The Hacks (2011)

Actors: Moreen Littrell (director), Moreen Littrell (editor), Moreen Littrell (actress), Moreen Littrell (producer), Moreen Littrell (writer), John Winscher (actor), Alisha Gaddis (actress), Evan O'Brien (actor), Brandon Moynihan (actor), Renee Gauthier (actress), Megan Swertlow (actress), Ruaridh Crighton (miscellaneous crew), Alli Breen (actress), Michelle Phillipe (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Short,
Taglines: 10 Comedians. 1 Tour. No Joke. 10 Comics. 1 Tour. No Joke.

Blind Faith (1998)

Actors: Louis Di Bianco (actor), Bill Lake (actor), Courtney B. Vance (actor), Aron Tager (actor), Lisa Shamata (miscellaneous crew), Mace Neufeld (producer), Zachary Bennett (actor), Charles S. Dutton (actor), Peter MacNeill (actor), Shawn Lawrence (actor), Kadeem Hardison (actor), Warner Strauss (miscellaneous crew), Victor Ertmanis (actor), James Purcell (actor), Richard Yearwood (actor),

Plot: In 1957, black lawyer John Williams has to defend his nephew Charlie, who is accused of strangling a white boy to death. John doesn't believe Charlie did it, and although Charlie confesses, John wants to find out the real truth.

Keywords: brother-brother-relationship, courtroom, gay-interest, hate-crime, homosexual, independent-film, murder
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: What would you be willing to sacrifice to keep your family secrets? How can you defend someone who won't defend himself?

Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)

Actors: Halle Berry (actress), Deborah Ricketts (miscellaneous crew), Clifton Powell (actor), Vivica A. Fox (actress), Carlease Burke (actress), Stephen Nemeth (producer), Miguel A. Núñez Jr. (actor), Jon Huertas (actor), Lane Smith (actor), Shashawnee Hall (actor), Ben Vereen (actor), Paul Mazursky (actor), Little Richard (actor), Charles Walker (actor), Pamela Reed (actress),

Plot: In the mid-1980s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager Morris Levy. One is a singer from Los Angeles, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philadelphia; one teaches high school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman, a boyish, high-pitched, dynamic performer, lost to heroin. Slowly, the three widows come together and establish their own bond.

Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, absent-without-leave, african-american, anger, animal-cruelty, attorney, attraction, audience, based-on-true-story
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,
Taglines: The story of three very different women.....with one husband in common. Three different women married Frankie Lymon. Now as they fight to get a piece of his millions, They will have to prove who married him first and who loved him most. Based on a true story of love, music and money.

Quotes:

Frankie Lymon: How come you keep stepping on my heart?::Zola Taylor: You prefer I pee on it? That's what's going to happen if you don't let me off this bus.

Frankie Lymon: [grabs Zola as she enters backstage and kisses her] Baby, you are one fine thing.::Zola Taylor: [slaps Frankie]::Young Little Richard: Ooh! Ouch! You want me to get you some ice?

Emira Eagle: That was the last time I saw him... alive. About a week later, Frankie's brother called to tell me that Frankie had overdosed.

Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters: I loved Frankie! And yes, I would have done aynthing, ANYTHING to save his life!

Frankie Lymon: Do you love him?::Zola Taylor: I told you, Frankie. He's a nice, good man...::Frankie Lymon: I didn't ask that! I asked you do you love him?::Zola Taylor: YES! I love him, okay?::Frankie Lymon: Oh, no, no... You said that marriage would tie you down. You just didn't want to be tied down to me.::Zola Taylor: No, I never said that, Frankie.::Frankie Lymon: Oh, yeah, that's what you said. Now, let me tell you something. You gonna always be tied down to me. Whether you like it ot not. We're like magnets...::[forcefully kisses Zola]::Zola Taylor: [pushes Frankie away] Mm-mmm. Don't do this to me, Frankie.::Frankie Lymon: Don't leave me right now, Zola.::Zola Taylor: [flashes ring] I'm married.::Frankie Lymon: No, that was a mistake! That was a mistake!::Zola Taylor: NO! I got a life, baby, and it ain't gonna include you. Now you got to go. GET OUT!

