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Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York - almost broke. To get some money he goes to TV, making commercials and meets the child from communist parents. Due to this he is suddenly a suspected as a communist himself and has to face one of McCarthy's hearings.
Subgenre: | slapstick |
Themes: | technologyrevolutionparanoiaangervoyeurism |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | courtroomelevatorairportnightclubhotelschoolnew york city |
Characters: | comedianlittle boyactresslawyerphotographeractornursepolice officersingerchildrenhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | autograph houndjazz combotv camerahotel roomhaving picture takenpea shootermovie screenreference to julius caesartv directorannouncementsubpoenafingerprintingcommercialismportertripod β¦music score composed by directorchequefire hosebellhopwitch huntcheckersreference to karl marxoathairlinerbanquetinformertelegrampressambassadortv commercialautographphysicianplastic surgerydinner partyhysteriaplaying cardsmusic bandsirenhot tubsalesmantheatre audienceadvertisingdrummerfanmovie theatrewatching a movierehearsalcommunistroyaltyfaintingcaketv newswaiterapplausejazznewspaper headlinereference to william shakespearerock 'n' rollstagefilm within a filmdirected by starpianistmassagekingreportertelevisionclassroomcamerawatching tvsingingdancinginterview (See All) |
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. With the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck tree, Hobbs lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a β¦ rising pitcher, he is inexplicably shot by a young woman. (Read More)
Locations: | elevatorhotelnew york city |
Characters: | little boyphotographernurse |
Story: | pressplaying cardsmusic bandtheatre audiencemovie theatrewatching a movieapplausenewspaper headlinepianistmassagereportercamerasingingdancing |
In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator 'Joseph McCarthy (II)' (qv) of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter 'Edward R. Murrow' (qv) and his producer 'Fred W. Friendly' (qv) decided to take a stand and challenge M β¦cCarthy and expose him for the fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia |
Locations: | elevatornew york city |
Characters: | lawyersingerhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | jazz combotv camerawitch huntoathpresstv commercialadvertisingcommunisttv newsapplausereference to william shakespearereportertelevisioncamerasinging β¦interview (See All) |
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
Themes: | technologyparanoiaanger |
Locations: | airporthotel |
Characters: | lawyerphotographernursepolice officer |
Story: | fingerprintingairlinerpresssirenpianistreportercamerawatching tv |
Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force β¦performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals. (Read More)
Themes: | anger |
Locations: | airportnightclubhotelnew york city |
Characters: | little boylawyerphotographeractorpolice officersinger |
Story: | airlinerautographsirendrummerwatching a movierehearsalrock 'n' rollstagereportercamerawatching tvsingingdancinginterview |
Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins the San Francisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far.
Themes: | anger |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | photographer |
Story: | airlinerpressautographsirensalesmanfannewspaper headlinereportercamerawatching tv |
Themes: | voyeurism |
Locations: | airporthotelnew york city |
Characters: | actressphotographerpolice officersingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | hotel roomautographtheatre audiencewatching a movieapplausereference to william shakespearecamerawatching tvsingingdancinginterview |
Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the a β¦rtist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified. (Read More)
Themes: | voyeurism |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | elevatorairportnew york city |
Characters: | photographeractornursesingerchildrenhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | theatre audiencewatching a movieapplauserock 'n' rollfilm within a filmpianistreportercamerawatching tvsingingdancinginterview |
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
Themes: | anger |
Locations: | courtroomnightclub |
Characters: | lawyerphotographerpolice officer |
Story: | presssirenapplausenewspaper headlinereportercamerawatching tvsinginginterview |
Writer Peter Morgan's legendary battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the story of the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after being forced from office β¦, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans (as well as a $600,000 fee). Likewise, Frost's team harbored doubts about their boss' ability to hold his own. But as cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiaanger |
Locations: | airporthotelnew york city |
Characters: | comedianlawyerphotographersingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | tv cameratv directorbanquettv commercialautographtv newsreportertelevisioncamerawatching tvsinginginterview |
Down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock is forced to romance rich old ladies to finance his efforts. When timid accountant Leo Bloom reviews Max's accounting books, the two hit upon a way to make a fortune by producing a sure-fire flop. The play which is to be their gold mine? "Springtim β¦e for Hitler." (Read More)
Locations: | courtroomelevatornew york city |
Characters: | actorsinger |
Story: | chequehysteriamusic bandtheatre audiencerehearsalapplausenewspaper headlinestagesingingdancing |
Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early β¦flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due? (Read More)
Locations: | elevatornightclubnew york city |
Characters: | comedianactresssingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | salesmantheatre audiencerehearsaltv newsapplausefilm within a filmpianistreportercamerawatching tvsingingdancing |
In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks' nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexp β¦ected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network. (Read More)
Themes: | technologyanger |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | tv cameratv directorreference to karl marxbanquethysteriacommunistfaintingtv newstelevision |
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
Locations: | hotelnew york city |
Characters: | lawyernursepolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | chequephysicianplaying cardsmusic bandsirentheatre audiencemassagecamerawatching tvinterview |
Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew. Elaine doesn't want to be with Ted anymore, but when the crew and passengers fall ill from food poisoning, all eyes are on Ted.
