Starbuck (2011)

Actors: Yvann Thibaudeau (editor), Jean-Patrick Joseph (miscellaneous crew), Benoît Mathieu (miscellaneous crew), Joshua Ravetch (miscellaneous crew), Paul Stewart (actor), Joe Iacono (miscellaneous crew), André Rouleau (producer), Patrick Huard (actor), Patrick Huard (actor), Steve Barry (actor), Patrick Labbé (actor), Julie LeBreton (actress), John Topor (actor), Danny Rossner (producer), Francine Lebrun (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: At 42, David lives the life of an irresponsible adolescent. He coasts through life with minimal effort and maintains a complicated relationship with Valerie, a young policewoman. Just as she tells him she's pregnant, David's past resurfaces. Twenty years earlier, he began providing sperm to a fertility clinic in exchange for money. He discovers he's the father of 533 children, 142 of whom have filed a class action lawsuit to determine the identity of their biological father, known only by the pseudonym Starbuck.

Keywords: anonymity, artificial-insemination, baby, baby-boy, bar, barbecue, beauty-salon, biological-father, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brother-brother-relationship
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

[from trailer]::David Wozniak: What would a normal person do in this situation?::Man: A normal person wouldn't be in this situation.

Crystal Fog (2009)

Actors: Brad Mays (editor), Steve Yeager (producer), Steve Yeager (director), Steve Yeager (actor), Steve Yeager (writer), Kevin Chilcoat (miscellaneous crew), Jared Noe (miscellaneous crew), Steve Polites (actor), Frank B. Moorman (actor), Kimberly S. Fairbanks (actress), Kelly Cardall (actress), Bobby DeAngelo (actor), Levis Preem (producer), Peter Wray (actor), Steve Lichtenstein (actor),

Plot: CRYSTAL FOG is the story of a lonely 55 year old man who befriends a young male grad student. The student becomes infatuated with Crystal Fog a female impersonator in a Baltimore drag show. Their romance leads to the destruction of the older man.

Keywords: drag-queen, exploring-sexuality, love-triangle, transgender, transvestite-love-triangle
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Fate drew them together, tragedy torn them apart. Love can set you free...if it doesn't kill you first.

Capitaine Achab (2007)

Actors: Marianne Ahrne (miscellaneous crew), Jacques Bonnaffé (actor), Denis Lavant (actor), Jean-Paul Bonnaire (actor), Lou Castel (actor), Jean-François Stévenin (actor), Dominique Blanc (actress), Bernard Blancan (actor), Jean-Christophe Bouvet (actor), Denis Lavant (actor), Carlo Brandt (actor), Grégory Gadebois (actor), Herman Melville (writer), Guillaume Verdier (actor), Philippe Katerine (actor),

Genres: Adventure,

Capitaine Achab (2004)

Actors: Jean-Paul Bonnaire (actor), Herman Melville (writer), Catherine Rigault (costume designer), Michel Klein (producer), Michel Klein (actor), Mona Heftre (actress), Igor Wojtowicz (producer), Philippe Ramos (director), Philippe Ramos (writer), Aristide Demonico (actor), Frédéric Bonpart (actor), Jérôme Larcher (producer), Rima Samman (miscellaneous crew), Sophie Deseuzes (editor), Valérie Crunchant (actress),

Genres: Short,

Wake Me When You're Gone (2004)

Actors: Patrick T. McGowan (actor), Joshua Mason (writer), Joshua Mason (director), Joshua Mason (editor), Joshua Mason (producer), Stas Drakos (actor), James Rejent (actor), Vincent Allocca (actor), Alexandra Bianchi (actress),

Genres: Drama, Short,

Moby Dick (1998)

Actors: Bill Hunter (actor), Bruce Spence (actor), Francis Ford Coppola (producer), Henry Thomas (actor), Ted Levine (actor), Gregory Peck (actor), Patrick Stewart (actor), Robert Halmi Sr. (producer), Harold Hopkins (actor), Sean Barton (editor), Kris Noble (producer), Hugh Keays-Byrne (actor), Fred Fuchs (producer), Herman Melville (writer), Peter Sumner (actor),

Plot: Herman Melville's classic 1851 sea tale about the vengeful sea Captain Ahab who seeks to kill the great white whale who took his leg and is willing to forego the safety and endurance of his crew to do it. The tale is told from the vantage of the only surviving member, Ishmael, a young man who joins the crew of the Pequod for his first seafaring with the aid of his harpoonist friend, Queequeeg.

