Grande Dame (2009)

Actors: Anita McGee (director), Anita McGee (producer), Anita McGee (writer), Anita McGee (editor), Greg Malone (actor), Mary-Colin Chisholm (actress), Sandy Moore (composer), Sherry Smith (actress), Tara Doyle (actress), Nicole Frosst (costume designer), Jason Foote (actor), Victoria Germaine (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Grande Dame is a short in two Stand-alone parts: SEX IN SEVEN AGES and ENCORE!. In SEX IN SEVEN AGES, LILA , a trans-gendered Grande Dame of the theatre, gives a farewell performance to adoring fans. In ENCORE! three women in a small rural town pay their final respects to an eccentric relative.

Keywords: gay, independent-film
Genres: Comedy, Short,

August Rush (2007)

Actors: Andrew Jack (miscellaneous crew), Ryan Robertson (miscellaneous crew), Mark Mancina (composer), Marian Seldes (actress), Robert Greenhut (producer), Jessica Lichtner (miscellaneous crew), Mykelti Williamson (actor), Greg Nutcher (actor), Ronald Guttman (actor), William Sadler (actor), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (actor), Robin Williams (actor), Terrence Howard (actor), Jennifer Scott (miscellaneous crew), Howard Samuelsohn (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: This is a story of a music prodigy. Lyla is a renowned and beautiful cellist and Louis is a guitar player and vocalist at a club. Lyla and Louis fall in love once they meet each other following the music. Since they have different lives, they have to separate without seeing each other again. However, Lyla has had their baby - Evan, a prodigy born to music. Lyla has an accident and bears the baby but Lyla's father gives the baby to an orphanage without telling her, for fear of affecting her career. After that, both Louis and Lyla give up their music careers. Eleven years later, poor little Evan believes that his parents are waiting for him and goes to New York to find them. In New York, his musical gift leads him to success but also gives him some trouble. A monger uses Evan to make money and prevents him from achieving success. He escapes and runs into a church and people there are surprised by his gift and send him to the best music school, Juilliard. There he receives an education where his genius is recognized, and he creates his composition - August Rhapsody in C major. At the same time, Lyla and Louis both begin to play music again and Louis returns to New York. Because of his perfect performance, Evan is granted an opportunity to play his music in Central Park in front of thousands of people. There are three composers featured, of which he is the last; his mother is the cellist in the preceding performance. As Evan is conducting the orchestra in his rhapsody, Lyla and Louis come to the concert following the music again. The family finally get together!

Keywords: 1980s, abandoned-theatre, absent-father, absent-mother, african-american, baby, band, basketball, beer, biological-mother
Genres: Drama, Music,
Taglines: An incredible journey moving at the speed of sound

Quotes:

Arthur: [August puts a dollar in Arthur's guitar case] Okay citizen, you paid, any requests?::August Rush: No.::Arthur: Alrighty then!

Hope: [as August enters the room] You the one slept under my bed?::August Rush: [watches her as she plays the piano] Do you live here?::Hope: Me and my grandma do till our boat comes in. Do you like music?::August Rush: More than food.::Hope: [looks at him strangely, then continues] Do you know your notes?::August Rush: I've never seen them like that before.::Hope: See here: "Every Good Boy Does Fine" on the lines. And "F-A-C-E" in between. And "Great Big Dogs Fight Animals". And "All Cars Eat Gas". Get it?::August Rush: You're like an angel.::Hope: [thinks August is weird] Okay. I gotta go.

Wizard: You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe, a harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

Lyla Novacek: I know it sounds crazy, but I can hear him! I swear I can hear him!

Lyla Novacek: I'm trying to find my son.::Woman at Desk: Name?::Lyla Novacek: [in tears] I don't know.

Richard Jeffries: Why is it so important that you want him now?::Lyla Novacek: I've ALWAYS wanted him!::Lyla Novacek: [in tears] I've waited eleven years, two months, and fifteen days just to find out that he's alive!::[Jeffries stares at Lyla]::Lyla Novacek: [she chuckles a little] I've been counting.

August Rush: The music is all around US, all you have to do is listen.

Hope: You remember how you said Mozart was a musical pod?::Reverend James: Prodigy.::Hope: Yeah, well, I've got one of those and he's living under my bed!

Richard Jeffries: You know, a lot of kids don't want to leave their first home, because they're afraid that if they do, their parents won't be able to find them. I'm here to make sure that doesn't happen to you.::[cut to August, who has tears running down his face]

Louis Connelly: Come on. Be brave.

