Just Wright (2010)

Actors: Mark Robert Ellis (miscellaneous crew), Common (actor), Laurie Gershon (miscellaneous crew), Pam Grier (actress), Queen Latifah (actress), Terence Blanchard (actor), Queen Latifah (producer), Phylicia Rashad (actress), Laz Alonso (actor), James Pickens Jr. (actor), Chris J. Cullen (actor), Dave Ginsberg (miscellaneous crew), David C. Robinson (costume designer), Michalla Petersen (miscellaneous crew), Graham Goetz (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Leslie Wright is a straight-shooting physical therapist who gets the gig of a lifetime working with NBA All-Star Scott McKnight. All is going well until Leslie finds herself falling for Scott, forcing her to choose between the gig and the tug-of-war inside her heart. Oblivious to her romantic overtures, McKnight is instead drawn to the affections of Leslie's childhood friend Morgan, who has her sights set on being an NBA trophy wife. Is Leslie destined to play the role of "best friend" forever or will Scott finally see that what he always wanted is right in front of him?

Keywords: african-american, all-star-game, basketball, basketball-game, basketball-player, basketball-playoffs, black-american, breakfast-in-bed, broken-engagement, character-name-in-title
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sport,
Taglines: In this game every shot counts.

Chicago Overcoat (2009)

Actors: Walt Sloan (actor), Nelson Carvajal (actor), Shannon Edwards (actor), Mike Starr (actor), Don Kress (actor), Frank Vincent (actor), Stacy Keach (actor), Armand Assante (actor), Suzy Brack (actress), Joel Rogers (actor), Matthew Stratton (miscellaneous crew), Greg Nicolett (composer), Danny Goldring (actor), Dan Gutierrez (miscellaneous crew), Joyce Porter (actress),

Plot: The Chicago Outfit was the most powerful organized crime syndicate of the 20th century, and Lou Marazano (Frank Vincent) was their deadliest hit man. Twenty years after his most notorious wave of hits Lou is a relic, his legend obscured, his talents forgotten, and his glory days over. When a high-profile union representative is arrested for tax fraud, the Outfit's top boss (Armand Assante) orders a string of key witnesses silenced before the government can uncover a vast conspiracy involving police officers, city officials, and mob affiliates. Lou sees the job as an opportunity to finance his retirement and leave Chicago with his girlfriend (Kathrine Narducci). But when relentless detectives (Danny Goldring & Stacy Keach) begin nipping at his heels, and the acting street boss (Mike Starr) decides to revoke Lou's membership to the Outfit, Lou must prove he is worthy of being the Outfit's most deadly hit man - a title he held more than twenty years ago.

Keywords: blood, cigarette-smoking, death, detective, drinking, explosion, fight, gangster, gore, gun
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: The glory days are back

Quotes:

Lou Marazano: Fuck that, I'm goin' to Vegas.

Beauty Rises: Four Lives in the Arts (2006)

Actors: Daniel Andries (director), Daniel Andries (producer), Orbert Davis (actor), Orbert Davis (actor), Barbara E. Allen (editor), Fawn Ring (producer), Nicholas Tremulis (composer), Rick Barnes (composer), Dessa Kirk (actress), Laura Wiley (actress), Tracye J. Campbell (producer),

Plot: Commissioned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Illinois Arts Council, this poignant and inspiring film interweaves the stories of four Illinois artists as they meet self-imposed artistic challenges and struggle with life challenges. From leading a teen theater ensemble to writing and conducting a symphonic jazz score to finding the perfect studio space to writing a poem, the artistic process is shown to be at one with the process of living in the larger community.

Keywords: abuse, art, cancer, chicago-illinois, illinois, jazz, poetry, sculpture, teenager, theater
Genres: Documentary,
Taglines: Four artists. Four lives. Four struggles. One story.

