Pip

FlashCrash (2012)

Actors: Stephen Kaiser-Pendergrast (editor), Rudi Azank (writer), Rudi Azank (producer), Rudi Azank (director), Stephen Peabody (actor), Max Guen (producer), Nicky Hammond (producer), Vance Barber (actor), Leslie Gauthier (actor),

Genres: History, News, Short, Thriller,

Magwitch (2012)

Actors: Charles Dickens (writer), Candis Nergaard (actress), Nathaniel Gleed (actor), Samuel Supple (writer), Samuel Supple (director), David Verrey (actor), Sean Cole (editor), Jeremy Birchall (composer), Alexia James (actress), Clyde Young (actor), Samuel Edward-Cook (actor), Alice Barnard (writer), Jennie Douglas (costume designer), Debra McGee (producer), Ellen Sussams (actress),

Plot: "Hold your noise!" - are the first words the convict Abel Magwitch growls at Pip in "Great Expectations". But what were the events that led him to become this manacled man covered in blood and mud? The story begins with Magwitch in solitary confinement upon a Prison Hulk. Suffering from a fever, the convict dreams about a life gone by, from his first crime to his first love and the daughter he lost forever. Inspired by the Charles Dickens Novel "Great Expectations".

Keywords: charles-dickens, great-expectations
Genres: Drama, Short,
Taglines: Mad? Bad? Misunderstood? The untold story of one of Dickens most colourful and enduring villains.

In Love with Dickens (2012)

Actors: Simon Callow (actor), Miriam Margolyes (actress), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (actor), Jennifer Handorf (producer), Steve Evets (actor), Joe A. Stephenson (director), Joe A. Stephenson (producer), Douglas Booth (actor), Matthew Borneman (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Evening (2007)

Actors: Jennifer Zolten Freed (miscellaneous crew), Glenn Close (actress), Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (composer), Ann Roth (costume designer), Toni Collette (actress), Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Barry Bostwick (actor), Natasha Richardson (actress), Meryl Streep (actress), Claire Danes (actress), Eileen Atkins (actress), Patrick Wilson (actor), Donald Warnock (actor), Howard Samuelsohn (miscellaneous crew), Ashley Kravitz (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: The love which binds mother and daughter -- seen through the prism of one mother's life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance, a content wife and mother, and Nina, a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But who is this "Harris," wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother? While Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life and their own lives, their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years before, when she was Ann Grant, a young woman who has come from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn. The bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother for support. Ann stays close to her friend, yet is even closer to Lila's irrepressible brother Buddy. Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden, a lifelong friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann's love for Harris will change her life, and those of her daughters, forever.

Keywords: 1950s, barbie-doll, bare-butt, based-on-novel, beach, beach-house, boat, bonfire, bridesmaid, brother-sister-relationship
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Her greatest secret was her greatest gift. The greatest actresses of our time in one extraordinary movie

Quotes:

[from trailer]::Lila Wittenborn: Your mother had her whole life. She sang at my wedding... she raised two girls... we can't know everything she did. We are mysterious creatures, aren't we?

[from trailer]::Buddy Wittenborn: What if we just sang and laughed together... for the rest of our lives.::Young Ann: It wouldn't work.::Buddy Wittenborn: Not for you...

Buddy Wittenborn: Shut up and dance.

Ann Grant Lord: There's no such thing as a mistake. You get nervous, but you sing anyways.

Buddy Wittenborn: "Wittgenstein, Schmittgenstein. What's for lunch?"::Mrs. Brown: Just close your eyes and think of a time when you were happy.

Harris Arden: I have to tell you something... I still know what stars are ours.

Young Ann: Aren't you starting a little bit early?::Buddy Wittenborn: It's Newport. We start at noon.

Buddy Wittenborn: You know what you've got? You have got a talent for love. You're like a love genius. And there are too many statues of generals and politicians, and there are not enough statues of someone like you. In this world, there is so much of what looks like love, and sounds like love, and calls itself love, but it isn't. It's just people saying and doing what they think they ought to say and do. And you, you, you, are the greatest. You're the greatest. You're the greatest. So here's to love, an-and, here's to you.

