Lola's Last Letter (2013)

Actors: Travis Quentin Young (actor), Peter Banifaz (actor), Valerie Brandy (director), Valerie Brandy (actress), Valerie Brandy (writer), Tom Colitt (actor), Annamarie Kenoyer (actress), Sherri Lennon (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Winter's Bone (2010)

Actors: John Hawkes (actor), Andrew Cesana (miscellaneous crew), Marc H. Simon (miscellaneous crew), Sheryl Lee (actress), Dale Dickey (actress), Jennifer Lawrence (actress), Garret Dillahunt (actor), Affonso Gonçalves (editor), Kevin Breznahan (actor), Tate Taylor (actor), Kathryn Dean (producer), Kathryn Dean (producer), Steve Shapiro (miscellaneous crew), Dickon Hinchliffe (composer), Tom Maloney (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: With an absent father and a withdrawn and depressed mother, 17 year-old Ree Dolly keeps her family together in a dirt poor rural area. She's taken aback however when the local Sheriff tells her that her father put up their house as collateral for his bail and unless he shows up for his trial in a week's time, they will lose it all. She knows her father is involved in the local drug trade and manufactures crystal meth, but everywhere she goes the message is the same: stay out of it and stop poking your nose in other people's business. She refuses to listen, even after her father's brother, Teardrop, tells her he's probably been killed. She pushes on, putting her own life in danger, for the sake of her family until the truth, or enough of it, is revealed.

Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, amateur-sleuth, apostrophe-in-title, army-recruiter, auction, axe, baby, baby-car-seat, baby-doll, bag-over-head
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Sonny: Maybe they'll share some of that with us.::Ree: That could be.::Sonny: Maybe we should ask.::Ree: Never ask for what oughta be offered.

Sonny: [on gutting a squirrel] Do we eat these parts?::Ree: [grimly] Not yet...

Victoria: You know all those people, Teardrop. You could ask.::Teardrop: Shut up.::Victoria: None of them's gonna be in a great big hurry to tangle with you.::Teardrop: I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

[first lines]::Ree: [waking her] Ashlee Dawn...::Ashlee: Hmmm? [to her brother] Wake up...

Blond Milton: [to Sonny] Havin' balls is good, boy. Don't let 'em get you hurt.

Teardrop: Those pills [drugs] helping your mama's mood any?::Ree: She keeps takin' 'em. But they aint workin'.

Ree: This fella with the money have a name?::Bail Bondsman: Shit no. Probably left that in his other pants.

Megan: What are we ever gonna do with you, baby girl?::Ree: Kill me I guess.::Megan: That idea's been said already. Got any others?::Ree: Help me. Nobody's said that idea yet, have they?

Ree: What I really can't stand is the way I feel ashamed... for dad.::Teardrop: Well, he loved y'all. That's where he went weak.

Ree: You always have scared me.::Teardrop: That's cuz you're smart.

Food for the Gods (2007)

Actors: Stephen Chang (actor), Yvette Lu (actress), Yvette Lu (composer), Yvette Lu (producer), Vincent Ternida (actor), Glen Tedham (miscellaneous crew), Jon Hess (miscellaneous crew), Nik Green (producer), Shaker Paleja (actor), Tara Pratt (actress), Yuki Morita (actress), H. Scott Hughes (director), H. Scott Hughes (writer), H. Scott Hughes (composer), Brian Casilio (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: 2057 AD: On a mysterious alien planet, three NASA astronauts discover the human descendents of a lost Asian civilization. Sheenyana (Yvette Lu), a beautiful mystic warrior, engages in a passionate, forbidden affair with Lt. Richard O'Conner (Danny Dorosh). Yet despite her lover's goodness, Sheenyana's psychic visions foretell a coming danger from Earth. When her manipulative rival, Princess Xionko (Beverly Wu), plots to steal American weapons and expose their affair, it nearly costs the princess her life--sparking an intercultural incident that will force Sheenyana before her king (Taka Hiro) to choose between the destiny of her people and the life of the man she loves.

Keywords: alien-language, alien-planet, alien-world, ancient-astronaut, asian, asian-american, asian-canadian, asian-cast, asian-culture, asian-woman
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Short,
Taglines: A New World. A Lost Civilization. A Forbidden Passion. Two Hearts. Two Worlds.

Quotes:

[first line]::Sheenyana: [voiceover] On the Equinox, they came. [Sheenyana witnesses the starship hovering over her village.] They came from the Heavens. Their Great Metal Bird filled the sky.

Lt. Richard O'Conner: [Richard is collecting bio-samples from a riverbed; he radios back to camp] O'Conner here. Hey, Denise, how much more of this stuff do we need?::Dr. Denise Hanson: Well, how much more NASA meatloaf do you want?::Lt. Richard O'Conner: Roger that.

Sheenyana: But only I saw the deadly snake on the tree.

Dr. Denise Hanson: Wow. And you know her name.::Lt. Richard O'Conner: She pointed to herself and said 'Sheenyana.'::Lt. Cmdr. Monroe Bellwood: Maybe she just meant, 'Holy shit, aliens.'

Dr. Denise Hanson: We are over four light-years from Earth, and she not only looks human, she is human.

Sheenyana: [Sheenyana is looking at a far away mountain through Richard's high-tech binoculars.] Sheenyana...it means 'Sees Far.' Now I have seen farther than any of my people. Does that make me a god?::Lt. Richard O'Conner: Only if your dagger makes you a god over an animal that you skin. It's a tool, Sheenyana. Nothing more.::Sheenyana: [disturbed, Sheenyana turns and draws her dagger, staring at it.] My dagger does make me god over animal I skin. Why are you here?

Sheenyana: They are not gods. Richard is a man.::Shogoto: A man who can kill with a beam of light, and fly across Heaven as did the Bird Gods who seeded us.

Dr. Denise Hanson: We cannot colonize this place. It'd be a crime.::Lt. Cmdr. Monroe Bellwood: That's not our call, Doctor.::Lt. Richard O'Conner: Isn't it? I mean, no one knows what's out here but us. Who else has to know?::Lt. Cmdr. Monroe Bellwood: Our mission is to report our findings and we will complete our mission.

Sheenyana: I will not serve the Food for the Gods to mortals!

Alien Tracker (2003)

Actors: Bruce Pittman (director), Richard Blackburn (actor), Geraint Wyn Davies (actor), Adrian Paul (actor), Adrian Paul (producer), Donald Quan (composer), Richard Yearwood (actor), Deborah Odell (actress), Jonathan Walker (actor), Tig Fong (actor), Paul Hopkins (actor), Peter M. Lenkov (producer), John Furey (actor), Ken Girotti (director), Eydi Caines-Floyd (costume designer),

Plot: In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. Cole is the Alien tracker who's in hot pursuit of the escaped convicts. when a government group investigating extraterrestrials captures one, Cole must break into the facility and free him before they gather the hard evidence they need to prove that Alien life exists on earth.

Keywords: alien-hunter, bounty-hunter, calendar-girl, failed-pilot, homoeroticism, men-in-underwear, telekinesis, underwear-model
Genres: Sci-Fi,

Quotes:

Jess: [reading the diary of Mel's grandmother] Your grandmother used to own a speakeasy. [Mel closes the diary] What?::Mel Porter: It's not right.::Jess: It was right a minute ago.::Mel Porter: Speakeasy?::Jess: I can't believe it, all those nights of playing truth or dare, and she never led on to the truth...::Mel Porter: You played truth or dare with my grandmother?::Jess: Amongst other things... get a few shots of tequila in her and...::Mel Porter: Tequila? [beat] She used to knit me doilies.::Jess: You think her whole life was knitting doilies?

Mel Porter: It's just that I worry.::Cole: Yes Mel, you do.

Mel Porter: Do you have any idea how worried I've been?::Cole: About what?::Mel Porter: You don't know?::Cole: No.::Mel Porter: You really don't know?::Cole: No I really don't know.

Cole: [to Mel] Why do your people want to harm us instead of talk to us?

A Town Has Turned to Dust (1998)

Actors: Rod Serling (writer), Ron Perlman (actor), Rob Nilsson (director), Michael Kiely (miscellaneous crew), Judy Collins (actress), Stephen Lang (actor), Scott Wilkinson (actor), Zahn McClarnon (actor), Josh Peterson (editor), Gabriel Olds (actor), Maxx Payne (actor), Arrahwanna Thomsen (miscellaneous crew), J. Scott Bronson (actor), Nelle Nugent (producer), Michelle D. Dreier (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In a futuristic desert hamlet, a ruthless town boss lynches a falsely accused Native American teen, setting the stage for revolt and a clash with a troubled, drunken sheriff.

Keywords: desert, futuristic, mining, settlement, sheriff
Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller,

Korg: 70,000 B.C. (1974)

Actors: William Hanna (producer), Burgess Meredith (actor), Eileen Dietz (actress), Joseph Barbera (producer), Warner E. Leighton (editor), Iraj Paran (miscellaneous crew), Christian Nyby (director), Fred Freiberger (writer), Fred Freiberger (producer), Fred Freiberger (miscellaneous crew), Richard L. O'Connor (producer), Myles Wilder (miscellaneous crew), Bill Ewing (actor), Jim Malinda (actor), Irving J. Moore (director),

Plot: Short-lived Saturday morning live-action series about the daily struggles of an extended family of Neanderthals in prehistoric Europe. Crisp narration by veteran actor Burgess Meredith lent a "documentarian" feel, suggesting that the show was a dramatic re-creation of how life might have been 72,000 years ago.

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy,