Margin Call (2011)

Actors: Simon Baker (actor), Paul Bettany (actor), Jeremy Irons (actor), Claude Jay (actor), Oberon K.A. Adjepong (actor), Kevin Keels (actor), Peter Y. Kim (actor), Aasif Mandvi (actor), Jimmy Palumbo (actor), Jamie Lee Petronis (actor), Zachary Quinto (actor), Al Sapienza (actor), Kevin Spacey (actor), Stanley Tucci (actor), Penn Badgley (actor),

Plot: A respected financial company is downsizing and one of the victims is the risk management division head, who was working on a major analysis just when he was let go. His protégé completes the study late into the night and then frantically calls his colleagues in about the company's financial disaster he has discovered. What follows is a long night of panicked double checking and double dealing as the senior management prepare to do whatever it takes to mitigate the debacle to come even as the handful of conscientious comrades find themselves dragged along into the unethical abyss.

Keywords: aerospace-engineer, bankruptcy, board-meeting, bridge, brokerage-firm, business-ethics, capital-management, capitalism, capitalist, capitalist-society
Genres: Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Be first. Be smarter. Or cheat.

Quotes:

John Tuld: There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat.

John Tuld: I don't get any of this stuff.

Will Emerson: Well, that was fucking hideous.::Sam Rogers: It's gonna get worse before it gets better.

Eric Dale: I run risk management... it just doesn't seem like a natural place to start cutting.

Seth Bregman: Will, did you really make two and a half million last year?::Will Emerson: Yeah, sure.::Seth Bregman: How did you spend it all?::Will Emerson: It goes quite quickly. You know, you learn to spend what's in your pocket.::Peter Sullivan: Two and a half million goes quickly?::Will Emerson: All right, let's see. So the taxman takes half up front, so you're left with one and a quarter. My mortgage takes another 300 grand. I send 150 home for my parents, you know, keep 'em going. So what's that?::Peter Sullivan: 800?::Peter Sullivan: All right, 800. Spent 150 on a car. About 75 on restaurants. Probably 50 on clothes. I put 400 away for a rainy day.::Seth Bregman: That's smart.::Will Emerson: Yeah, as it turns out, 'cause it looks like the storm's coming.::Peter Sullivan: You still got 125.::Will Emerson: Yeah, well I did spend 76,520 dollars on hookers, booze and dancers. But mainly hookers.::Peter Sullivan: 76,5?::Will Emerson: I was a little shocked initially, but then I realized I could claim most of it back as entertainment. It's true!

Peter Sullivan: Aren't you tired?::Sam Rogers: A little... but I don't work as hard as you do.::Peter Sullivan: That's not true.::Sam Rogers: No it is.

Will Emerson: You know, the feeling that people experience when they stand on the edge like this isn't the fear of falling - it's the fear that they might jump

John Tuld: So you think we might have put a few people out of business today. That its all for naught. You've been doing that everyday for almost forty years Sam. And if this is all for naught then so is everything out there. Its just money; its made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat. It's not wrong. And it's certainly no different today than its ever been. 1637, 1797, 1819, 37, 57, 84, 1901, 07, 29, 1937, 1974, 1987-Jesus, didn't that fuck up me up good-92, 97, 2000 and whatever we want to call this. It's all just the same thing over and over; we can't help ourselves. And you and I can't control it, or stop it, or even slow it. Or even ever-so-slightly alter it. We just react. And we make a lot money if we get it right. And we get left by the side of the side of the road if we get it wrong. And there have always been and there always will be the same percentage of winners and losers. Happy foxes and sad sacks. Fat cats and starving dogs in this world. Yeah, there may be more of us today than there's ever been. But the percentages-they stay exactly the same.

Will Emerson: Jesus, Seth. Listen, if you really wanna do this with your life you have to believe you're necessary and you are. People wanna live like this in their cars and big fuckin' houses they can't even pay for, then you're necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is cause we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really fuckin' fair really fuckin' quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don't. They want what we have to give them but they also wanna, you know, play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. Well, thats more hypocrisy than I'm willing to swallow, so fuck em. Fuck normal people. You know, the funny thing is, tomorrow if all of this goes tits up they're gonna crucify us for being too reckless but if we're wrong, and everything gets back on track? Well then, the same people are gonna laugh till they piss their pants cause we're gonna all look like the biggest pussies God ever let through the door.::Seth Bregman: Do you think we're gonna be wrong?::Will Emerson: [long pause] No, they're all fucked.

