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Toronto International Film Festival
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The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Year-round, TIFF Bell Lightbox offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals, workshops, industry support, TIFF Bell Lightbox is located on the north west corner of King Street and John Street in downtown Toronto. In 2015,397 films from 71 countries were screened at 28 screens in downtown Toronto venues, welcoming an estimated 480,000 attendees, TIFF starts the Thursday night after Labour Day and lasts for eleven days. Founded in 1976, TIFF is now one of the most prestigious events of its kind in the world, in 1998, Variety magazine acknowledged that TIFF is second only to Cannes in terms of high-profile pics, stars and market activity. In 2007, TIME noted that TIFF had grown from its place as the most influential film festival to the most influential film festival. This is partially the result of TIFFs ability and reputation for generating Oscar buzz, the Toronto International Festival’s Grolsch People’s Choice Award — which is based on popular vote by Festival filmgoers — has emerged as a beacon of awards-season success. Founded by Bill Marshall, Dusty Cohl and Henk Van der Kolk and that first year,35,000 filmgoers watched 127 films from 30 countries presented in ten programmes. Piers Handling has been the director and CEO since 1994. TIFF was once centred on the Yorkville neighbourhood, but the Toronto Entertainment District later gained a level of prominence. TIFF is known for the celebrity buzz it brings to the area with international media setting up near its restaurants and stores for photos and interviews with the stars. In 2010, TIFF opened its permanent headquarters, TIFF Bell Lightbox, TIFF has grown, steadily adding initiatives throughout the years. TIFF Cinematheque and the Film Reference Library opened in 1990, the TIFF Kids International Film Festival launched in 1998. Film Circuit began exhibiting independent and Canadian films in under-serviced cities across Canada in 1994, the festival was founded in 1976 at the Windsor Arms Hotel by Bill Marshall, Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl. Beginning as a collection of the films from film festivals around the world. Ironically, however, Hollywood studios withdrew their submissions from TIFF due to concerns that Toronto audiences would be too parochial for their products, in 1994, the decision was made to replace the name Festival of Festivals with Toronto International Film Festival. From 1994 to 2009, the organization running TIFF was named Toronto International Film Festival Group. In 2009, the umbrella organization TIFFG was renamed to TIFF, in 2001, Perspective Canada, the programme that had focused on Canadian films since 1984, was replaced by two programmes, Canada First. A forum for Canadian filmmakers presenting their first feature-length work, featuring eight to 15 films, and Short Cuts Canada, in 2004, TIFF was featured as the site of murder mystery in the film Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, a comedy film starring Martin Short
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Macaulay Culkin
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Macaulay Carson Culkin is an American actor. He became famous as an actor for his role as Kevin McCallister in the family comedy Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2. He is also known for his roles in Uncle Buck, My Girl, The Good Son, The Pagemaster, Richie Rich, Party Monster, at the height of his fame, he was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple. Culkin ranked at two on VH1s list of the 100 Greatest Kid-Stars and E. s list of the 50 Greatest Child Stars. Culkin was born in New York City and his father, Christopher Cornelius Kit Culkin, is a former actor known for his productions on Broadway and is the brother of actress Bonnie Bedelia. His mother is Patricia Brentrup, who never married Culkin and he was raised Roman Catholic, and attended a Catholic school for five years before moving on to Professional Childrens School. He also studied ballet at the School of American Ballet, Macaulay Carson Culkin was named after Thomas Babington Macaulay. He was given the middle name Carson so he would then be named after Kit Carson of the old west, Culkin was the third of seven children, five boys and two girls, Shane, Dakota, Kieran, Quinn, Christian, and Rory. During Culkins early childhood, the family lived in an apartment, his mother was a telephone operator. Culkin began acting at the age of four, early roles saw him appearing in a stage production of Bach Babies at the New York Philharmonic. He continued appearing in roles on stage, television, and films throughout the 1980s, notable parts in this period included an episode of the popular action series The Equalizer, in which he played a kidnapping victim, and in the TV movie The Midnight Hour. In 1989, he starred in Uncle Buck with John Candy and he reprised the role of Kevin in the 1992 sequel Home Alone 2, Lost in New York. Culkin also starred in a Saturday morning cartoon entitled Wish Kid, despite the huge success of Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Lost in New York and My Girl, other films Culkin acted in, such as The Good Son, only did reasonably well. Getting Even with Dad, The Pagemaster, and Richie Rich and he appeared in the 1998 music video for the song Sunday by the rock band Sonic Youth. After several years of inactivity, Culkin returned to acting, in 2000, with a role in the play Madame Melville, in the spring of 2003, he made a guest appearance on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. His role as Karen Walkers deceptively immature divorce lawyer won him favorable reviews and he quickly followed that with a supporting part in Saved. as a cynical wheelchair-using, non-Christian student in a conservative Christian high school. Though Saved. only had modest success at the box office, Culkin received positive reviews for his role in the film, Culkin began doing voice-over work, with appearances in Seth Greens Robot Chicken. In 2006, he published an experimental, semi-autobiographical novel, Junior, Culkin starred in Sex and Breakfast, a dark comedy written and directed by Miles Brandman
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Kieran Culkin
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Kieran Kyle Culkin is an American actor. His breakout role in Igby Goes Down received critical acclaim and he was nominated for a Best Actor Golden Globe Award, as well as winning a Critics Choice Movie Award and Satellite Award. He has also acted on-stage, most notably in productions of the Kenneth Lonergan play This Is Our Youth. In 2015, he portrayed Rye Gerhardt in the season of the critically acclaimed FX series Fargo. Culkin was born in New York City, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Kit Culkin and he is the fourth of seven children. He has four brothers, Shane, Macaulay, Christian, and Rory and his second sister, Dakota, died in a car accident in 2008. Culkins first film role was a small part alongside his brother, Macaulay and he continued acting as a child and teenager, mainly working in comedies, including Home Alone 2, Lost in New York and Father of the Bride and its sequel. He also played a role in Shes All That as Laneys younger brother, as a teenager, he alternated between lead roles in independent films and small parts in mainstream films. He played the role in the film Igby Goes Down, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He also had the role in The Mighty as Kevin Dillon. In 2015, he portrayed Rye Gerhardt in the season of the critically acclaimed FX series Fargo. Kieran Culkin at the Internet Movie Database Kieran Culkin at the Internet Broadway Database Kieran Culkin at Internet Off-Broadway Database
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Bonnie Bedelia
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Bonnie Bedelia is an American actress. She began her career in theatre and during 1960s starred in the CBS daytime soap opera, Love of Life, Bedelia was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in 1983 film Heart Like a Wheel, and for an Independent Spirit Award for The Prince of Pennsylvania. She is best known for her role as Holly Gennero McClane in the action films Die Hard and Die Hard 2, as well as the movies They Shoot Horses, Lovers and Other Strangers, Presumed Innocent, and Needful Things. Bedelia also had many leading and supporting roles, and has worked regularly on television. For her television work, Bedelia received two Emmy Awards nominations, from 2001 to 2004, Bedelia played the lead role in the Lifetime television drama series, The Division, and later starred as family matriarch Camille Braverman in the NBC drama series, Parenthood. Bonnie Bedelia was born in New York City, the daughter of Marian Ethel, a writer and editor, and Philip Harley Culkin and she was born in a difficult financial period when her fathers firm went bankrupt and they lived in a cold-water tenement flat. She has two brothers, one of whom is actor Kit Culkin, and a sister, Candice Culkin and she is the aunt of actors Macaulay, Kieran, and Rory Culkin. Her mother died when she was 14 and her father, who had always had ulcers, before becoming an actress, Bedelia studied ballet and appeared in a few productions with the New York City Ballet, including The Nutcracker. In 1958 she had her only dancing role onscreen as Clara in the Playhouse 90 television production of the George Balanchine Nutcracker, from 1961 to 1967 Bedelia was a regular on the CBS soap opera, Love of Life, playing the role of Sandy Porter. She also worked on Broadway, making her debut supporting Patty Duke in 1962 in Isle of Children, Bedelia made her film debut in The Gypsy Moths, and later in 1969 she attracted attention as the pregnant marathon dancer in They Shoot Horses, Dont They. In following years, she starred in the 1970 comedy Lovers and Other Strangers, and had roles in The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie. She also appeared opposite Richard Dreyfuss in 1978 comedyThe Big Fix, on television she had the leading role in the short-lived ABC drama series, The New Land. In 1984 Bedelia received critical acclaim and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in 1983s Heart Like a Wheel as drag racer Shirley Muldowney. Bedelia appeared in two Stephen King screen adaptations, Salems Lot and Needful Things and she was nominated for Emmy Award for performances in Showtime anthology series, Fallen Angels in 1993, and for the leading role in the made-for-television movie Locked in Silence. On television she played a number of leading roles in films and miniseries, such as Switched at Birth, A Mothers Right, The Elizabeth Morgan Story, Her Costly Affair. From 2001 to 2004 Bedelia had lead role as Capt, kate McCafferty in the Lifetime television drama series The Division. She later guest-starred in Big Love and CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, in 2010 Bedelia began starring in the NBC drama series, Parenthood, playing the role of the family matriarch, Camille Braverman. The series aired during six seasons to 2015 and she married scriptwriter Ken Luber on April 24,1969, and they had two sons, Uri and Jonah
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Scream 4
