ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[Fran]

Also known as:  Wind from Wyoming



From IMDb:

Strange French-Canadian musing on the vagaries of love starts interestingly but becomes bogged down in its own quirkiness and over-plotting before petering out with a whimper in an unsatisfactory conclusion.

Daughter Lea is in love with one of her father's boxer's, Reo. He, however, has spurned her in favor of Lea's mom. Lea's mom has left Lea's father Marcel for Reo and is now pregnant by him. That's good parenting, right? Lea's sister Manon, who is grossly overweight, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming, but happens to speak French(?). Manon drops about 150 pounds when she learns Chester is coming to town (I guess on a book tour, though the film never bothers to make that clear), and becomes a slinky, svelte temptress. Interestingly, it seems to take her only a week to lose all that weight....


=aside= Sandy
Thanks.  When I saw that IMDb had
some 4,500 titles under that keyword,
I knew that was the way to go.

And some of the plots are making my own
family seem perfectly normal.  

[memento]

IMDB: Seventh-grade is no fun. Especially for Dawn Weiner when everyone at school calls you 'Dog-Face' or 'Wiener-Dog.' Not to mention if your older brother is 'King of the Nerds' and your younger sister is a cutesy ballerina who gets you in trouble but is your parents' favorite. And that's just the beginning--her life seems to be falling apart when she faces rejection from the older guy in her brother's band that she has a crush on, her parents want to tear down her 'Special People's Club' clubhouse, and her sister is abducted....

[memento]

IMDB: Olive is a little girl with a dream: winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so burdened with their own quirks, neuroses, and problems that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father Richard is a flop as a motivational speaker, and is barely on speaking terms with her mother. Olive's uncle Frank, a renowned Proust scholar, has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student. Her brother Dwayne, a fanatical follower of Nietzsche, has taken a vow of silence, which allows him to escape somewhat from the family whose very presence torments him. And Olive's grandfather is a ne'er-do-well with a drug habit, but at least he enthusiastically coaches Olive in her contest talent routine. Circumstances conspire to put the entire family on the road together with the goal of getting Olive to the Little Miss Sunshine contest in far off California.

[southendmd]

IMDb:  When her Army husband is killed in combat, a pregnant Patty Duke travels to the remote Minnesota home of his family, whom she's never met, for a visit. Meeting with icy acceptance from mother-in-law Rosemary Murphy and stranded by a blizzard, Duke begins to discover terrifying--and deadly--secrets about her husband's family.

[Fran]

From Digitally Obsessed:  "Zoltar from Zoron" (not Zoran, as the packaging states) was the USC thesis of its director-writer. Zoltar is the identity into which troubled Jimmy, the elder son in a dysfunctional family retreats — retreats so far that he even dresses in an elaborate moon suit and has built a gigantic robot in his backyard. While the emotional hideaway is a sort of utopia, it only sets Jimmy up for an even greater dystopia, since he must endure the cruelty of his compatriots in the junior high. The nightmarish experience is moving but ultimately unsatisfying. Directed by Erik Paesel.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbOCQnWlK7k[/youtube]
Time:  22:04

[memento]

Teenage Movies

[memento]

IMDB: Horror master Hershell Gordon Lewis took a break from the gore and went for sex and nudity in this over the top sex comedy. The film tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who catches her parents having sex so she rushes to her third cousin and the two begin sleeping around. Although she's in love, the teenage girl wants sex with more men and that includes her mother's secret lover. I'm sure this type of trash played all over 42nd Street in various Grindhouse theaters and on that level the film is a minor success. As you'd expect, the acting is laughably bad as is the script but laughter is good in these types of films. When the girl seduces her cousin it's rather sexy and hilarious at the same time. There's also some hilarious moments with the girl's father as he tries to avoid having sex with his wife.

[oilgun]

Synopsis
In a performance hailed by critics across the country, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, a high school basketball hero headed for trouble. Teamed with his friends, Micky (Mark Wahlberg), Neutron and Pedro, Jim seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressure from his coach, his mom and school begin to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart.



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[Fran]

From IMDb: 

This coming-of-age movie is an adaptation of the autobiographical bestseller by Benjamin Lebert which caused a sensation on the German bookmarket in 1999 because the author was only 17 years old when he wrote it.

It tells the story of a "half-side spastic" boy who keeps changing schools in order to pass the math exams at last. His latest school is a boarding-school in Southern Bavaria (filmed at the same one that the real Benjamin attended), where he finds friends for the first time. Each of these misfits has problems of his own but they all share the confusion of puberty. This period of life is shown so authentically that everyone in the audience will be able to identify with the characters (or remember his/her own youth).

[southendmd]

Tagline:  It was the last day of school in 1976, a time they'd never forget... if only they could remember.