Posts Tagged ‘money’

Super, The (1991)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Pesci, Joe | Gardenia, Vincent | Blades, Rubén | Blank, Kenny | Benjamin, Paul | Bodibe, Bhubeshi | NGom, Abdoulaye | Heald, Anthony | Baltzman, Daniel | Hallett, Jack | Rodriquez, Steven | Robinson, Daryl | Johnson, Rynel | Bates, Paul | Margotta, Daniel
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Louie is a New York slum landlord who is given 120 days to repair one of his apartment blocks. The problem for Louie is that he must live in the rundown block until the repairs are complete. Louie’s father is the real boss, and he has no intention of paying for the repairs. This leaves Louie to live in the squaller his tenants endure all year round.

Zombie Strippers! (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Englund, Robert | Medina, Joey | Hawkes, John | Green, Calvin | Kilberg, Zak | Colbert, Stephen | Beck, Billy | Wood, Travis | Milne, Brad | Lamas, Adam | Kraus, Gary | Roof, Jim | Smith, Adam | Jones, Asante | Webb, David E.
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In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into “Super Zombie Strippers” the girls struggle with whether or not to conform to the new “fad” even if it means there’s no turning back.

21 (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sturgess, Jim | Spacey, Kevin | Yoo, Aaron | Pitts, Jacob | Fishburne, Laurence | McGee, Jack | Gad, Josh | Golzari, Sam | Gilpin, Jack | Williams, Butch | Ma, Jeffrey | Patton, Frank | Vezina, Steven Richard | Werner, Chaska T. | Morris, Kyle
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

Swingers (1996)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Favreau, Jon | Vaughn, Vince | Livingston, Ron | Van Horn, Patrick | Désert, Alex | Graham, Heather | Martin, Deena | Kendall, Katherine | Langton, Brooke | Lindsley, Blake | Kelly, Kevin James | Ittleson, Stephanie | Vaughn, Vernon | Favreau, Joan | Hackford, Rio
Directors: Liman, Doug
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This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It’s been six months since his girlfriend left him and he’s not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the social scene and forget about his 6 year relationship.

Factotum (2005)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: France | Germany | Norway | Sweden | USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Taylor, Lili | Tomei, Marisa | Stevens, Fisher | Flamand, Didier | Shelly, Adrienne | Young, Karen | Lyons, Thomas | Brewington, Dean | Cada, James | Detmar, James Michael | Schweickhardt, Kurt | Noah, Dee | Noah, James | Egan, Michael
Directors: Hamer, Bent
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

Edmond (2005)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Bay, Frances | Pidgeon, Rebecca | Mantegna, Joe | Richards, Denise | Thompson, Wendy | Guastaferro, Vincent | Bai, Ling | Landers, Matt | Hill, Dulé | Hornsby, Russell | Hodge, Aldis | Mazar, Debi | Suvari, Mena | Combs, Jeffrey
Directors: Gordon, Stuart
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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller’s for a Tarot reading: “You are not where you belong,” she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman’s club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he’s found them. Where does he belong?

Matchstick Men (2003)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Rockwell, Sam | Lohman, Alison | Altman, Bruce | McGill, Bruce | O'Hara, Jenny | Eastin, Steve | Grant, Beth | Kelley, Sheila | Kranz, Fran | Kelleher, Tim | Gibbs, Nigel | Saito, Bill | Maculan, Tim | Westmoreland, Stoney
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious protégé, are swindling these days are “water filtration systems,” bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to win bogus prizes like cars, jewelry and overseas vacations—which they never collect. These scams net the flim-flam men a few hundred here, another thousand there, which eventually adds up to a lucrative partnership. Roy’s private life, however, is not so successful. An obsessive-compulsive agoraphobe with no personal relationships to call his own, Roy is barely hanging on to his wits, and when his idiosyncrasies begin to threaten his criminal productivity he’s forced to seek the help of a psychoanalyst just to keep him in working order. While Roy is looking for a quick fix, his therapy begets more than he bargained for: the revelation that he has a teenage daughter—a child whose existence he suspected but never dared confirm. What’s more troubling, 14-year-old Angela wants to meet the father she never knew. At first, Angela’s appearance disrupts her neurotic father’s carefully ordered routine. Soon, however, with his own unique spin on parenthood, Roy begins to enjoy a relationship he never dreamed of having with his daughter. But while he develops paternal feelings for the 14-year-old, she’s developing a fascination with Daddy’s questionable career.