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Scream 4 is a 2011 American slasher film and the fourth and final installment in the Scream series. The plot involves Sidney Prescott returning to Woodsboro after ten years, as soon as she arrives, Ghostface once again begins killing students from Woodsboro High. Originally, the series was intended to be a trilogy, filming took place in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan, in June 2010 to September 2010, with re-shoots in early 2011. Scream 4 was released on April 15,2011 and grossed $97 million against its $40 million budget and it received mixed reviews from critics although many noted it as an improvement over Scream 3. On the fifteenth anniversary of the original Woodsboro murders, high school students Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper are attacked, the following day, Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro to promote her new book, Out of Darkness, with her publicist Rebecca Walters. After evidence is found in Sidneys rental car, Sidney becomes a suspect in the murders, Sidneys teenage cousin Jill, who is dealing with the betrayal of her ex-boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon, gets a threatening phone call from Ghostface. She and her friends Olivia Morris and Kirby Reed, are questioned about their calls by Dewey Riley, meanwhile, Deweys wife, Gale Weathers-Riley, is struggling with writers block. She gives up the writing and decides to investigate the murder instead, Sidney stays with her aunt Kate Roberts. Later that night, Olivia, who lives next door to Jill, is attacked and killed by Ghostface as Jill, Sidney and Jill rush in to save Olivia, but the killer injures them and gets away. Sidney and Jill are taken to the hospital, later, in the hospitals parking garage, Ghostface murders Rebecca. Gale, trying to solve the murders, enlists the help of two high school movie fanatics Charlie Walker and Robbie Mercer, who explain that the killer is using the rules of movie remakes to murder. Charlie concludes that the killer will strike at a party being held that night. Gale goes to the party to investigate, Ghostface attacks and stabs her but flees when Dewey arrives. Dewey takes her to the hospital, at Jills house, Sidney discovers that the policemen assigned to guard the house are dead. She also discovers that Jill has left the house and gone to Kirbys, Sidney goes down to tell Kate, but the killer appears and chases her and Kate. In the ensuing attempt to keep Ghostface from entering the house, after Deputy Judy Hicks arrives, Sidney rushes to Kirbys house to save Jill on her own. Jill, Kirby, Charlie, Robbie, and Trevor are at Kirbys house when Ghostface appears and stabs, Kirby is forced to answer horror movie trivia to save Charlie, who is tied up outside. Sidney goes upstairs to find Jill, promising to return to Kirby, after Kirby answers Ghostfaces questions, she goes outside to untie Charlie, believing that she has won the game
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You Can Count On Me
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You Can Count On Me is a 2000 American drama film starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin, and Matthew Broderick. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, it tells the story of Sammy, a mother living in a small town. The story takes place in the fictionalized Catskill communities of Scottsville and Auburn, the film was primarily shot in and around Margaretville, New York. As children, Sammy and Terry Prescott lose their parents to a car accident, after months of no communication with his sister, Terry is desperate for money, so he comes to visit her and her son, Rudy, who are excited about reuniting with him. Sammy lends him the money, which he mails back to his girlfriend, after the girlfriend attempts suicide, he decides to extend his stay with his sister, which she welcomes. For a school writing assignment, Rudy imagines his absent father as a fantastic hero, Sammy only gives him vague descriptions of the truth while Terry lets his feelings be known about Rudy Sr. s abandonment. Sammy rekindles a relationship with an old boyfriend, but is surprised when he proposes to her after a short time and she needs time to consider it. At the bank, the new manager, Brian, tries to make his mark with unusual demands about computer color schemes and he is particularly tough on Sammy, requesting that she make arrangements for someone else to pick up her son from the school bus rather than leaving work. After some minor arguments, they end up having an affair, Terry grows close to Rudy during their time together. Yet he pushes the limits of Sammys parental control during a game of pool at a bar. She turns to her minister to counsel Terry about his outlook on life, while Terry resists his sisters advice, he stays on good terms with his nephew. Realizing her own decisions, Sammy turns down her boyfriends marriage proposal. After a day of fishing, Terry and Rudy decide to visit Rudy Sr. in the town of Auburn, confronted by his past, Rudy Sr. is incensed, leading Terry to assault him and get arrested. Sammy brings her brother and son home and asks Terry to move out and he plans to go back to Alaska and scoffs at Sammys suggestion to remain in town and get his life back on track. While at first it appears the separation will be another heartache, they reconcile before Terry leaves, while the bank exteriors were filmed at Margaretvilles NBT bank, the interiors were filmed in another bank closer to New York City since NBT considered interior filming a security risk. The scenes where Rudy Jr. walks home in the rain were filmed with the assistance of the Margaretville Fire Department which used their trucks, many outdoor scenes away from the Village—most notably the fishing trip—were filmed in Phoenicia, New York. The cemetery seen in the film is not the Villages—which cannot be seen from the road—rather it is a smaller cemetery four miles outside the village on Route 30. You Can Count On Me received highly positive reviews critics and has a certified fresh score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 101 reviews
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M. Night Shyamalan
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Manoj M. Night Shyamalan is an Indian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots and surprise endings. His other films include The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening, The Last Airbender and he is also known for producing Devil, as well as being instrumental in the creation of the Fox science fiction series Wayward Pines. Shyamalan is also known for filming and setting his films in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised, most of his commercially successful films were co-produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios Touchstone and Hollywood film imprints. In 2008, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India, Shyamalan was born in Mahé, a town in the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. The son of Indian parents, his father, Nelliate C, Shyamalan, is a Malayali from Mahé and graduated with a medical degree from JIPMER, while his mother, Jayalakshmi, is a Tamil Indian who is an obstetrician and gynecologist by profession. Shyamalan spent his first six weeks in Puducherry, and then was raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania and he attended the private Roman Catholic grammar school Waldron Mercy Academy, followed by the Episcopal Academy, a private Episcopal high school located at the time in Merion, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan earned the New York University Merit Scholarship in 1988, Shyamalan is an alumnus of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, in Manhattan, graduating in 1992. It was while studying there that he adopted Night as his second name, Shyamalan had an early desire to be a filmmaker when he was given a Super 8 camera at a young age. Though his father wanted him to follow in the practice of medicine. By the time he was seventeen, the Steven Spielberg fan had made forty-five home movies, on each DVD release of his films, he has included a scene from one of these childhood movies, which he feels represents his first attempt at the same kind of film. Shyamalan made his first film, the semi-autobiographical drama Praying with Anger, while still a student at NYU, using money borrowed from family and he wrote and directed his second movie, Wide Awake. His parents were the associate producers. The drama dealt with a ten-year-old Catholic schoolboy who, after the death of his grandfather, the films supporting cast included Dana Delany and Denis Leary as the boys parents, as well as Rosie ODonnell, Julia Stiles, and Camryn Manheim. Wide Awake was filmed in a school Shyamalan attended as a child and earned 1999 Young Artist Award nominations for Best Drama, only in limited release, the film grossed $305,704 in theaters, against a $6 million budget. That same year Shyamalan co-wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little with Greg Brooker, in 2013, he revealed he was the ghostwriter for the 1999 film Shes All That, a teen comedy starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook. However, this statement has come into question as the screenwriter for the film. In July 2000, on The Howard Stern Show, Shyamalan said he had met with Steven Spielberg and was in talks to write the script for the fourth Indiana Jones film. This would have given Shyamalan a chance to work with his longtime idol, after the film fell through, Shyamalan later said it was too tricky to arrange and not the right thing for him to do
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Signs (film)
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Signs is a 2002 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Executive producers for the film comprised Shyamalan, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, a joint collective effort to commit to the films production was made by Blinding Edge Pictures and The Kennedy/Marshall Company. It was commercially distributed by Touchstone Pictures theatrically, and by Touchstone Home Entertainment in home media format, the story focuses on a former Episcopal priest named Graham Hess, played by Mel Gibson, who discovers a series of crop circles in his cornfield. Hess slowly discovers that the phenomena are a result of extraterrestrial life and it also stars Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, and Abigail Breslin. Signs explores faith, kinship, and extraterrestrials, following its premiere in theatres nationwide on August 2,2002, the film grossed $227,966,634 in domestic ticket receipts screening at 3,453 theatres during its widest release. It earned an additional $180,281,283 in business through international release, the film was nominated for multiple awards, including those from the Online Film Critics Society and the Empire Awards. The film also won an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the high-definition Blu-ray Disc edition of the film featuring the directors audio commentary, the making of the film, and deleted scenes was released in the United States on June 3,2008. The original motion picture soundtrack, which was composed by James Newton Howard, was released on the day by the Hollywood Records label. Hess has lost his faith and gave up his priesthood after his wife, Colleen, died in an accident caused by a town local. One morning, Graham discovers a crop circle in his field, while investigating the crop circle with the local law enforcement, Graham learns of animals becoming violent across town. Morgan is forced to kill one of the dogs when it turns violent against Bo. They hear reports of crop circles appearing around the globe, later, Graham and Merrill find the farm is being watched by a tall dark figure which disappears into the fields when they give chase. The next day, they hear strange noises over a baby monitor, Graham approaches the crop circle but on seeing a green leg sticking out of the cornrows, flees back to the house. After opening up to Merrill about the death of his wife, noting that her last words were tell Merrill to swing away, Graham goes to visit Ray, the first time since the incident. When Graham is gone, Merrill and the watch a news report about footage taken of an alien creature in Brazil. Merrill joins the children in wearing tin foil hats, believing the aliens can read their minds, at Rays, Graham finds Ray is bleeding from an injury but otherwise apologetic for the accident. After Graham accepts his apology, Ray departs for a nearby lake, after an emotionally charged dinner, they hear the same noises on the baby monitor before their television signal drops out, and place the final barricades and defenses before they gather together. As the aliens attempt to gain entry into the house, the family discovers they have left the attic door unguarded, the aliens assault the basement door and in the subsequent chaos the light goes out as Graham and Merrill prevent their entry
