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Damn You, Roland Ruby! (2012)

Actors: Al Sapienza (actor), Vinny Vella (actor), Tony Ray Rossi (actor), Keith Mackler (actor), Artie Pasquale (actor), Bryan Williams (actor), Rob Hawk (producer), Rob Hawk (miscellaneous crew), Rob Hawk (actor), John 'Cha Cha' Ciarcia (actor), Bryan Williams (actor), Rob Hawk (director), Rob Hawk (editor), Dominick Mancino (actor), Joseph DeBona (actor),

Plot: A story based on Roland Ruby's soon to be released CD of the same title. A musician down on his luck contemplates romance and friendship while getting caught up in a battle between his red headed nemesis Ira Palumbo and the Jersey and NYC Mob. This romantic comedy features many exciting newcomers and veterans of mob roles such as Vinnie Vella, Arie Pasquale, Tony Ray Rossi, Al Sapienza, and other familiar faces.

Genres: Comedy, Music, Musical, Short,

Miami or BUST - A Hoboken Bet (2012)

Actors: John Capodice (actor), John Di Benedetto (actor), José Alvarez (actor), Chris DePierro (actor), Chris DePierro (writer), Chris DePierro (director), Chris DePierro (producer), Kimberly Magness (actress), Frank Gigante (actor), Frank Gigante (producer), John 'Cha Cha' Ciarcia (actor), Michael Perri (producer), Amanda Jencsik (producer), Amanda Jencsik (actress), Amanda Jencsik (writer),

Genres: Comedy,

They're Just My Friends (2006)

Actors: Olenka Denysenko (miscellaneous crew), Al Snow (actor), Angela Pietropinto (actress), Al Sapienza (actor), John Bianco (actor), Malik Yoba (actor), Stephanie Angel (miscellaneous crew), Doug Forbes (editor), Louis Vanaria (actor), Stu Richel (actor), Attika Torrence (director), Lisamarie Costabile (actress), Thom Christopher (actor), John Thomas (actor), Craig DiFrancia (actor),

Plot: Pat Black is a late twenties boxer produced by the streets of the Bronx. When his father dies, he spends his time finding community in all the wrong places. It isn't until his friends land him in a jail cell before he finally realizes his mistakes. Fortunately, the connections that Pat made on the outside deliver him from prison and give him a chance to re-evaluate his life.

Genres: Drama,

It Had to Be You (2000)

Actors: Michael Rispoli (actor), Jessica Lichtner (miscellaneous crew), Luis Bacalov (composer), Frankie Muniz (actor), Laurie Gershon (miscellaneous crew), P.J. Haines (miscellaneous crew), Tony Sirico (actor), Natasha Henstridge (actress), Emmy Rossum (actress), George DiCenzo (actor), Olivia d'Abo (actress), Beau Rogers (producer), Garry Pastore (actor), Jeff Mazzola (producer), Jeff Mazzola (actor),

Plot: Charlie Hudson, a retired crisis negotiator for the NYPD, is engaged to Claire Parker, a beautiful and successful business woman. Claire has planned a weekend in New York registering at Bergdorf Goodman, staying at The Plaza Hotel, etc., laying the foreground for the ensuing wedding. Due to an unexpected business opportunity, Claire is called away. Anna Penn, a school teacher, is scheduled to register for her wedding with fiancée' David Allen, an advertising executive, who is unable to partake in the weekend. Consequently, Charlie and Anna end up spending the next three days planning their respective weddings together. Over the course of the weekend they consult with an embittered cast of wedding advisers who, while helping them plan, simultaneously deconstruct the institution of marriage as a whole. Henry Taylor, Charlie's old partner and best friend, drowns himself in his police work and embraces an addiction with alcohol to escape his personal loneliness. Tracey Meltempi, Anna's best friend, is a sexy, vibrant hair dresser, who is weary of Anna's decision to resign from her high expectations of finding "crazy love," and settle with David. By the end of the weekend, what started out as a weekend of shopping becomes a weekend of self discovery that will change each other's life forever. Neither Anna nor Charlie can go on with their lives as they had planned. As a result, fate brings them back to each other. Four injured souls cross paths in their search for truth and in the process heal one another.

Keywords: alcoholics-anonymous, bar, carriage-ride, central-park-manhattan-new-york-city, engaged-couple, hotel, independent-film, manhattan-new-york-city, new-york-city, title-based-on-song
Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: Love is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

Quotes:

[Henry and Charlie in the hotel bar. Henry sees Anna, Charlie looks and catches her eye. She waves, he smiles]::Henry: What's that about?::Charlie: Oh, we took the elevator up together...::Henry: That's it? That's the big juice?::Charlie: What do you want me to say? Okay...She's a spy and we're both planning on making love before we're assassinated by the CIA.

