Val

Thanksgiving (2006)

Actors: Eucharia-Anunobi Ekwu (actress), Clem Ohameze (actor), Mercy Johnson (actress), Stanley Okorie (composer), Stanley Anaekwe (producer), Stanley Anaekwe (actor), Stanley Anaekwe (director), Stanley Anaekwe (writer), Raphael Ogbaje (actor), Raphael Ogbaje (miscellaneous crew), Cornelius Ucheam (producer), Cornelius Ucheam (producer), Hayz Achu (actor), Joy Nwauba (actress), Sagay Omuwa (editor),

Genres: Drama,

Thanksgiving 2 (2006)

Actors: Eucharia-Anunobi Ekwu (actress), Clem Ohameze (actor), Mercy Johnson (actress), Stanley Okorie (composer), Stanley Anaekwe (producer), Stanley Anaekwe (actor), Stanley Anaekwe (director), Stanley Anaekwe (writer), Raphael Ogbaje (actor), Raphael Ogbaje (miscellaneous crew), Cornelius Ucheam (producer), Cornelius Ucheam (producer), Hayz Achu (actor), Joy Nwauba (actress), Sagay Omuwa (editor),

Genres: Drama,

Lords of Dogtown (2005)

Actors: Alexis Arquette (actress), Gary Sievers (actor), Charles Napier (actor), Matt Malloy (actor), Joel McHale (actor), Jeremy Renner (actor), Julio Oscar Mechoso (actor), Ned Bellamy (actor), Tony Hawk (actor), William Mapother (actor), Michael Angarano (actor), Johnny Knoxville (actor), Heath Ledger (actor), America Ferrera (actress), Rebecca De Mornay (actress),

Plot: A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.

Keywords: 1970s, accident, alcoholic-mother, auto-theft, bare-chested-male, beach, beach-bum, beating, beer, beer-drinking
Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport,
Taglines: They came from nothing to change everything. Based on the true story of the legendary z-boys. They never thought they'd be famous, but they always thought they'd be friends.

Quotes:

Gabrielle: Hey! You totally blew me away!::Jay: What? You wanna blow me? [the Z-Boys laugh]::Gabrielle: Maybe!

Stacy: [in full skate gear] So, what's up with Tony? You guys still skate with him?::Jay: He's competing with the sun for the center of the universe.::[Stacy shrugs, walks off]::Jay: [to Sid] Stacy looks like a stock car.

Jay: [the Z-Boys want to drain and skate Sid's pool, Sid comes out of his house] What did he say?::Sid: "Sid, are you high? The pool's for swimming!"::Jay: Tell him we'll fill it back up when we're done.::Sid: He said if you got hurt, you'll sue him.::Jay: We're not gonna sue him.::Sid: He said your parents would.::Stacy: Our parents can't even afford lawyers.::Tony: Hey, let me talk to him.::Sid: Hey, the only Mexicans my dad talks to push lawnmowers. [Tony grabs him playfully]

Jay: [to Sid] I'll let you bang my mom!

Jay: [Biniak yells in Sid's ear, making him wipe out] dude, he's got that inner ear thing!::Bob Biniak: Suck my inner ear, Jay-Boy!

Stacy: [now knowing about Jay and Kathy being together] When were you going to tell me you were with her?::Jay: You couldn't handle her.

Jay: [talking to Kathy] Gimmie Kitty!

Kathy Alva: Take your boxers off.::Jay: No way.

Tony: [to Stacey] Grab your pad and take notes, Peralta!

Jay: Dude, you just got patty slapped. [boys begin to laugh]

Hollywood Ending (2002)

Actors: Woody Allen (writer), Kay Chapin (miscellaneous crew), Charles H. Joffe (producer), Jack Rollins (producer), Debra Messing (actress), Woody Allen (director), Mark Webber (actor), George Hamilton (actor), Marian Seldes (actress), Treat Williams (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Peter Gerety (actor), Mark Rydell (actor), Jennifer Quesenbery (miscellaneous crew), Michael J. Harker (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Val Waxman is a film director who was once big in the 1970's and 1980's, but has now has been reduced to directing TV commercials. Finally, he gets an offer to make a big film. But, disaster strikes, when Val goes temporarily blind, due to paranoia. So, he and a few friends, try to cover up his disability, without the studio executives or the producers knowing that he is directing the film blind.

Keywords: actor, actress, airfield, audition, bickering, blind, blind-man, blindness, boxing-gloves, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship
Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: It's Going to be a Shot in the Dark!

Quotes:

Val: ...driving around his 1938 Vintage Roadster. If someone saw me in a vintage '38, they'd think I was Himmler!

Ed: [Reading audience response card] Would you recommend this film to a friend? Not unless I was friendly with Hitler...

