Posts Tagged ‘eccentric’

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Eric Idle | Terry Jones | Michael Palin | Connie Booth | Carol Cleveland | Neil Innes | Bee Duffell | John Young | Rita Davies | Avril Stewart | Sally Kinghorn | Mark Zycon
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. They do not travel on horses, but pretend they do and have their servants bang coconuts to make the sound of horse’s hooves. Through satire of certain events in history (witch trials, the black plague) they find Camelot, but after literally a quick song and dance they decide that they do not want to go there. While walking away, God (who seems to be grumpy) come to them from a cloud and tells them to find the Holy Grail. They agree and begin their search…

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Sellers | George C. Scott | Sterling Hayden | Keenan Wynn | Slim Pickens | Peter Bull | James Earl Jones | Tracy Reed | Jack Creley | Frank Berry | Robert O'Neil | Glenn Beck | Roy Stephens
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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U.S. President Merkin Muffley is on the hot line to Moscow with some rather embarrassing news for the Soviet premier: “Hello, Dimitri….I’m fine….Now then, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb….The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb….Well, now, what happened is that, uh, one of our base commanders…he went a little funny in the head….and he went and did a silly thing….He ordered his planes to attack your country.” A comedy about an accidental nuclear attack? One that ends with total annihilation, thermonuclear apocalypse? Preposterous! Stanley Kubrick thought otherwise. In the end his thinking prevailed. The mad saga revolves around a psychotic Strategic Air Command officer, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, who lets loose his B-52 bomber squadron on the Soviet Union. Ripper takes this unilateral action because of his paranoid belief that Communists are sapping and contaminating “all our precious bodily fluids” as part of their plan to take over the world.” Unbeknownst to Ripper, his attack will trigger the Russian’s ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine, a diabolical retaliatory device set to blow up the planet.

Clue (1985)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eileen Brennan | Tim Curry | Madeline Kahn | Christopher Lloyd | Michael McKean | Martin Mull | Lesley Ann Warren | Colleen Camp | Lee Ving | Bill Henderson | Jane Wiedlin | Jeffrey Kramer | Kellye Nakahara | Will Nye | Rick Goldman
Directors: Jonathan Lynn
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Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play. You’ll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. Features three surprise endings!!

Real Genius (1985)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Val Kilmer | Gabriel Jarret | Michelle Meyrink | William Atherton | Jon Gries | Patti D'Arbanville | Stacy Peralta | Daniel Ades | Andres Aybar | Louis Giambalvo | Ed Lauter | Charles Shull | Beau Billingslea | Charles Parks | Sean Frye
Directors: Martha Coolidge
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Two brilliant teenagers head a team of young geniuses developing a laser for what they believe is a class project. When they find out that their professor intends to turn their work over to the government for use as a weapon, they decide to ruin his plans.

Capote (2005)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Allie Mickelson | Kelci Stephenson | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Craig Archibald | Bronwen Coleman | Kate Shindle | David Wilson Barnes | Michael J. Burg | Catherine Keener | Kwesi Ameyaw | Andrew Farago | Ken Krotowich | Chris Cooper | R.D. Reid | Rob McLaughlin
Directors: Bennett Miller
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On the night of 14 November 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, a farmhouse is broken into by the criminals Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that expect to get US$ 10,000.00. With the policy of “no witness”, the murderers kill the entire family. The homosexual writer Truman Capote travels to the small town with his friend Nelle Harper Lee and decide to use the topic to write a book. When the killers are arrested, he becomes friend of Perry for his own interest and then he falls in love for him, and gets a new lawyer for them, postponing their execution until 14 April 1965.

Buddy Movie (1997)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Rene Russo | Robbie Coltrane | Alan Cumming | Irma P. Hall | Peter Elliott | Mak Wilson | Lynn Robertson Bruce | Mark Sealey | Robert Tygner | Michelan Sisti | Peter Hurst | Leif Tilden | Star Townsend | Paul Reubens | John Aylward
Directors: Caroline Thompson
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This is a fact based story about an English socialite (Rene Russo) and her husband (Robbie Coltrane) who live in a mansion with a brood of animals including chimpanzees who are raised as her children. When she discovers an ailing baby gorilla, she decides to care for it as well. Years later, the gorilla is fully grown and its strength is sometimes out of control. However, the gorilla shows love for his mistress and obeys her commands. That all changes when she is invited to display the gorilla and chimps at the Chicago World’s Fair. Accidentally freed by one of the chimps, the gorilla terrorizes the Fair. From that point on, he becomes moody and more uncontrollable until he attacks his mistress in a bestial rage.

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Dolores Costello | Anne Baxter | Tim Holt | Agnes Moorehead | Ray Collins | Erskine Sanford | Richard Bennett | Orson Welles | Edwin August | Jack Baxley | William Blees | Lyle Clement | Bobby Cooper | Don Dillaway
Directors: Fred Fleck
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The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.

The Addams Family (1991)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Anjelica Huston | Raul Julia | Christopher Lloyd | Elizabeth Wilson | Christina Ricci | Judith Malina | Dan Hedaya | Carel Struycken | Paul Benedict | Christopher Hart | Dana Ivey | Jimmy Workman | John Franklin | Tony Azito | Douglas Brian Martin
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
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The Addams step out of Charles Addams’ cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark’s son into the family as their long lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?

Hudson Hawk (1991)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Danny Aiello | Andie MacDowell | James Coburn | Richard E. Grant | Sandra Bernhard | Donald Burton | Don Harvey | David Caruso | Andrew Bryniarski | Lorraine Toussaint | Burtt Harris | Frank Stallone | Carmine Zozzora | Stefano Molinari
Directors: Michael Lehmann
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Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy.

Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Malcolm McDowell | Patrick Magee | Michael Bates | Warren Clarke | John Clive | Adrienne Corri | Carl Duering | Paul Farrell | Clive Francis | Michael Gover | Miriam Karlin | James Marcus | Aubrey Morris | Godfrey Quigley | Sheila Raynor
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try “aversion therapy” to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.