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Jack Kelly has recently been thinking about the girl who got away. He has written a play about all his past relationships that didn't seem to work out. As he begins to direct the play with his actors he keeps thinking about Carolyn and why they were not together. We he let it go or decide to try and find Carolyn again and reconnect. He asks many of his friends and co workers what he should do when he finally decides to follow his heart or maybe not...
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Subdivision is a comedy/drama which is based on the change a community goes through when hotshot upper class developers take over. The plot centers around Digger Kelly and his son Jack, both whom are carpenters that work and build homes in Hervey Bay. Their work is turned upside down when a city property developer led by hot young executive Tiffany moves into town.
Keywords: one-word-title
Love plus loyalty, multiplied by pride, divided by money equals...
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A seasoned Los Angeles Detective, Jack Kelly, finds out his estranged daughter is hospitalized after overdosing. He has one last chance to make it right with her. Jack struggles to revive the disjointed relationship with his only child. It becomes clear that, for both their sakes, he has to let her go... but can he?
When you love someone, the hardest thing is... letting go.
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This is a story of a man (Walker), suffering from dwarfism, who writes an autobiographical account of his life. In flashbacks, we see how he was conceived to a woman (Parillaud) at the end of WWII as she attempts to smuggle herself to America on a troop ship. Caught, she is put ashore back in her homeland of Ireland where she struggles to bring up her dwarfed child. Then comes an ongoing affair with a man (Byrne) who becomes a surrogate father to the boy, teaching him about the stars and planets... and calling him "Frankie Starlight." After that affair she meets with a man (Dillon) who takes her and the boy to America, but they are misfits in the prairie lands of the West and soon return home to Ireland where the boy grows to manhood as a writer.
Keywords: alpha-the-star, american-soldier, astronomy, author, baby, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, blessing, bomb, book
Sometimes the brightest star is the one that shines within.
From the Maker of "My Left Foot"
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July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs (David Moscow) as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful.
Keywords: 1890s, 19th-century, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, arrest, backstage, balcony, based-on-true-story, betrayal, box-office-flop, boy
A Thousand Voices. A Single Dream.
They Found The Courage To Challenge The Powerful! (DVD release)
Jack Kelly: Carrying the banner.
David Jacobs: From now on, we trust no one but the Newsies.
Joseph Pulitzer: Know what I was doing at your age, boy? I was in a war. The Civil War.::Jack Kelly: Yeah, I heard of it. So, did ya win?::Joseph Pulitzer: People think war is about right or wrong and not power.::Jack Kelly: Yeah, I heard of that too. I don't just sell your papes, Joe. Sometime I read 'em
Racetrack: Look at me, I'm the King Of New York!
David Jacobs: Why'd ya come back?::Jack Kelly: Well, I guess I can't be somethin' I ain't.::David Jacobs: What, a scab?::Jack Kelly: No, smart.
Mush: Howd'ya sleep, Jack?::Jack Kelly: On me back, Mush.
Racetrack: In 1899, the streets of New York City echoed with the voices of newsies, peddling the papers of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randalph Hearst, and other giants of the newspaper world. On every corner you saw them carrying the banner. Bringing you the news for a penny a pape. Poor orphans and runaways, the newsies were a ragged army without a leader, until one day all that changed.
David Jacobs: You're a liar! You lied about everything. You lied about your father being out west, 'cause he's not out west! You didn't even tell me your real name!::Jack Kelly: So? What you wanna do about it Dave?::David Jacobs: I don't understand you.::Jack Kelly: Oh, so let me spell it out for ya. You see, I ain't got nobody tucking me in at night, like you. It's just me, I gotta look out for myself, all right?::David Jacobs: You had the Newsies!::Jack Kelly: Oh, what'd being a Newsie ever give me but a dime a day and a few black eyes? You know, I can't afford to be a kid no more, Dave. For the first time in my life, I got money in my pockets. Real money. Money, you understand? I got more on the way and as soon as I collect, I'm gone, I'm away, all right?::David Jacobs: Well, that's good! That's good because we don't need you! We don't need you! All those words you said, those were mine.::Jack Kelly: Yeah, but you never had the guts to put them across yourself, did ya?::David Jacobs: I do now.
