Lucky You (2007)Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
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A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems. |
| Biography: Robert John Downey Jr. was born in Greenwich Village, New York City at 1.10 pm. He's the son of underground filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.. His first part in a movie was in his father's "The Pound (1970)", where 5-year-old Downey played a puppy. When he was 20 years old, he joined "Saturday Night Live" (1975)" for one season. After that, he went to Hollywood. In 1987, he got the leading role in direc ... show all |
Lucky You (2007)Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
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A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems. |
Back to School (1986)Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
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Millionaire businessman Thornton Melon is upset when his son Jason announces that he is not sure about going to college. Thornton insists that college is the best thing he never had for himself, and to prove his point, he agrees to enroll in school along with his son. Thornton is a big hit on campus: always throwing the biggest parties, knowing all the right people, but is this the way to pass college? |
The Shaggy Dog (2006)Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
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A man tries to live a normal life despite the fact that he sometimes turns into a sheepdog. |
Scanner Darkly, A (2006)Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
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The L.A. of a not-too-distant future suffers a surge of drug abuse involving a new ultra-addictive and eventually brain-damaging substance simply named “D”. Bob Arctor is an undercover narc leading a double life, dutifully reporting to his superiors while effectively having abandoned whatever normal existence he had for a “D” user/dealer career. But this schizophrenic situation and the drug-induced memory and concentration lapses put Bob under mounting stress. |
Bowfinger (1999)Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
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Hollywood, today: Bobby Bowfinger, a run-down actor-producer-director, is reading a script which a friend has written. Completely convinced of its quality, he decides to take a last shot at fame and fortune. But the script is not that easy to sell, and a famous producer promises him to do it, but there is one condition: Kit Ramsey, Hollywood’s number one star, has to be in it. So, Bobby tries his luck with Kit - who says no - and then decides to shoot the film himself. Together with the cheapest team available in Southern California, an aspiring beauty from Ohio, a diva who is just a little over the hill, a key-holding gofer from a major studio and a goon hired away from burger-flipping, Bobby sets out to shoot the science-fiction-film starring Kit Ramsey - who does not even know he’s being filmed. |
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
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A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who’s been training him for his upcoming role… |
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
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In the early 1950’s, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator ‘Joseph McCarthy (II)’ (qv) of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter ‘Edward R. Murrow (I)’ (qv) and his producer ‘Fred W. Friendly’ (qv) decided to take a stand and challenge McCarthy and expose him for the fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history. |
Natural Born Killers (1994)Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
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The misadventures of Mickey and Mallory: outcasts, lovers, and serial killers. They travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic mass-slaughters not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks. Glorified by the media, the pair become legendary folk heroes; their story told by the single person they leave alive at the scene of each of their slaughters. |
U.S. Marshals (1998)Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
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When a prisoner transport plane carrying Deputy Sam Gerard as an escort crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan helps him rescue some trapped prisoners and then escapes himself. Gerard and his crack team of U.S. Marshals start their pursuit, but the simple fugitive situation soon gets more complicated when Gerard learns that Sheridan is no mere criminal and the story behind his incrimination becomes more and more suspicious. At the same time, Mark Sheridan is out to find out the truth himself while keeping one step ahead of Gerard |