“Pig” (2021) Drama Running Time: 92 minutes Written and Directed by: Michael Sarnoski Featuring: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin Rob: "We don't get a lot of things to really care about." "Pig" is a 2021 drama film directed by Michael Sarnoski and starring Nicolas Cage. The film follows Cage's character, a truffle hunter named Rob, …
“As Good as It Gets” (1993) Drama/Comedy Running Time: 139 minutes Written by: Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks Directed by: James L. Brooks Featuring: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich and Shirley Knight Melvin Udall: “Now, I got a real great compliment for you, and it's true.” Carol Connelly: “I'm so afraid you're about to say something awful.” Melvin Udall: “Don't be …
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“The Out-of-Towners” (1970) Comedy Running Time: 98 minutes Written by: Neil Simon Directed by: Arthur Hiller Featuring: Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis Gwen Kellerman: “George, what are we doing wrong? We can't ride, we can't walk, we can't eat, we can't pray.” George Kellerman: “Well, we can think. As long as we got our brains, we can think.” Gwen Kellerman: “Oh, they'll …
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“Nitram” (2021) Drama Running Time: 112 minutes Written by: Shaun Grant Directed by: Justin Kurzel Featuring: Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis and Anthony LaPaglia Mum: “He was laughing at my pain... laughing like it was the funniest thing in the world.” "Nitram" is a 2021 biographical drama film directed by Justin Kurzel. The movie tells the story of Martin Bryant, a …
“House of Cards” (1968) Drama Running Time: 105 minutes Written by: Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. Directed by: John Guillermin Featuring: George Peppard, Inger Stevens and Orson Welles Critical Commentary "House of Cards" is a thrilling adaptation of Stanley Ellin's novel, directed by John Guillermin in 1968. Set in 1960s Paris, the film follows Reno Davis, a former boxer who becomes the …
“The Country Girl” (1954) Drama Running Time: 104 minutes Written by: George Seaton based on The Country Girl by Clifford Odets Directed by: George Seaton Featuring: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and William Holden Georgie Elgin: “Let's say I try my small way to help.” Bernie Dodd: “That's what my ex-wife used to keep me reminding of, cheerfully. She had a theory that behind every …
“Van der Valk” (1972 - 1992) Television Thirty Two Episodes Created by: Nicolas Freeling Featuring: Barry Foster, Michael Latimer, Susan Travers, Martin Wyldeck, Sydney Tafler, Joanna Dunham, Nigel Stock, Meg Davies, Richard Huw and Ronald Hines “Van der Valk” (1972 - 1992) Van Der Valk was a British detective television series that originally aired on ITV between 1972 and 1977. The show was based on …
“Carrie” (1952) Drama Running Time: 106 minutes Written by: Theodore Dreiser, Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz Directed by: William Wyler Featuring: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones and Edward Albert Julie Hurstwood: “Will you give her up?” George Hurstwood: “I'm not like you, Julia. I don't make threats, and I don't make promises.” Julie Hurstwood: “Well, I make them. And I keep them.” William Wyler’s 1952 melodrama Carrie, …
“The Mountain” (1956) Drama Running Time: 105 minutes Written by: Ranald MacDougall based on La neige en deuil by Henri Troyat Directed by: Edward Dmytryk Featuring: Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner Father Belacchi: “They're getting up a rescue party to climb the mountain.” Zachary Teller: “Why, if everybody's dead?” "The Mountain" is a 1956 drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Spencer Tracy …
“Hurry Sundown” (1967) Drama Running Time: 146 minutes Written by: Horton Foote and Thomas C. Ryan Based on Hurry Sundown by K.B. Gilden Directed by: Otto Preminger Featuring: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Robert Hooks, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith, Robert Reed, George Kennedy, Frank Converse, Loring Smith, Beah Richards, Madeleine Sherwood, Rex Ingram, Steve Sanders, John Mark, Doro Merande, Luke Askew, Donna Danton and Jim Backus Julie Ann Warren: “It wasn't until I was ten …
“Resurrection” (1980) Drama Running Time: 103 minutes Written by: Lewis John Carlino Directed by: Daniel Petrie Featuring: Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Roberts Blossom, Clifford David, Pamela Payton-Wright, Jeffrey DeMunn and Eva Le Gallienne Esco Brown: “Go carefully, with peace in your heart, with love in your eyes, and with laughter on your tongue. And if life don't hand you nothing but lemons, you just make …
“About Last Night…” (1986) Drama Running Time: 113 minutes Written by: Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue Directed by: Edward Zwick Featuring: Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins Debbie: “Bullshit. You don't know what love is. You've gotten everything you have always wanted and now you're feeling sorry for yourself because there's something you want and you can't have it. But you …
“Real Genius” (1985) Comedy Running Time: 106 minutes Written by: Neal Israel, Pat Proft and PJ Torokvei Directed by: Martha Coolidge Featuring: Val Kilmer, Gabe Jarret, Michelle Meyrink and William Atherton Mitch: “You know, um, something strange happened to me this morning...” Chris Knight: “Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming …
“Fresh Fields” (1984 - 1986) Television Twenty seven Episodes Created by: Peter Frazer-Jones Featuring: Julia McKenzie, Anton Rodgers, Ann Beach, Fanny Rowe, Ballard Berkeley, Debby Cumming, Daphne Oxenford, Philip Bird and John Arthur "Fresh Fields" is a British television sitcom that aired from 1984 to 1986, with four series and 26 episodes in total. The show follows the lives of a middle-aged couple, …
“Colossal” (2016) Action/Thriller/Horror/Science Fiction Running Time: 110 minutes Written and Directed by: Nacho Vigalondo Featuring: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens, Austin Stowell, Agam Darshi, and Tim Blake Nelson Gloria: “Keep it cool. These people are looking at us.” Oscar: “She's the monster.” Its been five years since Anne Hathaway received her Oscar for supporting actress the for musical “Les …
"Anger Management" (2012-2014) Television One hundred Episodes Created by: Bruce Helford Featuring: Charlie Sheen, Selma Blair, Shawnee Smith, Daniela Bobadilla, Noureen DeWulf, Michael Arden, Derek Richardson, Barry Corbin, Brian Austin Green and Laura Bell Bundy Sean: “I don't know what's going on here, but I am totally on Jen's side.” "Anger Management" is a television sitcom that aired from 2012 to 2014. The show stars Charlie Sheen as …
“Britannia III” (2019) Television/Historical Drama Ten Episodes Created by: Jez Butterworth, Tom Butterworth and James Richardson Featuring: Kelly Reilly, David Morrissey, Zoë Wanamaker, Mackenzie Crook, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Eleanor Worthington Cox “When I look over my shoulder (what happens then?)What do you think I see? (Mm)Some other cat looking over (shadoop, shadoop)Over his shoulder at me” – Season of the Witch, Donovan Released recently …
“Travelers: Season 1 - 3” (2016 - 2018) Television Thirty Four Episodes Created by: Brad Wright Featuring: Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper, Jared Abrahamson, Reilly Dolman and Patrick Gilmore Grant MacLaren: “I'm Not Gonna Sit Here And Pretend To Know What Makes Us Who We Are. But I Gotta Figure It's More Than Just The Sum Of What We Remember.” Released recently on …
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“Alphas: Season One and Two” (2003 - 2005) Television Twenty Four Episodes Created by: Zak Penn and Michael Karnow Featuring: David Strathairn, Ryan Cartwright, Warren Christie, Azita Ghanizada, Laura Mennell, Malik Yoba and Erin Way Trey Lockerbie: [singing] “Don't take "no" for an answer / 'nd there's no telling where we've been... / 'Cause people don't understand, understand, understand / People don't understand / People like me.” …
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“Murder Investigation Team” (2003 - 2005) Television Twelve Episodes Created by: Paul Marquess Featuring: Samantha Spiro, Lindsey Coulson, Diane Parish and Michael McKell DC Rosie MacManus: [Looking at a picture of the victim's daughter] “Poor cow! She's got no one now! DI Vivien Friend: She'll get used to it.” Released recently on DVD is the drama “Murder Investigation Team” (2003 - 2005) which …
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