Last Seduction, The (1994)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fiorentino, Linda | Pullman, Bill | Raysses, Michael | Phifer, Zack | Berg, Peter | Varady, Brien | Norris, Dean | Wilson, Donna | Scriba, Mik | Walsh, J.T. | Nilsson, Erik-Anders | Caprio, Patricia R. | Mitchell, Herb | Nunn, Bill | Rogers, Renee
Directors: Dahl, John
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Linda Fiorentino plays Bridget, a “femme fatale” who steals her husband’s money and leaves from New York. She meets Mike, who falls in love with her and they become lovers. But Mike has no idea about Bridget’s past and her plans to use him to get rid of her husband…

Betrayal (2003)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eleniak, Erika | Baldwin, Adam | Du Page, Julie | Lelliott, Jeremy | Remar, James | Chapa, Damian | Mandylor, Louis | Wright, Tom | Quattrochi, James | Widener, Jason | Sabatino, Joe | Ellsworth, Kiko | Swayze, Don | Dobson, Peter | Dubovsky, Darrell
Directors: Lester, Mark L.
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Jayne Ferré needs to get out of Los Angeles fast. A strikingly beautiful woman, yet ruthless assassin for the mob; she is on the run with a suitcase full of a million dollars in blood money, stolen from mob boss Frank Bianci. Sixteen-year-old Kerry is on the run from a drug dealer set on payback. His mother Emily decides to take Kerry and start a new life in Texas, but doesn’t have enough money to get there. Jayne, who is now carrying a price on her head, must take out one would-be assassin at the train station before she offers to cover Emily’s expenses if she can hitch a ride to San Antonio. Emily and her son gladly accept the offer. The unlikely trio’s car breaks down and needs parts. They are left without a choice, so they check into a small motel for one night. While Jayne is showering, kerry sneaks a look through her belongings and discovers the case of cash. During the night, a well-meaning Kerry snakes into Jayne’s room and steals the briefcase, then hitches a ride back to Los Angeles. Jayne realizes what happened but first has to deal with Bianci’s men in a blazing gun battle outside the motel. Jayne forces Emily into a car and heads back to L.A. until Emily makes a daring escape. Alex Tyler, an FBI agent and seemingly Good Samaritan, picks Emily up and takes her back to L.A. At Emily’s house mob boss Frank Bianci is dead, along with a crooked detective, when Alex gets a call from Jayne, and it becomes clear that they are working together. Jayne has Kerry hostage and Emily must bring her money or she’ll kill him. But when Emily gets her hands on a gun, she turns the tables and a deadly standoff ensues between two trained killers, a couple of dirty cops, the mob, and a mother and son in what becomes a deadly game of wits to stay alive.

Death and Life of Bobby Z, The (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Walker, Paul | Fishburne, Laurence | Lewis, Jason | Bunch, Jarrod | Vargas, Jacob | Chaney, Rebecca | Walsh, A.J. | Bairos, Richard | Bowen, Michael | Brenna, Troy | Carradine, Keith | Cultraro, Adam P. | de Almeida, Joaquim | Dempsey, Christopher | Diaz, Paul
Directors: Herzfeld, John
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Tim Kearney is an incarcerated former Marine who is offered freedom by DEA agent Tad Gruzsa in exchange for impersonating recently-late drug lord Bobby Z. Things don’t go as planned, however, and Kearney ends up on the run with Bobby Z’s 12-year-old son.