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The Good Son (film)
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The Good Son is a 1993 American psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by English novelist Ian McEwan. The film stars Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood, 12-year-old Mark Evans has recently experienced the death of his mother, Janice. Heading for a trip to Tokyo, Marks father Jack drives Mark to the home of his uncle Wallace. Mark is reintroduced to his family, including his cousins Connie. Mark and Henry get along at first and Henry seems to be nice, however, Henry displays an abnormal fascination with death and his talk of the death of Marks mother and that of his younger brother Richard, makes Mark feel uneasy. Henry begins to display behavior, which Mark is unable to tell Wallace. One of Henrys violent actions is to throw a dummy off a bridge and on to the highway, later, Henry plans to kill his sister Connie. Afraid that something might happen to her, Mark spends the night in her room, the next morning, Mark awakens to find Henry has taken Connie ice skating. At the pond, Henry purposely throws Connie toward thin ice, the ice collapses and Connie nearly drowns but is rescued and taken to hospital. Susan becomes suspicious and sitting in the dark, out of view, is able to interrupt Henry when he visits Connies room, Susan finds a rubber duck that Henry has hidden in the shed. It had once belonged to Richard and was with him in the bathtub the night he drowned, when Susan confronts Henry, he coldly reminds her that the toy had belonged to him before it had been Richards. He asks for the back but Susan refuses and Henry tries to take it from her. After a violent tug-of-war, Henry snatches the duck and runs to the cemetery where he throws it down a well, as Susan and Mark grow closer, Henry insinuates he will kill Susan rather than let Mark continue to develop a relationship with her. When a fight out between the two boys, Wallace locks Mark in the den. Henry asks a suspicious Susan to go for a walk with him, while Mark escapes the den, Susan confronts Henry, asking him if he killed his brother. Henry replies, What if I did, horrified by what her son has become, Susan tells Henry that he needs help but Henry flees into the woods. Susan gives chase and upon arriving at a cliff, Henry shoves her over the edge, as Susan dangles precariously, Henry picks up a large rock he intends to throw down at her but Mark intervenes and tackles his cousin. They fight and Henry viciously tries his best to kill Mark, Susan manages to pull herself up on to the clifftop and is just in time to dive forward and grab hold of the boys as they roll over the edge
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Richie Rich (film)
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Richie Rich is a 1994 American family film, directed by Donald Petrie, based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character of the same name created by Alfred Harvey and Warren Kremer. The film stars Macaulay Culkin as the title character, edward Herrmann, Michael McShane, Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Hyde, and John Larroquette serve in supporting roles, while Reggie Jackson, Claudia Schiffer and Ben Stein appear in cameo roles. Culkins younger brother, Rory Culkin, played the part of young Richie, while in theaters, the film was shown with a Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner cartoon called Chariots of Fur. In 1998, it was followed by a sequel, Richie Richs Christmas Wish. At a dedication to the reopening of United Tool, a factory Richard recently acquired Richie encounters a group of kids playing baseball. Unfortunately, before he is able to talk to them, the head of security, Ferguson, stops Richie and sharply pulls him away. Richard tries to keep in touch with Richie and spend time with his son whenever he can, Professor Keenbean has invented a machine called the Dadlink that pinpoints Richards location in seconds, so Richie can talk to his dad whenever hes away on business. Meanwhile, the greedy CFO of Rich Industries, Laurence Van Dough, is planning to steal the Rich financial fortune, Van Dough, with the help of Ferguson, plots to blow up the plane carrying the Rich family to England. Cadbury makes a suggestion to Richies mother, Regina, and arranges for Richie to stay home in Chicago with the kids for a weekend of fun. That weekend allows Richie to earn the friendship of the kids, most importantly. Cadbury also begins to fall for Glorias mother, Dianne, during the plane trip to England, the bomb is detected. Richard is able to toss it out his window, but it detonates, destroying part of the tail, Richie Sr. and Regina survive the crash and float on a life raft. Believing that Richies parents are dead, Van Dough assumes leadership of the Rich corporation and this includes closing the recently reopened United Tool factory, which the parents of the sandlot kids relied upon for their income. This angers Richie, who proceeds to the headquarters and, as a living Rich family member. Cadbury is framed for the Rich familys apparent murder, and the Rich familys other loyal servants are all fired en masse by Van Doughs edict, Van Dough plots to have Cadbury murdered in jail and make it look like a suicide. With Professor Keenbean eavesdropping on their conversation, he manages to sneak Richie out, Cadbury and Richie then make their way to Glorias house, where Dianne tends to Cadbury, and Richie uses Glorias computer to hack into the Dadlinks mainframe at Richies mansion. During this time, Van Dough finds out about Cadburys escape and, with Fergusons help and they tie the professor up and threaten him with his own invention, the molecular reorganizer. Keenbean states that the lock is voice-activated and only Richard and Regina can open it, Van Dough, meanwhile, is still unaware of their continued survival
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Igby Goes Down
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The film was written and directed by Burr Steers, and stars Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum, Susan Sarandon, Amanda Peet, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, and Jared Harris. It was given a theatrical release through United Artists on September 13,2002 in the United States. Jason Igby Slocumb, Jr. is a misanthropic 17-year-old boy and his schizophrenic father, Jason, has been committed to an institution. Igby fears he will suffer a mental breakdown like his father. His mother, Mimi, is self-absorbed and distant, Igby mockingly describes his ambitious older brother Ollie as a fascist or, alternatively, a Young Republican, and that he studies neo-fascism at Columbia University. Igby figures there must be a life out there, and he sets out to find it. After happily flunking out of several schools, he ends up in a brutal military academy where he gets beaten by his classmates. After escaping and spending time in a Chicago hotel courtesy of his mothers credit card, while working construction for D. H. Igby first encounters Rachel, his godfathers heroin-addicted trophy mistress. Rather than return to school, he escapes into the underworld of Manhattan, hiding out with Rachel. Eventually, he and Rachel have sex, after being suspected and scolded by D. H. he then hooks up with terminally bored, part-time lover, Sookie, only for her to later leave him for Ollie. Despite seeming cold and distant, Mimi is not unaffected by her rebellious son and she describes Igbys conception as an act of animosity and it shouldnt be a surprise that his life follows the same course. His name is explained as a family in-joke, as a child, he would blame his toy bear, Digby, for things he had done, mispronouncing it as Igby. In order to get him to take responsibility for his actions, Igby is informed by Russell that his mother Mimi is dying from breast cancer and so he returns to see her. She has arranged to commit suicide with help from Ollie, who feeds her poisoned strawberry yogurt, before she dies, Mimi makes a final revelation, casually inquiring of Igby, I take it you know that D. H. is your father. Igby leaves for Los Angeles in an attempt to make a clean break by getting 3,000 miles away from his family. Kieran Culkin as Jason Igby Slocumb, Jr. Rory Culkin as 10-year-old Igby Claire Danes as Sookie Sapperstein Jeff Goldblum as D. H. Banes Bill Pullman as Jason Slocumb and it is one of the last films to show the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center. The soundtrack was released on February 25,2003 by Spun Records, additional music credits Kodo – Ibuki Reconstruction M. Tardieu – Nocturne Supreme Beings of Leisure – Golddigger Herman Beeftink – Flamenco 60 Ft. Dolls – No. Critics have compared aspects of the story to J. D. Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye, film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review and a grade of three and a half stars out of four
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Laura Linney
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Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress. A three-time Academy Award nominee and three-time Tony Award nominee, she won her first Emmy Award in 2002 for Wild Iris, from 2010–13, she starred in the Showtime series The Big C, which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013. She is also a two-time Golden Globe Award winner and she made her screen debut in the 1992 film Lorenzos Oil, and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for You Can Count on Me, Kinsey and The Savages. Her other films include Primal Fear, The Truman Show, Mystic River, Love Actually and The Squid and the Whale. Her mother, Miriam Anderson Ann Perse, was a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, linneys paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U. S. Linney grew up in modest circumstances, living with her mother in a small one-bedroom apartment and she has a half-sister, Susan, from her fathers second marriage. She is a 1982 graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon School, a preparatory school in New England. Linney graduated from Brown in 1986 and she went on to study acting at the Juilliard School as a member of Group 19, which also included Jeanne Tripplehorn. Linney later received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Juilliard when she delivered the commencement address in 2009. Linney first appeared in roles in a few early 1990s films, including Lorenzos Oil and Dave. She was then cast in a series of thrillers, including Congo, Primal Fear. She made her Hollywood breakthrough in 1998, playing Jim Carreys on-screen wife in The Truman Show, Linney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 2000 film You Can Count on Me. The same year, she appeared in the role of an artists model in the low-budget film Maze with Rob Morrow. In 2003, Linney appeared in notable films, including The Life of David Gale, Love Actually. The latter film earned her a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and her 2004 performance in Kinsey, again as the title characters wife, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2005, Linney starred in the horror film The Exorcism of Emily Rose and the comedy-drama The Squid, for the latter role, she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. In 2006, Linney appeared in the political satire Man of the Year, the comedy Driving Lessons, Jindabyne was based on Raymond Carvers short story So Much Water so Close to Home. She received a third Academy Award nomination for The Savages, this time for Best Actress, in 2008, Linney starred in The Other Man, opposite Liam Neeson, with whom she had starred in Kinsey and Love Actually, and Antonio Banderas