Keywords: animal-actor, based-on-novel, blood, boy, captain, character-name-in-title, coffin, dark-hero, death, death-of-child
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller,

Quotes:

Peter Coffin: You a commadore, then, or a cook?::Ishmael: No, a simple sailor, jumping from spar to spar like a grasshopper in a May meadow. Very much like a slave. But who isn't a slave? Tell me that.::Peter Coffin: I suppose you're going whaling, then?::Ishmael: Aye. Would you be having a room for a simple sailor, Mr. Coffin?::Peter Coffin: Aye, if you've no objection to sharing a blanket with a simple harpooner.

Ishmael: It seems a trifle small for two grown men.::Peter Coffin: Well, if you're going to go whaling, you better get used to that sort of thing. Why, look at that bed. It's the biggest bed in the house. I've soundly slept in that bed many a night. Plenty of room!::Ishmael: Mind you, I'm not complaining, Mr. Coffin, it's just I'd like to know what sort of man I'd be sharing it with.::Peter Coffin: Well, uh, the harpooner I may be able to find someplace else for tonight.

Queequeg: I killee!::Peter Coffin: Now, Queequeg, stop that!::Ishmael: Why didn't you tell me that this harpooner I'd be sharing a bed with is a cannibal, for God's sake?::Peter Coffin: Now, listen to me, Queequeg. You savvy me, I savvy you. This lad sleep here in this bed with you. You savvy?::Queequeg: Me savvy plenty.

Ishmael: What the devil's the matter with you?::Queequeg: Ishmael no want go on ship with Queequeg?::Ishmael: No. I mean, yes, of course I do. But you would be better suited to pick out a whaler that's suited for both of us, not I, and I shall certainly not take your money. Queequeg, I fear I must make a confession. I used to be a schoolteacher. Do you know what that is?::Queequeg: Aye. Missionary.::Ishmael: No. Well, not exactly. What I'm trying to say is that I've never jumped a spar in my life.::Queequeg: Ishmael no sailor?::Ishmael: Aye. Me no sailor. It's just that I have this burning desire to go to sea.::Queequeg: Me Ojo savvy. Ishmael pick ship. Ishmael pick ship.

Capt. Peleg: What do you know about whaling?::Ishmael: Nothing, sir. But I want to see what whaling is. I want to see the world.::Capt. Peleg: Can't you see the world from where you stand, young man? You want to see what whaling is, do you? Are you man enough to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat and jump after it?::Ishmael: Well, I am, sir, if it be absolutely indispensible that I do so.::Capt. Peleg: I'll tell you this: There's death in this business, young man.

Queequeg: Ishmael, what is soul?::Ishmael: Soul? Well, that's a difficult question. Do you believe in God? Like a big chief over all men?::Queequeg: Like Ojo?::Ishmael: Well, I reckon so, but bigger than that, like a captain of the sun.

Mr. Flask: [pointing to Ishmael and Queequeg] Look at them two lovebirds.

Captain Ahab: Aye, harpoons do like stuck in him like so many corkscrews. Aye, his spout is big, like Nantucket wheat. Aye, by death and devils, the white whale is Moby-Dick, if Moby-Dick you see!::Starbuck: Captain Ahab, was it not Moby-Dick that cut off thy leg?::Captain Ahab: Aye, Mr. Starbuck. Aye, my hearties all. It was Moby-Dick that dismantled me, that reaped off my leg like a mower a blade of grass and left me with this dead stump I stand on. For forever and a day I shall chase that white whale.

Captain Ahab: Why the long face, Mr. Starbuck? Have you no game for Moby-Dick?::Starbuck: Aye, I have game for his crooked jaw. I have game for the jaws of death, if that's part of the business we came for. Sir, I am here to hunt whale, not my commander's vengeance. How many barrels of oil will your vengeance yeild, I ask you?::Captain Ahab: If money be the measure of everything we do, let me tell ye my vengeance will fetch a great premium here!::Starbuck: What do you wish of me, Captain Ahab?::Captain Ahab: Help me to strike a fin. Surely no impossible task for you, the best lancer of all Nantucket. Surely you, of all this crew, will not hold back.

