ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[oilgun]

By oilgun at 2008-09-19

Synopsis:   WHITE is the mysterious tale of a man whose life disintegrates when his beautiful wife of six months deserts him. Forced to begin anew, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her! Winner of the Best Director Award at the Berlin Film Festival, WHITE is a story of dark, illicit passions - one of the year's most provocative big-screen releases! [You can tell that this synopsis is from the the DVD box by the exclamation marks!]

Hottie Julie Delpy

By oilgun at 2008-09-19

[southendmd]

Plot:  In 1930, young Gabrielle Van der Mal enters a convent in her native Belgium to become a nun. Almost immediately she has difficulty adjusting to the cloistered life, and its vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. She doubts her own ability, even as she takes her final vows. Gabrielle, now called Sister Luke, excels in her medical studies and dreams of serving in the Belgian Congo. When she is asked by the Reverend Mother to fail her exams on purpose to show humility, she cannot bring herself to do so. However, despite her excellent score she is not sent to the Congo, but to a sanitarium in Brussels.

Hottie Nun Audrey Hepburn

[memento]

Plot: Follow an aimless college grad who pursues his dream girl at a wild Labor Day weekend party. He, his twin sister and their best friend struggle with their burgeoning adulthood over the course of the night.

Anna Farris

[oilgun]

By oilgun at 2008-09-20

Synopsis: Miriam, a centuries-old vampire, preys on urban clubgoers with her vampire lover John. When John suddenly ages and wastes away, Miriam casts her spell upon Sarah, a doctor who researches premature aging. This neo-Gothic exercise in style and atmosphere is perhaps most widely known for a lesbian sex scene involving Miriam and Sarah, played by Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon.

Hotties Catherine Deneuve & Susan Sarandon

[Fran]

Animal Movies!

Let's see if we can do it with movies where an animal
is a primary character or major part of the plot.

Unplayed movies only, please. Check the New Archive before posting.

[Fran]

From IMDb:  Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis (Margaret Lindsay), is competing with him for his father's affections and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson), in the first film of the long-running "Rusty" series, seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty (Ace the Wonder Dog), brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.

[southendmd]

Plot:  A slobbering St. Bernard dog becomes the center of attention for a loving family but its vet secretly wants to kill him.

IMDb trivia: 

Eleanor Keaton, Buster Keaton's widow, trained the dog Beethoven for this movie.

So incensed were the American Veterinary Association about the depiction of a vet as leader of a dog-napping ring, they fired off a letter of protest to Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America.

[memento]

Plot: This is the story of a cat named Rover, who has been raised as a dog in Dogtown, by accident. And now he heads to Catopolis to discover where he really came from and find his roots. Cleo, Rover's love interest, who also is sought after by Simon, a ruthless cat-box-litter exec. Then Newton, Rover's guide and friend in Catopolis to help him find his roots.

[Fran]

From IMDb:  The story of Coral, who was left permanently paralyzed by a hit-and-run driver. She touched and inspired people wherever she went, and now her legacy lives on as the official spokesdog for disabled animals everywhere.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=977HPTTu1TA[/youtube]

Time:  2:18

[oilgun]

Synopsis: A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.