:

Marie Curie: To catch a star on your fingertips.

Pierre Curie: No true scientist can have anything to do with women.

[last lines]::[Madame Curie addresses a large gathering of scientists]::Marie Curie: Even now, after twenty-five years of intensive research, we feel there is a great deal still to be done. We have made many discoveries. Pierre Curie and the suggestions we have found in his notes, and his thoughts he expressed to me have helped to guide us to them. But no one of us can do much. Yet, each of us, perhaps, can catch some gleam of knowledge which, modest and insufficient of itself, may add to man's dream of truth. It is by these small candles in our darkness that we see before us, little by little, the dim outline of that great plan that shapes the universe. And I am among those who think that for this reason, science has great beauty and, with its great spiritual strength, will in time cleanse this world of its evils, its ignorance, its poverty, diseases, wars, and heartaches. Look for the clear light of truth. Look for unknown, new roads. Even when man's sight is keener far than now, divine wonder will never fail him. Every age has its own dreams. Leave, then, the dreams of yesterday. Youth, take the torch of knowledge and build the palace of the future.