Millington

Stanley's Dragon (1994)

Actors: John Horsley (actor), Peter Cellier (actor), Andrew Bicknell (actor), Richard Carpenter (producer), Richard Carpenter (writer), Milton Johns (actor), John Flanagan (actor), Carol MacReady (actress), Ken Jones (actor), Derek Pykett (actor), Lewis Rudd (producer), Murray McArthur (actor), Valerie Minifie (actress), Jeremy Nicholas (actor), Paul Knight (producer),

Plot: Exploring a cavern, Stanley lost his companions and found an old egg revealed by a landslide. He is overcome with joy back home when a dragon hatches from it. The authorities don't see it the same way and send the dragon to a zoo. But Stanley is convinced the dragon will die if it stays there.

Keywords: dragon, independent-film
Genres: Fantasy,
Taglines: A boy and his dragon. An unusual friendship. An unbelievable adventure.

Quotes:

Stanley Katz: Dinnertime for dinosaurs.

Stanley Katz: He couldn't be a, a dinosaur, could he?::Rosie Bennett: [laughs] Don't be silly, Stanley. Dinosaurs are... extinct. Millions of years.::Stanley Katz: Locked in a time capsule.::Rosie Bennett: Deep-frozen in a natural cryogenic chamber.::Stanley Katz, Rosie Bennett: He's a dinosaur!

Rosie Bennett: Dragon? They're mythological, Stanley. Dinosaurs really existed.::Stanley Katz: Well, how do we know that dragons didn't?::Rosie Bennett: Well, no one's found any fossils.::Stanley Katz: Because they developed much more recently than dinosaurs.::Rosie Bennett: Well, then why aren't there any dragons today?::Stanley Katz: Because we wiped them out. I've been reading all the dragon legends. What are they all about? They're all about killing dragons. And anyway, dragons can't be some kind of race memory about, of, of dinosaurs. We weren't around when dinosaurs were. We didn't show up for another 67 million years.

Stanley Katz: Ollie, I think you're about to learn why Man is the dominant species on this planet.

[after Ollie flies away]::Stanley Katz: I wonder what'll happen to him. I wonder where he'll go.::Rosie Bennett: I wonder what'll happen to us. We stole a dragon!::Stanley Katz: No, Rosie. No, we just, we saved one.

Sgt. Appleyard: Is there something else you want to tell me?::Sally Bennett: I don't think so. Except...::Sgt. Appleyard: Yes?::Sally Bennett: Well, they genuinely believe Ollie would have died in that zoo. They simply wanted to give him a chance. And after all, he is really Stanley's dragon, isn't he?

Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

Actors: Melissa J.L. Smith (miscellaneous crew), Bruce Kirby (actor), Billy Crystal (actor), Danny DeVito (director), David Newman (composer), Tony Kerum (miscellaneous crew), Marilyn Vance (costume designer), Danny DeVito (actor), Rob Reiner (actor), Peter Brocco (actor), Oprah Winfrey (actress), Kate Mulgrew (actress), Andre Rosey Brown (actor), Anne Ramsey (actress), Michael Jablow (editor),

Plot: Larry Donner is an author and writing professor who tutors people that want to write books. Larry's life has become a misery when his ex-wife Margaret has published a book he wrote under her name and has gotten rich over it. Owen Lift, one of Larry's students, offers Larry to kill Margaret, and in return Owen, wants Larry to kill his horrible mother. Larry thinks it's a joke, until he learns Owen killed his ex-wife. And Larry has now become the prime suspect.

Keywords: attempted-murder, bachelor, bad-mother, black-comedy, car-trouble, couch, crisis-of-conscience, dangerous-friend, directed-by-star, domineering-mother
Genres: Comedy, Crime,
Taglines: Owen asked his friend, Larry, for a small favor...

Quotes:

Owen: Where are you going?::Larry: I'm gonna kill the bitch. You want something?::Owen: Could you get me a Chunky?

Momma: Owen! Food!::Owen: In a minute, Momma.::Momma: Don't you "In a minute, Momma" me! Get off your fat little ass or I'll break it for you! I want two soft boiled eggs, white toast, and some of that grape jelly god damn it! And don't burn the toast!::Owen: Kill her, Larry.

Momma: He's trying to kill me! I asked for the salted nuts. He brought me the unsalted nuts. The unsalted nuts make me choke!

Momma: Who the HELL are you?::Larry: I'm Owen's friend.::Momma: Owen doesn't have a friend!::Larry: That's because he's shy.::Momma: No he's not. He's fat and he's stupid!

Larry: One little murder and I'm Jack the Ripper.

Momma: Your friend had an accident, he's dead! You go bowling and leave a corpse to take care of me!::Owen: He's dead?::Momma: See for yourself.::Owen: Larry! My friend, my friend... Larry!::Momma: "My friend! My friend!" You big crybaby. Go bury him in the yard before he stinks up the place.

Mrs. Hazeltine: [reading her manuscript] His guts oozed nice, like a melted malted.

Larry: You killed my wife, Owen!::Owen: No, I didn't... Yes, I did.::Larry: You're a sick man, Owen. You need care and I'm taking you to the police.::Owen: Did you know that Hawaii is a series of islands that was all spit up by the same volcano? I never knew that.::Larry: You killed somebody! You killed a person. You're a murderer. You took a life!::Owen: You're right. You're right, I'm no good. How could I do that? I'm a sick pers... cows! [points at passing billboard]

Larry: Remember, a writer writes always.

Larry: Hate makes you impotent, Love makes you crazy, somewhere in the middle you can survive.