Twenty Questions (2006)

Actors: Matthew Gross (producer), James McDaniel (actor), Aaron Michael Lacey (miscellaneous crew), Joey Naber (miscellaneous crew), John Heard (actor), Josh Davidson (actor), Aaron Michael Lacey (actor), Barbara Biddle (miscellaneous crew), Omar McClinton (miscellaneous crew), Jesse Bradford (actor), Katherine Dorrer (miscellaneous crew), Paul Fahrenkopf (actor), Jared Morrison (miscellaneous crew), Jared Morrison (actor), Lil Rhee (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Bubbles (2001)

Actors: Adrian Rawlins (actor), Saskia Reeves (actress), Caprice Bourret (actress), Mark Russell (composer), Peter La Terriere (producer), Peter La Terriere (writer), Mel Raido (actor), Dragomir Bajalica (editor), Katherine Burchill (costume designer), Mike Southon (director), Bruno Melling (actor),

Plot: A young family, driving along a road in Britain fall prey to a minor collision due to Dad's daydreaming about a golf game. The boy in the back of the car is in dismay as his newly won goldfish splits its bag. A rescue effort begins, culminating in Mum pouring the fish into a bottle of drinking water donated by a passing gorgeous blonde flagged down by Dad. The enigmatic driver of the stationary vehicle that was driven into spontaneously reveals the load of his van to be a hand made rocking horse. Not having a business card, he writes his number on Mum's arm. Hours later a recovery vehicle arrives, and the family are taken home with Dad fantasising about the blonde, Mum fantasising about the other driver, and the boy dreaming about a beach.

Keywords: goldfish
Genres: Short,

Some Fish Can Fly (1999)

Actors: Tiffany Shepis (actress), Geoffrey Gould (actor), Adrian Martinez (actor), Rik Nagel (miscellaneous crew), Rik Nagel (actor), Bridget Barkan (actress), Martha Gretsch (costume designer), Jeannette Gould (actress), Brian Cole (actor), Kirby Mitchell (actor), Jack Luceno (actor), James Cunningham (actor), Stephanie Silverman (actress), Robert Kane Pappas (writer), Robert Kane Pappas (actor),

Genres: ,
Taglines: She's from Ireland. He's a native New Yorker. They have nothing in common except for being in love.

Spanish Fly (1998)

Actors: Carlos Lucas (actor), Danny Huston (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Martin Donovan (actor), Marianne Sägebrecht (actress), Mary McDonnell (actress), Mario de Benito (composer), Maria de Medeiros (actress), Fernando Trueba (actor), Felipe Vélez (actor), Joan Potau (actor), Toni Cantó (actor), Alicia Agut (actress), Fernando Merino (actor), Caroline Biggerstaff (editor),

Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Spanish Fly (1998)

Actors: Carlos Lucas (actor), Danny Huston (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Martin Donovan (actor), Marianne Sägebrecht (actress), Mary McDonnell (actress), Mario de Benito (composer), Maria de Medeiros (actress), Fernando Trueba (actor), Felipe Vélez (actor), Joan Potau (actor), Toni Cantó (actor), Alicia Agut (actress), Fernando Merino (actor), Caroline Biggerstaff (editor),

Genres: Comedy, Romance,

The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

Actors: Jodie Foster (actress), Prudence Emery (actress), Matthew Modine (actor), Wallace Shawn (actor), Walter Massey (actor), Timothy Webber (actor), Rob Lowe (actor), Wilford Brimley (actor), Matthew Modine (actor), Louis Di Bianco (actor), Seth Green (actor), Beau Bridges (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Nastassja Kinski (actress), Lorena Gale (actress),

Plot: The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.

Keywords: abuse, actress, adolescent, affection, airplane-crash, austria, bare-butt, based-on-novel, bear, bear-costume
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: If you experienced "The World According To Garp" and found it witty, delightful and totally unpredictable, then be happily surprised all over again when you join the fun and games that go on at the...Hotel New Hampshire

Quotes:

Lilly: [when seeing the Vienna hotel for the first time] There's gonna be sex and violence.