The Way Station (2004)

Actors: Lee Schall (actor), Carole Balkan (actress), Joe Thornton Jr. (actor), Colleen Wainwright (actress), Jonathan Wysocki (editor), Keaton Tyndall (actress), Jonathan Wysocki (producer), Jonathan Wysocki (writer), Jonathan Wysocki (director), Kylie Tyndall (actress), Karen Charnell (actress), Kari Cassellius (costume designer), Ryan Larson (actress), Jaysen Waller (actor), Kim Strassburger (actress),

Genres: Short,

Recipe for Murder (2002)

Actors: Nick Rotundo (editor), Lawrence Shragge (composer), David Perlmutter (producer), Lewis Chesler (producer), Marcia Bennett (actress), Fred Silverman (producer), Karen Robinson (actress), Carlo Rota (actor), Daniel Kash (actor), Beau Starr (actor), Martin Roach (actor), Bill Lake (actor), Craig Eldridge (actor), David Steinberg (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Whittaker (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery,

EverAfter (1998)

Actors: Jenny Beavan (costume designer), Jeanne Moreau (actress), Robin Demetriou (miscellaneous crew), Anjelica Huston (actress), Drew Barrymore (actress), George Fenton (composer), Charles Perrault (writer), Richard O'Brien (actor), Dougray Scott (actor), Toby Jones (actor), Jeroen Krabbé (actor), Timothy West (actor), Penny Eyles (miscellaneous crew), Melanie Lynskey (actress), Judy Parfitt (actress),

Plot: With the sudden death of her loving father, Danielle is made a servant by her new stepmother. She also has two new stepsisters, one quite kind but the other one really horrid. Still, Danielle grows up to be a happy and strong-willed young lady, and one day her path crosses that of handsome Prince Henry, who has troubles of his own at home. Luckily the nice Leonardo da Vinci is on hand to help all round.

Keywords: arranged-marriage, based-on-fairy-tale, bechdel-test-passed, brothers-grimm, cinderella, cinderella-story, class-differences, codpiece, death, fairy-tale
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Desire. Defy. Escape.

Quotes:

Henry: I have been born to privilege, and with that comes specific obligations.::Leonardo da Vinci: Horseshit.

Leonardo da Vinci: You cannot leave everything to fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand.

Rodmilla: Some people read because they cannot think for themselves.

Danielle: Forgive me, Your Highness, I did not see you.::Henry: Your aim would suggest otherwise.

Maurice: [to Danielle] I thought I was looking at your mother.

Rodmilla: You are not my problem anymore.::Danielle: Is that what I am, your problem? I have done everything you've asked me to do and still you deny me the only thing I ever wanted!::Rodmilla: And what was that?::Danielle: What do you think? You are the only mother I have ever known. Was there ever a time, even in its smallest measurement, that you loved me at all?::Rodmilla: How can anyone love a pebble in their shoe?

Henry: Am I to understand that you find me... arrogant?::Danielle: Well, you gave one man back his life but did you even glance at the others?

Danielle: Well you gave one man back his life but did you even glance at the others? [Danielle tries to get away while Henry is distracted by the criminals' wagon]::Henry: Please, I beg of you. A name. Any name.::Danielle: I fear that the only name I can leave you with is Comtesse Nicole de Lancret.::Henry: There now... that wasn't so hard.

Danielle: These are my mother's!::Marguerite: Yes, and she's dead.

King Francis: [half-asleep] Off... with his head...

Chanel Solitaire (1981)

Actors: Catherine Allégret (actress), Leslie Caron (actress), Humbert Balsan (actor), Timothy Dalton (actor), Philippe Mareuil (actor), Karen Black (actress), Jeremy Child (actor), Philippe Nicaud (actor), Jean-Gabriel Nordmann (actor), Jean-Marie Proslier (actor), David Gabison (actor), Yves Brainville (actor), Rutger Hauer (actor), Lambert Wilson (actor), Yvonne Dany (actress),

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Emilienne d'Alençon: [recognizing the man accompanying Coco Chanel] Small demi-monde, *hein*?

Gals, Incorporated (1943)

Actors: Dorothy Vaughan (actress), Leon Errol (actor), Harry Strang (actor), Gwen Kenyon (actress), John Hamilton (actor), Will Cowan (producer), Rebel Randall (actress), Spec O'Donnell (actor), Oscar O'Shea (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Lorin Raker (actor), Jack Rice (actor), Walter Soderling (actor), Dave Gould (writer), Lew Davis (actor),

Plot: "Gals, Incorporated" is a nightclub sponsored by elderly playboy Cornelius Rensington III that features Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, with all the other employees and entertainers being beautiful girls. Molly is president of the corporation and Gwen is head of the executive staff. Jennifer Rensington, Cornelius' sister, threatens to cut off his share of the family income unless he settles down and gets married. The girls persuade the unwilling Molly to pose as Cornelius' wife. The sister arrives with Bill Rensington, Cornelius' son by a former marriage. Molly, while attracted to Bill, has to play out her role and Bill, thinking she has married his father for his money, turns his attention to Gwen, a scheming mercenary. Gwen arranges for Bill to cross the state line with her and get married, but Cornelius and the other girls catch up before the ceremony can be performed. Bill is told the truth about the hoax, and gathers Molly up in his arms.

Keywords: 1940s, acrobat, b-movie, band, big-city, blonde, brother-sister-relationship, chase, cigar-smoking, cigarette-girl
Genres: Comedy, Music, Romance,
Taglines: STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! For the Fun Show with Music...Comedy...Romance!