A woman and her lover, who has made a living by running sex scams at hotels, decide to enter the big time by kidnapping a computer company owner and demanding $4 million ransom. The two hire a tech wizard and a muscle man, who amuses himself by playing Russian roulette. Things go awry during the kidnapping when a neighbor is killed, who turns out to be the wife of a powerful senator. As things develop, it turns out that the murder may not have been as accidental as it originally appeared. Slowly things unveil to not to be everything that was originally thought.
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Tag Archives: USA
Nerds of a Feather (1990) Gary Graver, Mario Romeo Milano, Kathleen Conway, Pat McCormick, Comedy
Filled with the fast-paced thrills of a 007 epic and the suave sophistication of a Pee Wee Herman adventure, this film takes the sacred, great all-American Nerd and puts him where he belongs – on a top secret spy mission.
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) Michael Cimino, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts aside their mutual suspicions to repeat the crime after they are unable to find the loot from the original heist, hidden behind a school chalkboard. The hardened artilleryman and his flippant, irresponsible young sidekick are the two wild cards in the deck of jokers.
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American Movie (1999) Chris Smith, Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Tom Schimmels, Documentary, Comedy
On the northwest side of Milwaukee, Mark Borchardt dreams the American dream: for him, it’s making movies. Using relatives, local theater talent, slacker friends, his Mastercard, and $3,000 from his Uncle Bill, Mark strives over three years to finish “Covan,” a short horror film.
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Gunfighters of Casa Grande (1964) Roy Rowland, Alex Nicol, Jorge Mistral, Dick Bentley, Western
When a gambler wins a Mexican cattle ranch at a game of poker, he plans to drive the herd across the Rio Grande to Texas, sell the cattle and leave the ranch behind. He hires on local hands, but during the drive, the discover that he plans to cheat them.
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C.C. and Company (1970) Seymour Robbie, Joe Namath, Ann-Margret, William Smith, Action, Comedy, Drama
Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins “The Heads,” an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comes to her rescue. The bikers disrupt a motorcross event tied in with a fashion shoot, but C.C. enters the competition under Ann’s admiring eye. His win puts him at odds with Moon, leader of “The Heads.” When C.C. leaves with his cut of the purse, the bikers kidnap Ann, and C.C. races Moon to win her freedom.
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The Invisible Maniac (1990) Adam Rifkin, Noel Peters, Savannah, Stephanie Blake, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Erotic
A budding young scientist lad is caught by his mom checking out the lady across the way with his telescope, whereupon she lectures him on the evils of women. Twenty years later and all grown up, the scientist announces his theories of invisibility, and his colleagues laugh, to which he responds by killing four of them. He escapes from the loony bin and gets a job teaching summer school physics at a high school. The students decide to tease him about the same time as he perfects his invisible juice, and he goes on a spree of vengeance.
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Jack and the Beanstalk (1967) Gene Kelly, Bobby Riha, Ted Cassidy, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
The adventure begins when Jack trades his cow for some magic beans from peddler Jeremy Keen. The beans sprout a beanstalk high into the clouds, and Jack and Jeremy climb it to discover a giant, a goose that lays golden eggs, and Princess Serena who is trapped in a harp by a magic spell and can only be released by a kiss.
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This Is Cinerama (1952) Merian C. Cooper, Gunther von Fritsch, Lowell Thomas, Kathy Darlyn, Documentary
A standard screen B&W prologue during which Lowell Thomas shows how, from the dawn of history, mankind has attempted to create the illusion of depth & movement by artistic, mechanical and photographic means.
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Pig (2001) Mark Steven Bosko, T. Michael Conway, Jim Volkert, Abdullah Bey, Virginia Drda, Drama
Across America, small town cops rule the land. And what you hear about these prejudiced police is often true. This is the story of one such cop. Part mythic folk hero, part bad-ass, he is both feared and admired, hated and loved by the residents of his town. Witness first hand the violence and boredom consuming this law-man’s daily routine. Come, take a ride with Pig.
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