New Rose Hotel (1998)

Actors: Roger Kass (miscellaneous crew), Abel Ferrara (director), Abel Ferrara (writer), Anthony Redman (editor), Christopher Walken (producer), Willem Dafoe (producer), Ryûichi Sakamoto (actor), Willem Dafoe (actor), Edward R. Pressman (producer), John Lurie (actor), Victor Argo (actor), Asia Argento (actress), Christopher Walken (actor), Annabella Sciorra (actress), Gretchen Mol (actress),

Plot: Maas and Hosaka are two large Corporations in the future world. They are fighting to get control over the best minds of the world. The best is Hiroshi and at the moment he is working for the Maas Corporation. Fox has accepted an offer to persuade Hiroshi to go over to the Hosaka Corporation. Sandii is a little Italian girl from Japan and she should be the way to get to Hiroshi. X is the man who should train Sandii to break Hiroshi's Heart. But if X falls in love with Sandii? And if the Hosaka Corporation breaks the agreement? And if Sandii is not a little Italian girl?

Keywords: betrayal, brothel, cyberpunk, defection, falling-from-height, female-nudity, flashback, friendship, future-noir, genetic-engineering
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi,

Quotes:

Fox: This is your ticket outta the bone yard. You're dead, in case you didn't know it. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

Fox: Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, you know. Government, corporation, it's the same thing.

Sandii: OK, uh, I'll think about it.::Fox: Good. Time's up... Do it - or forever wish you had.

Fox: There's an old saying: "The hair on a snatch could tow a battleship." All you have to do is feed his grandiosity, and play... on his... horniness.

[first lines]::Distinguished Man: Come on, you know this better than anybody, right? There's a full-scale subterranean war being waged for every shred of information. And the corporate suits are killing each other off by the thousands each year. I mean it's like the holocaust in the 20th century. Everybody knows about it, and nobody says anything about it. And government is as culpable as any corporation.

The Funeral (1996)

Actors: Abel Ferrara (director), Christopher Walken (actor), Isabella Rossellini (actress), Edie Falco (actress), Rick Washburn (miscellaneous crew), Russell Simmons (producer), John Ventimiglia (actor), Victor Argo (actor), Benicio Del Toro (actor), Robert Miano (actor), Vincent Gallo (actor), Chris Penn (actor), Joseph R. Gannascoli (actor), Annabella Sciorra (actress), Annabella Sciorra (producer),

Plot: New York City, the 1930s. A powerful crime family is caught in a lethal crossfire between union organizers and brutal corporate bosses. Against this turbulent backdrop, the family's three street-hardened brothers and the women they love are about to be plunged into a deadly confrontation with their enemies, with each other, and with their own dark heritage of violence, madness and murder.

Keywords: 1930s, adultery, anger, axe, bare-breasts, bed, bedroom, blood, blood-spatter, brother-brother-relationship
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: One family, one murder, too many lies.

Quotes:

Johnny Tempi: I would say life is pretty pointless, wouldn't you, without the movies?

Ray: You wanna get deep on this shit? All them Catholics gone insane. Everything we do depends on free choice, but at the same time they say we need the grace of God to do what's right. I don't follow that Jeany. If I do something wrong, it's because God didn't give me the grace to do what's right. If this world stinks, it's his fault. I'm only working with what I've been given.::Jean: Is that why the people they find with the bullet holes in their skulls is God's fault? Aren't you ashamed of yourself?::Ray: I'm ashamed of nothing. I didn't make the world.::Jean: But you're not doing anything to make it better.::Ray: Yeah, and I'll roast in hell.

Jean: They're criminals, and there's absolutely nothing romantic about it.

Ray: I have no choice. You're never going to forget this.

Gaspare: Birds of a feather get fucked together, Johnny.

Ghouly: I'm not afraid of you.

Chez: Johnny, take Bridgette home.::Johnny Tempi: What'd you say?::Chez: Take her home.::Johnny Tempi: Take her home? Yeah?::Chez: That's what I said.::Johnny Tempi: Forget about it. I'm not taking her home until I get laid.

Chez: You sold your soul, you took the 'twenty. Don't fuck with the Devil.

Jean: What if they come after the kids?

Johnny Tempi: You wanna make that scumbag rich, that's fine Chez. Just leave me out of it. Alright? Leave me out of it.

Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)

Actors: Jay Richardson (actor), Jay Richardson (actor), Don Pardo (actor), Joshua Nelson (actor), Robert Costanzo (actor), John D. Sarviss (actor), Burton Gilliam (actor), Peter Boyle (actor), James Caan (actor), Nicolas Cage (actor), John Capodice (actor), Seymour Cassel (actor), Pat Morita (actor), Ben Stein (actor), Tony Shalhoub (actor),

Plot: On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy gambler arranges for the man to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to clear the debt for a weekend with his fiancée. Suddenly the man is insanely jealous, and pursues his fiancée and her rich companion, but finds pitfalls in his path as the gambler tries to delay his interference.

Keywords: bet, bikini, card-playing, cartoon-on-tv, casino, doppelganger, elopement, elvis-impersonator, elvis-presley, gambling
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Thriller,
Taglines: A comedy about one bride, two grooms, and a wedding party you won't believe. A comedy about one bride, two grooms, and 34 flying Elvises. It's a love that's All Shook Up!

Quotes:

[Trying to remember how to open his parachute]::Jack Singer: Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red.

Roy: We're the Flying Elvises. Utah chapter.

Roy Bacon: Elvises, light your fires.

Jack Singer: People get married and then they do the most hideous, unbelievable things to each other.

Jack Singer: Do you know what a straight flush is? It's like... unbeatable.::Betsy: "Like unbeatable" is not unbeatable.::Jack Singer: Hey, I know that now, okay.

Mahi Mahi: My name Mahi. Mahi Mahi.::Jack Singer: Like the fish?::Mahi Mahi: Yeah. My father was a fisherman.::Jack Singer: My father left home when I was 5. That's why I'm named Jack, as in, "Jack tell your mother I'm just going out to get the paper."

Jack Singer: I dreamt about my mother again last night.::Betsy: Was she vacuuming naked?::Jack Singer: No. She opened her eyes and I said, 'Mom, I'm gonna marry that girl,' and she smiled.::Betsy: Really?::Jack Singer: Yeah. Of course she was naked.

Jack Singer: [seeing Betsy in a dancer costume] Did you get a job here?

Tommy Korman: I don't care if Ming the frigging Merciless is in there, gettem out, OK?

Chief Orman: Do you find Chief Orman attractive?

China Girl (1987)

Actors: Robert LaSardo (actor), Robert Miano (actor), Abel Ferrara (director), James Hong (actor), Anthony Redman (editor), Melissa J.L. Smith (miscellaneous crew), James Russo (actor), Russell Wong (actor), Joe Delia (composer), David Caruso (actor), David Massar (miscellaneous crew), Judith Malina (actress), Paul Hipp (actor), Steven Reuther (producer), Michael Nozik (producer),

Plot: A modern day Romeo & Juliet story is told in New York when an Italian boy and a Chinese girl become lovers, causing a tragic conflict between ethnic gangs.

Keywords: chinese, chinese-girl, country-name-in-title, gang, independent-film, interracial-relationship, italian, modern-day-adaptation, new-york-city, racism
Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Enrico Perito: You wanna be a wiseguy, Alby?

Alby: The fuckin' Chinese blew up half the block tonight.::Tony: Don't fuck with the Chinese, Alby. They'll fucking kill you.::Alby: Mind your business!

Gung Tu: We must never allow ourselves to be divided by war... or to be interfered with by police investigations... all because a few reckless children cannot live within our tradition of our society. Our responsibility is to control our children.

Tsu Shin: You should have helped me. We could have settle our differences afterwards.::Yung Gan: I warned you not to cross "uncles", what did you expect?::Tsu Shin: I expected my cousin to fight by my side man. I expected you to help me.::Yung Gan: You knew I couldn't.::Tsu Shin: No I didn't. I didn't want to fight the whole world man, I just wanted a piece of the action. We are poor Chinese kids. We got no one to help us.::Yung Gan: We got to get out of here. We'll go back to Hong Kong.::Tsu Shin: Gung Tu would never forgive you.::Yung Gan: It doesn't matter anymore.

Mercury: [talking to a elderly Chinese man] Hey chopsticks, that's your daughter? Real pretty lookin' chink! ha-ha::Tony: Shut the fuck up Mercury!::Mercury: What?::Tony: You heard what I said. Shut the fuck up.::Mercury: Hey, you don't like it you go over to the 'chink' booth. How about that?::Tony: They ain't 'chinks', they're people man.::Mercury: They're people huh? Then why don't you take a look and see what these "people" did to your family store, how about that?::Tony: And what "people" did this to my brother?::Mercury: Hey Alby! What's this kid whacked on? Somebody better talk to him.::Tony: Who? Somebody like you?::Mercury: What is this?::Tony: Don't look at my brother! I'm talking to you!::Mercury: You making a big mistake , little boy.::Tony: That's okay you fucking piece of shit!::Alby: [Mercury starts to manhandle Tony and Alby breaks it up] Hey! hey! What is wrong with you?::Mercury: Hey ,I'm alright. take him home! Take "Ghandi" home! Take this "chink" lover home! Go Ahead! Put him to bed. Goodnight "Ghandi"!

