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Aa Gale Lag Jaa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Gale_Lag_Jaa_(1973_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/16/Aa_Gale_Lag_Jaa.jpg/250px-Aa_Gale_Lag_Jaa.jpg", "Directed by": "Manmohan Desai", "Written by": "Smt. Jeevanprabha Desai K. B. Pathak Prayag Raj", "Produced by": "A. K. Nadiadwala", "Starring": "Shashi Kapoor Sharmila Tagore Shatrughan Sinha Om Prakash", "Cinematography": "Peter Pereira", "Edited by": "Kamlakar Kamkhanis", "Music by": "Rahul Dev Burman", "Production companies": "K. Asif Studios Ranjeet Studios Swati Studios", "Distributed by": "A. K. Movies Polydor", "Release date": "16 November 1973 ( 1973-11-16 )", "Running time": "149 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi", "Box office": "₹ 3 crore (equivalent to ₹ 115 crore or US$14 million in 2023) [ 1 ]"}
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["Aa Gale Lag Jaa ( transl. Come, embrace me ) is a 1973 Hindi romantic film directed by Manmohan Desai , based on a story by Smt. Jeevanprabha Desai. It stars Shashi Kapoor , Sharmila Tagore and Shatrughan Sinha . The film became a box office hit and was the 10th highest grossing Hindi film of 1973. [ 2 ]", "Poornima received a Filmfare nomination as Best Female Playback Singer for the song \"Tera Mujhse Hai.\" Her nomination is the only Filmfare nomination for the film. [ 3 ] Aa Gale Lag Jaa is noted for its wonderful hit songs which had music by R.D. Burman with lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi.", "The film was remade in Telugu as Manchi Manushulu , in Tamil as Uthaman and in Persian as Ranande-ye-ejbari . [ 4 ] The Sinhalese movie Yali Hamuwennai directed by Sena Samarasinghe in the 1980s is said to be a direct copy of this film. The 1977 Pakistani movie Aina and the 1985 Hindi movie Pyar Jhukta Nahin were also inspired by this movie.", "Preeti is a young medico living in Mumbai along with her widower father, Heerachand. On a holiday to Simla, she meets a young man Prem, an amateur skater. He teases her initially but later falls for her. After some wooing, Preeti also reciprocates his feelings. During a trip to the hills, Preeti meets with an accident and loses consciousness. To save her from hypothermia, he gets close with her and one thing leads to another and become intimate.", "Immediately after, Prem tells her that he got close only to save her and proposes to her. She gladly accepts and directs him to her father. Her father, Heerachand doesn't want her daughter to marry him and offers him money to leave her. Prem doesn't agree and leaves a letter for Preeti at her hospital explaining everything and asking her to come with him. But Heerachand meddles with the letter and rewrites it as if Prem was asking money to marry her. Preeti becomes surprised and decides to forget him and leaves for Bombay.", "There, she gets engaged with Dr. Amar, her long-term friend and admirer. He leaves for Germany for higher studies and then Preeti learns of her pregnancy. Her father wants to abort the child, but she doesn't agree, at last, they decide to go to Khandala to give birth. She goes there and unbeknownst to her, Prem stays there along with his mother. Preeti gives birth to a healthy boy there. Knowing that Prem requests to take the child for himself. Heerachand agrees and gives him the child. Preeti is told that the baby was stillborn. She mourns and returns to Bombay.", "Prem comes to Bombay along with his son and starts a career as a skating teacher. His son Rahul can't walk due to a polio attack. After years, Prem again meets Preeti in a function. She thinks that Prem got married and had a son. In that function, Amar announces that he wouldn't marry till he makes Rahul walk. He starts treating Rahul and meanwhile Preeti grows attached to Rahul without knowing that he is her son. She tries to talk to Prem, who then knows the truth that Heerachand changed his letter. But he keeps mum for the sake of Amar.", "Amar learns the truth about Preeti and Prem and becomes troubled. He succeeds in making Rahul walk though. Prem gets mortally injured while saving Tikki (Amar's sister) from goons. He gives Rahul his wallet before going for surgery saying that his mother's photo is in there. Preeti sees it and questions her father about her child. He confesses that he hid the truth from her and Rahul was her son. Amar saves Prem and everybody reconciles. Preeti and Prem marry and stay happy with their son.", "The songs of this movie were composed by legendary music composer Rahul Dev Burman and the lyrics were penned by Sahir Ludhianvi . The songs of this movie are popular till today, especially \"Vaada Karo\" and \"Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle Ka Nata Koi\" are remembered till this day. The song \"Vaada Karo\" is an adaptation of \" Song for my Father \" by Horace Silver . \"Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle Ka Nata Koi\" was lifted off of \" The Yellow Rose of Texas \".", "The film has enjoyed an unusual cult status in Algeria since its release. The cult following remains four decades since the film's release. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The movie there is called JANITOU ."]
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58,002
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Aa Jaa Sanam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Jaa_Sanam
| 1,975
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Aajaasanam.jpg", "Directed by": "Yusuf Naqvi", "Produced by": "S. A Mehmood", "Starring": "Feroz Khan Tanuja", "Music by": "Usha Khanna", "Release date": "10 January 1968 ( 1968-01-10 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi"}
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["Aaja Sanam is a 1968 Bollywood film directed by Yusuf Naqvi. The film stars Feroz Khan , Tanuja and Deven Verma . The film's music is by Usha Khanna and the lyrics by Indeevar .", "Dr. Satish travels from the big city to a small village, where he can serve the poor who cannot afford to go to the city for medical treatment. Once in the village, he meets with Shanti, who lives with her dad, Radhekiran, a watchman. Both Shanti and Satish fall in love, and exchange vows to be married. Radhekiran has an accident, and dies, leaving Shanti to re-locate, without notifying Satish. Satish is devastated at losing Shanti, and tries to locate her, to no avail. His parents want him to marry Kamini, and he agrees to do so. It is then he comes across Shanti, and he is shocked to see that Shanti has given birth to baby-boy, but will not disclose who the father is."]
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2025-06-27 22:39:03
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58,003
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Aa Divasam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Divasam
| 1,982
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Aa_Divasam.jpg", "Directed by": "M. Mani", "Screenplay by": "Jagathy N. K. Achari", "Story by": "M. Mani", "Produced by": "M. Mani", "Starring": "Mammootty Mohanlal Sukumaran Jagathy Sreekumar", "Cinematography": "D. D. Prasad", "Edited by": "V. P. Krishnan", "Music by": "Shyam", "Production company": "Sunitha Productions", "Distributed by": "Aroma Movies", "Release date": "26 November 1982 ( 1982-11-26 )", "Running time": "130 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Aa Divasam ( transl. That Day ) is a 1982 Indian Malayalam -language film directed and produced by M. Mani and written by Jagathy N. K. Achari from a story by Mani. The film stars Mammootty , Mohanlal , Sukumaran and Jagathy Sreekumar . The film has musical score by Shyam . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Aa Divasam is an action film where lead players hunger for revenge.", "The music was composed by Shyam and the lyrics were written by Chunakkara Ramankutty. [ 4 ]"]
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tt0247907
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2025-06-27 22:39:03
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58,004
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Aa Dekhen Zara
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Dekhen_Zara
| 2,009
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_A
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Aadekhezaraposter.jpg/250px-Aadekhezaraposter.jpg", "Directed by": "Jehangir Surti", "Screenplay by": "Sheershak Anand Shantanu Ray Chhibber", "Story by": "Sheershak Anand Shantanu Ray Chhibber", "Produced by": "Viki Rajani", "Starring": "Bipasha Basu Neil Nitin Mukesh Rahul Dev Sophie Choudry", "Cinematography": "Jehangir Chowdhury", "Edited by": "Bunty Nagi", "Music by": "Pritam Chakraborty Gaurav Dasgupta", "Production company": "Next Gen Films", "Distributed by": "Eros International", "Release date": "27 March 2009 ( 2009-03-27 )", "Running time": "117 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi", "Budget": "₹170 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "₹103.8 million [ 2 ]", "Released": "15 February 2009 (India)", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Label": "Sony Music", "Producer": "Eros International"}
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["Aa Dekhen Zara ( Come, Let's See ) is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language science fiction thriller film written by Sheershak Anand , starring Neil Nitin Mukesh , who plays a photo journalist, and Bipasha Basu , as a disc jockey . The film is the directorial debut of Jehangir Surti.", "ASTPL, an Indian software developer, also released Aa Dekhen Zara Jigsaw – a jigsaw puzzle mobile video game based on the film. [ 3 ]", "Ray Acharya ( Neil Nitin Mukesh ), a struggling photographer, has nothing going for him. He inherits a special camera from his grandfather, who was a scientist. His life then changes in a way that he could not have imagined in his wildest dreams.", "The photographs produced by the camera predict the future. Ray uses the camera to obtain winning lottery numbers, winning horses, and also stock prices. His life becomes one big roller coaster ride that takes him from rags to riches and also helps him meet the love of his life, Simi ( Bipasha Basu ), a DJ with a mind of her own.", "However, Captain ( Rahul Dev ) finds out and chases Ray to get the camera for himself. Security authorities also chase Ray as they are aware that Ray's grandfather was trying to create a camera that can predict the future. The chase leads them to Bangkok, where the climax unfolds. [ 4 ]", "It was initially known as Freeze . But in an interview, Vikram Rajani, the executive director of Eros International , said, \"What is Freeze ? The movie was always called Aa Dekhen Zara . I do not know how people called the movie Freeze . That was just a working title we had in mind. We have the title Aa Dekhen Zara registered long time back\". [ 5 ]", "Bipasha Basu performed opposite Neil Mukesh for the first time with this film. [ 6 ] Recent reports say that Neil convinced Bipasha to sing with him the title track, \"Aa Dekhe Zara\". [ 7 ] Stylist Rakhi Parekh Patil worked on Bipasha Basu's look for the movie. [ 8 ]", "The film did moderate business because of a feud between multiplexes owners and the producers. It had an average opening in the first week. The collections started to drop in the second week because of other films with similar themes releasing at the same time ( 8 x 10 Tasveer , Kal Kissne Dekha ). The movie grossed Rs 52,500,000 worldwide. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The film was declared an average grosser.", "The song \"Aa Dekhen Zara\" is a modern-day remix version of the popular dance number \" Aa Dekhe Zara \" from the Sanjay Dutt and Tina Munim 's film Rocky , which was released in 1981. The makers of Aa Dekhen Zara obtained the rights for this original R.D. Burman number and gave the song a modern-day flavor. Gaurav Dasgupta was the man behind this remix number which also supposedly features Bipasha. [ 11 ] The song \"Paisa Hai Power\" is a remake of \" The Power \" by Snap! .", "The song \"Aa Dekhen Zara\" is a modern-day remix version of the popular dance number \" Aa Dekhe Zara \" from the Sanjay Dutt and Tina Munim 's film Rocky , which was released in 1981. The makers of Aa Dekhen Zara obtained the rights for this original R.D. Burman number and gave the song a modern-day flavor. Gaurav Dasgupta was the man behind this remix number which also supposedly features Bipasha. [ 11 ] The song \"Paisa Hai Power\" is a remake of \" The Power \" by Snap! ."]
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Aa Chithrashalabham Parannotte
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Chithrashalabham_Parannotte
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{"Directed by": "P. Balthasar", "Written by": "K. Sivadas", "Screenplay by": "K. Sivadas", "Produced by": "P. Balthasar", "Starring": "Prem Nazir Sheela Kaviyoor Ponnamma Adoor Bhasi", "Cinematography": "T. N. Krishnankutty Nair", "Edited by": "N. P. Suresh T. R. Sreenivasalu", "Music by": "G. Devarajan", "Release date": "29 October 1970 ( 1970-10-29 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Aa Chithrashalabham Parannotte ( transl. Let that butterfly fly ) is a 1970 Indian Malayalam -language film directed and produced by P. Balthasar. The film stars Prem Nazir , Sheela , Kaviyoor Ponnamma and Adoor Bhasi in the lead roles. The film has musical score by G. Devarajan . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "The music was composed by G. Devarajan and the lyrics were written by Vayalar Ramavarma and K. Sivadas."]
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tt0257356
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2025-06-27 22:39:04
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Aa Ammayi Gurinchi Meeku Cheppali
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Ammayi_Gurinchi_Meeku_Cheppali
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_A
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/Aa_Ammayi_Gurinchi_Meeku_Cheppali.jpg/250px-Aa_Ammayi_Gurinchi_Meeku_Cheppali.jpg", "Directed by": "Mohana Krishna Indraganti", "Written by": "Mohana Krishna Indraganti", "Produced by": "B. Mahendra Babu Kiran Ballapalli", "Starring": "Sudheer Babu Krithi Shetty", "Cinematography": "P. G. Vinda", "Edited by": "Marthand K. Venkatesh", "Music by": "Vivek Sagar", "Production companies": "Benchmark Studios Mythri Movie Makers", "Release date": "16 September 2022 ( 2022-09-16 )", "Running time": "145 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu", "Budget": "₹ 20 crore [ 1 ]"}
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["Aa Ammayi Gurinchi Meeku Cheppali ( transl. I must tell you about that girl ) is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film written and directed by Mohana Krishna Indraganti and produced by Benchmark Studios and Mythri Movie Makers . The film stars Sudheer Babu and Krithi Shetty . The music is composed by Vivek Sagar with cinematography by P. G. Vinda and editing by Marthand K. Venkatesh .", "The film was released on 16 September 2022 to mixed reviews [ 2 ] and was a box-office bomb . [ 3 ]", "Naveen is a film director in Telugu cinema who has just scored his sixth back-to-back hit and is looking to make a female-centric film in a commercial format. After coming back from his producer Fancy Parameshwar's house, a garbage truck dumps a bunch of trash onto his car. Naveen then finds an old container that has a film reel and decides to check it. In the reel, he finds scenes of a girl enacting and is mesmerized by it. He decides to find out who she is and learns that she is an eye doctor named Alekhya. Naveen decides to talk with Alekhya to get her to be a part of his film, but she starts to grow hatred towards him as her family has a deep hatred for cinema people. One day, at an event for Alekhya's hospital, Naveen is invited as the chief guest and gives Alekhya a present. After the event, one of the couples present at the event tells Naveen how much his films had positively impacted their deceased son.", "Alekhya is moved by the story and decides to open Naveen's gift. After reading what was inside the gift, Alekhya decides to visit Naveen at his house. Naveen then shows Alekhya the reel he found, and she reveals that the person in the reel is not her but her deceased identical twin sister Akhila. Alekhya tells Naveen that Akhila was passionate about acting ever since she was a child, but their parents were against it as it would hurt their reputation in society, especially after Akhila's performance in a Romeo and Juliet play. Akhila started to act in a film directed by her friend Deepak. However during filming, Akhila's father pulled her out of the film, and an enraged Akhila decided to leave the house. Akhila and Deepak later got married without her parents knowing, and they disown her. Later, Deepak's producer and their family die in a car accident, causing the film to be stalled completely. This makes Deepak fall into depression, due to which he committed suicide, leaving Akhila distraught. Not being able to take this, Akhila also committed suicide by jumping off of her apartment building. Her family completely shuns cinema from there onwards.", "Touched by Akhila's story, Naveen decides to write a story based on Akhila and Deepak's life. He pitches this idea to Venkat, who approves. Naveen visits Alekhya and tells her on how he wants her to play Akhila's character in his film. Alekhya is reluctant, but Naveen tells her his story about how as a debutant in the industry, once a producer offered a chance to direct, but he had asked to mediate his former girlfriend for a casting couch in order to land a lead role and direction offer for him. Then, after hearing this, she pressurized him to accept the offer. Unable to digest this, he was about to commit suicide, but after seeing Deepak's death in the newspaper, Naveen gets motivated to make commercial films and money. He explains his sincere intention to actually make a good film that gives a proper tribute to Akhila and Deepak. Alekhya eventually agrees to star in the film without her parents or relatives knowing.", "Alekhya and Naveen slowly fall in love with each other. Alekhya's parents introduce Alekhya to Varun, the scientist son of a family friend, and someone they desire to be Alekhya's husband. Varun actually ends up meeting Alekhya once more as he plays a minor role in Naveen's movie, though he eventually understands and is friendly about it. Everything goes smoothly until one of her relatives spots her. This enrages Alekhya's parents, and Alekhya gets mad that they suppressed her sister and her emotions, which led her to her death. She then decides to leave the house as her father believes a gossip circulated about her and Naveen. Alekhya decides to complete the film.", "After the film is completed, Naveen approaches Alekhya's parents and tells them that he actually made a sincere attempt at honoring Akhila and Deepak and thinks they will be touched as well. He promises that if their perspectives do not change, he will leave Alekhya forever, never release the film, and never show his face to them. Thus, they show up to his film's premiere. Initially unfriendly, the movie begins to make them realize the mistakes they made. Naveen surprises them and tells them that he has included the shots from Akhila's reel in the film for some of the scenes, and they emotionally break down. Finally, in the climax, he made the story a successful one by funding a new producer, \"Fancy\" Parmeshwar (by giving credit to him for approving his current film and who believed him at his earlier stage), to make his film by adding his life story and ended. The film becomes a huge hit, and Akhila receives a Filmfare Award and dedicates it to her parents. After watching the film, they tell Naveen and Alekhya that they are proud of both of them for the film and for giving a proper tribute to both Deepak and Akhila. Then, Naveen and Alekhya make their relationship official.", "In November 2020, it was announced that Sudheer Babu and Mohana Krishna Indraganti were coming together for the third time under the tentative title #Sudheer14 after Sammohanam (2018) and V (2020). [ 4 ] In March 2021 the film's title was announced as Aa Ammayi Gurinchi Meeku Cheppali. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ]", "It was announced in January 2021 that Krithi Shetty was brought on board for the lead female role in the film. [ 8 ]", "The principal photography of the film began on 1 March 2021. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ]", "The film score and soundtrack of the film is composed by Vivek Sagar . The music rights were acquired by Saregama . .mw-parser-output .tracklist{border-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .tracklist tr{background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist tr:nth-child(2n-1){background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist caption{text-align:left;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tracklist td,.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope=\"row\"]{vertical-align:top}.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope=\"col\"]{text-align:left;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist th.tracklist-length-header,.mw-parser-output .tracklist th.tracklist-number-header,.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope=\"row\"],.mw-parser-output .tracklist-length,.mw-parser-output .tracklist-total-length td{padding-right:10px;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope=\"row\"]{font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-number-header{width:2em;padding-left:10px}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-length-header{width:4em}.mw-parser-output .tracklist tr.tracklist-total-length{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tracklist .tracklist-total-length th{padding:0;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-total-length th>span{float:right;padding:0 10px;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-total-length td{background-color:var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0);font-weight:bold;padding:0 10px 0 0}", "Sangeetha Devi of The Hindu wrote about the film as \"Earnest and fairly engaging ode to cinema\". [ 13 ] Neeshita Nyayapati of The Times of India rated the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote \" AAGMC is not a perfect film by any means because there are scenes you wish would've been written better and conversations that delve deeper\". [ 14 ] Pinkvilla rated the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote \"Themes such as overcoming pangs of guilt, self-redemption, living someone's dream, and finding peace in defying conventions, are drowned out by many below-ordinary scenes. [ 15 ] The Hans India rated the film 2 out of 5 stars and wrote \"The patchy writing doesn't elevate the proceedings. An inconsistency is felt, and that's where Aa Ammayi Gurinchi Meeku Cheppali falters.\" [ 16 ] Sakshi Post rated the film 2 out of 5 stars and opined that the film offers nothing new. [ 17 ]"]
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Aa Ab Laut Chalen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Ab_Laut_Chalen
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/AaAbLautChalen.jpg", "Directed by": "Rishi Kapoor", "Written by": "Rumi Jaffrey Raju Saigal", "Screenplay by": "Sachin Bhowmick", "Produced by": "Rajiv Kapoor Randhir Kapoor Rishi Kapoor", "Starring": "Akshaye Khanna Aishwarya Rai Rajesh Khanna", "Cinematography": "Sameer Arya", "Edited by": "Rajiv Kapoor", "Music by": "Nadeem-Shravan", "Production company": "R.K. Films", "Release date": "22 January 1999 ( 1999-01-22 )", "Running time": "178 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi", "Budget": "₹9 crore [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Box office": "₹20.54 crore [ 1 ]"}
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["Aa Ab Laut Chalen (translation: Come, let's go back ) is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Rishi Kapoor . The film stars Akshaye Khanna , Aishwarya Rai and Rajesh Khanna in lead roles. This is the only film directed by Rishi Kapoor . The film was released on 22 January 1999.", "Rohan Khanna is a jobless graduate living in India with his mother. Ranjit, a former neighbour who now runs a hotel in the United States with his American wife, suggests that Rohan should move to America and Rohan eagerly accepts. His mother disapproves because the notion brings back bitter memories of his father Balraj abandoning the family to move to America, where he died.", "Rohan makes the journey anyway. At the New York airport, Rohan befriends Sardar Khan, a Pakistani taxi driver. Sardar drops Rohan at Ranjit's hotel. Rohan discovers that Ranjit and his wife mistreat his parents and use the hotel for prostitution. Rohan confronts Ranjit about this and is told to leave.", "Sardar rooms with another cab driver, a Punjabi man from India, Iqbal Singh, and they offer Rohan a place to stay and a job. While working, Rohan meets a young Indian woman, Pooja. They become friends and eventually fall in love.", "Rohan asks Pooja to move in with him. Sardar Khan helps the couple to find jobs, but they don't pay well. Despite his hard work, Rohan has earned little money and has only four months left on his visa. On the advice of friends, Rohan decides to obtain citizenship by engaging in a green card marriage . Rohan and Pooja meet the seductive and wealthy Loveleen, who agrees to the false marriage. After the marriage, Rohan becomes completely wrapped up in Loveleen, abandoning his friends and Pooja to move into Loveleen's mansion.", "Pooja finds a job as a caretaker for a rich Indian man, Balraj, who is elderly and very ill. Unbeknownst to her, Balraj is Rohan's father and is not dead after all. Balraj has a son, Karan, who is spoiled and arrogant. Karan is often intimidated by Vikram, an associate of a dangerous drug dealer Marco who uses him as a courier to ship drugs in and around America in exchange for paying off his debts for his luxuries. Balraj starts to think of Pooja as a daughter and asks her to consider marrying Karan. Karan looks at this as an opportunity to get more money from his father so that he can pay off Marco's debts.", "Rohan gets tired of Loveleen, realizing he is in love with Pooja. He goes back to his friends, who tell him where to find her. He begs for her forgiveness and asks her to return to India to marry him. Pooja agrees, and Rohan gives her a locket with a picture of his mother. Pooja tells this to Balraj, who encourages her, without realizing that Rohan is his son.", "Karan has become interested in Pooja and tries to intimidate her into marrying him. After a confrontation with him, her locket breaks. Balraj is surprised to find his wife's photo when he looks inside. When Pooja explains that Rohan gave it to her, Balraj realizes that Rohan must be his son. He fears that Rohan might hate him, so he does not tell Pooja.", "After hearing from Pooja that Rohan is struggling to make ends meet, Balraj asks Pooja to call Rohan to interview at his company. A grateful Rohan is offered a well-paying career and cash bonuses from the generous Balraj. Rohan uses his newfound wealth to pay for the care of Ranjit's parents. He also has Ranjit and his wife arrested for illegally possessing Ranjit's parents' passports and for their prostitution activities.", "After some time, Pooja and Rohan decide to return to India. Before they leave, Balraj confesses to Rohan that he is his estranged father and explains why he never returned. Rohan is angry at first, but after his mother forgives Balraj over the phone, Rohan decides to as well. Karan gets to know about it and decides to retaliate by physically attacking him only to be interrupted by Rohan who has taken his father's side. Balraj disowns Karan and hands over the majority of his wealth to him. Balraj, Rohan and Pooja decided to head back to India. At the airport, they are surprised to see Karan along with NYPD officer Jack Patel who has turned a new leaf by getting Marco and his gang arrested and is officially pardoned by the law. Karan discards his wealthy status and also joins them in India, thus reuniting a broken family.", "The music of this movie was composed by Nadeem–Shravan and the lyrics were written by Sameer. It was released on the label Saregama. The soundtrack was quite popular upon its release. All songs were popular among the masses. [ citation needed ]", "Suparn Verma of Rediff noted, \"Maybe Rishi Kapoor was bowing to RK tradition, maybe he was trying to follow his heart, but he just has to get back to the drawing board and seriously plan that next venture\". [ 3 ] Priya Ramani of India Today wrote, ″Alas, this brave attempt at perfection is drowned in a sea of stereotypical characters and clichéd dialogues by Rumi Jaffrey. Women with curly hair are either spoiled rotten or scheming. The gloomy widowed mother spends her time praying and talking to her husband's portrait. And Akshaye's father-Rajesh Khanna in a comeback role minus all the charisma of his superstar days-finds his estranged family via a gold locket.″ [ 2 ]", "The box office performance of the film was classified as \"Below average\" by Box Office India . [ 4 ]"]
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A Rodeo Film
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/95/A_Rodeo_Film_Poster.jpg/250px-A_Rodeo_Film_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Darius Dawson", "Written by": "Darius Dawson", "Produced by": "Ryan Binse", "Starring": "Jermelle Simon Phrederic Semaj Charlee Earle", "Cinematography": "Erin G. Wesley", "Edited by": "Briana Chmielewski", "Music by": "Kyle Woods", "Distributed by": "HBO Max", "Release dates": "April 2019 ( 2019-04 ) (San Diego Film Week) February 2, 2021 ( 2021-02-02 )", "Running time": "19 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["A Rodeo Film is a 2019 American drama short film written and directed by Darius Dawson and produced by Ryan Binse . The film was released on HBO Max on February 2, 2021.", "A bull rider no longer in love with the sport chooses between his family's rodeo legacy and his own life aspirations.", "Principal photography took place near San Diego . [ 3 ] The film was inspired by Christopher Nolan [ 4 ] and Dawson's time living in Singapore . [ 5 ] It was made at the American Film Institute . [ 6 ] Dawson hopes it raises awareness about black cowboy culture and rodeo athletes. [ 7 ] Larry Poole is one of the film's executive producers. [ 8 ]", "A Rodeo Film screened at Toronto Black Film Festival , [ 9 ] Urbanworld Film Festival, [ 10 ] Prison City Film Festival [ 11 ] and BronzeLens Film Festival [ 12 ] and was distributed on February 2, 2021, by HBO Max . [ 13 ] [ 14 ]", "Dawson won the West Region's African American Student Film Award [ 15 ] [ 16 ] at the Directors Guild of America Awards [ 17 ] [ 18 ] and Best Student Film at GI Film Festival San Diego . [ 19 ]"]
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{"Directed by": "Shaji N. Karun", "Starring": "P. Sreekumar , Krishna Kumar", "Release date": "2007 ( 2007 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["A.K.G. is a 2007 Malayalam-language historical drama film, directed by Shaji N Karun, starring P. Sreekumar and Krishna Kumar in the lead roles. [ 1 ] It is based on the political and personal life of communist leader A.K. Gopalan . [ 2 ] The film was edited by Mahesh Narayanan , who had replaced B. Ajithkumar due to scheduling issues. [ 3 ]", "Lonappan Nambadan , who at the time was a Member of Parliament, played the role of the West Bengal communist leader Jyoti Basu . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] E.K. Nayanar was played by his son Krishna Kumar. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Anirudhan Sampath portrayed the role of his father K. Aniruddhan . [ 5 ]", "Speaker of the Lok Sabha Somnath Chatterjee and CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat spoke at a Delhi screening of the film. [ 5 ]"]
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Aa Dinagalu
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Aa-Dinagalu.jpg/250px-Aa-Dinagalu.jpg", "Directed by": "K. M. Chaitanya", "Screenplay by": "Girish Karnad", "Based on": "Daadaagiriya Dinagalu by Agni Shridhar", "Produced by": "Syed Aman Bachchan M. S. Ravindra", "Starring": "Chethan Kumar Veda Sastry Sharath Lohitashwa Ashish Vidyarthi Atul Kulkarni Girish Karnad", "Cinematography": "H. C. Venugopal", "Edited by": "Nagendra Urs", "Music by": "Ilaiyaraaja", "Production company": "Megha Movies", "Release date": "19 October 2007 ( 2007-10-19 )", "Running time": "137 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Kannada", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Length": "7 : 58", "Label": "Anand Audio"}
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["Aa Dinagalu ( transl. Those Days ) is a 2007 Indian Kannada -language crime drama film based on the non-fiction novel Daadaagiriya Dinagalu by Agni Shridhar , and directed by K. M. Chaitanya . It stars Chethan Kumar in the lead role. The supporting cast features Veda Sastry , Sharath Lohitashwa , Ashish Vidhyarthi , and Atul Kulkarni . The plot revolves around mafia in Bangalore during the 1980s when gangsters Kotwal Ramachandra and M. P. Jayaraj dominated the Bangalore underworld. The film's soundtrack and background music was scored by Ilayaraja .", "Upon theatrical release on 19 October 2007, the film received positive reviews from critics who acclaimed the screenplay and the acting performance of Sharath Lohitashwa who portrayed the role of Kotwal Ramachandra. The film won three awards each at the 2007–08 Karnataka State Film Awards and 55th Filmfare Awards South ; the awards at the latter ceremony being Best Film , Best Director (K. M. Chaitanya) and Best Supporting Actor (Sharath Lohitashwa).", "Sridhar narrates the preview as story of Kotwal Ramachandra in Bangalore Underworld in 1975, which is coincidentally with declaration of emergency by Indira Gandhi and led to grooming of M. P. Jayaraj as the uncrowned king in Bangalore . Mostly involving for terrorising people, Jayaraj seems to have got imprisoned for contempt of court for 10 years. After the death of Indira Gandhi, Jayaraj is released from prison and finds Kotwal Ramachandra to have taken his spot. Chetan is a business magnate , a Konkani Brahmin with a vast empire of his father who falls in love with Mallika, a dance teacher hailing from Vokkaliga community.", "The couple's relationship is not accepted by Chetan's father Girish Nayak, who hires Kotwal Ramachandra to handle the case. Chetan learns about this and is perturbed mentally. For coming as a hardship, Chetan seeks vengeance on Kotwal and seeks Jayaraj to help him in his mission, but just before this, an incident takes place at Kanishka Hotel brings bad reputation for Chetan, who is suspected by the police. After his release, Chetan further strengthen his plan with Sridhar and Bachchan and they befriend Kotwal's friend Siraj. Believing that Kotwal will be safe, Siraj sends this trio to Tumkur. However, Kotwal is killed when his right hand Shetty ditches him. After this, Girish realizes his mistake and unites Chetan and Mallika, who get married and lead a peaceful life.", "Ilaiyaraaja composed the film's background score and music for its soundtrack. The album consists of three tracks. [ 1 ] Lyrics for them were penned by K. Kalyan and D. Sumana Kittur .", "Upon theatrical release, Aa Dinagalu received generally positive reviews from critics. R. G. Vijayasarathy of Rediff reviewed the film rating it 3.5/5 and wrote, \"Chaitanya has used a straightforward, simple narration resulting in a profound impact. The background score by Ilayaraja is one of the best heard in the recent times in Kannada films. Cameraman H. C. Venugopal has done a terrific job behind the camera. Sharath Lohithashwa is wonderful as Kothwal Ramachandra, while Atul Kulkarni, Ashish Vidyarthi, Girish Karnad, and the new face Chethan have all given wonderful performances in their respective roles\" and concluded writing \"Commendable direction, excellent star cast, high class technical crew and a fantastic script...\" [ 2 ] The Times of India in its review rated the film 3/5 and called the film a \"brilliant portrayal of underworld don Kotwal Ramachandra.\" The reviewer concluded writing, \"Sharath Lohithshwa, Ashish Vidyarthi and Atul Kulkarni are brilliant. While Girish Karnad gives a consummate performance, Archana shines and Dharma excels. H C Venu's camerawork is excellent. Ilayaraja's music is pleasing.\" [ 3 ] The reviewer for Deccan Herald felt the film was \"a damp squib\". He felt, \"the subject [was dealt] in a straight, staccato fashion that renders Aa Dinagalu more like docu-feature than a film that sparkles with auteur’s classic feel of the medium.\" [ 4 ]", "The DVD of the movie has been released on Anand Audio. This is the first time a Kannada movie with 5.1 surround sound is releasing on a DVD. [ 9 ]", "The film has been completed 100-days in Bangalore region. [ 10 ]", "Ilaiyaraaja composed the film's background score and music for its soundtrack. The album consists of three tracks. [ 1 ] Lyrics for them were penned by K. Kalyan and D. Sumana Kittur .", "Upon theatrical release, Aa Dinagalu received generally positive reviews from critics. R. G. Vijayasarathy of Rediff reviewed the film rating it 3.5/5 and wrote, \"Chaitanya has used a straightforward, simple narration resulting in a profound impact. The background score by Ilayaraja is one of the best heard in the recent times in Kannada films. Cameraman H. C. Venugopal has done a terrific job behind the camera. Sharath Lohithashwa is wonderful as Kothwal Ramachandra, while Atul Kulkarni, Ashish Vidyarthi, Girish Karnad, and the new face Chethan have all given wonderful performances in their respective roles\" and concluded writing \"Commendable direction, excellent star cast, high class technical crew and a fantastic script...\" [ 2 ] The Times of India in its review rated the film 3/5 and called the film a \"brilliant portrayal of underworld don Kotwal Ramachandra.\" The reviewer concluded writing, \"Sharath Lohithshwa, Ashish Vidyarthi and Atul Kulkarni are brilliant. While Girish Karnad gives a consummate performance, Archana shines and Dharma excels. H C Venu's camerawork is excellent. Ilayaraja's music is pleasing.\" [ 3 ] The reviewer for Deccan Herald felt the film was \"a damp squib\". He felt, \"the subject [was dealt] in a straight, staccato fashion that renders Aa Dinagalu more like docu-feature than a film that sparkles with auteur’s classic feel of the medium.\" [ 4 ]", "The DVD of the movie has been released on Anand Audio. This is the first time a Kannada movie with 5.1 surround sound is releasing on a DVD. [ 9 ]", "The film has been completed 100-days in Bangalore region. [ 10 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/20px-Searchtool.svg.png", "Directed by": "Joe Carnahan", "Written by": "Joe Carnahan Brian Bloom Skip Woods", "Based on": "Stephen J. Cannell Frank Lupo", "Produced by": "Stephen J. Cannell Tony Scott Spike Seldin Jules Daly Alex Young Iain Smith", "Starring": "Liam Neeson Bradley Cooper Jessica Biel Quinton Jackson Sharlto Copley Patrick Wilson", "Cinematography": "Mauro Fiore", "Edited by": "Roger Barton Jim May", "Music by": "Alan Silvestri", "Production companies": "Dune Entertainment Top Cow Productions Scott Free Productions", "Distributed by": "20th Century Fox", "Release date": "June 11, 2010 ( 2010-06-11 )", "Running time": "118 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$100–110 million [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "Box office": "$177.2 million [ 3 ]"}
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["The A-Team is a 2010 American action comedy film [ 4 ] based on the 1980s television series of the same name created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell . Directed by Joe Carnahan and written by Carnahan, Brian Bloom , and Skip Woods , the film stars Liam Neeson , Bradley Cooper , Jessica Biel , Quinton Jackson , Sharlto Copley , and Patrick Wilson . The film tells the story of a Special Forces team who, imprisoned for a crime they did not commit, escapes and sets out to clear their names. The film was produced by Cannell, [ 5 ] Tony Scott , and (as executive producer) his brother Ridley Scott . [ 6 ] [ 7 ]", "The film had been in development since the mid-1990s having gone through a number of writers and story ideas and being put on hold a number of times. Neeson, Cooper, and the rest of the cast joined in summer 2009, and filming took place around Canada later that year. The film was theatrically released on June 11, 2010, by 20th Century Fox . It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the cast and action sequences but criticized the script. A sequel was initially anticipated, but as the film box office underperformed at the box office , grossing $177 million worldwide against its $110 million budget, plans were scrapped.", "John \"Hannibal\" Smith is held captive in Mexico by two corrupt Federal Police officers working for renegade General Javier Tuco. Hannibal escapes and sets out to rescue his friend Templeton \"Face\" Peck , who is also held captive at Tuco's ranch. Hannibal saves Face after enlisting former Ranger B.A. Baracus , driving to the rescue in B.A.'s modified GMC Vandura . Pursued by Tuco, they stop at a nearby Army hospital to recruit the services of a pilot H.M. \"Howling Mad\" Murdock . They flee in a medical helicopter and are chased by Tuco in a dogfight . They lure Tuco's helicopter into American airspace where it is shot down by a fighter jet for trespassing, killing Tuco.", "Eight years later, in Iraq , Hannibal is contacted by CIA Special Activities Division operative Lynch , who assigns them on a black operation to recover U.S. Treasury plates and over $1 billion in cash slated to move out of Baghdad . Hannibal's commanding officer, General Morrison, consents to the operation but Morrison seems somewhat pensive about the mission. Face's former girlfriend, Defense Criminal Investigative Service Captain Charissa Sosa, also tries to discourage the team from getting the plates. The mission proceeds regardless, and is successful, but when the team returns to base, both the money and Morrison's vehicle are destroyed by Brock Pike and his men from the private security firm Black Forest.", "Without Morrison, the only proof that they were authorized to act, Hannibal, Face, Murdock, and B.A. are court-martialed , sentenced to ten years in separate supermax prisons, and dishonorably discharged . Because the plates were her responsibility, Sosa is demoted to lieutenant.", "Six months later, Lynch visits Hannibal in prison and tells him that Pike may be trying to sell the plates with the help of an Arab backer. Hannibal, who has been tracking Pike on his own, makes a deal with Lynch: full reinstatement and clean records for his team in return for the plates. Lynch agrees and Hannibal escapes, breaking out Face, B.A., and Murdock in the process. The team hijacks a C-130 which is destroyed by pursuing Reaper UCAVs , but not before the team parachutes away in an M8 light tank stashed aboard, using its airdrop parachutes and recoil from the main gun to \"fly\" the tank to the ground.", "The team moves to reclaim the plates and kidnaps Pike's backer. They discover that the backer is actually General Morrison in disguise, who plotted with Lynch and Pike to steal the plates but teamed up with Pike to double-cross Lynch and fake his death. Meanwhile, Lynch orders an airstrike to kill the team and Morrison, but the team manages to escape while Morrison is killed in the explosion.", "Hannibal arranges to meet Sosa on board a container ship at the Port of Los Angeles, claiming he will hand over \"Morrison\" and the plates. Face then calls Sosa and conspires on a different plan with her, knowing Lynch was probably eavesdropping on the call. It all unfolds according to plan until Pike, now working with Lynch, blows up the container ship with a rocket launcher and chases Face. B.A., who became a pacifist during his prison time, eventually confronts Pike before killing him and saving Face's life. Hannibal lures Lynch into a container with Murdock, who, wearing a covered, bullet-proof helmet filled with ketchup, is portraying Morrison with recordings of Morrison before his death. Lynch shoots at Murdock's head, and believing that he has killed Morrison, is later tricked into admitting that he stole the plates and is subsequently caught and arrested by Sosa for his crimes.", "CIA agents led by a separate \"Lynch\" claim custody of the original. Despite their success and proving themselves innocent, the military still arrests the team for escaping from federal prison, which is a criminal offense. Sosa is reinstated to captain, but she promises to do all she can to set the team free and kisses Face as everybody is led into a prison van. Face opens his mouth, revealing a handcuff key Sosa gave him through the kiss.", "In a post credits scene, original series actors Dirk Benedict (Face) and Dwight Schultz (Murdock) have cameos with their film equivalents Bradley Cooper and Sharlto Copley. Benedict plays Face's fellow tanning bed client, credited as \" Pensacola Prisoner Milt\", and Schultz plays the German neurologist who examines Murdock. These scenes are integrated in the film proper in the Extended cut.", "The entire film was shot at various locations in Canada including Kamloops , Vancouver , Cache Creek and Ashcroft, [ 11 ] British Columbia , with much of the studio works being done at Mammoth Studios . [ 9 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Other footage was included as well, such as aerial shots of the Cologne train station (though erroneously referred to as Frankfurt Central Station in the movie) as well as an aerial shot of the Frankfurt skyline. [ 14 ] Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake is also featured in the German escape scene where a number of base buildings and landmarks are clearly visible, as is the false canopy painted under the CF-18s . The Royal Canadian Air Force along with some USMC squadrons are the only Hornet users to have the false canopy painted on the bottom. American markings were digitally added later. The Hawaii Mars Martin Mars water bomber, based at Sproat Lake, British Columbia, is also used in one scene of the movie to cross the Atlantic. [ 15 ]", "The film had been in development since the mid-1990s, going through a number of writers and story ideas, and being put on hold a number of times. Producer Stephen J. Cannell hoped to update the setting, perhaps using the Gulf War as part of the backstory. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] \n John Singleton was initially assigned to direct, [ 18 ] but in October 2008 he pulled out of the project. [ 19 ] When Singleton was still attached to the project as director, Ice Cube was approached for the role of B.A. Baracus. [ 20 ]", "Initially greenlit on a production budget of $80 million, [ 11 ] the final cost of the film was $110 million, [ 3 ] [ 21 ] which came down to around $100 million after tax credits. [ 2 ]", "In June 2009, Variety revealed that Liam Neeson was in negotiations with 20th Century Fox to star as Hannibal Smith, [ 22 ] and Bradley Cooper announced to MTV News [ 23 ] that he would be playing the role of Templeton Peck after he first denied the rumors saying that he was not involved and insisted that he had not seen any script. [ 24 ]", "On August 26, 2009, MMAjunkie.com reported that mixed martial arts fighter Quinton Jackson would play the role of B.A. Baracus in the upcoming film, [ 25 ] but this was later denied by a representative for Jackson. [ 26 ] In September 2009, The Vancouver Sun suggested that Jackson has been attached to the role and was postponing his fight at UFC 107 with Rashad Evans due to filming for The A-Team . Filming started in Vancouver in late 2009, and Jackson's involvement was then confirmed. [ 27 ] [ 28 ]", "On September 15, 2009, Variety confirmed the casting of Neeson, Cooper and Jackson. They additionally reported that Sharlto Copley and Jessica Biel were in final negotiations to join the cast. Copley would be playing the role of H.M. Murdock and Biel would be playing the ex-lover of Face who is a disillusioned and ruthless Army officer in charge of pursuing the team. [ 29 ] 20th Century Fox later confirmed that Copley and Biel were cast in the film. [ 9 ]", "The first official pictures of Neeson, Cooper, Copley and Jackson in character included one which features the iconic van in the background. [ 13 ]", "On October 30, 2009, Dwight Schultz confirmed that he had filmed a cameo scene for the movie. [ 30 ] This news was followed on November 23, 2009, that Dirk Benedict would also make a cameo. [ 31 ] \nSchultz and Benedict played Howling Mad Murdock and Templeton Peck respectively in the original series. Mr. T , the original BA Baracus, did not appear in the film. In an interview with Wendy Williams , he said he did not like doing a cameo appearance in a film based on the original series he once did.", "The soundtrack album of The A-Team featuring original score composed by Alan Silvestri was released on June 21, 2010, by Varèse Sarabande . [ 32 ] [ 33 ]", "Songs used in the film are:", "In February 2010, it was announced a series of comics for the movie would be released beginning in March. Written by Carnahan and Chuck Dixon , the series, The A-Team: War Stories is a prelude to the film, featuring one-shots focusing each on Hannibal, Face, BA, and Murdock. [ 34 ] A second series, The A-Team: Shotgun Wedding , is a tie-in to the film by showing an all-new adventure set after the quartet escaped. Film director Joe Carnahan and Tom Waltz collaborated to pen the series.", "Jazwares released a line of action figures featuring the four main characters, plus the GMC Vandura.", "An application for the iPhone was released as part of the marketing blitz for the film. The A-Team application is a side-scrolling, third person, action shooter game. Produced by RealNetworks the game includes voice-overs from B.A. Baracus. [ 35 ]", "The film premiered in Los Angeles on Thursday June 3, 2010, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard . Liam Neeson arrived in The A-Team custom Chevrolet G20 van; Bradley Cooper and Sharlto Copley rode in on a real U.S. Army tank. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The film opened nationwide on June 11, 2010. [ 3 ]", "The film premiered in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2010, before going on general release the next day. The event was attended by the four team members along with Jessica Biel, and the A-Team van. [ 38 ]", "The film was released on December 14, 2010 on DVD and Blu-ray. [ 39 ] It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 27 in Australia and on November 29, 2010 in the UK. An extended cut was also released, pushing the running time to 133 minutes. [ 40 ] Two of the most noteworthy additions in the extended cut were the two cameo scenes of the original Face and Murdock, which were pushed back after the end credits in the original cut due to pacing. [ 41 ]", "The film fell slightly short of expectations for its opening weekend, earning $26 million, as opposed to the initially predicted $30–35 million. [ 2 ] \nThe film opened behind The Karate Kid , which took in $56 million. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] The film opened in the UK / Ireland on July 28, 2010, and came at No. 3 in at the box office with a first weekend haul of $5.6 million. [ 3 ] As of August 26, 2010 [update] , The A-Team had taken over $77.2 million at the U.S. box office, and $100 million internationally, for a worldwide total of over $177.2 million. [ 3 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 48% based on 217 reviews with an average rating of 5.40/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \" The A-Team assembles a top-rate cast only to ditch the show's appealingly silly premise for explosive yet muddled blockbuster filmmaking.\" [ 44 ] On Metacritic , the film has a score of 47 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". [ 45 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B+\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 46 ]", "Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly says of the film: \"It's trash so compacted it glows\". [ 47 ] Richard Corliss of Time magazine calls the film \"the best in a mediocre line-up of summer-action flicks\". He goes on to say the film lacks \"a coherent plot and complex characterization\", though he does note that these qualities \"are irrelevant to the genre\". [ 48 ] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine calls the film, \"big, loud, ludicrous and edited into visual incomprehension\", but \"pity the fool who lets that stand in the way of enjoying The A-Team \". [ 49 ] The Hollywood Reporter criticized the film's story, character development and logic, calling it \"nearly writer-free\", [ 50 ] while the St. Petersburg Times was far more positive, calling the film \"literally a blast\" from start to finish, and praises it for \"containing more thrills than the average shoot-em-up\". [ 51 ]", "Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said The A-Team is an incomprehensible mess, criticizing the film for being as shallow as the television series, which he describes as \"punishment\" when drawn out to a two-hour-long film. [ 52 ] Stephen Whitty of The Star-Ledger complained the film makers remembered little more from the television series than a Dirty Dozen gimmick and compares the film to the \"awful\" Smokin' Aces by the same director. [ 53 ]", "Dirk Benedict , who played Templeton \"Faceman\" Peck in the TV series, spoke of regretting his cameo, stating \"You'll miss me if you blink. I kind of regret doing it because it's a non part. They wanted to be able to say, 'Oh yeah, the original cast are in it,' but we're not. It is three seconds. It's kind of insulting.\" [ 54 ]", "Mr. T , the original B. A. Baracus, was offered a cameo, but turned it down, feeling it would not be right for him to appear in the film if he did not play Baracus. [ 55 ] In a 2010 interview with Script magazine, director Joe Carnahan claimed that Mr. T, after viewing scenes from the film, thought the final product was \"the greatest thing in the world\". [ 56 ] After the premiere of the film Mr. T allegedly stated that he had become disillusioned and felt the story emphasized sex and violence, and that it was unfaithful to the original series. [ 57 ] An attorney for Mr. T later stated that the actor had not yet seen the film and could not comment on it. [ 58 ]", "Dwight Schultz , who played \"Howling Mad\" Murdock on the TV series, issued a statement to his official fansite that the film \"pays homage to the series while it eschews its essential working premise: a band of capable military brothers for hire determined to save underdog and usually poor civilians from scum. ... The team characters are sufficiently different and, with so many roles reversed from the original, one could say they are not really derivative, save for their names.\" He also noted that Sharlto Copley's Murdock \"is faithful to the original, but at the same time is big screen twisted and right at home with the new team.\" [ citation needed ]", "Neeson, Cooper, Copley and Jackson originally expressed interest in doing a sequel. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] Joe Carnahan expressed interest in directing a sequel and said it would depend on DVD and Blu-ray sales and rentals. [ 64 ] On March 10, 2011, Cooper stated that the film had not generated enough revenue for there to be a sequel. [ 65 ] This was confirmed by Liam Neeson in a webchat. [ 66 ] Neeson later commented in early 2012 that he understood why the film was not successful: \"I watched it about two months ago and I found it a little confusing and I was in the thing. I just couldn’t figure out who was who and what’s been done to him and why, a little bit.\" [ 67 ] Later in 2013 Carnahan said on his Twitter account: \"For the record guys and as much as I appreciate all the A-TEAM love. There will NOT be a sequel. It didn't make enough $$$ and that's that.\" [ 68 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/Tales_of_a_Golden_Geisha.jpg/250px-Tales_of_a_Golden_Geisha.jpg", "Directed by": "Juzo Itami", "Screenplay by": "Juzo Itami [ 1 ]", "Produced by": "Seigo Hosogoe Yasushi Tamaoka Juzo Itami [ 1 ]", "Starring": "Nobuko Miyamoto Masahiko Tsugawa Hiroshi Okochi Ryunosuke Kaneda", "Cinematography": "Yoshihiro Yamazaki [ 1 ]", "Music by": "Toshiyuki Honda [ 1 ]", "Production companies": "Itami Films Seigo Hosogoe Office [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Toho", "Release date": "2 June 1990 ( 1990-06-02 ) (Japan)", "Running time": "119 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "Japan"}
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["Tales of a Golden Geisha ( あげまん , Ageman ) , also known as A-Ge-Man , is a 1990 Japanese comedy film directed and written by Juzo Itami . [ 1 ] It stars Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings good luck to her intimate companions (known as an \"ageman\", from 上げる ageru 'to raise up') and Masahiko Tsugawa as a man who crosses paths with her by chance.", "A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha was distributed theatrically in Japan by Toho on 2 June 1990. [ 1 ] The film was shown at the Chicago International Film Festival on October 10, 1990 and at the Japan Today Film Festival in Los Angeles on November 1, 1991. [ 1 ]", "A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha was nominated for four Japanese Academy Awards —Best Director (Juzo Itami), Best Actress (Nobuko Miyamoto), Best Screenplay (Juzo Itami) and Best Editing (Akira Suzuki). [ 2 ]"]
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58,013
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A-Haunting We Will Go
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Haunting_We_Will_Go_(1942_film)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_A
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/L%26H_A-Haunting_We_Will_Go_1942.jpeg/250px-L%26H_A-Haunting_We_Will_Go_1942.jpeg", "Directed by": "Alfred L. Werker", "Written by": "Lou Breslow Stanley Rauh", "Produced by": "Sol M. Wurtzel", "Starring": "Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Dante the Magician Sheila Ryan John Shelton", "Cinematography": "Glen MacWilliams", "Edited by": "Alfred Day", "Music by": "David Buttolph Cyril J. Mockridge", "Distributed by": "20th Century-Fox", "Release date": "August 7, 1942 ( 1942-08-07 )", "Running time": "66:40", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["A-Haunting We Will Go is a 1942 Laurel and Hardy feature film released by 20th Century-Fox and directed by Alfred L. Werker . The story is credited to Lou Breslow and Stanley Rauh. [ 1 ] The title is a play on the song \" A-Hunting We Will Go \".", "Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are wandering vagabonds in Arizona countryside who are arrested for loitering and spend a night in jail. Upon release, they are instructed to leave town immediately due to lacking transportation. They agree to escort a coffin, containing a corpse, to Dayton, Ohio , believing it offers them free transport.", "Unaware that their employers, Frank Lucas and Joe Morgan, are gangsters working for Darby Mason, a wanted criminal, Stan and Oliver load Mason's trunk onto a train, mistaking it for another trunk belonging to a magician named Dante . Along the journey, they fall victim to confidence men and are left penniless until Dante assists them financially.", "Upon arrival in Dayton, confusion arises as the trunks are mixed up, leading to mistaken identities. Mason's trunk is sent to the theater where Dante performs, while Dante's trunk is delivered to a sanatorium. As events unfold, confusion ensues at the theater, with mistaken identities and suspicions mounting.", "Investigator Steve Barnes, disguised as attorney Kilgore, reveals the inheritance search as a trap to capture Mason. Trapped in the theater's basement with his accomplices, Mason confesses to a murder. Meanwhile, Ollie continues his search for Stan, finding him apparently shrunken by magic. [ 2 ]"]
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2025-06-27 22:39:07
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58,014
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A-Haunting We Will Go
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Haunting_We_Will_Go_(1966_film)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_A
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/TCHauntingWewill66.png/250px-TCHauntingWewill66.png", "Directed by": "Robert McKimson [ 1 ]", "Story by": "Tedd Pierce Bill Danch", "Produced by": "David H. DePatie Friz Freleng", "Starring": "Mel Blanc June Foray", "Edited by": "Al Wahrman", "Music by": "William Lava", "Animation by": "Manny Perez Warren Batchelder Bob Matz George Grandpré", "Layouts by": "Dick Ung", "Backgrounds by": "Tom O'Loughlin", "Color process": "Technicolor", "Production company": "DePatie–Freleng Enterprises", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation [ 1 ]", "Release date": "April 16, 1966 ( 1966-04-16 )", "Running time": "7 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["A-Haunting We Will Go is a 1966 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson . [ 2 ] The short was released on April 16, 1966, and stars Daffy Duck , Speedy Gonzales and Witch Hazel . [ 3 ]", "During Halloween , Daffy Duck's nephew, dressed as a witch, goes trick-or-treating and visits Witch Hazel's house. Terrified by her appearance, he runs home to tell Daffy, who dismisses his fears and decides to prove that witches do not exist by visiting Hazel himself.", "Meanwhile, Witch Hazel, lamenting her constant work, seeks a stand-in so she can take a vacation. She transforms Speedy Gonzales into her double using a special piece of cheese. Although Speedy retains his usual energetic behavior, Hazel deems it acceptable and leaves for Hawaii.", "When Daffy arrives at Hazel's house, Speedy, disguised as Hazel, serves him tea made from potions, turning Daffy into a flower-headed creature. Hazel returns, reverts Speedy to his mouse form, and considers cooking Daffy for dinner. She transforms Daffy back to his original state, but he escapes, only to find himself parachuting with an anvil after jumping from her broomstick.", "Back on the ground, Daffy is frightened by his nephew, still in his witch costume. He reassures his nephew that witchcraft is mere superstition, unaware that he has once again turned into the flower-headed creature on their way home.", "This is the final Looney Tunes cartoon to feature Witch Hazel and June Foray 's voice acting during the Golden Age of American animation . However, Foray reprised her role as Witch Hazel in a 2003 episode of Duck Dodgers . The cartoon incorporates reused animation of Witch Hazel from Broom-Stick Bunny and features Daffy as the flower-headed creature from Duck Amuck , both directed by Chuck Jones . [ 4 ]"]
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tt0060053
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2025-06-27 22:39:07
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58,015
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A Aa E Ee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Aa_E_Ee_(2009_Telugu_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/43/A_Aa_E_Ee_Poster.jpg/250px-A_Aa_E_Ee_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Srinivasa Reddy", "Produced by": "Boddam Ashok Yadav", "Starring": "Srikanth Meera Jasmine Sadha", "Cinematography": "Vijay C. Kumar", "Edited by": "Gautham Raju", "Music by": "M. M. Srilekha", "Production company": "Sri Kalpana Arts", "Distributed by": "Sri Kalpana Arts", "Release date": "6 November 2009 ( 2009-11-06 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu"}
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["A Aa E Ee (short for Athalo Aame Inthalo Eeme ) is a 2009 Telugu language film directed by Srinivasa Reddy. The film stars Srikanth , Meera Jasmine and Sadha in lead roles. Krishna Bhagawan , Ali , Kovai Sarala , Kavitha, Hema play prominent supporting roles in the film.\nThe film was later dubbed into Hindi as Diljale The Burning Heart in 2011. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "Chandram is an honest man and a devoted husband to Kalyani. His life takes a turn when he discovers that Pregnant Kalyani is suffering from a rare disease and he has to get Rs. 8 lakh for treatment. While gathering the amount, he is compelled to act as husband to Ramya, who is thought dead. However, Ramya comes back alive and now Chandram is caught between both women. What happens from there forms the rest of the story."]
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tt3407278
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2025-06-27 22:39:07
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58,016
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A Aa E Ee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Aa_E_Ee_(2009_Tamil_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d5/Movie_poster_A_Aa_E_Ee.jpg/250px-Movie_poster_A_Aa_E_Ee.jpg", "Directed by": "Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy", "Written by": "V. Seenivasan (dialogues)", "Story by": "Krishna Vamsi", "Produced by": "AVM K. Shanmugam", "Starring": "Prabhu Navdeep Aravind Akash Monica Saranya Mohan", "Cinematography": "Aruldas", "Edited by": "K. Shankar K. Thangavel Kumaran", "Music by": "Vijay Antony", "Distributed by": "AVM Productions", "Release date": "9 January 2009 ( 2009-01-09 )", "Running time": "130 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Tamil", "Released": "2009", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack"}
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["A Aa E Ee is a 2009 Indian Tamil -language romantic drama film directed by Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy . It stars Prabhu , Navdeep , Aravind Akash , Monica , and Saranya Mohan , whilst, supporting actors Cochin Haneefa , Livingston , Manorama and Ganja Karuppu play other prominent roles. [ 1 ] Produced by the oldest Tamil film production company, AVM Productions , the film was released on 9 January 2009. The film is a remake of Telugu film Chandamama . The film received mixed reviews from critics.", "Subramaniam ( Prabhu ), an ayurvedic physician, is a much-respected man in his village. His only daughter Anitha ( Monica ) returns home from Chennai after completing a course in fashion designing . Having lost her mother at a very young age, Anitha is close to her father, and they share a special bond. Soon, Anitha's marriage is fixed with Elango ( Aravind Akash ), the son of Vedachalam ( Cochin Haneefa ). While Vedachalam is a good-for-nothing chap, Elango is a perfect match. Elango falls in love with Anitha, but she tells him of her past: her lover Akash ( Navdeep ), who had jilted her after a one-night stand. Elango, though shattered, meets Akash and tries to unite him with Anitha. In this attempt, he finds himself falling in love with Anitha's cousin Eeswari ( Saranya Mohan ). Now the story is about uniting the two pairs of lovers. Anitha does not want to hurt her father with the knowledge of her past.", "The film was shot in locations like Thenkasi, Kuttralam, Ambasamudram, Manimutharu, Karaikudi, Thirumayam, and Salem in Tamilnadu and in Challakudi at Kerala. [ 2 ] The song \"Kannivedi\" choreographed by Bobby was done with 456 cut shots. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]", "Soundtrack was composed by Vijay Antony and lyrics by Eknath, Priyan and Annamalai. [ 5 ] Rediff wrote \"Though Vijay Antony seems to want to go beyond his Kadhalil Vizhunthen tracks, it still looks like the hangover exists. Some numbers are passable, while others are down-right boring\". [ 6 ] Milliblog wrote \" A aa e ee is a middling soundtrack from the Nakka mukka man\". [ 7 ] Behindwoods wrote \"Vijay Antony has employed creative musical idioms in this album. The sound mixing is good!\". [ 8 ]", "The film was originally slated to release on 18 December 2008 but got postponed and released on 9 January 2009. [ 9 ] [ 10 ]", "Times of India wrote \"If only the director had trimmed the first few minutes where Prabhu 'hardsells' ayurveda, had one song less, and shortened the build up to the climax, the occasional drag could have been avoided\". [ 11 ] Behindwoods wrote \"Imagine those drag sitcoms they used to telecast on national television, especially the ones that are made in less-than-a-shoe-string’s budget and happen mostly in a single room with the help of set props to depict different locations? We didn’t find ‘A Aa E Ee’ any different from those sitcoms and the movie was nightmarishly reminiscent of those excruciatingly boring, no-other-choice days\". [ 12 ] Indiaglitz wrote \"If you can forgive thee first ten minutes of the movie, 'A AA E EE' is worth a watch. A florid bouquet can be given to Sabhapathy, for his guts to make a movie sans any hero worship or vulgar comedies\". [ 13 ] Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff wrote \"For a feel-good comedy, this one falls remarkably flat\". [ 14 ] Mythily Ramachandran of Nowrunning wrote \"There are moments when the film sags, but if you have a penchant for clean family drama, this one could be straight up your alley\". [ 15 ]", "The film was originally slated to release on 18 December 2008 but got postponed and released on 9 January 2009. [ 9 ] [ 10 ]", "Times of India wrote \"If only the director had trimmed the first few minutes where Prabhu 'hardsells' ayurveda, had one song less, and shortened the build up to the climax, the occasional drag could have been avoided\". [ 11 ] Behindwoods wrote \"Imagine those drag sitcoms they used to telecast on national television, especially the ones that are made in less-than-a-shoe-string’s budget and happen mostly in a single room with the help of set props to depict different locations? We didn’t find ‘A Aa E Ee’ any different from those sitcoms and the movie was nightmarishly reminiscent of those excruciatingly boring, no-other-choice days\". [ 12 ] Indiaglitz wrote \"If you can forgive thee first ten minutes of the movie, 'A AA E EE' is worth a watch. A florid bouquet can be given to Sabhapathy, for his guts to make a movie sans any hero worship or vulgar comedies\". [ 13 ] Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff wrote \"For a feel-good comedy, this one falls remarkably flat\". [ 14 ] Mythily Ramachandran of Nowrunning wrote \"There are moments when the film sags, but if you have a penchant for clean family drama, this one could be straight up your alley\". [ 15 ]"]
