Tales of the Dead: Undying Love & Get the Shot (2012)

Actors: Marie James (producer), Clay Orr (writer), Andrew Parker (producer), Andrew Parker (writer), Mark McLeod (writer), Mark McLeod (director), Mark McLeod (producer), Jon Benson (actor), Daniel Oakes (actor), Ben Mullis (actor), Nick Kinnebrew (actor), Tiffany Easterlin (actress), Kayla Leigh (actress), Will Royals (actor), Mike Royals (actor),

Genres: Horror, Short,

Undercurrent (2012)

Actors: Kurt Sinclair (actor), Bobby Reed (actor), Trae Ireland (actor), Bob Rumnock (actor), Michelle Tomlinson (actress), Noelle Perris (actress), Laurence Cohen (editor), Michael Cline (actor), Gwendolyn Edwards (actress), Luca Rodrigues (actor), Kristina Denton (actress), Melinda Lee (actress), Lysa Oldhams (miscellaneous crew), Lysa Oldhams (miscellaneous crew), Morgan Lariah (actress),

Plot: What is the undercurrent? That's the underlying question behind each of the story lines in this film. The undercurrent is what people really think but will not openly admit. The expression was invented by Adam Radly for the purpose of this film. There is an undercurrent in all parts of our lives. It's particularly evident when it comes to money, fame, religion and politics. Undercurrent explores these themes and other examples of the Undercurrent by following the stories of several people that live in very different worlds. Bernie Grossman is running for office for the first time and hires a gun political adviser, Eric Holt to help him with the campaign. Bernie thinks that Eric will help him to win by developing better policies but is surprised when Eric tells him to forget about policies and just focus on connecting with the voters by "tapping into the Undercurrent". The best example of the undercurrent is 'Mitt Romney' (qv)'s reference to the 47% behind closed doors. Dan Wells runs a small nonprofit that helps coffee farmers in Haiti. After a good deal goes bad he needs to raise $700,000 in 30 days to avoid some serious consequences. Some people decide to help him but are they helping because they want to help poor Haitians or are they just keeping up appearances and pursing different agendas? Jeff Williams is a wealthy tech entrepreneur. His marriage falls apart after the murder of his daughter and his wife wants 50% of all assets in the divorce. Does she really deserve it or is it just about the money? Sydney Sheraton just wants to be famous and doesn't care how it happens. There was a time when becoming famous resulted from doing something special. But now we live in a new world where people become famous without doing something special. Do we all still secretly want to be famous?

Genres: ,

Another Earth (2011)

Actors: William Mapother (actor), André Des Rochers (miscellaneous crew), Ari Gold (actor), Kumar Pallana (actor), Paul Mezey (actor), Paul Mezey (producer), Brit Marling (writer), Brit Marling (actress), Brit Marling (producer), Hunter Gray (producer), Rupert Reid (actor), Tyler Brodie (producer), Ana Kayne (actress), Mike Cahill (director), Mike Cahill (producer),

Plot: Seventeen year-old Rhoda Williams receives an acceptance letter from MIT and she celebrates with her friends. On the same night, a planet similar and close to Earth is discovered and called Earth 2. Rhoda drives her car looking at Earth 2 and crashes with composer John Burroughs, killing his pregnant wife and his baby son. Rhoda goes to prison and four years later she is released and moves to her parents' house. She finds a job as high-school janitor, but tries to commit suicide. She survives, however, and submits an essay to a contest where the prize is a ticket to travel to Earth 2. Meanwhile the scientists discover that Earth 2 is a mirror of Earth and the synchronicity between the dwellers was interrupted when the planets were seen by each other. One day, Rhoda decides to visit John Burroughs, whose life was destroyed after the death of his family, to admit to him that she had killed his family. However she does not have the nerve to tell him the truth. So she lies and tells him he has won a free cleaning service of his home. Rhoda wins the writing contest, but meanwhile John and she have fallen in love with each other. Rhoda has to take a decision whether she goes or stays, but she wants to tell John the truth first.

Keywords: 11-year-old, 17-year-old, 21-year-old, 5-year-old, american-flag, anger, anti-depressant, apology, apple-computer, archive-footage
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi,

Quotes:

Richard Berendzen: Within our lifetimes, we've marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things. And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large: it's us, up close. Could we even recognize ourselves, and if we did, would we know ourselves? What would we say to ourselves? What would we learn from ourselves? What would we really like to see if we could stand outside ourselves and look at us?

John's Son: What rhymes with "light"?::John Burroughs: "Light"?::Maya Burroughs: Oh, that's a good one. [Loud crash]

Richard Berendzen: In the grand history of the cosmos, more than thirteen thousand million years old, our Earth is replicated elsewhere. But maybe there is another way of seeing this world. If any small variation arises-they look this way, you look that way-suddenly maybe everything changes and now you begin to wonder, what else is different? Well, one might say that you have an exact mirror image that is suddenly shattered and there's a new reality. And therein lies the opportunity and the mystery. What else? What new? What now?

Rhoda Williams: Maybe they're up there. Maybe not. Maybe.

[first lines]::Rhoda Williams: I saw this image when I was a kid. The photograph of Jupiter taken by NASAs Voyager. Beautiful. But nothing special until shown in rapid succession. Suddenly Jupiter was alive. Breathing. I was hypnotized.

John's Son: You would go?::Rhoda Williams: Yes.::John's Son: You don't know what's out there.::Rhoda Williams: That's why I would go.

Rhoda Williams: When early explorers first set out West across the Atlantic, most people thought the world was flat. Most people thought if you sailed far enough West, you would drop off a plane into nothing. Those vessels sailing out into the unknown, they weren't carrying noblemen or aristocrats, artists or merchants. They were crewed by people living on the edge of life: the madmen, orphans, ex-convicts, outcasts like myself. As a felon, I'm an unlikely candidate for most things. But perhaps not for this. Perhaps I am the most likely.

Richard Berendzen: It would be very hard to think "I am over there" and "Can I go meet me?" and "Is that me better than this me?" "Can I learn from the other me?" "Has the other me made the same mistakes I've made?" Or, "Can I sit down and have a conversation with me?" Wouldn't that be an interesting thing? The truth is, we do that all day long every day. People don't admit it and they don't think about it too much, but they do. Every day, they're talking in their own head. "What's he doing?" "Why'd he do that?" "What did she think?" "Did I say the right thing?" In this case, there's another you out there.

Rhoda Williams: If you met yourself, what would you say?::John Burroughs: Hey, you up for a video game? Probably beat me. What would you say?::Rhoda Williams: Better luck next time.

Purdeep: Listen to me. Keep your mind clear. And that's it. You will have peace of mind. My dear, don't worry. Learn to adjust yourself.

Bad Movie Police Case #3: Humanoids from Atlantis (2004)

Actors: Ariauna Albright (actress), Jason Paul Collum (miscellaneous crew), Jeff Dylan Graham (actor), J.R. Bookwalter (writer), J.R. Bookwalter (editor), J.R. Bookwalter (producer), Matthew Jason Walsh (composer), Dennis Petersen (editor), Rick Irvin (actor), Lance J. Holt (actor), Lilith Stabs (actress), Tanya Dempsey (actress), John Treacy (writer), John Treacy (actor), John Treacy (director),

Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi,

You Bet Your Life (1997)

Actors: Mario Avila (editor), Mario Avila (writer), Mario Avila (director), Ryan Brown (actor), Charles Harding (actor), Ian Deki (composer), Ian Deki (actor), Daniel Robles (actor), Mickey Marsee (producer), Gabriel Lucero (actor), Jeff Reagan (actor), Alan Bumgarner (actor), Linda Quenzer (actress), Delmi Romero (actress),

Plot: A sexy young accountant has been embezzling money from her firm to support her cocaine habit. When her firm is audited by the IRS, she is forced to make a bet with a loanshark to repay the cash. After losing the "sure thing" horse race, she must then make a life or death choice - stay alive or kill for the loanshark.

Keywords: accountant
Genres: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Short, Thriller,

The Greatest Story Never Told (1983)

Actors: John Schmidt (producer), John Schmidt (writer), John Schmidt (director), Jim Custer (actor), David Meinke (actor),

Plot: Jeff Williams is a young man with a busy life. Work, school, church, sports. But when a missionary family stationed Africa comes home to the United States for a visit, Jeff learns that sharing his faith doesn't necessarily require leaving home. Jeff comes to realize that his ideas about what a mission field really is have kept him from being a witness to those around him, including his boss, his friends and even the kid next door.

