Slate

Crimson & Slate: Love and Let Die (2013)

Actors: Fred Nguyen (writer), Fred Nguyen (actor), Fred Nguyen (writer), Davila LeBlanc (writer), Tobie Garceau (director), Sebastian Jacek-Cote (actor), Jean-François Gladu (composer), Teresa Ting (actress),

Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance, Short,

Slate (2012)

Actors: Eric La Barr (writer), Eric La Barr (actor), Eric La Barr (producer), Eric La Barr (director), Efrem P. Towns (director), Efrem P. Towns (producer), Efrem P. Towns (actor), Kellan Rhude (actor), Gena Vazquez (producer), Ryan Richko (composer), Josh Souter (editor), Jonathan Sorace (actor), Tracie H. Towns (producer), Stephen Henderson (producer),

Plot: Slate, is a story about a male hustler (Slate) who finds himself under the control of a lazy overbearing pimp (Terrence) who abuses him every chance he gets. Feeling lost, alone, and unloved, Slate's fortune changes when he meets Johnny. The two quickly form a friendship that flourishes into something more. When Terrence finds out of this relationship and goes after Johnny, Slate feels like he has no choice, but to take matters into his own hands.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance, Short,
Taglines: Revenge is a choice

Cornered (2011)

Actors: Hunter G. Williams (writer), Hunter G. Williams (producer), J. Kristopher (actor), Scott Michael Campbell (writer), Hunter G. Williams (producer), Scott Michael Campbell (producer), Chris Hayes (actor), David Hill (actor), Hunter G. Williams (actor), Danielle Harris (actress), Jason London (actor), Scott Michael Campbell (actor), Tommy 'Tiny' Lister (actor), Hunter G. Williams (director), Jason Solowsky (composer),

Genres: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: All We Have Is Time

Quotes:

Commander Baker: Detective Brant, what are you going to do when you come face to face with a living, breathing nightmare?::Detective Brant: I'm going to blow his God damn head off.

Krews (2010)

Actors: Matt McCoy (producer), Allen Rueckert (miscellaneous crew), Deborah Ross (miscellaneous crew), Charles Robinson (actor), Jeff Lam (actor), Parvesh Cheena (actor), Brian Geraghty (actor), Aldo Gonzalez (actor), Kiran Kaur Saini (miscellaneous crew), Lisa Norcia (costume designer), Mitch Yapko (miscellaneous crew), Mitch Yapko (miscellaneous crew), Ty Hodges (actor), Jeanette Brill (producer), Stanley Longstreet (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: A botched car-jacking forces two white-collar criminals to take refuge in the home of the thugs that accosted them. Over the course of one explosive, unpredictable night, worlds collide, fortunes shift, lives are cast aside and the most unsuspecting of heroes walks away with a multimillion dollar score.

Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

[first lines]::Customs Agent: Where are you coming from?::Henry McFarlin: Poland.::Customs Agent: Business or vacation?::Henry McFarlin: Business.

Tamara: I'm a Nurses Aid.::Henry McFarlin: Oh Christ, just shoot me now, please.::Tamara: I've dressed a bunch of Meredith's pals and brought them back to life. Most of them I should have let Jesus handle.

Tamara: What are you two suits doing here anyway? Don't you fools know you shouldn't be in drug zone Watts after dark? Don't they teach you that on opening day at white boy school?

Wishbone: You sure ain't operating on any side of the law I ever seen.::Peter Spanbauer: Yeah well, the law doesn't operate on the side of the law.

Henry McFarlin: Money's the best passport that money can buy.

Tamara: Is your boss a computer?

[last lines]::Henry McFarlin: Mr. McFarland, I'm afraid this passport is invalid.

Just Another Day (2009)

Actors: Clifton Powell (actor), Peter Spirer (producer), Ralph Clemente (producer), Eric Tomosunas (producer), Peter Spirer (director), Peter Spirer (writer), Valensky Sylvain (actor), Ja Rule (actor), Romane Simon (actor), Romane Simon (actor), Rus Blackwell (actor), David Eubanks (producer), Malik Barnhardt (actor), Jamie Hector (actor), Iain Kennedy (writer),

Plot: Follows a day in the life of two men living at either end of the music game. A successful rapper, A-Maze, is dealing with the pitfalls and trappings of his success and facing new challenges in the music business to get a check while the other, Young Eastie, is a young man struggling in a harsh world that is threatening to destroy him.

