Elisa Donovan

Divided (2013)

Actors: Lance J. Reha (director), Tom Bragg (writer), Frank Albanese (actor), Jim Harkins (producer), Drew Maniscalco (actor),

Genres: Drama, Short,

The Last Request (2006)

Actors: Gilbert Gottfried (actor), Mario Cantone (actor), Shauna Shapiro Jackson (miscellaneous crew), Danny Aiello (actor), Frank Vincent (actor), Irma St. Paule (actress), Joe Piscopo (actor), Vincent Pastore (actor), Carl Burrows (actor), Tony Lo Bianco (actor), Robert M. Reitano (editor), Mary Birdsong (actress), Barbara Feldon (actress), Stéphanye Dussud (actress), Joan Copeland (actress),

Plot: The Lord moves in mysterious ways. Jeff has problems: his father is dying and wants either Jeff or Jeff's playboy brother Tom to sire a child before death's triumph; Jeff's mother constantly puts him down; he has strange dreams; and, he's a shy seminarian whose vocation is shaky. When it becomes impossible for Tom to fulfill dad's last request, Jeff leaves the seminary, gets a job as a drama coach at a home for aged actors, and sets about to please his father. He goes to bars to pick up women, seeks the help of an unconventional therapist, places an ad in the personals - and makes no progress. Meanwhile, he jokes around with a sweet co-worker named Cathy.

Keywords: boy-toy, broken-glass, brother-brother-relationship, choking, cleavage, comic-impersonation, dream, dreaming, dying-during-sex, dying-parent
Genres: Comedy,

Quotes:

Jeff: [suddenly confronted with psychiatrist's next appointment] Angelo is a pretty good guy, huh?::Mr. Pitiful: Yeah, he put me on Prozac.::Jeff: Oh... great::Mr. Pitiful: Yeah, I feel pretty good about committing suicide now.

Happy Tree Friends, Volume 3: Third Strike (2004)

Actors: Kenn Navarro (actor), Kenn Navarro (writer), Kenn Navarro (writer), Kenn Navarro (director), Kenn Navarro (producer), Liz Stewart (actress), Liz Stewart (producer), Rhode Montijo (writer), Rhode Montijo (actor), Rhode Montijo (actor), Rhode Montijo (producer), Rhode Montijo (director), Rhode Montijo (writer), Ken Pontac (actor), Dana Belben (actress),

Genres: Animation, Comedy,

Happy Tree Friends, Volume 2: Second Serving (2003)

Actors: Kenn Navarro (actor), Kenn Navarro (director), Kenn Navarro (writer), Kenn Navarro (writer), Liz Stewart (actress), Liz Stewart (producer), Rhode Montijo (director), Rhode Montijo (actor), Rhode Montijo (actor), Rhode Montijo (writer), Rhode Montijo (writer), Dana Belben (actress), Dana Belben (actress), Dana Belben (miscellaneous crew), Dana Belben (actress),

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Horror,

Necista krv (1996)

Actors: Meto Jovanovski (actor), Ljuba Tadic (actor), Tzvetana Maneva (actress), Slobodan Custic (actor), Dusica Zegarac (actress), Andrija Zafranovic (editor), Neda Arneric (actress), Rade Serbedzija (actor), Petar Jakonic (editor), Bogoljub Petrovic (actor), Emilija Kovacevic (costume designer), Vesna Milic (miscellaneous crew), Vlatko Stefanovski (composer), Mirjana Kicovic (editor), Alessio Vlad (composer),

Genres: Drama,

Jake Speed (1986)

Actors: Wayne Crawford (producer), Wayne Crawford (writer), Millie Perkins (actress), Leon Ames (actor), Ian Yule (actor), Jean-Pierre Lorit (actor), Ken Lerner (actor), Barry Primus (actor), Ken Gampu (actor), John Hurt (actor), Alan Shearman (actor), Monte Markham (actor), Wayne Crawford (actor), Diana Cilliers (costume designer), Mark Snow (composer),

Plot: When her sister is kidnapped by white slavers, only Grandpa knows what to do. He puts in a call to a fictional hero, Jake Speed. She is amazed to find that he actually exists, and that as flesh and blood, is much less formidable than his reputation.

