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2003 Movies
Cat in the Hat, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Don’t mess with the hat. 2: The Cat is Back! 3: The ultimate game of cat and house |
| Plot Summary: | Conrad and Sally Walden (’Spencer Breslin’ (qv) and ‘Dakota Fanning’ (qv)) are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat (’Mike Myers’ (qv)) walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it’s all fun and games, until things get out of hand, and The Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back. |
Tags: altered version of studio logo, based on book, brother, carmen miranda impersonator, cat, character name in title, child, flatulence, hand sanitizer, imagination, meat cleaver, mother, narrated, part computer animation, rain, real estate agent, sibling, single mother, sister, studio logo segues into film, stylized, talking animal, whimsical
Good Night to Die, A
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| Plot Summary: | One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, August, who he had brought into the business three years ago. August has become a real problem for some of the bosses around town, and Ronnie will soon find out just what his Frankenstein’s monster will cost him. |
In-Laws, The
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| Taglines: | 1: He’s not losing his daughter. He’s gaining a madman. 2: The cake is going to hit the fan |
| Plot Summary: | When prospective fathers-in-law Steve Tobias and Jerry Peyser meet for the first time to celebrate their children’s upcoming marriage, the cake hits the fan. Dr. Jerome Peyser is a mild-mannered podiatrist with a well-organized daily routine designed to eliminate all possible sources of stress. Meanwhile, daredevil CIA operative Steve Tobias moves through life like a heat-seeking missile. His average day consists of dodging bullets, stealing private jets and negotiating with international arms smugglers. Now he’s giving potential father-of-the-bride Jerry a serious case of pre-nuptial jitters. Steve’s dramatic entrances and exits, his cryptic references to a Russian runaway named Olga and his fight with a gunman in a restaurant washroom causes Jerry to see a vision of his daughter’s perfectly planned wedding blowing up in his face. As far as Jerry’s concerned, letting Steve into his family takes til death do us part way too literally. Before he can say the wedding is off, Jerry suddenly finds himself embroiled in the chaos that follows in Steve’s wake as he is dragged kicking and screaming into a series of perilous adventures that take the mismatched in-laws-to-be halfway around the world. |
Tags: arms dealer, beach, betrayal, blackmail, bridesmaid, buddy comedy, cia, drunk bridesmaid, elevator scene, ex husband ex wife relationship, explosion, father daughter relationship, father in law, father son relationship, fbi, fbi agent, fear of flying, gay kiss, homeless man, homosexual subtext, hostage, jump from height, lake michigan, master apprentice relationship, mentor, nuclear submarine, nuclear waste, parachute, parking attendant, private jet, remake, rogue agent, rooftop, secret agent, slapstick, snake, spoof, spy, submarine, tidal wave, torpedo, traitor, tranquilizer dart, vertigo, wedding, wedding cake, wedding ceremony, wedding ceremony gone awry, wedding dress
Party Monster
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| Taglines: | 1: ‘Til death do they party… 2: good. evil. fun. |
| Plot Summary: | Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980’s thru the 1990’s, a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter ‘Michael Alig’ (qv), a party organizer, whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend, roommate, and drug dealer, Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana, Alig moved to New York, and came to be an underground legend, known for his excessive drug use and outrageous behavior in the club world. At his peak, he had his own record label, and magazine, and hosted Disco 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the ’90s. He was doing a lot of drugs, and as his addiction got worse, his party themes became darker and more twisted. Alig’s saga reached its tragic crescendo when he viciously murdered his drug dealer, Angel, by injecting him with Drano and throwing him in the East River. The power he wielded on the club scene made him feel untouchable, so he didn’t hestitate to boast of the murder. The press thought it was a publicity stunt—until Angel’s body washed ashore. |
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, bathtub scene, bisexual, cocaine, costume, cult figure, drug addiction, drugs, excess, fame, gay interest, gay slur, glamour, hedonism, heroin, independent film, money, murder, new york city, party goer, promoter, self destruction, success, urination
Life of David Gale, The
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| Taglines: | 1: The crime is clear. The truth is not. |
| Plot Summary: | Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is falsely accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself, telling his story to a reporter through a series of flashbacks. |
Tags: adultery, alcoholic, alcoholic relapse, alcoholics anonymous, anti death penalty, assisted suicide, austin texas, babysitter, bag over head, breasts, capital punishment, car chase, car trouble, character name in title, college, college professor, crime reenactment, crime scene, death, death penalty, death row, defense lawyer, diner, divorce, duct tape, execution, falsely accused, falsely convicted, female frontal nudity, female nudity, flashback sequence, goth girl, governor, handcuffs, helicopter, highway rest stop, homelessness, hospital, interview, italy, job interview, journalist, leukemia, magazine, marital separation, motel, murder, nude woman murdered, nudity, party, political activist, political protest, prison, professor, rainstorm, rape, rape accusation, reporter, restaurant, rough sex, sex, sex in bathroom, sex with student, shower, stuffed animal, suffocation, suicide, surprise ending, swimming pool, talk show, television news, television reporter, texas, twist in the end, university of texas, video camera, video footage, videotape
LD 50 Lethal Dose
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| Taglines: | 1: Double the Fear, Half the Chance |
| Plot Summary: | Re-formed by a coded message to their web site, a group of animal rights activists set off to free an imprisoned colleague from a terrifying ordeal. Their rescue mission leads them to a disused lab, but what should have been a simple raid turns into a series of twisted and mind bending incidents where the free and the caged switch places, in this tormented psychological horror. |
Tags: animal rights, hippie, marijuana
Where’s the Party Yaar?
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| Plot Summary: | When you are an Indian immigrant like Hari Patel, “fresh off the boat” or FOB, you have enough to learn without having to figure out “where’s the party, yaar.” While the desi scene may be hip and happening in Hari’s new home of Houston, Texas, the guardians of cool don’t want the FOBs, with their funny dance moves and their white sneakers, crashing their Desi Fever dance parties. Hari, with his oily hair and his oversized luggage, might have a hard time breaking in, but by the end of this all-you-can-eat joke buffet he-and everyone else-has learned and unlearned more than a few lessons. With a fresh, energetic cast including Kal Penn and Sunil Malhotra from the hit AMERICAN DESI, and a killer soundtrack featuring Cornershop, Panjabi MC and DJ Cheb i Sabbah, the film pokes fun at every sacred cow it can find, from astrologers, pirated CDs, South Asians in post 9/11 America, shagadelic Indian student bachelor pads (with half a dozen roomies) to that holiest of holies, a Bollywood song in the rain. The toughest dilemma, however, has nothing to do with roots, bhangra or how to be a cool brown dude. It’s simply this: how on earth do you buy a condom in a convenience store when the owner looks like your good uncle from Patiala? |