Jim Belushi

The Unspeakable Horrors of the Meat/Plant (2011)

Actors: Austin Rice (director), Austin Rice (editor), Austin Rice (producer), Austin Rice (writer), Jake White (producer), Jake White (actor), Jake White (actor), Addison Rice (composer), Maggie Bernhard (miscellaneous crew), Doug Day (miscellaneous crew), Cameron Freitas (miscellaneous crew), Anneliese Kloster (miscellaneous crew), Sarah Lynde (miscellaneous crew), Amir Flesher (actor), Zane Perry (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: For over a year, Dr. Jesse Murphenstein and her team of scientists have been trying to create a meat and plant hybrid to stop world hunger. But when Murphenstein finally has success, the scientists soon realize they have actually created a monster so horrible that the events to followed can only be described as "The Unspeakable Horrors of the Meat/Plant".

Keywords: create, cult-film, kill, meat, meat-plant, plant, scientist, spoof
Genres: Short,

Chez Joan (2009)

Actors: Kevin Deon (actor), Kevin Deon (producer), Kevin Deon (writer), Kevin Deon (director), Kevin Deon (editor), Jim Waters (actor), Jim Waters (producer), Jim Waters (writer), Arthur Loring (actor), Kelly Hunt (producer), Kelly Hunt (actress), Kelly Hunt (writer), Mario Rossello (actor), William Fern Shaw (actor), Beverly Morgan (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,
Taglines: Washed up celebrity dip list.

Wag the Dog (1997)

Actors: Denis Leary (actor), Jay Leno (actor), James Belushi (actor), John Michael Higgins (actor), Richard Lawson (actor), George Gaynes (actor), Dustin Hoffman (actor), Woody Harrelson (actor), Merle Haggard (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), David Koechner (actor), Chris Ellis (actor), John Cho (actor), Phil Morris (actor), William H. Macy (actor),

Plot: After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisers contacts a top Hollywood producer in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media.

Keywords: airplane-accident, albania, animal-in-title, anti-psychotic, baseball-metaphor, based-on-book, based-on-novel, black-comedy, cat, cia
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: A Hollywood producer. A Washington spin-doctor. When they get together, they can make you believe anything. A comedy about truth, justice and other special effects. Why does a dog wag its tail? Because a dog is smarter than its tail. If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog.

Quotes:

Tracy Lime: What would they do to me if I did tell someone about this?::Conrad 'Connie' Brean: They could come to your house in the middle of the night and kill you.

Stanley Motss: The President will be a hero. He brought peace.::Conrad 'Connie' Brean: But there was never a war.::Stanley Motss: All the greater accomplishment.

Conrad 'Connie' Brean: A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Stanley Motss: When it's cooking, it's cooking.

Conrad 'Connie' Brean: What's the thing people remember about the Gulf War? A bomb falling down a chimney. Let me tell you something: I was in the building where we filmed that with a 10-inch model made out of Legos.::Stanley Motss: Is that true?::Conrad 'Connie' Brean: Who the hell's to say?

Stanley Motss: [Referring to Schumann] It's okay, he's not dead.::Stanley Motss: [after a gunshot is heard] Uh, strike that.

Winifred Ames: [after discovering that their "hero" is actaully a convict]::Winifred Ames: What did he do?::Stanley Motss: He raped a nun...::Winifred Ames: Oh, God. Oh, God. Jes... - Oh, God!::Stanley Motss: And...::Winifred Ames: "And"? I don't want to know an "and". Why is there an "and"?::Stanley Motss: Look, look, look, look, look. He's fine as long as he gets his medication...::Winifred Ames: And if he doesn't get his medications?::Stanley Motss: He's not fine.

Winifred Ames: Why Albania?::Conrad 'Connie' Brean: Why not?::Winifred Ames: What have they done to us?::Conrad 'Connie' Brean: What have they done FOR us? What do you know about them?::Winifred Ames: Nothing.::Conrad 'Connie' Brean: See? They keep to themselves. Shifty. Untrustable.

[Commissioned to write a propaganda song about war with Albania]::Johnny Dean: Albania's hard to rhyme.

Stanley Motss: It's all, you know, thinking ahead thinking ahead.::Conrad 'Connie' Brean: It's like being a plumber.::Stanley Motss: Yea, it's like a plumber: do your job right and nobody should notice. But when you fuck it up, everything gets full of shit.