Starbuck: Time and tide flow wide, sir. Moby-Dick has the whole round watery world to swim in.::Captain Ahab: I know his latitudes. I know his driftings, every sea-shelled ground and volcano bay.::Starbuck: Here lies Nantucket, where our wives and children will be waiting, carrying wee babes up the hill to catch first glimpse of these sails. Your wife and son will be among them, captain, and we must not disappoint them. I am no crusader after perils. My course is set to return safely home with a full hold. 'Tis the object of our endeavour.::Captain Ahab: Mr. Starbuck, until this be done, my boy's face is to me as the palm of my hand, an unfeatured blank.

The Rainmaker (1982)

Actors: Lonny Chapman (actor), James Cromwell (actor), Tommy Lee Jones (actor), William Katt (actor), Tuesday Weld (actress), John Frankenheimer (director), N. Richard Nash (writer), Fred Hellerman (composer), Marica Govons (producer), Dorothy Jenkins (costume designer),

Plot: Traveling rainmaker Starbuck arrives at the drought-ridden Curry place, promising rain for the farm and perhaps a romance for 'spinster sister' Lizzie

Keywords: based-on-play, con-artist, drought, rain, rainmaker, spinster
Genres: Drama,

Mad Max (1979)

Actors: George Miller (writer), Roger Ward (actor), George Miller (director), Mel Gibson (actor), George Miller (writer), Steve Bisley (actor), Bill Gooley (miscellaneous crew), Brian May (composer), Hugh Keays-Byrne (actor), Jonathan Hardy (actor), Paul Young (actor), Reg Evans (actor), Tony Paterson (editor), Nick Lathouris (actor), Vincent Gil (actor),

Plot: A vision of an apocalyptic future set in the wastelands of Australia. Total social decay is just around the corner in this spectacular cheap budget gang orientated road movie, where the cops do their best to lay down the law and the outlaw gangs try their hardest to defy the system. Leather clad Max Rockatansky husband, father and cop turns judge, juror and executioner after his best friend, wife and baby are killed. Here we see the final days of normality of a man who had everything to live for, and his slip into the abyss of madness. Mad Max is the antihero on the road to vengeance and oblivion.

Keywords: action-hero, ambulance, anarchy, apology, australia, automobile, baby, barefoot, biker, black-leather
Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller,
Taglines: He rules the roads. The Maximum Force of the Future. The last law in a world gone out of control. Pray that he's out there somewhere. When the gangs take over the highway... ...Remember he's on your side. The Film That Started It All

Quotes:

Nightrider: I am the Nightrider. I'm a fuel injected suicide machine. I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller!

Bubba Zanetti: We're here to meet a friend. Comin' on the train.::Station Master: Nothin' comin' on the train except a couple of crates and a, uh, coffin!::Bubba Zanetti: Our friend.

Fifi: They say people don't believe in heroes anymore. Well damn them! You and me, Max, we're gonna give them back their heroes!::Max: Ah, Fif. Do you really expect me to go for that crap?::Fifi: You gotta admit I sounded good there for a minute, huh?

[Max hands Fifi his letter of resignation]::Fifi: What's this?::Max: I'm through.::Fifi: Again?::Max: No, not again. I'm through. I'm quitting.::Fifi: Sit down.::Max: I didn't come here to dicuss it, I came here to say it. I'm through.::Fifi: Now just a minute! Alright, so the Goose bought it, but that's the way he always came in the world...::Max: -Off beat!

Max: I'm scared, Fif. It's that rat circus out there, I'm beginning to enjoy it. Look, any longer out on that road and I'm one of them, a terminal psychotic, except that I've got this bronze badge that says that I'm one of the good guys.

Roop: That scag and his floozie, they're gonna die!

[the Kid is handcuffed to a car that's about to explode]::Max: The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go.::[the hacksaw is dropped next to The Kid, and Max limps off]

Fifi: They say people don't believe in heroes anymore. Well, damn them! You and me, Max, we're gonna give 'em back their heroes!

