Nachtrit (2006)
Actors:
Jaap Spijkers (actor),
Frank Lammers (actor),
Fedja van Huêt (actor),
Arnold Heslenfeld (miscellaneous crew),
Jeroen Willems (actor),
Theo Maassen (actor),
Wilant Boekelman (producer),
J.P. Luijsterburg (editor),
Marcel Musters (actor),
Jan van der Zanden (producer),
Monica Petit (costume designer),
Frits Lambrechts (actor),
Hadewych Minis (actress),
Han Otten (composer),
René Riva (actor),
Plot: Dennis van der Horst is a kind-hearted young entrepreneur. He lives by the rules of the street. The only people he feels any responsibility for are his brother Marco and his family, who are not very well off. When Dennis gets the chance to obtain an extremely expensive but lucrative taxi-license, he seizes it. In the presence of the manager of MOTAX, the only taxi company in Amsterdam, Dennis borrows a very large sum of money. Dennis is beside himself with joy. The hustling is over. Soon however Dennis finds out that there was a reason why it was so easy for him to obtain such a scarce license. The law is being altered, allowing competition on the taxi market. The licenses of Dennis and many of his colleagues all at once become worthless. As of that moment there is a war going on in the streets of Amsterdam. Dennis gets deeper into trouble when he finds out that he has unwittingly become part of the criminal organization behind MOTAX. Even the police turn out to have secret ties with MOTAX and there is only one thing left for Dennis to do in order to free himself: confront the man who is pulling the strings
Keywords: amsterdam-netherlands, license-fee, oorlog, taxi, taxi-oorlog, taxi-war
Genres:
Crime,
Drama,
Thriller,
Taglines: A man who gets himself involved in a dead-end, life-altering conflict, who has to fight for his and his loved ones' freedom and loses everything in the process.
O.C. and Stiggs (1985)
Actors:
Luca Kouimelis (miscellaneous crew),
Jane Curtin (actress),
Robert Altman (director),
Tina Louise (actress),
Cynthia Nixon (actress),
Robert Altman (producer),
Melvin Van Peebles (actor),
Caroline Aaron (actress),
Martin Mull (actor),
Ray Walston (actor),
Jon Cryer (actor),
Paul Dooley (actor),
Dennis Hopper (actor),
Louis Nye (actor),
Fred Newman (actor),
Genres:
Comedy,
Taglines: Adventures in upper middle class suburbia.
Quotes:
[O.C. and Stiggs are at Lenora Schwab's wedding and are fooling with the Uzi they gave as a present.]::Randall: Hey, whatcha got?::Stiggs: Randall, how would you like to have more fun than you've ever had in your life?::Randall: I don't know. I've had a lot of fun. I have Legos, you know.
Oliver Cromwell 'O.C.' Ogilvie: I dunno about this, Stiggs. That goon has a gun!::Mark Stiggs: It's OK! He's crazy!
Oliver Cromwell 'O.C.' Ogilvie: [talking about the car dealer, Ms. Bunny] It was the last case that gramps had before he retired... she got off with a hung jury.::Mark Stiggs: They hung the whole jury?
Mark Stiggs: [specifying the Gila Monster car to Ms Bunny] OK, Ms. Bunny! Number 1, we want zero miles to the gallon.::Oliver Cromwell 'O.C.' Ogilvie: Right. No MPGs. It has to be a vulgarlay inefficient mode of trasnportation.::Mark Stiggs: Loud, real loud. It has to generate a terrifyingly seismic field of noise. If we could combine really loud noise with the ugliness of poverty, we'd have the ideal car.::Mark Stiggs: ...making people think that you're poor, so they know you've got nothing to loose if they crash into your car....::Mark Stiggs: Here's a list of places I want this car to be totally unwelcome. Number one: funerals. Number two: affairs of state, you know, real formal ones...ones with...chamber music. Number three: wet golf greens. Number four: the acropolis.::Oliver Cromwell 'O.C.' Ogilvie: Ah, yes. Driving this car right in the acropolis should be completely horrifying to every civilized guy on earth.
Mark Stiggs: [speaking to Sponson about what wedding gift to buy for Lenore Schwab] She's real frail and introverted, she likes to dance to ballet and play her harp. We thought she'd be happier with a... machine gun.
Mr. Granger: Oliver, is it? Oliver Cromwell Ogilvy.::Oliver Cromwell 'O.C.' Ogilvie: Uh, just O.C.'s fine.::Stiggs: It stands for "Out of Control".
Sponson: Here, blow the place. [hands him a grenade]::Stiggs: This is re... This is real!::Sponson: Yeah, everything gets to be sooner or later.
Stiggs: Hey, you know, you guys better have badges.::Bandito: Badges? Badges? We don't have no stinkin' badges. We got souvenirs. You wanna buy some goodies? Machetes? Come again, amigo. Top discount.
Pat Coletti: This is the life, isn't it? I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight. [scoffs] I know where 624 of them will be on Monday morning. Workin' for me. In my sweatshop. [toasting] To Mexico.::Stiggs: So, what do you, like, do?::Pat Coletti: Basically, I drink. And I make a lot of money.::Stiggs: I mean, what kind of work do you do, that you *can* do, really wasted?::Pat Coletti: Hog couture, boys.::Stiggs: Hog couture? How's that?::Pat Coletti: I manufacture clothes for fat women.
[last lines]::Gramps: [meeting his new nurse] Hey, if you're gonna be hanging around the house, I need to know two things.::Nurse: What are those?::Gramps: Can you make huevos rancheros?::Nurse: Oh, I can manage that.::Gramps: Good. Now, what's your story on menopause, huh?::Nurse: I always pause for men, Harry.