Alby: What's the matter with you? Fighting with your friends over nothin'?::Tony: He ain't my friend.::Alby: Well he's my friend!::Tony: He just gets me mad with all that shit about the Chinese.::Alby: What do you mean?::Tony: It gets on my nerves.::Alby: Since when are you so sensitive about the Chinese?::Tony: I ain't , it just bothers me alrite?::Alby: Why is that?::Tony: It just does!::Alby: you not answering my question.::Tony: What do you want from me Alby, huh? I'm sick and tired of his shit! He's a fucking asshole!::Alby: Whoa, whoa! What's wrong with you? Huh? These are our friends. You were born in this neighborhood. Don't you forget that.

Mercury: Hey "Romeo", what's that on your face?::Tony: Shit, it's too hot for you Mercury.::Mercury: Hey you look good with that cotex on your nose. Why don't you run across the street and have the "fish-head" take your picture.::Alby: I'll tell you now Tony. I catch in that fuckin' neighborhood again, I swear to Christ I'll smack the shit out of you. You understand me?::Tony: I told you I wasn't in their neighborhood Alby.::Alby: How many times I gotta tell you to stay away from these people. They are nothing but trouble. huh?::Mercury: People? They don't even look human.::Nino: Look at 'em. Have you ever seen one without a camera in their hand? Ha ha.::Mercury: Do you notice that they are squinting even when it's cloudy?::Tony: Thank God I'm not stupid like you guys.

Quicksilver (1986)

Actors: Laurence Fishburne (actor), Michael Fox (actor), Paul Rodriguez (actor), Philip Granger (actor), Kevin Bacon (actor), Dan Perri (miscellaneous crew), Louie Anderson (actor), Betsy Cox (costume designer), Tom Rolf (editor), Michael Paul Chan (actor), H. Bud Otto (miscellaneous crew), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (actor), Georgann Johnson (actress), Stuart Fink (miscellaneous crew), Jami Gertz (actress),

Plot: Jack Casey ('Kevin Bacon')used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which relies on bicycles to avoid traffic jams of San Francisco, is attracted to a fellow bicycler, Terri, and befriends Hector, a budding entrepreneur. Can Jack regain his nerve and his self-respect, and rebuild his life on a more sound basis?

Keywords: bicycle, bicycle-acrobat, bicycle-courier, bicycle-race, courier-service, cycling, drug-courier, ethnic-slur, financial-disaster, financial-ruin
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Winning is a feeling you never lose. Speeding towards the final -- and deadly -- showdown... Kevin Bacon is Jack Casey. He traded in his three-piece suit for a ten-speed and the streets. For Jack Casey, playing the market was life in the fast lane... until he joined QUICKSILVER where the fast lane was a way of life!

Quotes:

Jack Casey: Sometimes things don't happen the way you planned, sometimes you could end up lower than you started.

Short Eyes (1977)

Actors: Mark Margolis (actor), Luis Guzmán (actor), Bruce Davison (actor), Shelly Desai (actor), Robert M. Young (director), Robert M. Young (producer), Tony DiBenedetto (actor), Don Blakely (actor), Alberto Vazquez (actor), Maurice Schell (miscellaneous crew), Shawn Elliott (actor), José Pérez (actor), Curtis Mayfield (composer), Curtis Mayfield (actor), Bob O'Connell (actor),

Plot: A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City's infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.

Keywords: based-on-play, ethnic-slur, five-percenter, gay-slur, homosexual, independent-film, pedophilia, prison, prison-guard, prison-life
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: "Jesus, help me, 'cause man won't."

Quotes:

Paco: Someday, I'm gonna be walking down the streets, minding my own business, and - BAM! - I'm gonna be shot by some pig who's gonna swear that it was a mistake. I accept that as a part of my destiny.

El Raheem: Yakoo, maker and creator of the devil! Swine merchant, your time is near at hand. Fuck with me, and your time will be now. Your presence here affects the mind of my people like a fever. You, yakoo, are the bearer of 9,999 diseases: evil, corrupt pork-chop-eating atrocities!

Clark Davis: God help me...::Juan: Cause man won't do!::Clark Davis: Cause man won't do!

Paco: Everybody wants to fuck you, Cupcakes.