Jack Kelly: One thing's for sure, if we don't sell papes, then nobody sells papes. Nobody comes through those gates until they put the price back to where it was.::David Jacobs: You mean like a strike?::Jack Kelly: Yeah, like a strike!::David Jacobs: Are you out of your mind?::Jack Kelly: It's a good idea!::David Jacobs: Jack, I was only joking. We can't go on strike, we don't have a union.::Jack Kelly: But, if we go on strike, then we are a union, right?::David Jacobs: No! We're just a bunch of angry kids with no money.
Jack Kelly: Extry, extry, read all about it! Ellis Island in flames!::David Jacobs: Hey, where's that story?::Jack Kelly: Page nine. Thousands Flee in Panic!::David Jacobs: "Trash Fire Next To Immigration Building Terrifies Seagulls"?::Jack Kelly: Terrified Flight from Inferno!
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Brick Bardo is on a mission to find out which one of the world's greatest kickboxers killed his brother. Five years ago, one of the four champs was fixing fights and set up his brother in the fight that took his life. Now Bardo must take on the gang in the ring for an all-out kickboxing fight to the finish.
Keywords: b-movie, bare-knuckle-fighting, brawl, chop-socky, cult-film, fight-club, fighting, fistfight, hand-to-hand-combat, illegal-fistfight
Death is a game nobody plays twice.
With fist, with foot, with vengeance in his heart, one man takes on the best in a fight to the finish.
Connie Angel: I think of it as money - I kiss his money - I sleep with his money.
Brick Bardo: Ain't life a bitch? Ain't it just one great big goddamn son of a whore?
Brick Bardo: Sorry to interrupt you - should have known what a cheap slut you are.
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Based loosely on the organized crime syndicates of the 20's and 30's, Billy Bathgate is the story of a young man's rise from gopher to right hand man in Dutch Schultz' gang. Having been impressed by the youth, Schultz takes him under his wing so to speak. Billy soon finds himself in a world where wealth and fortune live next door to danger and death.
Keywords: 1930s, airplane, auction, backstage, band, banker, baptism, bar, barber-shop, barn
A seductive look at a notorious gangster's dazzling and decadent empire about to crumble.
In 1935, a New York kid was looking for a hero. He found Dutch Schultz.
Drew Preston: I'm not his girl, he's my gangster.
Billy Bathgate: You think Mr. Shultz is an ordinary man, Mrs. Preston, but you're wrong! He's a maniac!
[first lines]::Bo Weinberg: [being tied up] What do you think, Irving? Makes this cheap dago move on me, Bo Weinberg. The man who took out @Vincent Coll. The man who held Jack Diamond's ears so he could put the gun in his mouth. Who found the rackets he was to *stupid* to find for himself, who made him something more than the lowdown fucking guy that he is! The schmuck, I should expect something else. He pulls me off the the street right in front of my girl, like he don't know no better. Schmuck!::Dutch Schultz: Don't talk to Irving. Talk to me.::Bo Weinberg: Men talk. If they are men they talk. They have disagreement, they discuss these things. But you, I don't know Dutch. I don't know what stickin' womb of puss and scum and ape shit you came out of!::Dutch Schultz: Bo you should understand, I am past the madness part, I am past the anger. Don't waste your breath.
Dutch Schultz: Look at it this way Bo, I'm the one sittin' here, and you're the one sittin' there. Now who would you rather be at this moment?
Otto Berman: Count your money and don't let me see it.::Billy Bathgate: I know how much it is.::Otto Berman: Good. Now double that in your head and add 3, okay?::Billy Bathgate: Alright.::Otto Berman: Alright, now product that by 5.::Billy Bathgate: Product?::Otto Berman: ...multiply that by 5, subtract 6, and tell me what you come up with.::Billy Bathgate: 279::Otto Berman: Just lost 27 cents. [holds out his hand]::Billy Bathgate: Yeah! [then suddenly crestfallen]
Bo Weinberg: Look at it this way Arthur, you're the one on the lam, and I'm the one on the town. Who would you rather be at this moment, you know what I mean?
Dutch Schultz: You're the first Drew I ever met.::Drew Preston: You're the first Dutch.
Billy Bathgate: One of the things about being in a gang is, you gotta follow orders. So far everything they asked me to do, I done it.::Drew Preston: Did it.
Billy Bathgate: Don't leave until I get back.::Drew Preston: What if I have to pee?::Billy Bathgate: Then I'll bring you back a can.
Billy Bathgate: [about Drew] She's not like ordinary people. She's not scared of anything.
Frankie was a born loser . . . who took on the whole world!