Jelly's Placenta (2007)

Actors: Craig Boreham (actor), Jonathan Wald (editor), Billy Marshall Stoneking (producer), Melissa Anastasi (producer), Christina Conrad (writer), Christina Conrad (costume designer), Christina Conrad (director), Marc Carlis (actor), Ryan Lee (actor),

Plot: Leith - an obsessed transvestite has been involved in a fifteen year relationship with her lover, jelly and Jelly's dead mother, whose spirit inhabits a large fig tree in their garden beneath which Jelly's placenta is buried. Consumed by jealousy for the mother, and by a primordial urge to possess Jelly - a slippery and seemingly passive drama lecturer - Leith's world is cracked wide open by the arrival of Jelly's student - the exotic beauty, Hart Sommerstein. Later when Jelly arrives home, she accuses him of having an affair. In a shattering confrontation, they spill the horror of their relationship, and in her frenzy to destroy the mother's dominance, Leith slays the tree with an ax, which unexpectedly frees Jelly.

Genres: Drama, Short,

Somebodies (2006)

Actors: Reginald Hudlin (miscellaneous crew), Robert Hatch (actor), Chris Burns (actor), Paul Grabowsky (composer), Dustin Brown (actor), Syr Law (actress), Vic Aviles (actor), Kaira Akita (actress), Dupree Lewis Jr. (actor), Kenny Kilfara (actor), IronE Singleton (actor), Carlos Davis (actor), Michell L. Davis (miscellaneous crew), Amber Chaney (actress), George Howard Adams (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Just Another Story (2003)

Actors: John Charles (miscellaneous crew), John Diehl (actor), Russ Russo (actor), Tony Osso (miscellaneous crew), Anthony Pettine (miscellaneous crew), Jeffrey A. Brown (miscellaneous crew), Lenny Clarke (actor), Joanna Merlin (actress), Jacob Craycroft (editor), Michael Wilkinson (costume designer), Jeff Sharp (producer), Mimi Lieber (actress), John Hart (producer), Nate Mooney (actor), Matthew Maher (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical,

Deadly Rhapsody (2001)

Actors: Kim Sill (actress), Art Evans (actor), M.C. Hammer (actor), Ice-T (actor), Don Abernathy (writer), Fred Williamson (actor), Eric Parkinson (producer), Don Abernathy (director), Glenn Plummer (actor), Ron O'Neal (actor), Alex Wilkinson (composer), Tone Loc (actor), Kristian Bernard (actor), Peter Davy (producer), The Bishop Don Magic Juan (actor),

Plot: The life of a beautiful rising female recording star is placed in jeopardy when she witnesses the drive-by shooting of a rival rap-star in Las Vegas. Wanted by both the killers and the corrupt police, the young woman must go into hiding while three of her kick-ass friends root-out the truth to the situation.

Keywords: female-nudity, rap, shower, urban-setting
Genres: Music,
Taglines: To live and die by the rhyme...

Road Kill (1999)

Actors: Marta M. Mobley (producer), Tony Denison (actor), Richard Portnow (actor), Jon Polito (actor), Holly Dorff (producer), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (actor), Jennifer Rubin (producer), Jennifer Rubin (actress), Matthew Leutwyler (writer), Erik Palladino (actor), Matthew Leutwyler (editor), Matthew Leutwyler (director), Billy Jayne (actor), Amanda Foreman (actress), Brian Vander Ark (actor),

Plot: Alex is the film student forced by his college professor to stop making Jackie Chan "homage" films and make "something from the heart" in order to graduate. Lars is the painting student and Alex's roommate who is looking for a way to become a tortured artist... as long as he can keep his BMW and American Express Gold Card. Together, they meet Blue, who has recently moved into their apartment building. After discovering that she's a "hit woman," Alex appeals to her senses as a film fan and persuades her to let him film a documentary on her last "hit." Heading towards the inevitability of the "hit" in Miami, Alex interviews Blue. Through his B&W; lens he finds out why she does what she does, why she's afraid to fly, and about the foster father that sexually abused her until she ran away at the age of eleven. As Alex becomes increasingly blinded by his obsession with capturing his documentary he risks everything and everyone, by convincing Blue to travel to New Orleans to find her foster father. Will they get back to LA in one piece... or will they become... Road Kill?

Keywords: artist, beer, black-comedy, cigar-smoking, convertible, director, female-assassin, female-killer, film-fan, film-scholar
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: Alex's Professor just took away his degree... She's going to help him get it back. Guns don't kill people. She Does.