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Young Artist Award
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The 1st Youth In Film Awards ceremony was held in October 1979, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood to honor outstanding young performers of the 1978/1979 season. The 38th Annual Young Artist Awards ceremony, honoring young performers of 2016, was held at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles, the scholarship program is funded exclusively by donations including contribution from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Young Artist Awards are presented annually by the Young Artist Association, originally known as the Youth In Film Awards for the first twenty years, the name was officially changed to the Young Artist Awards for the 21st annual awards ceremony in March 2000. Originally held in the autumn in its years, the awards ceremony has traditionally taken place in the spring for more than 20 years. The original Youth In Film Award was a statuette was similar to a miniature Oscar, a gilded figure of a man holding a laurel wreath instead of a sword and standing upon a relatively large trophy style base. The current Young Artist Award statuette, is a figure displaying a Five-pointed star above its head, candidates considered for nomination must be between the ages of 5 and 21 and are usually submitted for consideration by producers or by the young artists agent and/or manager. Submissions are traditionally due by the end of January to mid-February and nominees are announced about one month later at an annual nomination ceremony, winners are selected by members of the Young Artist Association. Today, the Young Artist Association has a board of over 125 members composed of journalists, agents. Winners are selected by ballot of all associated with the Young Artist Association as well as former nominees. The various Young Artist Awards categories have evolved extensively since the first awards were presented, after the ceremony is the annual banquet dinner and then dancing with live musical entertainment often provided by talented young musical artists of the day. The first Youth In Film Awards were presented in October 1979 at a ceremony held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood. Subsequent venues over the years have included the Ambassador Hotels Coconut Grove, the Globe Theater, the Beverly Garland Hotel and the Sportsmens Lodge
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Mel Gibson
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Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson AO is an American actor and filmmaker. He was born in Peekskill, New York, and moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia and he studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. During the 1980s, he founded Icon Entertainment, a company which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called. Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the critically acclaimed World War I drama Gallipoli, the film also helped to earn Gibson the reputation of a serious, versatile actor. He later directed and produced the successful and controversial, biblical drama film The Passion of the Christ. He received further critical notice for his work of the action-adventure film Apocalypto. Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the sixth of eleven children, and the son of Hutton Gibson, a writer. One of Gibsons younger brothers, Donal, is also an actor, because of his mother, Gibson retains dual Irish and American citizenship. Mel was twelve years old at the time, Gibson was educated by members of the Congregation of Christian Brothers at St Leos Catholic College in Wahroonga, New South Wales, during his high school years. Gibson gained very favorable notices from critics when he first entered the cinematic scene. In 1982, Vincent Canby wrote that Mr. Gibson recalls the young Steve McQueen, I cant define star quality, but whatever it is, Mr. Gibson has it. Gibson has also likened to a combination Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart. Gibsons roles in the Mad Max series of films, Peter Weirs Gallipoli, later, Gibson expanded into a variety of acting projects including human dramas such as Hamlet, and comedic roles such as those in Maverick and What Women Want. He expanded beyond acting into directing and producing, with, The Man Without a Face, in 1993, Braveheart, in 1995, The Passion of the Christ, in 2004, jess Cagle of Time compared Gibson with Cary Grant, Sean Connery, and Robert Redford. Connery once suggested Gibson should play the next James Bond to Connerys M. Gibson turned down the role, Gibson studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. The students at NIDA were classically trained in the British-theater tradition rather than in preparation for screen acting. As students, Gibson and actress Judy Davis played the leads in Romeo and Juliet, and Gibson played the role of Queen Titania in an experimental production of A Midsummer Nights Dream. After graduation in 1977, Gibson immediately began work on the filming of Mad Max, but continued to work as a stage actor, and joined the State Theatre Company of South Australia in Adelaide
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Joaquin Phoenix
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Joaquín Rafael Phoenix, known formerly as Leaf Phoenix, is a Puerto Rican–born American actor, producer, music video director, musician and activist. For his work as an artist, Phoenix has received a Grammy Award, Phoenix started acting in television shows with his brother River Phoenix and sister Summer Phoenix. His first major release was in the comedy-drama film Parenthood. During his period as an actor he was credited as Leaf Phoenix. He received international attention for his portrayal of Commodus in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, to this date, he and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the first and only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards. Aside from his career, he has also ventured into directing music videos, as well as producing films. He has recorded an album, the soundtrack to Walk The Line, Phoenix is a social activist, lending his support to a number of charities and humanitarian organizations. He is also known for his animal rights advocacy. He has been a vegan since the age of three, and actively campaigns for PETA and In Defense of Animals, Phoenix was born Joaquín Rafael Bottom in the Río Piedras district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to parents from the U. S. mainland. He is the third of five children, including River, Rain, Liberty and Summer and he also has a half-sister named Jodean from a previous relationship of his fathers. Phoenixs father, John Lee Bottom, originally from Fontana, California, was a lapsed Catholic, of English, Phoenixs mother, Arlyn, was born in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents whose families emigrated from Russia and Hungary. Arlyn left her family in 1968 and moved to California, later meeting Phoenixs father while hitchhiking and they married in 1969, then later joined a religious group, the Children of God, and began traveling throughout South America. His parents eventually became disenchanted with the Children of God, they made the decision to leave the group and they changed their last name to Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes, symbolizing a new beginning. Around this time, Joaquín began calling himself Leaf, desiring to have a name like his siblings. Leaf became the name he used as a actor, until at age 15. He first used it as a credit in his big comeback film To Die For. In order to provide food and financial support for the family, in Los Angeles, his mother started working as a secretary for NBC, and his father worked as a landscaper. He went on to himself as a child actor before deciding to withdraw from acting for a while and travel to Mexico
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The Chumscrubber
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The Chumscrubber is a 2005 American-German comedy-drama film, directed by Arie Posin, starring an ensemble cast led by Jamie Bell. The plot, written by Posin and Zac Stanford, focuses on the chain of events that follow the suicide of a drug dealer in an idealistic. Some of the themes addressed in the film are the lack of communication between teenagers and their parents and the inauthenticity of suburbia, the titular Chumscrubber is a character in a fictional video game that represents the town and its inhabitants. Bell was cast in the role after an extensive auditioning process. The Chumscrubber premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25,2005 and was released theatrically on August 26,2005, an accompanying soundtrack, composed mostly by James Horner, was released on October 18,2005. The film was both a critical and commercial failure, receiving negative reviews and earning back only US$350,000 of its $10 million budget. Troy Johnson, the supplier of drugs to fellow high school students in the fictional southern California town of Hillside. Troys best friend Dean Stiffle, is prescribed more antidepressants by his psychiatrist father Bill after discovering the body, when Dean returns to school, he is antagonized by drug dealers Billy and Lee, who were supplied by Troy. Their friend, Crystal Falls, flirts with Dean, but he realizes that her true intentions are for Dean to retrieve the remaining drugs in Troys home. To force Dean to procure the drugs, Billy and Lee plan to kidnap Deans brother, Charlie, as a ransom, the kidnappers hold Charlie Bratley – whose parents are unaware that he is missing – overnight at Crystals home. Dean eventually agrees to go to Troys house to find the drugs, upon delivery, Billy discovers that the bag doesnt contain the prescription drugs and starts a fight with Dean, leading to Deans arrest. While trying to explain everything to Officer Lou Bratley, Charlies father, neither Officer Bratley nor Deans father believes his story, but he is released, whereupon his father increases his dosage of antidepressants. Meanwhile, Charlie Stiffle crushes the real drugs and puts them into a casserole that his mother made for Troys memorial, the next day is Troys memorial service and the wedding of Mayor Michael Ebbs to Charlie Bratleys mother Terri. Lou finally realizes that his son actually has been kidnapped and heads out to look for him, now at Lees house, Crystal asks Lee to help stop the kidnapping scheme, but he does not comply. Crystal goes to Deans house for help, where she finds him hallucinating about Troys death, meanwhile, a paranoid Lee, encouraged by Billy, tries to kill Charlie Bratley to avoid being caught, but Charlie fights back and slices the knife through Billys eye. Billy runs out into the street, screaming in pain, and is hit by Lous police car, Dean attends Troys memorial, where all of the visitors are intoxicated by the drugs that are in his mothers casserole. Troys mother, Carrie, discloses to Dean that she never knew her son, Dean tells her about Troy and acknowledges that they were best friends, and she thanks him. Billy is later sent to prison, Lee, who successfully changes the narrative of his involvement during the trial, is acquitted
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Hick (film)
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Hick is a 2011 comedy-drama film directed by Derick Martini, based on the novel of the same name by Andrea Portes that draws on non-fictional elements. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Eddie Redmayne, Ray McKinnon, Rory Culkin, Juliette Lewis, Blake Lively and it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10,2011. It had a theatrical release on May 11 and is distributed by Phase 4 Films. In the 1980s, a girl named Luli McMullen lives a life with her neglectful mother, and alcoholic father in a small Nebraska town. On her 13th birthday, she receives a revolver as a gift, shortly thereafter, Luli sees a commercial for Las Vegas and decides to run away there. She hitches a ride from Eddie, a drifter with a damaged leg. They argue and she leaves the car and she eventually convinces another passerby, Glenda, to give her a ride. Luli again encounters Eddie that night in the lot of the bowling alley. The next day, Glenda takes Luli to the home of a man named Lloyd, Luli discovers that Eddie works for Lloyd, and also that Glenda knows Eddie and is quite upset to see him. While Lloyd initially appears friendly, his true mean-spirited, tyrannical nature shows through when he viciously berates Eddie for a perceived mistake, Eddie tells Luli that Lloyd and Glenda want to be alone, so he takes her to a bar. Eddie is interrupted while hustling pool by Luli, and when his hustle fails, the man then follows Luli into the ladies room to rape her. She fights him before Eddie comes in and savagely beats the man to death, at the motel, Eddie gets drunk and tells Luli that Glenda actually gave him a thousand dollars to take her off Glendas hands. Heartbroken by this news and unnerved by Eddies behavior, Luli goes outside, Eddie interrupts them in a drunken rage, and the two leave the motel. Luli tells Eddie to pull over and leaves the car despite him begging her to stay, while shes walking away, Eddie suddenly gets out of the car and chases Luli into a cornfield, where he rapes her offscreen. The next day, Luli wakes up in a place to find herself tied to a rented cabin in a small resort and dressed differently. Luli shouts for help to no avail, Eddie arrives with flowers, unties her and professes his love for her, promising to never rape her again. They are interrupted by the proprietor, Beau, who asks Eddie how long he needs the place, briefly talks with Luli, the next day, Luli, tied up again, wakes up to find Glenda in the room. Glenda confesses that Eddie was her lover, that Angel is their son together, Luli also finds out that Eddie lied about Glenda giving him money and that he essentially kidnapped her from Lloyds house, Glenda has been looking for her ever since
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Down in the Valley (film)
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Down in the Valley is a 2005 western film starring Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse and Rory Culkin. The film made its debut in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival on May 13, in the San Fernando Valley, rebellious teenager October Tobe takes a walk with her younger brother, Lonnie. The next day, Tobe goes to the beach with friends, and when they stop for gasoline, they are assisted by Harlan, Tobe invites much-older Harlan to the beach. He accepts, which results in his losing his job, at the beach, they share a passionate kiss and, after returning to Harlans house, they have sex. He takes her on a date, and the trio get something to eat, later that night, they go on their real date, dancing and meeting up with Tobes friends for another party, where Harlan takes drugs under the influence of Tobe. She returns home the day, as she has returned home long after she was expected, Wade, her father, becomes enraged. When she refuses to talk, he pounds on the door and her fathers rage increases, and he shatters her bedroom window. The romantically involved couple ride a horse that supposedly belongs to one of Harlans friends named Charlie, upon returning, Charlie claims he has never met Harlan and that the horse was stolen. The couple are held in custody until Wade comes to pick up Tobe. She tells Harlan that they should no longer see each other, Harlan, however, is persistent and takes Lonnie shooting without Wades permission. Wade, who is armed, orders Harlan to leave his children alone, mentally unstable, Harlan is evicted from his apartment after shooting at his reflection in a mirror, imagining a Wild West style shoot-out. After an awkward incident at a synagogue, where he is abruptly ushered out, he breaks into what is presumably the house of his father or foster father. He leaves the letter he has been narrating throughout the film after taking multiple Jewish memorabilia, and he breaks into Tobes house and packs a bag so that they can run away. When Tobe comes home to him, she is dumbfounded. As she slowly realizes he is deranged, she tells him she does not want to leave her family, as they argue, Harlan shoots her in the stomach. When Tobes father returns home to find Tobe alone on her bed, barely alive, he suspects Harlan, Wade rushes Tobe to the hospital, where she is attached to a breathing machine and remains in a coma. Harlan, who is covered in Tobes blood, then himself in the side to conceal Tobes blood. Harlan finds Lonnie and convinces him that it was really Wade who shot Tobe, Tobe regains consciousness at the hospital and Wade realizes that Harlan has taken Lonnie
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Mean Creek
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It was produced by Susan Johnson, Rick Rosenthal, and Hagai Shaham. The film is about a group of teenagers and young adults who devise a plan to humiliate an overweight, when their plan goes too far, they have to deal with the unexpected consequences of their actions. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004 and it was then given a limited release in major cities on August 20,2004, mostly playing at art house theaters. Rocky recruits his friends, Clyde and Marty, to assist him with his plan, part of the prank entails taking George on a boating trip to celebrate Sams birthday party. The ultimate joke, in their opinion, will be when they get him to strip in a game of truth or dare, Sam invites his girlfriend Millie along. He does not tell her the plan until they arrive near the river, Millie refuses to continue until Sam promises that he will call the plan off, which Sam agrees to do. Sam tells his brother to stop, and Rocky tells his friends what Sam has conveyed to him, although Clyde has no problem with it, Marty is very reluctant to not go through with the plan. Throughout the trip, George attempts clumsily to fit in with the others by telling rude jokes, despite his seemingly desperate attempts to fit it, George also gets confrontational when questioned about his motives when attacking someone. The group soon realizes that although George is annoying and is insecure, he is very lonely. On the boat, Marty deviates from the plan and initiates a game of truth or dare. After George shoots Rocky with a gun in good fun, George makes a funny quip about Martys father. This sets off Marty who dares George to strip naked and jump in the water, when he doesnt comply, he exposes the whole plan and starts to ridicule him. Angered and humiliated, George launches into a tirade against everyone else on the boat. Marty snaps and Rocky, in an attempt to stop the fight, unable to swim, George struggles to remain afloat in the water. As the others regard the scene in horror, George accidentally hits his head with his video camera, Rocky dives into the water but is unable to find George. Minutes later, George appears face down in the water close to the shore. Rocky exhorts the others to help him bring George to shore, the effort is in vain as George is dead and it is apparent that he cannot be revived. The group is traumatized and in fear of being charged with murder and they dig a hole and bury George
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Independent Spirit Awards
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The Film Independent Spirit Awards, founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films, in 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit Awards. Since 2006, winners have received a trophy depicting a bird with its wings spread sitting atop of a pole with the shoestrings from the previous design wrapped around the pole, Film Independent Members vote to determine the winners of the Spirit Awards. The awards show is held inside a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, California, the show is broadcast live on the IFC network, as well as Hollywood Suite in Canada and A&E Latin America. The 32nd Independent Spirit Awards ceremony, hosted by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, was broadcast live on IFC on Saturday, official website Film Independent Film Independents channel on YouTube Film Independent at the Internet Movie Database Independent Spirit Awards at the Internet Movie Database
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Law & Order, Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often ripped from the headlines or loosely based on crimes that have received media attention. Created and produced by Dick Wolf, the series premiered on NBC on September 20,1999, the show began its 18th season on September 21,2016, and has aired 404 original episodes as of April 5,2017. As the series progressed, additional supporting characters were added as allies of the detectives in the New York County Manhattan District Attorneys office, certain episodes will go into detail about detectives personal lives and how they may or may not tie into the crimes dealt with during the show. Typical episodes follow the detectives and their colleagues as they investigate and prosecute sexually based offenses, on February 1,2016, the series was renewed for an eighteenth season. The season premiered on Wednesday, September 21,2016 at 9 p. m. on NBC, the crime inspired Dick Wolf to write the story for the season one episode of Law & Order titled Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die. Even after writing the episode, however, the continued to haunt Wolf. The original title of the show was Sex Crimes, reflecting the nature of the crimes depicted on the show. Initially there was concern among the producers that, should Sex Crimes fail, additionally, Ted Kotcheff wanted to create a new series that was not dependent upon the original series for success. Wolf felt, however, that it was important and commercially desirable to have Law & Order in the title, the first episode, Payback, premiered on NBC on September 20,1999. Executive producer Neal Baer left Law & Order, SVU as show-runner at the end of twelve, after eleven years on the show. Baer was replaced by former Law & Order, Criminal Intent executive producer/showrunner Warren Leight, in March 2015 it was announced that Warren Leight signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television, that will allow him to work on SVU one more season, its seventeenth. Leight joined the show in season thirteen and it was announced on March 10,2016 that original Law & Order veteran producer Rick Eid would take Leights place as showrunner/executive producer starting in season 18. Creator Dick Wolf commented to The Hollywood Reporter, Im extremely pleased that Rick had decided to rejoin the family and hope that he will be here for years to come. Many exterior scenes of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit are filmed on location in New York City, Wolfs home town, as the NYPD encounters varied law enforcement challenges on a daily basis, the backdrop provides the writers a supply of ideal locations from which to choose. When searching for a place to film the interiors of the show, the show moved into the studio space at Chelsea Piers that had been occupied by the original Law & Order series until its cancellation in May 2010. Fort Lee, New Jersey served as the location for Detective Elliot Stablers residence in Queens. The show originally aired on Monday nights at 9,00 p. m. ET for the first nine episodes, from September 20 through November 29,1999
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The Twilight Zone (2002 TV series)
