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Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, become reluctant allies when they become the target of a conspirator in President Haney's administration. The two ex-presidents realize they have an enemy within the government and set out to find evidence that w β¦ill clear their names. The search takes them across the Southern Appalachians; along the way they meet a homeless couple, thwart kidnapers in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant, and find themselves marching in a gay pride parade. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical satirepresidential comedypolitical comedypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | campingcorruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | car chasesatire |
Locations: | usaroad movieroad triphelicoptertrain |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | golf cartelection returnselection coverageelection nightformer presidentgolf courseex presidentu.s. vice presidentpresidential electionvice presidentelection campaignamerican presidentu.s. presidentgovernment corruptionpolitical corruption β¦reference to william howard taftreference to diane sawyerreference to davy crockettmarilyn monroe impersonatorreference to george gershwinreference to joe dimaggioreference to mikhail gorbachevvoting resultsshot in carreference to gerald fordreference to george h.w. bushsableattempted assassinationreference to nelson mandelatractor trailershot in headbook editorreference to thomas jeffersontruth serumpolitical cover upcar rentalcampsitereference to george washingtonmexican immigrantgay paradewest virginiapeeinghighway travelgrandsonnsapandacoatgay pridecompasspresidential candidatereference to ronald reaganreference to john f. kennedytoy gunelvis impersonatorpolitical candidateurinalwatchautographsecret serviceohiointerrupted sexbriberyillegal immigrantconvenience storewhite houserailway stationwomanizercookreference to adolf hitlerassassination attemptgolfwashington d.c.electionpresidentbodyguardspeechcover upon the roadpoliticianhorse (See All) |
After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisers contacts a top Hollywood producer in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass medi β¦a. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical satirepresidential comedypolitical comedyconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | satire |
Story: | presidential electionelection campaignamerican presidentu.s. presidentpolitical corruptionreference to davy crockettpolitical cover uppresidential candidatereference to ronald reaganreference to john f. kennedypolitical candidatesecret servicewhite housewashington d.c.election β¦presidentcover up (See All) |
Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like the President. As such, when Mitchell wants to escape an official luncheon, the Secret Service hires Dave to β¦ stand in for him. Unfortunately, Mitchell suffers a severe stroke whilst having sex with one of his aides, and Dave finds himself stuck in the role indefinitely. The corrupt and manipulative Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander, plans to use Dave to elevate himself to the White House - but unfortunately, he doesn't count on Dave enjoying himself in office, using his luck to make the country a better place, and falling in love with the beautiful First Lady... (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical satirepresidential comedypolitical comedyconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpolitics |
Mood: | satire |
Story: | u.s. vice presidentelection campaignamerican presidentu.s. presidentgovernment corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover uppolitical candidatesecret servicewhite housewashington d.c.presidentbodyguardspeechcover up β¦politician (See All) |
Andrew Shepherd is approaching the end of his first term as President of the United States. He's a widower with a young daughter and has proved to be popular with the public. His election seems assured. That is until he meets Sydney Ellen Wade, a paid political activist working for an environmental β¦lobby group. He's immediately smitten with her and after several amusing attempts, they finally manage to go on a date (which happens to be a State dinner for the visiting President of France). His relationship with Wade opens the door for his prime political opponent, Senator Bob Rumson, to launch an attack on the President's character, something he could not do in the previous election as Shepherd's wife had only recently died. (Read More)
Subgenre: | presidential comedypolitical comedy |
Themes: | politics |
Story: | presidential electionelection campaignamerican presidentu.s. presidentreference to thomas jeffersonpresidential candidatepolitical candidatewhite housewashington d.c.electionpresidentpolitician |
Tom Dobbs, comedic host of a political talk show - a la Bill Maher and Jon Stewart - runs for President of the US as an independent candidate who, after an issues-oriented campaign and an explosive performance in the final debate, gets just enough votes to win. Trouble is he owes his victory to a co β¦mputer glitch in the national touch-screen voting system marketed by Delacroy, a private company with a rising stock price. To protect their fortune, Delacroy executives want to keep the glitch a secret, but one programmer, Eleanor Green, wants Dobbs to know the truth. Can she get to him? (Read More)
Subgenre: | political satirepolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | politics |
Mood: | satire |
Story: | presidential electionelection campaignamerican presidentu.s. presidentpolitical candidatewashington d.c.electionpresident |