Subgenre: | slapstick |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | airportnightclub |
Characters: | little boynurse |
Story: | airlinerpressplaying cardssirenfanwatching a movietv newsnewspaper headlinereportercamerasingingdancing |
A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid England of all children.
Themes: | anger |
Locations: | elevatorhotelschool |
Characters: | little boypolice officerchildrenhusband wife relationship |
Story: | hotel roombellhophysteriafaintingcakeapplausestagesinging |
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case. His intention is to β¦give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton to work with Clouseau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery. (Read More)
Locations: | elevatorairporthotelnew york city |
Characters: | photographerpolice officersinger |
Story: | hotel roompresssirenfaintingapplausenewspaper headlinereportercamerawatching tvsingingdancinginterview |
Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Co β¦llins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With all of the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma. Tracy then decides that it's not fair that the black kids can only dance on the Corny Collins Show once a month, and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father and Edna, she's going to integrate the show.....without denting her 'do! (Read More)
Locations: | school |
Characters: | nursepolice officersingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | tv cameramusic bandcommunistfaintingtv newsapplausenewspaper headlinetelevisionclassroomwatching tvsingingdancing |
When 'Walt Disney' (qv)'s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, 'P.L. Travers' (qv)' _Mary Poppins (1964)_ (qv), he made them a promise - one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromi β¦sing writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history. (Read More)
Locations: | airporthotel |
Characters: | singerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | airlinerpressautographmusic bandfanmovie theatrerehearsalapplausestagepianistreporterwatching tvsingingdancinginterview |
Outside a movie premiere, enthusiastic fan Peppy Miller literally bumps into the swashbuckling hero of the silent film, George Valentin. The star reacts graciously and Peppy plants a kiss on his cheek as they are surrounded by photographers. The headlines demand: "Who's That Girl?" and Peppy is insp β¦ired to audition for a dancing bit-part at the studio. However as Peppy slowly rises through the industry, the introduction of talking-pictures turns Valentin's world upside-down. (Read More)
Themes: | anger |
Characters: | actressphotographeractornursehusband wife relationship |
Story: | theatre audiencefanmovie theatrewatching a movieapplausenewspaper headlinefilm within a filmreportercameradancinginterview |
New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then mak β¦e sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste... (Read More)
Locations: | courtroomnew york city |
Characters: | actressactorsingerhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | reference to julius caesarhysteriatheatre audiencerehearsalapplausenewspaper headlinereference to william shakespearepianistmassagekingsingingdancing |
A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancee of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goe β¦s to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking. (Read More)
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | actresslawyeractornursehusband wife relationship |
Story: | tv camerahotel roomtv commercialsalesmannewspaper headlinereportertelevisionwatching tv |
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother. β¦As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life, Guido must find a balance between creating art and succumbing to its obsessive demands. (Read More)
Locations: | nightclubhotel |
Characters: | little boyactressphotographeractornursesingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | autographphysicianfilm within a filmpianistreportercamerasingingdancinginterview |
Biopic of J. Edgar Hoover told by Hoover as he recalls his career for a biography. Early in his career, Hoover fixated on Communists, anarchists and any other revolutionary taking action against the U.S. government. He slowly builds the agency's reputation, becoming the sole arbiter of who gets hire β¦d and fired. One of his hires is Clyde Tolson who is quickly promoted to Assistant Director and would be Hoover's confidant and companion for the rest of Hoover's life. Hoover's memories have him playing a greater role in the many high profile cases the FBI was involved in - the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the arrest of bank robbers like John Dillinger - and also show him to be quite adept at manipulating the various politicians he's worked with over his career, thanks in large part to his secret files. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia |
Locations: | courtroomelevatornightclubhotel |
Characters: | little boylawyerphotographerpolice officer |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | hotel roompressmusic bandmovie theatrewatching a movieapplausereportercamerawatching tvdancinginterview |
Joe Bradley is a reporter for the American News Service in Rome, a job he doesn't much like as he would rather work for what he considers a real news agency back in the States. He is on the verge of getting fired when he, sleeping in and getting caught in a lie by his boss Hennessy, misses an interv β¦iew with HRH Princess Ann, who is on a goodwill tour of Europe, Rome only her latest stop. However, he thinks he may have stumbled upon a huge scoop. Princess Ann has officially called off all her Rome engagements due to illness. In reality, he recognizes the photograph of her as being the young well but simply dressed drunk woman he rescued off the street last night (as he didn't want to turn her into the police for being a vagrant), and who is still in his small studio apartment sleeping off her hangover. What Joe doesn't know is that she is really sleeping off the effects of a sedative given to her by her doctor to calm her down after an anxiety attack, that anxiety because she hates her regimented life where she has no freedom and must always do and say the politically correct things, not what is truly on her mind or in her heart. In wanting just a little freedom, she seized upon a chance opportunity to escape from the royal palace where she was staying, albeit with no money in her pockets. Joe believes he can get an exclusive interview with her without she even knowing that he's a reporter or that he's interviewing her. As Joe accompanies "Anya Smith" - her name as she tells hβ¦ (Read More)
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | photographerpolice officer |
Story: | airlinerpressambassadorhysteriaplaying cardsmusic bandsirenroyaltyfaintingnewspaper headlinereportercameradancinginterview |
Marisa Ventura is a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City, who works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, Marisa meets Christopher Marshall, a handsome heir to a political dynasty, who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. β¦Fate steps in and throws the unlikely pair together for one night. When Marisa's true identity is revealed, the two find that they are worlds apart, even though the distance separating them is just a subway ride between Manhattan and the Bronx. (Read More)
Locations: | elevatorhotelnew york city |
Characters: | little boyphotographersinger |
Story: | pressautographmusic bandapplausenewspaper headlinestagereportercamerawatching tvsingingdancing |
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Edith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's s β¦oon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, "Non, je ne regrette rien." The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association. (Read More)
Locations: | airportnightclubnew york city |
Characters: | nursepolice officersinger |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | pressphysicianhysteriarehearsalstagepianistreportersinginginterview |
Kevin Lomax, a ruthless young Florida attorney that never lost a case, is recruited by the most powerful law firm in the world. In spite of his mother's disagreement, which compares New York City to Babylon, he accepts the offer and the money that comes along. But soon, his wife starts feeling homes β¦ick as she witnesses devilish apparitions. However, Kevin is sinking in his new cases and pays less and less attention to his wife. His boss and mentor, John Milton, seems to always know how to overcome every problem and that just freaks Kevin right off. (Read More)
Themes: | anger |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | courtroomelevatornightclubnew york city |
Characters: | lawyerphotographernursesingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | chequeoathpressmusic bandnewspaper headlinereporterwatching tvsingingdancing |
Allen Bauer is rescued from drowning as a young boy off Cape Cod by a young mermaid. Years later, he returns to the same location, and once again manages to fall into the sea, and is rescued once more by the mermaid (Allen isn't sure what he has seen and what he has imagined). Using maps from a sunk β¦en ship, the mermaid decides to search for Allen in New York City, sprouting legs when her tail dries. On finding Allen, they fall in love, but she has a secret, which will no longer be a secret if she gets her legs wet. (Read More)
Themes: | voyeurism |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | little boypolice officer |
Story: | porterpressmusic bandapplausenewspaper headlinereportertelevisioncamerawatching tvsingingdancing |
The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance.