Collateral (2004)

Actors: Mark Ruffalo (actor), Jason Statham (actor), Richard T. Jones (actor), Thomas Rosales Jr. (actor), Peter McKernan (actor), Emilio Rivera (actor), Bruce McGill (actor), Jamie Foxx (actor), Javier Bardem (actor), Tom Cruise (actor), Peter Berg (actor), Chic Daniel (actor), Barry Shabaka Henley (actor), Debi Mazar (actress), Irma P. Hall (actress),

Plot: LA cabbie Max Durocher is the type of person who can wax poetic about other people's lives, which impresses U.S. Justice Department prosecutor Annie Farrell, one of his fares, so much that she gives him her telephone number at the end of her ride. Although a dedicated man as seen through the efficiency in which he does his work, he can't or won't translate that eloquence into a better life for himself. He deludes himself into believing that his now twelve year cabbie job is temporary and that someday he will own his own limousine service. He even lies to his hospitalized mother that he already owns one, with a further lie that he tells her as such primarily to make her happy, rather than the truth which is that he won't do anything to achieve that dream. One night, Max picks up a well dressed man named Vincent, who asks Max to be his only fare for the evening. For a flat fee of $600, plus an extra $100 if he gets to the airport on time - Vincent wants Max to drive him to five stops that evening. Max somewhat reluctantly agrees. Max learns the hard way at their first stop when a body falls from a third story apartment window and lands dead on top of his cab that Vincent is a contract hit man. Vincent's main goal, as per his current contract, is to kill five people, one at each of the stops, but he will not let others get in the way of that goal, even if it means killing them, including Max. As Vincent forces Max to continue driving him for the evening, Max tries slyly at every turn to take back control of his life from Vincent, especially when Max learns of one of the names on Vincent's hit list. Meanwhile, LAPD narcotics detective, Ray Fanning, and ultimately the FBI get involved when Vincent's first victim is associated with a case in which Ray is working undercover. Ray is able to piece together information which makes him hot on Max and Vincent's tail.

Keywords: accomplice, african-american, airport, alley, apartment, apartment-building, armed-robbery, assassin, attorney, bar
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: It started like any other night

Quotes:

Max: Hey. [stuttering] He, he, he fell on the cab. He fell, he fell from up there on the motherfucking cab. Shit. I think he's dead.::Vincent: Good guess.::Max: You killed him?::Vincent: No, I shot him. Bullets and the fall killed him.

Max: I can't drive you around while you're killing folks. It ain't my job!::Vincent: Tonight it is.

Vincent: Okay, look, here's the deal. Man, you were gonna drive me around tonight, never be the wiser, but El Gordo got in front of a window, did his high dive, we're into Plan B. Still breathing? Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, shit happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it.::Max: I Ching? What are you talking about, man? You threw a man out of a window.::Vincent: I didn't throw him. He *fell*::Max: Well what did he do to you?::Vincent: What?::Max: What did he do to *you*?::Vincent: Nothing. I only met him tonight.::Max: You just met him once and you killed him like that?::Vincent: What? I should only kill people after I get to know them?

[first lines]::Vincent: You OK?::Airport Man: Yeah, I'm fine mate, don't worry about it.

Max: First time in L.A.?::Vincent: No. Tell you the truth, whenever I'm here I can't wait to leave. It's too sprawled out, disconnected. You know? That's me. You like it?::Max: It's my home.::Vincent: 17 million people. This is got to be the fifth biggest economy in the world and nobody knows each other. I read about this guy who gets on the MTA here, dies.::Max: Oh.::Vincent: Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices.

[last lines]::Vincent: Guy gets on the subway and dies. Think anybody'll notice?

Vincent: Lady Macbeth. Leave the seats. The light's green. We're sitting here.::Max: [a car horn honks behind Max. The car whips around them to get through the intersection] Asshole!::Vincent: You no longer have the cleanest cab in La-La Land. You gotta live with that. Focus on the job. Drive.

Traffic Cop #2: Hey, is this blood up here on your windshield?::Max: Yeah, uh, yeah. I hit a deer.::Traffic Cop #1: You hit a deer?::Max: Yeah, over on, uh, it was on Slauson.::Traffic Cop #1: A South Central deer?

Fanning: [cops are in alley outside Ramon's apartment] Ramon went through that window... splat. Glass here, then tires rolled over it.::Richard Weidner: Maybe he jumped.::Fanning: Sure... he's depressed so he jumps four stories out of a window onto his head. "Wow, that feels better." Picks himself up. "Now I think I'll go on with the rest of my day."

Daniel: I mean, everybody and their momma knew you don't just come up and talk to Miles Davis. I mean, he may have looked like he was chilling, but he was absorbed. This one hip couple, one of them tried to shake his hand one day. And the guy says, "Hi, my name is..." Miles said, "Get the fuck outta my face, you jive motherfucker, and take your silly bitch with you."

Collateral (2004)

Actors: Mark Ruffalo (actor), Jason Statham (actor), Richard T. Jones (actor), Thomas Rosales Jr. (actor), Peter McKernan (actor), Emilio Rivera (actor), Bruce McGill (actor), Jamie Foxx (actor), Javier Bardem (actor), Tom Cruise (actor), Peter Berg (actor), Chic Daniel (actor), Barry Shabaka Henley (actor), Debi Mazar (actress), Irma P. Hall (actress),

Plot: LA cabbie Max Durocher is the type of person who can wax poetic about other people's lives, which impresses U.S. Justice Department prosecutor Annie Farrell, one of his fares, so much that she gives him her telephone number at the end of her ride. Although a dedicated man as seen through the efficiency in which he does his work, he can't or won't translate that eloquence into a better life for himself. He deludes himself into believing that his now twelve year cabbie job is temporary and that someday he will own his own limousine service. He even lies to his hospitalized mother that he already owns one, with a further lie that he tells her as such primarily to make her happy, rather than the truth which is that he won't do anything to achieve that dream. One night, Max picks up a well dressed man named Vincent, who asks Max to be his only fare for the evening. For a flat fee of $600, plus an extra $100 if he gets to the airport on time - Vincent wants Max to drive him to five stops that evening. Max somewhat reluctantly agrees. Max learns the hard way at their first stop when a body falls from a third story apartment window and lands dead on top of his cab that Vincent is a contract hit man. Vincent's main goal, as per his current contract, is to kill five people, one at each of the stops, but he will not let others get in the way of that goal, even if it means killing them, including Max. As Vincent forces Max to continue driving him for the evening, Max tries slyly at every turn to take back control of his life from Vincent, especially when Max learns of one of the names on Vincent's hit list. Meanwhile, LAPD narcotics detective, Ray Fanning, and ultimately the FBI get involved when Vincent's first victim is associated with a case in which Ray is working undercover. Ray is able to piece together information which makes him hot on Max and Vincent's tail.

Keywords: accomplice, african-american, airport, alley, apartment, apartment-building, armed-robbery, assassin, attorney, bar
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: It started like any other night

Quotes:

Max: Hey. [stuttering] He, he, he fell on the cab. He fell, he fell from up there on the motherfucking cab. Shit. I think he's dead.::Vincent: Good guess.::Max: You killed him?::Vincent: No, I shot him. Bullets and the fall killed him.

Max: I can't drive you around while you're killing folks. It ain't my job!::Vincent: Tonight it is.

Vincent: Okay, look, here's the deal. Man, you were gonna drive me around tonight, never be the wiser, but El Gordo got in front of a window, did his high dive, we're into Plan B. Still breathing? Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, shit happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it.::Max: I Ching? What are you talking about, man? You threw a man out of a window.::Vincent: I didn't throw him. He *fell*::Max: Well what did he do to you?::Vincent: What?::Max: What did he do to *you*?::Vincent: Nothing. I only met him tonight.::Max: You just met him once and you killed him like that?::Vincent: What? I should only kill people after I get to know them?

[first lines]::Vincent: You OK?::Airport Man: Yeah, I'm fine mate, don't worry about it.

Max: First time in L.A.?::Vincent: No. Tell you the truth, whenever I'm here I can't wait to leave. It's too sprawled out, disconnected. You know? That's me. You like it?::Max: It's my home.::Vincent: 17 million people. This is got to be the fifth biggest economy in the world and nobody knows each other. I read about this guy who gets on the MTA here, dies.::Max: Oh.::Vincent: Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices.

[last lines]::Vincent: Guy gets on the subway and dies. Think anybody'll notice?

Vincent: Lady Macbeth. Leave the seats. The light's green. We're sitting here.::Max: [a car horn honks behind Max. The car whips around them to get through the intersection] Asshole!::Vincent: You no longer have the cleanest cab in La-La Land. You gotta live with that. Focus on the job. Drive.

Traffic Cop #2: Hey, is this blood up here on your windshield?::Max: Yeah, uh, yeah. I hit a deer.::Traffic Cop #1: You hit a deer?::Max: Yeah, over on, uh, it was on Slauson.::Traffic Cop #1: A South Central deer?

Fanning: [cops are in alley outside Ramon's apartment] Ramon went through that window... splat. Glass here, then tires rolled over it.::Richard Weidner: Maybe he jumped.::Fanning: Sure... he's depressed so he jumps four stories out of a window onto his head. "Wow, that feels better." Picks himself up. "Now I think I'll go on with the rest of my day."