The President of the USA goes to Moscow and gives a stirring speech outlining the USA's new "Zero-tolerance" policy with respect to terrorism. On the flight home, terrorists take over Air Force One (the President's official plane) and take the passengers (including his wife and daughter) hostage. Th β¦e terrorists plan to execute one hostage every half-hour unless/until their demands are met. However, the President is a former Medal of Honor winner, so the terrorists may be in for a surprise... (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Story: | u.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidentpolitical corruptionsecret servicewhite housepresidentspeech |
When Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him - a 13-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk, Oskari had been planning β¦to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their own "Big Game" prize, the unlikely duo must team up to escape their hunters. As anxious Pentagon officials observe the action via satellite feed, it is up to the President and his new side-kick to prove themselves and survive the most extraordinary 24 hours of their lives. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | u.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidentattempted assassinationsecret serviceassassination attemptwashington d.c.president |
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year's high school student election. But school civics teacher Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks popular varsity football player Paul Me β¦tzler to run for president as well. Chaos ensues. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political satire |
Themes: | corruptionpolitics |
Mood: | satire |
Story: | election campaignpolitical candidatewashington d.c.electionpresident |
Terrorists take over a 747 bound from Athens to Washington D.C., supposedly to effect the release of their leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another reason and convinces the military that the 'plane should not be allowed to enter U.S. airspace. An assault mission is devised, using a s β¦pecially equipped 'plane designed for mid-air crew transfers, and Grant finds himself aboard the 747 with a team of military anti-terrorists who have to defuse a bomb and overpower the terrorists. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | u.s. presidentpolitical corruptionwashington d.c.president |
Agent Augustus Gibbons has selected an imprisoned former US Navy SEAL Darius Stone, a new agent in the XXX program, travels to Washington D.C., where they track a splinter faction of the U.S. military that attempts to overthrow the U.S. government and assassinate the President, led by Secretary of D β¦efense and former 4-Star General George Deckert, Stone's former commanding officer whom he once led a mutiny against. But he's been targeted for assassination by a radical splinter group of dissenters deep within the United States government. The new XXX agent must uncover the insurgents from within. It is the nation's only hope to stop the first coup d'etat in American history. (Read More)
Themes: | politicsmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | helicoptertrain |
Story: | u.s. presidentpolitical corruptionreference to thomas jeffersonnsawhite houseassassination attemptwashington d.c.presidentcover uphorse |
In 2079, in Washington, the ex-CIA Operative Snow is brutally interrogated, accused of treason against the United States. The chief of the secret service Scott Langral believes that he shot the agent Frank in a hotel room. Meanwhile, the idealistic daughter of the president of the USA, Emilie Warnoc β¦k, is visiting MS One, a maximum security prison in outer space expecting to find evidence that the prisoners are actually guinea pigs of a huge corporation. When one of her bodyguards loses a hidden pistol to the dangerous prisoner Hydell, he subdues the staff in the central control room and releases the prisoners, including his brother Alex who becomes the leader of the riot. Now the veteran agent Harry Shaw offers freedom to Snow if he succeeds in rescuing the president's daughter. But the idealistic Emilie does not want to leave MS-One without the hostages. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentsecret servicewhite housewashington d.c.presidentbodyguard |
Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his met β¦tle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man? (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | u.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidenttoy gunwhite houseassassination attemptwashington d.c.presidentbodyguardcover up |
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomi β¦ngs of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Story: | u.s. vice presidentgovernment corruptionpolitical corruptionrailway stationwashington d.c.speech |
Officer Collins has been spearheading one of the US Army's most secretive experiments to date: the Human Hibernation Project. If successful, the project would store its subjects indefinitely until they are needed most. Their first test subject - Joe Bauers - was not chosen for his superiority. Inste β¦ad, he's chosen because he's the most average guy in the armed services. But scandal erupts after the experiment takes place, the base is closed, and the president disavows any knowledge of the project. Unfortunately Joe doesn't wake up in a year, he wakes up in 500 years! But during that time human evolution has taken a dramatic down turn. After waking up, Joe takes a prison-assigned IQ test and finds that he's the smartest guy alive! Awaiting a full presidential pardon if he can solve one of the country's biggest problems - the dwindling plant population, Joe races against time to solve this problem. But in doing so he alienates half the country in the process! Can he make things right and escape a rather bizarre execution? (Read More)
