Oct 09
Plot:
Irreverent as ever, Larry The Cable Guy plays a big city health inspector who’s happy with his usual beat of greasy spoon diners and low-rent ethnic restaurants. His easygoing life is turned upside-down when he’s saddled with a straight-arrow rookie partner (Iris Bahr) and assigned the biggest case of his career: investigating an outbreak of mysterious food poisonings at the city’s swankiest restaurants. Infuriating restaurateurs with his bad manners, Larry still manages to charm a sweet, shy waitress (Megyn Price) into a budding romance. But when his unorthodox methods cost him his job, Larry has to go undercover to bring the conspirators to justice and ‘Git-R-Done!’
IMDB rating: 2.40 out of 10.0 (5120 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
androgyny,
auto-theft,
bar,
breaking-the-fourth-wall,
character-name-in-title,
cockroach,
contest,
diner,
disguise,
dream-sequence,
fake-injury,
fired,
flatulence,
food-poisoning,
health-inspector,
interracial-romance,
male-nudity,
mayor,
mental-retardation,
mother-daughter-relationship,
neighbor,
orlando-florida,
profanity,
restaurant,
restroom,
Romance,
scatological-humor,
scene-during-end-credits,
shopping-mall,
sister-sister-relationship,
syringe,
toilet,
truck,
undercover,
wheelchair
Oct 01
Plot:
The movie is a celebrity version of Garrison Keillor’s radio show of the same name. The movie takes place during the last live performance of the show as the new radio network owners have sent an axeman (Tommy Lee Jones)to close the show. Another fantasy element is thrown in as an angel (Virginia Madsen) stalks the theater to take one of the performers. Keillor essentially plays himself, even using his own name for the character. Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep play the singing Johnson Sisters, with Lindsay Lohan as a suicide-obsessed daughter of Streep. Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are hilarious as the slightly off-color singing cowboy duo, Dusty & Lefty. Kevin Kline is a security guard who act as the narrator. Maya Rudolph also appears as a pregnant stage coordinator. Contains some mild sexually-oriented jokes.
IMDB rating: 7.20 out of 10.0 (6457 votes) Continue reading »
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angel,
audience,
backstage,
band,
based-on-radio-show,
commercial,
cowboy,
death,
detective,
diner,
f-scott-fitzgerald,
live-comedy,
live-performance,
live-show,
minnesota,
musical-performance,
musician,
orchestra,
penguin,
performance,
performer,
poetry,
pregnant,
radio,
radio-performer,
script,
singer,
singing,
sister-sister-relationship,
sisters,
stage,
stage-act,
stage-manager,
stage-performance,
suicide,
theater,
wisconsin
Sep 13
Plot:
Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it but are soon followed closely by the authorities including a local policeman who is sympathetic to their plight. The federal authorities, however, have less compassion and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and suprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.
IMDB rating: 7.20 out of 10.0 (20504 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
arizona,
arkansas,
attempted-rape,
bed-jumping,
buddy,
car-falling-off-cliff,
caricature,
chase,
convertible,
cult-favorite,
desert,
diner,
explosion,
fbi,
feminism,
friendship,
fugitive,
gasoline-truck,
grand-canyon,
gun,
hair-dryer,
hare,
helicopter,
hitchhiker,
hitchhiking,
honkytonk,
hotel,
housewife,
line-dancing,
marriage,
motel,
murder,
oklahoma-city,
orgasm,
phallus-symbol,
pizza,
police,
ring,
road,
road-movie,
robbery,
self-realization,
sexism,
six-pack,
suicide,
taxicab,
tragedy,
truck-driver,
video-surveillance,
violence,
waitress
Sep 13
Plot:
Frankie Dunn has trained and managed some incredible fighters during a lifetime spent in the ring. The most important lesson he teaches his boxers is the one that rules life: above all, always protect yourself. In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, Frankie has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time. His only friend, Scrap, an ex-boxer who looks after Frankie’s gym, knows that beneath his gruff exterior is a man who has been seeking, for the past 25 years, the forgiveness that somehow continues to elude him. Then Maggie Fitzgerald walks into his gym…
IMDB rating: 8.30 out of 10.0 (64215 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
adrenaline,
ambulance,
amputation,
assisted-suicide,
based-on-short-story,
birthday,
boxer,
boxing,
boxing-gloves,
boxing-gym,
boxing-trainer,
broken-nose,
brother-sister-relationship,
brutality,
california,
catholic,
catholic-church,
death-of-hero,
death-of-protagonist,
diner,
directed-by-star,
disneyland,
england,
euthanasia,
family-betrayal,
family-conflict,
family-disapproval,
father-daughter-relationship,
female-athlete,
female-boxer,
gas-station,
gift,
glass-eye,
guilt,
hospital,
irish-american,
janitor,
las-vegas-nevada,
lawyer,
los-angeles-california,
loser,
missouri,
mother-daughter-relationship,
music-score-composed-by-director,
new-house,
nickname,
no-opening-credits,
prayer,
priest,
profanity,
quadriplegic,
racial-slur,
restroom,
ridicule,
robe,
sister-sister-relationship,
spoiler-in-keywords,
suicide-attempt,
tragedy,
voice-over,
waitress,
welfare,
white-trash
Sep 13
Plot:
Henry Roth (Sandler) is a veterinarian living in Hawaii who enjoys the company of vacationing women. He leaves the playboy life behind after he falls for Lucy (Barrymore), who suffers from short-term memory loss. Since she can never remember meeting him, Henry has to romance Lucy every single day and hope that she falls for him.
