The Rise and Fall of John Tesoro (2010)

Actors: Donnell Rawlings (actor), Gerry Bednob (actor), Gerry Bednob (producer), Angela Elayne Gibbs (director), Valmike Rampersad (actor), Richie Gibbs (editor), Richie Gibbs (actor), Rafael J. Noble (actor), Michael Cherrie (actor), Todd Segal (actor), Kearn Samuel (actor), Kerri Tucker (actress), Stephanie Brennan (actress), Alan Ferreira (actor), Simon Baptiste (writer),

Plot: Investigative journalist extraordinaire Emmanuel Brown (Valmike Rampersad) sets to make his mark in television history by exposing a corrupt politician, John Tesoro (Gerry Bednob - The 40 Year Old Virgin) in his documentary special, "The Rise & Fall of John Tesoro". Brown's expose; focuses on the immoral and deceitful practices of Tesoro and his dubious rise to power. Confronted and cornered on pertinent issues dealing with the economy, his political actions, his checkered lifestyle and a few extraordinary situations he has found himself in over the years, the question remains if Tesoro can get out of trouble once more or if his luck has finally run out?

Keywords: fall, john, politics, rise, tesoro
Genres: Comedy, Short,
Taglines: The Rise and Fall of John Tesoro

Where the Truth Lies (2005)

Actors: Atom Egoyan (writer), Atom Egoyan (producer), Robert Lantos (producer), Colin Firth (actor), Seán Cullen (actor), Gabrielle Rose (actress), David Hemblen (actor), Kevin Bacon (actor), Don McKellar (actor), Maury Chaykin (actor), Michael J. Reynolds (actor), David Hayman (actor), Beau Starr (actor), Atom Egoyan (director), Mychael Danna (composer),

Plot: A female journalist tries to uncover the truth behind the breakup, years earlier, of a celebrated comedy team after the duo found a girl dead in their hotel room. Though both had airtight alibis and neither was accused, the incident put an end to their act.

Keywords: 1950s, 1970s, actor, adultery, afterlife, airplane, airplane-stewardess, airport, anal-sex, anti-semitic-slur
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,

Quotes:

Lanny Morris: [to Vince] Get the fuck off me! We don't fuck, Vince! We're buddies, we're pals, we're partners, we're a duo. We love each other, but we don't fuck! We're fucking stars. We can - we can travel together. We can hang out together. We can live together, but we can't be queers!

Lanny Morris: Having to be a nice guy is the toughest job in the world when you're not.

Vince: [Beating up a bigot backstage] Say what you like about any jew in the world... BUT NOBODY CALLS MY PARTNER A *KIKE*

Vince: Look at you, you're a disgrace!

Karen: [Narrating] All that remained of Maureen was a tree in her mother's garden.

Lanny Morris: I don't eat lobster.

Lanny Morris: I left you a note.::Karen: Where?

Lanny Morris: [Last lines] You're a very special girl. Forgive me.

Sixteen Stories (2000)

Actors: Eric Norcross (producer), Eric Norcross (director), Eric Norcross (editor), Eric Norcross (writer), Eric Norcross (actor), Kyle Rankin (actor), Gregory Seymore (actor), Alan Dillingham (actor), Branden Geistert (actor), Cade Brown (actor), Brian Hinds (actor), Cade Brown (producer), Cade Brown (writer), Steven Savage (actor), Mark Persky (actor),

Plot: Three unlikely individuals get stuck in an elevator on New Years Eve, just as the clock is about to strike midnight. Missing out on the first hours of 2005, trapped between the fifteenth and sixteenth floors of a prestigious residential building, they pass the time by telling one-another stories, some from their past lives and others completely fictitious.

Keywords: arch, death, filmmaker, murder, new-england, new-year, vancouver-british-columbia-canada, winter
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Anything Could Happen... Sixteen Stories High...

Quotes:

Bradley Pierce: Holy fuck! She has a gun!

Ryan Plevyak: [to Lara] You fucking harlot!