[Val has just seen the terrible work of his latest film he directed while blind]::Val: Call Dr. Kevorkian.

Ed: Look, I love Val. I love him. But with all due respect... he's a raving, incompetent psychotic.::Ellie: He's not incompetent.

Val: What the hell am I doing in Canada? Lori, they got moose up here. Moose. Are moose carnivorous?

Val: You know, part of me wants it so badly.::Lori: And the other part?::Val: Also wants it. That's the problem.

Val: For God sakes, this is a woman I was married to for 10 years. We made love. I'd hold her head over the toilet bowl when she threw up.::Lori: From making love with you?

Val: For me, the nicest thing about masturbation is afterward, the cuddling time.

Val: We had sex.::Ellie: Yes, we had sex. But we never talked.::Val: Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.

Val: We once had a discussion about music and he threatened to push me down a flight of stairs.::Psychiatrist: What happened?::Val: It worked. He pushed me down a flight of stairs.

Abakada... Ina (2001)

Actors: William C. Leary (producer), Alicia Alonzo (actress), Vicente G. del Rosario III (producer), Vic del Rosario Jr. (producer), Nida Blanca (actress), Lorna Tolentino (actress), Josie Tagle (actress), Albert Martinez (actor), Pocholo Montes (actor), Bobby Andrews (actor), Jaime Fabregas (actor), Polly Cadsawan (actor), Brenda M. Bayhon (producer), Eddie Garcia (director), Jaime Fabregas (composer),

Plot: Abakada ina is a film dedicated to all women who strive to be the best for their children. It is about an illiterate woman named Estella who married Daniel and had three beautiful daughters. Since Estella had stopped studying when she was still a child, she always had an argue with her mother-in-law named Matilda. Matilda loves her grandchildren very much that she didn't want them to become illiterate like their mother. Matilda taught everything she knew to Estella's children. She tried to be a mother to them. Matilda wanted to raise them the way she raised her children, Daniel and Jojo. Because of this, Estella felt that she doesn't have a place in them, that she cannot do anything but to sell in the market. Daniel came back home from his work on the ship and he tried to live with his family away from his mother. It was a very tough decision for them but they did it because they believe that they could fulfill their dreams in a place far from where they grew up. Unfortunately, many bad things had happened so they decided again to go back to Matilda though Estella knew that she would be hurt again by her. Daniel and Estella broke up and they both struggle to make their family get back again. Estella studied again and Daniel chose to pursue the course he really wanted. They wrote letters to each other and promised to one another that no matter what happen, the "Daniel and Estella" they knew would be together and love each other with all their hearts all over again.

Genres: Drama,

Maximum Risk (1996)

Actors: Moshe Diamant (producer), Natasha Henstridge (actress), Jackie Richardson (actress), Roger Birnbaum (producer), Kevin Rushton (actor), Jean-Claude Van Damme (actor), Stéphane Audran (actress), David Hemblen (actor), Carlo Rota (actor), Jean-Claude Van Damme (actor), Paul Ben-Victor (actor), Joe Pingue (actor), Jean-Hugues Anglade (actor), Ringo Lam (director), Robert Folk (composer),

Plot: A policeman takes his twin brother's place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced to kickbox his way from France to the U.S. and back while playing footsie with the FBI and Russian mafia. Not just muscles with a badge, the policeman must find the answers to some tough questions, none harder than what the heck is an accordian player doing in a sauna.

Keywords: accordion, action-hero, air-turbulance, ambulance, ambush, arson, arsonist, balloon, bank, bar
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller,
Taglines: The Other Side of Safety. The other side of safe. The nearer he gets to the truth, the closer he gets to the edge.

Quotes:

Sebastien: Parents always lie to their children, to prepare them for the way they'll be treated later by the government.

Cab Driver: I could find a penguin in a sand storm.

Alain Moreau: this is not your lucky day. tell your boss to leave me the fuck alone

Out of the Rain (1991)

Actors: Bridget Fonda (actress), Michael O'Keefe (actor), Kathleen Chalfant (actress), Gary Winick (director), Michael Mantell (actor), William Duell (actor), Kirk Baltz (actor), John Seitz (actor), Mary Mara (actress), Carole Kravetz Aykanian (editor), Shem Bitterman (writer), Pippa Pearthree (actress), Chris Nelson Norris (actor), Al Shannon (actor), Conrad McLaren (actor),

Plot: Jack comes back to town for his brothers funeral and finds things have changed. His brothers suicide is a little suspicous and he begins to investigate. A developing relationship with his brothers girl and some eye-opening revalations about his fathers new business arrangements drive Jack to the edge.