[last lines]::John: [narrating] So we dream on, inventing our lives; a little lost sister, a saintly mother, a hero father. But our dreams escape us however vividly we imagine them. There's only one thing you can do, keep passing the open windows.

Multiple Characters: Keep passing the open windows.

John: Love floats, just like sorrow.

[last lines]::Lilly: Life's a fairy tale.

Mr. Win Berry: If we can't get strong from what we lose, what we miss, what we want and can't have... then we could never get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?

Frannie Berry: [On finding Bitty passed out in the bathroom] Passed out while diaphragming herself.

Mr. Win Berry: My daughter was a necessary phase?

Iowa Bob: This job's going to be harder than... trying to rape a rhinoceros.

Mistral's Daughter (1984)

Actors: Victor Spinetti (actor), Vincent Solignac (actor), André Penvern (actor), Shane Rimmer (actor), Wolf Kahler (actor), Michael Gough (actor), Sacha Briquet (actor), Billy Kearns (actor), Jacques Balutin (actor), Philippe Mareuil (actor), Jean-Claude Dauphin (actor), Geoffrey Carey (actor), Yann Dedet (actor), Françoise Brion (actress), Pierre Vernier (actor),

Plot: Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant and selfish man who places his work above everything. Their paths diverge as Mistral's art catches the eye of a rich American woman who becomes his patroness and eventually his wife. During the war years in France, Mistral collaborates with the Nazis in order to continue with his work, a decision that will come back to haunt him years later. In the meantime, Maggy has a daughter named Teddy who grows up and falls in love with Mistral with whom she has a child named Fauve. As Mistral ages, he comes to terms with his selfish past and wartime betrayal through his art, leaving a beautiful legacy for his daughter, Fauve.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, apostrophe-in-title, art-dealer, art-gallery, artist
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Serenade (1956)

Actors: Forbes Murray (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Carl M. Leviness (actor), Bill McLean (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), James Conaty (actor), Alberto Morin (actor), Vince Edwards (actor), Wilbur Mack (actor), Martin Garralaga (actor), Joseph Calleia (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Eduardo Noriega (actor),

Plot: Damon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer. He debuts at Lardelli's Italian restaurant in San Francisco, where he is spotted by Kendall Hale, a society girl who enjoys launching young artists while making them her lovers before dumping them after use. Damon is no exception to the rule: he becomes famous but Kendall leaves him abruptly. He feels so affected that he must give up singing. In Mexico, where he has got back in touch with his inner self, Damon meets Juana Montès.They are happy and get married. But Kendall is still around...

Keywords: based-on-novel, farm-worker, opera-singer, tenor
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The most thrilling story-with-music ever made is Mario Lanza in 'Serenade.' All the quivering excitement of James M. Cain's best-seller...The story of a farm hand who won fame as a singer and almost lost his soul as a man! The Thrill of His Voice! Thrill of a Great Story!

Quotes:

Damon Vincenti: Hey! Are you hiring a singer or a bookkeeper?::Lardelli: Oho, he IS a tenor!

The Razor's Edge (1946)

Actors: Gordon B. Clarke (actor), James Conaty (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), Jaque Catelain (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), André Charlot (actor), Edward Biby (actor), Robert Barron (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), Frederic Brunn (actor), John Davidson (actor), Franco Corsaro (actor),

Plot: Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929, is invited to live in Paris with her rich, social climbing, Uncle Elliot. During a sojurn there, Larry, having attained his goal, is reunited with Isabel. While slumming one night Larry, Isabel and company are shocked to discover Sophie, a friend from Chicago. Having lost her husband and child in a tragic accident, Sophie is living the low-life with the help of drugs and an abusive brute. Larry tries to rehabilitate her, but his efforts are sabotaged by Isabel who tries in vain to reignite Larry's interest in herself.

Keywords: alcoholic, american-abroad, automobile-accident, based-on-novel, broken-engagement, chicago-illinois, coal-miner, dancing, doctor, drunkenness
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Hunger no love . . . woman . . . or wealth could satisfy!