IMDB rating: 6.80 out of 10.0 (28572 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
amnesia,
androgyny,
aquarium,
baseball-bat,
beach,
beach-party,
birthday-party,
boating-accident,
break-up,
brother-sister-relationship,
cannabis,
car-accident,
clinic,
crude-humor,
daydream,
deception,
diner,
doctor,
dolphin,
dream,
drug-humor,
fantasy-sequence,
father-daughter-relationship,
father-son-relationship,
flashback-sequence,
friendship,
golf,
hawaii,
jet-ski,
journal,
lisp,
love,
male-female-relationship,
memory-loss,
number-in-title,
obscene-finger-gesture,
painting,
penguin,
pineapple,
playing-with-food,
prank,
product-placement,
profanity,
prologue,
rain,
restaurant,
sailboat,
scream,
screwball,
shark,
steroids,
stitches,
swimming,
teacher,
true-love,
twist-in-the-end,
veterinarian,
video-camera,
video-footage,
videotape,
waffles,
wager,
walrus,
wedding,
womanizer
Sep 13
Plot:
Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter’s chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house’s former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.
IMDB rating: 7.70 out of 10.0 (15956 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
1970s,
alcohol,
alcoholic-relapse,
american-dream,
asphyxiation,
auction,
badge,
bare-butt,
based-on-novel,
bathroom,
bathtub-scene,
beach,
bird,
brother-sister-relationship,
cabin,
california,
cigarette,
cigarette-smoking,
classified-ad,
compassion,
conflict,
courier,
dead-child,
dead-father,
debt,
depression,
deputy-sheriff,
desperation,
diner,
dinner,
directorial-debut,
disturbing,
domestic-violence,
double-suicide,
drug-overdose,
elevator,
eviction,
extramarital-affair,
family,
father-daughter-dance,
father-son-relationship,
female-lawyer,
female-nudity,
flashback-sequence,
flashlight,
fog,
foot,
foot-injury,
gas-station,
golden-gate-bridge,
heavy-drinking,
home,
homelessness,
hospital,
hostage,
house,
house-improvement,
house-sale,
husband,
immigrant,
internal-affairs,
intimidation,
iran,
jail,
ladder,
language-barrier,
legal-aid,
loss-of-son,
maid,
male-nudity,
marital-separation,
marriage,
medication,
melancholy,
melodrama,
military-officer,
motel,
mother,
mother-daughter-relationship,
moving,
muslim,
nail,
nonlinear-timeline,
persian-american,
pier,
police,
police-harassment,
prayer,
prejudice,
pride,
quitting-job,
racism,
real-estate,
relationship-problems,
renovation,
repossession,
restaurant,
restroom,
ring,
road-worker,
rogue-cop,
san-francisco-california,
seagull,
secret,
sex,
shaving,
shooting,
skateboard,
sleeping-in-bathtub,
sleeping-in-car,
slow-motion,
small-town,
son,
storage-facility,
suicide-attempt,
sunset,
telephone-box,
time-lapse-photography,
tragedy,
tree-cutting,
vomit-scene,
vulgarity,
waterbed,
wedding,
wedding-reception,
wife,
woman
Sep 13
Plot:
Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.
IMDB rating: 7.80 out of 10.0 (77047 votes) Continue reading »
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1930s,
acrobatics,
actor,
actress,
air-raid,
airplane-accident,
animal-attack,
army,
backstage,
biplane,
blockbuster,
bridge,
broadway-new-york-city,
broken-jaw,
brontosaurus,
cameraman,
canyon,
car-accident,
cavern,
central-park-new-york,
character-name-in-title,
chase,
chasm,
check,
chloroform,
cliff,
color-remake-of-b&w-film,
cook,
crushed-to-death,
damsel-in-distress,
dancing,
death-of-animal,
death-of-friend,
death-of-protagonist,
diner,
dinosaur,
eaten-alive,
eavesdropping,
escape,
expedition,
fall-from-height,
fall-into-water,
fall-over-cliff,
film-in-film,
film-making,
fog,
footprint,
frozen-lake,
gas-bomb,
gate,
giant-animal,
giant-ape,
giant-bat,
giant-insect,
giant-spider,
gorilla,
great-depression,
human-sacrifice,
impalement,
indian-ocean,
island,
juggling,
jungle,
kidnapping,
king-kong,
kiss,
ladder,
log,
lost-world,
love,
machine-gun,
map,
monster,
movie-director,
movie-producer,
movie-star,
movie-studio,
murder,
native-tribe,
new-york-city,
no-opening-credits,
panic,
pier,
play,
playwright,
police,
prohibition,
rainstorm,
rampage,
ravine,
remake,
remake-of-remake,
rescue,
rooftop,
rowboat,
scream,
screening-room,
sea-captain,
seaman,
shoplifting,
shot-in-the-arm,
shot-in-the-chest,
shot-to-death,
skeleton,
skyscraper,
spear,
stabbing,
stampede,
steamship,
storm-at-sea,
taxicab,
times-square,
title-spoken-by-character,
tommy-gun,
triceratops,
typewriter,
tyrannosaurus,
unemployment,
vaudeville,
vine,
wall,
wilhelm-scream
Sep 13
Plot:
Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland’s thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey’s true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey’s cult celebrity stature.
IMDB rating: 7.70 out of 10.0 (14326 votes) Continue reading »
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1950s,
1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
adopted-daughter,
adoption,
airport,
anger,
art-house,
bakery,
based-on-autobiography,
based-on-comic,
based-on-comic-book,
bathroom,
bitterness,
book-signing,
breaking-the-fourth-wall,
cancer,
cartoonist,
celebrity,
chemotherapy,
clerk,
cleveland-ohio,
comic-book,
comic-book-art,
comic-book-shop,
coupon,
depression,
diner,
donut,
dysfunctional-family,
eating-disorder,
garage-sale,
graffiti,
hair-loss,
halloween,
halloween-costume,
holding-hands,
hospital,
hotel-room,
ice-skating,
illustrator,
interview,
jazz-music,
jelly-bean,
letter,
loneliness,
loud-shirt,
low-self-esteem,
luggage,
marriage,
movie-reality-crossover,
mtv,
nerd,
neurotic,
obsessive-compulsive,
part-animated,
play-within-film,
prison,
psychoanalysis,
recital,
record-collector,
restaurant,
retirement,
school-bus,
scratching,
self-referential,
shower,
supermarket,
talk-show,
talk-to-mirror,
tape-recorder,
teacher,
television-studio,
theatrical,
throat-doctor,
toilet,
train-station,
trick-or-treat,
underwear,
veterans-hospital,
voice-over,
vomit
Sep 13
Plot:
This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell, played by Woody Allen. It describes the early childhood and youth of Virgil, his failure at a musical career, and his obsession with bank robberies. The film uses a voice over narrative and interviews with his family, friends and acquaintances.
IMDB rating: 7.30 out of 10.0 (3512 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
1940s,
1950s,
armored-car-robbery,
attempted-murder,
bank-robbery,
baseball,
bathroom,
beach,
blackmail,
candle,
cello,
chain-gang,
chapel,
cigarette-lighter,
convertible,
courtroom,
dementia,
diner,
directed-by-star,
dynamite,
eyeglasses,
fake-documentary,
fbi,
fugitive,
hostage,
hotel,
human-test-subject,
independent-film,
job-interview,
laundry,
love-at-first-sight,
marriage,
mugging,
narration,
newsreel-footage,
parade,
park,
parole,
police,
police-chase,
pool-hall,
pregnancy,
prison,
prison-escape,
prologue,
psychiatrist,
purse-snatcher,
rabbi,
rainstorm,
refrigerator,
rorschach-inkblot,
screwball,
shoeshine-boy,
shoplifting,
sight-gag,
sketch-comedy,
soap,
theft,
turkey,
wedding
Sep 13
Plot:
A road trip takes a deadly turn when a young couple are tormented by a pyschotic hitchhiker who forces them to face their fears head-on.
IMDB rating: 5.20 out of 10.0 (3875 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
arrest,
blood-splatter,
boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship,
car-accident,
car-chase,
cellular-phone,
child-murder,
college-student,
dating,
death-of-boyfriend,
deputy-sheriff,
desert,
diner,
dismemberment,
dream-sequence,
falsely-accused,
fire,
gas-station,
gore,
handcuffs,
helicopter,
hitchhiker,
hitchhiking,
interrogation,
jail,
jailbreak,
motel,
murder,
new-mexico,
police-chase,
police-officer-killed,
police-station,
rabbit,
rainstorm,
remake,
remake-of-cult-film,
restroom,
rifle,
road-trip,
roadkill,
scorpion,
serial-killer,
shooting,
shot-in-the-back,
shot-in-the-forehead,
shot-in-the-head,
shotgun,
shower,
spring-break,
stabbing,
state-trooper,
switchblade,
texas,
throat-slashed,
topless,
torture,
truck,
truck-stop,
vulgarity