ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

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From IMDB: As New York Observer's senior Critic Andrew Sarris puts it: "Michèle Ohayon's Cowboy del Amor turns out to be one of the sweetest, funniest and most enjoyable nonfiction films you are likely to see this year. " Cowboy Del Amor is a must see! It's funny, colorful, enjoyable for the entire family.

Mr. Sarris describes it best: ". I don't know how or where Ms. Ohayon found her hero, protagonist and prime mover, but there he is: Ivan Thompson, a 65-year-old cowboy with the unlikeliest of occupations—one that has earned him the self-coined nickname of "Cowboy Cupid." What he does is find Mexican brides for middle-aged American men who have soured on American women. His clients include Rick, a long-distance truck driver and ex-Marine, and Lee, a still-hopeful 70-year-old Vietnam veteran. Rick and Lee each pay $3,000 to Ivan for a 600-mile bus ride to the heart of Mexico in search of true and lasting love. Marriage is the only option for both parties—Ivan has no patience for men who just want a little quick sex. He turns out to be the most unexpectedly moral of matchmakers."

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Demi Moore played Helen.

Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.

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Director:  Koen Mortier

From IMDb
Every village has its band of fools, trying to get to the top, following their idols in drug habits, but staying losers till the end of their pathetic days. They all do this in the name of rock & roll. Three disabled rock musicians are looking for a drummer. Dries, a well known writer, seems the right guy for the job, were it not for the fact that his only handicap is that he can't play the drums. He joins the group as a perfect, but evil god walking down his mountain to play with the populace. With the arrival of this infiltrator, personal disputes and family feuds start to jeopardize the band's fragile future. Dries will manipulate them till they are willing to drink each others blood and their only future is written down in many Punk lyrics: "No Future".  Written by Koen Mortier


Note:  I actually own the DVD of this bizarre film.  Yes, a guy walks on the ceiling, which is cool, and, no, I can't recommend the film, lol!

[Fran]

Agnes Moorehead played Christine Hill Cosick.

Plot:  An unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.

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The young gnome Junior travels to the Gnome community for a trial, which determines whether he will be in charge of his own forest. However, his candidacy is soon in jeopardy when a competitor appears, the whip-smart Storm. In the forest, Junior's best friend Sneaky deals with both a clone of evil troll king Fassa and the unexpected return of his father, Shifty. As Sneaky and Shifty race to the Gnome home ground to warn of a clone outbreak, Junior, his father Jalle, and Gnome chief Leif must deal with something far worse, the return of Fassa himself.

(Credited cast)
Greg Berg   ...                                Sneaky (voice)
Joe Cappelletti ...                            Face
Elizabeth Daily ...                            Junior (voice)
Janet Leon   ...                               Storm
Roger Moore                                Leif (voice)
   

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Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.
Thank you Mervyn Moore    ....    sound recordist

Note: A fucking excellent film!

[Fran]

Plot summary from Wikipedia:  Set in the summer of 1976, the movie follows the adventures of Drew Tate (Larenz Tate), a shy 16-year-old from upstate New York, when he and his family spend two weeks with affluent relatives on Martha's Vineyard. Drew's parents, Kenny (Joe Morton) and Brenda (Suzzanne Douglass), worry that their son is emotionally disturbed. His favorite companion is a doll with which he engages in animated conversations. They also fear that a fire he accidentally set in the family garage foreshadows a future as an arsonist.

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Jump Tomorrow

A young Nigerian man on the verge of being in an arranged marriage, suddenly questions his situation after an encounter with a stunning Latin woman, who is also about to be married.

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From IMDb:
Lou Ford is a young small town deputy sheriff in West Texas in the Fifties, a bland young man on the outside but with a sickness he's been harboring inside for years that's just waiting to burst into horrible bloom and invade his whole being. When the sheriff sends him to pay a prostitute and make her leave town, she smacks him, and he smacks her back harder, and they make love on her bed, and a relationship begins that leads to a succession of increasingly violent acts, terminating in five deaths and along the way compelling Lou Ford to attempt a cover-up that is doomed to go up in flames and take him along with it.

'The Killer Inside Me,' this lurid serial killer tragedy, is a great role for Casey Affleck, who plays Lou Ford, one he's spent years grooming for. Lou is a cold killer with a polite mama's boy manner, a Boy Scout type who'd use his Swiss Army knife not for whittling, but for slashing women's flesh. He puts on gloves so his beating leaves fewer marks. His thing is smashing up women with his fists, then spanking them as a lead-up to sex -- or, finally, to murder.

Thank you,  Darren Moore....Makeup Artist.  I'm really stretching this theme, lol!

[Fran]

Agnes Moorehead played Beryl Sigman.

Plot summary:  A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone....