Ventriloquism

Kaleido Star (2003)

Actors: Kira Vincent-Davis (actress), Hilary Haag (actress), John Swasey (actor), Kelly Manison (actress), Christine M. Auten (actress), Shelley Calene-Black (actress), Luci Christian (actress), Tiffany Grant (actress), James Faulkner (actor), Rob Mungle (actor), Andy McAvin (actor), Chris Patton (actor), Vic Mignogna (actor), John Ledford (producer), David Born (actor),

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance,
Taglines: The Kaleido stage shines again!

Gleason (2002)

Actors: Sam Stone (actor), Saul Rubinek (actor), Arthur Holden (actor), Steve Adams (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Jason Blicker (actor), Shawn Lawrence (actor), Brad Garrett (actor), Tony Calabretta (actor), Mark Camacho (actor), Michael Chieffo (actor), Joe Cobden (actor), Robert Higden (actor), Sam Stone (actor), Kevin Dunn (actor),

Plot: The story begins at the height of Gleason's career. He has it all: women, wealth, and extraordinary power. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood. Gleason spends his formative years entering amateur contests, performing in sleazy night spots. Along the way, he steals gags from the best comics in town and finds love with Genevieve, a dancer whom he marries. But Gleason isn't the ideal husband or even a responsible father as he abandons his family to answer the call of Hollywood. Brash, arrogant, and egotistical, he alienates his directors and the man who discovers him. When he ends up back in New York, Gleason gets one of those rare second chances in the new medium of television, creating some of its most unforgettable characters. But even as Gleason becomes the talk of the tube, his life - ruled by demons of rage, booze, and insecurity - unravels.

Keywords: brooklyn-new-york-city, character-name-in-title, comedian, irish-american, new-york-city, one-word-title, studio-logo-segues-into-film, television, womanizer
Genres: Biography, Drama, Family,
Taglines: How Sweet It Was! He made more than television. He made history.

Shepherd (1999)

Actors: C. Thomas Howell (actor), Roger Corman (producer), Clarence Williams III (actor), Roddy Piper (actor), Mackenzie Gray (actor), David Steinberg (miscellaneous crew), David Carradine (actor), Raymond Serra (actor), Philip Jackson (producer), Donald Quan (composer), Heidi von Palleske (actress), Marina Anderson (actress), Tony Curtis Blondell (actor), Daniel D'Or (producer), Daniel Lévesque (actor),

Plot: In a post-apocalyptic underground society ruled by rival religious cults, Dakota is working as an assassin, or "Shepherd" for The Church of Miles. He has been given an assignment to take out a female Shepherd from a rival cult, but balks at completing the task when he sees that his target has a young child. The two assassins and the child all find themselves being hunted down by both cults, and so decided to stick together as they run for their lives. Along the way, they encounter several other strange religious compounds, as well as random thugs living on the outskirts of society.

Keywords: assassin, cult, independent-film, post-apocalypse, religious-cult
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi,

Quotes:

Boris Dakota: You should tell your mother not to pick up hitchhikers.

Who Killed Johnny Love? (1998)

Actors: Joe Grisaffi (actor), Sue Rock (actress), Louis Gusemano (actor), Rick Burford (actor), Tom Platz (actor), Paul Locklear (actor), Shelly Secrest (actress), Kathlyn Fowler (actress), Randolph J. Salazar (writer), Randolph J. Salazar (director), Tim Thomson (editor), Lewis Dickson (actor), Angela Rutherford (actress), Garrison Wynn (actor), Felix Salazar (actor),

Genres: ,

The Fantasticks (1995)

Actors: Barnard Hughes (actor), Teller (actor), Joel Grey (actor), Tony Cox (actor), Francis Ford Coppola (editor), Michael G. Kehoe (miscellaneous crew), Arturo Gil (actor), Brad Sullivan (actor), Michael Ritchie (producer), Michael Ritchie (director), Joey McIntyre (actor), Jean Louisa Kelly (actress), Chip Fowler (miscellaneous crew), Art Schaefer (producer), Sidney Brammer (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Two teenagers on neighboring farms steal glances and hide their romance from their feuding fathers. Little do these love-birds know, however, that their fathers are actually good friends who've hatched a plan - with the help of a mystical roving side-show and its equally mysterious ring master - to get these two lovers down the aisle! But be careful what you wish for. Because to bring these families together... they must first be torn apart!

Keywords: abduction, actor, based-on-stage-musical, carnival, carnival-wagon, coming-of-age, countryside, curtain-call, dancer, dancing
Genres: Musical, Romance,
Taglines: Try To Remember The First Time The Magic Happened. One Of Broadway's Legendary Musicals Comes To The Big Screen.

Quotes:

Amos Babcock Bellamy: You see! Whenever you have a problem, the United States Postal Service comes to the rescue.::Ben Hucklebee: Yeah, they run a tight ship.

El Gallo: There is a curious paradox that no one can explain: who understands the secrets of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why spring is born out of winter's laboring pain, or why we all must die a bit before we grow again?

Luisa Bellamy: Papa I got to take wing.::Amos Babcock Bellamy: Well be careful, it's duck season.

Ben Hucklebee: We got your advertisment in the mail and we got a little problem.::Amos Babcock Bellamy: A love problem.::El Gallo: You two have a love problem? And you seek sympathy from our little band of outcasts? Well, what would you two be willing to do in front of an audience?::Amos Babcock Bellamy: We're not talking about us. We're talking about our kids.::Ben Hucklebee: Who happen to be a boy and a girl.::El Gallo: [chuckles] Less challenging. Follow me.

Ben Hucklebee: [holds out money] Would sixty dollars be an insult?::El Gallo: Yes but I'm used to abuse. [grabs the money]

Radio Days (1987)

Actors: Seth Green (actor), Don Pardo (actor), Kenneth Mars (actor), William H. Macy (actor), Robert Joy (actor), Josh Mostel (actor), Todd Field (actor), Paul Herman (actor), Larry David (actor), Jeff Daniels (actor), Jackson Beck (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Danny Aiello (actor), Tony Roberts (actor), Richard Portnow (actor),

Plot: Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway Beach, NY circa 1942.

Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, accidental-shooting, adolescent, adolescent-romance, alien-invasion, americana, amputee, anti-religion, automat
Genres: Comedy,

Quotes:

Rocco: It's nothin' personal. It's just bad luck you were a witness.::Sally: My whole life, I had bad luck.::Rocco: Me too.::[pause]::Sally: Where are you from?::Rocco: Brooklyn.::Sally: Yeah? Me too.

Rocco: This is a coincidence. I meet nobody from the old neighbourhood in years. I finally do, and I gotta kill her.

Rabbi Baumel: Radio... It's all right once in a while. Otherwise it tends to induce bad values, false dreams, lazy habits. Listening to these stories of foolishness and violence... this is no way for a boy to grow up.::Joe: You speak the truth, my faithful Indian companion.::Rabbi Baumel: To a rabbi you say "my faithful Indian companion"? [hits him in a head]

Joe: [as he realizes the substitute teacher is the woman he and his friends saw dancing naked in the window] Oh God, we're all going straight to hell!

Mother: [as she watches anti-aircraft searchlights with husband during a World War II black-out] It's so beautiful. Boy, what a world... it could be so wonderful, if it wasn't for certain people.

Arnold: [presenting a condom to a class] I found this on my parents' night table.

Sally: Who is Pearl Harbor?

Narrator: For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.

Diction Student: Hark! I hear the cannons roar! Is it the King approaching?::Diction Student: Hark! I hear the cannons roar! Is it the King approaching?::Sally: [in a very thick New York accent] Hahk! I hear the cannon's raw! Is it the King approaching?

[Last lines]::Narrator: I never forgot that New Year's Eve when Aunt Bea awakened me to watch 1944 come in. I've never forgotten any of those people or any of the voices we would hear on the radio. Though the truth is, with the passing of each New Year's Eve, those voices do seem to grow dimmer and dimmer.

Radio Days (1987)

Actors: Seth Green (actor), Don Pardo (actor), Kenneth Mars (actor), William H. Macy (actor), Robert Joy (actor), Josh Mostel (actor), Todd Field (actor), Paul Herman (actor), Larry David (actor), Jeff Daniels (actor), Jackson Beck (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Danny Aiello (actor), Tony Roberts (actor), Richard Portnow (actor),

Plot: Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway Beach, NY circa 1942.

Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, accidental-shooting, adolescent, adolescent-romance, alien-invasion, americana, amputee, anti-religion, automat
Genres: Comedy,

Quotes:

Rocco: It's nothin' personal. It's just bad luck you were a witness.::Sally: My whole life, I had bad luck.::Rocco: Me too.::[pause]::Sally: Where are you from?::Rocco: Brooklyn.::Sally: Yeah? Me too.

Rocco: This is a coincidence. I meet nobody from the old neighbourhood in years. I finally do, and I gotta kill her.

Rabbi Baumel: Radio... It's all right once in a while. Otherwise it tends to induce bad values, false dreams, lazy habits. Listening to these stories of foolishness and violence... this is no way for a boy to grow up.::Joe: You speak the truth, my faithful Indian companion.::Rabbi Baumel: To a rabbi you say "my faithful Indian companion"? [hits him in a head]

Joe: [as he realizes the substitute teacher is the woman he and his friends saw dancing naked in the window] Oh God, we're all going straight to hell!

Mother: [as she watches anti-aircraft searchlights with husband during a World War II black-out] It's so beautiful. Boy, what a world... it could be so wonderful, if it wasn't for certain people.

Arnold: [presenting a condom to a class] I found this on my parents' night table.

Sally: Who is Pearl Harbor?

Narrator: For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.

Diction Student: Hark! I hear the cannons roar! Is it the King approaching?::Diction Student: Hark! I hear the cannons roar! Is it the King approaching?::Sally: [in a very thick New York accent] Hahk! I hear the cannon's raw! Is it the King approaching?