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58,017
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A
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(1998_Japanese_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d9/A_VideoCover_Japan.jpg/250px-A_VideoCover_Japan.jpg", "Directed by": "Tatsuya Mori", "Produced by": "Takaharu Yasuoka", "Starring": "Hiroshi Araki", "Cinematography": "Tatsuya Mori Takaharu Yasuoka", "Edited by": "Tatsuya Mori Takaharu Yasuoka", "Music by": "Poe Pak", "Production company": "'A' Production Committee", "Distributed by": "Tidepoint Pictures (2006) Facets Multimedia Distribution (2008) Gold View Company Ltd.", "Release date": "1998 ( 1998 )", "Running time": "136 minutes", "Country": "Japan", "Language": "Japanese"}
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["A is a 1998 Japanese documentary film about the Aum Shinrikyo cult following the arrest of its leaders for instigating the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. [ 1 ] The film focuses on a young spokesman for the cult Hiroshi Araki , a troubled 28-year-old who had severed all family ties and rejected all forms of materialism. [ 1 ]", "Director Tatsuya Mori was allowed exclusive access to Aum's offices for over a year as news media were continually kept out. [ 1 ] However, despite the documentary's unique perspective on Aum's internal workings, it was not financially successful. [ citation needed ]", "Mori released the sequel A2 in 2001, which returned to Araki and examined the competing factions of the sect (renamed Aleph), during the trial of their leader Shoko Asahara and his associates. [ 2 ]", "Describing the documentary as \"ornery\", a 2012 review in TimeOut said that \"Mori's real subject is the reason such cults exist and attract educated disciples; scrupulously impartial, he provides all the evidence necessary to ask very awkward questions about the state and the people.\" [ 1 ]"]
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A+
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2B_(film)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_A
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/A%2B_%28film%29_poster.jpg/250px-A%2B_%28film%29_poster.jpg", "Spanish": "A+ (Amas)", "Directed by": "Xavier Ribera Perpiñá", "Screenplay by": "Xavier Ribera Perpiñá", "Starring": "Eloy Azorín Carlos Fuentes Elvira Herrería Misia Ricardo Moya Fernando Ramallo Eloi Yebra Jose Coronado Najwa Nimri Dani Macaco", "Cinematography": "Julio Ribeyro", "Edited by": "Xavier Ribera Perpiñá Patrick Bosset", "Music by": "Javier Navines Jordi Grau Andreas Frey", "Production companies": "A+ Lateco DeAPlaneta", "Distributed by": "DeAPlaneta", "Release dates": "April 2004 ( 2004-04 ) ( Málaga ) 28 May 2004 ( 2004-05-28 ) (Spain)", "Country": "Spain", "Language": "Spanish"}
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["A+ is a 2004 Spanish drama film directed and written by Xavier Ribera Perpiñá. Its cast features Eloy Azorín , Carlos Fuentes, Elvira Herrería, Misia, Ricardo Moya, Fernando Ramallo , Eloi Yebra, Jose Coronado , Najwa Nimri , and Macaco .", "Involving three intertwining stories, the plot follows Ace and his relationship with Mar, the journey of a group of three friends (Pau, Gus, and Ton) to a music festival, and the story of maladjusted teenage girl (Luna). [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "The film was produced by A+, Lateco, and DeAPlaneta . [ 1 ] Shooting locations included the Monegros Desert , the province of Castellón , Barcelona , and Madrid . [ 4 ] Najwa Nimri , Macaco , and Ojos de Brujo composed themes for the film. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]", "The film screened at the 7th Málaga Film Festival in 2004. [ 6 ] Distributed by DeAPlaneta , [ 1 ] the film was released theatrically in Spain on 28 May 2004. [ 2 ]", "Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be \"a distinctive, willfully edgy low-budgeter\", getting \"top marks for style but B− for substance\". [ 1 ]", "Mirito Torreiro of Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, citing \"the brazenness of the proposal\" and the discovery of Elvira Herrería as positive elements. [ 2 ]", "F.M. of El Mundo gave the film a 0 rating, writing that \"the bad thing is not so much the weak approach but its conception as a pretext to develop the aesthetics of an advertising film\". [ 7 ]"]
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A
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(1998_Kannada_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/20px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png", "Directed by": "Upendra", "Written by": "Upendra", "Produced by": "B. Jagannath B. G. Manjunath", "Starring": "Upendra Chandini Archana", "Cinematography": "H. C. Venugopal", "Edited by": "T. Shashikumar", "Music by": "Gurukiran", "Production company": "Uppi Entertainers", "Distributed by": "Yash Raj", "Release date": "12 February 1998 ( 1998-02-12 )", "Running time": "148 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Kannada", "Budget": "₹1.25 crore [ 1 ]", "Box office": "₹12—20 crore [ 2 ] [ 1 ]", "Released": "3 February 1998", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Length": "24 : 01", "Label": "Lahiri Music", "External audio": "External audio A – Jukebox on YouTube"}
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["A is a 1998 Indian Kannada -language romantic psychological thriller film written and directed by Upendra . It stars Upendra and Chandini Sasha, both making their acting debuts. [ 3 ] The film revolves around a love story between a film director and an actress which is narrated through multiple flashbacks within flashbacks and reverse screenplay . It also explores dark truths like casting couch in the film industry. The soundtrack and background score were handled by Gurukiran in his debut film. [ 4 ]", "The opening sequence of the film where a misanthropic man who is exhilarated by the sense of power he receives by carrying a revolver while walking on the streets was reported to be based on Jean-Paul Sartre 's short story Erostratus [ 5 ] found in his 1939 collection of short stories The Wall . [ 6 ]", "A was released on 12 February 1998 and received praise for Upendra and Chandini's performances, soundtrack, cinematography, and reverse screenplay, which made the audience watch it multiple times to understand the story. The film collected more than ₹ 20 crores at the box office and gained a cult following . [ 1 ] The film was dubbed into Telugu under the same title and was released in Andhra Pradesh. It was remade in Tamil as Adavadi . [ 7 ] Upendra won the Udaya Film Award for Best Male Actor (1998) and Gurukiran won the Udaya Film Award for Best Music Director (1998) .", "Marina, a foreigner, wants to distribute the unreleased controversial film A written and directed by Soorya. However, the CBFC permits only 20 random minutes to be screened, and the climax is censored to such an extent that it no longer makes any sense. She suggests that its producers re-shoot the film. However, Surya is unable to participate in the film's shoot as he has become a drunkard after actress Chandini, who debuted with his film, rejected his love. Surya's family is unable to meet their ends after he stops directing films. Lost in his thoughts, he wanders near her house every night drunk, only to be expelled by her henchmen.", "Unable to bear Surya's torture, Chandini asks him to jump from a building to prove his love. Surya jumps without hesitation. While he survives the fall, he is badly wounded and admitted to the hospital by Marina and the team. One of Surya's former assistant directors explains Surya's past to Marina. Surya was a successful director who had no feelings, especially for a woman's love. After his current female lead fails to act properly, he casts Chandini after a chain of events. Initially, Surya rejects Chandini's love, but after frequent run-ins and days of pursuit, Surya falls in love with her madly. Surya later meets a rich and busy Chandini, who lives in a big bungalow and is now the mistress of a wealthy married businessman.", "Chandini defends herself, saying that Surya's views on the materialistic world influenced her to prioritize money over everything else after her father's death. He tries to explain to her that she is wrong, but is expelled. Due to this, Surya gave up everything and became an alcoholic, wandering near her house every day, hoping that she would accept him. Surya escapes from the hospital and is confronted by Marina, to whom Surya explains his love for Chandini. He then saves a novice actress named Archana from a group of henchmen who are revealed to be working for Chandini. Archana reveals Chandini was used as bait by the politicians to trap Surya and stop his A from releasing.", "In turn, Chandini exploited the weakness of those politicians through the casting couch . She proves this to Surya, who, along with his father and Archana, is arrested on charges of prostitution. The police were bribed by Chandini, who abducts Archana while Soorya and his father are arrested. Surya and his father are released on bail by Marina, and his family's plight makes Surya swear revenge. He restarts the shoot of A and turns out to be a superstar due to the film's anticipated success. The climax shoot is pending, and Surya wants to shoot it realistically, which includes the death of Chandini in a burning house.", "The camera rolls and Surya kidnaps Chandini from her hen house where women are prostituted to influential politicians and people in business, where she kills the businessman she was engaged to. He brings her to the location and sets it on fire after rolling the camera. She knocks him out, and he falls unconscious after hitting a rock. Archana, Marina, and the producers come to the spot to save him. Archana shows him the film footage that was shot after revealing that Chandini is a good woman who wanted to bring Surya back to normal by acting as a ruthless criminal who is destroying many actresses' lives like Archana. The footage shows a naked Chandini dying and revealing the truth.", "Chandini says that the businessman was the friend of a few corrupt politicians who wanted to have sex with her. They killed her father and sexually assaulted her and her minor sister. The businessman had blackmailed Chandini with a tape that captured the brutal assault. As per their directions, she had to cheat on Surya. However, Chandini brings Surya back to normal with the help of Archana and gives A a perfect ending. Surya tries to save her by entering the house, but she dies, asking him to live long and make films that expose the demons that haunt society.", "Upendra along with B. G. Manjunath, B. Jagannath, and B. V. Ramakrishna — founded the film production company, Uppi Entertainers, in October 1996, with an equal partnership. After Kannada film distributors refused to purchase the distribution rights for A following the producers themselves not being confident of the film doing well, it was purchased by a newcomer, Yash Raj. [ 8 ] Speaking about the film's title prior to a theatrical re-release in 2024, Upendra said: \"The title A just came to me. It was my first film as a hero, and the content led us to choose the title. We thought the film would be certified 'A' by the censor board, which would mean that the film is for adults. But to me, A was for a mature audience. We also came up with the tagline 'Only for intelligent people'.\" [ 9 ]", "The film marked the acting debut of Chandni Sasha in Kannada cinema. According to Chandni, she was living in New York and had competed in a beauty pageant which won her the title of Miss Photogenic. The pictures taken from the contest somehow found their way into the hands of one of Upendra’s managers. Upendra was a director who was about to make his acting debut and was looking for a heroine for the same. Upendra saw those photographs and insisted on casting her for the film. [ 10 ] The film became blockbuster and she went on to act in several films in Indian languages most notably in AK47 alongside Shiva Rajkumar . [ 11 ] [ 12 ]", "Gurukiran composed the music for the film and the soundtracks which marked his debut. The album has five soundtracks. [ 13 ] The daughter-in-law of Kannada poet G.P. Rajarathnam alleged that a song by the late poet, \"Helkollakondooru thalemyagondhsooru,\" for which she held the copyright, had been used by Upendra in the film without her consent. [ 14 ] Deva, the music director of the Tamil version, retained two songs from this movie - \"Idhu One Day\" was retained as \"Idhu One Day\" and \"Sum Sumne\" was retained as \"En Anbea\".", "The film was given a \"U\" (Universal) certification from the CBFC.", "A was made at ₹ 1.25 crore and collected more than ₹ 20 crore at the box office. [ 1 ] The film ran for 25 weeks in Karnataka and its Telugu version ran for 100 days in Andhra Pradesh . [ 15 ] [ 16 ]", "It was described by a reviewer as \"loud and disjointed, like the ramblings of a delirious mind, but made a lot of sense\". [ 17 ] Its design received some praise. [ 18 ] The dialogues provoked controversy, due to their misogynistic and philosophical nature. [ 17 ] They also contained autobiographical elements. [ 14 ]", "In an interview given to the Times of India on 24 May 2020, Malayalam director Lijo Jose Pellissery who is famous for nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence picked this movie as one of the five Indian movies which have managed to influence him at different levels. [ 19 ]", "Gurukiran composed the music for the film and the soundtracks which marked his debut. The album has five soundtracks. [ 13 ] The daughter-in-law of Kannada poet G.P. Rajarathnam alleged that a song by the late poet, \"Helkollakondooru thalemyagondhsooru,\" for which she held the copyright, had been used by Upendra in the film without her consent. [ 14 ] Deva, the music director of the Tamil version, retained two songs from this movie - \"Idhu One Day\" was retained as \"Idhu One Day\" and \"Sum Sumne\" was retained as \"En Anbea\".", "The film was given a \"U\" (Universal) certification from the CBFC.", "A was made at ₹ 1.25 crore and collected more than ₹ 20 crore at the box office. [ 1 ] The film ran for 25 weeks in Karnataka and its Telugu version ran for 100 days in Andhra Pradesh . [ 15 ] [ 16 ]", "It was described by a reviewer as \"loud and disjointed, like the ramblings of a delirious mind, but made a lot of sense\". [ 17 ] Its design received some praise. [ 18 ] The dialogues provoked controversy, due to their misogynistic and philosophical nature. [ 17 ] They also contained autobiographical elements. [ 14 ]", "In an interview given to the Times of India on 24 May 2020, Malayalam director Lijo Jose Pellissery who is famous for nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence picked this movie as one of the five Indian movies which have managed to influence him at different levels. [ 19 ]"]
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101 Dalmatians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_Dalmatians_(1996_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/One_hundred_and_one_dalmatians_ver2.jpg", "Directed by": "Stephen Herek", "Screenplay by": "John Hughes", "Based on": "The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith", "Produced by": "John Hughes Ricardo Mestres", "Starring": "Glenn Close Jeff Daniels Joely Richardson Joan Plowright", "Cinematography": "Adrian Biddle", "Edited by": "Trudy Ship", "Music by": "Michael Kamen", "Production companies": "Walt Disney Pictures [ 1 ] Great Oaks Entertainment [ 2 ]", "Distributed by": "Buena Vista Pictures Distribution [ 1 ]", "Release dates": "November 18, 1996 ( 1996-11-18 ) ( Radio City Music Hall ) November 27, 1996 ( 1996-11-27 ) (United States)", "Running time": "103 minutes [ 3 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$67 million [ 4 ]", "Box office": "$320.7 million [ 3 ]"}
