Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Actors:
John Michael Higgins (actor),
Simon Helberg (actor),
Ed Helms (actor),
Jack Black (actor),
D.T. Carney (actor),
Geoffrey Gould (actor),
Patrick Duffy (actor),
Matt Besser (actor),
Tim Bagley (actor),
Don Abernathy (actor),
Raymond J. Barry (actor),
Don Abernathy (actor),
Paul Feig (actor),
Rance Howard (actor),
Jonah Hill (actor),
Plot: The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox, whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 36 kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to - and then kicks - every drug known to man; but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman - longtime backup singer Darlene.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, accidental-suicide, addiction, animated-sequence, backstage
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Music,
Taglines: Life made him tough. Love made him strong. Music made him hard.
Quotes:
Darlene: You know I suffer the same temptations you do. Sometimes when I'm lyin' in bed, I ache for a man's touch... and by a man's touch, I mean a penis in my vagina.
Ma Cox: I'm just so glad you learned to play the guitar so good... even without having a sense of smell!::Dewey Cox: It's okay mama, I learned how to play by ear.
[after Dewey accidentally barges in a room filled with smoke and groupies]::Sam: [coughs] Get outta here, Dewey!::Dewey Cox: What are y'all doin' in here?::Sam: We're smoking reefer and you don't want no part of this shit.::Dewey Cox: You're smoking *reefers*?::Sam: Yeah, 'course we are; can't you smell it?::Dewey Cox: [Dewey doesn't have a sense of smell] No, Sam. I can't.::Reefer Girl: Come on, Dewey! Join the party!::[takes a hit off a joint]::Sam: No, Dewey, you don't want this. Get outta here!::Dewey Cox: You know what, I don't want no hangover. I can't get no hangover.::Sam: It doesn't give you a hangover!::Dewey Cox: Wha-I get addicted to it or something?::Sam: It's not habit-forming!::Dewey Cox: Oh, okay... well, I don't know... I don't want to overdose on it.::Sam: You can't OD on it!::Dewey Cox: It's not gonna make me wanna have sex, is it?::Sam: It makes sex even better!::Dewey Cox: Sounds kind of expensive.::Sam: It's the cheapest drug there is.::Dewey Cox: [at a loss and out of excuses] Hmm.::Sam: You don't want it!::Dewey Cox: I think I kinda want it.::Sam: Okay, but just this once. Come on in.
Edith: It's illegal to be married to two people at the same time, Dewey!::Dewey Cox: What about if, if you're famous?
Elvis Presley: It's called Karate, man. Only two kinds of people know it, The Chinese and The King. And one of them is me.
Dewey Cox: You know what? Go ahead! Take the children, I don't care! All I need is my music. I don't need you. [pointing to the babies] And I don't need "you". And I don't need "you". And I don't need "you". You're just sitting there all high and mighty in your diaper. If anything, you need me, you're a baby.
[singing while moving hay]::Pa Cox: The wrong kid died / The wrong kid died...
Dewey Cox: [speaking of his complex song] It's still not finished yet. I'm hearing... more Aboriginal percussionists. And I want an army of digeridoos. Fifty thousand digeridoos!
[repeated line]::Sam: And you never once paid for drugs. Not once!
Edith: What about my dreams?::Dewey Cox: Edith I told you I can't build your candy house! It will fall apart, the sun will melt the candy, it won't work!
Holy Man (1998)
Actors:
Eric McCormack (actor),
Brett Rice (actor),
Marc Macaulay (actor),
Robert Loggia (actor),
Eugene Levy (actor),
Eddie Murphy (actor),
Marc Macaulay (actor),
Marc C. Geschwind (actor),
James Brown (actor),
Patrick Bauchau (actor),
Jon Cryer (actor),
Jeff Goldblum (actor),
Antoni Corone (actor),
Florence Henderson (actress),
Morgan Fairchild (actress),
Plot: Ricky Hayman, right hand of Good Buy Shopping Network's owner John McBainbridge, is responsible for over two years of very bad sales numbers. He gets a last chance. Accidentally, he and Kate Newell nearly run over G with his car and decide to take him with them. What they never could guess was that G really is the one good man around. Being on the search for enlightenment, G offers his help generously to save Ricky's job. His natural, uncontrollable behaviour soon gets Ricky into really big trouble, but the sales numbers now go up for the first time in months...
Keywords: 1990s, box-office-flop, bulletproof-vest, camera-shot-of-feet, chainsaw, corporate-ladder, evangelist, hypnosis, magical-negro-stereotype, media-coverage
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Taglines: God's Gift To Home Shopping. The Comedy Where Nothing's Sacred!
Quotes:
Ricky Hayman: Good. Better. Best. Never let it rest, 'til your good is Better and your better is BEST!
G: Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five Winters. Seventy-five Springtimes. Seventy-five Summers. And Seventy-five Autumns. When you look at it like that, it's not a lot of time, is it? Don't waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that pre-occupy your existence and get back to what's important now. Right Now. This very second. And I'm not saying, drop everything and let the world come to a grinding halt. I'm saying that you could become a seeker. You could be loving more. You could be taking some chances. You could be living more. You could be spending more time with your family. You could be getting in touch with the part of you that lives instead of fears; the part of you that loves instead of hates; the part of you that recognizes the humanity in all of us. And I tell you, That's where you're fortunate.
G: RobertRicky. Your good is Better and your better is *Blessed*!
'G' Makeup Artist: I've made you up to look like you have no make-up on at all.::G: That's a metaphysics I didn't even know existed.
McBainbridge: I'm giving you two weeks to get things moving or you're history.::Ricky Hayman: Wait a second. First of all, two weeks? You gotta give me a little more time than that.::McBainbridge: Hold it! Hold it right there! Right there. Every day on the way to work, I pass a dozen guys carrying signs: "Homeless family will work for food" pathetic vet, god bless him. There's nothing I can do about them. The ACLU says they have a perfect right to stand there, so fine, let them stand there. But here, in my office, in my own goddamned office! I don't have to live with anybody begging me for anything! You got it?::Ricky Hayman: Thanks for listening.::McBainbridge: My door is always open.
G: There was a storm. And thousands and thousands of starfish were washed up on the shore. And there was this beautiful little girl was running down the beach and she was picking up the starfish, she was frantically throwing them back into the ocean. When I saw her doing this I said to her, 'Why are you doing that? You can only save a few before they die, what difference does it make?' And she looked at me and she said, 'To THAT one, it makes a difference.' To THAT one, it makes a difference, that little girl said. And she was right and at that very moment she was making a difference for that starfish and she was making a difference for herself too because she was connected, to that starfish. And that's what life is all about, connecting. In fact that's the only time you're ever alive, really, is when you're connecting.