Quotes:

Elliott Templeton: The enjoyment of art is the only remaining ecstasy that's neither immoral nor illegal.

Elliott Templeton: [Recounting a series of rejected invitations] And then when I asked him to dinner, he said he couldn't come because he had no evening clothes. If I live to be a hundred I shall never understand how any young man can come to Paris without evening clothes.::Louisa Bradley: [Referring to the turning down of the invitations] Maybe he just didn't want to.::Elliott Templeton: That's the most incredible reason for refusing an invitation I've ever heard in my life.

Elliott Templeton: I do not like the propinquity of the hoi polloi.

Louisa Bradley: Elliott, who is this man you invited to dinner tonight?::Elliott Templeton: He's an English author. [Referring to W. Somerset Maugham] He's quite alright. In fact he's quite famous. So pretend you've heard of him even if you haven't.

Isabel Bradley: [Referring to Sophie MacDonald] She's an awful woman. She's bad, bad, bad! She's soused from morning to night.::W. Somerset Maugham: That doesn't necessarily mean she's bad. Quite a number of respectable citizens get drunk and do silly things... I call a person bad who lies and cheats and is unkind.::Isabel Bradley: If you're going to take her part, I'll kill you.::W. Somerset Maugham: I'd prefer it if you gave me a cup of tea.

Kosti: You sound like a very religious man who does not believe in God!

Elliott Templeton: I'm afraid I haven't a very good account to give you of that young man, Louisa.::Louisa Bradley: Oh?::Elliott Templeton: When he first came over to Paris, for Isabel's sake, I asked him to lunch to meet the sort of people he ought to know. He told me he didn't eat lunch.::Louisa Bradley: Perhaps he doesn't.::Elliott Templeton: And then, when I asked him to dinner, he said he couldn't come because he had no evening clothes. If I live to be a hundred, I will never understand how any young man could come to Paris without evening clothes.::Louisa Bradley: Maybe he just didn't want to.::Elliott Templeton: That's the most incredible reason for refusing an invitation I've ever heard in my life.

Kosti: You're a rum one, Larry. But what about all the answers to those profound questions you've been asking yourself? Don't you know, people have been asking those same questions for thousands of years?::Larry Darrell: Yes, but doesn't the fact that people *have* been asking those same questions for thousands of years only go to prove that they can't help asking?::Kosti: Very good, very good. You're not altogether stupid. As a matter of fact, you sound like a very religious man who doesn't believe in God.::Larry Darrell: I'm not sure that I believe in anything.

W. Somerset Maugham: [about Elliott's monogrammed robe] Elliott, what the devil's that crown doing over your initials?::Elliott Templeton: His Holiness has been graciously pleased to revive, in my favor, my old family title.::W. Somerset Maugham: Your what?::Elliott Templeton: Oh, didn't you know? I'm descended, in the female line, from the Count de Lauria, who came over to England with Philip II to marry the maid of honor to Queen Mary. As an American citizen, I feel it more modest not to use my title except on all my personal linen.

Trois balles dans la peau (1933)

Actors: Roger Lion (writer), Roger Lion (writer), Colette Darfeuil (actress), Jean Angelo (actor), Roger Vincent (actor), Madeleine Guitty (actress), Piero Pastore (actor), Eddy Debray (actor), Max Maxudian (actor), Pierre Juvenet (actor), Sinoël (actor), Alexandre Mihalesco (actor), Charles Lemontier (actor), Roger Lion (director), Roger Lion (writer),

Plot: Open and shut case: Maxime Dartois, the painter, is found dead in his penthouse with three bullets in his body, but the pistol that killed him is still being held by the (fainted) young lady by his side. A detective will find a few odd notes, and the plot thickens when plenty of people are interviewed, and more than one could have the will, and the opportunity, to be the killer, and it is not clear what the relationship of the girl was with the deceased.

Genres: Crime, Music, Mystery, Romance,