Locations: | elevatorhotel |
Characters: | police officersinger |
Story: | playing cardstheatre audiencerehearsalwaiternewspaper headlinestagepianistsingingdancing |
In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II asks for the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from e β¦xile back to London. John is a morally-corrupt drunkard and a sexually- active cynical poet. When the King asks John to prepare a play for the French ambassador so as to please him, John meets the aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her into a great star. He falls in love with her and she becomes his mistress. During the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls into disgrace with the court. When he was thirty-three years old and dying of syphilis and alcoholism, he converts to being a religious man. (Read More)
Characters: | actresslawyeractorsingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | ambassadortheatre audiencedrummerrehearsalroyaltyapplausereference to william shakespearestagekingsingingdancing |
The Beatles--the world's most famous rock and roll band--travel from their home town of Liverpool to London to perform in a television broadcast. Along the way they must rescue Paul's unconventional grandfather from various misadventures and drummer Ringo goes missing just before the crucial concert β¦. (Read More)
Locations: | nightclubhotel |
Story: | hotel roomautographdrummerrehearsalrock 'n' rolltelevisioncameradancing |
Aspiring actress serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and jazz musician Sebastian scrapes by playing cocktail-party gigs in dingy bars. But as success mounts, they are faced with decisions that fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain β¦in each other threaten to rip them apart. (Read More)
Locations: | elevatornightclub |
Characters: | actressphotographersinger |
Story: | drummermovie theatrewatching a movierehearsalapplausejazzpianistcamerasingingdancing |
Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a intellectually disabled quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and h β¦is doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiavoyeurism |
Locations: | airporthotel |
Characters: | actorpolice officersingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | hotel roombellhopairlinercakewaiterdirected by startelevisionwatching tvsingingdancing |
When his partner is killed by the mysterious and possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark, Steve Zissou and his Team Zissou crew set off for an expedition to hunt down the creature. Along with his estranged wife, a beautiful journalist and a co-pilot who could possibly be Zissou's son, the crew set off for β¦ one wild expedition. (Read More)
Locations: | elevatorhotel |
Characters: | little boysinger |
Story: | playing cardswatching a movieapplausestagefilm within a filmmassagereportercamerawatching tvsinginginterview |
Out in California's San Fernando Valley, Isabel is trying to reinvent herself. A naive, good-natured witch, she is determined to disavow her supernatural powers and lead a normal life. At the same time, across town, Jack Wyatt a tall, charming actor is trying to get his career back on track. He sets β¦ his sights on an updated version of the beloved 1960s situation comedy Bewitched, re-conceived as a starring vehicle for himself in the role of the mere-mortal Darrin. Fate steps in when Jack accidentally runs into Isabel. He is immediately attracted to her and her nose, which bears an uncanny resemblance to the nose of Elizabeth Montgomery, who played Samantha in the original TV version of Bewitched. He becomes convinced she could play the witch Samantha in his new series. Isabel is also taken with Jack, seeing him as the quintessential mortal man with whom she can settle down and lead the normal life she so desires. It turns out they're both right--but in ways neither of them ever imagined. (Read More)
Characters: | actressactorpolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | tv camerafanrehearsalfaintingstagepianistreportersingingdancinginterview |
Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. They look with curiosity and tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the β¦ other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again. (Read More)
Locations: | elevatorhotel |
Characters: | actressphotographeractorsingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | reference to karl marxhysteriadrummerfanapplausemassagecamerawatching tvsingingdancing |
This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction led by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for 'th β¦e bosses'. Eventually, the group become big-time when Black himself becomes a boss; all the while, Pistone collects evidence. However, the trials and tribulations of the undercover work become more than Pistone can bear. His marriage falls apart, and to top it off, the mafia suspect a mole in the organization. The real dilemma is afforded to Pistone, who knows if he walks away from the mafia, Ruggiero will be the one punished. (Read More)
Locations: | courtroomairporthotelnew york city |
Characters: | nursepolice officersingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | chequeplaying cardssirenwaiterstagecamerawatching tvsingingdancing |
Man on the Moon is a biographical movie on the late comedian 'Andy Kaufman (I)' (qv). Kaufman, along with his role on _"Taxi" (1978)_ (qv), was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again, 'Jerry Lawler' (qv) (who plays hims β¦elf in the movie), a professional wrestler, got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In most of the matches the two had, Lawler prevailed with the piledriver, which is a move by spiking an opponent head-first into the mat. One of the most famous moments in this feud was in the early 80s when Kaufman threw coffee on Lawler on _"Late Night with David Letterman" (1982)_ (qv), got into fisticuffs with Lawler, and proceeded to sue NBC. (Read More)
Locations: | nightclubnew york city |
Characters: | comedianphotographeractorsingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | tv commercialtheatre audiencedrummerwatching a moviecakecamerawatching tvsinging |
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enor β¦mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
Locations: | courtroomelevatorhotel |
Characters: | little boylawyerpolice officer |
Story: | hotel roombellhopoathtelegramsirenwatching a moviewaiternewspaper headlinesinginginterview |
Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked β¦out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | nightclubhotelschoolnew york city |
Characters: | comedianactorsinger |
Story: | banquetautographrehearsaldirected by starreporter |
A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish produc β¦tion, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. (Read More)
Themes: | anger |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | actressactorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | hotel roommovie theatrewatching a movieapplausefilm within a filmtelevisionwatching tvdancinginterview |
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to β¦ create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mock-up of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele, a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany's art scene, sneers at him from every corner. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy Barnathan, the actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play, is a bit too perfect for the part, and is making it difficult for Caden to revive his relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel. Meanwhile, his therapist, Madeline Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counselling him. His second daughter, Ariel, is disabled. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. As the years β¦ (Read More)
Themes: | angervoyeurism |
Locations: | nightclubnew york city |
Characters: | actressactorsingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | airlinermusic bandtheatre audiencerehearsalapplausereference to william shakespearestagewatching tvsinging |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra β¦cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
Locations: | courtroomairporthotelnew york city |
Characters: | lawyernursepolice officersingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | chequebanquetphysiciantheatre audiencemovie theatrewatching a moviewaiterclassroomsingingdancing |
Borat Sagdiyev is a TV reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan as Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist. He is sent from his home to America by his government to make a documentary about American society and culture. Borat takes a course in New York City to understand American β¦ humor. While watching Baywatch on TV, Borat discovers how beautiful their women are in the form of C. J. Parker, who was played by actress Pamela Anderson who hails from Malibu, California. He decides to go on a cross-country road trip to California in a quest to make her his wife and take her back to his country. On his journey Borat and his producer encounter a country full of strange and wonderful Americans, real people in real chaotic situations with hysterical consequences. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | elevatorairporthotelnew york city |
Characters: | actresssingerchildrenhusband wife relationship |
Story: | banquettelegramdinner partyfaintingtv newsreportertelevisionwatching tvsingingdancinginterview |
Deloris Wilson, a black woman who has chosen the stage name Deloris Van Cartier, is a Reno lounge singer, she the lead in a girl trio in which she also chooses and arranges the music and choreographs the shows. She is a wisecracking, showy woman who has always loved music. She, however, only has her ⦠current job being hired by her married lover, Vince LaRocca, to sing in his casino's lounge. She learns of Vince's true business as a gangster when she walks in on him killing one of his employees who wronged him. As a witness to the murder, Deloris goes on the run to the police, Lt. Eddie Souther who has long been running an operation to get enough evidence to put Vince behind bars, this murder which could be the proverbial nail in Vince's coffin. However, Vince has put a contract out on Deloris' life to prevent her from testifying against him. As such, Eddie has to hide her until the trial, which will be at least two months. Where Eddie chooses is St. Katherine's, a poor Catholic parish and convent in a tough neighborhood in San Francisco. The convent's Mother Superior reluctantly takes Deloris in, that reluctance as Deloris is not anywhere near being close to looking or acting like a typical nun. Furthermore, the Mother Superior does not tell any of the sisters Deloris' true identity or the real reason for her being at St. Katherine's. With the Mother Superior cloistering the sisters behind the convent walls to pray for the salvation mostly of down and out of the neighborhood w⦠(Read More)
Locations: | airportnightclub |
Characters: | little boylawyersinger |
Story: | airlinersirenrehearsalapplausestagepianistreporterclassroomwatching tvsingingdancing |
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet stu β¦dent. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. (Read More)
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | actresslawyerphotographernursesinger |
Story: | autographstagefilm within a filmmassagereportercamerawatching tvsinging |
Down and out rock star Dewey Finn gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar pr β¦odigy, who could help Dewey win a "battle of the bands" competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight. (Read More)
Themes: | anger |
Locations: | nightclubschool |
Characters: | singer |
Story: | music banddrummerrehearsalrock 'n' rollpianistclassroomsinging |
Reuben Feffer thinks he's found the love of his life but on his honeymoon he discovers her cheating on him with a scuba instructor. Reuben travels back home to get his life on track. On a night out with best pal, Sandy Lyle, Reuben discovers an old school friend, Polly Prince. Reuben feels a connect β¦ion straight away, and tries constantly to get her to like him. But it's not going to be easy for Reuben, especially when he spends his days calculating risks, and when someone unexpected turns up. (Read More)
Themes: | anger |
Locations: | nightclubschoolnew york city |
Characters: | photographeractorsingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | airlinermusic bandrehearsalwaiterstagecamerasingingdancing |
In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, β¦culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop. (Read More)
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | airporthotel |
Story: | drummerfanwaiterrock 'n' rollstagereportercamerasinginginterview |