Jason's Lyric (1994)

Actors: Eddie Griffin (actor), Lew Temple (actor), Anthony 'Treach' Criss (actor), Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc (miscellaneous crew), Forest Whitaker (actor), Steven Belgard (miscellaneous crew), Jada Pinkett Smith (actress), Bokeem Woodbine (actor), Bebe Drake (actress), Sandra 'Pepa' Denton (actress), Andrew Mondshein (editor), Bill Carraro (producer), Doug McHenry (producer), Doug McHenry (director), Wayne Dehart (actor),

Plot: The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends. Allen Payne (I) plays Jason, a sales clerk at a T.V. store. He falls in love with Lyric (Jada Pinkett Smith) and finds happiness, but his family history and crazy father Maddog (played by Forest Whitaker) come back to haunt him before he can leave it all for a better life.

Keywords: african-american, alcohol, apostrophe-in-title, bare-chested-boy, brother, carjacking, character-name-in-title, convicted-felon, domestic-violence, female-nudity
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: Love is courage.

Quotes:

Alonzo: Throw this motherfucker out with the rest of the shit!

Lyric: Jason, I am TRYING to love you, but I don't want my heart broken. But that's exactly what you're gonna do if you keep trying to save a brother that don't want to be saved!

Marti: I know you think Alonzo isn't perfect, but I'm going to hold on to him... cause he's all I got. The wards ain't full of Jasons. What you found was quiet... in a world full of thunder. I ain't got no choice but to listen to it. You do.

Gloria: Nobody killed Mad Dog. He died in that war. They just didn't bury him.

Jason Alexander: I've never flown in a plane before.::Lyric: Sometimes you don't need a plane to fly.

Jason Alexander: [after he and Lyric travel to the bayou] Damn, it's quiet out here! I should've brought my radio.::Lyric: [Smiling] No, it's not quiet. It's full of music. Just listen.

Joshua Alexander: [after Jason suspects him of reverting back to his old ways] You think I'm stupid? I ain't in no hurry to go back to that cage! I know no one else around here believes in me, but I always thought that when it came down to it, you would.

Lyric: Sometimes heroes have to walk away. Walk away, Jason... or we can't be together.

Jason Alexander: Ghosts. I guess everyone lives with them. Some good, some bad. But memories won't let you forget. They have a way of boomeranging, changing a life forever.

Gloria: [after Josh assembles a massive feast, Gloria begins to throw it all away] Mama, what are you doing? What are you doing? Ma, I made this for you! Stop it, now! I just bought that shit!::Gloria: [Continuing to throw everything away] Drug money.::Joshua Alexander: See, how you know I didn't get it the honest way? Huh? How you know that?::Gloria: Every time you come out, I pray it'll be different, but it's always the same! Always the same. [Grabs the main course]::Joshua Alexander: [Grabs it from her] Not the roast, Mama. I spent $25 on that. What are you doing? I spent $100 on all that shit! $100, to make you happy, Mama!::Gloria: Drug money. Drug money! I'll die, you hear me? I'll die before I feed my family with that money, and if you bring it in my house again, the doors will be locked.::Joshua Alexander: [Referring to his father] Now, I see how a man could beat you.::Gloria: [Slaps Joshua soundly across the face]::Joshua Alexander: [Angrily swings his fist back to retaliate, and is grabbed by Jason]::Gloria: I KNEW Mad Dog's ghost was somewhere to be found, but I had no idea it was in my own house!

The Longshot (1986)

Actors: Anne Meara (actress), Edie McClurg (actress), Dick Enberg (actor), Paul Bartel (actor), James Bacon (actor), Harvey Korman (actor), Jonathan Winters (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Tim Conway (actor), Eddie Deezen (actor), George DiCenzo (actor), Nick Dimitri (actor), Garry Goodrow (actor), Mike Nichols (producer), Stella Stevens (actress),

Genres: Action, Comedy,

Quotes:

Lou: Hey Santiago, nice pants!::Santiago: They're covering my nuts, aren't they?

Santiago: These fucking choos are killing my feet, man!

Black Belt Jones (1974)

Actors: Henry Kingi (actor), Fred Weintraub (writer), Michael Kahn (editor), Joyce King (miscellaneous crew), Scatman Crothers (actor), Ted Lange (actor), Fred Weintraub (producer), Marla Gibbs (actress), Vincent Barbi (actor), Eric Laneuville (actor), Paul M. Heller (producer), Robert Clouse (director), Terry Morse Jr. (miscellaneous crew), Mel Novak (actor), Robert Wall (actor),