Daniel: I mean, everybody and their momma knew you don't just come up and talk to Miles Davis. I mean, he may have looked like he was chilling, but he was absorbed. This one hip couple, one of them tried to shake his hand one day. And the guy says, "Hi, my name is..." Miles said, "Get the fuck outta my face, you jive motherfucker, and take your silly bitch with you."

Spotlit with Carolyn Cable (1999)

Actors: Carolyn Chiodini-Cable (writer), Lanny Morgan (actor), Pete Christleib (actor), Christina Morgana (actress),

Genres: Family,

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)

Actors: Ismail Merchant (producer), Kyra Sedgwick (actress), Humbert Balsan (producer), Robert Halmi Jr. (producer), Joanne Woodward (actress), James Ivory (director), Malachy McCourt (actor), Austin Pendleton (actor), Blythe Danner (actress), Paul Newman (actor), Linden Ashby (actor), Simon Callow (actor), Hubert Saint-Macary (actor), Richard Robbins (composer), Humphrey Dixon (editor),

Plot: It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and the complications are derived from that they have a more modern view of life.

Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, adage, african-american, ambulance, america-the-beautiful, american-flag, americana, analysis, ancestry
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Divided by time and tradition. United by love and hope. The story of an unforgettable family.

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

Actors: Frank Sinatra (actor), Jack Mulhall (actor), Jeffrey Sayre (actor), Frank Richards (actor), Gordon Mitchell (actor), Leonid Kinskey (actor), Mike Lally (actor), Leonard Bremen (actor), Frank Marlowe (actor), 'Snub' Pollard (actor), Darren McGavin (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Emile Meyer (actor), Frank Mills (actor), Arnold Stang (actor),

Plot: Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction.

Keywords: accused-of-murder, audition, based-on-novel, broken-spine, card-dealer, cheating-at-cards, chicago-illinois, crooked-gambling, disability, drug-abuse
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Sparrow: You all right... you know?::Frankie Machine: The monkey's gone.

Frankie Machine: I'm the kind of guy, boy when I move - watch my smoke. But I'm gonna need some good clothes though.

Frankie Machine: I don't need it is all, I kicked it.::Louie: Oh, kicked it... wanna bet?::Frankie Machine: I mean it.::Louie: Sure, I'll be around.

Frankie Machine: Guy teaches me drumming down there, says I'm a natural, arms made of pure gold.

Sparrow: Not even a postycard.::Frankie Machine: You can't read anyway.::Sparrow: You coulda drawed pictures.

Frankie Machine: You mean just stop? Cold turkey? You don't understand! The pain...

Louie: The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn.

Sparrow: You can't hold me, I'm un-incapable. I'm not smart enough to be running around loose and too goofy to be locked up. The neck, will ya let go of the neck... let go of the neck!

Frankie Machine: You got any money, Molly?... I feel so sick. I hurt all over...::Molly: Jump off a roof if you're gonna kill yourself but don't ask me to help ya...

Frankie Machine: I'll do anything for ya, Molly, but right now, you gotta help me. I need a shot...::Molly: You mustn't take that dirty stuff no more...

Hit Parade of 1951 (1950)

Actors: Edward Gargan (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Robert Bice (actor), William Forrest (actor), John Carroll (actor), Lee Bennett (actor), Paul Cavanagh (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Don Dillaway (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Chuck Courtney (actor), James Craven (actor), John Carroll (actor), Wade Crosby (actor), John Hart (actor),

Genres: Musical,

A Day's Pleasure (1919)

Actors: Jessalyn Van Trump (actress), Charles Chaplin (writer), Edna Purviance (actress), Babe London (actress), Charles Chaplin (producer), Arthur Thalasso (actor), Charles Reisner (actor), Henry Bergman (actor), Henry Bergman (actor), Tom Wilson (actor), Henry Bergman (actor), Jackie Coogan (actor), Charles Chaplin (actor), Charles Chaplin (director), Charles Chaplin (composer),

Plot: Father takes his family for a drive in their falling-apart Model T Ford, gets in trouble in traffic, and spends the day on an excursion boat. As the boat is about to leave Charlie rushes ashore for cigarettes. As he returns the boat is leaving, but a fat lady has fallen forward with feet on the dock and hands on the deck so Charlie is able rush aboard across her back.

Keywords: ferry-boat, harpoon, jazz, jazz-band, moving-van, music-score-composed-by-director, seasickness, ship, tar
Genres: Comedy, Short,
Taglines: His Own fourth Million Dollar Comedy His Very Latest-Made by his Own Company "A DAY'S PLEASURE". You'll say so!