Subgenre: | presidential comedy |
Themes: | politics |
Mood: | car chasesatire |
Story: | presidential electionvice presidentu.s. presidentwhite housewashington d.c.presidentbodyguard |
The G.I. Joe team is framed for crimes against the country by Zartan, disguised as the President, and Cobra Commander has all the world leaders under his influence, with their advanced warheads headed towards innocent populaces around the world. Outnumbered and outgunned, the surviving team members β¦form a plan with their original leader, General Joseph Colton, to rescue the President and face off Cobra Commander, his accomplices and the world leaders. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentsecret servicewhite houseassassination attemptwashington d.c.presidentbodyguardcover uppolitician |
When Cam Brady (D-NC), a four-term Congressman, becomes a liability, the Motch brothers (think Koch brothers) recruit Marty Huggins, the son of a Republican heavy hitter, to run against him and be their vehicle to establish factories in the district that will import cheap Chinese labor. Trouble is, β¦Marty is a lightweight, so his makeover falls to consultant Tim Wattley. The race tightens as Cam constantly shoots himself in the foot, while the prospect of winning also changes Marty and his family's dynamics. Meanwhile, Cam plays dirty, and Marty cottons on to the Moches' grand plan. What options do the rich have to get their way? (Read More)
Subgenre: | political satire |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | election campaignpolitical corruptionpolitical candidateelectionpolitician |
Eighty-six-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his eight-year-old grandson Billy, in "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa". Jackass characters Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicoll) will take movie audiences along for the most insane β¦ hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera. Along the way Irving will introduce the young and impressionable Billy to people, places, and situations that give new meaning to the term "childrearing". The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants (and their equally disgruntled mothers), funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons, and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens. Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy. (Read More)
Locations: | road movieroad trip |
Story: | golf coursehighway travelgrandsonconvenience storeon the road |
Jason Kelly, the grandson of Dick Kelly, loses his grandmother about two weeks before his wedding to Meredith. He tries to assist his grandfather and console him for his loss, but was rather tricked into a spring break road trip; chasing youth once again. with the help of Shadia and Lenore, the two β¦men go on an adventure they'll never forget. (Read More)
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | road movieroad trip |
Story: | golf coursegrandsonbriberyreference to adolf hitlergolfspeech |
Comedy about the prospective Washington State Governor Al Donnelly whose only stumbling block on the road to power is his embarrassing younger brother Mike. To keep him out of mischief, Al forces one of his aides, Steve Dodds to keep an eye on him during the election. However, this is easier said th β¦an done... (Read More)
Subgenre: | political satirepolitical comedy |
Themes: | politics |
Mood: | satire |
Story: | election campaignpolitical candidateelection |
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) β¦and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political satirepresidential comedy |
Themes: | politics |
Mood: | satire |
Story: | u.s. presidentsecret servicewhite housewashington d.c. |
Frank (Bruce Willis) is retired, bored, and lonely living off his government pension in a nondescript suburb in an equally nondescript house. The only joy in Frank's life is his calls to the government pension processing center when he gets to talk to his case worker, Sarah (Mary-Louis Parker). Sara β¦h is as bored and lonely as Frank and marks her conversations with the unknown Frank and her spy novels as the only things fun in her life. When something in Frank's past forces Frank back into his old line of work and puts an unwitting Sarah in the middle of the intrigue, Frank and Sarah begin a journey into Frank's past and the people he used to work with. Like Frank they are all RED ... Retired Extremely Dangerous. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | u.s. vice presidentvice presidentpolitical corruptionpresidential candidatesecret servicewhite houseassassination attemptwashington d.c. |
As Paleoclimatologist named Jack Hall is in Antartica, he discovers that a huge ice sheet has sheared off. But what he does not know is that this event will trigger a massive climate shift that will affect the world population. Meanwhile, his son Sam is with friends in New York to attend an event. T β¦here they discover that it has been raining non-stop for the past 3 days, and after a series of weather-related disasters begin to occur over the world, everybody realizes the world is entering a new Ice Age and the world population begins trying to evacuate to the warmer climates of the south. Jack makes a daring attempt to rescue his son and his friends who are stuck in New York and who have managed to survive not only a massive wave but also freezing cold temperatures that could possibly kill them. (Read More)
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | u.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidentwashington d.c.presidentspeech |
