Apply on: CRC: 0xC4814D56 File: plot.list Date: Thu Feb 17 00:00:00 2000 1c1 CRC: 0xC8462AF6 File: plot.list Date: Thu Feb 24 00:00:00 2000 36c36 * The plot list currently contains 35369 summaries covering 32167 movies. 3508a3509,3526 MV: "Beggars and Choosers" (1999) PL: Beggars and Choosers takes a look behind the scenes of network television. PL: The show stars Brian Kerwin as Rob Malone, the president of LGT, a PL: television network fighting for ratings, and usually losing. Taking up PL: the battle with Malone are stars Charlotte Ross as Lori Volpone, and PL: Tuc Watkins as casting executive, Malcolm Laffley. Each episode takes PL: a look into how a network runs - how the executives deal with the stars, PL: how they make big budget deals while trying to keep the network PL: financially stable, all with hilarious results. Malone has too much on PL: his hands, the owner of the company drifts in and out of a coma, the PL: casting exec. is being accused of sexual harassment, and the VP in PL: charge of development is doing everything she can, no matter how evil, PL: to move up in the ranks...what else could you ask for in network T.V.? BY: Joshua Taj Bozeman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6205a6224,6234 MV: "Cashan: Robot Hunter" (1988) PL: In the animated re-make of the live action cult classic TV show, Cashan, PL: the son of a famous scientist and a mysterious woman must put an end to a PL: mastermind's idea to making robotic creatures kill off humankind for PL: good, hence, makes Cashan the world's saviour. Along the way he and the PL: woman recover some of his past. BY: Chibi Riza ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11529,11541d11557 14906a14923,14936 MV: "Hoop Life, The" (1999) PL: The Hoop Life is a show based on the lives of professional basketball PL: players off the court. It is centered around the fictional UBA (United PL: Basketball Association) and it follows the lives of three players from PL: one of the teams, The New England Knights - Greg Marr, Marvin Buxton, PL: and high school phenom Curtis Thorpe. You see the characters and how PL: they react to the money, the pressure, and the subsequent fame. Dan PL: Lauria rounds out the main cast as the head coach of the Knights, PL: Leonard Fero. BY: Joshua Bozeman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19226a19257,19270 MV: "Malcolm in the Middle" (2000) PL: An offbeat, laugh track-lacking sitcom about a bizarrely dysfunctional PL: family, the center of which is Malcolm, the middle of the two brothers PL: who still live at home. His eldest (and favorite) sibling, Francis, PL: boards at military school because his parents believe it will reform PL: him and keep him out of trouble. Malcolm often has a hard time coping PL: with his family life, but he has more troubles to contend with when he PL: starts receiving special treatment at school after being diagnosed as PL: an intellectually advanced genius. BY: Ondre Lombard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21873c21917 MV: "Ned's Newt" (1997) 24326a24371,24382 MV: "Playhouse 90" (1956) {Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956)} PL: This is the story of Harlan "Mountain" McClintock, an aging boxer with 14 PL: years and 111 fights to his credit. Once rated the 5th greatest boxer PL: in the world, McClintock must end his career due to the physical damage PL: caused by his profession. Jack Palance puts in a moving performance as PL: a proud fighter who "never took a dive" in all his years, and must cope PL: with diminished options open to a retired boxer. BY: Fred Bergen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25712a25769,25783 MV: "Remember WENN" (1996) PL: It is 1930s Pittsburgh, and college student Betty Roberts has won an PL: internship at WENN, a station that specializes in radio shows. She PL: finds that the employees of the shows are just as wacky as the characters PL: they play on the radio. They include: Mackie Bloom, WENN's man of a PL: thousand voices; Hilary Booth, queen of the stage who carries an PL: over-inflated ego; Mr. Foley, WENNs sound effects man who never talks; PL: Tom Eldridge, who is as clueless as a gnat; and Jeffery Singer, who is PL: in a marriage of convenience with Hillary. Each week, we watch how the PL: station members struggle to keep the station going. BY: Pat McCurry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26176a26248,26262 MV: "Rocko's Modern Life" (1993) PL: Rocko is a wallaby who has emmigrated to America from Australia. He lives PL: in O Town and tries to get through life but, of course, comes across a PL: multitude of dilemmas and misadventures he must get through. Other PL: characters include Rocko's best friend, Heffer, a steer who has been PL: raised by wolves, Filbert, an easily upset turtle, and Ed Bighead who PL: detests Rocko and hates having him for a next door neighbor. On this PL: show, Rocko has such adventures as trying to adapt to a new vacuum PL: cleaner, having Heffer move in temporarily after his parents kick him PL: out, and going to a movie theater. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27727,27742d27812 27762a27833,27848 MV: "Shôkôjo Sêra" (1985) PL: Anime adaption of 1905's children's novel 'A Little Princess'. Sara Crewe PL: arrives in London with her wealthy father to enter Miss Minchin's PL: boarding school for young ladies. Despite an unhappy incident which PL: makes Miss Minchin vexed with her, she leads a contented life until one PL: day, her birthday, the news of the sudden death of her father plunges PL: her into poverty. She is forced to do lowly work for the Seminary and PL: in her situation, she is a welcome target to Miss Minchin and her PL: former fellow pupil Lavinia, who once envied her wealth. But with the PL: help of her friends she made and her own will-power she finds the PL: strength to never give up. BY: Taro Rehrl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28865a28952,28967 MV: "Stand, Night" (1995) PL: Mocking Jerry Springer-like talk shows, Night Stand was a fake talk show PL: hosted by lovable, Dick Dietrick, played masterfully by Timothy Stack. PL: Dick would bring on ridiculous guests and go into a plethora of even PL: more ridiculous questions. A Springer/Ricky Lake- type show, the "Dick PL: Dietrick Show" would bring on guests that not even fans of the entire PL: "outrageous" talk show genre would want to see. Many of the themes had PL: sexual overtones, obvious to everyone watching, except for Dick himself PL: who would make comments that everyone else found explicit, but Dick PL: himself thought nothing of it. Soon after he would scold the audience PL: when realizing the sexual overtone, and say, "People, no....no." BY: Joshua Bozeman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30866c30968 MV: "This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper" (2000) (mini) 37034a37137,37147 MV: 21 (1999) PL: After attending the funeral of a friend he hadn't seen in three years, PL: Justin Sellers decides to reunite four of his old friends for one final PL: weekend trip to Las Vegas. As the events of the weekend unfold, they PL: each learn to confront the life choices they have made and the men they PL: have become during the final days before college graduation. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 38717a38831,38841 MV: A Valiant Kiss For The Closet Monster (1997) PL: "A Valiant Kiss For The Closet Monster" follows a day in the life of young PL: Jody, a nine year old with a few troubles: she is tormented by her PL: classmates at school, her divorced mother dates a most undesirable man, PL: and the scary monster living in her closet is just waiting to gobble PL: her up. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40911c41035 MV: Admiral Cervera and Officers of the Spanish Fleet Leaving the 'St. Louis' (1898) 43737a43862,43869 MV: Alba pagana - delitto a Oxford (1970) PL: A dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral PL: standards existing at Oxford University, England, in the early 1970s. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 47563a47696,47713 PL: Lester è un quarantenne in crisi e fallito, nella famiglia come nel lavoro. PL: Vive in un quartiere di benestanti, fuori New York. Un quartiere di PL: gente 'tremendamente' comune. Intorno a lui una 'corte dei miracoli' PL: altrettanto comune (almeno in superficie): Carolyn, la moglie, è agente PL: immobiliare alla ricerca del successo, è frigida con lui come è focosa PL: amante di un concorrente in ascesa ; Jane, la figlia diciottenne, si PL: sente abbandonata dai genitori e si costruisce una storia con Ricky, PL: uno strano coetaneo vicino di casa, che riprende i vicini con una PL: videocamera, cercando di catturarne frammenti di vita ; Angela, la PL: compagna di scuola della figlia, teen-ager dalle avventure piccanti PL: (almeno così racconta), fa perdere la testa al povero Lester. In un PL: finale preordinato e raccontato dalla voce del protagonista fin PL: dall'inizio, si scioglie una storia senza speranza. AMERICAN BEAUTY è PL: il nome di un genere di rosa (coltivata con cura da Carolyn) i cui PL: petali affollano i sogni di Lester con Angela. BY: rosebud6 48214a48365,48383 MV: Americano, The (1916) PL: Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia (Aitken) PL: wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... PL: until he sees the President's beautiful daughter, Juana (Rubens). PL: Valdez returns to Paragonia, but is deposed by Generals Sanchez and PL: Garcia and locked in San Mateo Prison. The Americano arrives. His PL: company's local office has been ransacked, but he finds loyal Negro PL: caretaker Dan (Wilson) in hiding there. He is contacted by former Prime PL: Minister Castille, now in disguise as a peddler... Valdez writes the PL: mysterious date "23 Noviembre 1899" on scraps of paper which are then PL: thrown from the prison window as garbage. Juana checks her father's PL: diary. That date contains an account of a successful escape from San PL: Mateo, using the secret tunnel! But Garcia demands that Juana marry him PL: the next day or Valdez will die... BY: David Steele ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 52037c52206,52216 BY: MVBD26 PL: An aging football coach finds himself struggling with his personal and PL: professional life while trying to hold his team together. A star PL: quarterback has been knocked out of the game and a naive football PL: player replaces him only to become exposed to the world of sports and PL: become a danger to himself and to his players. Meanwhile, the coach PL: finds himself constantly at battle with the team owner's money and PL: power hungry daughter intent on moving the team out. BY: Mystic80 56675a56855,56870 MV: Audition (1999) PL: Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is PL: invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the PL: resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking PL: young woman with ballet training. On the day of the audition, she's the PL: last person they see. Aoyama is hooked. He notes her number from her PL: file, calls her and takes her to dinner. He hesitates to call again, PL: worried that he'll seem too eager. When he does, Asami knowingly lets PL: the phone ring for some time before answering. She's alone in her PL: darkened room - alone, that is, apart from the writhing victim she has PL: tied up in a sack on the floor... BY: Bastiaan van Gestel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 57551a57747,57778 MV: Away with Words (1999) PL: The protagonist is Asano who has had an amazing memory since his youth PL: spent in Okinawa. Words have tangible shapes, tastes and colours for PL: him. This goes so far that he is not even able to forget words once he PL: has heard them. He travels the seas and because 'Hong Kong' feels PL: wonderful, he goes ashore there. He chances upon the Dive Bar, that PL: soon turns out to be the haven of comfort he has been seeking since his PL: youth. The bar is run by the flamboyant, hospitable Kevin, who is also PL: an alcoholic, eclectic lover and a perfect confidant to Asano. But PL: Kevin keeps forgetting all kinds of things and that gets him into PL: trouble sometimes. Words seem only to stand in the way of the PL: relationship between Asano and Kevin... BY: Bastiaan van Gestel PL: Since his childhood in Okinawa, Asano has had a mnemonic memory. For him, PL: words have tactile forms and tastes that make them constantly present PL: in his mind; as a result, he can't forget a word once he's heard it. PL: Now he is in "gridlock," his memories blocking the flow of life. Asano PL: finds himself in Hong Kong's Dive Bar, drawn by the colour of the gay PL: club's couches, a shade of blue which reminds him of the sea. Kevin, PL: the bar's flamboyant owner, is a lush, unable to recall most of his PL: booze-soaked, wild life. He is arrested every night because he cannot PL: remember how to pronounce the name of his street in Cantonese. Asking PL: instead to be taken to the police station, he is promptly arrested for PL: public mischief. The film chronicles Kevin and Asano's meeting, in PL: which words are a burden. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60753a60981,60995 MV: Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The (1991) PL: A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss PL: Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing PL: medicine. She takes in her half-sister's son, a diminutive crook-back PL: named Lymon. He suggests they open a cafe in the downstairs of her PL: large house. Marvin Macy gets out of prison and returns to town to PL: marry Amelia. They marry, but she won't let him sleep with her; first PL: he pleads, then he gets angry. Eventually, Amelia and Marvin stage a PL: no-holds-barred fight in the cafe. Lymon's complicated response to PL: Marvin and to Cousin Amelia figures in the resolution. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61209a61452,61466 MV: Bangiku (1954) PL: What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has PL: retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy PL: money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts. Even PL: her best friends, Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, who were her fellow Geisha, PL: are now indebted to her. For all of them, the glamor of their young PL: lives has passed; Tomi and Tamae have children, but their children have PL: disappointed them. Kin has two former lovers who still pursue her; one PL: she wants to see, and the other she doesn't. But even the one she PL: remembers fondly, when he shows up, proves to be a disappointment. BY: George S. Davis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62262a62520,62531 PL: Barrio Masters is a comedy/action film about two brothers who become rich PL: and famous overnight after they invent a new type of martial arts PL: called Wang-Fu Do. The film begins when Jesse Kasczinski has a dream PL: about his deceased great great grandparents. His grandparents tell PL: Jesse that he will become very rich soon but he must pay a price. This PL: film has plenty of supernatural and paranormal activities which might PL: intrigue some of the audience members. This film is based on Derek D. PL: Kim's personal experience as a martial arts instructor at Kuk Sool Won PL: in San Francisco and also as a student of Oriental Astrology in Hawaii. BY: Anonymous 63894a64164,64175 MV: Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (1975) (TV) PL: It's Valentine's Day again and Charlie Brown dreams the seemingly hopeless PL: dream to receiving a valentine from anyone. All the while, the PL: rest of the gang have their own trials whether it be Linus' struggle to PL: get the biggest card he can for his beloved teacher, or Lucy trying to PL: get some token from Schroeder while Snoopy and Woodstock are having fun PL: spearing valentines on each other's nose. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64006a64288,64299 MV: Beach Picnic (1939) PL: Donald Duck is at the beach and tries to ride a rubber horse. He notices PL: Pluto sleeping at the shore and decides to have some fun with him by PL: sending the rubber horse over to Pluto which completely mesmerizes him. PL: Meanwhile, a tribe of ants abduct Donald's picnic lunch. Donald lays PL: out fly paper to stop the ants. Pluto follows one of the ants and, of PL: course, he and later Donald become enmeshed in the fly paper. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73959a74253,74263 MV: Bliss (1995) (TV) PL: Sam Bliss and his colleague stumble upon the Duboys family. Members of this PL: family have been known to have lived for up to 150 years, due to their PL: special gene combination. While tracking down the remaining members of PL: this family they find out they are not the only ones interested in the PL: Duboys family. BY: Baron Friedrich von Glower ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 75978a76283,76298 MV: Blue Streak (1999) PL: Miles Logan is a jewel thief. Things go awry while he's stealing a huge PL: diamond in downtown L.A.: a thief, Deacon, tries a double-cross, the PL: police arrive, and Miles is arrested, but not before he hides the jewel PL: in an air duct of a building under construction. Two years' later, PL: he's out of prison and he heads for the site: it's L.A.'s new police PL: headquarters! Posing as a reassigned cop, Miles gets into the PL: building, but before he can recover the swag, he's partnered with a PL: naive detective and sent out to investigate burglaries. With Deacon on PL: his trail, he must recover the diamond, keep the cops fooled, and do a PL: few good deeds as a detective who can think like a criminal. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 78230a78551,78561 MV: Border Guns (1935) PL: Bill Harris, looking for border rustlers and working undercover, rides into PL: town and makes friends with Fred Palmer, one of the rustlers. They both PL: take an interest in Jane Wilson. When the boss of the rustlers learns PL: of Bill's true identity, he uses their attraction to Jane to alienate PL: the friends hoping Fred will kill Bill. BY: Maurice VanAuken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 83503a83835,83844 PL: Bruiser is the story of a man who has always tried to fit in. He keeps his PL: mouth shut, follows the rules, and does what he's supposed to do. But PL: one morning, he wakes up to find his face is gone. All the years PL: of acquiescence have cost him the one thing he can't replace: his PL: identity. Now he's a blank, outside as well as in, an anonymous, PL: featureless phantom. Bent on exacting revenge, he explodes. He isn't PL: going to follow the rules anymore. BY: Anonymous 88344a88686,88706 MV: Cammino della speranza, Il (1950) PL: Women wait anxiously at a minehead in Capodarso, Sicily. Their men are PL: underground. The mine is closing and the miners refuse to come up PL: unless the owner relents. After three days, they give up in despair... PL: In a bar in town, Ciccio is recruiting workers for jobs in France. He PL: can get people over the border - for L20,000 a head. Enough people to PL: fill a bus sell their belongings to pay the fee, including Saro and his PL: 3 young children, and Barbara and her man Vanni, in trouble with the PL: law and desperate to flee Italy. After reaching Naples by train, Ciccio PL: tries to slip away but is grabbed by Vanni. Vanni tells Barbara where PL: to meet at the border if anything should go wrong. In Rome, Ciccio PL: points out Vanni to the police. In the shoot-out, both Vanni and Ciccio PL: escape. The others are arrested. They are ordered by the police to PL: return to Sicily or be charged with "illegal expatriation". With Saro PL: as leader, and nearly out of money, they head north instead. Hardship PL: draws Saro and Barbara closer together... BY: David Carless ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90410,90428d90771 90497a90841,90851 MV: Carmelo y yo (2000) PL: Carmelo hitchhikes from his Andalusian village in southern Spain to PL: Edinburgh. There, and during the journey, he meets a diversity of PL: characters and landscapes. Always accompanied by his inseparable and PL: peculiar friend, Paco, hidden behind his camera and through whose lens PL: this comedy unfolds. BY: Richard Jordan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 104307c104661 MV: Common Ground (2000) (TV) 105202c105556 MV: Confession, The (1999) 105340a105695,105708 MV: Confetti Brothers (2000) PL: Michael and Patrick O'Brien are the Confetti Brothers, two men who own and PL: operate their family's 75 year old confetti business. For the past PL: several years they have been working on a revolutionary product, PL: Confetti '95 which they debut at the annual Clown Expo. to disastrous PL: results. Through the film we learn all about the history of the PL: Confetti Brothers from their early years during the Great Depression PL: through WWII and as they become real players in the field when they get PL: the Rip Taylor account. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 106224a106593,106603 MV: Cookoo Cavaliers (1940) PL: The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business PL: opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first PL: customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the PL: stooges completely ruin the girl's hair, and their manager finds out, PL: the boys must leave on the run. BY: Mitch Shapiro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 111627,111637d112005 117322c117690 MV: Day of the Fight (1951) 118030a118399,118413 MV: Dead Beat (1994) PL: In 1965, Rudy, a Midwestern high-school kid, moves to Albuquerque; lonely PL: and friendless, he's attracted to Kit, slightly older, with a car, his PL: own apartment, and spending money. Kit loves Elvis and loves the PL: ladies; plus, he's a complete phony: his tan is fake, he wears lifts, PL: he lies to girls, and he pretends to care about Rudy. Kit also shares PL: a dark secret with two other devoted followers, Jimmy and Martha. He PL: meets his match in Kirsten, a spoiled rich girl who gives as good as PL: she gets. When she and a younger cousin disappear, Rudy must choose PL: between loneliness and the law. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 119510a119894,119909 MV: Dear Jesse (1997) PL: Can you go home again? What if you're a gay man and home is a state where PL: voters keep electing a homophobe to the US Senate? In 1996, at age 30, PL: native son Tim Kirkman returns to North Carolina to explore the PL: parallels and differences between himself and Jesse Helms: they're from PL: the same town and college, with media interests, from families blessed PL: by adoptions, Baptists by upbringing. Tim puts his camera in front of PL: his family, a boyhood pal, college friends, his pastor, Helms fans, PL: community activists, novelists Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus, a mayor PL: who's gay, and people in the street, including a brief interview with PL: Matthew Shepard. What is it to judge, and what is it to love? BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 120167a120567,120578 MV: Death Wish Club (1983) PL: A porno actress, Greta, and her jealous producer boyfriend work at a PL: carnival. She falls in love with a younger man, and her boyfriend PL: kidnaps them and forces them to participate in a "suicide club." PL: Members go through "Russian roulette"-styled hazing rituals involving a PL: giant wasp, electric chairs, etc. where one member is killed. If Greta PL: and her lover live, then the boyfriend will let them go. BY: Mike Justice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 121013a121425,121442 MV: Deeply (2000) PL: A mythic memory play in the vein of The Wicker Man, Deeply is the story of PL: a traumatized teenager, Claire McKay (Julia Brendler), who is brought PL: to the Island of her ancestors in the hopes of she will recover from PL: the sudden death of her first love. Claire encounters an eccentric PL: writer, Celia (Lynn Redgrave), who tells her the story of another PL: grief-stricken teenager, Silly (Kirsten Dunst), and the curse which has PL: haunted the Island since the days of the Vikings. As Celia recounts PL: the story of Silly and her great loss, a story that is yet without an PL: ending, Claire relives her own trauma and undergoes a catharsis which PL: sets her spirit free, healed of the grief and horror. As Celia said, a PL: good story does indeed have the power the heal. But the ending to PL: Celia's story has still to be written... BY: Genevieve Kierans, Publicist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 124735a125165,125179 MV: Diabólica malicia (1972) PL: In this stylish and atmospheric psychological thriller reminiscent of Henry PL: James's _Turn of the Screw_, a widowed English writer brings a young, PL: glamorous new bride to his bleak, isolated home in rural spain. She PL: soon becomes obsessed with her 12-year old stepson, who she learns has PL: just been expelled from school for mysterious offenses; while the boy PL: enjoys, exploits, and feeds her increasing paranoia about him. That he PL: is a brilliant and lonely child is obvious. But is he the victim of a PL: neurotic woman's overwrought imagination-- in Shakespeare's words, the PL: innocent flower, or the serpent under it? BY: Paul Emmons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 125973a126418,126432 MV: Dionne Quintuplets, The (1978) (TV) PL: Back in 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne PL: Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through PL: twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were just PL: infants, the premier of Ontario issued a court order removing them from PL: parental care. Cut off from the world and their family, PL: over-publicized, viewed twice daily in a special viewing compound, they PL: grew up as prize exhibits. Director Donald Brittain uses old newsreel PL: footage, home-movie sequences and interviews to depict a historic event PL: that became a tragic exploitation of a family. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 126262a126722,126736 MV: Dirty Sanchez, The (1999) PL: When young professional Damon (Jason Crile) is thrown out of his home by PL: his wife, he moves into the bachelor pad of his unsavory step-brother PL: Jamie (Mike Hull), Jamie's friend Rob (Tim Hallacy), and unofficial PL: roommate Casey (Mac Welch). Devastated by his break-up and naïve to the PL: wilder side of 90s-style courtship, the potential divorcé is shocked by PL: the sexual gamesmanship of misogynistic Rob (who has a dangerous taste PL: for younger girls) and adulterous Jamie (who cheats on his near-perfect PL: girlfriend to avoid working out their problems), and finds himself the PL: object of a high-stakes game of chicken that no one can win. BY: Jason Bailey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 129634a130109,130118 MV: Donkey Kong 64 (1999) (VG) PL: Donkey Kong's precious Golden Bananas have been stolen by King K. Rool! And PL: his friends have too! But if DK manages to rescue his primate pals, he PL: will be capable of reclaiming the golden fruit and overthrowing the PL: Kremling King. Look out Sonic, ties on gorillas are back in style! BY: JetDog (Y2Kong) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 136905c137389 MV: Eddie og Suzanne (1975) 140472a140957,140969 MV: Enigma para Demonios (1974) PL: After the death of her father in Argentina, Elza (Monique Lafond) returns to PL: Brazil to see her remaining family. When visiting her mother's grave, PL: she steals a flower off an unknown grave and put it in her mother's. PL: After that, she begins to receive strange phone calls, from an unknown PL: voice that claims: "Give back my flower!". She becomes terrified and PL: obsessed with the stranger's voice, and starts believing that it's the PL: spirit of the deceased. BY: Carlos Primati ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 140830a141328,141340 MV: Epicenter (2000) PL: Epicenter PL: concerns brassy, beautiful Amanda Foster, a down-on-her-luck Los Angeles PL: detective who's been assigned to protect a PL: mobster-turned-State's-Witness, Nick Constantine, from the mob. On the PL: night of the assignment, the city is rocked by a devastating earthquake, PL: forcing Amanda and Nick to fight their way through the ravaged city PL: streets while being pursued by ruthless assassins and corrupt cops. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 143980a144491,144501 PL: Based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist marries three PL: different scenarios into one extraordinary plot. A visiting actress in PL: Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the PL: behavior and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a PL: young priest at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith PL: while dealing with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the PL: story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down PL: with an old demonic enemy. BY: Andrew Harmon 144178a144700,144712 MV: Explosive Mr. Magoo, The (1958) PL: Mr. Magoo opens his newspaper and when he comes across an ad for bowling, PL: he mistakes it for an alcohol ad using a picture of himself to endorse PL: it. Furious, he heads to the newspaper office intent on suing them for PL: libel. Along the way, he stops to purchase a mechanical wind up toy PL: which he puts inside a box. When he arrives at the newspaper office, PL: the employees there get the wrong idea when they notice the ticking box PL: and flee Magoo taking time to call the bomb squad. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 148447a148982,149023 MV: Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915) PL: Fatty and Mabel, a married couple, visit the San Diego Exposition; after PL: watching the parade, they rent a motorized cart. While Mabel makes a PL: quick shopping foray, Fatty can't keep from flirting with and then PL: chasing after a petite woman passing by. He follows her into a hula PL: pavilion where he also is attracted to the plump Hawaiian dancers. PL: Meanwhile, Mabel is looking for him, and so is the petite woman's PL: husband. The ensuing arguments attract the cops, and it all plays out PL: in front of the Exposition's fountain. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fatty's Faithful Fido (1915) PL: Two men like the same woman, and she prefers the large, strong one over the PL: smaller, nimble dandy. The rivalry first comes to a head when she PL: rejects the dandy in front of a Chinese laundry; a fight ensues, and PL: the big guy's dog adds to the dandy's humiliation. Then, that night, PL: during a dance held at the neighborhood fitness center, the dandy hires PL: some thugs to beat up his rival. The plan goes awry, which PL: precipitates chaos. Fido's on hand to add to the confusion. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fatty's New Role (1915) PL: Fatty's a harmless hobo. When he tries to cadge hooch and a free lunch at PL: Ambrose Schnitz's bar, Herr Schnitz ejects. Someone has been blowing PL: up the taverns of people who treat penniless folks unkindly, so PL: Schnitz's patrons play a trick on the publican, leaving a note that the PL: place will blow up at 3 that afternoon. Schnitz thinks Fatty is the PL: culprit. At two minutes to three, Fatty shows up with a cheese that PL: he's bought with generous alms a swell tosses his way. Schnitz thinks PL: the cheese is a bomb, and he runs for the cops. Fatty has the bar to PL: himself. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 148457a149034,149049 MV: Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915) PL: Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of PL: whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't PL: be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench where a PL: photographer mistakes him for a seated woman's sweetheart. The tintype PL: of the two of them falls into the hands of the woman's husband, whose PL: jealous rage frightens our hero. He abruptly leaves town, telling PL: wifey he'll be away on business. Wifey doesn't need her house while PL: he's away, so, unknown to hubby, she moves in with mom and rents the PL: house to the couple from the park. When our hero returns home sooner PL: than expected, the renter has another attack of jealousy. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 154360,154382d154951 155437a156007,156019 MV: Fluppy Dogs (1986) (TV) PL: A band of humanoid dogs who are dimension hopping for adventure PL: arrive on Earth in a North American city and into big trouble. PL: They become separated and must hide their true nature by passing PL: as the native dogs. Their only chance of returning home is with PL: the help of a human boy and girl they befriend. However, a PL: wealthy collector of rare animals is after them and the key that PL: creates the portals necessary to travel has almost lost its power. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 158707a159290,159301 MV: Fox Trot Finesse (1915) PL: Ferdie's wife is fox-trot crazy, wanting to go dancing all the time. To PL: get out of it, Ferdie fakes an ankle injury. When his wife spies him PL: walking without his crutch, she writes a letter to her stern mother, PL: inviting her to stay with them while Ferdie heals. Rather than face PL: his mother-in-law, Ferdie admits he was faking his injury, and tears up PL: the letter. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 158994a159589,159600 MV: Frank Lloyd Wright (1998) PL: This film illustrates the life and work of the American architect. We PL: follow the development of his work and his turbulent family life amidst PL: scandal and tragedy. Despite all the difficulties of his personal PL: life, Wright rises above all and beats all the odds to design some of PL: the most famous buildings using brilliant and distinctively innovative PL: designs that only his genius could create. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 159727a160334,160345 MV: Freedom Radio (1941) PL: Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good PL: as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the PL: camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in PL: Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract PL: the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends PL: he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda. BY: Steve Crook ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 164561c165179 MV: Gaucho, The (1928) 172151,172160d172768 173205a173814,173826 MV: Grand rock, Le (1968) PL: Dans les campagnes du Québec, un nouveau phénomène a fait son apparition: PL: la violence. Comment un beau grand garçon de village, libre et PL: paisible, se laisse-t-il entraîner sur la voie du crime? Telle est PL: l'histoire du Grand Rock après son mariage avec Régine, qui convoite PL: tous les biens que vante la publicité. Forcé d'abdiquer sa liberté pour PL: la paye hebdomadaire, coupé de ses racines, le Grand Rock cherche PL: l'aventure dans le monde de la pègre qui en fait un cagoulard. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 174463c175084 MV: Greed (1925) 177459c178080 PL: Woodrow LaFayette wants to join the Navy, but he's 4F. So he leaves his 180415a181037,181048 MV: Harvest Day (1995) PL: In a secluded farmhouse, a triangle unfolds involving a powerful and PL: dominant father, his spineless son and obedient daughter. It all PL: happens the day the son is finally determined to make good on his PL: promise to leave everything behind him, following his dream of living in PL: the city. This move brings the triangle to its dramatic climax and to a PL: point of no return. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 182222a182856,182871 MV: Heat and Sunlight (1987) PL: Over 16 hours, in February, 1987, a man confronts jealously and rage as a PL: love affair falters. Photojournalist Mel Hurley returns home to San PL: Francisco on the eve of his birthday, expecting his lover, Carmen, to PL: meet him at the airport and tell him if she will be exclusively his. PL: She's not there, she wants more time. Almost 20 years ago, he'd PL: photographed civil war in Biafra, wanting to tell a story that would PL: save people. He now equates that war with his personal struggle: can PL: his photographs save this relationship? He goes to Carmen to talk to PL: her; first he acts the fool, then they seem to connect. But, can he PL: control his jealousy and not force things with her? BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 182439a183089,183099 MV: Heaven Sucks! (1999) PL: Calvin Reilly lives a boring life, alone in a cramped apartment, trudging PL: daily to a boring job, desperately seeking meaning in an increasingly PL: mundane existence. So when he dies in a freak auto accident, he hopes PL: for a nice change in the kingdom of heaven. Little does he know that PL: heaven does, indeed, suck. BY: Jason Bailey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 185201c185861 MV: Hide and Seek (1996) (TV) 188644a189305,189314 PL: Kate Winslet plays Ruth Barron, a beautiful bold Australian who PL: went to India in search of the exotic, and got seduced by a world PL: completely different from her own. Her family imagine the worst so they PL: hired a top American cult "exit counselor" PJ Waters to PL: "cure" her back. Nothing is going to plan, the young seeker turns the PL: tables on the spiritual expert and leading him to an all-out battle of PL: the sexes... BY: Anonymous 193407a194078,194092 MV: Hua xin meng li ren (1989) PL: A guy and his wife live in Century City, California, and have a lacklustre PL: marriage. He has dreams nightly of making love to a Chinese girl in PL: Hong Kong, having her run away, and hide on her grandmother's boat PL: where he finds her and strangles her. Intrigued, he convinces his wife PL: to accompany him on a trip to Hong Kong. There, to his surprise, he PL: meets the woman from his dreams. A tacky Chinese hooker whom we first PL: see licking the ear of a fat guy who looks like Raymond Burr. He PL: convinces the woman that they were lovers in a past life, but towards PL: the end of the movie she runs away... BY: Mike Justice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 196543a197229,197238 MV: I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998) PL: A college student experiences difficulty in getting home for Christmas PL: after being hazed by his friends. While struggling to get home in time PL: for Christmas, he learns quite a bit about himself and the true meaning PL: of the holiday. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 197862c198557 MV: If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (TV) 199452a200148,200167 MV: In nome della legge (1949) PL: A mule cart crosses the countryside. Two bandits push the driver off and, PL: when he resists, kill him. The bandits steal the mules... The town of PL: Capodarso, Sicily. The Baron doesn't want help from Mafia boss PL: Passalacqua to recover his stolen mules. A new judge is arriving... At PL: the station, the new judge Schiavi meets the departing judge Pisani. PL: Schiavi is young, but he's Sicilian and set on changing the old ways... PL: A man in town has been shot, Aleo, one of the bandits. Before he dies, PL: he refuses to name his killer but looks strangely at Messana in the PL: doorway. The other bandit, Vanni, is on the run... Schiavi learns that PL: much of the town is unemployed because the mine is closed. The mine is PL: owned by the Baron's beautiful wife, but the Baron runs it. Why keep PL: the mine closed in spite of the old court order to reopen? Schiavi goes PL: to the mine to investigate. He is confronted by Passalacqua and his PL: band of armed horsemen... BY: David Carless ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 204973a205689,205698 MV: It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown (1974) (TV) PL: With a science project looming, Sally is desperate for something to use for PL: a subject, while at the same time, Woodstock's nest disappears. It's up PL: to Snoopy to play detective to find it and lawyer to defend from the PL: thief in Lucy's court. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 213321a214047,214058 MV: Katzenjammer Kids in School, The (1898) PL: "The interior of a country school is shown. The teacher has stepped out for PL: a moment, and all the youngsters are carrying on. Two wicked little PL: urchins tie a string across the aisle where the teacher is expected to PL: pass, and when she comes in she falls over it. The children are in PL: great glee over her misfortune, and make a bad matter worse by pelting PL: her with their school books." BY: AMB Picture Catalogue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 221822a222560,222570 MV: Landing Fight, A (1898) PL: "This picture shows a battalion of U.S. soldiers disembarking from the PL: boats which have carried them from the transports to the tropical PL: shore, where their landing is opposed by an imaginary enemy. As the men PL: wade through the water to the shore they fire at random; and when they PL: once reach dry ground, charge through the thickets." BY: AMB Picture Catalogue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 221916a222665,222678 MV: Lansdown (2000) PL: Defense lawyer Jake Jorgenson descends to criminal depths after learning of PL: his wife's adulterous liaisons with a construction worker. As Jake PL: tries to reclaim the woman and life that he covets, the unlawful PL: underbelly of his New Jersey suburb rises to the surface. His decision PL: to ask a former client for help brings three low-rent amateur hitmen PL: into the mix. Their simple job turns into a bloody shoot-out, raising PL: the stakes for Jake far beyond his wife's infidelity and ultimately PL: forcing him to take matters into his own hands... BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 227942a228705,228720 MV: Liebestraum (1991) PL: Two affairs, a generation apart. Nick, a professor of architecture in PL: upstate New York, comes to an Illinois town to be with his birth mother PL: in the final days of her illness; he was adopted and has never known PL: her. On the first day, he runs into Paul, a college friend, whose PL: construction company is demolishing an old, downtown department store PL: where a murder-suicide happened 30 years' before. The building is of PL: beautiful cast-iron construction, so Nick wants to study it before the PL: demolition. Paul introduces Nick to his wife, Jane, and over the next PL: four days, their attraction grows as Nick explores the old building, PL: attends his mother's bedside, and unravels the past. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 234132,234159d234909 235019a235770,235779 MV: Louisbourg Under Siege (1997) PL: In this film, we see a film account and recreation of the battle for one of PL: France's major fortresses. In the battle for this fort by the British, PL: we see the siege and the events that led to its fall and the beginning PL: of the fall of New France. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 235712a236473,236486 MV: Love in the Cold: Animation at the National Film Board of Canada (1994) PL: This compilation of three award-winning films is about relationships, the PL: barometer of the human condition. Featured are Caroline Leaf's Two PL: Sisters, a story about a stranger who penetrates the insular world of PL: two sisters; Michèle Cournoyer's A Feather Tale, a disturbing story PL: about obsession; and Wendy Tilby's Strings, a portrait of two strangers PL: intimately linked by the shared floors, ceiling, and plumbing of their PL: apartments. In addition, the filmmakers talk about their films and the PL: capricious creative process. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 238486a239261,239286 MV: Mabel and Fatty's Simple Life (1915) PL: Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each PL: other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in PL: exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out PL: dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the PL: local constables. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day (1915) PL: It's wash day. Mabel works hard while her husband sleeps in. Next door, PL: Fatty works hard while his wife bosses him about and dresses up to go PL: out. The two neighbors meet outside: Fatty offers to let Mabel use his PL: wringer. Her husband shows up just as her skirt gets caught in the PL: wringer, and he's jealous. So is Fatty's wife when she hears the PL: arguing. Later that day, both couples take a stroll, and, through a PL: series of misadventures and innocently swapped purses, Mabel and PL: Fatty's friendship blossoms, their spouses again think they have cause PL: to be jealous, and the cops join the chaos. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 243904a244705,244719 MV: Man's Castle (1933) PL: 12 million Americans are out of work. Trina is homeless and hungry when PL: Bill takes her under his wing, showing her a squatter's camp where she PL: can live. She's soon in love with him, making a castle for him inside PL: a shack; but he's bluff, gruff, and a "bindlestiff," a guy who can't PL: stay put. When Trina tells Bill she's pregnant, he's ready to jump a PL: freight train and move on, but first he wants to leave Trina with some PL: money, so he partners up with Bragg, the camp's louse (who's been PL: eyeing Trina), to rob a toy store. He's shot and the cops are closing PL: in: does he have any options? BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 245317a246133,246143 MV: Marianne on Tour (1994) (V) PL: Marianne (Patricia Violet) is a frustrated porn actress, who quits the film PL: business to start a live show. After she discovers that her friend PL: Alain (Alain Lyle) exploits their sex live with home-made videos, PL: Marianne follows Christoph (Christoph Clark). But again her trust is PL: misplaced: Christoph forces Marianne to became a prostitute. BY: David Jones ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 253046a253873,253884 MV: Mighty Like a Moose (1926) PL: Mr. and Mrs. Moose are not pretty. But after he has his teeth fixed and PL: she has her nose done they look great. They meet by accident and don't PL: recognize each other. They make plans for an illicit rendezvous, both PL: nervous about stepping out on their spouses, but happy to feel PL: attractive for the first time. The only problem: how to keep the PL: spouse from finding out. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 254063,254077d254900 254169c254992 PL: A US politician (Sam Waterston) visits his poet brother (John Heard) in 259894a260718,260729 PL: Two privately owned ambulance companies compete for the city contract in PL: LA. The focus, F+B Ambulance Service, has the wildest crew on the PL: block. Cosby (Mother) plays the veteran driver to whom rules are meant PL: to be bent. Keitel (Speed) is a cop on suspension for suspicion of PL: drug peddling to minors who needs to pay the rent. Welch (Jugs) is the PL: dispatch secretary with secret ambitions who won't give the boys in the PL: bunkhouse the time of day. Drama and comedy bleed together over who PL: makes the right decisions to land them in the money and keep them out PL: of the hospital. BY: Lordship 261398a262234,262244 MV: Mrs. Death 2: Hells Fury (2000) PL: After the events in the first film, the spirit of Death possesses a dead PL: female victim from first films carnage and tries to continue the evil PL: scheme of taking Robert Kesseler's soul. But Robert isn't so willing to PL: give up his soul, so more carnage is sure to ensue as Death will PL: destroy any one in his/her path. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 268396a269243,269253 MV: Nearsighted School Teacher, The (1898) PL: "In this case it is the schoolmaster who comes to grief. He is seated at PL: this desk busily engrossed in private business and letting his scholars PL: run riot. One of the youngsters causes great merriment by tying an PL: artificial spide to a ruler, and shaking it in front of the dominie's PL: face." BY: AMB Picture Catalogue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 270107a270965,270975 MV: New York Journal's War Issue (1898) PL: "While the 'Sylvia' was off the coast of Cuba during the Spanish-American PL: War, several issues of the 'New York Journal' were printed aboard her PL: for distribution among the soldiers on shore. Our picture shows the PL: 'Journal' employees at work getting out the paper. A very novel and PL: interesting scene." BY: AMB Picture Catalogue (1902) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 271106,271120d271973 272007a272861,272870 MV: Night They Robbed Big Bertha's, The (1975) PL: Big Bertha is the popular, full-figured owner of the community's most PL: successful whorehouse and moonshine racketeering enterprise. Some guys PL: decide to rob the place, the local cops just happen to coincidentally PL: be "visiting" the girls, moonshine is discovered, slapstick ensues. BY: Mike Justice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 272703a273567,273578 MV: Nightmare Street (1998) (TV) PL: After saving her daughter from an accident Joanna wakes up in the hospital PL: in an alternate world where nothing is as it should be. Someone else PL: lives in her house, her daughter is gone and everyone calls her Sarah. PL: The problem is Sarah is suspected of murdering her son. The only person PL: to believe her is her doctor who has fallen for her. With his help she PL: tries to unravel the mystery and get back to her own life. BY: Les MacDonald at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 275980c276855 PL: A couple driving along a deserted road to a lake almost run over a young 278979a279855,279865 MV: Old Maid and the Burglar, The (1898) PL: "This old maid has been looking under her bed for years for a man. At least PL: she finds one, as our picture shows, who happens to be a burglar; but PL: that makes no difference to the old maid, and she promptly falls on his PL: neck and gives him an effusive welcome, much to his surprise and PL: disgust." BY: AMB Picture Catalogue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 285247a286134,286143 MV: Overloaded Donkey, An (1898) PL: "It was a sad day for the donkey when the young ladies of the Chorus Girls' PL: Mutual Benefit Society discovered him on the occasion of the annual PL: outing at Ft. Lee [New Jersey]. Five of them tried to ride him at the PL: same time, and the load almost broke his back." BY: AMB Picture Catalogue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 286612a287509,287525 MV: Pan (1995) PL: When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some PL: family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they PL: fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to PL: problems. Both of them are very strong in their opinions, and both are PL: behaving a little strange. Love turns to hate, and instead of doing all PL: they can to please each other, they do all they can to hurt the other PL: person psychological. They both do a great job, and what began as a PL: love story turns into a sad and depressing story of two ruined persons. PL: The story is told by Thomas Glahn from his "exile" in Thailand, where PL: he in the beginning of the movie receives two green feathers from PL: Edvarda. BY: Kynde ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 290094a291008,291017 MV: Paymaster, The (1906) PL: A superintendent forces his attentions on a mill girl. He steals the PL: payroll and frames her boyfriend, the paymaster. A dog finds the PL: hidden money and the mill girl confronts the superintendent with his PL: deeds. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 292136,292146d293058 294995a295908,295921 MV: Pink and Blue Blues (1952) PL: Mr. Magoo is hired by his neighbors to babysit their little son, Homer. PL: Magoo is delighted to accept but, unfortunately, a notorious cat PL: burglar is intent on entering and robbing the house Magoo is PL: babysitting it. To make matters worse, Magoo is constantly confusing PL: Homer with the family dog and vice versa. When the thief finally breaks PL: in, all chaos breaks loose but everything turns out all right in the PL: end when the thief is apprehended thanks to the dog who is more alert PL: than Magoo was. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 301764a302691,302703 MV: President's Plane Is Missing, The (1973) (TV) PL: While on the brink of a military confrontation with China, Air Force One PL: crashes in the desert, killing the President. This brings PL: Vice-President Kermit Madigan to power who, having been left in the PL: dark by the president, must now rely on his predecessor's aides to PL: guide him. But they have markedly different viewpoints and hidden PL: agendas. Will he blunder his way into a nuclear exchange with the PL: Chinese? BY: Alfred Jingle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 304080c305019 MV: Prophet, The (1999) 305959a306899,306911 MV: Puss-Cafe (1950) PL: Milton the cat is walking down the street and notices a yard full of PL: delicious milk, birds, and fish not realizing it is guarded by Pluto. PL: He shows his inferior minded pal Richard the set up and both help PL: themselves to the goodies but are chased out by Pluto. From that point PL: on, they try to get into the yard without waking Pluto using such PL: tactics as sling-shooting Pluto out of the yard with his hammock and PL: underwater diving for fish with a makeshift diving helmet. BY: Matt Yorston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 312705a313658,313668 MV: Reindeer Games (1996) PL: Reindeer Games follows Alec Clark, a social outcast whose tortured past PL: triggers a deadly game of bondage, action and suspense. In a sudden PL: lapse of reason, he attacks a co-worker, Kate Regan, and ties her up in PL: his basement. As she struggles to escape with her life, Alec begins a PL: downward spiral towards a startling conclusion. BY: Efram Potelle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 313845,313856d314807 316657a317609,317619 MV: Riding the Wind (1941) PL: It's the ranchers whose cattle are dying of thirst versus Henry Dodge whose PL: dam holds all the water. When windmills are built and they start PL: pumping water, Dodge has them blown up. When a court order forces him PL: to release the water, he decides to blow up the dam and flood the PL: valley. BY: Maurice VanAuken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 319620a320583,320589 PL: Rodrigo, a poor and troubled teenager in the barrios of Medellin, Colombia, PL: struggles to find hope in a world ravaged by violence and chaos. An PL: aspiring drummer in a punk band, he uses his music to try to drive the PL: despair out of his head. BY: Brett Davis 320110,320113c321079,321083 PL: Although deeply in love with her boyfriend - and indeed sleeping in the PL: same bed with him - a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete PL: lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually PL: finds her sexual appetites leading her into ever more risky situations, PL: including a developing one with the headmaster. 320115c321085 BY: Jeremy Perkins 321423a322394,322405 MV: Rosewood Daydream, A (1970) PL: This is the name of a Toronto folk group comprised of two young men, a PL: blue-eyed woman, and a guitar. They sing outdoors, indoors, wherever PL: there's a friendly audience. Most of the "with it" listeners in this PL: film are the old folks in a home for the aged in St. John's, PL: Newfoundland. To them the group sings old songs of the sea, and a PL: popular tune, Louis Collins, by Mississippi John Hurt. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 323023a324006,324016 MV: Running on the Sun (1999) PL: Forty runners compete in the most grueling race on earth, the Badwater. The PL: film documents the trials and tribulations of these athletes as they run PL: 135 miles through Death Valley in July and explores the motivations PL: behind this seemingly masochistic contest. A celebration of the PL: perseverance of the human will beyond the limits of the human body. BY: Forrest Wright ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 324128a325122,325134 MV: Sacred Ground (1983) PL: Sacred Ground aspires to be a social statement. Tim McIntire plays a white PL: settler who weds Indian woman Serene Hedlin. The couple are ostracized PL: by the white and Indian community alike, and are forced to pull up PL: stakes. En route to their new home, the pregnant Serene suddenly gives PL: birth. Unfortunately, the couple's child is born on sacred burial PL: ground, making their already precarious place in society all the more PL: shaky. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 326375a327382,327391 MV: Sans soleil (1982) PL: "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, PL: meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from PL: places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San PL: Francisco. BY: George S. Davis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 326434a327451,327474 MV: Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972) PL: Poor Santa Claus. This live-action feature finds his PL: sleigh stuck in the sand on a Florida beach only days before Christmas PL: Eve. He psychically summons prepubescent aid from a nearby subdivision. PL: In order to extricate Santa's sleigh, the local children bring many PL: different animals (presumably the sheep was someone's housepet), but PL: nothing works, and the kids are afraid they won't get any gifts this PL: year. To boost their spirits, Santa tells them the story of PL: Thumbellina, and the setting dissolves into a "fantasy within a PL: fantasy". Thumbellina is a beautiful but very tiny girl, "not much PL: larger than a clothes pin". She becomes lost in the forest during the PL: winter and finds refuge in the underground home of Mrs. Mole. A PL: neighbor mole, Mr. Digger, falls in love and wants to marry PL: Thumbellina, but she's having none of it. When warm weather returns, PL: she runs back into the forest and deserts the two kindly creatures who PL: saved her life, crushing their spirits forever ... the end. As Santa is PL: finishing his story and yes, that is its intended conclusion he and the PL: children hear the wail of a siren. The "Ice Cream Bunny" has arrived PL: in his antique fire engine to save the day! BY: Richard Westmoreland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 331296a332337,332350 MV: Secret Life of Archie's Wife, The (1990) (TV) PL: Bunny, an unhappily married Denver housewife, frustrated and stressed out PL: over her uncommunicative businessman husband Archie as well as planing PL: their daughter's coming wedding, has her life turned upside down one PL: day when she's taken hostage by Walter, a bumbling loser on the run PL: from the law after having robbed a bank in order to pay off money to PL: his loan shark Sebastian and to support his elderly mother. Soon Bunny PL: and Walter form a romantic bond and decide to help each other with PL: their problems in their own ways. BY: Matthew Patay ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 332986a334041,334050 MV: Serenade, The (1905) PL: Freddie serenades Fannie until her father interrupts by sending the dog PL: after him. Freddie runs away, with the father and daughter both in PL: pursuit. Fannie catches up to him, and they both run away from her PL: father. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 336534c337598 MV: She's Got Everything (1937) 346303a347368,347389 MV: Soldiers (1999) PL: It is a time of hope. It is a time of fear. It is a time of war. It is the PL: year of Our Lord 1775. The American colonies are in a state of total PL: chaos. Just outside of Boston, in the small town of Marblehead, PL: Massachusetts, word arrives that shots have been fired at Lexington, PL: and that a call to arms for American independence has been made. While PL: the rest of the town's able-bodied young men embark on the road to war, PL: three teenagers, scorned for their inexperience and delinquency, are PL: forced to remain at home. Their anger soon turns to dismay when they PL: get word that a squad of British soldiers has moved into the local fort PL: and set up camp. If the soldiers discover that the town has thrown its PL: support to the rebels, their reaction could involve the occupation of PL: the town, or, worse, vicious reprisals against its citizens. Desperate, PL: idealistic and naive, the three boys decide to prove their manhood once PL: and for all by journeying to the fort and mounting an attack on the PL: British. This dangerous mission will test their courage, ideals, and PL: above all, friendship, in a battle for their country's freedom. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 352993a354080,354090 MV: Star is Lost!, A (1974) PL: A musical comedy feature about the trials and tribulations of making an PL: old-time musical spectacular. Take an inexperienced studio head, add a PL: villainous competitor, an eccentric director, and an exquisite star who PL: has never sung a note in her life, and you've got problems, but they're PL: nothing to compare with the situation once your exquisite star is lost! BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 355282a356380,356395 MV: Stir of Echoes (1999) PL: Tom's a regular guy, a utilities lineman, married, with a young son, his PL: wife is pregnant; he hangs out with long-time pals in a Chicago PL: neighborhood. At a party, his sister-in-law hypnotizes him, and he PL: goes into a deep trance. Before waking him, she suggests that he keep PL: his mind open. That night he sees flashes of violence and the ghost of PL: a young woman. His young son, too, is "a receiver," but while the boy PL: is calm and coherent in his conversations with spirits, Tom is confused PL: and agitated. Over time, the young woman's story comes to the surface, PL: and Tom begins a hunt for her body that puts him and his usually PL: understanding wife, Maggie, in grave danger. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 357025c358138 MV: Strawberry Roan (1944) 358025,358038d359137 362263a363363,363374 MV: Sweet Talker (1991) PL: Con artist Harry Reynolds is released from prison armed with his partners PL: research for a new scam. Harry heads for the dying town of Beachport PL: near the coast of Australia where he cons the locals into investing big PL: bucks into his scam (the recovery of an old ship and the building of a PL: theme park). Complications arise when Harry falls for the local hotel PL: owner Julie and her young son David. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 376787a377899,377919 MV: Time Won't Fly (1999) PL: Time Won't Fly depicts a boy's loss of innocence. It is an intimate look PL: at a 12 yea old boy Jesse (Jason Lomax), who is faced with tough PL: choices. Should he keep quiet about the drug dealing going on in his PL: house by Bo (David Allen Anderson), an ex-con who is the boyfriend of PL: his indifferent mother (Saundra Holiday)? Should he run with Tyrone PL: (John Bookly Lewis), his buddy, who has acquired a gun and has taken to PL: the streets? Should he turn to God and join Teto (Brian E. Vernick, PL: his friend who lives in a group home? Jesse's journey is approached PL: subjectively weaving from place to place passively. He never comments PL: on them yet searches for the truth. Through his eyes we discover an PL: urbena world filled with colliding ideals; hate and love, life and PL: death, good and evil, Heaven and Hell. Challenged by them he becomes PL: trapped by the notion that time has stood still yet moving rapidly. His PL: home is under police surveillance led by Travis (William Hamilton). The PL: shake down is about to come and Jesse is in the middle of it all. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 378014c379146 MV: To Trap a Spy (1964) 386311a387444,387453 MV: Twenty-One (1991) PL: Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows PL: her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her PL: drug addict boyfriend Bobby, her lover Jack, close friend Baldy, and PL: her father. BY: measham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 389822c390964 MV: Uncle Rube's Visit to the Man-o' War (1898) 392694a393837,393854 MV: Uomo di paglia, L' (1957) PL: Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are PL: very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor PL: recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. PL: Andrea stays to work at the metal shop... While visiting his family, PL: Andrea notices a young woman on the beach with her soldier boyfriend. PL: The weekend over, the girl is on the bus home. Rita recognizes Andrea PL: from the neighbourhood. They talk, walk home, say good night... Rita's PL: brother Gino is trying for a job at the metal shop. Andrea helps him PL: make the grade. Rita comes home to find Gino's new mentor there... PL: Andrea apologizes. Rita tells him she is now engaged. Andrea spends a PL: restless weekend with Luisa... Rita is working late at the office. PL: Andrea appears. They kiss... BY: David Carless ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 396845a398006,398015 MV: Vie est courte, La (1956) PL: Antoine Dumont, voyageur de commerce, a 55 ans, il est affable, jovial et PL: surtout bon vendeur. Mais voilà qu'en une seule journée tout son passé PL: de travailleur consciencieux de même que sa conception du métier qu'il PL: aime, sont violemment mis en question. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 398036c399206 MV: Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle, A (2000) (TV) 400529a401700,401713 MV: Walking Stick, The (1970) PL: A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down PL: when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon PL: develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly PL: happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she PL: discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon PL: revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction PL: house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order PL: to pull off the crime. BY: Kevin Steinhauer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 402414c403598 MV: We Married Margo (2000) 407265a408450,408461 MV: Whole Nine Yards, The (2000) PL: Years after he ratted on Jimmy "The Tulip", an outlandish hitman, Nick PL: thinks that his troubles are behind him. All this is changed, though, PL: when Jimmy is paroled. Nick is less then optimistic at the news, but PL: his hopes for an easy life are crushed when Jimmy moves in next to him. PL: Soon after, everyone is dying to know more about Jimmy, who is pulling PL: Nick into a weird world of fast guns and fast women. BY: JoJo Mac ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 407505a408702,408712 MV: Why, Charlie Brown, Why? (1990) (TV) PL: A new girl comes to the neighbourhood school and Linus is smitten with her. PL: Unfortunately, she develops the symptoms of leukemia and must go to the PL: hospital for cancer treatment. Linus and Charlie Brown help her PL: through the traumas of chemotherapy as best they can while Snoopy plays PL: at being the world's greatest doctor. BY: Kenneth Chisholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 409662a410870,410885 MV: Winslow Boy, The (1999) PL: Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's PL: engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his PL: 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing five shillings. Father asks son PL: if it is true; when the lad denies it, Arthur risks fortune, health, PL: domestic peace, and Catherine's prospects to pursue justice. After PL: defeat in the military court of appeals, Arthur and Catherine go to Sir PL: Robert Morton, a brilliant, cool barrister and M.P., who examines PL: Ronnie and suggests that they take the matter before Parliament to seek PL: permission to sue the Crown. They do, which keeps Ronnie's story on PL: the front page and keeps Catherine in Sir Robert's ken. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 412726a413950,413974 MV: World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid, The (1990) (TV) PL: Donna Mills stars as Brenda, the strict lawyer in this romantic PL: drama. Brian Wimmer stars as Alex, Donna's new secretary as a result of PL: her previous secretaries resigning because they were getting married. PL: Donna is currently involved with her dentist, Brian, who until Alex and PL: Brenda go on a lawyer business trip together, are close. Alex and PL: Brenda develop a special relationship during the time they go on a PL: business trip together. However, when Brenda gets back, she finds out PL: that Brian has met someone else. Brenda and Alex get closer and more PL: intimate as a result and they sleep with each other. Her co-workers and PL: parents, not to mention Brian's sister & family are shocked to hear PL: Brian, a young 27 year old guy going out with someone much older than PL: him. Unfortunately, when Brenda and Alex are at a party together, PL: Brenda gets a little angry when Alex keeps on insisting to let people PL: know he's Brenda's secretary. They fight and break up as a result. Her PL: friends hook her up with another doctor guy who asks her to marry him. PL: They throw an engagement party, and it is at this party that Brenda PL: realizes that she only loves Alex. She breaks the news to her fiancee PL: and later she goes to Alex's house to apologize and make up for her PL: "domination" behavior. BY: Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 416707a417956,417973 MV: Young People Ask: How Can I Make Real Friends? (1999) PL: Making friends is not always easy when you're young. Finding friends may be PL: particularly challenging if you are a Christian and want friends who PL: live by Bible standards. This video has therefore been produced to help PL: you learn how to make friends - the right kind of friends! In the style PL: of the long-running Awake!* magazine series "Young People Ask...," this PL: program features candid interviews with youths from the United States, PL: Italy, France, and Spain. It offers practical, Bible-based answers to PL: such questions as: What are some roadblocks to friendship? What are PL: some of the dangers of bad association? What is the most important PL: friendship one could have? A highlight of this program is a PL: true-to-life contemporary drama - a story that echoes the Bible account PL: of Dinah. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 416830,416848d418095