Fraternitas (2013)

Actors: Julian Lowenthal (actor), Angel Connell (actor), David L. Tamarin (producer), David L. Tamarin (actor), Vanessa Leigh (actress), Lee Simonds (actor), Aurora Grabill (actress), Howard Platt (producer), Van Brockmann (actor), Jim Baker (actor), Rick Dumont (producer), Rick Dumont (writer), Rick Dumont (actor), Rick Dumont (editor), Diana Porter (actress),

Plot: Ken Dumanski is a well known, award winning entertainment journalist, though he is better known for his outrageous exploits among the Hollywood and rock and roll elite. After a near death experience he relocates his family to the town of his alma mater where he becomes a professor in the hopes of exorcising his demons. But can he hold it together when the past comes calling to drag him back down the rabbit hole?

Keywords: addiction, alcohol, college, drugs, fraternity, journalism, party, prison, rehabilitation
Genres: Drama,

Ondine (2009)

Actors: Ante Novakovic (miscellaneous crew), Ante Novakovic (actor), Carlton Jarvis (miscellaneous crew), Lucia Foster Found (miscellaneous crew), Neil Jordan (director), Andy Stephens (miscellaneous crew), Ned Dowd (producer), Tony Curran (actor), Stephen Rea (actor), Neil Jordan (producer), Colin Farrell (actor), Neil Jordan (writer), Conor Slattery (miscellaneous crew), Renee Burke (miscellaneous crew), James Flynn (producer),

Plot: On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a fisherman, on the wagon, living alone. His precocious daughter, Annie, about 10, has failing kidneys. One day, a nearly-drowned young woman comes up in his net; she speaks oddly, calls herself Ondine, and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she's a selkie, a mythical seal turned human while on land. If this is a fairy tale, is there a happily ever after, or do the realities of alcohol, illness, and worse intrude, including Syracuse's inveterate bad luck? As his priest tell him, misery's easy, it's happiness you have to work at. Any hope of that?

Keywords: air-guitar, alcohol, alcoholic, bathtub, car-crash, catholic-priest, caught-in-a-net, celtic-mythology, character-name-in-title, child-in-peril
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: The truth is not what you know. It's what you believe.

Quotes:

Syracuse: Once upon a time...

Annie: So what's the story?

Priest: I don't like this at all.

Syracuse: She sings to the fishes and he catches them.

Annie: [Describing the Selkies] They don't speak, they sing.

Syracuse: How long are you staying?::Ondine: Depends, I guess.::Syracuse: On what?::Ondine: On you.::Syracuse: On me? It depends on me, you can stay forever.::Ondine: Forever?::Syracuse: Forever, happily ever after, once upon a time... I'm been telling my daughter a story, a fairy tale...

Priest: Misery is easy. Happiness you have to work at.

[first lines]::Syracuse: [into radio] Anybody out there? I need a little help.

Ondine: I don't want to see anyone.::Syracuse: Well I just disappear then?::Ondine: I don't mind seeing you.::Syracuse: "You don't mind seeing me." That's nice.::Ondine: Say again?::Syracuse: Most people do.

Annie: You sure it's not some kind of wish-fulfillment kind of thing?::Syracuse: Where did you learn words like that?::Annie: I go to school.::Syracuse: And I didn't...::Annie: No. Let's be honest, you didn't. You move your mouth when you read.