Karl Benson

Garden State (2004)

Actors: Marc Alan Austen (actor), Joe Bacino (actor), David Barroso (actor), Zach Braff (actor), Alex Burns (actor), Christopher Carley (actor), James Ecklund (actor), Ato Essandoh (actor), Gary Gilbert (actor), Kenneth Graymez (actor), Keith Hallworth (actor), Ben Hauck (actor), Jakob Hawkins (actor), Joe Ho (actor), Geoffrey Arend (actor),

Plot: Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a retarded quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and his doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own.

Keywords: abyss, acoustic-guitar, actor, adopted-son, african-american, airliner, airplane-crash, airport, alligator, american-football
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Dr. Cohen: Mister... Andrew Largeman?::Andrew Largeman: Yes?::Dr. Cohen: There's absolutely nothing wrong with you::Andrew Largeman: Really?::Dr. Cohen: Just kidding; how the hell would I know?

Tim: [to Mark's mom, Carol] I had a lovely evening.::[to Andrew]::Tim: By the way, it says BALLS on your face.

Sam: Hey, I recognize you.::Andrew Largeman: Oh, did you go to Columbia High?::Sam: No, not from high school, from TV. Didn't you play the retarded quarterback?::Andrew Largeman: Yeah.::Sam: Are you really retarded?::Andrew Largeman: No.::Sam: Ooh, great job man! I really thought you were retarded. I mean, you're better than that Corky kid and he's actually retarded. If there was a retarded Oscar you would win, hands down, kick his ass!

Karl Benson: Hey man, I thought you killed yourself.::Andrew Largeman: What?::Karl Benson: I thought you killed yourself. That wasn't you?::Andrew Largeman: No, no, tha-that wasn't me.

Andrew Largeman: You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone.::Sam: I still feel at home in my house.::Andrew Largeman: You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place.::Sam: [cuddles up to Andrew] Maybe.

Sam: Wow! I cannot believe you're not retarded!

Sam: What's the word that's burning in your heart?

Andrew Largeman: I was a little boy and somebody made a shitty latch. That's what I think. That's what I think about the whole thing, OK? And I'm not gonna take those drugs anymore, because they have left me completely fucking numb. I have felt so fucking numb to everything I have experienced in my life, OK? And for that... for that I'm here to forgive you. You've always said that all you wanted was for us to have whatever it is we wanted, right? Well, maybe, what Mom wanted more then anything is for it to all be over, and for me, what I want more then anything in the world, is for it to be OK with you for me to feel something again, even if it's pain.::Gideon Largeman: Well, you're going against your doctor's recommendation, that a pretty weighty experiment to take on, don't you think?::Andrew Largeman: This is my life, Dad, this is it. I spent 26 years waiting for something else to start, so, no, I don't think it's too much to take on, because it's everything there is. I see now it's all of it. You and I are gonna be OK, you know that, right? We may not be as happy as you always dreamed we would be, but for the first time let's just allow ourselves to be whatever it is we are and that will be better. OK? I think that will be better.

Andrew Largeman: Fuck, this hurts so much.::Sam: I know it hurts. That's life. If nothing else, It's life. It's real, and sometimes it fuckin' hurts, but it's sort of all we have.

Andrew Largeman: That actually made me sadder than anything: the fact that I felt so numb.

Manhandled (1949)

Actors: Benny Baker (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Dan Duryea (actor), James Edwards (actor), Morgan Farley (actor), John George (actor), Sterling Hayden (actor), George Humbert (actor), Ray Hyke (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Keye Luke (actor), Alan Napier (actor), Garry Owen (actor), Irving Bacon (actor),

Plot: Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.

Keywords: architect, attempted-murder, based-on-novel, brake-failure, chinese-laundry, dream, ex-cop, fake-psychiatrist, flower-vendor, forged-document
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir,
Taglines: The story of a smiling "Lady Killer" who knew how to "handle" women!

Quotes:

Det. Dawson: I've never known a congenital wise-guy yet that didn't outsmart himself.