Genres: Drama,

The River Niger (1976)

Actors: James Earl Jones (actor), Tony Burton (actor), Louis Gossett Jr. (actor), Cicely Tyson (actress), Glynn Turman (actor), Roger E. Mosley (actor), Ralph Wilcox (actor), Irving Lerner (editor), Zakes Mokae (actor), Teddy Wilson (actor), Krishna Shah (director), Jonelle Allen (actress), Hilda Haynes (actress), Charles Weldon (actor), Sidney Beckerman (producer),

Plot: An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.

Keywords: based-on-play, black-militant, cancer, independent-film, racial-slur-in-title, title-spoken-by-character
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Some rivers can't be dammed...some people won't be broken.

Angel Number 9 (1974)

Actors: Darby Lloyd Rains (actress), Eric Edwards (actor), Jamie Gillis (actor), Alan Marlow (actor), Marc Stevens (actor), Roberta Findlay (editor), Roberta Findlay (director), Roberta Findlay (actress), Roberta Findlay (writer), Roberta Findlay (producer), Jennifer Jordan (actress), John Buco (actor), Sandy Foxx (actress), Day Jason (actress), Judy Craven (actress),

Plot: Steven is a self-obsessed man who seduces a lot of women. When his girlfriend gets pregnant he tells her to get out of his life. After a car accident, Steven dies and comes to heaven. But his punishment is to return to Earth as Stephanie and he can only return to heaven if he can fall in love with a man just like Steven.

Keywords: angel, car-accident, character-name-in-title, cruel, cunnilingus, deal, death, ejaculation-on-belly, ejaculation-onto-someone's-face, fellatio
Genres: Adult, Drama, Fantasy,
Taglines: The first erotically explicit film ever made by a woman.

Hong Kong (1952)

Actors: William C. Thomas (producer), Nigel Bruce (actor), Howard A. Smith (editor), James Conaty (actor), James Craven (actor), Lee Tung Foo (actor), Lewis R. Foster (director), Sam Harris (actor), Keye Luke (actor), Lee Marvin (actor), Marvin Miller (actor), Winston Miller (writer), Ronald Reagan (actor), Claud Allister (actor), Beal Wong (actor),

Genres: Adventure, Drama,

Forsaking All Others (1934)

Actors: Hooper Atchley (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Edward Brophy (actor), Charles Butterworth (actor), Jay Eaton (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor), Clark Gable (actor), Forrester Harvey (actor), Ted Healy (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Harold Huber (actor), Perry Ivins (actor), Robert Montgomery (actor), Eddie Phillips (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor),

Plot: Dill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her.

Keywords: adirondack-mountains, aunt, based-on-play, cabin, divorce, drunkenness, elopement, falling-down-stairs, fire, flower
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Eleanor: I'd rather be married in alcohol.::Aunt Paula: Eleanor!::Eleanor: Don't worry Paula, I'll be so old they'll have to pickle me in something!

Dillon 'Dill': I could make a fire by rubbing two boy scouts together.

Eleanor: I wish a man would marry me so I could wear a decent hat.::Shemp 'Shempy': that's the best reason for getting married I ever heard.

Eleanor: Oh, I want to go to the bachelor dinner.::Shemp 'Shempy': Can you do a fan dance?::Eleanor: I invented the fan dance.::Shemp 'Shempy': I saw one with electric fans once, it was awful

Eleanor: I wish I were a man.::Shemp 'Shempy': Were, or had?

Eleanor: You worry more about something to worry about than you worry about an actual worry.::Mary Clay: Can you say that again?

Shemp 'Shempy': as he helps Paula pick up the Dining table and carry it, Where are we going?::Aunt Paula: To Cairo, where do you think, we're going to the Kitchen.

Jeffrey 'Jeff': Come on, Shemp, my boy. We've only got one night to do a weeks drinking.

Dillon 'Dill': Connie, I need to speak to you.::Connie Barnes Todd: But darling, I'm learning to tap dance!::Dillon 'Dill': This is more important than tap dancing!

Mary Clay: Jeff, has it ever occurred to you that this is none of your business?::Jeffrey 'Jeff': It's none of my business when I see a dog being whipped but I'll stop it every time.