Lila Wittenborn: We are mysterious creatures, aren't we? And at the end so much of it turns out not to matter.

Ray: Mistakes are beautiful, baby. Mistakes are part of the fun.

Eighteen (2005)

Actors: Serge Houde (actor), Krista Johnston (miscellaneous crew), Rob Carpenter (miscellaneous crew), Ian McKellen (actor), Brenda Crichlow (actress), Carly Pope (actress), Gabrielle Rose (actress), Brendan Fletcher (actor), Sandra Montgomery (miscellaneous crew), Alan Cumming (actor), Mark Hildreth (actor), Adrien Dorval (actor), Thea Gill (actress), Kevan Ohtsji (actor), Lorraine Carson (costume designer),

Plot: Pip is a street kid who's meeting life head-on in the big city. On his eighteenth birthday he receives his grandfather's Second World War memoirs on audio cassette, a gift that awakens the ghost of the long lost world. His grandfather relates the story of the day he turned eighteen, fleeing German forces through the woods of France with a dying comrade hanging on for life. In Pip's own and contemporary way, he begins to live the parallel life of his grandfather, both lost in their environments and generations. Along Pip's path he stumbles into an unlikely alliance with Clark, a gay street hustler on the make, and Jenny, an aspiring social worker who tempts Pip with feelings of love and domesticity. He also forges a small but important relationship with a local priest, in whom he confides his deepest secret: the death of his brother and the heinous act his father committed against him before his passing.

Keywords: addict, attempted-rape, begging, bereavement, betrayal, candle, car-accident, coming-out, convenience-store, dream
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A street kid. A soldier. A present that repeats the past. Can a present from the past change someone's future?

Gagamboy (2004)

Actors: Roselle Y. Monteverde (writer), Erik Matti (director), Roselle Y. Monteverde (producer), Erik Matti (writer), Douglas Quijano (producer), Mon Confiado (actor), Jay Manalo (actor), Lea A. Calmerin (producer), Ronald Stephen Monteverde (producer), Ernie Zarate (actor), Ronald Asinas (actor), Erik Matti (actor), Jay Manalo (actor), Frank Chico (miscellaneous crew), Elmer Buencamino (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy,
Taglines: The battle between good and evil is coming to town.

Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1986)

Actors: Phillip Hinton (actor), Antony I. Ginnane (producer), Ron Haddrick (actor), Charles Dickens (writer), Tom Burstall (producer), Tim Burstall (director), Bruce Spence (actor), Tim Burstall (writer), Martin Vaughan (actor), Robert Coleby (actor), Todd Boyce (actor), Sigrid Thornton (actress), Sigrid Thornton (producer), Gerard Kennedy (actor), Les Foxcroft (actor),

Plot: This very different version of the Charles Dickens timeless story set in the mid-19th century follows the adventures of Magwitch, the escaped convict who forced the young Pip to hide and steal for him in the first part of the story. Then it settles to Magwitch's wonderings through Europe and his journey to Australia where it shows the means he used to become a wealthy gentleman and the reasons he decided to become Pip's benefactor.

Keywords: charles-dickens
Genres: Drama,

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?"

Appointment in London (1953)

Actors: Michael Ripper (actor), Desmond Roberts (actor), Lloyd Lamble (actor), John Colicos (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), Dirk Bogarde (actor), Bill Kerr (actor), Ronald Adam (actor), Bryan Forbes (actor), Arnold Bell (actor), Carl Duering (actor), Alan Gifford (actor), Ian Hunter (actor), Carl Jaffe (actor), William Russell (actor),

Plot: Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.

Keywords: 1940s, aerial-bombing, aerial-gunner, air-base, air-force-base, air-raid, aircraft, airforce, airplane, airplane-crash
Genres: Drama, War,

Livsforsikringsagenten (1919)

Actors: Rasmus Christiansen (actor), Lauritz Olsen (actor), Oscar Stribolt (actor), Betzy Kofoed (actress), A.V. Olsen (writer), Lau Lauritzen (director), Lau Lauritzen (writer), Karen Winther (actress), Elna Spore (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Short,