[Last lines]::Narrator: I never forgot that New Year's Eve when Aunt Bea awakened me to watch 1944 come in. I've never forgotten any of those people or any of the voices we would hear on the radio. Though the truth is, with the passing of each New Year's Eve, those voices do seem to grow dimmer and dimmer.

Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)

Actors: John Turturro (actor), Steven Wright (actor), Richard Portnow (actor), Robert Joy (actor), Aidan Quinn (actor), John Lurie (actor), Peter Maloney (actor), Giancarlo Esposito (actor), Victor Argo (actor), John Hoyt (actor), Michael Badalucco (actor), Will Patton (actor), Richard Edson (actor), Rosanna Arquette (actress), Rosanna Arquette (actress),

Plot: Bored Roberta spots a regular personal ad in the paper titled 'Desperately Seeking Susan'. She heads off to New York, following one of the ads, and finds Susan. When Susan sells her jacket, Roberta - trying to emulate her mystery ad writer - buys the jacket and wears it. Little does she know someon is looking for the jacket - and its owner...

Keywords: affair, amnesia, amnesiac, atlantic-city, automobile, bare-chested-male, bathroom, beauty-parlor, black-bra, blow-to-head-cures-amnesia
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Roberta is desperate to be Susan. Susan is wanted by the mob. The mob finds Roberta instead... A life so outrageous it takes two women to live it

Quotes:

Cigarette Girl: Susan! My God, we thought you were dead.::Susan: No, just in New Jersey.

Leslie: I can't believe the two of you are eating in the middle of a crisis like this.::Gary: We're nervous, what do you want...::Leslie: Then take a Valium like a normal person.

Leslie: I can't believe Roberta's a prostitute.::Gary: Roberta's not a prostitute.::Leslie: I saw this thing on television about this woman who turned tricks in the city from nine until noon, then went shopping all afternoon. It was years before her husband found out about it. Oh, my God, I've heard that four out of five prostitutes are lesbians.::Gary: Don't you think I would know if my wife was a lesbian?::Leslie: Why? You didn't know she was a prostitute!

Gary: Are you a lesbian? Leslie says that nine out of ten prostitutes are lesbians.::Roberta: Gary, you're not listening to me. I'm not a prostitute or a lesbian!

Gary: What are you wearing?::Roberta: A jacket. It used to belong to Jimi Hendrix.::Gary: You bought a used jacket? What are we, poor?

Gary: Susan! What are you doing?::Susan: I've got good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?::Gary: You said you were going to leave!::Susan: All right, good news first. Roberta's not working with the greaseball.::Gary: My wife just got picked up on the lower east side escaping from her gun-toting pimp.::Susan: He's not a pimp. Problem is, he's probably going to try to kill her because he thinks she's me.

Roberta: Here it is, a message from Jim. [Reading from newspaper] "Desperately seeking Susan. Meet me, four o'clock, Battery Park. Keep the faith. Love, Jim."::Leslie: Jim? Susan? Do you know these people?::Roberta: They send messages through the personal ads, that's how they hook up. Last year she was in Mexico City, then Los Angeles, now New York. Desperate. I love that word.::Leslie: Everybody I know is desperate, except for you.::Roberta: I'm desperate.::Leslie: Ha!::Roberta: Well, sort of.

Susan: Roberta kept a diary. Great stuff. [Reading] "Couldn't sleep. Went into kitchen. Gary came in, turned on light. Gary left. Finished birthday cake." Pages of it. It's got to be a cover, nobody's life could be this boring!::Gary: You shouldn't be reading that, it's personal.::Susan: Yeah, well it's not about her, it's about me. [Reading] "He's looking for Susan again. This is the fifth ad he's run. Why does he want to see her so badly? Who is she?" And here's my picture.

Gary: I didn't know about all this.::Susan: Between you and me, how much do you really know about Roberta? Why didn't you tell me she read the personals? We could have settled this yesterday.::Gary: She read them all the time. I didn't think...::Susan: Yeah, well, fortunately for everyone, I'm here and I'm thinking.

Dez: Some guy grabbed you?::Roberta: Yes, he was after me. Well, not me exactly. He was after Susan, who he thinks I am, but I'm not!

Jungle Girl (1984)

Actors: James Broughton (actor), Richard Myers (editor), Richard Myers (producer), Richard Myers (writer), Richard Myers (director), Jake Leed (actor), Mary Leed (actress), Alex Gildzen (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Even as IOU (1942)

Actors: Paul Borofsky (editor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Lew Davis (actor), Vernon Dent (actor), Larry Fine (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), Curly Howard (actor), Moe Howard (actor), Bud Jamison (actor), Bert Young (actor), Suzanne Ridgeway (actress), Billy Bletcher (actor), Del Lord (producer),

Plot: A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!

Keywords: animal-bite, betting-on-a-horse, billboard, colt, derby, doll, fish-dinner, foot-chase, glass-of-milk, goat
Genres: Comedy, Short,
Taglines: A 1000 to 1 howler!

Quotes:

Motorist: Just a second, these horses ran yesterday!::Curly: They won, didn't they!

Seabasket, the Horse: I beat Filet Mignon, in the Porterhouse Stakes.