Keywords: independent-film, neo-noir
Genres: Drama,

C.H.U.D. (1984)

Actors: Jay Thomas (actor), Kelly Nichols (actress), John Heard (actor), J.C. Quinn (actor), Bill Raymond (actor), Sam McMurray (actor), Daniel Stern (actor), Jon Polito (actor), Ray Baker (actor), Frankie Faison (actor), Graham Beckel (actor), John Goodman (actor), Eddie Jones (actor), Daniel Stern (writer), Patricia Richardson (actress),

Plot: A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.

Keywords: 1980s, acronym-in-title, african-american, african-american-man, answering-machine, answering-machine-message, apartment, argument, bag-lady, bar
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: Ugly. Slobbering. Ferocious. Carnivorous. They're not staying down there, anymore! You Won't Want To Know What It Means. A recent article in a New York newspaper reported that there were large colonies of people living under the city... The paper was incorrect. What is living under the city is not human. C.H.U.D. is under the city.

Quotes:

Mrs. Monroe: Cooper, you son of a bitch. I'm in jail. I only get one phone call. You think I wanna waste it talking to some goddamn fucking machine?

Captain Bosch: Are you kidding? Your guy's got a camera. Mine's got a flamethrower.

A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: You Cooper?::George Cooper: Yeah.::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: You all right?::George Cooper: Who are you?::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: I run the soup kitchen.::George Cooper: On Kenmann.::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: Right... right. This is crazy. C'mon.::George Cooper: Thank God they deliver.

A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: What are you trying to hide?... You saw it. You saw the monster!::Wilson: Is that what you're going to tell the papers? That you're afraid of monsters?::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: That's exactly what I'm gonna tell them if you don't fill me in.

[the police are returning Mrs. Monroe's bags after interrogation]::Mrs. Monroe: How do I know you didn't take anything?::Officer Crespi: How do I know you didn't give us anything?

A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: N-R-C. You know what this is? This thing detects accumulated radiation. They wear these things in nuclear power plants.::Captain Bosch: How do you know that?::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: I used to be a nuclear physicist...::[Bosch looks at him incredulously]::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: I saw it on TV.

Val: Gog... and Magog.::Captain Bosch: Yeah... well... uh, Val, I understand you used to live underground. What made you change your mind?::Val: On each side of the throne there are four living creatures filled with eyes in front *and* behind.::Captain Bosch: Creatures? Talking about your friends? They still down there?::Val: I know your work. You go by the name of being alive and you are dead.::Captain Bosch: Now listen, pal... [Val whips out a big knife and Bosch jumps back, startled]::Val: They have the power to shut the sky. [quivering] They have the power to shut the sky.

A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: [Shepherd is growing tired of Bosch's evasive answers] It doesnt wash, Bosch.

Murphy: You must be a pretty important fella, fella.

Black Gunn (1972)

Actors: Stephen McNally (actor), Luciana Paluzzi (actress), Bruce Glover (actor), Martin Landau (actor), Jim Brown (actor), Bernie Casey (actor), William Campbell (actor), Robert Hartford-Davis (director), Keefe Brasselle (actor), Robert Hartford-Davis (writer), Arell Blanton (actor), Saul Kahan (miscellaneous crew), Herbert Jefferson Jr. (actor), Gary Conway (actor), Tony Giorgio (actor),

Plot: A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate hisbrother has attacked and robbed. Their involvements lead to a breathless race course chase, the destruction of a dopepusher and a violent waterfront climax.

Keywords: african-american, black-militant, blaxploitation, brother-brother-relationship, car-chase, crime-boss, criminal, death-of-brother, ex-convict, explosion
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller,
Taglines: When the man comes up with mob violence it is time to Gunn him down! Jim Brown is Gunn and Gunning 'em down! Jim Brown is dynamite as Black Gunn For every drop of black blood spilled...A white man pays.

Un soir, un train (1968)

Actors: Senne Rouffaer (actor), Colette Crochot (miscellaneous crew), François Beukelaers (actor), Michael Gough (actor), Yves Montand (actor), Anouk Aimée (actress), Suzanne Baron (editor), André Delvaux (director), Mag Bodard (producer), André Delvaux (writer), Domien De Gruyter (actor), Greta Van Langhendonck (actress), Hector Camerlynck (actor), Frédéric Devreese (actor), Frédéric Devreese (composer),

Plot: Mathias is a Belgian linguist, living with French theatre producer Anne. After a quarrel about moral questions, they take a train to attend a congress. While Mathias sleeps, Anne disappears. The train stops in the middle of the country and Mathias gets off the train with an older man, Hernhutter, and a young one, Val. The train moves off without them being able to catch it up. They will find a village, but cannot get any help because they do not understand a word of what the inhabitants say...

Keywords: afterlife, based-on-novel, dead, dream, train, train-wreck
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery,