Fist Bump (2012)

Actors: Joel Anger (actor), Eric Simons (actor), Eric Simons (writer), Eric Simons (director), Eric Simons (editor), Tony Ly (actor),

Plot: Neil (Eric Simons) and Trey (Tony Ly) are on their lunch break from work when their conversation is interrupted by an old face (Joel Anger) from Neil's high school. The situation goes from odd to ridiculous as the high school reject, Davis, continues to make efforts to impress Neil and Trey. When the childish outcast seeks his ultimate form of approval through trying to get a fist bump and is subsequently denied by Neil, he obsessively pursues social acceptance. An outrageously strange set of confrontations ensues.

Genres: Comedy, Short,

1313: Haunted Frat (2011)

Actors: David DeCoteau (producer), Danny Draven (editor), David DeCoteau (director), Harry Manfredini (composer), Edgar Allan Poe (writer), Marco Colombo (producer), Derek North (actor), Moses Rutegar (writer), Graham Rogers (actor), David Flannery (actor), Jake Madden (actor), Luke Allen (actor), Adam Phebus (actor), Kristen Glass (actress), Freddy Roy (actor),

Genres: Horror,

Christmas Comes Home to Canaan (2011)

Actors: Howard Braunstein (producer), Fernando Szew (producer), Malcolm Stewart (actor), John Sereda (composer), Billy Ray Cyrus (actor), Neill Fearnley (director), Neill Fearnley (actor), Neill Fearnley (producer), Ted Bauman (producer), Ted Bauman (producer), Margaret Loesch (producer), Carolyn Adair (actress), Simon Chin (actor), Gina Holden (actress), Julian Christopher (actor),

Plot: In the story, Daniel's son Bobber needs extensive orthopedic surgery and months of intensive physical therapy to recover from being struck down by an automobile. Rodney Freeman, the young black man who Daniel took into his home and raised as another son, has become a famous writer and offers to fly Daniel and Bobber to San Francisco and to pay for the surgery. Once in San Francisco, Daniel meets and falls for Briony Adair, a physical rehabilitation specialist who will be working toward Bobber's recovery. When therapy progresses slowly, Bobber invites Briony to come home to Canaan to spend Christmas with the Burtons and continue his treatment. Briony is a natural at caring for a thriving family, but Sarah, Daniel's daughter distances herself not wanting to dishonor her late mother's memory, and a disastrous Christmas visit drives Daniel and Briony apart. In the soul searching that follows, Daniel finds the strength to open his heart again and invite love back into his life.

Keywords: christmas
Genres: Drama, Family,

Jackie Goldberg Private Dick (2011)

Actors: Lin Shaye (actress), Jackie Mason (writer), Steven Bauer (actor), Tom Nowicki (actor), Jackie Mason (actor), Mario Cantone (actor), Davy Jones (actor), Audrey Landers (actress), Abby Wathen (actress), Betty Chin (miscellaneous crew), Todd Vittum (actor), Shalim Ortiz (actor), Melinda Taksen (miscellaneous crew), Justin Dec (miscellaneous crew), John Archie (actor),

Plot: Jackie Goldberg (Jackie Mason) is coming to the end of his career as a Miami private detective; in debt, out of luck and down in the dumps until fate brings him an unlikely partner: 16 year old Mateo Rodriguez. Jackie and Mateo embark on a journey to exonerate Mateo's mother and catch the real bad guys. And throw in time for some action with the ladies, a little nosh and a life lesson or two.

Genres: Comedy,

Her (2010)

Actors: Sheridan O'Donnell (actor), Ben Munguia (producer), Christopher Owings (editor), Christopher Owings (director), Jacob Bayless (editor), Christopher Owings (writer), Jade Diaz (actor), Ben Adams (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Actors: Samantha Morton (actress), Lynn Cohen (actress), Catherine Keener (actress), Jennifer Jason Leigh (actress), John Rothman (actor), Hope Davis (actress), Philip Seymour Hoffman (actor), Tim Guinee (actor), Kevin Cannon (actor), Alice Drummond (actress), Tom Noonan (actor), Josh Pais (actor), Michael Higgins (actor), Dianne Wiest (actress), Emily Watson (actress),

Plot: Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele, a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany's art scene, sneers at him from every corner. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy Barnathan, the actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play, is a bit too perfect for the part, and is making it difficult for Caden to revive his relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel. Meanwhile, his therapist, Madeline Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. His is second daughter, Ariel, is disabled. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. As the years rapidly pass, Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. Populating the cast and crew with doppelgangers, he steadily blurs the line between the world of the play and that of his own deteriorating reality. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.

Keywords: abstract-art, absurdism, actor, actress, adultery, airliner, alienation, allegory, alternative-reality, anger
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Caden Cotard: I don't menstruate, so I don't know how I could smell like I'm menstruating.

Caden Cotard: I know how to do it now. There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.

Minister: Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.

Caden Cotard: I don't think you should tell her she doesn't have blood...

Sammy Barnathan: I've watched you forever, Caden, but you've never really looked at anyone other than yourself. So watch me. Watch my heart break. Watch me jump. Watch me learn that after death there's nothing. There's no more watching. There's no more following. No love. Say goodbye to Hazel for me. And say it to yourself, too. None of us has much time.