Keywords: abduction, africa, character-name-in-title, costume-party, independent-film, newsstand, novel, novelist, paperback, paris-france
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy,
Taglines: He's rewriting the book on adventure More than a myth. Less than a legend. And a bit too big for his boots...

Quotes:

Sid: Being the good guy's so predictable. You do everything right!

Sid: I'm the bad guy, Jake. I do anything I want.

Sid: I take great pride into 'aving never lived up to anything!

Maurice: This'll rot your caviar!

Sid: You're a Boy Scout, Jake!::Jake Speed: REFRESHING! Isn't it?

Jake Speed: Evil may triumph, Sid, but it'll never conquer.

Jake Speed: If you want something bad enough, you get it!

Jake Speed: We were gonna fight our way through enemy territory. Scale the highest mountain in this goddamned place. Traverse a bridge that was about to collapse. And then if we were lucky, I mean really lucky, we were gonna fight our way through two thousand extremely poisonous snakes.::Margaret Winston: There are thousands of snakes around here?::Jake Speed: There's gotta be if you look hard enough!

Pop: There are a few, a very few men. Remo. Mack Bolan. Jake Speed. In this case, I think Jake Speed's the man for the job.

Pop: They defeat evil where it exists, pinhead!

Najdolgiot pat (1976)

Actors: Janez Vrhovec (actor), Dusan Janicijevic (actor), Gojko Mitic (actor), Meto Jovanovski (actor), Aco Jovanovski (actor), Petre Arsovski (actor), Jordanco Cevrevski (actor), Branko Gapo (director), Darko Damevski (actor), Pance Kamdzik (actor), Dzemail Maksut (actor), Salaetin Bilal (actor), Dimitar Grbevski (editor), Sasha D'Arc (actor), Dimitar Gesovski (actor),

Plot: March 1903. The Ottoman Empire is in a process of disintegration. Only Macedonia is not still liberated in the Balkans. The Macedonian revolutionary movement is in full growth. The Turks are trying to keep their last bastion in Europe. The Macedonian people are being exposed to the most severe oppressions as it is due to the revenge of the Turks for supporting and protecting the komitas - Macedonian freedom-fighters. In such a case the Turks besiege a village where a weeding ceremony is taking place. They shoot at the peasants, round them up and most of them are being taken away. More than two hundred people are taken prisoner in the fortress. The Turks sentence them to from 15 to 101 years in prison. Then the prisoners are loaded on a ship and are transported to Asia Minor. On their way through the desert the Macedonians are exposed to various humiliations. A lot of them overeat and die. In October 1908, the prisoners arrive at the place where they are to serve the sentence.

Genres: Drama,

Promise Him Anything (1975)

Actors: Frederic Forrest (actor), Eddie Albert (actor), Aldo Ray (actor), William Schallert (actor), Nelson Riddle (composer), Meg Foster (actress), Tom Ewell (actor), Cynnie Troup (miscellaneous crew), Joyce Jameson (actress), Hunter von Leer (actor), Peggy Rea (actress), Steven Keats (actor), John F. Burnett (editor), Ellen Blake (actress), Pearl Shear (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

The Harder They Fall (1956)

Actors: William Henry (actor), Paul Frees (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Gil Frye (actor), Edward Andrews (actor), Everett Glass (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Jack Albertson (actor), George Cisar (actor), Bill Baldwin (actor), Jack Daly (actor), Val Avery (actor), Charles Horvath (actor), Matty Fain (actor),

Plot: After 17 years as a recognized and respected sports journalist in New York City, Eddie Willis finds himself out of a job when his newspaper folds. He's approached by a major fight promoter, Nick Benko, to act as a public relations man for his new heavyweight fighter Toro Moreno. Eddie knows the how the fight game works and after watching Toro in the ring, realizes Toro is nothing but a stiff who has no hope of succeeding. Benko offers him a sizable salary and an unlimited expense account and given his financial situation, he agrees. Benko's strategy to make money is one that has been used time again. Starting in California and moving east, they arrange a series of fights for Toro with stiffs and has-beens. All of the fights are rigged to build up his record and get him a fight with the heavyweight champion, Buddy Brannen, where they will make a sizable profit at the gate. Along the way, one boxer gets killed in the ring and Eddie begins to have serious doubts about what he is doing.

