Cork

Lushes (2009)

Actors: Deborah Theaker (actress), Deborah Theaker (producer), Ash Christian (director), Ash Christian (actor), Shannon Mitchell (editor), Alaina Huffman (actress), Ashley Fink (actress), Evan Miller (actor), Carisa Engle (actress), Brad Bell (actor), Parker Torres (writer), Nick Sweet (composer), Bob Hildebrand (actor), Parker Torres (actor), Nick Sweet (producer),

Plot: Cork & Desi, two of Tinseltown's most 'Transtastic' transplants, are trying to make a name for themselves in the world of Hollywood drag queens. It isn't until their arch-nemesis, Hollywood's #1 queen, Basil, sabotages their friendship that they realize they're meant to be best friends forever and then learn what it takes to create the most talked about drag number the Valley has ever seen.

Genres: Short,
Taglines: When life gives you lemons, just add vodka...

The Lookout (2007)

Actors: Dave Brown (miscellaneous crew), James Newton Howard (composer), Gary Barber (producer), Roger Birnbaum (producer), Alberta Watson (actress), Walter F. Parkes (producer), Alex Borstein (actress), Carla Gugino (actress), Jeff Daniels (actor), Bruce McGill (actor), Martin Roach (actor), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (actor), David Huband (actor), Ashley Kravitz (miscellaneous crew), Michael J. Harker (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: An admired high school hockey player with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girlfriend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry.

Keywords: abuse, accident, adolescent, answering-machine, armored-car, asthma, asthma-attack, athlete, baby, bank
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Whoever has the money has the power

Quotes:

[from trailer]::Chris Pratt: I have the money. I have the power.

[first lines]::Chris Pratt: It only happens once a year, and then they die. It's like a mating ritual or something.::Kelly: Isn't that romantic?

Lewis: I smell money.

Marty: [as he lights up a cigarette] You cannot be serious. That is pathetic.::Gary Spargo: [using his asthma inhaler] That's Chris Pratt.::[hits Marty's seat]::Gary Spargo: Put that fucking thing out.

Lewis: Can I tell you something? You won't get upset?::Chris Pratt: What?::Lewis: I don't think you should go home anymore.

Lewis: You know, here I am, sitting at home alone every night while you're out getting blown and God knows what else by Luvlee something, who probably has a friend, and what, you don't introduce me?::Chris Pratt: Lemons. That's what it is.::Lewis: That's what what is?::Chris Pratt: That's her last name.::Lewis: Luvlee Lemons? That's her name?::Chris Pratt: Well, it's her stage name. She's a performer. Or she was.::Lewis: Ah, and by stage I'm assuming you mean the kind with a pole?::Chris Pratt: What do you mean?::Lewis: Let's move on.

Chris Pratt: This your farm?::Gary Spargo: Uh, you know what, my uncle Bone found it and kind of negotiated with the owner.

Gary Spargo: My old man used to say to me, probably the only thing we ever really agreed on, was that whoever has the money has the power. You might wanna jot that down in your book. It's something you're gonna need to remember.

Lewis: Hello?::Chris Pratt: Are you OK?::Lewis: I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?::Chris Pratt: Because the lights are on. They're up there, aren't they?::Lewis: Just get out of here.::[Gary hits Lewis and grabs the phone]::Gary Spargo: Come on up here Chris, and let's talk about how we can figure this out.

Gary Spargo: Where is it?::Bone: He says he doesn't remember.::Chris Pratt: Lewis, you ok?::Lewis: [sarcastically] oh, I'm terrific.::Gary Spargo: Don't do this Chris. Just tell me where it is.::Chris Pratt: I don't know where it is.::Bone: Bullshit.

The Caveman's Valentine (2001)

Actors: Don Carmody (producer), Danny DeVito (producer), Peter MacNeill (actor), Leonard L. Thomas (actor), Anthony Michael Hall (actor), Ann Magnuson (actress), Leonard L. Thomas (actor), Damir Andrei (actor), Carl Burrows (actor), Phillip Jarrett (actor), Samuel L. Jackson (actor), Colm Feore (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor), Elie Samaha (producer), Samuel L. Jackson (producer),

Plot: Romulus is mentally ill, a troglodyte in a New York City park. He's also a gifted composer and the father of a city cop. On Valentine's Day, a young man freezes in a tree near his cave. The police determine it's the accidental death of someone behaving bizarrely, but Romulus believes a friend of the dead youth who says that noted avant-garde photographer, David Leppenraub, murdered him. Romulus, urged on by hallucinations of his wife as a young woman, resolves to catch the killer and manages to be invited to Leppenraub's farm to play a new composition. Can Romulus hold it together long enough to get to the bottom of the death and also to make a breakthrough with his daughter?

Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, artist, based-on-novel, box-office-flop, bryant-park-manhattan-new-york-city, chrysler-building-manhattan-new-york-city, delusion, dreadlocks, father-daughter-relationship, female-nudity
Genres: Crime, Drama, Music, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: Inside a tortured mind... The clues that lead to a killer. Romulus Ledbetter lives on the edge. The view is incredible.

Quotes:

[first lines]::Romulus Ledbetter: Don't you watch me! You think you're gonna crawl into my brain and see a show? That what I am? Is that what you think?::Social Worker: What I think, Mr. Ledbetter, is that the temperature is dropping.::Romulus Ledbetter: I got freezing temperatures all over my brain. And I got legends of angels up there! Like little moths, and they'll beat the hell out of you with their wings!

Romulus Ledbetter: [to dog] You think I'm running a con, don't you. You think I'm the shoes and not the suit.

Moira Leppenraub: Arnold tells me you're a genius.::Romulus Ledbetter: At what?::Moira Leppenraub: Music.::Romulus Ledbetter: Oh - is that all?::Moira Leppenraub: Why, is there more?::Romulus Ledbetter: Well, I can put a lit match in my mouth, and when the lights are out I look like a jack-o-lantern.

David Leppenraub: If the price of rapture is a mountain of suffering, shouldn't the fee be paid?::Romulus Ledbetter: So long as nobody gets hurt.

David Leppenraub: Success is fragile, Mr. Ledbetter.

Sheila: [Romulus wakes up in Moira's with Sheila nearby] Some white girls will fuck any kind of black man. Crazy... even homeless.::Romulus Ledbetter: Leave me alone, Sheila.::Sheila: So... what do you call yourself doing? Digging for evidence?::Romulus Ledbetter: I'm getting close. Something happened here. I can feel it.::Sheila: [Glances toward Moira and smirks] I bet you can. You better open up your eyes and take a look around.::Romulus Ledbetter: Leave me alone. How did you get in here, anyway?::Sheila: I rode in on your dreams.::Romulus Ledbetter: Well, ride on out.::Sheila: You better wake up, baby, before you get murdered in your sleep. You hear me? You better wake up...

Romulus Ledbetter: I'm not homeless...I live in a cave.

Romulus Ledbetter: I have flocks of angels in my head and that'll beat you down with their wings!

Bob: What do you play?::Romulus Ledbetter: My skull.

Romulus Ledbetter: Shaker, Shaker, undertaker.