Winter's Bone (2010)

Actors: John Hawkes (actor), Andrew Cesana (miscellaneous crew), Marc H. Simon (miscellaneous crew), Sheryl Lee (actress), Dale Dickey (actress), Jennifer Lawrence (actress), Garret Dillahunt (actor), Affonso Gonçalves (editor), Kevin Breznahan (actor), Tate Taylor (actor), Kathryn Dean (producer), Kathryn Dean (producer), Steve Shapiro (miscellaneous crew), Dickon Hinchliffe (composer), Tom Maloney (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: With an absent father and a withdrawn and depressed mother, 17 year-old Ree Dolly keeps her family together in a dirt poor rural area. She's taken aback however when the local Sheriff tells her that her father put up their house as collateral for his bail and unless he shows up for his trial in a week's time, they will lose it all. She knows her father is involved in the local drug trade and manufactures crystal meth, but everywhere she goes the message is the same: stay out of it and stop poking your nose in other people's business. She refuses to listen, even after her father's brother, Teardrop, tells her he's probably been killed. She pushes on, putting her own life in danger, for the sake of her family until the truth, or enough of it, is revealed.

Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, amateur-sleuth, apostrophe-in-title, army-recruiter, auction, axe, baby, baby-car-seat, baby-doll, bag-over-head
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Sonny: Maybe they'll share some of that with us.::Ree: That could be.::Sonny: Maybe we should ask.::Ree: Never ask for what oughta be offered.

Sonny: [on gutting a squirrel] Do we eat these parts?::Ree: [grimly] Not yet...

Victoria: You know all those people, Teardrop. You could ask.::Teardrop: Shut up.::Victoria: None of them's gonna be in a great big hurry to tangle with you.::Teardrop: I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

[first lines]::Ree: [waking her] Ashlee Dawn...::Ashlee: Hmmm? [to her brother] Wake up...

Blond Milton: [to Sonny] Havin' balls is good, boy. Don't let 'em get you hurt.

Teardrop: Those pills [drugs] helping your mama's mood any?::Ree: She keeps takin' 'em. But they aint workin'.

Ree: This fella with the money have a name?::Bail Bondsman: Shit no. Probably left that in his other pants.

Megan: What are we ever gonna do with you, baby girl?::Ree: Kill me I guess.::Megan: That idea's been said already. Got any others?::Ree: Help me. Nobody's said that idea yet, have they?

Ree: What I really can't stand is the way I feel ashamed... for dad.::Teardrop: Well, he loved y'all. That's where he went weak.

Ree: You always have scared me.::Teardrop: That's cuz you're smart.

The Moonbird (2010)

Actors: Myles McLeod (composer), Myles McLeod (director), Myles McLeod (producer), Myles McLeod (writer), Jude Goldrei (producer), Greg McLeod (producer), Greg McLeod (composer), Greg McLeod (writer), Greg McLeod (director), Greg McLeod (editor), Daniel Lawson (producer), Camilla Deakin (producer), Rachel Ferjani (actress), Simon Flynn (miscellaneous crew), The Brothers McLeod (composer),

Genres: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Short,

True Believer (1989)

Actors: James Woods (actor), Walter F. Parkes (producer), Kurtwood Smith (actor), Kurt Fuller (actor), Yuji Okumoto (actor), Luis Guzmán (actor), Charles Hallahan (actor), Gerry Bamman (actor), Tom Bower (actor), Richard Fancy (actor), Graham Beckel (actor), Woody Harrelson (actor), Robert Downey Jr. (actor), Al Cerullo (miscellaneous crew), Brad Fiedel (composer),

Plot: Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mom, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he did not commit.

Keywords: 360-degree-well-shot, argument, aryan-army, asian-american, attempted-suicide, ballistics, ballistics-test, beating, chinatown, civil-liberties
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: When evidence leads to murder, sometimes it takes a dangerous man to free an innocent one.

Quotes:

Shu Kai Kim: My mother find you?::Eddie Dodd: That's right.::Shu Kai Kim: [disgusted] Figures.

Eddie Dodd: It's in the area of narcotics, Mr. Reynard, that the government tramples on the Fourth Amendment.

Robert Reynard: Well, let's not drag the constitution into this.

Vincent Dennehy: You know, for eight years I've been waiting for some genius to notice it took me an hour to drive seven blocks?

Brian Nevins: [after Eddie has gotten him acquitted] Eddie Dodd... everybody should own one.

Eddie Dodd: We pleaded out Clyde Gruner to five years probation.::Billy: Ohhhh, score another point for truth and justice!

Roger Baron: [after Shu's mother has engaged Eddie's services, repeating her words] "Thank you for helping my son."::Eddie Dodd: Hey, Attila the Hun had a mother, okay?

Eddie Dodd: [to Roger] You want to be a criminal defense attorney? Then know this going in... everybody's guilty. Everybody.::Roger Baron: [long pause] Do you know that you wouldn't have said that ten years ago?::Eddie Dodd: Ten years is a long time.

Eddie Dodd: We gotta find some piece of evidence that's been buried, and open the sucker up again.::Roger Baron: Christ, Eddie, if the guy's really guilty...::Eddie Dodd: Hey, only Shu and God know if he's guilty, and neither one of 'em's talkin'.

Roger Baron: [Roger and Kitty are reading aloud from the newspaper] "Edward J. Dodd, retained to defend Mr. Kim, has disclosed that a witness will corroborate Mr. Kim's alibi..."::Eddie Dodd: I embellished.::Kitty Greer: "Dodd also reports that his *team* of private investigators..."::Eddie Dodd: I embroidered.::Kitty Greer: "... are actually close to naming the man they believe actually killed Jimmy Chin."::Eddie Dodd: I lied.