Posts Tagged ‘actor-playing-multiple-roles’

Nutty Professor, The (1963)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Stevens, Stella | Moore, Del | Freeman, Kathleen | Flory, Med | Alden, Norman | Morris, Howard | Allman, Elvia | Frome, Milton | Lester, Buddy | Kaplan, Marvin | Landfield, David | Ward, Skip | Parrish, Julie | Gibson, Henry
Directors: Lewis, Jerry
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Julius Kelp is an ugly chemistry teacher with no personal life. One day he creates something incredible! An elixir that transforms him into a totally different man, Buddy Love. He is very successful with women, and one of his students (Stella Purdy) falls in love with him. Of course nobody knows that this charming, cool guy is in fact Julius Kelp. Everyone is very excited with Buddy, but there is a problem. The elixir’s effect doesn’t last very long…

Christmas Toy, The (1986)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Family
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Goelz, Dave | Whitmire, Steve | Mullen, Kathryn | Nelson, Jerry | Hunt, Richard | Bonora, Camille | Henson, Brian | Mills, Rob | Tilroe, Nikki | Moreau, Marsha | Bennett, Zachary | Henson, Jim
Directors: Till, Eric
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When no people are around, the toys still play in the playroom. But since a toy will be frozen forever if a person catches it out of position, they have to be very careful. It’s Christmas Eve, and Rugby the Tiger remembers how he was the Christmas Toy last year, and thinks he’s going to be unwrapped again. And it’s up to Applethe Doll, whom Rugby supplanted as favorite toy, to tell him what’s in store. But Rugby won’t believe her, and tries to get into the Christmas package and lets Meteora, Queen of the Asteroids loose. Unfortunately, she doesn’t know she’s a toy, and thinks she’s landed among aliens. And it’s up to Apple, Mew (the Cat’s toy mouse), and the other toys to get Rugby out of the box and Meteora back in it before they’re found and frozen.

Bad Company (2002)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Rock, Chris | Stormare, Peter | Macht, Gabriel | Washington, Kerry | Maropis, Adoni | Beauvais, Garcelle | Marsh, Matthew | Micanovic, Dragan | Slattery, John | Smith, Brooke | Sunjata, Daniel | Lawson Jr., DeVone | Robbins, Wills | Vasut, Marek
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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When a CIA agent is killed during a nuclear arms purchase, his partner Oakes, recruits his twin brother, Jake Hayes. Jake had no idea he had a twin brother, let alone that he worked for the CIA. Jake, a.k.a. Michael Turner, has nine days to fill his brother’s place. However, the enemy terrorists learn of his secret identity and kidnap his girlfriend/fiancee. He has to rescue them and save New York city from an imminent nuclear terrorist act.

Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007)

Friday, December 5th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Benrubi, Abraham | Bergen, Bob | Best, Ahmed | Faison, Donald | Fatone, Joey | Ferguson, Keith | Hamill, Mark | Hogan, Hulk | Kane, Tom | Lucas, George | MacFarlane, Seth | McDowell, Malcolm | Meyer, Breckin | Milano, Dan
Directors: Green, Seth
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Robot Chicken’s finest half hour is more savvy than Spaceballs, more inside than Family Guy: Blue Harvest, and funnier, even, than The Star Wars Holiday Special. This Very Special Episode of Comedy Central’s stop-motion animated series parodies and goofs on all things Star Wars, from a disgruntled Empire janitor to an ad for Admiral Ackbar Cereal (”Your tongues can’t repel flavor of that magnitude”). Twenty three minutes goes by like the jump to hyperspace with such priceless bits as the collect phone call to Emperor Palpatine from Darth Vadar to inform him of the Death Star’s destruction, awkward morning-after pillow talk between Luke and Leia (”That was so wrong”), and George Bush’s newfound Jedi powers. Co-creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich and company immerse viewers in the Robot Chicken universe with generous bonus features, including storyboarded deleted scenes (with self-deprecating commentary), behind the scenes footage of animation meetings, and alternate audio takes. Good sport George Lucas, who gave his blessing to this episode, boldly goes where William Shatner went before by voicing himself in a Star Wars convention sketch that concludes with a Lucas-worshiping geek telling his son that meeting his idol was the best day of his life. What about his son’s birth? “Not even close,” dad replies. But you don’t have to have that kind of devotion to Star Wars to be amused by this weather forecast for Cloud City: “Cloudy, followed by clouds.”

Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Angela Bassett | Payne, Allen | Hardison, Kadeem | John Witherspoon | Mokae, Zakes | Cassidy, Joanna | Khali, Simbi | Freeman, Messiri | Cinnante, Kelly | Garcia, Jsu | Brown, W. Earl | Adeyemi, Ayo | Curvey Jr., Troy | Reynolds, Vickilyn
Directors: Craven, Wes
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Maximillian is the only survivor from a race of vampires on a Caribbean Island, and as a vampire, he must find a mate to keep the line from ending. He knows that a child had been born to a woman who had a vampire father, and he searches for her in Brooklyn. Rita’s mother, who has died in an asylum, was that woman and Rita has nightmares that she does not understand. Not knowing that she is part vampire, Max woos her and attempts to bring her to her blood sucking destiny. Even though Rita has strange dreams and actions, Justice, her partner, has feelings for her and does not want her involved with this stranger Max. But it is Rita who must decide her destiny.

Adaptation. (2002)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Streep, Meryl | Cooper, Chris | Seymour, Cara | Swinton, Tilda | Livingston, Bill | Cox, Brian | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Greer, Judy | Beaver, Jim | Litefoot | Tavaré, Jim | Jones, Doug | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Willie, Roger
Directors: Jonze, Spike
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Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean’s “The Orchid Thief” into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.

Back to the Future Part 2 (1989)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: McClure, Marc | Flaherty, Joe | Di Cenzo, George | Fox, Michael J. | Lloyd, Christopher | Thompson, Lea | Wilson, Thomas F. | Shue, Elisabeth | Tolkan, James | Weissman, Jeffrey | Siemaszko, Casey | Zane, Billy | Cohen, J.J. | Fleischer, Charles | Evans, E. Casanova | Koch, Jay | Gherardi, Charles | Logan, Ricky Dean
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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This movie picks up where the last one left off; with Doc Brown and Marty going into the future to help Marty’s future offspring. After doing that they returned to their own time, only to discover that things have changed. They discovered that while in the future, Marty’s nemesis, Biff Tannen got the sports book that Marty bought so that he could know the results of sports events and make a killing, but Doc Brown nixed his plans, but Tannen who overheard their conversation, got the book and the time machine and went back into the past and gave the book to himself, who has not only amassed a fortune but also extremely powerful. So Doc and Marty have to go back to when Biff got the book and get it away from him. And it seems that it was in 1955 on the night of the dance that Biff got the book. So not only must they get the book but they must also avoid the other versions of themselves.

Beverly Hillbillies, The (1993)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Varney, Jim | Bader, Diedrich | Eleniak, Erika | Leachman, Cloris | Tomlin, Lily | Thompson, Lea | Schneider, Rob | Parton, Dolly | Coleman, Dabney | Fuller, Penny | Connolly, Kevin | Carlson, Linda | Ward, Lyman | Hunley, Leann | Lively, Ernie
Directors: Spheeris, Penelope
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Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck.

MirrorMask (2005)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Barry, Jason | Brydon, Rob | Fry, Stephen | Hamilton, Andy | Harvey, Simon | Henry, Lenny | Llewellyn, Robert | Robson, Nik | Allen, Rick | Schofield, Simon | Tate, Mark | Thompson, Richard | Thompson, Robin | Ballamy, Iain | Batchelor, Chris
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

Ninth Gate, The (1999)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Langella, Frank | Olin, Lena | Seigner, Emmanuelle | Jefford, Barbara | Taylor, Jack | López Rodero, José | Amoni, Tony | Russo, James | Holt, Willy | Garfield, Allen | Dacqmine, Jacques | Sheridan, Joe | Pauly, Rebecca | Benguigui, Catherine
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Based on the book The Club Dumas, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dean Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its owner unimaginable power). The man hires Corso to track down the other two copies and compare them to his, but complications - both natural and supernatural - arise at every turn.