Keywords: music-business, one-day, profanity, rapper, violence
Genres: Drama, Music,

Station X (2005)

Actors: Joe Cobden (actor), Gianpaolo Venuta (actor), Lucinda Davis (actress), Greg Dummett (producer), Steven Westren (writer), Martin Roy (composer), Danièle Joubert (producer), Didier Loubat (director),

Genres: Animation,

Invincible (2001)

Actors: Bruce Davey (producer), George Cheung (actor), Billy Zane (actor), David Field (actor), Mel Gibson (producer), Siu-Tung Ching (miscellaneous crew), Barry Otto (actor), Jet Li (producer), Kerry Fetzer (miscellaneous crew), Terry Ryan (costume designer), John McCarthy (composer), Noreen Landry (costume designer), Dominic Purcell (actor), John Morayniss (producer), Jefery Levy (director),

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Thriller,
Taglines: The Shadowmen are coming...

Quotes:

Slate: You can't win os!

Os: Gotta split!

Slate: The white warrior? You saw the white warrior!::Os: Yes! Look Slate, look!

White Warrior: Os... It is time for you to love... love or die.::Os: Who are you?::White Warrior: Your beginning or your end... the choice is yours.::Os: Are you ready to die?::White Warrior: Are you really to love? [pause] Love.::Os: Die.

MP #1: [barging into an office] Hey you!::Slate: Yes, did you have something to say? [kills him] No, I didn't think so.

Howard Lancaster: [pointing a gun at Slate] Get out of my office. I'm warning you. [he fires the gun and nothing happens]::Slate: [Slate takes the gun and fires around him, as Lancaster falls to the floor] Just like a human, they always faint before you can kill them.

Os: I'll start the translation.::Slate: It's you, isn't it, Os? I knew there was a traitor, I just never thought it'd be you. We are *this close* to winning this war!::Os: The war is within, man.::Slate: What are you talking about?

Slate: [after Os defeats the Shadowmen] Impressive, but quite temporary. You can't kill them.::Os: But the Elements can.::Slate: You're pissing me off Os! I want that tablet *now*.::Os: Gotta split!

White Warrior: Surrender to the light...

Os: Freedom... well, that's relative isn't it? You know I know some free men that still prisoners in their minds. They never look around. I mean, *look around*! Did you ever know air could smell so sweet? [Ray tries and fails to punch him] Do you want to learn how to control that temper? 'Cause I could show you.::Ray Jackson: Get out of my face man! I having a real bad day and you could fine yourself hurt real bad.::Os: 'Bad' meaning 'good', or 'bad' meaning 'bad'?::Ray Jackson: [Ray tries to punch him again] I'm serious!::Os: *Your* *not* *listening*. I'm talking about perspective, I'm talking about choice, which is what you've got right now.::Ray Jackson: What do you mean?::Os: That man inside the base, the lieutenant, he's gonna try to kill you. Now, you can stay here and become dead, or you can come with me and live.::Ray Jackson: Who are you, man?::Os: Call me Os.

The Independent (2000)

Actors: Bob Odenkirk (actor), Ethan Embry (actor), Jay Johnston (actor), Ron Howard (actor), Michael Berryman (actor), John Lydon (actor), Larry Hankin (actor), Nick Cassavetes (actor), Peter Bogdanovich (actor), Roger Corman (actor), Dana Gould (actor), Andy Dick (actor), Aki Aleong (actor), Brian Posehn (actor), Max Perlich (actor),

Plot: Documentary look at Morty Fineman, a prolific maker of schlock independent films, who's down on his luck. Actors, directors, and writers, including Ron Howard and Karen Black, comment on his work, we see clips from some of his 427 titles, and we watch Morty try to get financing for a film about a serial killer. He hires his daughter, Paloma, as his business manager. His A.D., the long-suffering Ivan, stays by his side. Morty owes the bank $10 million from his one blockbuster failure. Can he find the financing, or is it time for Morty to retire. Meanwhile, Ivan hooks Morty up with a new film festival, in Chaparral, Nevada. Is this the ticket to renewal?

Keywords: b-movie, baldness, behind-the-scenes, biker-chick, buffalo, chauffeur, cowboy-hat, director, dwarf, eulogy
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Morty Fineman. Artist. Visionary. Madman.

Quotes:

Paloma Fineman: I think that anyone that claims that they are totally happy with their family situation is not concentrating.

[first lines]::Ted Demme: I think Morty is a visionary.::Roger Corman: I think Morty was and is an artist.::Ron Howard: He's an innovator.::Karen Black: Very persistent. And you have to love him for that.::Peter Bogdanovich: Morty would try things, and then 2 years later someone would copy it and win an Oscar for it.::Fred Williamson: This is the only man that I've ever worked with that I feel I can't take.

Morty Fineman: [eulogy] For what does it gain a man to be given that divine candle, and not to dip his wick.