Ezra Grahme: [while questioning Emira Eagle] Ma'am, do you hold any degrees?::Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters: Is the Pope an old white man?::Emira Eagle: I have a Bachelor's degree in Social Studies as well as a Bachelor's degree in Education.

Zola Taylor: [about Frankie] That flat-footed little weirdo played all of us.

Frankie Lymon: Hey, what kind of dog is that?::Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters: A somma dog.::Frankie Lymon: Somma dog?::Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters: Yeah! Somma this, somma that!

Emira Eagle: I thought he was talented.::Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters: Okay. He COULD sing.::Zola Taylor: He could SING me right out of my panties!

Frankie Lymon: [after receiving a restaurant bill] You better let me take care of this. Cause if you haven't heard, my record's #3! [Teenagers yell in agreement]::Zola Taylor: No, you better let ME take of this. Cause if you haven't heard, MY record's #1!

Up the Down Staircase (1967)

Actors: Frances Sternhagen (actress), Fred Karlin (composer), Folmar Blangsted (editor), Bud Cort (actor), Ann Roth (costume designer), Jean Stapleton (actress), Alan J. Pakula (producer), Eileen Heckart (actress), Sorrell Booke (actor), Esther Rolle (actress), Sandy Dennis (actress), Roy Poole (actor), Robert Mulligan (director), Florence Stanley (actress), Linda Gillen (actress),

Plot: Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries. How she handles the chaos and her despair in her first semester makes up the film: a promising student drops out, another sleeps through class, a girl with a crush on a male teacher gets suicidal, and a bright but troublesome student misunderstands Sylvia's reaching out. A discussion of Dickens, parents' night, and a mock trial highlight the term. Can she make it?

Keywords: actor-shares-full-name-with-character, african-american, against-the-system, attempted-suicide, based-on-novel, book, bureaucracy, cap-and-gown, class, confrontation
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Simple words that start a war: "Good morning. My name is Miss Barrett. I am your Home Room teacher..." The year's #1 best seller picks you up and never lets you down. The first mistake this pretty young teacher made was to get off the bus. The second was to walk into Calvin Coolidge High School for the first time. The third was to fall in love with it. Simple words that could start a war. Up The Down Staircase, is the story of a girl who fell in love with a monster... (The Girl is Sylvia Barrett. Occupation: Brand new teacher)

Quotes:

[Frequently Over Intercom]::Mrs. Finch: Disregard all bells.

[Suggesting a teaching method]::Paul Barringer: Ever tried "punctuation sex", Henrietta? Hyphens are kisses, commas are maybes, and a period is a definite no. And then of course, there's the... limitless realms of semicolons and apostrophes. I shudder to think what an exclamation point might mean.

Sylvia Barrett: When I finally get the chance, the first few precious minutes to talk to them about something I want them to understand, and I find that I am some kind of enemy... the butt of some enormous joke.

[Lou Martin gives an oral book report]::Lou Martin: My book is...::Sylvia Barrett: [Correcting his grammar] The book you read.::Lou Martin: Yeah. The title is called "MacBeth," by Shakespeare.::Sylvia Barrett: [Correcting his grammar, again] The title 'is.'::Lou Martin: [Finishing her sentence]"... MacBeth."::Sylvia Barrett: Isn't "MacBeth" required reading for last english term?::Lou Martin: I ain't never read it before.::Sylvia Barrett: [Correcting his grammar, again] I' ve never read it.::Lou Martin: Me neither. [Class laughter] In this book, the author depix...::Sylvia Barrett: [Correcting his grammar, again]"De-picts."::Lou Martin: Depix how this guy, he wants to...::Sylvia Barrett: [Correcting his grammar, and beginning to lose track]: Who.::Lou Martin: Him.::Sylvia Barrett: [Correcting his grammar ,again] He.::Lou Martin: Yeah.::Sylvia Barrett: [Giving up trying to correct him] All right, what is the theme of MacBeth?::Lou Martin: Well, the author narrates this murder. [Pretending to be strangled to death] Uhh! Ugh! Ugh! Uhh! Uhh! Strangling! Uhh Ughh!...::[Class breaks out in laughter, and eventually Miss Barrett does too]

[Defending her inability to treat an abused student]::Nurse Frances Eagen: I give them tea. At least that's something.

