ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[Fran]

"Valley of Angels" featured Danny Trejo, who appeared in "SherryBaby" with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who appeared in "The Dark Knight" with Morgan Freeman.

From IMDb:  West Los Angeles -- home of the young, rich and hip. It is also home to twenty-five year old Zachary "Zeus" Andrews. Transplanted from Chicago as a kid, Zeus never fit into the hip LA culture. As a way to make a living in his undesirable world, Zeus peddles drugs to wealthy kids. He desperately seeks the path on which his destiny lies; that is, until he meets a girl who seems to transcend the shallow culture they inhabit. She gives him the purpose he has long sought. But the reality of the gritty drug culture explodes into Zeus's life in the most shattering of ways. He must find a way out of his current existence within a very dangerous world to reach a place of enlightenment he so desperately seeks.

[southendmd]

Morgan Freeman plays "uncredited Grand Central commuter" in this Doris Day film.

IMDb trivia:  Although the New York blackout occurred 30 months before this movie was released, it was based on a play that opened in Paris 9 years before the blackout.

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Morgan Freeman played Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris.



IMDB: Maggie Fitzgerald, a poor thirty-one year old waitress from the very lower classes and with a dysfunctional loser family, decides to make a difference through boxing. She convinces the experienced hardened boxing trainer Frankie Dunn to coach her and be her manager, with the support of his old partner Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris, who sees her potential as a boxer. Frankie has a problematical relationship with his daughter, and practically adopts Maggie along her career.

[Fran]

"You Did What" featured A.J. Buckley, who appeared in "Nightstalker" with Danny Trejo, who appeared in "SherryBaby" with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who appeared in "The Dark Knight" with Morgan Freeman.

From IMDb:  When his brother proposes to a girl after knowing her less than 24 hours, marriage phobic Charlie Porter finds himself stuck between a two-carat rock and a hard place with his long-term girlfriend.

[southendmd]

Zeppelin starred Michael York, who starred with Morgan Freeman in The Long Way Home  (1997).

[southendmd]

He was impressive as Commissioner Gordon.  Let's do an "N" Degrees of Gary Oldman Round!

[memento]

Gary Oldman played the role of Ivan Korshunov in Air Force One.

     

IMDB: The President of the United States is on a journey home after making a speech in Moscow. But on the journey, Russian hi-jakers take over the plane, disguising themselves as newspaper reporters. They want the President to ring Moscow and release General Redek. But they think that the President has escaped in the pod. But the president is really still on board air force One attempting to regain control of the plane and to rescue his wife and daughter.

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Gary Oldman plays Albert Milo in this Schnabel biopic of the artist.



Plot:   Basquiat tells the story of the meteoric rise of youthful artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Starting out as a street artist, living in Thompkins Square Park in a cardboard box, Jean-Michel is "discovered" by Andy Warhol's art world and becomes a star. But success has a high price, and Basquiat pays with friendship, love, and eventually, his life.

[southendmd]

Gary Oldman plays Emmet Foley in this film.

Tagline: At the edge of insanity lies hope.

[Fran]

Gary Oldman played Lynch in "Dead Fish."

From IMDb:  Sometimes it's a miracle how they can transform a potential good movie in a complete piece of crap. Dead Fish has everything in it to become a nice gangster comedy but fails miserably. You can't blame the casting, though. There are some excellent casted actors in roles that suit them fine. Robert Carlyle is superbly casted as greedy loan shark. Gary Oldman plays the role of messed up hit-man with verve. Terence Stamp has that eerie aura that makes his presence worth gold.