Our intrepid adolescent heroes wake up to find their beloved television stolen, and embark on an epic journey across America to recover it, and, who knows, maybe even score. On the way they encounter a murderous smuggler of a deadly virus and his treacherous wife, an FBI agent with a predilection fo β¦r cavity searches, a couple of rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Dreesen singing "Lesbian Seagull", a little old lady and of course Mr. Anderson and his trailer. Can the Great Cornholio save the day? Uh-huh. Huh-huh. (Read More)
Locations: | road movieroad trip |
Story: | u.s. presidenturinalwhite housewashington d.c.on the road |
Anna Foster has never had an ordinary life. At eighteen years old, she is the most protected girl in America; she is the First Daughter. Frustrated with her overprotective father, the President of the United States of America, Anna makes a deal with him: only two agents are allowed to guard her whil β¦e she attends a concert in Prague. When her father backs out of his promise, Anna flies into a temper and goes on the run with Ben Calder, a handsome photographer she runs into outside of the music club. They travel together with the intention of going to the Love Parade in Berlin. Anna hasn't told Ben who she is but more importantly, Ben hasn't told her who he is. Under the orders of Anna's father, Ben is supposed to keep an eye on the rebellious girl but falling in love with her wasn't something he expected to do. Romance blossoms between the wild, sassy Anna and the cool, distant Ben as they backpack through Europe. Problem is, when it is time to go back and Anna finds out about Ben, what will happen to the two lovers? (Read More)
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentwhite houserailway stationwashington d.c.presidentbodyguard |
It is a normal day for everyone, until the President of the United States announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth. The Martians land and a meeting is arranged, but not everything goes to plan, and the Martians seem to have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings or do t β¦hey really want to destroy all of humanity? (Read More)
Mood: | satire |
Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentsecret servicewhite housewashington d.c.president |
Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby's delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang's particularly nasty β¦ leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, gun factory, and presidential campaign all figure in Smith's quest for the child's safe deliverance. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | usahelicopter |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | presidential candidatewatchinterrupted sexcover uppolitician |
A week before his friend Jack is to be married, best man Miles and the prospective groom head off to wine country for a week of fun, relaxation and - of course - wine drinking. Miles is the oenophile and does his best to teach Jack a bit about the art of appreciating great wine. All Jack cares about β¦ is drinking and carousing, something he accomplishes when he meets the attractive Stephanie at one of the vineyards. Miles is something of a sad sack, a high school English teacher who is a failed writer at heart. He has yet to get over the fact that his wife has divorced him and that she has remarried and he now faces that nerve racking wait for word from a prospective publisher. Miles has an opportunity to start anew when he meets Stephanie's friend Maya but when he let's slip that Jack is about to be married any hope of a relationship seems to be lost. (Read More)
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | road movieroad trip |
Story: | golf coursehighway travelconvenience storewomanizergolfon the road |
While Ben Gates is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth's diary, a man by the name of Mitch Wilkinson stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth's diary. Thomas Gates, Ben's great-grandfather, is mentioned on the page. It shows that B β¦en's great-grandfather was a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail Chase, and Riley Poole to Buckingham Palace (which they break into). They discover a plank that has early Native American writing on it. The plank has only one symbol that Patrick Gates can identify. The symbol is Cibola (see-bowl-uh) meaning the City of Gold. In order to define the rest they have to go to Ben's mother, Patrick's divorced wife. After 32 years it brings back old arguments. After that the other clue is in the President's desk in the Oval Office in the White House (which Ben and Abigail sneak into) to discover that the clue lies in The President's Book. But in order to see the book, their choice is either get elected president or kidnap the President of the United States. Which do they choose? It's obvious. With Wilkinson close on their tail, they find the book in the Library of Congress. The conspiracy then crosses to Mount Rushmore where the clue was on the hills, but (according to the Book) President Calvin Coolidge had the faces carved in so no one can find the City of Gold. When they get there they find out that they must work with β¦ (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentwhite housewashington d.c.presidenthorse |
Johnny Knoxville and his crazy friends appear on the big screen for the very first time in Jackass: The Movie. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc on a once civilized golf court, they even do stunts involving LIVE alligators, and so on. While Johnny Knoxvile and his pals put their β¦ life at risk, they are entertaining people at the same time. Get ready for Jackass: The Movie!! (Read More)
Story: | golf cartgolf coursepandagolf |
Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang (Donnie Yen) and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora' β¦s Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | government corruptionnsaconvenience storeassassination attemptbodyguardcover up |
Donald P. Sinclair has placed six separate gold coins in different slot machines in his casino. The lucky six who find these coins discover an opportunity of a lifetime. The chance to own $2 million. Locked up in a locker in New Mexico, these six contestants must now race each other, to be the first β¦ to the cash. There are no rules in place and everything that could possibly happen, does. Whilst, behind the scenes, Sinclair's associates are placing their bets. (Read More)
Locations: | road movieroad triphelicoptertrain |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | highway travelreference to adolf hitleron the road |
Two decades after the freak alien invasion that nearly destroyed mankind a new threat emerges. This Alien mothership is more than twice the size as the last one and once again, the world's armies must band together to save the world. Do they have enough firepower or will this battle change and will β¦aliens take over? (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | ex presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidentwhite housewashington d.c.presidentbodyguard |
In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers.
Subgenre: | political satire |
Mood: | satire |
Story: | presidential electionu.s. presidentwhite housewashington d.c. |
Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit cop who doesn't follow rules. After he saved the Vice President by violating every order he received he is transferred to one of the worst precincts in the city. There he quickly encounters some corrupt cops selling heroin to drug dealers. The problem is, it's very di β¦fficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | vice presidentsecret serviceassassination attemptbodyguardspeech |
'Tom Wolfe (I)' (qv)'s book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by 'Chuck Yeager' (qv) to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to s β¦elect people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once. (Read More)
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | u.s. vice presidentu.s. presidentwhite housewashington d.c.horse |
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite β¦Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow. (Read More)
Themes: | politics |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | reference to thomas jeffersonwomanizerwashington d.c.presidentspeechpolitician |
Bill Maher interviews some of religion's oddest adherents. Muslims, Jews and Christians of many kinds pass before his jaundiced eye. Maher goes to a Creationist Museum in Kentucky, which shows that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time 5000 years ago. He talks to truckers at a Truckers' Chapel β¦. (Sign outside: "Jesus love you.") He goes to a theme park called Holy Land in Florida. He speaks to a rabbi in league with Holocaust deniers. He talks to a Muslim musician who preaches hatred of Jews. Maher finds the unlikeliest of believers and, in a certain Vatican priest, he even finds an unlikely skeptic. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | road trip |
Story: | u.s. presidentreference to thomas jeffersongay paradewhite housereference to adolf hitlerwashington d.c.politician |
Autobots Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide, Mirage (aka Dino), Wheeljack (aka Que) and Sideswipe led by Optimus Prime, are back in action taking on the evil Decepticons, who are eager to avenge their recent defeat. The Autobots and Decepticons become involved in a perilous space race between the United S β¦tates and Russia to reach a hidden Cybertronian spacecraft on the moon and learn its secrets, and once again Sam Witwicky has to go to the aid of his robot friends. The new villain Shockwave is on the scene while the Autobots and Decepticons continue to battle it out on Earth. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | u.s. presidentnsawatchwhite housewashington d.c.bodyguardcover up |
Walter Goodfellow, the vicar for the small English country parish of Little Wallop, has allowed his marriage to Gloria go stale, and he is so detached from his family that he has not taken notice that his 17-year-old daughter Holly is going through a succession of relationships with unsuitable boyfr β¦iends, and his son Petey fears going to school owing to being bullied. Out of desperation for affection, Gloria begins to fall for the advances of Lance, an American golf pro who is giving her "private" lessons. The problems upsetting the family start to fade away after Grace Hawkins, the new housekeeper, arrives and starts tending to matters as an older, and rather darkly mysterious version of Mary Poppins. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | train |
Story: | golf cartgolf coursewomanizergolfspeech |
Topper Harley is found working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA wants him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm. The President is Tug Benson, who als β¦o likes to be in on the action. Basically, it's a send-up of all the big shoot-em-up Rambo/Robocop/T2/Commando-type movies. (Read More)
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentwhite housewashington d.c.president |
CIA chief Hunley (Baldwin) convinces a Senate committee to disband the IMF (Impossible Mission Force), of which Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is a key member. Hunley argues that the IMF is too reckless. Now on his own, Hunt goes after a shadowy and deadly rogue organization called the Syndicate.
