American Girl

Got Rights? (2012)

Actors: Kamala Lopez (director), Courteney Cox (actress), Kamala Lopez (writer), Alanna Ubach (actress), Kamala Lopez (actress), Sherry Stringfield (actress), Saye Yabandeh (actress), Lia Chapman (actress), Joel Marshall (producer), Claire Dodin (actress), Annet Mahendru (actress), Aida Rodriguez (actress), Mary Elise Hayden (actress), Mariah Bonner (actress), Drew Ann Rosenberg (producer),

Genres: Short,

Got Rights? (2012)

Actors: Kamala Lopez (director), Courteney Cox (actress), Kamala Lopez (writer), Alanna Ubach (actress), Kamala Lopez (actress), Sherry Stringfield (actress), Saye Yabandeh (actress), Lia Chapman (actress), Joel Marshall (producer), Claire Dodin (actress), Annet Mahendru (actress), Aida Rodriguez (actress), Mary Elise Hayden (actress), Mariah Bonner (actress), Drew Ann Rosenberg (producer),

Genres: Short,

English Vinglish (2012)

Actors: Ajith Kumar (actor), Sulabha Deshpande (actress), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Sridevi (actress), Jim Dobson (miscellaneous crew), Mehdi Nebbou (actor), Chris J. Cullen (actor), Dena Greenbaum (miscellaneous crew), Marc I. Daniels (actor), Amit Trivedi (composer), Sunil Lulla (producer), Adil Hussain (actor), Shindo Ki Rodriguez (actor), Beth Katehis (actress), Nate Steinwachs (actor),

Plot: The story of a quiet, sweet tempered housewife who endures small slights from her well educated husband and daughter everyday because of her inability to speak and understand English. She is resourceful and open-minded but somehow these traits don't get noticed by them. Then one day on a trip to visit her sister in Manhattan she decides to enroll in an English Learners class and meets a host of new people who teach her to value herself beyond the narrow perspective of her family.

Keywords: african-immigrant, airplane, bad-english, broken-english, catholic, catholic-priest, chinese, chinese-american, chinese-girl, chinese-immigrant
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family,

Quotes:

Shashi Godbole: This marriage is a beautiful thing. It is the most special friendship. Friendship of two people who are equal. Life is a long journey. Meera, sometimes you will feel you are less. Kevin, sometimes you will also feel you are less than Meera. Try to help each other to feel equal. It will be nice. Sometimes... Married couple don't even know how the other is feeling. So... how they will help the other? It means marriage is finished? No. That is the time you have to help yourself. Nobody can help you better than you. If you do that... you will return back feeling equal. Your friendship will return back... Your life will be beautiful.::Shashi Godbole: Meera... Kevin... Maybe you'll very busy... but have family... son... daughter. In this big world... your small little world, it will make you feel so good. Family... family can never be... never be... never be judgemental! Family will never... put you down... will never make you feel small. Family is the only one who will never laugh at your weaknesses. Family is the only place where you will always get love and respect. That's all Meera and Kevin... I wish you all the best. Thank you.

Laurent: Your food... [good] .::Shashi Godbole: No no no. You cooking hotel expert. I'm... in house cooking, very small.::Laurent: No. Not small, not small. Food is... eh... food is art.::Shashi Godbole: [In Hindi] When a man cooks, it's art... When a woman cooks, it's her duty.::Laurent: What did you say?::Shashi Godbole: I'm sorry. Man cooking... art. Lady cooking... daily job, duty!::Laurent: No. No no. Food is... love. You cooking with love, good food. You make people happy. You artiste! Not small not small.

Yu Son: You hear? Sir David and boyfriend break up! Sir David very sad.::Eva: I know.::Salman Khan: Nothing sad about gay. People breaking up... drop one and pick another!::Shashi Godbole: Salman... don't say that. No making fun... We are all different from each other. For you... David Sir may not be 'normal'... For David Sir... you may not be 'normal'... but feelings are all the same... and pain is pain...

Shashi Godbole: When you don't like yourself... you tend to dislike everything connected to you. New things seem to be more attractive. When you learn to love yourself... then the same old life... starts looking new... starts looking nice. Thank you... for teaching me... how to love myself! Thank you for making me... feel good about myself. Thank you so much!