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["101 Dalmatians is a 1996 American adventure comedy film [ 1 ] produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Great Oaks Entertainment, and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution . Directed by Stephen Herek from a screenplay by John Hughes (who co-produces the film), it is a live-action remake of the 1961 animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians , which was based on the 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith . The film stars Glenn Close , Jeff Daniels , Joely Richardson , Joan Plowright , Hugh Laurie , Mark Williams , and John Shrapnel . Unlike the 1961 original film, none of the animals speak.", "101 Dalmatians was released on November 27, 1996, and grossed $320.7 million in theaters against a $67 million budget, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film of 1996 , despite receiving mixed reviews. Close was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy , [ 5 ] while the film was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair .", "American video game designer Roger Dearly lives with his pet Dalmatian Pongo in London. Roger develops a video game featuring dog chase, but it is rejected because the villain is inadequate. His attempts to redesign the game prove unsatisfactory.", "One day during a walk, Pongo sets his eyes on Perdita, another Dalmatian. After a chase that ends in St James's Park , Roger discovers that Pongo likes Perdita. Her owner, Anita Campbell-Green, falls in love with Roger when they meet. When they return to Roger's home, Anita accepts his proposal. They get married along with Perdita and Pongo. Anita works as a fashion designer at the House of de Vil. Her boss, Cruella de Vil , has a deep passion for fur, going so far as to have a taxidermist , Mr. Skinner, skin a white tiger at the London Zoo to make her into a rug for her. Anita, inspired by her Dalmatian, designs a coat made with spotted fur. Cruella is intrigued by the idea of making garments out of actual Dalmatians, and finds it amusing that it would seem as if she was wearing Anita's dog.", "Perdita gets pregnant, and so does Anita. Cruella visits their home and becomes excited when she learns that Perdita is expecting. Weeks later, she returns when a litter of 15 puppies are born and offers Roger and Anita £7,500 for them, but they refuse. Enraged, Cruella dismisses Anita and vows revenge against her and Roger. One winter evening, she has her henchmen, Jasper and Horace, break into their home and steal the puppies, while the couple is walking in the park with Pongo and Perdita. Along with 84 other Dalmatians that were previously stolen, they deliver them to her broken-down country estate , De Vil Mansion. Cruella asks Skinner to kill and skin them to create her coat.", "With the family devastated at the loss of their puppies, Pongo uses the twilight bark to carry the message via the dogs and other animals of the United Kingdom, while Roger and Anita notify the police . Anita realizes Cruella was behind the kidnappings and confirms her suspicion when she shows Roger and Nanny her portfolio. An Airedale Terrier named Kipper follows Jasper and Horace to the mansion, and finds all of the puppies, who he helps escape under the duo's noses. They make their way to a nearby farm, where they are later joined by Pongo and Perdita. Cruella arrives at the mansion and discovers what has happened. Angry with the thieves' failure, she decides to carry out the job herself. After several mishaps, Jasper and Horace discover nearby police looking for Cruella and hand themselves in, joining Skinner who was attacked in defense while trying to capture a puppy who had been left behind. Cruella tracks the puppies to the farm and tries to capture them, but the farm animals incapacitate her. The police arrive and arrest Cruella, before sending the puppies home.", "Pongo, Perdita and their puppies are reunited with Roger, Anita and Nanny. After being informed that the remaining 84 puppies have no home to go to, as they have not yet been claimed by any owners, they decide to adopt them. Roger finally creates a successful redesign his video game, featuring Dalmatian puppies as the protagonists and Cruella as the villain. With this success, they move out of London to the countryside with their millions. Roger and Anita have a baby girl, while the dogs grow up with puppies of their own.", "The animatronic creatures used in the film are provided by Jim Henson's Creature Shop . [ 6 ] Producer Edward S. Feldman guaranteed the adoption of every puppy used in the film. Over 300 Dalmatian puppies were used over the course of filming, because \"we could only use them when they were 5 or 6 weeks old and at their cutest.\" [ 4 ] Filming took place at Shepperton Studios in London.", "Writer John Hughes approached Glenn Close for the role of Cruella de Vil , but she initially turned it down. The film's costume designer Anthony Powell , who was working with Close on the Broadway show Sunset Boulevard , then convinced her to take it. [ 4 ]", "Minster Court was used as the exterior of Cruella de Vil 's fashion house. [ 7 ] Sarum Chase was used as the exterior of her home. [ 7 ] Cruella's car is a modified 1976 Panther De Ville . [ 8 ]", "101 Dalmatians was released in the United States on November 27, 1996. The UK premiere of the film was held on December 4, 1996, at the Royal Albert Hall , London, and the exterior of the Hall was lit with dalmatian spots.\nIt grossed $136.2 million in North America and $320.7 million worldwide. [ 9 ] [ 3 ]", "101 Dalmatians was released on VHS for the first time on April 15, 1997, [ 10 ] Laserdisc in early 1997, and on DVD on April 21, 1998. [ 11 ] It was re-released on September 16, 2008.", "On Rotten Tomatoes , 101 Dalmatians has an approval rating of 39% and an average rating of 5.30/10, based on 36 reviews. [ 12 ] The site's critic consensus reads: \"Neat performance from Glenn Close aside, 101 Dalmatians is a bland, pointless remake.\" [ 12 ] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 50 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews. [ 13 ] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 14 ]", "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half stars out of four and said, \"For older viewers, 101 Dalmatians may seem closer to the artistic level of the Beethoven dog adventures than the mid-level Disney classic that inspired it. Hint: Don't wear your fur coat to the movie.\" [ 15 ]", "Animal rights organizations protested the film's release, saying that Dalmatian sales shot up after the premiere, fueled by impulsive purchases of puppies by parents for their children. Being ill-prepared to care for a relatively difficult breed of dog past puppy-hood, many of these new owners eventually surrendered their animals to shelters, where many dogs ended up being euthanized . [ 16 ]", "A sequel, 102 Dalmatians , was released on November 22, 2000. [ 17 ] Glenn Close returned in her role.", "Disney planned a live-action Cruella de Vil backstory film on the title character's origins titled Cruella . Glenn Close was an executive producer [ 18 ] and Emma Stone played the title role. [ 19 ] The film was released on May 28, 2021. [ 20 ] In June 2021, Disney announced its sequel was officially in the early stages of development. [ 21 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/17/100_Rifles_%28movie_poster%29.jpg/250px-100_Rifles_%28movie_poster%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Tom Gries", "Screenplay by": "Clair Huffaker Tom Gries", "Based on": "The Californio 1967 novel by Robert MacLeod", "Produced by": "Marvin Schwartz", "Starring": "Jim Brown Raquel Welch Burt Reynolds", "Cinematography": "Cecilio Paniagua", "Edited by": "Robert L. Simpson", "Music by": "Jerry Goldsmith", "Color process": "Color by DeLuxe", "Production company": "Marvin Schwartz Productions", "Distributed by": "20th Century Fox", "Release date": "March 26, 1969 ( 1969-03-26 )", "Running time": "110 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Languages": "English Spanish", "Budget": "$3,920,000 [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$3.5 million (US/ Canada rentals) [ 2 ] [ 3 ]"}
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["100 Rifles is a 1969 American Western film directed by Tom Gries and starring Jim Brown , Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds . It is based on Robert MacLeod's 1966 novel The Californio . The film was shot in Spain. The original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith , who had previously also scored Bandolero! , another Western starring Welch. [ 4 ]", "In 1912 Sonora , Mexico , Arizona lawman Lyedecker chases Yaqui Joe, a half- Yaqui , half-white bank robber who has stolen $6,000. Both men are captured by the Mexican general Verdugo.", "Lyedecker learns that Joe used the loot to buy 100 rifles for the Yaqui people, who are being repressed by the government. Lyedecker is not interested in Joe's motive, and intends to recover the money and apprehend Joe to further his career.", "The two men escape a Mexican firing squad and flee to the hills, where they are joined by Sarita, a beautiful Indian revolutionary. Sarita has a vendetta against the soldiers, who murdered her father. The fugitives become allies. The soldiers raid and burn a village that the rebels have just left, taking its children as hostages. Sarita tells Lydecker that she will allow him to take Yaqui Joe with him back to Phoenix afterwards if he stays with them to help rescue the children. She later warms up to Lyedecker and they make love.", "Leading the Yaqui against Verdugo's forces, they ambush and derail the General's train and overcome his soldiers in an extended firefight. Sarita is killed in the battle. Lyedecker decides to return home alone and allow Yaqui Joe to take over as the rebel leader.", "The film was the first of a four-picture deal between producer Martin Schwartz and 20th Century Fox . [ 5 ] It was based on a novel by Robert McLeod, and the script was originally written by Clair Huffaker. [ 6 ]", "Tom Gries signed to direct following his successful feature debut with Will Penny . Gries wrote two further drafts of the script himself. \"He says he's not a carpenter\", reported the Los Angeles Times , \"He says he can't work with a script that he doesn't believe in himself.\" [ 7 ] Huffaker later requested his name be removed from the credits and replaced with the pseudonym Cecil Hanson because \"the finished product... bears absolutely no resemblance to my original script.\" However, Huffaker's name does appear in the film's credits. [ 8 ]", "The leads were given to Raquel Welch (Gries: \"in some situations, this woman is just a piece of candy but I think she will prove in this film that she can act as well\"), [ 7 ] Jim Brown (\"he's a great actor with a lot of appeal\", said Gries), [ 7 ] and Burt Reynolds.", "I'd like to bring a style to the screen that means something to the cats out on the street\", said Brown. \"It's an image I want to portray of a strong black man in breaking down social taboos. In 100 Rifles ... it's a different thing for a black man to be a lawman, get the woman and ride away into the sunset.\" [ 9 ]", "It was the fifth film Burt Reynolds had made in a row. The first four – Shark! , Fade In , Impasse and Whiskey Renegades – had not been released when 100 Rifles was being shot. [ 10 ]", "For his role, Brown was paid a salary of $200,000 in addition to five percent of the film's box office. [ 11 ] At the time, few black actors earned this kind of salary. [ 11 ]", "I was playing Yaqui Joe, supposedly an Indian with a moustache\", said Reynolds. \"Raquel had a Spanish accent that sounded like a cross between Carmen Miranda and ZaSu Pitts . Jimmy Brown was afraid of only two things in the entire world: one was heights, the other was horses. And he was on a horse fighting me on a cliff. It just didn't work.\" [ 12 ]", "The film was shot in Almería , Spain in order to save money. [ 7 ] \"It's a tough, physical picture\", said Gries, who was hospitalized for three days during the shoot with typhus. [ 7 ]", "I play a half breed but... I send it up\", said Reynolds, \"I make it seem like the other 'half' of the guy is from Alabama. I play it nasty, dirty, funky. I look like a Christmas tree – wrist bands, arm bands. At the beginning I even wore these funky spurs. But every time I walked I couldn't hear dialog.\" [ 13 ]", "There were a number of press reports that Brown and Welch clashed during filming. Brown later said:", "Welch later confirmed the tension:", "I spent the entire time refereeing fights between Jim Brown and Raquel Welch\", said Reynolds. [ 15 ] He elaborated:", "Welch later said she \"was the baloney in a cheesecake factory\" on that film. \"I wanted to keep up with all the action with the boys.\" She was sorry Tom Gries \"wanted to get all the sex scenes [with Jim Brown] in the can in the first day. There was no time for icing – and it made it difficult for me.\" She says Brown \"was very forceful and I am feisty. I was a little uncomfortable with too much male aggression. But – it turned out to be great exploitation for the film, now as you look back. It broke new ground.\" [ 16 ]", "The film opened on 26 March 1969 and grossed $301,315 in its first five days from nine cities. [ 17 ]", "According to Fox records the film required $8,225,000 in rentals to break even and by 11 December 1970 had made $6,900,000 so made a loss to the studio. [ 18 ]", "On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film has two reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. [ 19 ]", "Quentin Tarantino said the \"mediocre final product still seems like a shamefully wasted opportunity (I mean Jesus Christ, how do you fuck up a movie starring Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch?).\" [ 20 ]"]
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100 Days with Mr. Arrogant
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f0/100_Days_With_Mr_Arrogant_poster.jpg/250px-100_Days_With_Mr_Arrogant_poster.jpg", "Hangul": "내 사랑 싸가지", "Revised Romanization": "Nae sarang ssagaji", "McCune–Reischauer": "Nae sarang ssagaji", "Directed by": "Shin Jai-ho", "Written by": "Shin Jai-ho", "Starring": "Ha Ji-won Kim Jaewon", "Cinematography": "Hwang Cheol-hyeon", "Edited by": "Ko Im-pyo", "Music by": "Jo Byeong-seok", "Distributed by": "Cinema Service", "Release date": "January 16, 2004 ( 2004-01-16 )", "Running time": "95 minutes", "Country": "South Korea", "Language": "Korean"}
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["100 Days with Mr. Arrogant (aka My Love Ssagaji ) is a 2004 South Korean romantic comedy film directed by Shin Jai-ho , starring Ha Ji-won and Kim Jaewon in the lead roles.", "The film originates from a genre called internet fiction (derived from which were movies such as My Sassy Girl , Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do , A Millionaire's First Love , Romance of Their Own , and He Was Cool . This popular internet fiction was later released in the form of a four-part book series that was later turned into a movie. Although there are many scenes that were taken out and also added in place, it was a big hit around that time to create movies that derived from internet fiction stories and writers. [ 1 ] The original Korean title can be translated as My Love, the Asshole , or, more roughly, as My Love, the No-manners .", "After being dumped by her boyfriend just before their 100-day anniversary, Ha-Yeong ( Ha Ji-won ) meets a college guy named Hyung-Jun ( Kim Jaewon ) when she kicks a can that accidentally hits him in the face and causes him to scratch his Lexus. He demands she pay him $3000 on the spot. She escapes from him, accidentally leaving her wallet behind.", "Hyung-Jun stalks her, demanding money to pay for his car. Since she is a poor high school student Hyung-Jun writes up an \"Enslavement Agreement\" for Ha-Yeong to pay for the damage to his car. Ha-Yeong is thrown into a nightmarish slave life for 100 days, running his errands, i.e.: cleaning his house, carrying his shopping, and cleaning his car.", "By accident, she finds out that the damage to Hyung-Jun's car costs only $10. She then takes her revenge by damaging his car and his reputation. But Hyung-Jun takes revenge by becoming her new tutor. This brings them close to each other and they realize they love each another. Hyung-Jun frees Ha-Yeong from \"slavery\" as the 100 days are over and later even kisses her standing in front of her house's main gate. Ha-Yeong's mother sees this and threatens Hyung-Jun to stay away from her daughter's life, then brings a new tutor to teach Ha-Yeong. Ha-Yeong tells Hyung-Jun that she wants to marry him but he says that he only toyed with her. Hyung-Jun leaves his apartment which makes Ha-Yeong more vulnerable. She studies hard so she can get into Hyung-Jun's college.", "After the exams, when she finds out she was not selected to enter the same college as Hyung-Jun, her tutor takes her to a place where she finds Hyung-Jun telling her that she was selected into his college but he wants to give her a surprise. After a long time, we see Ha-Yeong driving while talking to Hyung-Jun about all the chores that he did not do. A high school kid is shown who kicks a can that accidentally hits her in the face and causes her to scratch her Lexus. She tells him that there is only one way to get out of paying for damages, hinting at working for them and do the chores she was just talking to Hyung-Jun about."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/100_Bloody_Acres.jpg", "Directed by": "Cameron Cairnes Colin Cairnes", "Written by": "Cameron Cairnes Colin Cairnes", "Produced by": "Julie Ryan Kate Croser", "Starring": "Damon Herriman Angus Sampson Anna McGahan", "Cinematography": "John Brawley", "Edited by": "Dale Dunne Joshua Waddell", "Music by": "Glenn Richards", "Production company": "Cyan Films", "Distributed by": "Hopscotch", "Release date": "4 August 2012 ( 2012-08-04 ) ( MIFF ) [ 1 ]", "Running time": "90 minutes", "Box office": "$6,388 (US) [ 2 ]"}
