Angle (2008)
Actors:
Jens Kohler (actor),
Jacqueline Ann Finch (actress),
Jacqueline Ann Finch (producer),
Dwayne C. Ladd (producer),
Keegan Wilcox (producer),
Jacqueline Ann Finch (writer),
Dwyane C. Ladd (writer),
Armand Beausoleil (composer),
Jacqueline Ann Finch (composer),
Rick Walls (director),
Michael Legge (editor),
George Papuashvili (editor),
Jesi Burch (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: "Angle" introduces us to a visitation on a downtown rooftop by a woman who is part alien, part angel and part human. We aren't quite sure where she's from and neither is she but someone or something has coded her for a spiritual mission down here on planet earth. Through her perspective Angle examines the rules of the Earth Realm, rules of human choice, which must be obeyed and abided by no matter what other realm you are from, or must they? In this short, a young man sits literally on the edge of suicide on top of a 20th story building, will Angle save him in time?
Keywords: ancient-egypt, angel, suicide, supernatural-power
Genres:
Short,
Taglines: where there's time there's hope
The Cure (1995)
Actors:
Andrew Broder (actor),
Stephen D'Ambrose (actor),
Bruce Davison (actor),
Aeryk Egan (actor),
Rodney W. England (actor),
Craig Gierl (actor),
Dale Handevidt (actor),
Jeremy Howard (actor),
Nicky Katt (actor),
John Carroll Lynch (actor),
Joseph Mazzello (actor),
Peter Moore (actor),
Raymond Nelson (actor),
T. Mychael Rambo (actor),
John Beasley (actor),
Plot: Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Eric, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Eric also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their friendship upon learning of it. When they read that a doctor in distant New Orleans claims to have found a cure for AIDS, the boys leave home on their own, planning to float down the Mississippi river and find him.
Keywords: abusive-parent, aids, bigot, blood, boat, building-a-fort, candy, child-abuse, childhood, children
Genres:
Drama,
Taglines: Two boys found a way to make one summer last a lifetime.
Quotes:
Dexter: I'm not sure I understand why you have to try all this stuff too.::Erik: Don't you know anything about scientific method?::Dexter: A little.::Erik: Well you have to have a control group, so you can see if the results are uniform.
Linda: [crying] I'm sorry.::Erik: I'm sorry too. I shoulda tried harder.::Linda: Tried what?::Erik: To find the cure.::Linda: Come here sweetie. You did, you did. Everything that was sent in Dexter's life was sad, alone, you made it go away. Dexter was happy to have you as a friend.
Dr. Jenson: Look, history is full of very sick people, who suddenly, for no reason at all, get better. And when that happens we call it a miracle. From the moment I met you I knew you were special, and that you might be one of those people. You know I'm tellin' you the truth, don'tcha? You can feel that inside ye, can'tcha? So don't let me down, okay? I'm countin' on you to make me famous.
Erik: One time there was this kid, and he went swimming after eating, and he got a stomach cramp and he started to drown, but the sturgeon general grabbed him by his shirt and put him on the shore.
[Looking at a Playboy magazine]::Dexter: This doesn't look like my mom.::Erik: These aren't moms. These are women. This is what they're supposed to look like.
Dexter: This is stupid.::Erik: Yeah? Well, about twenty years ago there was this guy. He noticed some mold growing on his bread and he started feeding it to people. Everybody said he was stupid. You know what it turned out to be? Aspirin!
Erik: Hey! What would you do if I come over there and whopped your ass?::Dexter: How long would that take?::Erik: 'Bout 10 seconds.::Dexter: I'd wait till you're finished and then I'd continue working on my mud fort.::Erik: You mean you'd just let me beat you up?::Dexter: I'd try to stop you but I probably wouldn't be able to, I'm not very big.::Erik: Well in that case it'd only take 5 seconds.::Dexter: So is that what you're gonna do?::Erik: Maybe later.::Dexter: Hello? You still there?
Dexter: Suppose you kept going another 18 billion light years, what if there's nothing out there? Suppose you kept going another trillion times further, so far out you see nothing. The light from the universe would be fainter than the faintest star. Infinitely cold. Infinitely dark. Sometimes if I wake up and it's dark, I get really scared, like I'm out there and I'm never coming back.::Erik: Here, hold onto this when you sleep. And if you wake up and you're scared, you'll say, "Wait a minute. I'm holding Eric's shoe. Why the hell would I be holding some smelly basketball shoe a trillion light years from the universe? I must be here on earth, safe in my sleeping bag, and Eric must be close by."
Tyler: Hey, Erika. How's your new boyfriend next door?::Erik: He's not next door, he's behind me. I ain't never even seen him.::Tyler: "I ain't never even seen him." Who are your neighbors then? Gomer Pyle and his brother Guber?::Erik: Eat shit.::Tyler: What was that? Hey come back here, Faggot! Hey I said come back here!
Garbage Truck Driver: Hey get out of the road! Go on!::Erik: Asshole.