The Lookout is a 2007 crime film written and directed by Scott Frank, screenwriter of Out of Sight and Get Shorty, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, and Isla Fisher.
The Lookout is the directorial debut of the screenwriter Scott Frank. It was produced by Birnbaum/Barber, Laurence Mark Productions, Parkes/MacDonald Productions, Spyglass Entertainment, and Miramax Films. Miramax distributes the film in the USA, and Buena Vista International elsewhere.
While driving with his headlights off down a country highway, Chris Pratt (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), his girlfriend Kelly (Laura Vandervoort) and two friends crash into a stalled combine on the road. Chris and Kelly survive, but the other two do not. Chris' injuries include brain damage that affects his short-term memory in the form similar to anterograde amnesia.
He's in classes to learn new skills, including the simple sequences of daily tasks, to compensate for his inability to remember, and keeps notes in a small notebook. Challenged by a tough case manager (Carla Gugino) to build a life despite his injuries, he is supported by his roommate, a blind man named Lewis (Jeff Daniels), but receives only financial support from his wealthy family. He works nights, cleaning a small-town bank, with regular visitations from Ted (Sergio Di Zio), a bumbling sheriff's deputy. Chris aspires to train as a teller, but the bank manager, Mr. Tuttle (David Huband), can barely hide his contempt for Chris' ambitions. It is there Chris comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. Their leader, Gary (Matthew Goode), who knew him from high school and resented his wealth and popularity as a hockey star before his accident, befriends him and uses a young woman, Luvlee (Isla Fisher), to seduce him. Taunted by the gang about the limitations of his life since the accident, he initially goes along with the scheme. His frustrations trickle down into confrontations with his friends, Lewis and Ted.
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It is the last daylight savings time switch... ever. Jake is a struggling suburban teen who in an attempt to win the heart of the girl next door accidentally returns home with one of her father's most valuable possessions; a pocket watch that once belonged to Ben Franklin. When Jake awakes the next morning he finds himself trapped in time. Everyone he knows is gone. They are an hour ahead of him. As Jake struggles to get back home, he becomes entangled with a renegade group of strange people that are being hunted by the United States Government.
Plot
A thrill-seeking Man signs up with Dreamscape Inc, provider of electronic dreams and vivid fantasies. Transformed into an unstoppable Courier, he enters a world of corporate espionage. Hunted by agents of the State and aided by unlikely allies, he carries out his mission with brutal efficiency. However, illusion quickly turns into nightmare as reality and fantasy blur.
Keywords: action-noir, cyber-thriller, dreamscape
Be careful what you wish for!
Be careful what you wish for!
They're not heroes. They're not gunfighters. They'll have to do.
They all had something to sell...courage...sex...corruption!
Plot
Ex-GI Ken who as a result of a war wound is paralyzed below the waist. In the hospital back home, he passes through an initial period of depression with the help of a sympathetic Dr. Brock and his faithful fiancée Ellen. Ken's bitter isolation is also overcome with the help of his fellow patients, especially the intelligent young cynic Norm, the witty Leo and serious young Angel. Soon Ken throws himself into the work rehabilitation and after a long period of physical therapy even suspects he may regain the use of his limbs. With the approval and help of the doctor, he and Ellen marry, but on their wedding night both have misgivings about the marriage: the full realization of Ellen's new responsibilities frighten her and makes her more uncertain than ever, and Ken reverts to self-pity. There is a violent argument, and he goes back to the hospital. But his blazing anger finds no sympathy from his buddies, and after a surprising conversation with Dr. Brock, Ken realizes that he must return to his wife, with whom he must try to build his new life, in spite of all the attendant difficulties.
Keywords: handicap, hospital, lead-actor's-first-film, military-hospital, narration, paraplegic, physical-therapy, racism, swimming-pool, veteran
A completely new experience between men and women.
Ellen's father: If he loves you as much you love him, he'll make you go.::Ellen: You've been so clever, so logical, I've never knew that you handled words so well.::Ellen's father: That's not an answer, Elly.::Ellen: You weren't quite so logical a few years ago when we needed some boys to ground and get killed or paralyzed.
Plot
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Keywords: american-politics, character-name-in-title, crime-boss, dachshund, election, government-corruption, governor, jail, mayor, parade
WHATTA GUY! He loved a fight or a frolic...and he usually found one! (original ad)
It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..! (original ad)
The SCREEN SURPRISE of the YEAR! It's the laffiest, daffiest film fun you have ever screamed at! (original ad)
HE'LL TAKE YOU...and MAKE YOU LAUGH! (original poster)
Skeeters: If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish.::Catherine: Especially since you can't rob the people anyway.::Skeeters: Sure. How was that?::Catherine: What you rob, you spend, and what you spend goes back to the people. So, where's the robbery? I read that in one of my father's books.::Skeeters: That book should be in every home.
Prologue: "This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his life except for one crazy minute. The other never did anything honest in his life except for one crazy minute. They both had to get out of the country."
Dan McGinty: [to the Politician about getting paid for multiple voting] Never mind the applesauce. How do I get the bucks?
Plot
When his family is killed by Indians, a bitter cowboy turns into a ruthless hired gunman. Unbeknownst to him, his son had survived the attack, and is now a lawman. The son, not knowing that the killer is his father, is assigned to bring him to justice.
Keywords: 1860s, 1970s, adopted-son, adoptive-father, ambush, b-western, barfly, bartender, birthday-party, coward
IRON FISTS vs. SIX-GUN LEAD
RELENTLESS PURSUIT...Cold-Blooded Ambush!
A WILD and BLAZING WEST...Where Every Gun Wrote Its Own Laws!
Out Of The Tunndering West, Comes TALL, TOUGH and TERRIFIC Fred Kohler Jr.
TOUGHER THAN EVER! (original poster-all caps)
RELENTLES PURSUIT...COLD-BLOODED AMBUSH (original print ad - all caps)
ACTION-THRILLED ! (original prints ad-all caps)
I'll get inside you
I'll get inside you
Don't live ashamed, 'cause feelings change but fame remains
The reason why your gonna wanna take me home tonight
It's all the same up in this game, the people change
And money claims everyone from everything
I can't believe that you would think that shit of me
I was amazed at the torment that you put me through
If you can see right through the greed and all your needs
You realize that you were just about as bad as me
Sometimes I only remember the days when I was young
Nowadays no one remembers when they were young and stupid
(The way you like it)
Come on baby help me, someone to confide in
(I'll get inside you)
Now you're beggin' me to stay
My life has changed but fuck the fame, I'll stay the same
You can't complain when you can pay the bills and do your thing
Appreciate, don't player hate, congratulate
I miss the pain and the torment that you put me through
(I'll get inside you)
So what's to fear when everything is crystal clear
You realize that you should do the things you wanna do
Don't give in to what people say, don't be ashamed
To separate the feelings on your mind you can't sedate
(I'll get inside you)
Sometimes I only remember the days when I was young
Nowadays no one remembers when they were young and stupid
(The way you like it)
Come on baby help me, someone to confide in
(I'll get inside you)
Now you're beggin' me to stay
I'll get inside you
Now you're beggin' me to stay
I'll get inside you
You would always say I'd never be shit
They would always say I'd never be shit
But look at me now, look at me now
Now you're beggin' me to stay
I'll get inside you
Now you're beggin' me to stay
The way you like it
Sometimes I only remember the days when I was young
Nowadays no one remembers when they were young and stupid
(The way you like it)
Come on baby help me, someone to confide in
(I'll get inside you)
Now you're beggin' me to stay
Sometimes I only remember the days when I was young
(I'll get inside you)
Nowadays no one remembers when they were young and stupid
(The way you like it)
Come on baby help me, someone to confide in
(I'll get inside you)
Now you're beggin' me to stay
(I'll get inside you)
Now you're beggin' me to stay
(I'll get inside you)
Now you're beggin' me to stay
And the same conflict, and the same enemies
And the same nobility and the same slaves
And the same gods and the same laws
And the same hate which raises us
We are the elect, don't expect to joint us
We are kings, you're nothing we decide
We are the elect, don't expect to joint us
We are kings, stay slaves and die
You work for us but you think you are free
You think you know, you know what we say
You fight together when we decide
And your pride... is your jail
And you're captive, of your beliefs
Captive of your faith
We are the elect, we are...
And your gods and your laws?
And your faith, and your pride?
And your gods and your laws?
And your beliefs and your life?
We are the elect, justice and offender
Do you want another king or maybe another god?
We are the elect, world is changing, we don't!
And your gods and your laws?
And your faith, and your pride?
And your gods and your laws?
And your beliefs and your life?
A king is dead, a king is dead
We are the elect, don't expect to joint us
We are kings, you're nothing we decide
We are the elect, don't expect to joint us
i wanna sex you up
let me freak you up
i wanna sex you up
i know the way you like it
let me freak you up
girl you are my destiny
baby i like the way you walk the way you walk the way you talk
you you are a mystery
come on baby let me inside
i wanna sex you up that's right
come on now let's get it on tonight
i wanna sex you up
come on now let's get it on
chorus x2
i wanna sex you up and down
freakin' to the sound let's toss it around
come on now, i feel the rhythm as i hit em
you boost that is as i slide up in there
well let's flip it side to side
we'll take it slow then fast for a funky ride
we gonna make it last the whole night long
cuz i wanna sex you up and get it on
chorus x2
all i wanna do is hold you tonight
and maybe this time's for you and me, can't you see
you, you know i'll treat you right
oh yeah, come on baby let me inside
heyah, heyah, i wanna rock with you
heyah, heyah, do you feel it too
heyah, heyah, i wanna rock with you
heyah, heyah, do you feel it too
chorus x2
When I work all day
Just the way I like it
Sing a song with a subtle hand
When I need to spike it
And I'm living all right
And I'm doing ok
Had a lover who was made of sand
And the wind blew him away
But I've got a good idea.
Don't need to be right
Don't need to be wrong
Been torn with a subtle hand
That's why I sing this song
It's a rolling ride, oh yeah
That look in your eyes, oh no
Hold me with another hand
Back in '41 you met a brown-eyed boy who called you pretty
He'd walk everyday a couple miles out of his way to hold your hand
and keep you company.
Your mama said "don't call it love at 14"
But sitting on that front porch swing
He gave you his picture in a locket that you wore around your neck
Left it right beside your heart so you would not forget
The way it felt when he held your hand.
And you swore that you would never take it off
And the butterflies you felt said it all-
You were falling with a boy inside your locket.
Back in '43 your brown-eyed boy went over seas and had to leave
town for a little while.
He swore he'd marry you as soon as the war was through, you
would be his wife. Standing in the pouring rain
You cried as you watched him ride away,
But everyday
You had his picture in a locket that you wore around your neck.
Left it right beside your heart so you would not forget
The way his kiss tasted on your lips.
And everyday felt like a lifetime with him gone
And you prayed that God would bring him safely home
'Cause you made a promise to the boy inside your locket.
Oh, 60 years you two had together and he's been gone for a couple
And it breaks my heart to see you struggle to remember,
And you've been writina your memories down
And I stopped by today to read a couple pages
Grandma, you sure look pretty.
And you smile that smile, the one I haven't seen in quite a while
And you said to me "I want you to keep
His picture in a locket that I wore around my neck.
The one I left beside my heart so I would not forget
The greatest love and the greatest man I've ever known.
But it's getting time for me to head on home
She said, that brown eyed boy is waiting and I don't wanna keep
him long
Heaven is calling," and she said, "my heart is longing