The Informers (2008)
Actors:
Ivan Doroschuk (actor),
Derek DuChesne (actor),
Evans Forde (actor),
Jon Foster (actor),
Aaron Himelstein (actor),
Rhys Ifans (actor),
Chris Isaak (actor),
Diego Klattenhoff (actor),
Diego Leske (actor),
Patrick Mapel (actor),
Brady Matthews (actor),
Noli McCool (actor),
Gabriel Miller (actor),
Austin Nichols (actor),
Fernando Consagra (actor),
Plot: Loosely connected stories capture a week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.
Keywords: 1980s, aids, attractive-girl-with-braces, band-manager, bandaged-hand, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, bathing, bathtub
Genres:
Crime,
Drama,
Thriller,
Taglines: Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
Quotes:
Susan Sloan: [dryly, to a topless Christie] Nice shirt.
The American President (1995)
Actors:
Jeffrey Anderson (actor),
Anthony Backman (actor),
Thom Barry (actor),
Beau Billingslea (actor),
Augie Blunt (actor),
Kurt Boesen (actor),
Ron Canada (actor),
Frank Cavestani (actor),
Tom Dahlgren (actor),
Michael Douglas (actor),
Richard Dreyfuss (actor),
Arthur Eckdahl (actor),
Michael J. Fox (actor),
David Drew Gallagher (actor),
Michael G. Alexander (actor),
Plot: Andrew Shepherd is approaching the end of his first term as President of the United States. He's a widower with a young daughter and has proved to be popular with the public. His election seems assured. That is until he meets Sydney Ellen Wade, a paid political activist working for an environmental lobby group. He's immediately smitten with her and after several amusing attempts, they finally manage to go on a date (which happens to be a State dinner for the visiting President of France). His relationship with Wade opens the door for his prime political opponent, Senator Bob Rumson, to launch an attack on the President's character, something he could not do in the previous election as Shepherd's wife had only recently died.
Keywords: bouquet-of-roses, camp-david, chief-of-staff, christmas, cult-film, dating, diplomatic-reception, environmental-issues, environmentalist, flag-burning
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Romance,
Taglines: Why can't the most powerful man in the world have the one thing he wants most?
Quotes:
President Andrew Shepherd: I want to buy her some flowers. That's what men do when they break a date.::Robin McCall: That's not what men do. I know no men who do that.
[Looking through Andrew Shepherd's college transcript]::Sydney Ellen Wade: Oh, Andy, a C minus in Women's Studies.::President Andrew Shepherd: Yeah, well, that class wasn't about what I thought it was about.
[Ushering Sydney out of the White House after spending her first night there]::President Andrew Shepherd: I'm sorry about this. We'll do it better next time.::Sydney Ellen Wade: Well, I'm no expert but I think we did it pretty good this time.
Lewis Rothschild: Can I just state very clearly I can't be part of anything illegal.::A.J.: Good for you, Lewis.::Lewis Rothschild: Say what you want. It's always the guy in my job that ends up doing 18 months in Danbury minimum security prison.
Lewis Rothschild: Who're we calling, sir?::President Andrew Shepherd: I'm calling the Organization of the United Brotherhood of It's None of Your Damn Business, Lewis. I'll be with you in a second.
[ dancing at a state dinner]::Sydney Ellen Wade: I don't know how you do it.::President Andrew Shepherd: It's Arthur Murray. Six lessons.::Sydney Ellen Wade: That's not what I mean. Two hundred pairs of eyes are focused on you with two questions on their minds - who's this girl, and why is the President dancing with her?::President Andrew Shepherd: Well, first of all, the two hundred pairs of eyes aren't focused on me. They're focused on you. And the answers are Sydney Ellen Wade, and because she said yes.
President Andrew Shepherd: You're attracted to me, but the idea of physical intimacy is uncomfortable because you only know me as the President. But it's not always going to be that way, and the reason I know that is there was a moment last night when you were with ME, not the President. And I know what a big step that was for you. So, Sydney, I'm in no rush. Here's my plan. We're going to slow down, and when you're comfortable, that's when it's going to happen.::[Sydney emerges from the bathroom wearing nothing but one of his shirts]::President Andrew Shepherd: Perhaps I didn't properly explain the fundamentals of the slowdown plan.::Sydney Ellen Wade: [feeling the bed] No, you explained it great.::President Andrew Shepherd: Are you nervous?::Sydney Ellen Wade: No.::President Andrew Shepherd: Good. My nervousness exists on... several levels. Number one, and this is in no particular order, I haven't done this in a pretty long time. Number two, uh, any expectations that you might have, given the fact that I'm... you know...::Sydney Ellen Wade: [approaching seductively] The most powerful man in the world?::President Andrew Shepherd: Exactly, thank you. I think it's important you remember that's a political distinction that comes with the office. I mean, if, uh, Eisenhower were here instead of me, he'd be dead by now... and number three...::Sydney Ellen Wade: Andy...::[she kisses him]
[Right before their first kiss]::Sydney Ellen Wade: Do you think this is a good idea?::President Andrew Shepherd: Probably not.
Sydney Ellen Wade: Mr. President, you've got bigger problems than losing me. You just lost my vote.
A. J. MacInerney: The President doesn't answer to you, Lewis!::Lewis Rothschild: Oh, yes he does A.J. I'm a citizen, this is my President. And in this country it is not only permissible to question our leaders it's our responsibility!