[over radio]::Millicent Weems: What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone's experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone's everyone. So you are Adele, Hazel, Claire, Olive. You are Ellen. All her meager sadnesses are yours; all her loneliness; the gray, straw-like hair; her red raw hands. It's yours. It is time for you to understand this.::Millicent Weems: Walk.::Millicent Weems: As the people who adore you stop adoring you; as they die; as they move on; as you shed them; as you shed your beauty; your youth; as the world forgets you; as you recognize your transience; as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one; as you learn there is no-one watching you, and there never was, you think only about driving - not coming from any place; not arriving any place. Just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, at 7:43. Now you are here, at 7:44. Now you are...::Millicent Weems: Gone.

Millicent Weems: [voice over] Now it is waiting and nobody cares. And when you're wait is over this room will still exist and it will continue to hold shoes and dress and boxes and maybe someday another waiting person. And maybe not. The room doesn't care either.

Millicent Weems: Glad to be weirdly close.

Tammy: I feel ok, mostly... fucking might help.

Caden Cotard: I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't

You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)

Actors: Fikret Hakan (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), Leo Gordon (writer), Patrick Magee (actor), Horst Janson (actor), Mümtaz Alpaslan (actor), Michèle Mercier (actress), Grégoire Aslan (actor), John Alderson (actor), Leo Gordon (actor), Charles Bronson (actor), Yüksel Gözen (actor), Salih Güney (actor), Renée Glynne (miscellaneous crew), Nosher Powell (actor),

Plot: Two former U.S. Army soldiers, Adam Dyer and Josh Corey, join a band of Turkish mercenaries in 1922 Turkey whom are hired by Osman Bey, a local governor, to escort his tree daughters to Smyran and to protect a gold shipment that is to accompany them. Nobody is aware that Elci, a local colonel, plans to seal the gold for himself, while a rebel general persuses all parties involved.

Keywords: air-strike, airplane, ambush, attack, battle, battlefield, bolt-action-rifle, bombardment, cannon, cavalry
Genres: Adventure, Comedy,
Taglines: Two soldiers of fortune matching wits and guns against the armies of two nations!

The Golden Arrow (1936)

Actors: Eddie Acuff (actor), William Arnold (actor), George Brent (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), Hobart Cavanaugh (actor), Glen Cavender (actor), Steve Clark (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Jay Eaton (actor), Dick Foran (actor), Earle Foxe (actor), Sol Gorss (actor), Eddie Hart (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor),

Plot: A cafeteria cashier is hired by a cosmetic firm's publicity agent to live the life of Daisy Appleby, heiress to a fortune. Gossip about her will keep the Appleby name in the forefront. She proposes a marriage of convenience to reporter Johnny Jones (she can avoid fortune hunters, on her wealth he can write his novel). Johnny is unwilling to play escort at all her social affairs. After he is arrested for speeding, and on probation, she insists on it. In spite, he makes advances toward Hortense, the daughter of an oil tycoon, who tells him Daisy is a phoney.

Keywords: author, cosmetics-industry, deception, florida, fortune-hunter, heiress, honeymoon, jealousy, marriage-of-convenience, new-york-city
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Here She Is! The 1935 Academy Award Winner in her first picture since winning filmdom's highest honor - - the story of that famous "richest girl in the world" from Michael Arlen's daring tale of Florida's frenzied socialites!

Craig's Wife (1936)

Actors: Robert Allen (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), John Boles (actor), James P. Burtis (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Thomas Mitchell (actor), Billie Burke (actress), Nell Craig (actress), Jane Darwell (actress), Bess Flowers (actress), Elisabeth Risdon (actress), Rosalind Russell (actress), Nydia Westman (actress), Edward Chodorov (producer), Harry Cohn (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Harriet Craig: I'm all alone in the house now... [turning to see the door closing behind her] Wait! don't go!

Whirlpool (1934)

Actors: Lowden Adams (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Max Barwyn (actor), Jack Baxley (actor), Oscar Apfel (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Harry Bowen (actor), James Bradbury Jr. (actor), Edward Cecil (actor), Donald Cook (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Jack Curtis (actor), James Dime (actor),

Plot: Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for him Rankin forges a letter from the warden's office informing Helen that Rankin drowned while attempting to escape. Twenty years later Rankin is released from prison, changes his name to "Duke Sheldon", and eventually becomes a nightclub owner with ties to the mob. Helen has remarried - to a local judge - and daughter Sandra has become a reporter. When it's learned that notoriously camera-shy "Duke Sheldon" will be providing a mobster's alibi at a high-profile trial Sandra is sent to write an exposé. She immediately recognizes Rankin from a photo her mother kept, and father and daughter have a tearful reunion. Now Rankin must decide what to do: testify at the trial, revealing his identity and exposing Helen as an unintentional bigamist. Or refuse to testify, protecting Helen and Sandra but angering the mob.

Keywords: 1930s, alias, automobile, b-movie, bigamy, brawl, carnival, carnival-barker, cell-mate, chauffeur
Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance,