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Chicago (i/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion also extends into DuPage County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world on the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city retains its status as an international hub for finance, industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, with O'Hare International Airport being the second busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008[update], the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world, ranking just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.
Actors: Steve Rimpici (actor), Michael Taylor Donovan (actor), Jennifer Page (actress), Wayne Bastrup (actor), John Fantasia (actor), Josh Truax (actor), Tamara Valjean (miscellaneous crew), Henry Mark (actor), Ian Hubert (writer), Ian Hubert (director), Ian Hubert (editor), Jeannine Clarke (actress), Bryan Hanner (actor), Geoffery Simmons (actor), Phil McCoy (producer),
Plot: Project London is an independent, almost no-budget, feature-length, live action movie with vivid, intense, and marrow-vibrating visual effects and animations created with the open source software Blender (and other traditional software) and 250 (or so) worldwide volunteers. It's the first independent movie from writer director, Ian Hubert and features a story set in Seattle, Washington. This special effects-rich science fiction actioner is about a grief stricken young man who joins a ragtag resistance force and engages in epic battles against Joint Command to avenge his father and save the planet.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi,Actors: Laurie Gershon (miscellaneous crew), Maya Rudolph (actress), Carol A. Compton (miscellaneous crew), Mike Nichols (producer), Marcelo Zarvos (composer), Kevin Hindley (miscellaneous crew), Kristen Wiig (actress), Adam Scott (actor), Edward Burns (actor), Jon Hamm (actor), Jon Hamm (producer), John Sloss (producer), Christina Chow (miscellaneous crew), Jacqueline Eckhouse (miscellaneous crew), Megan Fox (actress),
Plot: Julie and Jason have been best friends for years with no romantic interest in each other. He sleeps with someone new every few days, and she's looking for Mr. Right. Now in their thirties, they notice that their friends seem to lose all their good qualities when they have children - child rearing and the spark of Eros don't seem to co-exist. So, they decide to have a child together, share in child rearing, but pursue their own romantic lives. Things go well until he meets Mary Jane and she meets Kurt. Both seem like perfect mates. What could go wrong?
Keywords: atheist, baby, baby-boy, baby-monitor, bar, bedroom, best-friend, biological-clock, biracial, biracial-childActors: Danny Dimbort (producer), Donald Bruce (miscellaneous crew), Atanas Srebrev (actor), Fredric Lehne (actor), Boaz Davidson (writer), David Varod (producer), Trevor Short (producer), Danny Lerner (producer), Avi Lerner (producer), Boaz Davidson (producer), Assen Blatechki (actor), George Zlatarev (actor), Robert Rusler (actor), David Worth (director), Kitodar Todorov (actor),
Genres: Action, War,Actors: Shawn Flanagan (actor), Richard Lynch (actor), Shawn Flanagan (producer), Shawn Flanagan (writer), Shawn Flanagan (director), Francis Hamada (miscellaneous crew), Glen Caspillo (actor), Anthony Santucci (actor), Dan Connolly (producer), Carl Solomon (actor), Kurtis Bedford (actor), Irit Levi (actress), William King Appel (actor), Dan L. Connolly (actor), Sean O'Kane (actor),
Plot: Vance Gordon is a director making a mafia movie, despite setbacks like quitting actors, a cinematographer who has not read the script and a crew member thinking he would be better in the director's chair. Oh, did we mention that the craft services dude, Chicago, ends up playing the lead? But his role is perhaps short-lived unless he can save the film crew, who has been taken hostage by Hollywood superstar Richard Lynch. Can Chicago save the day? Perhaps, if he does what any good actor does. He must improvise.
Keywords: cinema-verite, cult-film, gun-fire, independent-film, mockumentaryActors: Shawn Flanagan (writer), Shawn Flanagan (director), Shawn Flanagan (producer), Omar Benson Miller (actor), Anthony Santucci (actor), Irit Levi (actress), Kevin Avery (actor), Shawn Michael Flanagan (actor), Dan L. Connolly (actor), Sean O'Kane (actor), Dan L. Connolly (producer), Rich Amooi (actor), Rich Amooi (writer), Elliott Peele (actor), Chris Paul Catalano (writer),
Genres: ,Actors: Roger Corman (producer), Don 'The Dragon' Wilson (actor), Mike Elliott (producer), Don 'The Dragon' Wilson (miscellaneous crew), Rob Kerchner (miscellaneous crew), Richard Roundtree (actor), Rick Dean (actor), Andre Rosey Brown (actor), Nigel Holton (composer), Eric Lee (miscellaneous crew), Brad Blaisdell (actor), Catherine Cyran (producer), Tony DiBenedetto (actor), Richard Paul (actor), Jonathan Winfrey (producer),
Plot: Don Wilson returns to the screen as a man unjustly accused of a brutal crime. Within the prison he must fight for survival, freedom and justice.
Keywords: action-hero, b-movie, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, beating, beefcake-martial-arts, black-belt, blood, blood-spatter, chaseActors: Georges Delerue (composer), Jacques Balutin (actor), Robert Berri (actor), Christine Laurent (actress), Georges Adet (actor), Jean-Pierre Darras (actor), Raoul Delfosse (actor), Hubert Deschamps (actor), Dominique Davray (actress), Grégoire Gromoff (actor), Jacqueline Fontaine (actress), Guy Di Rigo (actor), Richard Bigotini (actor), Nicole Dubois (actress), Michel Wyn (director),
Genres: ,Actors: David Warner (actor), Cybill Shepherd (actress), Tom Smothers (actor), Charles Gray (actor), Stéphane Audran (actress), Jay Leno (actor), Shane Rimmer (actor), Joss Ackland (actor), Bruce Boa (actor), Louis Jourdan (actor), Martin Balsam (actor), Michael Caine (actor), Phil Brown (actor), Karl Lagerfeld (costume designer), Claude Bolling (composer),
Plot: Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa (Louis Jourdan), consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi (Stéphane Audran and David Warner). This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything he's worked for, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife (Cybill Shepherd).
Keywords: american-abroad, animal-in-title, based-on-novel, caper, film-set, finance, fraud, hotel, independent-film, scapegoatActors: Richard Halsey (editor), Ed Bogas (composer), Rip Torn (actor), Sonny Shroyer (actor), Michael C. Gwynne (actor), Cliff Emmich (actor), Daryl Duke (director), Jeff Morris (actor), Ahna Capri (actress), Shel Silverstein (composer), Natalie Drache (miscellaneous crew), Henry O. Arnold (actor), Martin Fink (producer), Elayne Heilveil (actress), Sylvia Tyson (composer),
Plot: A cynical look at the life of a not so nice country-western singer, Maury Dann - played by Rip Torn in one of his most memorable performances. He ruthlessly manipulates every one around him to suit his selfish needs...he even gets his limo driver to take the blame for the death of a fan which he stabbed.
Keywords: american-dream, country-music, deep-south, deliberate, drug-addiction, friendship, grand-ole-opry, groupie, independent-film, infidelityActors: Harold McLernon (editor), Dane Clark (actor), Warren Douglas (actor), William Haade (actor), Milton Kibbee (actor), William Lava (composer), Crane Wilbur (director), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Robert Shayne (actor), Janis Paige (actress), Janis Paige (actress), Gordon Hollingshead (producer), James Bloodworth (writer), Laurence Schwab (writer), Rocco Lanzo (actor),
Plot: In this Warner Bros. short, a Marine in a South Sea island during World War II, Joe Fingers, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities. In the words of one of his buddies, he's either the biggest liar in the world or the most important man in show business. He claims to be a piano player and his stories are brought to life in the minds of the boys, especially those that involve a pretty girl. When a piano arrives on the island in a shipment, he refuses to play, convincing the doubters that he's been telling them lies all along. They change their tune however when a Hollywood movie star stops on the island.
Keywords: braggart, chaplain, chicago-illinois, cigarette-smoking, florida, gung-ho, island, military, musician, pianist