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["100 Bloody Acres is a 2012 Australian horror comedy film directed and written by brothers Colin and Cameron Cairnes . Damon Herriman and Angus Sampson star as opportunistic, rural fertiliser manufacturers who resort to using human remains for their business. It premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival on 4 August 2012, and it was released in the United States on 28 June 2013.", "Reg and Lindsay Morgan own and operate a small blood and bone fertiliser business in South Australia . While making local deliveries and the occasional roadkill pick up, Reg encounters the crash site of a van, the driver dead inside. Recovering the body from the crash, he puts it in the back of his own truck. Making his way back to the brothers' plant, Reg is delayed again, this time by three tourists stuck on the side of the road: Sophie, a young woman; James, Sophie's boyfriend; and Wes, James' friend, with whom Sophie is having an affair. Reg takes an instant attraction to Sophie, and, against his better judgement, allows the three to ride with him.", "Wes and James ride in the back of the truck with the hidden corpse, and Sophie rides up front with Reg. Sophie gets to know Reg, while James tells Wes that he plans to marry Sophie. The pair soon discover the corpse and fear for their lives. Sophie starts to find things in common with Reg, but Reg's anxiety gets the better of him. This unnerves Sophie, and, as soon as the truck arrives at the plant, Reg detains her. Lindsay arrives and demands to know what is going on. Reg suggests that they can grind the people into fertiliser, and Lindsay berates him for his lack of planning for such a bold crime. Ultimately, Lindsay agrees to Reg's idea, and it is revealed that the pair have ground humans in the past: in order to create a new formula for their fertiliser, the pair ground a group of charity volunteers who crashed and died in a nearby road accident.", "Wes and James are soon detained with Sophie, and the trio watch as Reg and Lindsay grind the driver. At the last minute, Reg becomes convinced that the man is still alive and tries to save him, to no avail. When Wes cuts himself loose and escapes, Lindsay pursues him. Sophie takes advantage of the situation and attempts to seduce Reg, much to James' chagrin. Reg catches on to the ruse and exposes Sophie's infidelity with Wes, further angering James. Lindsay soon returns with Wes, acquiring the body of a local police officer along the way. Reg now begins to have serious second thoughts about the pair's actions. When Nancy, their elderly neighbour, surprises the brothers with a visit, Lindsay stuffs Reg in a car boot with Wes, cutting off Wes' hand in the process. Reg and Wes work together to escape, and Reg enters the house alone to confront his brother.", "Reg overhears Lindsay tell Nancy that Reg has moved away, perhaps permanently. As Reg gathers his courage, Lindsay and Nancy begin to have sex. Severely disturbed, Reg decides instead to stealthily steal Lindsay's keys. As he is about to take them, Wes stumbles into the house, looking for his missing hand. In a fit of rage, Lindsay kills Wes and Nancy, and Reg flees with the keys. James and Sophie panic when they hear the gunshots, but Sophie decides to return to the farm when she hears Reg call out to her; James angrily breaks up with Sophie as she leaves. After a brief struggle, Lindsay overpowers and ties up Reg. As Lindsay prepares Reg for grinding, Sophie returns and distracts Lindsay. Reg is able to pull him in to the grinder, killing him; afterward, Sophie and Reg share a momentary attraction. In a post credits scene, James hysterically runs onto the road and is struck and killed by the truck of frustrated \"Morgans Organic\" customer \"Charlie Wick & Sons\", the potato farmer, determined to get his fertilizer that he's been denied over the course of the movie.", "Producer Julie Ryan met the Cairnes brothers at the Australian Film Commission's IndiVision Lab in 2008, and her company Cyan Films, became attached to the project just prior to the Cairnes brothers winning the Horror-Thriller category for scriptwriting at the 2010 Slamdance Writing Competition. The film was funded by Screen Australia , South Australian Film Corporation , Film Victoria and the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund. [ 1 ] In January 2012, production for the film started in Adelaide , South Australia. [ 3 ]", "The film premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August 2012. [ 1 ] It was then an Official Selection at the 2013 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, [ 4 ] and released in the US 28 June 2013. [ 5 ]", "Rotten Tomatoes , a review aggregator , reports that 79% of 38 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 6.48/10. [ 6 ] Metacritic rated it 63/100. [ 7 ] Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com called it \"the best low-budget horror comedy since Shaun of the Dead , and one of the most assured first features in ages.\" [ 8 ] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote that film lacks originality but \"has its own hick charm, mostly because of performers who never overplay their hands.\" [ 9 ] Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times called it a \"giddy, delightful gross-out horror-comedy mash-up\". [ 10 ] Drew Hunt of the Chicago Reader wrote, \"Though entertaining enough as a genre exercise, the film is too simplistic to transcend its base concept.\" [ 11 ] Megan Lehmann of The Hollywood Reporter called it an \"off-the-wall Australian splatter-comedy\" with \"lively performances\" and \"a shrewdly structured screenplay\". [ 12 ] Richard Kuipers of Variety called it \"a gory and funny riff on the trusty standby of city kids being menaced by rural types\". [ 13 ] Kwenton Bellette of Twitch Film wrote that it \"stand out from most horrors; it plays with convention and molds it into a sick and twisted form.\" [ 14 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bf/Ten_thousand_b_c.jpg/250px-Ten_thousand_b_c.jpg", "Directed by": "Roland Emmerich", "Written by": "Roland Emmerich Harald Kloser", "Produced by": "Michael Wimer Roland Emmerich Mark Gordon", "Starring": "Steven Strait Camilla Belle Cliff Curtis", "Cinematography": "Ueli Steiger", "Edited by": "Alexander Berner", "Music by": "Harald Kloser Thomas Wander", "Production companies": "Legendary Pictures [ 1 ] Centropolis Entertainment [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros. Pictures [ 1 ]", "Release dates": "February 10, 2008 ( 2008-02-10 ) ( Potsdamer Platz ) March 5, 2008 ( 2008-03-05 ) (United States)", "Running time": "109 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$105 million", "Box office": "$269.8 million"}
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["10,000 BC is a 2008 American action-adventure film produced and directed by Roland Emmerich , who co-wrote with Harald Kloser (who also co-composed). The cast includes Steven Strait , Camilla Belle , and Cliff Curtis . The film depicts the journeys of a prehistoric tribe of mammoth hunters.", "10,000 BC premiered at Potsdamer Platz on February 10, 2008, and was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 5. Despite the film being a box office success, it received negative reviews, being considered one of the worst films of 2008. [ 2 ]", "In 10,000 BC , a hunter-gatherer tribe called the Yagahl live in the Ural Mountains . They survived by hunting woolly mammoths , but as the migrations grow more scarce, uncertainty as to their future mounts. When a young blue-eyed girl is brought to their camp, the lone survivor of an attack of \"four-legged demons\", the Yagahl's shamanistic Neanderthal Old Mother prophesizes that the demons will come to them as well after their last mammoth hunt; the girl, named Evolet, will be betrothed to the champion of this hunt, and the pair will lead the Yagahl into a new way of life. Unwilling to leave the Yagahl's future up to this prophecy, the tribe's chief hunter and bearer of the White Spear leaves on his own to search for another way to save his people; he entrusts the White Spear, his young son D'Leh, and the true purpose of his quest to his friend Tic'Tic. The tribe's children ridicule D'Leh for what they view his father's cowardice, and when he seeks comfort from Evolet, the two begin to fall in love.", "Years later, when the mammoths finally return, the adult D'Leh hunts them with his tribe's men under Tic'Tic's leadership and kills one by accident, inadvertently winning the White Spear and Evolet. The next day, horse-mounted riders attack the camp. The warlord, taken by Evolet’s beauty, kidnaps her, enslaves the able-bodied, and kills those who fight back, leaving very few survivors. D'Leh, Tic'Tic, Ka'Ren, and a young boy, Baku, set out to rescue their fellow Yagahl as Old Mother follows their journey in spirit. During an attack on the slavers by terror birds , Evolet is recaptured along with Ka'Ren and Baku, and Tic'Tic is wounded. While hunting, D'Leh falls into a pit, where he helps free a trapped saber-tooth tiger , asking it not to eat him before escaping. Tic'Tic recovers and finds their way to a sedentary Naku village, also attacked by the riders. The surviving villagers nearly attack them until the saber-tooth tiger comes to save D'Leh from the initially hostile Naku. They also learn that D'Leh's father was a guest of the Naku before the riders captured him.", "Several tribes arrive to form a coalition to defeat the slavers, with D'Leh as their leader. They find the ships holding Evolet and their loved ones but fail to reach them before they cast off. They set out to follow on foot, and D'Leh learns to use the North Star to navigate the journey. D'Leh and the tribes discover an advanced Egyptian civilization ruled by the \"Almighty\", an untouchable god-king, who is using the kidnapped tribesmen along with some mammoths to build pyramids. D'Leh and Tic’Tic sneak into the slave cages, and D’Leh learns that his father was killed trying to defend a slave. The party is spotted by the guards, who Tic'Tic kills before he succumbs to his wound. D'Leh and the tribesman infiltrate the civilization, and D'Leh starts a rebellion among the slaves, killing many of the Almighty's forces. However, Ka'Ren sacrifices himself as D'Leh eventually starts a stampede.", "The Almighty threatens to kill Evolet if they do not abandon their rebellion. D'Leh feigns acceptance but easily kills the Almighty with the White Spear, breaking his illusion of godhood. During the ensuing battle, the warlord fatally wounds Evolet, who is then killed by D'Leh. He is devastated when Evolet dies in his arms, but her life is restored in exchange for Old Mother's, who dies having fulfilled her final duty. With the Almighty dead and his civilization destroyed, the Yagahl bid the other tribes farewell and returned home with seeds collected by D’Leh's father, given to them by the Naku to begin a new life.", "In an alternative ending, the scene shifts forward many years into the future, showing Baku's retelling of the story by the camp fire. It ends with a child asking what had happened to the \"Mountains of the Gods\", and Baku responds, \"They were taken back by the sands. Lost to time, lost to man\".", "The film incorporates numerous anachronisms and inaccuracies in its depiction of prehistoric life. While woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers may have existed as late as 10,000 B.C., both species were on the brink of extinction around this time, likely due to a combination of human hunting, disease, and climate change. The film's portrayal of mammoth behavior as being led by a male herd leader is inconsistent with evidence from modern elephant behavior, which suggests that herds were led by older females, with males expelled at puberty. [ 4 ]", "The inclusion of advanced civilizations, pyramid-like monuments, written language, and metal tools in the narrative is highly inaccurate. Such developments would not emerge until approximately 3,000 B.C., during the urbanization of regions such as the Nile, Euphrates, and Indus river valleys. Early evidence of agriculture dates to around 9,400 B.C., but organized farming and the use of tools like hoes would not have been widespread at the time depicted in the film. Additionally, while some early stone monuments, such as Göbekli Tepe, date to roughly 9,000 B.C., the advanced technology shown in the film, including metal tools and the sextant, is misplaced by several millennia. [ 4 ]", "Roland Emmerich opened casting sessions in late October 2005. [ 5 ] In February 2006, Camilla Belle and Steven Strait were announced to star in the film, with Strait as the mammoth hunter and Belle as his love interest. [ 6 ] Emmerich decided that casting well known actors would distract from the realistic feel of the prehistoric setting. \"If like, Jake Gyllenhaal turned up in a movie like this, everybody would be, 'What's that?'\", he explained. The casting of unknown actors also helped keep the film's budget down. [ 7 ]", "At the 2008 Wondercon , Emmerich mentioned the fiction of Robert E. Howard as a primary influence for the film's setting, as well as his love for the film Quest for Fire (1981) and the book Fingerprints of the Gods . [ 8 ] He invited composer Harald Kloser to help write the screenplay after he liked his story suggestions to The Day After Tomorrow . [ 9 ] When the project received the greenlight from Columbia Pictures , screenwriter John Orloff began work on a new draft of the original script. Columbia Pictures, under Sony Pictures Entertainment , dropped the project due to a busy release calendar, and Warner Bros. Pictures picked up the project in Sony's absence. [ 10 ] The script went through a second revision with Matthew Sand and a final revision with Robert Rodat . [ 6 ]", "Production began in early 2006 in South Africa and Namibia . [ 6 ] Location filming also took place in southern New Zealand [ 11 ] and Thailand . Emmerich wanted to shoot the entire film in Africa but was barred from shooting a certain helicopter scene which led to them going to New Zealand for those shots. [ 12 ] Before shooting began, the production had spent eighteen months on research and development for the computer-generated imagery . Two companies recreated prehistoric animals. To cut time (it was taking sixteen hours to render a single frame) 50% of the CGI models' fur was removed, as \"it turned out half the fur looked the same\" to the director. [ 7 ] Filming took place for a total of 102 days, 20 days longer than planned. [ 12 ]", "Emmerich rejected making the film in an ancient language, deciding that it would not be as emotionally engaging. [ 13 ] Dialect coach Brendan Gunn was hired by Emmerich and Kloser to create \"a half dozen\" languages for the film. [ 14 ] Gunn has stated that he collaborated informally with Strait to improvise what the languages would sound like. He also used some local African languages and their dialects, including the Oshiwambo language native to Namibia, which can be heard faintly, spoken by the wise blind man. [ 15 ]", "The woolly mammoths in the movie were based on elephants and fossils of mammoths, while the saber-toothed cat was based on tigers and ligers (a lion/tiger hybrid). [ 16 ] The sounds made by the saber-toothed cat in the movie are based on the vocalization of tigers and lions. [ 17 ]", "The world premiere was held on February 10, 2008, at Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. [ 18 ] [ 19 ]", "The film was a moderate success at the box office. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $35.8 million in 3,410 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking No. 1 at the box office, and grossing over $22 million more than the film in second place, College Road Trip . [ 20 ] [ 21 ] As of 29 April 2008 [update] , it has grossed approximately $268.6 million worldwide—$94.6 million in the United States and Canada and $174 million in other territories [ 22 ] —including $17.2 million in Mexico, $13.1 million in Spain, $11.3 million in the United Kingdom, and $10.8 million in China. This also makes it the first film of 2008 to surpass the $200 million mark. [ 23 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 10% of 147 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.4/10. The website's consensus reads: \"With attention strictly paid to style instead of substance, or historical accuracy, 10,000 B.C. is a visually impressive but narratively flimsy epic.\" [ 24 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 34 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating \"generally unfavorable\" reviews. [ 25 ]", "Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote: \"Conventional where it should be bold and mild where it should be wild, 10,000 BC reps a missed opportunity to present an imaginative vision of a prehistoric moment.\" [ 26 ] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote: \"Roland Emmerich's great big CGI blockbuster lumbers along like one of the woolly mammoths that roam across the screen.\" [ 27 ] Caroline White, writing for The Times , noted that 10,000 BC is archaeologically inaccurate and contains many factual errors and anachronisms . [ 28 ]", "Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune is one of the few critics who enjoyed the film. He said, \"The film's a little bit of Apocalypto , mixed in with Ice Age 2 , a dash of Quest for Fire , and sometimes, you're just in the mood for a big old piece of cheese. Folks, here is that cheese on a cracker.\" [ 29 ]", "Composer Thomas Wander won a BMI Film Music Award for his work on the film. [ 30 ]", "The film was released on June 17, 2008, in single-disc editions on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the United States. Best Buy released a 2-disc limited edition along with the DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases. It was released on July 1, 2008, in the United Kingdom. [ 31 ] The film grossed $31,341,721 in DVD sales, bringing its total film gross to $300,414,491. [ 32 ]"]
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["In the Middle of the City ( Georgian: შუა ქალაქში) is a Georgian sitcom about a group of friends as they live in Tbilisi's neighborhood of Vake . The show is produced by The Night Show Studio . It was originally broadcast from 2007 to 2010. The show premiered on September 23, 2007 and completed its first season on July 13, 2008. Second season has been confirmed by Imedi TV . It is filmed in Tbilisi, Georgia. The plot follows the life of one peculiar family, with friends, in Tbilisi, each of which has a risible, odd life-style with many surprises. As for the frivolous family, with singular friends and neighbouring gossip girls, they lead a normal life. It also has a continuation of 10 Years Later .", "Main Cast In Order of Appearance", "Episodes Cast", "Project Manager", "Executive Producer", "Project Director", "Set Director", "Screenplay", "Computer Grapichs and Editing", "Set Operators", "Operators", "Painter", "Segment-Producers", "Coordinador", "Studio Design", "Decorators", "Sound Operator", "Lighting", "Intro Music", "Intro Graphics", "Studio Engineers", "Visage", "Operators Assistant", "Format Consultants", "Season 1 \n September:", "October:", "November:", "December:", "May:", "June:", "July:", "Season 2 \n October:", "November:", "December:", "January:", "10 Years Later ( Georgian: 10 წლის შემდეგ) is a Georgian television program. [ 1 ] Continuation of In the Middle of the City TV Series where the line is drawn between the groups of friends as they live in Tbilisi's district of Vake .", "In the Middle of the City ( Georgian: შუა ქალაქში) is a Georgian sitcom about a group of friends as they live in Tbilisi's neighborhood of Vake . The show is produced by The Night Show Studio . It was originally broadcast from 2007 to 2010. The show premiered on September 23, 2007 and completed its first season on July 13, 2008. Second season has been confirmed by Imedi TV . It is filmed in Tbilisi, Georgia. The plot follows the life of one peculiar family, with friends, in Tbilisi, each of which has a risible, odd life-style with many surprises. As for the frivolous family, with singular friends and neighbouring gossip girls, they lead a normal life. It also has a continuation of 10 Years Later .", "Main Cast In Order of Appearance", "Episodes Cast", "Project Manager", "Executive Producer", "Project Director", "Set Director", "Screenplay", "Computer Grapichs and Editing", "Set Operators", "Operators", "Painter", "Segment-Producers", "Coordinador", "Studio Design", "Decorators", "Sound Operator", "Lighting", "Intro Music", "Intro Graphics", "Studio Engineers", "Visage", "Operators Assistant", "Format Consultants", "Season 1 \n September:", "October:", "November:", "December:", "May:", "June:", "July:", "Season 2 \n October:", "November:", "December:", "January:", "10 Years Later ( Georgian: 10 წლის შემდეგ) is a Georgian television program. [ 1 ] Continuation of In the Middle of the City TV Series where the line is drawn between the groups of friends as they live in Tbilisi's district of Vake ."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Ten_Years_HK_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Kwok Zune Wong Fei-pang Jevons Au Kiwi Chow Ng Ka-leung", "Produced by": "Ng Ka-leung Mandrew Kwan Jevons Au Frankie Chan Andrew Choi", "Starring": "Peter Chan Wong Ching Lau Ho-Chi Kin-Ping Leung Liu Kai-chi Siu Hin Ng", "Production companies": "Ten Years Studio 109G Studio Four Parts Production", "Distributed by": "Golden Scene Co. Ltd.", "Release date": "17 December 2015 ( 2015-12-17 ) (Hong Kong)", "Running time": "104 minutes", "Country": "Hong Kong", "Language": "Cantonese", "Budget": "HK$ 600,000", "Box office": "HK$6 million", "Chinese": "十年", "Literal meaning": "Ten Years", "Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Jyutping": "Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Shí nián Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Sahp nìhn Jyutping Sap6 Nin4", "Hanyu Pinyin": "Shí nián", "Yale Romanization": "Sahp nìhn", "Jyutping": "Sap6 Nin4"}
