Damsel (2012)

Actors: Stephen Krystek (miscellaneous crew), Pat Giglio (actor), Paul Hoeprich (writer), Paul Hoeprich (producer), Paul Hoeprich (director), James Leatherman (actor), Michael Hanelin (actor), Steve Marmon (actor), Sarah Lovell (actress), Mark Manning (composer), Michael Notrica (miscellaneous crew), Sonya Krueger (actress), Katey McRevy (producer), Kaylan Torres (actress), Elizabeth Thul (actress),

Plot: Detective James Saxon takes on a new case and unknowingly discovers a world of psychic villains and heroes in Catbrain Film Factory's newest short film, Damsel. Damsel is based on the characters and world of published author Nathan L. Yocum and is the third short set in the 'Strong Brain' universe.

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Short, Thriller,

The Third Wish (2005)

Actors: Lynn M. van Kuilenburg (miscellaneous crew), Alan D. Purwin (miscellaneous crew), Sarah Clifford (miscellaneous crew), David Albert Pierce (miscellaneous crew), Bundy Chanock (miscellaneous crew), Jim Dobson (miscellaneous crew), Ronnie Marmo (actor), James Avery (actor), Jennifer Blanc (actress), Armand Assante (actor), Robert Costanzo (actor), Karl T. Hirsch (editor), Betty White (actress), Mindy Cohn (actress), Saisie M. Jang (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: The rags to riches story of Maggie Malone, an aspiring author who finds a rare edition of Great Expectations in the bookstore where she works. A seemingly magical book, Maggie is granted three wishes...or so she thinks. The true magic is actually being orchestrated by a mysterious benefactor, who has commissioned a handsome Oxford lawyer to guide her through a Cinderella-like transformation. The cynical Maggie soon finds herself spellbound by her dashing escort...and believing in the very fairy tales she writes about.

Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: When you have great expectations...anything is possible.

Lies Inc. (2004)

Actors: Ole-Jørgen Nilsen (actor), Jan Hårstad (actor), Henrik Scheele (actor), Morten Rudå (actor), César Ducasse (editor), César Ducasse (producer), César Ducasse (writer), César Ducasse (director), Tony Spataro (actor), Daniel Karlsson (actor), Einar Schwenke (actor), Ida Marie Bakkerud (actress), Marius Snekkevaag (actor), Ingmar Tveitt (actor), Linda Margrethe Lilleøen (actress),

Plot: Amber city is the last city on earth with a breathable atmosphere. In this climate of fear and paranoia, Isan Epel finds herself trapped by her employers, Schilman's inc, after working in secret for two years. Without any memories of her past, she hides in order to escape from her pursuers, and tries to disclose the content of a mysterious microdisc. The narcotic agent Phil Comb is then hired to find her and the disc. But he is too damaged by the drugs he consumes, and loses more and more contact with reality while he begins to understand the machiavellian conspiration around him. His meeting with Isan is going to reveal to him much more than he could have imagined...

Keywords: computer-disc, drug-use, evil-corporation, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, low-budget, memory-erasure, memory-loss, narcotics, narcotics-cop
Genres: Sci-Fi,
Taglines: They are watching you.

Quotes:

Isan Epel: I am the organ eater! You must love me!

A Star Is Born (1954)

Actors: Phil Arnold (actor), Chick Chandler (actor), Benny Burt (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Jack Carson (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Rodney Bell (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), James Brown (actor), Paul Brinegar (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor),

Plot: Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into romance before tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while Norman's continues to plummet.

Keywords: academy-award, actor, actress, alcoholic, alcoholism, ambition, arrest, audition, award, backstage
Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: Destiny came at her with a leer! The applause of the world -- and then this! "IT IS SOMETHING TO SEE THIS 'STAR IS BORN'! STUNNING!" N.Y. Times (original ad - mostly caps) "A BRILLIANTLY STAGED, SCORED AND PHOTOGRAPHED FILM WORTH ALL THE EFFORT!" Life Magazine (original ad - mostly caps) "THE ENTIRE PICTURE IS AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE! I WAS SORRY IT ENDED!" Ed Sullivan

Quotes:

Esther Blodgett: [seeing Norman drunk] Mr. Maine is feeling no pain!

Esther Blodgett: Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine.

Matt Libby: [after being introduced to Esther] Esther Blodgett? Well, we'll do something about that. Anyway, nice to have you with us.

Oliver Niles: You know Libby you missed a lot not knowing Norman Maine.::Matt Libby: Not knowing him? I spent my life knowing him. I knew what he was going to do before he did it. I knew him backwards.::Oliver Niles: You didn't know him at all. He was quite a guy.

Esther Blodgett: [Norman has finished looking through Esther's scrapbook] You know as much about me as I do myself. But...you see how long it's taken me to get this far. Now, all I need is just a little luck.::Norman Maine: What kind of luck?::Esther Blodgett: Oh, the kind of luck that every girl singer with a band dreams of--one night a big talent scout from a big record company might come in and he'll let me make a record.::Norman Maine: Yes, and then?::Esther Blodgett: Well, the record will become number one on the Hit Parade, it'll be played on the jukeboxes all over the country...and I'll be made [laughs self-deprecatingly at the implausibility] End of dream.::Norman Maine: There's only one thing wrong with that.::Esther Blodgett: I know--it won't happen!::Norman Maine: No, it might happen pretty easily--but the dream isn't big enough.

Esther Blodgett: [Norman has returned to find Esther in a nightclub. Esther walks over to him with a small laugh] Hello, Mr. Maine. You turn up in the strangest places.::Norman Maine: Don't I now?::Esther Blodgett: [stops laughing, suddenly shocked] And you're cold sober.::Norman Maine: Well, you'd better make the most of it!

Norman Maine: Do you ever go fishing? [Esther looks confused] Well, do you like prizefi--have you ever watched a great fighter?::Esther Blodgett: I-I uh--::Norman Maine: I'm trying to tell you how you sing.::Esther Blodgett: Do you mean like a prizefighter or a fish?::Norman Maine: Look...em--[leads her into a kitchen] There are certain pleasures that you get--[realizes that the sound of clanging dishes is intolerable and they depart for the outside] There are certain pleasures you get, little-little jabs of pleasure when a swordfish take a hook, or-or when you see a great fighter get in right for the kill, see? [Esther still looks confused] You don't understand a word I'm saying, do you?::Esther Blodgett: No, not yet. Why don't you try bullfights?

Judge George J. Barnes: Were you Norman Maine the actor?::Norman Maine: Yes.

Matt Libby: This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, with a whimper.