Second String (2002)
Actors:
Demore Barnes (actor),
Gil Bellows (actor),
Chris Berman (actor),
Bob Beverage (actor),
Gouchy Boy (actor),
Bubba (actor),
Mike Ditka (actor),
George Eads (actor),
Doug Flutie (actor),
Robert Gabrielle (actor),
Robert Gordon (actor),
Donovan Greer (actor),
Dean Hagopian (actor),
Brian Douglas Heighton (actor),
Philip Akin (actor),
Plot: American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, an insurance salesman and former college quarterback, who was hired -relactantly, but his wife twisted his arm- just for practice, now has to captain and train a bunch of rookies and old-timers against the hardest adversaries. Dichter decides to sign up triple Super Bowl-winner Tommy Baker in Dan's place...
Keywords: american-football, buffalo-bills
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Sport,
Taglines: She believed in him. Now he must believe in himself to lead the team to the Super Bowl.
We Are Not Alone (1939)
Actors:
Harry Allen (actor),
Frank Baxter (actor),
Billy Bevan (actor),
Barlowe Borland (actor),
Sidney Bracey (actor),
Egon Brecher (actor),
David Clyde (actor),
Harry Cording (actor),
Robert Cory (actor),
Joseph Crehan (actor),
Henry Daniell (actor),
Clarence Derwent (actor),
Herbert Evans (actor),
Douglas Gordon (actor),
Lowden Adams (actor),
Plot: Warners' publicity releases, intended for newspapers,on this film state that Paul Muni worked closely with James Hilton on the adaptation of Hilton's book for this film. Given that most publicity releases of the time (and also now) are best when taken with several grains of salt, this may or may not be true: Dr. David Newcome lives with his wife Jessica and son Gerald in the small English town of Calderbury. Jessica, conventional and somewhat stupid, is unable to understand the sensitive little boy and her stern, unsympathetic discipline aggravates Gerald's nervousness. The doctor is called to care for Leni, an Austrian dancer stranded in England, who has tried to commit suicide, and he decides she is just the person to hire as a governess for Gerald based on, evidently, no logic at all but it does move the plot. Jessica learns the true story of Leni's background and demands she be discharged. Dr. Newcome arranges to have Leni enrolled in a music school. Gerald, being sent away to stay with his uncle, goes back into the house to retrieve a toy his mother has confiscated and, in getting it, he knocks over and breaks a bottle of pills. He stuffs these pills into a bottle containing his mother's headache pills. Jessica returns home, takes her headache pills, and the maid later finds her dead. Meanwhile, Leni and the Doctor are saying farewell when they hear the news of the outbreak of the War. Realizing that Leni, because of her nationality, will be in danger if she stays in England,he offers to take her on his bicycle to a nearby town where she can take a train for the start of the return to her homeland. But they are arrested for Jessica's murder and have the appearance of flight working against them. Gerald, the only person who can prove their innocence, has been told nothing of what has happened at the request of his father. With both sentenced to be hanged, the film's title comes from the line when the Doctor tells Leni, "We are not alone in suffering injustice."
Keywords: 1910s, accidental-death, allergy, amusement-park, asthma, austrian, based-on-novel, bicycle, bigotry, carousel
Genres:
Crime,
Drama,
History,
Romance,
Quotes:
Dr. David Newcome: Strange how words can be true, and yet have no truth in them.
Gerald Newcome: I'm not afraid anymore.::Jessica Newcome: But Gerald, what have you been frightened of?::Gerald Newcome: Of you, Mother.