Somewhere in the City (1998)

Actors: Peter Stormare (actor), Ed Koch (actor), Bai Ling (actress), John Cale (composer), Sandra Bernhard (actress), Ornella Muti (actress), Bulle Ogier (actress), Bill Sage (actor), Robert John Burke (actor), Jessica Dublin (actress), Andrew Fiscella (actor), Linda Dano (actress), Joey Dedio (actor), Nellie Sciutto (actress), Steven Schub (actor),

Plot: The film portrays life of New York City's Lower East Side inhabitants. Introvert therapist Betty is befriended with Chinese immigrant Lu Lu, leftist radical Che is also Lu Lu's friend. Italian immigrant and wife of supervisor of building where they all live, Marta, is having an affair with her neighbour Frankie who likes scams. One of his scams goes terribly wrong.

Keywords: independent-film
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Blondes Have More Guns (1996)

Actors: Michael Herz (producer), Lloyd Kaufman (producer), Rick LeCompte (editor), Mitchell Nyberg (miscellaneous crew), Karl-Heinz Teuber (actor), Joe Renzetti (composer), Richard Neil (actor), Kellie Cyrus (miscellaneous crew), Brian Vouglas (actor), Derek-James Yee (actor), Gloria Lusiak (actress), David Furtado (actor), Heidi Arneson (miscellaneous crew), George Merriweather (director), George Merriweather (producer),

Genres: Comedy, Thriller,

Quotes:

Harry Bates: We were heating up like two poodles in a microwave!

Captain Hook: We're placing her under surveillance.::[a knight in armor strolls through the police station]::Cops: Good night, Sir Valence!

Security Guard: Cover me!

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

Actors: Don McManus (actor), Malachy McCourt (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Richard Libertini (actor), Alan King (actor), Clifton James (actor), Barton Heyman (actor), F. Murray Abraham (actor), Kurt Fuller (actor), Morgan Freeman (actor), Richard Belzer (actor), Kevin Dunn (actor), Jack Mulcahy (actor), Donald Moffat (actor),

Plot: Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Keywords: accident, alcoholic, arbitrage, bar, based-on-novel, black-comedy, blackmail, bond-salesman, box-office-flop, bronx-new-york-city
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Take one Wall Street tycoon, his Fifth Avenue mistress, a reporter hungry for fame, and make the wrong turn in The Bronx...then sit back and watch the sparks fly. An Outrageous Story of Greed, Lust and Vanity in America

Quotes:

Peter Fallow: Caroline, you devil.::Caroline Heftshank: Peter, you pig!

Peter Fallow: If you're going to live in a whorehouse, there's only one thing you can do: be the best damn whore around.

Sir Gerald Moore: I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old child came alone, dragging a little toy cart. And on the cart was a fresh turd. Her own, I suppose. The parents just shook their heads and smiled. I've made a big investment in you, Peter. Time and money, and it's not working. Now, I could just shake my head and smile. But in my house, when a turd appears, we throw it out. We dispose of it. We flush it away. We don't put it on the table and call it caviar.

Judge Leonard White: [to court room] Racist? You dare call me racist? Well I say unto you, what does it matter the color of a man's skin if witnesses purjure themselves. If a prosecutor enlists the perjurers. When a district attorney throws a man to the mob for political gain, and men of the cloth, men of God, take the prime cuts? Is that justice?::Judge Leonard White: I don't hear you...::Judge Leonard White: Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law, and the law is man's feeble attempt to set down the principles of decency. Decency! And decency is not a deal. It isn't an angle, or a contract, or a hustle! Decency... decency is what your grandmother taught you. It's in your bones! Now you go home. Go home and be decent people. Be decent.

Judy McCoy: I'm leaving you! [pause] After the party... and now, if you will excuse me, we have guests.

Maria Ruskin: [Maria and Sherman running in the car after take the wrong way and ending up on Bronx] Oh Sherman, LOOK OUT!::Maria Ruskin: Oh Christ, Sherman, we're in the middle of a godamn war zone and you're worried about doing the right thing?

Sherman McCoy: I suppose we could still go to the police. We could get a very talented lawyer...::Maria Ruskin: And put our heads right into the tiger's mouth? I'm the one who was driving the car. Don't you think I'm the one who should make the decision? And I say, no. No, Sherman. Trust me. Nothing is going to come of this little newspaper article. Absolutely nothing.

Sherman McCoy: I understand you went to Yale.::Tom Killian: Yeah. You, too. Huh?::Sherman McCoy: What did you think of it?::Tom Killian: It was okay. As law schools go. They give you the scholarly view. You know. It's terrific for anything you want to do - as long as it doesn't involve real people.