Morty Fineman: [concluding his corporate presentation] That, gentlemen, is why financing Fineman Films is fine financing.

Todd: We are prepared Mr. Fineman, today, to buy you're entire film library, for $8 a pound.

Fred Williamson: Get out of the water! It's filled with phosphors and you're swimming topless!

Morty Fineman: How long is the wait?::Maitre d': You may wait as long as you wish...

Interviewer: [quoting critics] An insipid, childish, even maniacal work. Someone please tell Mr. Fineman that The Whole Story of America does *not* have to be as long as the whole story of America.::Morty Fineman: Those who cannot do, review.

Morty Fineman: [to potential producer] I tell you Walter, I've been in this business 30 years and there's only one sure-fire way to make a small fortune - start with a large fortune.

Interviewer: Wow, you invented the sequel?::Morty Fineman: Well, I invented the roman numeral at the end of the title. You see God Father III, Friday the 13th part VII, that started with me.::Title Card: World War III II, a Fineman Production.

The Taylor Predicament (1998)

Actors: Holly McGreevy (actress), Ryan Tighe (miscellaneous crew), Ryan Tighe (actor), Celia Aurora de Blas (actress), Bill Hardy (producer), Bill Hardy (actor), Bill Hardy (writer), Bill Hardy (director), Bill Hardy (editor), Alexander Gradet (actor), Alexander Gradet (writer), Alexander Gradet (producer), Sharon Singer (miscellaneous crew), Sharon Singer (miscellaneous crew), Pat Storck (actor),

Plot: Writer/Director Adam Taylor faces romantic crisis on the set of his action opus, "The Taylor Predicament"; amid financial struggles and dissent among the crew, Adam falls for crew member Lauren, upon whom his best friend and leading man, Sean, has also set his sights.

Keywords: behind-the-scenes, character-name-in-title, independent-film, reference-to-peter-lorre
Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: Life's Kinda Like A Movie Sometimes.

Quotes:

Adam Taylor: And she's a film girl too. Most film girls look like Peter Lorre.

Adam Taylor: Hi, my name's Adam, and I don't have an act. And not having an act is my act.::Lauren: Yeah? Well, you see this watch? This watch holds twenty numbers. Twenty numbers.

Adam Taylor: Sure, that works for you, cause you're Sean, and everybody loves Sean. You're the fucking Pete Rose of women.

Jason: Hey, the coffee shop's hiring. I bet you could get a job.::Adam Taylor: No thanks. I'm happy with the one I've got.

[Jason snatches a cigarette from Pete's mouth.]::Pete Jubois: Did I mention that I've got V.D.?

Lauren: Well, what makes you think I'd want to go out with you?::Adam Taylor: Because the other night at the bar, you looked back.::Lauren: I looked back. So?::Adam Taylor: So you don't have to watch a lot of romantic comedies to know what that means.::Lauren: So, what's it mean?::Adam Taylor: It means... that the girl wants the guy, so can we just get past this awkward part and you say yes?

Pete Jubois: He just totally dissed the director. That man is gonna be a star.

Sean: If you could just forget how scared you can be sometimes, and listen to your heart, you just might impress yourself.

Pete Jubois: Somebody said it's raining outside.::Lauren: Oh no.::Adam Taylor: What? Every good romantic comedy needs a rain scene.::Lauren: But this isn't a movie.::Adam Taylor: Life's kinda like a movie sometimes.

Adam Taylor: Hey, Lauren, you got a minute?::Lauren: I don't know, I'm a little busy.::Adam Taylor: Who's the director here?::Lauren: Hey, there are two people on a set you don't tell what to do and that's the key grip and the gaffer.::Adam Taylor: And you're neither.::Lauren: So let's talk.

Dinamite Jim (1966)

Actors: Alfonso Balcázar (director), Nico Fidenco (composer), José Antonio de la Loma (writer), José Antonio de la Loma (writer), Alfonso Balcázar (writer), Alfonso Balcázar (writer), Gaspar 'Indio' González (actor), Víctor Israel (actor), Luis Dávila (actor), Rosalba Neri (actress), José María Caffarel (actor), Aldo Sambrell (actor), Fernando Sancho (actor), Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia (actor), Otello Colangeli (editor),

Plot: Civil War union soldiers purchase a shipment of gold from a Mexican banker. They need to get the gold to its destination. However along the way, a gang of crooks, the unethical banker & his gang, and Dynamite Jim all decide that they want to get their hands on the gold also.

Keywords: bar-fight, bar-shootout, character-name-in-title, cowboy, fast-draw, fistfight, gunfight, gunfighter, gunslinger, horse
Genres: Western,