FULTAH FISHER'S BOARDING HOUSE (1922)

 




















Directed by: Frank Capra
Based on the poem "The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House" by: Rudyard Kipling
Starring: Mildred Owens, Ethan Allen, Olaf Skavlan, Gerald Griffin, Oreste Seragnoli

12 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Fultah Fisher runs a boarding house catering to seamen passing through the port. A girl known as Anne of Austria has had many lovers amongst the sailors, but presently she's known to be the "property" of Salem Hardieker, a tough Bostonian. When Anne's eye drifts to a new potential lover, Hans the Dane, he spurns her, knowing she's Salem's girl. But, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Legendary director Frank Capra's debut.

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TRICK 'R TREAT (2007)

 

Directed by: Michael Dougherty

Produced by: Bryan Singer

Starring: Quinn Lord, Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Gerald Paetz, Lauren Lee Smith, Britt McKillip, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Samm Todd, Alberto Ghisi, Isabelle Deluce, Moneca Delain, Leslie Bibb, Tahmoh Penikett, Brett Kelly, Connor Levins, James Willson, Patrick Gilmore, C. Ernst Harth, Keanen Schnoor, Christine Willes, Richard Harmon, Laura Mennell

82 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore, nudity)

PLOT:

Five interwoven stories that occur on the same block, on the same night. A couple finds what happens when they blow a jack o' lantern out before midnight, a high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer, a college virgin might have met the right guy for her, a group of mean teens play a prank that they take too far, and a hermit is visited by a special trick or treater.

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GARDEN STATE (2004)

 




















Directed by: Zach Braff
Starring: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Jean Smart, Armando Riesco, Jackie Hoffman, Method Man, Alex Burns, Ron Leibman, Denis O'Hare, Jim Parsons, Michael Weston, Ann Dowd, Ato Essandoh, Geoffrey Arend, Amy Ferguson, Trisha LaFache, Jayne Houdyshell, Debbon Ayer

102 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, drug use)

PLOT:
A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.

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NICK OF TIME (1995)

 

Directed by: John Badham

Starring: Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton, Courtney Chase, Roma Maffia, Marsha Mason, Peter Strauss, Gloria Reuben, G.D. Spradlin, Bill Smitrovich, Yul Vazquez, Edith Diaz

90 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones. Pretending to be cops, Smith and Jones kidnap Lynn and confront Gene with a simple choice -- kill California governor Eleanor Grant in 90 minutes or less, or Lynn will die. Watson is given a gun, six bullets, and a name tag, and he is told to go to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and kill Eleanor, who is giving an afternoon speech. While Jones is watching Lynn in a van, Smith watches Watson in order to prevent Watson from alerting the authorities. Watson must quickly find some way to get himself and Lynn out of this seemingly impossible situation.

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SLING BLADE (1995)

 

Directed by: Billy Bob Thornton

Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday, James Hampton, Robert Duvall, Jim Jarmusch, Rick Dial, Vic Chesnutt, Brent Briscoe, Mickey Jones, Bruce Hampton

135 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

A partially handicapped man named Karl is released from a mental hospital, about 20 years after murdering his mother and another person. Karl is often questioned if he will ever kill again, and he shrugs in response saying there is no reason to. Now out of the mental institution, Karl settles in his old, small hometown, occupying himself by fixing motors. After meeting a young boy named Frank, who befriends him, Karl is invited to stay at Frank's house with his mother Linda, who views Karl as a strange but kind and generous man. However, Linda's abusive boyfriend, Doyle, sees things differently in the way rules ought to be run- normally insulting Linda's homosexual friend Vaughan as well as Karl's disabilities, and having wild parties with his friends. As Karl's relationship with Frank grows, he is watchful of Doyle's cruel actions.

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SOME FOLKS CALL IT A SLING BLADE (1994)

 

Directed by: George Hickenlooper

Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Molly Ringwald, J.T. Walsh

29 minutes

(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

Karl Childers is an intellectually disabled man who has been in a mental hospital for the past 25 years for murdering his mother and her lover. On the day of his release, he is interviewed by a reporter, Theresa Tatum, who is writing an article with the intent of examining whether criminals judged to be insane should be released. Before the interview, Tatum is of the opinion that criminals like Childers should never be released. During the interview, however, Tatum must question her previous beliefs.

 

DOGVILLE (2003)

 




















Directed by: Lars von Trier
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgard, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, James Caan, John Hurt, Jean-Marc Barr, Jeremy Davies, Philip Baker Hall, Shauna Shim, Bill Raymond, Blair Brown, Zeljko Ivanek, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Cleo King, Miles Purinton

178 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.

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