Maria Ruskin: [when she and Sherman end up in Bronx] Sherman... where are all the white people?

Maria Ruskin: [while on Bronx] Sherman, I'm coming from the South and I'm starting to not like this very much!

Manhattan (1979)

Actors: Albert Wolsky (costume designer), Charles H. Joffe (producer), Jack Rollins (producer), Woody Allen (writer), Meryl Streep (actress), Diane Keaton (actress), Robert Greenhut (producer), David Rasche (actor), Karen Allen (actress), Frances Conroy (actress), Wallace Shawn (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Michael Murphy (actor), Woody Allen (director), Mariel Hemingway (actress),

Plot: Isaac, 42, has divorced Jill. She is now living with another woman, Connie, and is writing a book in which she will reveal some very private points of their relationship. Isaac has a love affair with Tracy, 17, when he meets Mary, the mistress of his best friend Yale. Yale is already married to Emily.

Keywords: 1970s, adultery, age-difference, bookstore, break-up, cafe, central-park-manhattan-new-york-city, clothing-store, college, comedy-of-manners
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Woody Allen's New Comedy Hit

Quotes:

[Looking at old meat]::Isaac Davis: Corn beef should not be blue

Isaac Davis: I feel like we're in a Noel Coward play. Someone should be making martinis.

Isaac Davis: I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.

[first lines]::[music: the opening of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Voiceover]::Isaac Davis: Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Eh uh, no, make that he, he romanticized it all out of proportion. Better. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. Uh, no, let me start this over.::Isaac Davis: Chapter One: He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street smart guys who seemed to know all the angles. Ah, corny, too corny for, you know, my taste. Let me, let me try and make it more profound.::Isaac Davis: Chapter One: He adored New York City. To him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. The same lack of individual integrity that caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning the town of his dreams in - no, it's gonna be too preachy, I mean, you know, let's face it, I wanna sell some books here.::Isaac Davis: Chapter One: He adored New York City. Although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. How hard it was to exist in a society desensitized by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage - too angry. I don't want to be angry.::Isaac Davis: Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. Oh, I love this. New York was his town, and it always would be.

Tracy: Let's fool around. Let's do it some strange way that you've always wanted to, but nobody would do with you.

Isaac Davis: My ex-wife left me for another woman.

Isaac Davis: She's 17. I'm 42 and she's 17. I'm older than her father, can you believe that? I'm dating a girl, wherein, I can beat up her father.

Yale: You are so self-righteous, you know. I mean we're just people. We're just human beings, you know? You think you're God.::Isaac Davis: I... I gotta model myself after someone.

Isaac Davis: This is so antiseptic. It's empty. Why do you think this is funny? You're going by audience reaction? This is an audience that's raised on television, their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!

Party Guest: I finally had an orgasm, and my doctor said it was the wrong kind.::Isaac Davis: You had the wrong kind? I've never had the wrong kind, ever. My worst one was right on the money.

Long Shot (1978)

Actors: Wim Wenders (actor), William Forsythe (actor), Stephen Frears (actor), John Boorman (actor), Susannah York (actress), Alan Bennett (actor), Manuel Gélin (miscellaneous crew), Sanford Lieberson (actor), Maurice Bulbulian (actor), Charles Gormley (actor), Toby Reisz (miscellaneous crew), Howard Sharp (editor), Suzanne Danielle (actress), Maurice Hatton (producer), Maurice Hatton (writer),

Genres: Drama,

Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966)

Actors: Chuck Hicks (actor), Ray Montgomery (actor), Cosmo Sardo (actor), Jeffrey Sayre (actor), Alberto Morin (actor), William H. O'Brien (actor), Carroll O'Connor (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), William Phipps (actor), Bob Hope (actor), George DeNormand (actor), Nicky Blair (actor), William Bakewell (actor), Arthur Tovey (actor), George C. Scott (actor),

Plot: During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.

Keywords: airforce, apostrophe-in-title, comma-in-title, contraction-in-title, exclamation-point-in-title, pilot, punctuation-in-title, six-word-title
Genres: Comedy,

Quotes:

Julietta 'Julie' Ferris: With everyone making love, who is fighting the war?

Tom Ferris: Let's get this shah on the road.

Sgt. Gilroy: THAT's Big Ben!::Tom Ferris: See what time it is.