Station Master: That must be your friend over there. They didn't leave much of him.::Bubba Zanetti: Must've cut his heart out, eh?::Station Master: Yes. That's what I meant. Poor bastard!::Toecutter: [whirls on the Station Manager] The Nightrider. That is his name... the Nightrider.::Station Master: [frightened] The NightRider.::Toecutter: Remember him when you look at the night sky!::Station Master: I will.::Toecutter: Take your hat off.::Station Master: Anything you say.::Toecutter: Anything I say. What a wonderful philosophy you have. Take him away.

Toecutter: That there is Cundalini... and Cundalini wants his hand back!

Moby Dick (1978)

Actors: John Robert (producer), Herman Melville (writer), Paul Stanley (director), Jack Aranson (actor), Jack Aranson (actor), Jack Aranson (actor), Jack Aranson (actor), Henrietta Matta (miscellaneous crew), Peter Knight (editor),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Captain Ahab's mad revenge against a white whale destroys everything around him.

Quotes:

Captain Ahab: I am the Fates' lieutenant. I act under orders.

Captain Ahab: What do you think I am ,the hunchback skipper of a coasting smack.::Captain Ahab: All of life is but a pasteboard mask.

Moby Dick (1956)

Actors: Friedrich von Ledebur (actor), Arthur Mullard (actor), Gregory Peck (actor), Noel Purcell (actor), Royal Dano (actor), Bernard Miles (actor), Leo Genn (actor), Harry Andrews (actor), John Huston (actor), John Huston (actor), Mervyn Johns (actor), James Robertson Justice (actor), Francis De Wolff (actor), Richard Basehart (actor), Orson Welles (actor),

Plot: This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the boards of his ship on a peg leg. Ahab is so crazed by his desire to kill the whale, that he is prepared to sacrifice everything, including his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis, Moby Dick.

Keywords: 1800s, 1840s, 19th-century, anti-christianity, based-on-novel, blasphemy, blockbuster, boat-captain, carpenter, character-name-in-title
Genres: Adventure, Drama,
Taglines: From the immortal adventure classic...of whaling men, their ships, and the sea! The most eagerly awaited motion picture of the year! The man - the whale - the vengeance - the mightiest adventure ever seen! Before the shark there was the whale (US rerelease 1976) In all the world---in all the seas---in all adventure, there is no might like the might of [Moby Dick]

Quotes:

Captain Ahab: Birds... the birds... *He rises*!

Ishmael: [in voice-over narration] Long days and nights we strained at the oars while a white whale swam freely on, widening the waters between himself and Ahab's vengeance.

Starbuck, first mate: To be enraged with a dumb brute that acted out of blind instinct is blasphemous.::Captain Ahab: Speak not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. Look ye, Starbuck, all visible objects are but as pasteboard masks. Some inscrutable yet reasoning thing puts forth the molding of their features. The white whale tasks me; he heaps me. Yet he is but a mask. 'Tis the thing behind the mask I chiefly hate; the malignant thing that has plagued mankind since time began; the thing that maws and mutilates our race, not killing us outright but letting us live on, with half a heart and half a lung.

Ishmael: Ehhhh, you can't fool us; it's the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he's got a great secret in him.::Elijah: I have, lad, I have. At sea one day, you'll smell land where there'll be no land, and on that day Ahab will go to his grave, but he'll rise again within the hour. He will rise and beckon. Then all - all save one shall follow. (Slinking away with a smile on his face) Mornin', lads... mornin'. May the heavens bless you.

Captain Ahab: By heavens man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and fate is the handspike.

Starbuck, first mate: It's late; you should turn in.::Captain Ahab: Sleep? That bed is a coffin, and those are winding sheets. I do not sleep, I die.

Ishmael: [in voice-over narration] He did not feel the wind, or smell the salt air. He only stood, staring at the horizon, with the marks of some inner crucifixion and woe deep in his face.

[first lines]::Ishmael: [voiceover] Call me Ishmael.

Captain Ahab: From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale.

Father Mapple: Delight is to him who coming to day him down can say, "O Father, mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's. Yet this is nothing. I leave eternity to Thee. For what is man, that he should live out the lifetime of his God?"