Author Topic: ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!  (Read 2947644 times)

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"D" is Dead Meat (2005)
« Reply #5430 on: November 22, 2008, 07:15:12 pm »
Also known as:  Andre the Butcher


From IMDb:  When a small group of decadent cheerleaders gets stranded on their way to the regional championship, they find refuge in an abandoned hunting lodge in the backwoods of Florida. When darkness falls, terror comes along in the form of local legend Andre the Butcher. All sinners must repent for Andre is here to harvest souls for hell and turn human flesh into delicious chili.

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"E" is Everglade Raid (1958)
« Reply #5431 on: November 23, 2008, 12:31:54 am »
Wiki:  Everglade Raid is the 86th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on July 24, 1958, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International.

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Woody finds out there is money to be made by turning alligators into suitcases. He wastes no time heading down to the Everglades to pursue his fortune. He then meets Al I. Gator (Daws Butler) who has his own plans for cooking the woodpecker.


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"F" is La Florida (1993)
« Reply #5432 on: November 23, 2008, 01:19:17 am »


From IMDB: Tired of rough winters, a Quebec family buys a motel in south Florida. But life is not easy down where motels grow faster than grass. Two bigger businessmen are out to get them for invading their turf. However, that is not even the beginning of their troubles..

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"G" is Grace Is Gone (2007)
« Reply #5433 on: November 23, 2008, 02:07:06 am »

From IMDb:  Stan Philipps's wife Grace is a sergeant with the U.S. Army. While she's posted to Iraq, the earnest Stan is home in Minnesota with their daughters, Heidi, 12, and Dawn, 8. He manages a home supply store. After morning visitors bring Stan news, he takes the girls for a car ride that turns into a spontaneous trip to Dawn's favorite place, a Florida amusement park.

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"H" is Hoot (2006)
« Reply #5434 on: November 23, 2008, 07:55:17 am »


Plot:   A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.

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"I" is In Her Shoes (2005)
« Reply #5435 on: November 23, 2008, 10:49:00 am »

Plot:  In Philadelphia, the irresponsible and selfish Maggie is a drunken easy woman having sex with many men. Her sister Rose is the opposite, responsible lawyer but needy and having complex, compulsively buying shoes to relief her frustrations. Maggie is expelled from her father home by her stepmother, and Rose lodges her sister in her apartment. When Maggie has one night stand with Rose's boyfriend, Rose sends her sister away. She finds letters and postcards from her missing grandmother Ella Hirsch that she believed had died that lives in a retirement compound in Florida hidden in her father's drawer, and without any option, she decides to travel to meet Ella. With Ella, Maggie changes, becoming another woman and improving the relationships in her family.

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"J" is Juke Girl (1942)
« Reply #5436 on: November 23, 2008, 11:44:15 am »


Plot:  Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick. After the Tomato crop is destroyed by Madden, Steve takes Nick, Lola and the next crop to Atlanta where they sell it for big money. Danny is going up with Madden and thinks Steve is a sucker for working in the dirt. Lola stays in Atlanta while Nick and Steve go back to Cat Tail and the real trouble begins.

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"K" is The King of Kong (2007)
« Reply #5437 on: November 23, 2008, 01:24:23 pm »
Also known as:  The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters


From IMDb:  In the early 1980s, legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe, an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed. The top scores are monitored by a cadre of players and fans associated with Walter Day, an Iowan who runs Funspot, an annual tournament. Wiebe breaks Mitchell's record in public at Funspot, and Mitchell promptly mails a video tape of himself setting a new record. So Wiebe travels to Florida hoping Mitchell will face him for the 2007 Guinness World Records. Will the mind-game-playing Mitchell engage; who will end up holding the record?

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"L" is Loren Cass (2006)
« Reply #5438 on: November 24, 2008, 10:21:46 am »

Plot:  Adolescents come to terms with their lives after the rebellions of 1996 St. Petersburg [Florida].

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"M" is Miami Vice (2006)
« Reply #5439 on: November 24, 2008, 11:22:05 am »


Plot:  Based on the 1980's TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.