Plot: The Mafia's Don learns that the City is planning a new civic center, and is buying the land where it will be, to make easy money when the city council will buy it. The one piece the Don doesn't have yet, is the old African-American karate school owned by Papa Byrd. Big Tuna, the Mafia Don's right hand man, goes to Pinky, their representative in that area and they tell him that he owes them $250,000 but instead of paying, they want him to get Papa Byrd's school. Pinky tries to muscle the karate master into handing out the property title, but he throws him out. A teacher calls Black Belt Jones, a friend of Papa Byrd, to talk to him about this, but before he does Pinky and his thugs accidentally kills Papa Byrd in a second visit. Before dying in friends' arms, Byrd says that the school belongs to Sydney - whom nobody knows. Black Belt Jones knows that Sydney is Byrd's daughter, whom he hasn't seen since she was a child. Black Belt asks a friend of his who works for the Government, to find her. Informed of her father's death, Sydney arrives for the funeral, and learns about Pinky and what he wants. Sidney goes to Pinky's place and roughs up some of his people. Then, Pinky goes over to the karate school with some back-up, manages to subdue the students, take one of them hostage, and demands either Sydney turns the school over to him or pay him $250,000. Black Belt asks his friend in Government to look into it and he tells him of this Mafia connection, and than asks Black Belt Jones to break into the Mafia stronghold and get some photos that they have and some hot cash. Jones succeeds, holds $250,000 and pays Pinky with that, then he calls the Mafia Don and tells him that it was Pinky who raided his place. Now the thugs turn onto each other. When Pinky convinces Big Tuna that he is innocent they go after Black Belt. With Sidney wanting to take revenge on her father's killers all by herself, and Jones wanting her out of the deadly battle about to start, things get ugly, fast, and furious.

Keywords: action-hero, african-american, afro, ambush, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, beach, beating, black-belt, black-hero
Genres: Action, Comedy,
Taglines: He clobbers the mob

Quotes:

Pinky: Who the fuck hit me?::Black Belt Jones: Batman, muthafucka!

Pinky: Choose money over honey? Shiiiiit. Man, you can pull out my groin, just gimme that coin! Man, I'd rather be dead than not have any bread! Pinky's mama didn't raise no fool!

Black Belt Jones: I'm gonna make you sweat one way... and then the other.

Quincy: Come on back if you want some more! If you want some more, then come on back!

Pop Byrd: I got superfly!

Sydney: I'll make you look like a sick faggot.

Pinky: What the hell is that?::Big Tuna: Panties!::Pinky: That son-of-a-bitch threw his panties in my face?

Pinky: [in the dark dojo] I'm gonna shoot. Goddammit, I'm gonna shoot! [fires his gun]::henchman: You shot me, boss! Ouch!

Lucy: Wesley, I'm gonna slap the black off you.

Crazy Joe (1974)

Actors: Dino De Laurentiis (producer), Henry Winkler (actor), Rip Torn (actor), Fred Williamson (actor), Ann Roth (costume designer), Carlo Lizzani (director), Fausto Tozzi (actor), Sam Coppola (actor), Peter Boyle (actor), Eli Wallach (actor), Michael Forest (actor), Carmine Caridi (actor), Peter Zinner (editor), Peter Zinner (producer), Louis Guss (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: No killer of the streets ever gave it or got it like Crazy Joe! Who was Crazy Joe? Ask the cops. They knew him well. His crazy ways had the family climbing the walls. Then one night his blood brothers drove him up it!

The Stripper (1963)

Actors: Alex Romero (miscellaneous crew), Michael J. Pollard (actor), Bing Russell (actor), Robert Webber (actor), Carol Lynley (actress), Claire Trevor (actress), Joanne Woodward (actress), Curtis Harrington (producer), Jerry Wald (producer), Jerry Goldsmith (composer), Travilla (costume designer), Robert L. Simpson (editor), Louis Nye (actor), Richard Beymer (actor), Franklin J. Schaffner (director),

Plot: Lila Green is an insecure and aging showgirl for Madame Olga's stage shows. When her boyfriend, Rick, runs off with the shows money, Madame Olga and Ronny let Lila go. Lila goes to stay with her old neighbours, Helen Bard and her teenage son, Kenny. Lila decides to go out and get a regular job and try and live a normal life. All seem well until, Lila and Kenny stop fighting their attraction for one another.

Keywords: adolescence, based-on-play, coming-of-age, kansas, love, sexuality, small-town, stripper, teen-angst, teenage-boy
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: The story of a girl...And the Men who led her to become "The Stripper"

Quotes:

Kenny: Hey Lila! When I was a kid, did you used to kiss me goodnight?::Lila Green: You're not a kid anymore.::Kenny: You kissed me last night.::Lila Green: Like I was your big sister!

Lila Green: I don't need you, Ricky, because someone has just shown me that he cares enough about me to make me care about myself. I've got me and me can take me wherever me wants to go!