Posts Tagged ‘scheme’

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Karloff, Boris | Ravenscroft, Thurl | Foray, June
Directors: Jones, Chuck
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Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things. The village is sure to have a sad Christmas this year.

Night Shift (1982)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Winkler, Henry | Keaton, Michael | Long, Shelley | Hecht, Gina | Corley, Pat | Bobby Di Cicco | Talbot, Nita | Hoffman, Basil | Rossovich, Tim | Howard, Clint | Spinell, Joe | Carter, Cheryl | Gonzalez, Becky | Corman, Corki | Barrymore, Jaid
Directors: Howard, Ron
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A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the “one great idea” for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night as their brothel. Against his better judgement, he gets talked into the idea, only to find that it’s more than his boss that has objections to this bit of entrepreneurship.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Broderick, Matthew | Ruck, Alan | Sara, Mia | Jones, Jeffrey | Grey, Jennifer | Pickett, Cindy | Ward, Lyman | McClurg, Edie | Sheen, Charlie | Stein, Ben | Close, Del | Capers, Virginia | Edson, Richard | Jenkins, Larry Flash | Swanson, Kristy
Directors: Hughes, John
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Ferris Bueller has played hooky numbers of times, and this time he’s got the entire school and more believing he is on the verge of death. On this special day off, Ferris invites his friend Cameron Fry and girlfriend Sloane Peterson to his day of fun, while taking Cameron’s father’s precious Ferrari for transportation. All the while, the principal Ed Rooney is determined to prove Ferris is faking his illness and Ferris’s agitated sister Jeanie also has a goal to catch Ferris off guard. Ferris enjoys his day with his friends, until the mileage of the Ferrari reads one too many miles driven and Cameron has a blow out.

Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Grant, Faye | Woods, Michael | Lerner, Michael | Mason, Madison | Hearn, Ann | Byrnes, Jim | Davis, Don S. | Vieira, Asia | Leitch, Megan | Coghill, Joy | Cameron, David | Fraser, Duncan | Chapple, Susan | Still, Dana | Mann, Andrea
Directors: Montesi, Jorge
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Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys, Gene & Karen York. When Karen realizes her baby was born under suspicious circumstances, she hires a private investigator to find Delia’s real parents. A series of bizarre accidents occur, and Karen begins to suspect everyone of conspiring against her as she unravels the truth about her baby.

Ricochet (1991)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Lithgow, John | Ice-T | Pollak, Kevin | Wagner, Lindsay | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Evans, Josh | Dillard, Victoria | Amos, John | Cothran Jr., John | Dona, Linda | Landers, Matt | Cheshier, Lydell M. | DuPois, Starletta | Howard, Sherman
Directors: Mulcahy, Russell
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Rookie Los Angeles cop Nick Styles is at a Los Angeles street fair, where hit man Earl Talbot Blake pulls a double cross on some drug dealers, killing four men. Minutes later, Nick shoots Blake in the knee, and Blake is grabbed by Nick’s partner and best friend Larry Doyle. Nick becomes the focus of the media, thanks to an amateur cameraman’s footage of Nick disarming Blake. Over the next few years, Nick’s career takes off: he’s offered a job in the district attorney’s office, and his hip media style keeps him in the public eye. Nick marries a woman named Alice and they go on to have two daughters named Lisa and Monica. While Blake is in prison, he vows revenge on Nick. When Blake comes up for parole, he orchestrates a bloody escape — which includes faking his own death. Blake doesn’t want Nick dead. He just wants Nick to suffer in spades. He wants to ruin Nick’s life as completely as possible, and then have Nick sent to prison for murder so Nick will know how Blake feels. Blake begins his vendetta by killing city councilman U. B. Farris and planting evidence to make everyone think Nick and Farris are running an underage pornography ring. Blake then kidnaps Nick, forces him to take drugs and have sex with a prostitute, videotapes the whole thing, and then releases Nick. Nick tells everyone that it was Blake who kidnapped him, but everyone refuses to believe Nick because everyone thinks Blake is dead. That night, Blake breaks into Nick’s house, and makes a threatening videotape with Lisa, Monica, and an ax in it, but Blake didn’t actually do anything to Lisa and Monica. Nick is then suspended from the DA’s office, with everyone thinking that Nick is mentally ill because he keeps saying that Blake is still alive. Blake then begins the final phase of his vendetta — he kills Larry and frames Nick for it. Blake also links Nick to misappropriation of public funds, specifically, the funds he’s supposed to be raising for a children’s center in a building at the base of the Watts tower. Nick is forced to turn to his childhood friend, gang leader Odessa, for help in clearing his name and stopping Blake once and for all.

Single White Female (1992)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fonda, Bridget | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Weber, Steven | Friedman, Peter | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Bay, Frances | Farr, Michele | Karsian, Tara | Capetillo, Christiana | Lundy, Jessica | Estevez, Renée | Mataras, Tiffany | Mataras, Krystle | Campbell, Amelia | Tobey, Kenneth
Directors: Schroeder, Barbet
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When a ‘Single White Female’ places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she’s just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.

Original Sin (2001)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Jolie, Angelina | Jane, Thomas | Thompson, Jack | Itzin, Gregory | Mackie, Allison | Pringle, Joan | Richards, Cordelia | Haven, James | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Martínez, Mario Iván | Porter, Harry | Torre Laphame, Fernando | Vega, Shaula | Owen, Lisa
Directors: Cristofer, Michael
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Can love release our true self? A wealthy Cuban coffee exporter, Luis Vargas, advertises for a US wife; Julia Russell, from Delaware, sends her photograph, but the woman who steps off the ship is much lovelier. Luis marries her immediately and gives in to love. But Julia may not be who she claims: first a private eye shows up on behalf of Julia’s sister, then the sister herself. By now, Luis has given has wife access to bank accounts, and when she runs with his cash, he pursues her, with the help of Downs, the P.I., perhaps to kill her. Pursuit may be part of a con game as well, and Julia’s past explains some, if not all, of what remains of the story. A priest hears her confession.

King of Marvin Gardens, The (1972)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Dern, Bruce | Burstyn, Ellen | Robinson, Julia Anne | Crothers, Scatman | LaVine, Charles | Williams, Arnold | Ryan, John P. | Boyar, Sully | Mostel, Josh | Pabst, William | Goodrow, Garry | Bliss, Imogene | Thomas, Ann | Overton, Tom
Directors: Rafelson, Bob
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‘It’s Monopoly out there’. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.