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The Twilight Zone is a 2002 revival of Rod Serlings 1959-64 television series. It aired for one season on the UPN network, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serlings role as narrator, broadcast in an hour format with two half-hour stories, it was canceled after one season. Reruns continue to air in syndication, and have aired on MyNetworkTV since summer 2008, the opening theme music was provided by Jonathan Davis. The series tended to address contemporary issues head-on, i. e. terrorism, racism, gender roles, sexuality, the series also includes remakes and updates of stories presented in the original Twilight Zone television series, including the famous The Eye of the Beholder starring Molly Sims. One of the updates, The Monsters Are on Maple Street, is a version of the classic episode similarly called The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. The original show was about the surrounding a neighborhood-wide blackout. In the course of the episode, somebody suggests an alien invasion being the cause of the blackouts, the anti-alien hysteria is an allegory for the anti-communist paranoia of the time, and the 2003 remake, starring Andrew McCarthy and Titus Welliver, replaces aliens with terrorists. The show also contains Its Still a Good Life, a sequel to the events of Its a Good Life, cloris Leachman also returned as Anthonys mother. Mumy went on to serve as screenwriter for episodes in the revival. McDonald, Langham, Xander Berkeley, and Haas had all previously guest starred in the 1980s revival, the series did not enjoy the same level of critical or ratings success as the original series or the 1980s revival, and only lasted one season. The complete series was released on DVD by New Line in a six disc box set on September 7,2004, the episodes are presented in their production order, not their broadcast order. The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone at the Internet Movie Database The Twilight Zone at TV. com Discussion of the episodes
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Patrick Warburton
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Patrick John Warburton is an American actor and voice actor. In television he has played a control enthusiast in a series of commercials for National Car Rental, Warburton was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of orthopedic surgeon John Charles Warburton Jr. and Barbara Jeanne Gratz. He later attended Servite High School, and later transferred to Newport Harbor High School and he studied marine biology at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, but dropped out to pursue modeling and acting. Warburtons acting roles often rely on his deep, booming voice, in the 1990s, he was known for his role as David Puddy on Seinfeld, the on-again, off-again boyfriend of Elaine Benes. He had a role in the 2002 film Men in Black II as Js’ new partner. He starred in FOXs short-lived series The Tick, in which he held the title role and he played Nick Sharp in 8 Simple Rules and joined the cast of Less Than Perfect in 2003, as anchorman Jeb Denton. He also played Jeff Bingham in Rules of Engagement, and Rip Riley in the FX series Archer, Warburton reprised his role as Kronk for the direct-to-video sequel, Kronks New Groove, and the subsequent TV series The Emperors New School. He voices Steve Barkin in the Disney Channel show Kim Possible, Warburton was also cast in The Venture Bros. in which he voices Brock Samson. He voices Joe Swanson on Fox’s Family Guy and Detective Cash in The Batman and he lent his voice talent to the computer-animated feature films Hoodwinked, Chicken Little, Bee Movie, Open Season, and Tak, Tak and the Power of Juju. He was also the voice of Commander Blaine H. Tate on the Comedy Central animated series Moonbeam City in October 2015, Warburton appeared on GSN’s Poker Royale Celebrities vs. the Pros tournament in 2005, winning the tournament and the $50,000 grand prize. On November 8,2009, Warburton appeared as the wild west character Cal Johnson on Seth & Alex’s Comedy Show, hosted by Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein and he was also cast as the sheriff in the Cartoon Network series Scooby-Doo. He appeared as Bowser in a video by CollegeHumor entitled The Roast of Mario and he appeared on the American version of Top Gear on February 21,2012. He set the “Big Star, Small Car” lap record, beating previous record-holder Arlene Tur, Warburton starred in the 2016 NBC sitcom Crowded, which was canceled after one season. He is the voice of Lewis in the Clark & Lewis Expedition radio commercials for Horizon Air, in August 2009, Warburton played a high-end PC in a Get a Mac ad for Apple Inc. Warburton also became the spokesman for Japanese automaker Hondas Good Reasons advertising campaign in September 2011 and he is also the voice in NAPAs Can of Know How commercial. In 2015, Warburton became the star of National Car Rental commercials Be the Boss of You and he also became the voice in the current Discover Fresh radio ad campaign by Souplantation, a California-based buffet-style restaurant chain. Warburton voices the forest ranger in a Smokey Bear radio ad campaign sponsored by the U. S. Forest Service and the Ad Council. He is featured in the video shown to guests at Soarin Over California in Disney California Adventure and Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort
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Cameo appearance
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A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves. Short appearances by celebrities, film directors, politicians, athletes or musicians are common, a crew member of the show or movie playing a minor role can be referred to as a cameo as well, such as Alfred Hitchcocks frequently performed cameos. Originally cameo role meant a character part that stands out from the other minor parts. The Oxford English Dictionary connects this with the meaning a short literary sketch or portrait, which is based on the meaning of cameo. More recently, cameo has come to refer to any short appearances, whether as a character or as oneself, such as the examples below. Cameos are generally not credited because of their brevity, or a mismatch between the celebritys stature and the film or TV show in which he or she is appearing. Others are acknowledgments of a contribution to an earlier work, as in the case of many film adaptations of TV series. Others honour artists or celebrities known for work in a particular field, possibly the best-known series of cameos was by the director Alfred Hitchcock, who made very brief appearances in most of his films. Cameos also occur in novels and other literary works, “Literary cameos” usually involve an established character from another work who makes a brief appearance to establish a shared universe setting, to make a point, or to offer homage. Balzac often employed this practice, as in his Comédie humaine, a cameo appearance can be made by the author of a work to put a sort of personal signature on a story. Vladimir Nabokov often put himself in his novels, for instance, quentin Tarantino provides cameos or small roles in at least 10 of his movies. Likewise, Peter Jackson has made cameos in all of his movies, except for his first feature-length movie Bad Taste in which he plays a main character. For example, he plays a peasant eating a carrot in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Desolation of Smaug, a Rohan warrior in The Two Towers, director Martin Scorsese appears in the background of his films as a bystander or an unseen character. In Whos That Knocking at My Door, he appears as one of the gangsters, he is a crew man in After Hours. He opens up his 1986 film The Color of Money with a monologue on the art of playing pool. In addition, he appears with his wife and daughter as wealthy New Yorkers in Gangs of New York, in a same way, Roman Polanski appears as a hired hoodlum in his film Chinatown, slitting Jack Nicholsons nose with the blade of his clasp knife. Directors sometimes cast well-known lead actors with whom they have worked in the past in other films, mike Todds film Around the World in 80 Days was filled with cameo roles, and others. The stars in cameo roles were pictured in oval insets in posters for the film, among the many cameos featured in the film Maverick, actor Danny Glover appears as the lead bank robber
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It Runs in the Family (2003 film)
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Diana Douglas, real-life mother to Michael Douglas and ex-wife of Kirk, plays Kirks characters wife. The story involves a highly successful New York City family, each with its set of problems, Mitchell Gromberg is dealing with health problems resulting from a stroke. His son Alex works as a lawyer in the firm that his father founded, Alexs son, Asher, does not take college seriously and seems lost. The youngest son is 11 year old Eli, who is extremely intelligent, Alex indulges in a thoughtless and careless brief romantic fling with Suzie at the soup kitchen they volunteer at, and his psychologist wife Rebecca discovers it, threatening their marriage. When Evelyn Gromberg, Mitchells wife and Alexs mother dies, the family together to heal. At Evelyns funeral in suburban New York, Rebecca tells Alex that she knows about his romantic fling, Alex and Mitchell talk about past hurts. Back at their home in New York City, Asher is discovered with illegal drugs, although devastated, Rebecca and Mitchell are supportive and vow to get help for Asher. Mitchells older brother Stephen dies and he, Alex and Asher give him a farewell send-off, although he is forced to sleep on the living room couch, Mitchell tells Rebecca that he wants to make peace, she agrees. Fred Schepisi noted that they were originally considering Sigourney Weaver for the part of Michaels wife, bernadette was a really nice balance, playing straighter than you’d usually see her play. In comparison, Michael Douglas next movie, The In-Laws, grossed $20,453,431, roger Ebert wrote, But the movie is simply not clear about where it wants to go and what it wants to do. It is heavy on episode and light on insight, and although it takes courage to bring up touchy topics it would have more to treat them frankly. List of films featuring diabetes It Runs in the Family at the Internet Movie Database It Runs in the Family entry from Rotten Tomatoes It Runs in the Family at Box Office Mojo
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Ryan Kelley
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Ryan Jonathan Kelley is an American actor who is known for his roles in Mean Creek, Prayers for Bobby, and as Ben Tennyson in Ben 10, Alien Swarm. His most recent role is as Deputy Jordan Parrish on Teen Wolf, Kelley was born and raised in a western suburb of Chicago, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He is the fifth eldest of 15 siblings, and was raised as a Lutheran, when he was two, his mother took him and five of his siblings to Chicago to meet an agent. Kelley started appearing in commercials and gained his first role in a movie when he was in first grade, due to his job, he was home schooled during his last two years of high school. When he turned 18, he moved to Los Angeles, in 2002, he had a supporting role in Stolen Summer, which was a film made during Project Greenlight. He also played the role of Ryan James in two episodes of Smallville, Kelley won an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in Mean Creek in 2004. Also in 2004 he played a role in the movie The Dust Factory. In 2006, Kelley appeared in the film Letters from Iwo Jima as a marine and he also played Roy, a great-nephew of Butch Cassidy, in Outlaw Trail, The Treasure of Butch Cassidy. He played a role in the movie Prayers for Bobby alongside Sigourney Weaver. In November, he played the role of Ben Tennyson in Ben 10, in January 2012, Kelley was in the TV movie Sexting in Suburbia, with Liz Vassey and Jenn Proske. Ryan Kelley at the Internet Movie Database
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Josh Peck