Joe Ferone: I've just seen your type before, that's all. There's one every year. "Not living up to your potential," they say. Is that what you were going to say, teach? "Just wanna help you, Joe?" "Just wanna be your friend?" Then they get to feeling very sorry for your about your "environmental factors", and your "low socio-economic level". Till you've just have to tell 'em; "Get your nose outta my environmental factors, will ya? Keep your damn hands off my potential"... and then they turn you in.

[Mr. McHabe notices Miss Barrett walking towards class with a homemade suggestion box]::J.J. McHabe: Oh. Suggestions, Miss Barrett, ahh? I must say you've got guts.::Sylvia Barrett: It's just an idea, Mr. McHabe. It seems to me that if the students have a chance to speak freely without fear of punishment...::J.J. McHabe: Listen, you start running this school with ideas, you'll have riots in your rooms. Fear - That's all they understand.

Sylvia Barrett: If you deny what you know, or what you are, or where you are, you deny the simplest part of being alive, and then you die.

Paul Barringer: They say a writer should stick to what he knows. What nonsense. What did Dickens know about French Revolutions? What did Shakespeare know about Moors in Venice? If he stuck to what he knew, we'd have no Othello, we'd have no Alice in Wonderland, we'd have no Treasure Island. You brats think that I and Miss Barrett stand up there day after day, talking about books, and the writing of books, just for the hell of it? You think it's got nothing to do with YOU? A writer creates a book. And individual creates a life. For a writer to create a masterpiece, he's got to think beyond what he knows. For an individual to create a life, even a half-way decent one, he's gotta go beyond what he knows. Go beyond the poverty, the dope the disease, the degeneracy. Go beyond the oceans to the alps... a magnificent replica of which the board of education has generously donated. Stick with what you think, and that's what you're gonna be stuck with. You may as well get out. Now! All of you... Miss Barrett's class dismissed. All of you dismissed for the rest of your crummy lives. Some of you prefer to leave by the window. I prefer to leave by the door. Punch me out. Will ya, Teach?

Sylvia Barrett: The theme of MacBeth is that too much ambition can lead to ruthless ambition, and end up in disaster. That's what words are for - to be used. Who can tell me what "ruthless" means? Joe?::[Gets no response, decides to ask... ]::Sylvia Barrett: Eddie?::Eddie Williams: Steps all over.::Sylvia Barrett: Use it in a sentence.::Eddie Williams: Steps all over, like white people. I know because I'm colored.

The Flamingo Affair (1948)

Actors: Horace Shepherd (composer), Horace Shepherd (producer), Horace Shepherd (director), Arthur Chesney (actor), Michael Anthony (actor), Stéphane Grappelli (actor), Ray Ellington (actor), George Shearing (actor), Geoffrey Wilmer (actor), Denis Webb (actor), Maurice Moiseiwitsch (writer), Maurice Moiseiwitsch (writer), Pamela Foster (actress), Charmian Innes (actress), Vega Stewart (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Crime, Drama,

Heading for Heaven (1947)

Actors: Dick Elliott (actor), John Elliott (actor), Stuart Erwin (actor), Milburn Stone (actor), Harry Tyler (actor), Ben Welden (actor), Charles Williams (actor), Glenda Farrell (actress), Jody Gilbert (actress), Mary Newton (actress), Irene Ryan (actress), Lewis D. Collins (writer), Lewis D. Collins (director), Martin G. Cohn (editor), Selmer Jackson (actor),

Plot: Stuart Erwin plays a small-town real estate agent who owns much property which, for several generations, has failed to sell even while the town has grown. It becomes know, except to Erwin, that the property is being considered for the new airport and the owner will make a small fortune. He is swarmed upon by an unscrupulous swami (Russ Vincent)and his equally-crooked business partner, and Erwin is soon convinced that he hasn't long to live. With his life a mess, he leaves home and family.

Keywords: based-on-play, three-word-title
Genres: Comedy,

The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)

Actors: Eddie Albert (actor), Paul Hurst (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Glen Cavender (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), John Dilson (actor), William Gould (actor), Eddie Graham (actor), Alan Hale (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Charles Halton (actor), Carl Harbaugh (actor), Max Hoffman Jr. (actor), George Irving (actor),

Plot: Perpetual-optimist "Dreamy" Smith aspires to quit his job as newspaper publicity drudge and sail the world. But life--and his editor--conspires against him. Not only does the car he intends using as the boat's downpayment roll into the bay, but his boss starts to claim "Dreamy's" better publicity ideas as his own.

Keywords: advertising, automobile, automobile-accident, award, bar, christmas, cripple, doctor, duplicity, employer-employee-relationship
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: YOU KNOW HIM! Just another guy...until he met THE girl!

The Kid from Spain (1932)

Actors: Julian Rivero (actor), Walter Walker (actor), Paul Porcasi (actor), Noah Beery (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Stanley Fields (actor), Eddie Foster (actor), Eddie Cantor (actor), Harry Gribbon (actor), Ben Hendricks Jr. (actor), John Miljan (actor), J. Carrol Naish (actor), Robert Emmett O'Connor (actor), Paul Panzer (actor), Leo Willis (actor),

Plot: Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie gets mixed up in a bank robbery and is forced to drive the robbers to safety. To get rid of him they force him to leave the USA for Mexico, but a cop is following him. Eddie meets Ricardo there, Ricardo helps him avoid being arrested by the cop when he introduces Eddie as the great Spanish bullfighter Don Sebastian II. The problem is, the cop is still curious and has tickets for the bullfight. Eddie's situation becomes more critical, when he tries to help Ricardo to win the girl he loves, but she's engaged to a "real" Mexican, who is, unknown to her father, involved in illegal business. While trying to avoid all this trouble, Eddie himself falls in love with his friend's girl friend's sister Rosalie, who also want to see the great Don Sebastian II to kill the bull in the arena.

Keywords: american-abroad, bandit, bank, bank-robbery, blackface, bull, bullfight, cafe, chloroform, co-ed
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,

Quotes:

Gonzales: What's wrong with you? Your eyes? You need glasses?::Eddie Williams aka Don Sebastian II: Yeah, with beer in em.

Eddie Williams aka Don Sebastian II: [after Rosalie drops the key down her dress] ...the key to the whole situation somewhere between Tijuana and the border!

Gonzales: Are you going to Mexico to live?::Eddie Williams aka Don Sebastian II: Yes - if I don't go to Mexico, I won't live.

Eddie Williams aka Don Sebastian II: I was gonna tell you the one about my uncle. He fell down the well. You know what happened? He kicked the bucket.

Sombras de gloria (1930)

Actors: Francisco Marán (actor), George W. Weeks (miscellaneous crew), Arthur Tavares (editor), José Bohr (actor), Andrew L. Stone (director), Tito Davison (actor), Enrique Acosta (actor), Juan Duval (actor), Juan Torena (actor), Demetrius Alexis (actor), Fred Godoy (actor), Mona Rico (actress), O.E. Goebel (miscellaneous crew), Carlos Molina (actor), César Vanoni (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Blaze o' Glory (1929)

Actors: George W. Weeks (miscellaneous crew), Frankie Darro (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Broderick O'Farrell (actor), Ferdinand Schumann-Heink (actor), Henry B. Walthall (actor), Dick Winslow (actor), Betty Compson (actress), George Crone (director), Eddie Conrad (actor), Henry McCarty (writer), Renaud Hoffman (director), Renaud Hoffman (writer), Eddie Dowling (actor), O.E. Goebel (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Crime, Musical, War,