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | truth serumbodyguardcover uppolitician |
Homer adopts a pig who's run away from Krusty Burger after Krusty tried to have him slaughtered, naming the pig "Spider Pig." At the same time, the lake is protected after the audience sink the barge Green Day are on with garbage after they mention the environment. Meanwhile, Spider Pig's waste has β¦filled up a silo in just 2 days, apparently with Homer's help. Homer can't get to the dump quickly so dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it. Russ Cargill, the villainous boss of the EPA, gives Arnold Schwarzenegger, president of the USA, 5 options and forces him to choose 4 (which is, unfortunately, to destroy Springfield) and putting a dome over Springfield to prevent evacuation. Homer, however, has escaped, along with his family. Can he stop the evil Cargill from annihilating his home town, and his family, who have been forced to return to Springfield? (Read More)
Subgenre: | political satire |
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | u.s. presidentwhite housepresident |
After the Kingsman headquarters are blown up by a psychotic criminal named Poppy Adams. The surviving agents find their way to an allied secret organisation based in Kentucky, named Statesman. The two agencies must now work together in order to save the world and take down the so called 'Golden Circ β¦le'. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | car chasesatire |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | vice presidentu.s. presidentwhite houseassassination attemptwashington d.c.bodyguardhorse |
Set against the backdrop of 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys opens when single father and licensed PI Holland March (Gosling) is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of famous porn star Misty Mountains. As the trail leads him to track down a girl named Amelia (Qualley), he encounters less licens β¦ed and less hands-off private eye Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe) and his brass knuckles, both hired by the young hippie. However, the situation takes a turn for the worse when Amelia vanishes and it becomes apparent that March wasn't the only party interested. As both men are forced to team up, they'll have to take on a world filled with eccentric goons, strippers dressed as mermaids and even a possible government conspiracy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Story: | government corruptionbriberyreference to adolf hitlerassassination attemptbodyguardcover up |
Four middle-aged men decide to take a road trip from Cincinnati to the Pacific in order to get away from their lives which are leading them nowhere. Taking their motorcycles, these "Wild Hogs" tear up the road and eventually stop in New Mexico for a drink not knowing that the bar belongs to the "Del β¦ Fuegos", a mean biker gang. When the Del Fuegos steal a bike that belongs to the Wild Hogs, the four men form a plan to steal their bike back. (Read More)
Locations: | road movieroad trip |
Story: | highway travelconvenience storeon the road |
Warren Schmidt has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebr. for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time he is forced to take a hard look at his wife, his life and his relationship with his estranged daughter. An often hilarious series of events fo β¦llow as Schmidt embarks on an unpredictable RV journey to attend his daughter's wedding in Denver. (Read More)
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | road movieroad trip |
Story: | reference to george washingtonhighway travelspeechon the road |
Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, an adult Rusty Griswold takes his wife and two sons on a cross-country road trip to Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.
Locations: | usaroad movieroad trip |
Story: | highway travelon the road |
Josh and Tiffany have been together since they were kids. ENTER Beth, a sexy blonde going to college with Josh. One night, Josh and Beth hook up and make a videotape the same day that Josh plans to mail a video to Tiffany of him talking about college life. The wrong tape gets sent, forcing Josh, alo β¦ng with a few pals, to go to Austin, where Tiffany is, and stop her from seeing the tape. Full of laughs, you'll be sure to enjoy Road Trip. (Read More)
Locations: | usaroad movieroad trip |
Story: | highway travelon the road |
Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | corruption |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | golf cartgolf coursereference to george washingtoninterrupted sexbriberygolfhorse |
Louise is working in a diner as a waitress and has some problems with her boyfriend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life β¦ and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. They decide to go to Mexico, but soon they are hunted by American police. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | road movieroad triphelicopter |
Story: | highway travelwatchon the road |