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Joshua Michael Josh Peck is an American actor, voice actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Josh Nichols in the Nickelodeon live-action sitcom Drake & Josh and he began his career as a child actor in the late 90s and early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his role on The Amanda Show. He has since acted in such as Mean Creek, Drillbit Taylor, The Wackness, ATM. He also starred as Gerald in a role with John Stamos in the series Grandfathered. He currently voices Casey Jones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and he also starred in a Netflix comedy, Take The 10 along with Tony Revolori. Peck also makes appearances in popular YouTuber, David Dobrik. He appears as himself and usually is seen making jokes and relaxing, Peck was born in New York City, New York, where he attended P. S. 40 and The Professional Performing Arts School and his parents were unmarried at the time of his birth and he has never met his biological father. He grew up with his Jewish mother, Barbara, who is a career coach, Peck had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. He had asthma during his childhood, and often stayed indoors watching old sitcoms and he was inspired to become involved in stand-up comedy when he was eight years old. Youth Theater and performed comedy at Carolines Comedy Club for the Audrey Hepburn foundation. At the age of 13, he was offered a role on Nickelodeons The Amanda Show and, at his mothers suggestion, accepted the part, Peck made his film debut in Snow Day, and appeared regularly on The Amanda Show until the end of its run in 2002. He also starred opposite Alex D. Linz and Zena Grey in the film, Max Keebles Big Move. In 2001, he guest starred in an episode of the popular NBC drama ER called Thy Will Be Done, during this period, Peck appeared in several independent films, including Spun and 2004s Mean Creek, for which he received critical praise. He was cast as Josh Nichols, opposite Drake Bells Drake Parker, in another Nickelodeon sitcom, Drake & Josh, pecks character, Josh Nichols, was smart, funny, and organized, but was always being tormented along with Drake by Megan Parker, Drakes younger sister. Both characters sing in a remake of the song Soul Man by Sam, in 2006, Bell and Peck starred in their own TV movie called Drake & Josh Go Hollywood, and in 2007, they starred in a sequel called Drake & Josh, Really Big Shrimp. Josh was nominated for Favorite Television Actor at the 2008 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards for his work on Drake & Josh, Peck also made his debut as a director in the Drake & Josh episode, Battle of Panthatar. He also directed his co-star Drake Bells music video for the song to Drake & Josh
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Carly Schroeder
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Carly Brook Schroeder is an American film and television actress. She is best known for playing Serena Baldwin, the daughter of Scotty Baldwin and she also had a recurring role on the Disney Channels Lizzie McGuire. In 2007, she played the lead in Gracie, an inspired by a real-life tragedy during the childhood of actors Elisabeth Shue. Schroeder was born in Valparaiso, Indiana, carlys younger brother, Hunter Schroeder, is also an actor, he has appeared with her in Gracie and Eye of the Dolphin. Her parents Paul and Kelli Schroeder currently reside in Ventura County, in 1993, while accompanying a cousin to an acting audition, the casting director asked if the cute three-year-old would consider working for them. At first her mother was hesitant about the question but things such as money for a college began to appeal to her. After her first job as a print model, she began doing print work in Chicago for Sears, Roebuck and Company, Kmart, Spiegel, Lands End, Chuck E. Cheeses. Two years later in 1995, child director Bob Ebel asked her to do a few television commercials, in 1997, American Broadcasting Company hired Schroeder to play Serena Baldwin on Port Charles. Schroeder then appeared as Melina Bianco in The Disney Channels Lizzie McGuire, originally booked as a one-time appearance, she shot twelve episodes of the show and also appeared in The Lizzie McGuire Movie in 2003, in the same role. In 2003, Schroeder auditioned for her first feature film and won the role of Millie in the thriller Mean Creek, Gracie was Shroeders next film role, in 2006. The movie has been received and continues to receive honors, including being named as an Official Selection for the Tribeca Film Festival, Delray Beach Film Festival. Film Festival, Tiburon Film Festival, USA Family Film Festival, at the 2007 Kids First Awards in October, Schroeder received the award for Best Emerging Actress, while the film received the Best Feature Award. Her recent movies are Forget Me Not, and Slightly Single in L. A. which completed filming in 2009 and was released in 2012 and she was also featured in the film Creepers and Prep School, in the role of Kyra Matheson. Special Distinction Award at Independent Spirit Awards for Mean Creek Best Child Actor Award at Int, Family Film Festival for Eye of the Dolphin Best Emerging Actress at 2007 Kids First
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The Zodiac (film)
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The Zodiac was directed by Alexander Bulkeley and written by him and his brother, Kelly Bulkeley. The film was released on March 17,2006 into just 10 theaters on limited release, the DVD hit the UK market on September 18. When two teenagers are gunned down on Lake Helena Road on December 20,1968, the town of Vallejo is thrown into a state of terror. Assigned to the case is Police Detective Matt Parish of the Vallejo Police Department, with few leads, the case goes unsolved and the emotional attachment causes heartache for Parishs family, wife Laura and 12-year-old son. Six months later on July 4 – as Parish begins to lose hope – the Zodiac strikes again and this time he guns down a couple in a deserted parking lot. Hes inches away as he pulls the trigger, but he never reveals his true identity, just an hour after the shooting, the Vallejo Police Department receives an anonymous call, confessing to the murders that have just taken place. The killer reveals that if they can decipher the note, his identity will be revealed. It becomes an obsession for Det and he spends all his time with the coded sheet, sketches composed of the killer and various psychological reports, putting a greater strain on his family. The ever increasing publicity pushes him to the edge, when Parish receives more anonymous calls and ciphered letters, he thinks hes got his suspect. Disobeying orders by Chief Frank Perkins he goes in search for the killer, when he storms into the suspects house, his allegations are shattered because the man has no relation to the murders. The police later hear of more killings, but the case doesnt get anywhere close to being resolved. On April 24,1978, ten years after the first reported murder, Matt Parish, the main character of the story, his emotions play a large role in the development of the story and his character. He is well respected, confident, and has a good mind when it comes to catching the criminal and he tends to do things how he wants, and does not take much notice of his Chief. Robin Tunney as Laura Parish Matt Parishs wife, is seen throughout the film comforting her husband and it is in these situations that we see the effects of the case on the family, and Matts true emotions are revealed. She makes every attempt to stop her son reading into the case. Rory Culkin as Johnny Parish, has a small role to play in the film, but hes very interested in the case. Shelby Alexis Irey as Bobbie, Johnnys girlfriend, philip Baker Hall as Chief Frank Perkin, the Police Departments chief and is the head of the operations, at times he tries to stop Matt doing certain things, but evidently, Matt does what he wants. Brian Bloom as Zodiac Killer, his voice is heard many times throughout the film in phone calls, the two Bulkley brothers, and producer Corey Campodonico all grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area
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The Night Listener (film)
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The Night Listener is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Patrick Stettner. The screenplay by Armistead Maupin, Terry Anderson, and Stettner is based on Maupins 2000 bestselling novel of the same name, Gabriel Noone, a popular gay New York City radio show host, is dealing with a separation from his partner, Jess. Noone is given a written by teenager Pete Logand, who chronicles the many years of sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his parents. Diagnosed with AIDS, the youth has been adopted by Donna Logand, Noone begins a telephone relationship with the boy and Donna. He and Pete become increasingly close and form a relationship, much to the dismay of Jess, especially after he speaks to Donna and suspects she. Noones personal secretary Anna adds fuel to the fire by discussing her research into people who fabricate elaborate stories to get attention, determined to prove the boy exists and his story is true, Noone decides to pay a surprise visit to Pete in his hometown in rural Wisconsin. Noone discovers the address on Petes correspondence is actually a mail drop. Soon after, while eating in a diner, he overhears another patron. Hes stunned to learn shes blind and uses a guide dog, Noone follows her home and Donna senses he has followed her. She invites him into her home and talks openly about Pete and she assures him he can visit the boy the following day, then suddenly becomes angry and tells him she will not allow him to meet her son. Increasingly suspicious, Noone contacts all the hospitals in Madison, the site of the nearest facilities, noones paranoia about the boys existence grows and, hoping to find proof of his existence, he breaks into Donnas home. A police officer arrests him for breaking and entering and then, mistakenly believing him to be one of the boys abusers, attacks him with a stun baton before taking him to the station. Noone convinces the police he meant no harm and is released, only to find Donna waiting for him with the news that Pete is dead, also, that he was in a Milwaukee hospital, and was never in Madison. Distressed that Noone doesnt believe her, Donna collapses in the middle of a road and she then moves everything out of her home and disappears before the police can question her. Noone is now convinced that the boy is a figment of the womans imagination. In response to a call from Donna, Noone goes to a motel where she was staying, and finds Petes stuffed rabbit. He plays the video of a child, who seems to be Pete, the phone rings and the caller claims to be the boy, waiting for his mother at the airport. The caller ends the conversation after Noone asks what happened in Donnas past, Petes voice changes to sound more womanly, just as the conversation is cut off
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Lymelife