Sam Rogers: You are panicking.::John Tuld: If you're first out the door, that's not called panicking.

Our Side of Heaven (2009)

Actors: Derek Amundson (actor), Will Bennett (actor), John Budding (actor), Henry Francis (actor), Isaac Hendricks (actor), Jackson Menner (actor), Anthony Mitchell (actor), Stephen Molitor (actor), Darren Peak (actor), Joseph Sorensen (actor), Caitlin Beckwith-Ferguson (actress), Isaac Hendricks (producer), Anthony Mitchell (producer), Darren Peak (producer), Darren Peak (writer),

Plot: Our Side of Heaven' tells the story of a C.I.A. agent named Mark who's assigned to investigate a popular officer accused of making political death threats. Problems arise when Mark befriends the man he is investigating, and his superiors begin to lose faith in him. It is a dark vision of the intelligence world told from the perspective of teenage filmmakers and actors.

Keywords: death, friendship, independent-film, money, murder
Genres: Drama, Short,

Road to Perdition (2002)

Actors: Dylan Baker (actor), Lance Baker (actor), Ian Barford (actor), Michael Brockman (actor), Nicolas Cade (actor), Jack Callahan (actor), JoBe Cerny (actor), Kevin Chamberlin (actor), Daniel Craig (actor), James Currie (actor), David Darlow (actor), Richard Dunn (actor), Stephen P. Dunn (actor), Joe Fontana (actor), Liam Aiken (actor),

Plot: 1931. Mike Sullivan and Connor Rooney are two henchmen of elderly Chicago-based Irish-American mobster John Rooney, Connor's father. In many respects, John treats Mike more as his son, who he raised as his own after Mike was orphaned, than the volatile Connor, who nonetheless sees himself as the heir apparent to the family business. One evening, Mike's eldest son, twelve year old Michael Sullivan Jr., who has no idea what his father does for a living, witnesses Connor and his father gun down an associate and his men, the situation gone wrong initiated from an action by Connor. Caught witnessing the incident, Michael is sworn to secrecy about what he saw. Regardless, Connor, not wanting any loose ends, makes an attempt to kill Mike, his wife and their two sons. Mike and the surviving members of his family know that they need to go on the run as Connor, who has gone into hiding, will be protected through mob loyalty, especially by John, who cannot turn on his own flesh and blood. Still, Mike has to figure out a way for retribution for what Connor did, while still protecting him and his family, not only from Connor, but from John and his fellow associates. Through it all, Mike wants those in his family that had no say in what he chose as a living, to have some redemption for their eternal souls.

Keywords: 1930s, accountant, anti-hero, apology, assassin, bank-robbery, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, based-on-graphic-novel, based-on-novel
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Pray for Michael Sullivan Every father is a hero to his son. Every son holds the future for his father. The innocence of a son is surpassed only by the father's will to save it.

Quotes:

Michael Sullivan: He murdered Annie and Peter!::John Rooney: There are only murderers in this room! Michael! Open your eyes! This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven.::Michael Sullivan: Michael could.::John Rooney: Then do everything that you can to see that that happens.

[Maguire has pulled out a camera]::Michael Sullivan: Is that, uh... your profession or... your pleasure?::Maguire: Both, I guess. To be paid to do what you love... ain't that the dream?

Michael Sullivan, Jr.: I couldn't do it.::Michael Sullivan: I know.

Maguire: I shoot the dead. Dead bodies, that is. I don't kill them.

John Rooney: Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

Maguire: Smile.

[last lines]::Michael Sullivan, Jr.: I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them... he was my father.

Connor Rooney: I can look after myself.::Frank Nitti: No, you can't! This is the point. You're a big baby who doesn't know his thumb from his dick!

John Rooney: What men do after work is what made us rich. No need to screw them at work as well.

[after seeing his father kill someone]::Michael Sullivan, Jr.: Does Mama know?::Michael Sullivan: Your mother knows I love Mr. Rooney. When we had nothing, he gave us a home... a life... and we owe him.