Letters About the Weather (1999)

Actors: Liz DiFiore (producer), Jared Connon (miscellaneous crew), Sara Wiseman (actress), Ian Hughes (actor), Rajeev Varma (actor), Peter Salmon (director), Peter Salmon (writer), Ray Woolf (actor), Wayne Cook (editor), Rupert Cox (actor), Emily Carter (costume designer), Reuben Pollock (writer), Eamon Okane (composer),

Plot: Letters about the weather is a futuristic short film set 50 years from now, at a time where virtual reality is so real and addictive that it has nestled its way into the actual fibre of reality. It is a place where it's possible for a person to have a virtual relationship with a partner of choice, day or night. This technology has become so easy and so accessible that humans have lost touch with reality. Letters about the weather follows a woman, fed up with perfection and fantasies, and sees her seek the truth and unpredictability that reality can bring.

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Short,

Indecent Proposal (1993)

Actors: Demi Moore (actress), John Barry (composer), Rip Taylor (actor), Sheena Easton (actress), Billy Bob Thornton (actor), Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc (actor), Robert Redford (actor), Billy Connolly (actor), Alan D. Purwin (actor), Herbie Hancock (actor), Oliver Platt (actor), Woody Harrelson (actor), Seymour Cassel (actor), Kyle Cooper (miscellaneous crew), Michael Bay (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship.

Keywords: 1990s, architect, based-on-novel, betrayal, blockbuster, casino, confrontation, cuckold, cult-film, dog
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A husband. A wife. A millionaire. A proposal

Quotes:

Diana: If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

Diana: The dress is for sale. I'm not.

David: [while playing pool] I guess there's limits to what money can buy.::John: Not many.::Diana: Well some things aren't for sale.::John: Such as?::Diana: Well you can't buy people.::John: That's naive, Diana. I buy people every day.::Diana: In business, maybe, but you can't buy people not when real emotions are involved.::John: So you're saying you can't buy love? That's a bit of a cliché don't you think?::Diana: It's absolutely true.::John: Is it? What do you think?::David: I agree with Diana.::John: You do? Well let's test the cliché. Suppose... I were to offer you one million dollars for one night with your wife.::David: I'd assume you're kidding.::John: Let's pretend I'm not. What would you say?::Diana: He'd tell you to go to hell.::John: I didn't hear him.::David: I'd tell you to go to hell.::John: That's a reflex answer because you view the question as hypothetical. But let's say that there was real money backing it up. I'm not kidding. A million dollars. The night would come and go but the money could last a lifetime. Think of it. A million dollars. A lifetime of security... for one night. Don't answer right away. Just consider it; seriously?::David: We're positive, okay?::John: Well then you've proved your point. There are limits to what money can buy. It's late, and I hate to admit it, but I have meetings in the morning. May I have one dance? With your permission.::David: You know something? I think you better hurry on to that meeting. You don't want to miss out on your next billion.::John: Understood. I wouldn't part with her either. Good night.

Diana: Somethings are not for sale.::John: Such as?::Diana: Well you can't buy people.

David: I thought he was the better man. I know now he's not. Just got more money.

Diana: Have I ever told you I love you?::David: No.::Diana: I do.::David: Still?::Diana: Always.

Jeremy: [on the phone] Let me get this straight. He offered you a million dollars for a night with your wife? As in *your* wife Diana? And you agreed to it? I don't know what to say. How could you do something like that? *How could you negotiate without me?* Never negotiate without your lawyer. Never! For a woman like Diana I could have gotten you at least two million. Obviously, you don't want to get screwed, and then... screwed!

Jeremy: OK, David, before we go any further, let's get the moral issue out of the way.::David: Leave that to us.::Jeremy: No, I was referring to my fee. I get five percent.

[John Gage is reading through the contract drawn up by Jeremy]::Gage: Do you want to elaborate on the "Verification" clause?::Jeremy: Verification? That means you pay even if the relationship isn't consummated.::Gage: You mean if I'm impotent?::Jeremy: It's important for a lawyer to cover contingencies.::Gage: I can live with that. The "John Garfield" clause?::Jeremy: That's if you die in the act.::Gage: I have no problem with that either. Could I have your pen?... You're pretty good, you know.::Jeremy: Thank you.::Gage: You should come and work for me.::Jeremy: Ooh.

Jeremy: For a million bucks *I'd* sleep with him. [David glares at him]... Maybe not.

Slacker (1991)

Actors: Richard Linklater (actor), Richard Linklater (writer), Richard Linklater (director), Richard Linklater (producer), John Pierson (miscellaneous crew), Athina Rachel Tsangari (actress), Tommy Pallotta (actor), Tommy Pallotta (miscellaneous crew), Louis Black (actor), Charles Gunning (actor), Kerthy Fix (miscellaneous crew), Bob Boyd (actor), Jerry Delony (actor), Scott Rhodes (editor), Scott Rhodes (actor),

Plot: Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another's lives. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a glass slide purportedly of Madonna's pap smear, and an old anarchist who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber.

Keywords: 1990s, 8mm, accomplice, african-american, altar, amnesia, anarchism, anarchist, anarchy, anti-artist
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

Hitchhiker: I may live badly, but at least I don't have to *work* to do it.

Old Man: When young, we mourn for one woman... as we grow old, for women in general. The tragedy of life is that man is never free yet strives for what he can never be. The thing most ferared in secret always happens. My life, my loves, where are they now? But the more the pain grows, the more this instinct for life somehow asserts itself. The necessary beauty in life is in giving yourself to it completely. Only later will it clarify itself and become coherent.

Working on Same Painting: Sorry, I'm late.::Having a Breakthrough Day: That's okay, time doesn't exist.

Traumatized Yacht Owner: You should never traumatize a woman sexually. I should know, I'm a medical doctor. You should never, traumatize, you should never...

Video Interviewer: So, did you vote in the most recent election?::Hitchhiker: Hell, no... I've got less important things to do.

Dostoyevsky Wannabe: Who's ever written a great work about the immense effort required in order not to create?

Has Faith in Groups: You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.::Based on Authoritative Sources: Okay, great. Personal attacks now, is that it? I thought we were beyond that.::Has Faith in Groups: It's like you just pasted together these bits and pieces from your "authoritative sources." I don't know. I'm beginning to suspect there's nothing really in there.::Based on Authoritative Sources: Suspect? You're beginning to suspect? Oh, that's rich, that's really rich. So what? At least what is there, is based on good sources.

Old Anarchist: And remember: the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Video Backpacker: To me, my thing is, a video image is much more powerful and useful than an actual event. Like back when I used to go out, when I was last out, I was walking down the street and this guy, that came barreling out of a bar, fell right in front of me, and he had a knife right in his back, landed right on the ground and... Well, I have no reference to it now. I can't put it on pause. I can't put it on slow mo and see all the little details. And the blood, it was all wrong. It didn't look like blood. The hue was off. I couldn't adjust the hue. I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right. And I didn't even see the knife impact on the body. I missed that part.

Disgruntled Grad Student: Every action is a positive action, even if it has a negative result.

The Compleat Al (1985)

Actors: 'Weird Al' Yankovic (writer), Robert K. Weiss (miscellaneous crew), Robert K. Weiss (producer), Robert K. Weiss (writer), Robert K. Weiss (miscellaneous crew), Robert K. Weiss (director), Tress MacNeille (actress), 'Weird Al' Yankovic (actor), Don Pardo (actor), Dick Clark (actor), Robert K. Weiss (miscellaneous crew), Tress MacNeille (actress), Helen Kelly (actress), Robert K. Weiss (miscellaneous crew), Robert K. Weiss (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Fact and fiction are mingled in this mockumentary about the career of music parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic. In retelling his life story, the film includes several of his music videos, including "Ricky" and "Eat It."

Keywords: accordion, character-name-in-title, independent-film, mockumentary, parody, spoof
Genres: Comedy, Music,
Taglines: The amazing and almost-true life story of a rock and roll legend