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The film stars Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, and Emma Roberts. Martin Scorsese served as an executive producer, the film debuted at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, in September 2008 and won the International Federation of Film Critics Award. After its theatrical release in 2009, writer director Derick Martini was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director, 15-year-old Scott Bartlett is a gentle boy, radically different from his blustery father Mickey and mother Brenda. An outbreak of Lyme disease, as well as the accompanying paranoia, when the Bartletts neighbor, Charlie Bragg, is diagnosed with the illness, Charlie is unable to work and his wife Melissa must keep the income flowing herself. She is hired by Mickey, a friendly favor motivated by lust, mickeys history of philandering is one of the many things upsetting Brenda. Scott has been in love with the Braggs one year-older daughter Adrianna for all his life, Charlie spends days hiding in his basement, while his wife believes he is in Manhattan on job interviews. He is obsessed with hunting deer, Scott and Charlie have a good relationship, one of the only ones Charlie is able to maintain throughout his illness. Things heat up when Jimmy, Scotts older brother, comes home from the army on their moms birthday, Brenda leaves early from Jimmys going-away party when it is clear that there is a relationship between Mickey and Melissa. Jimmy and Mickey have a confrontation, Scott learns of the affair and confronts his mother. Adrianna helps him through this, but shuns him after a rumor spread from a lie he tells a friend, Brenda kicks Mickey out of the house and is once again able to act the role of an effective parent. Charlie also confronts Mickey after he witnesses the affair, when his wife finds out that he has been letting her earn the familys keep. Scott and Adrianna reconnect and lose their virginity to each other, Brenda lets Mickey spend the night at their house but on the couch. The movie ends with a gunshot and it is not clear whether Charlie shot a deer, himself, Mickey, etc. It was during this period that Steven met his first true love, Adrianna and this relationship is the basis of the love story between Rory Culkin and Emma Roberts in the film. In early 2005, the film was plagued with insufficient funds and was shut down on the eve of principal photography, the funds to make the film were not raised until 2008. Despite the 3-year hiatus, nearly the original cast made time in their schedules to participate in the film. The total budget for the film was $1.5 million, the shooting schedule was a scant 22 days, made only more difficult to complete due to the directors insistence on using older, larger and heavier anamorphic lenses. The role of Mickey Bartlett was written specifically for Alec Baldwin, Martini is frequently quoted as having seen a younger Baldwins portrayal of Stanley Kowalski on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire, and it being an eye opening experience for him
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Twelve (2010 film)
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Twelve is a 2010 American-French action drama teen film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film was written by Jordan Melamed, adapted from Nick McDonells novel of the same name, the film opens during Spring Break on the Upper East Side. White Mike, once a wealthy, carefree teenager, now struggles to scrape out a living as a pot dealer, dealing to his former classmates. His mother died from breast cancer a year prior to the events of the film, her treatment having completely consumed his familys wealth, Mikes good friend, Molly Norton, a sweet girl from the poorer side of town, doesnt know he is a drug dealer. Mikes supplier, Lionel, also deals the addictive drug cocktail Twelve to Mikes cousin, Charlie attempts to mug Lionel one night, as he is unable to pay for the drug. Lionel turns the gun on Charlie, shooting him at point blank range, before finding and executing Nana and he visits Harlem regularly because he detests the high society of his classmates. The party is held at the home of Yvette Vasquez and Chris Kenton, a nerd, but the host of the party. At the party, Saras friend Jessica Brayson tries Twelve for the first time, during the party, Chriss older brother, Claude, a sociopath and weapon collector, returns home after breaking out of rehab, much to the dismay of their mother. She realizes he is there while Chris is videoconferencing with her, Chris tries to mediate and asks her to talk with Claude. She says she will speak to him but disconnects—with a swallow of pills—when Chris leaves the room and she and her friends Shelly and Gabby spend the next few days inviting everyone they know in order to make Saras birthday famous. Meanwhile, Jessica has run out of money as well as Twelve, Tobias accidentally meets Molly during a drug deal with Mike, and invites her to Saras party. Mike sees him from across the street and phones him to pick up the weed he had wanted, with Tobias gone, Mike meets with Molly, where she tells him about the male model who she allowed to flatter her and who also invited her to a party tonight. They relax over hot chocolate until she suggests visiting him at his job that evening, Mike closes up, Molly is disappointed and decides to go to the party Tobias invited her to. As the party begins, Claude locks himself in his room, practicing with his weapons, Tobias disappears into one bedroom with a girl. Lionel arrives, but is infuriated that Jessica does not have the money she promised, since she has no money, she first offers him a blowjob, to which he responds that it must be one expensive blowjob. Tearfully, she offers to have sex with him, revealing furthermore that she is a virgin, Lionel agrees and they head inside. Tobias heads back into a bedroom with a different girl, Mikes father calls him to deliver the news that Charlie is dead, his body finally having been identified. Mike tries to call Molly, who doesnt answer her phone and he goes to the party to locate her, but is stopped by several drunk party-goers
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Gotham Awards
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Film community – to nine awards, including in its broader scope films originating in Los Angeles, California, and international locations as well. From 1991 to 2002, the Tribute Award, also called Career Tribute, was awarded as a Lifetime Achievement Award to one each year. As of the 2003 Gotham Awards, the IFP replaced all mentioned individual category awards with Career Tributes, the 15th Annual Gotham Awards were awarded on November 30,2005. The 16th Annual Gotham Awards were awarded on November 29,2006, the 17th Annual Gotham Awards were awarded on November 27,2007. The 18th Annual Gotham Awards were awarded on December 2,2008, the 19th Annual Gotham Awards were presented on December 1,2009. The 20th Annual Gotham Awards were presented on November 29,2010, the 21st Annual Gotham Awards were presented on November 28,2011. The 22nd Annual Gotham Awards were presented on November 26,2012, the 23rd Annual Gotham Awards were presented on December 2,2013. The 24th Annual Gotham Awards were presented on December 1,2014, the 25th Annual Gotham Awards were presented on November 30,2015. The 26th Annual Gotham Awards were presented on November 28,2016, list of film awards gotham. ifp. org, the awards official website Gotham Awards at the Internet Movie Database
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Euronymous
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Øystein Aarseth /ˈøʏstɛɪn ˈɔʂət/, who went by the pseudonym Euronymous, was a Norwegian guitarist. Euronymous was a founder of and central figure in the early Norwegian black metal scene and he was a co-founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. He was also founder and owner of the metal record label Deathlike Silence Productions. In August 1993, he was killed, fellow musician Varg Vikernes was arrested and charged with the murder. In May 1994, Vikernes was found guilty of murder as well as multiple church arsons, in March 2009, however, his parole was announced. He had then served 15 years of his 21-year sentence, on 22 May 2009, he confirmed that he had been released from prison on probation. Aarseth formed Mayhem in 1984 along with bassist Jørn Necrobutcher Stubberud, at the time he was going by the stage name Destructor but later changed his name to Euronymous, derived from the demon Eurynomos. In 1988, Per Dead Ohlin became Mayhems vocalist and Jan Axel Hellhammer Blomberg became its drummer, by 1991, Dead, Euronymous and Hellhammer were living in a house in the woods near Kråkstad, which was used as a place for the band to rehearse. Mayhem bassist Necrobutcher said that, after living together for a while, Dead and Euronymous got on each others nerves a lot, Hellhammer recalls that Dead once went outside to sleep in the woods because Euronymous was playing synth music that Dead hated. Euronymous then went outside and began shooting into the air with a shotgun, Varg Vikernes claims that Dead once stabbed Euronymous with a knife. On 8 April 1991, Dead committed suicide alone in the house. He was found by Euronymous with slit wrists and a wound to the head. Before calling the police, he went to a shop and bought a camera with which he photographed the body. One of these photographs was used as the cover of a bootleg live album. Necrobutcher recalls how Euronymous told him of the suicide, Øystein called me up the next day, and says, Dead has done something really cool. I thought, have you lost it and he says, Relax, I have photos of everything. I was in shock and grief and he was just thinking how to exploit it. Dont even fucking call me before you destroy those pictures, Euronymous used Deads suicide to foster Mayhems evil image and claimed Dead had killed himself because death metal had become trendy and commercialized
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The Twilight Zone
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The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to common science fiction, the original series, shot entirely in black and white, ran for five seasons from 1959 to 1964. The success of the led to a feature film, a radio series, a comic book, a magazine. The first revival ran on CBS and in syndication in the 1980s, TV Guide ranked the original TV series #5 in their 2013 list of the 60 greatest dramas of all time. As a boy, Rod Serling was a fan of pulp fiction stories, as an adult, he sought topics with themes such as racism, government, war, society, and human nature in general. Serling decided to combine these two interests as a way to broach these subjects on television at a time such issues were not commonly addressed. Throughout the 1950s, Serling established himself as one of the most popular names in television and he was as famous for writing televised drama as he was for criticizing the mediums limitations. His most vocal complaints concerned censorship, which was practiced by sponsors. I was not permitted to have my senators discuss any current or pressing problem, he said of his 1957 production The Arena, to talk of tariff was to align oneself with the Republicans, to talk of labor was to suggest control by the Democrats. To say a single thing germane to the current political scene was absolutely prohibited, CBS purchased a teleplay in 1958 that writer Rod Serling hoped to produce as the pilot of a weekly anthology series. The Time Element marked Serlings first entry in the field of science fiction, several years after the end of World War II, a man named Peter Jenson visits a psychoanalyst, Dr. Gillespie. Jenson tells him about a dream in which he tries to warn people about the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor before it happens. Jenson believes the events of the dream are real, and each night he travels back to 1941, Dr. Gillespie insists that time travel is impossible given the nature of temporal paradoxes. While on the couch, Jenson falls asleep again and dreams that the Japanese planes shoot. In Dr. Gillespies office, the couch Jenson was lying on is now empty, Dr. Gillespie goes to a bar where he finds Jensons picture on the wall. The bartender tells him that Jenson had tended there, but he was killed during the Pearl Harbor attack, the Time Element was purchased immediately, but shelved indefinitely. The Time Element debuted on November 24,1958, to an overwhelmingly delighted audience of television viewers, the humor and sincerity of Mr. Serlings dialogue made The Time Element consistently entertaining, offered Jack Gould of The New York Times. Over 6000 letters of praise flooded Granets offices, convinced that a series based on such stories could succeed, CBS again began talks with Serling about the possibilities of producing The Twilight Zone