Keywords: accidental-death, argentine, based-on-novel, beating, bleeding-mouth, boxing, broken-jaw, champion, cheating, corrupt-businessman
Genres: Drama, Film-Noir, Sport, Thriller,
Taglines: No Punches Pulled! If you thought "On The Waterfront" hit hard... wait till you see this one!

Quotes:

Nick Benko: The people, Eddie, the people! Don't tell me about the people, Eddie. The people sit in front of their little TVs with their bellies full of beer and fall asleep. What do the people know, Eddie? Don't tell me about the people, Eddie!

Eddie Willis: I didn't come here to work out!

Nick Benko: The fight game today is like show business. There's no real fighters anymore, they're all actors. The best showman becomes the champ!

Nick Benko: Don't fight it, Eddie! What are you trying to do, hold onto your self-respect? Did your self-respect help you hold your job? Did your self-respect give you a new column?

Reporter: What gives, Eddie? I looked up Toro in the book. There's no record of him in South America.::Eddie Willis: He knocked out thirty-eight guys in a row. None of them went over three rounds. You believe that one and I'll tell you another.

First Reporter: Can he box?::Eddie Willis: No Gene Tunney.::Second Reporter: Can he punch?::Eddie Willis: Not like Jack Dempsey.::Third Reporter: Well, what's he got besides just being big?::Eddie Willis: He's got an iron jaw and a cast-iron stomach. Not a man alive can hurt him.

[Willis tells Toro to throw his fight with Buddy Brannen to avoid getting hurt]::Toro Moreno: I don't know, I don't know. What would people think of me?::Eddie Willis: What do you care what a bunch of bloodthirsty, screaming people think of you? Did you ever get a look at their faces? They pay a few lousy bucks hoping to see a man get killed. To hell with them! Think of yourself. Get your money and get out of this rotten business.

Eddie Willis: Money's not evil in and of itself. The purpose for which it's used is the determining factor.

Eddie Willis: Powderpuff punch and a glass jaw... that's a great combination!

[last lines]::Nick Benko: A man that gives away twenty-six thousand dollars you can't talk to. I wanna tell ya one more thing. I wouldn't give twenty-six cents for your future.

You Can't Ration Love (1944)

Actors: Harry Allen (actor), Ray Spiker (actor), Mabel Paige (actress), Isabel Randolph (actress), Bobby Barber (actor), Sarah Edwards (actress), Will Wright (actor), Sam Ash (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), Sheldon Jett (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Charles Marsh (actor), George Meader (actor), Werner R. Heymann (composer), Marie Wilson (actress),

Plot: Because of the war, there aren't enough men at Adams College for all the girls, but Betty (Betty Jane Rhodes as Betty Rhodes) has no difficulties as she has a monopoly on stud-athlete Pete (Bill Edwards). The other girls, particularly Marian (Marjorie Weaver), think this is unfair, so Marian institutes a system of rationing dates. Pete is rated as thirty points and Betty is furious as the other girls bypass the 4-F's and slide-rule geeks to save their ration points to date Pete. Betty drafts him for the Varsity Show, but when the pressure of preparing for the show hurts his studies, Marian volunteers to tutor him and has him all to herself. Scholarly John "Two-Point" Simpson (Johnny Johnston as Johnnie Johnston) auditions and, since he isn't hep to the jive, is laughed off the stage. Betty helps him and soon "Two-Point" is in the groove and makes a hit, and Betty discovers she is in love with him. The faculty cancels the date-rationing plan and Johnnie, whose point value has gone up, thinks Betty is the cause of the ruling and dates Marian for spite. Betty broods and knits booties for her sister's baby, but conveys the impression to Marian that she is to have a baby. Johnnie learns he is the "suspected" father and, thinking it is another of Betty's tricks, plans to leave school. The other girls, led by Bubbles (Marie Wilson), are worried about Betty's future stigma and round up a justice of the peace and Johnnie. Betty confesses the hoax, and the girls start squabbling over the available-again Johnnie, while Betty and Johnnie make use of the still-available Justice of the Peace.

Keywords: catfight, co-ed, false-pregnancy, jealousy, war-effort
Genres: Comedy, Musical,
Taglines: What's A Girl To Do When There's A MANPOWER Shortage?