Got Rights? (2012)

Actors: Kamala Lopez (director), Courteney Cox (actress), Kamala Lopez (writer), Alanna Ubach (actress), Kamala Lopez (actress), Sherry Stringfield (actress), Saye Yabandeh (actress), Lia Chapman (actress), Joel Marshall (producer), Claire Dodin (actress), Annet Mahendru (actress), Aida Rodriguez (actress), Mary Elise Hayden (actress), Mariah Bonner (actress), Drew Ann Rosenberg (producer),

Genres: Short,

Got Rights? (2012)

Actors: Kamala Lopez (director), Courteney Cox (actress), Kamala Lopez (writer), Alanna Ubach (actress), Kamala Lopez (actress), Sherry Stringfield (actress), Saye Yabandeh (actress), Lia Chapman (actress), Joel Marshall (producer), Claire Dodin (actress), Annet Mahendru (actress), Aida Rodriguez (actress), Mary Elise Hayden (actress), Mariah Bonner (actress), Drew Ann Rosenberg (producer),

Genres: Short,

No Show (2007)

Actors: Anne LaBarbera (actor), Anne LaBarbera (editor), Anne LaBarbera (writer), Stephen Samson (actor), Willem van Heemstra (writer), Willem van Heemstra (actor), Tom Bishop (actor), Tom Bishop (producer), Christopher Brooks (producer), Tom Bishop (writer), Christopher Brooks (writer), Tom Bishop (director), Tom Bishop (editor), James Cowland (composer), Daniel Pacey (producer),

Genres: Comedy, Short,
Taglines: there is a time for everything

Una donna per amico (1998)

Actors: Arnoldo Foà (actor), Marisa Merlini (actress), Massimo Bonetti (actor), Raimondo Crociani (editor), Franca Scagnetti (actress), Daniela Poggi (actress), Luca Ward (actor), Antonio Petrocelli (actor), Giorgio Colangeli (actor), Fabio Sartor (actor), Luciano Federico (actor), Paolo Maria Scalondro (actor), Francesco Venditti (actor), Vanni Corbellini (actor), Antonio Di Pofi (composer),

Genres: ,

Sjösalavår (1949)

Actors: Henrik Schildt (actor), Åke Fridell (actor), Birger Lensander (actor), Stig Järrel (actor), Douglas Håge (actor), Börje Mellvig (actor), Per-Axel Arosenius (actor), John Elfström (actor), Elof Ahrle (actor), Carl Deurell (actor), Arthur Fischer (actor), Siegfried Fischer (actor), Erik Forslund (actor), Ivar Wahlgren (actor), Ludde Juberg (actor),

Plot: The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. After paying all his unpaid bills in the morning, he has no money left for a ticket to Buenos Aires.

Keywords: based-on-novel
Genres: Musical,

Jewels of Brandenburg (1947)

Actors: Sol M. Wurtzel (producer), Eugene Forde (director), Joel Friedkin (actor), William Gould (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Darrell Calker (composer), Jean Fenwick (actress), Louis Mercier (actor), Albert Petit (actor), Otto Reichow (actor), Ralf Harolde (actor), Emmett Vogan (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Richard Travis (actor), William F. Claxton (editor),

Plot: Johnny Vickers is a US government agent operating in London. Vickers puts a tail on the double agent Marcel Grandet, with whom he'd worked during World War II. Grandet has during this war a fortune in jewels stolen. With these jewels Grandet intends to finance a neo-Nazi movement. Posing as a fellow fascist, Travis is able to infiltrate the villains. But will Vickers be able to return the stolen jewels and save his own skin?

Keywords: spy
Genres: Crime, Mystery,

Meet John Doe (1941)

Actors: Lew Davis (actor), Billy Curtis (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Glen Cavender (actor), Benny Bartlett (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Vernon Dent (actor),

Plot: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously...but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan.

Keywords: american-politics, baseball, character-name-in-title, christmas, club, convention, diner, father-figure, hoax, hobo
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: ALL AMERICA WANTS TO MEET THE "MR. DEEDS" OF 1941! (original print media ad - all caps)

Quotes:

The Colonel: I don't read no papers, and I don't listen to radios either. I know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber, and I don't have to read it.

Long John Willoughby: Hey, stop worryin', Colonel, fifty bucks ain't gonna ruin me.::The Colonel: I've seen plenty of fellas start out with fifty bucks and wind up with a *bank* account!::Beany: Hey, what's wrong with a bank account, anyway?::The Colonel: And let me tell you, Long John, when you become a guy with a bank account, they gotcha! Yes sir, they gotcha!::Beany: Who's got him?::The Colonel: The helots!

Mayor Hawkins: O.K. folks, but remember your manners. No stampeding. Walk slow, like you do when you come to pay your taxes.

Angelface: [after Willoughby gives the Colonel the $50 to give away] Say, he's giving it away. I better get me some of that::Beany: Hey, come back here you helot.

D. B. Norton: You'll play your cards right and you'll never have to worry about money again.

D. B. Norton: From now on, I think you'd better work directly with me.

The Colonel: $5,000. Holy mackerel! I can see the helots coming now. A whole army of them.

Ann: Everything in that speech is what a certain man believed in. He was my father. When he talked people listened. They will listen to you too.

Henry Connel: Listen, if that guy lays an egg I want to get *something* out of it! I'm getting a Jane Doe ready.

Mayor Hawkins: No you can't see him, you didn't vote for me in the last election. Shame on you.