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["Ten Years ( Chinese : 十年 ) is a 2015 Hong Kong speculative fiction anthology film, featuring a vision of the semi-autonomous territory in the year 2025, with human rights and freedoms gradually diminishing as the Chinese government exerts increasing influence there. Produced on a shoestring budget, the film was a surprise hit, beating Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the Yau Ma Tei cinema where it was first released. It was released on Netflix in February 2019. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Due to the film's sensitive political themes, mainland Chinese authorities censored reports mentioning Ten Years except in terms of condemnation. State television channels and major internet sites were prohibited from broadcasting the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards live as the film was nominated for Best Film , which it eventually won. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]", "The film comprises five short stories set in or before the year 2025.", "Prior to an International Labour Day celebration in 2020, government officials concoct a false flag assassination plot to foment public support for legislation of the National Security Law . They hire two petty gangsters to execute the plot: Hairy (Zerisawa Courtney Wu), a middle-aged low-level triad member, and Peter (Peter Chan), an immigrant from India. While the two argue over who should fire the gun, the director of the Liaison Office decides that the leaders of both the TMD and the Fortune Parties are to get shot with real bullets, so as to instigate greater panic in the territory. Misbelieving they will get paid and flee to India afterwards, both Hairy and Peter attempt the assassination but are killed instantly on scene by the police. Later, the government identifies the perpetrators as terrorists and restates the significance of the upcoming legislation.", "Director Kwok Zune stated that the triad-like behaviour of the officials was inspired by real-world pro-establishment groups in Hong Kong, who were accused of beating and sexually assaulting pro-democratic protesters during the 2014 Hong Kong protests . [ 5 ]", "Wong Ching (herself) and Lau Ho-chi (himself) attempt to preserve objects from homes destroyed by bulldozers . The last specimen Lau wants to create is his own body.", "As the government enacts laws limiting operating areas of non- Mandarin -speaking taxi drivers, a Cantonese-speaking driver (Leung Kin-ping) finds himself marginalised as he fails to pass the national Mandarin proficiency test. The driver's wife instructs him to stop using Cantonese with their son, Kongson, so that the boy will do better at his Mandarin medium of instruction school. A series of vignettes further illustrate the increasing dominance of Mandarin and Leung's struggle adjusting. He is unable to make himself understood by his Mandarin GPS unit and is ridiculed by a passenger for it. Two Mandarin-speaking fares opt to take another cab when they realise he cannot speak the language. One of his passengers, an office lady ( Catherine Chau ), is fired from her job for failing to clearly explain something to a client in Mandarin.", "The film alludes to a 2003 real-world proposal by the Transport Department that failed, as well as a regulation introduced in Wuhan . [ 5 ] In Mainland China , Mandarin (a.k.a. Putonghua) is promoted as a national language, and legislation such as the Guangdong National Language Regulations restricts the use of Cantonese and all other varieties of Chinese. The name Dialect comes from the fact that the Mainland government refers to Cantonese as a dialect despite the fact that it is mutually unintelligible with Mandarin. [ 6 ] The short was directed by Jevons Au Man-kit, a graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts , who said that the taxi driver's plight was influenced by his own struggles to write scripts in Mandarin in an increasingly Mainland-oriented Hong Kong film sector. [ 5 ]", "Au-yeung Kin-fung ( Ng Siu Hin ), a young hardline supporter for Hong Kong independence , becomes the first to be convicted under the National Security Law and dies during a hunger strike in prison. An unknown person commits self-immolation in front of the British Consulate-General in Admiralty . This escalates public concerns about Hong Kong's undecided future beyond 2047. Au-yeung's friend Karen (Tanzela Qoser) is initially feared to be the self-immolator but is later revealed to have been kidnapped by secret police. Au-yeung's allies, led by Marco ( Neo Yau ), break into and set fire to the Central Government Liaison Office in Sai Wan , while a group of Christians gather and pray outside the British Consulate-General to urge the Britons to uphold the Sino-British Joint Declaration co-signed with the Beijing authorities. The Communist Party labels the demand for independence a diplomatic affair, thereby justifying the deployment of the People's Liberation Army in the city. The protests in Sai Wan and Admiralty are crushed violently. As a flashback reveals, after witnessing Au-yeung being severely beaten by police, an old woman was moved to commit self-immolation outside the British Consulate-General. The film ends on a prolonged shot of her umbrella burning, alluding to the Umbrella Movement .", "The storytelling is intertwined with interviews with commentators analysing ongoing events and providing background information such as Hong Kong's removal from the UN decolonisation list in 1972 at China's behest.", "Directed by Kiwi Chow, Self-immolator alludes to the common practice of self-immolation in mainland China as a form of protest, particularly among Tibetans . [ 6 ] Chow stated that while the plot of this piece may seem extreme, \"In 2004, people would also find it hard to believe that [the police can drag a protester into a dark corner and beat him up]\", alluding to the beating of Ken Tsang and other incidents of police brutality during the 2014 Hong Kong protests . [ 5 ]", "Sam ( Liu Kai-chi ), a grocery store keeper, is told about the closure of the last chicken farm in Hong Kong. He then visits his egg supplier, farm owner Cheung who recalls the government's actions to gradually kill off the industry despite the fact that he has been meeting their demands. Sam's store is frequently checked by Youth Guards, members of a Red Guards -like uniform group, since his use of \"local eggs\" on his label is on the censor list. He questions why \"local eggs\" must be relabeled \"Hong Kong eggs\" when they refer to the same thing. Sam finds his son Ming among a squad of Youth Guards throwing eggs at a bookstore, but Ming assures his father that he has kept his teaching in mind and has not participated in the vandalism; instead, he often leaks the censor lists and actions to bookstore keepers so that they can remain safe and preserve the books. Relaxed at his son's critical thinking, Sam reminds a bookstore keeper not to get used to such suppressive acts. [ 7 ]", "Ten Years ends with a quote from the Book of Amos : .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}", "and \"Already too late\" fading out and replaced by \"Not too late\".", "The independent film was conceived by Ng Ka-leung, a graduate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University . Ng said that the idea predated the Umbrella Movement , and was inspired by ongoing political, educational and housing problems. He explained in late 2015:", "The film was produced on a budget of HK$500,000 (US$64,000). [ 7 ] The cast and crew were mainly volunteers. [ 6 ] It was filmed in Hong Kong.", "The film was featured at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival in November 2015 before its general release. [ 7 ] It was initially released on only one screen in Hong Kong at the Broadway Cinematheque in Yau Ma Tei at the end of 2015. It was a surprise hit, and subsequently received a release at select UA Cinemas. It was further picked up by two independent cinemas, the Metroplex in Kowloon Bay and the Ma On Shan Classics Cinema. [ 8 ] The Metroplex decided to show the film in its largest cinema (430 seats) boosting ticket sales. [ 8 ]", "By early February 2016, only the independent cinema in Ma On Shan was showing the film. It ended its run there following the weekend of 12 February. [ 9 ] Since being pulled from theatres, the film has been showing at private screening at universities and other rented venues, advertised on social media. [ 10 ]", "In February 2016, the international distribution rights for the film were purchased by Golden Scene , a Hong Kong-based distributor. [ 11 ] [ 12 ]", "On 1 April 2016, with no cinemas screening the film despite high demand, Ten Years was simultaneously screened at 34 different public locations around Hong Kong, including the underside of motorway flyovers (in Sham Shui Po and Mei Foo ), the public steps leading to the Sha Tin Town Hall , and the forecourt of the Legislative Council Complex . [ 13 ] The screenings were organised by a variety of community groups, educational institutions, and churches. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] They were attended by thousands, many of whom were frustrated to have been unable to get tickets before the film was pulled from cinemas. [ 15 ] [ 16 ]", "In 2019, the film was made available globally via Netflix. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The film was removed from Netflix in 2021 and is no longer available on the streaming service. [ 17 ]", "In the first month of its general release, most showings were sold out. [ 18 ] At the only cinema showing it in the week of its opening, it grossed more ticket sales than Star Wars: The Force Awakens , [ 5 ] and ranked top ten in Hong Kong's weekend box office. [ 19 ] At the end of January 2016 the film surpassed HK$5 million in box office earnings, which one of the directors called a miracle given the film's modest budget and limited screening. [ 8 ] At the time the film was only being shown at UA Megabox , the Metroplex and the Ma On Shan Classics Cinema. [ 8 ] By mid-February, when Ten Years ended its run at the sole screen where it was still being shown, the film had grossed more than HK$6 million. [ 20 ]", "The South China Morning Post reported that \" Ten Years \" topped the charts on Chinese download site zimuzu.tv after the Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony, but that users were disappointed to find they had downloaded the 2011 American film of the same name . [ 21 ]", "Ten Years received generally positive reviews locally. Some viewers reportedly left the cinema in tears. [ 9 ] Time Out Hong Kong called the film \"powerful, poignant, relevant and brave\", as well as \"nightmarish\". [ 22 ] The Hong Kong Economic Journal called it \"well-constructed\", and wrote: \"Viewers will realize that although some of the scenes may seem unfamiliar and others way too radical, the stories are always anchored on developments in the past and the present. There’s always something in the movie that viewers can identify with, something believable and within the realm of the possible.\" [ 7 ] Writing in the South China Morning Post , Edmund Lee called the film \"a reminder of the power of independent, intelligent filmmaking as a vehicle for social and political critique\" and \"one of the most thought-provoking local films in years\". [ 23 ] Alice Wu said: \"Provocation is an art form. Perhaps the true value of Ten Years lies in how uncomfortable it is to us all... As a portrayal of our worst fears, it is arguably the quintessential political horror film of our time. It perfectly plays (or should it be 'preys'?) on many Hongkongers’ primal fears...\" [ 24 ]", "A review in Hong Kong Free Press responded that \"while Global Times and other reviewers have primarily directed their critiques at the likelihood of the film's events actually taking place, the film cannot be entirely interpreted as a prediction for the year 2025. Ten Years is not a forecast calculated via econometric modelling; it is simply a portrayal of the Hong Kong public's worst fears. Perhaps a more pertinent question raised by the film is why people have come to dread – rather than look forward to – the city’s future. The answer is probably because we have been shown no realistic alternative.\" [ 25 ] The same reviewer observed a message about belonging in Hong Kong: \"For example, Extras and Self-Immolator [...] portray mainland immigrants, South Asians and elderly characters without treating them as antagonists or resorting to stereotypes. The latter film even features a mixed-race relationship, advocating the idea that Hong Kong identity should be based on civic, not ethnic, factors.\" [ 25 ]", "The film was selected to be screened at the 18th Taipei Film Festival opening on 30 June 2016. [ 26 ]", "Peter Lam , chairman of Media Asia and of the Hong Kong Tourism Board, said: \"The fact that the film got the prize is a tragedy for Hong Kong's movie industry [because] politics has kidnapped the profession and politicised film-awarding events.\" Lam added that, from a film investor's perspective: \"The movie did not possess the qualities of best film, as you can see that it was not nominated for best actress or best actor awards, nor was it a blockbuster.\" Crucindo Hung, former chairman of the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong, criticised the award as \"an out-of-your-mind and outrageous decision.\" [ 27 ] Lam defended his remark from criticism, but earned further rebuke to his statement by implying that a wonton noodles shop never ought to be voted best restaurant in Hong Kong. [ 28 ] Some members of the Chamber of Films said they would submit a proposal to the Hong Kong Film Awards Association to change the voting mechanism of the awards. Daniel Lam, Chamber of Films member and owner of Universe Films, whose film Little Big Master lost to Ten Years , said that current voting mechanism \"can be easily manipulated to produce an irrational result\". [ 29 ] [ 30 ]", "On the other hand, the Chinese Communist Party -controlled Global Times called the film absurd and ridiculous, and accused the filmmakers of trying to spread anxiety. [ 31 ] It referred to the film's political message as a \"virus of the mind\" and claimed its box office earnings were minimal. [ 31 ] [ 32 ]", "Due to the fact that the film was nominated for best picture in the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards , the state-owned China Central Television announced that it would not live telecast the ceremony, as it had done every year since 1991. [ 10 ] The online video website Tencent has said that it will also not cover the event. [ 33 ] China's leading film review websites Douban and Mtime.com do not allow users to create a page for the film. [ 34 ] Derek Yee , chairman of Hong Kong Film Awards, who presented the award to the directors, said that it had been hard to find anyone else to present the award, due to fears of being blacklisted for mainland opportunities. [ 35 ]", "Major mainland news websites, including Sina and Tencent, covered the awards ceremony, held 3 April 2016, but neglected to mention the winner of best picture, considered one of Asia's top film awards. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] In mainland Chinese cities where TVB , the main Hong Kong television channel, is aired, users on social media reported that the programme was blacked out and replaced with a cooking programme. [ 35 ]", "During the week of 11 April 2016, Apple was ordered by the Chinese State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television to shut down its iTunes Movie and iBooks stores, [ 38 ] which had been approved approximately six months earlier. [ 39 ] This appears to be in response to the availability of Ten Years in the iTunes Movie store. News of the store closures broke shortly before the movie became available on iTunes in Hong Kong. [ 40 ]", "In October 2017, a pan-Asian franchise based on the film was announced. [ 42 ] Producer Andrew Choi stated that he hoped to make it a cross-regional exchange platform to collectively reflect on and discuss 'our future.' Japanese , Taiwanese and Thai versions were planned, each offering a very specific take on those societies' \"hidden dangers and hidden fears\", according to Rina B. Tsou , one of five Taiwanese directors on that project. For instance, the Japanese version would explore a country \"plagued by pollution and aging\" as well as a \"society where morality and personal history are manipulated by technology.\" \"Surveillance and government control\" in a Thailand a decade hence will be envisaged by director Aditya Assarat , while the Taiwanese project foretells an island where \"immigrant workers are systematically exploited and the loss of culture and dropping birth rate\" have caused its inhabitants to turn to \"virtual reality escapes.\" [ 42 ]", "Executive producers for the franchise include Andrew Choi, one of the original Hong Kong 'Ten Years' producers, and Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda . [ 42 ] Films released in 2018 were titled Ten Years Japan ( Jû-nen ), [ 43 ] Ten Years Taiwan , [ 44 ] Ten Years Thailand , [ 45 ] respectively. Ten Years Myanmar was released in 2023. [ 46 ]", "Ten Years ( Chinese : 十年 ) is a 2015 Hong Kong speculative fiction anthology film, featuring a vision of the semi-autonomous territory in the year 2025, with human rights and freedoms gradually diminishing as the Chinese government exerts increasing influence there. Produced on a shoestring budget, the film was a surprise hit, beating Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the Yau Ma Tei cinema where it was first released. It was released on Netflix in February 2019. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Due to the film's sensitive political themes, mainland Chinese authorities censored reports mentioning Ten Years except in terms of condemnation. State television channels and major internet sites were prohibited from broadcasting the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards live as the film was nominated for Best Film , which it eventually won. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]", "The film comprises five short stories set in or before the year 2025.", "Prior to an International Labour Day celebration in 2020, government officials concoct a false flag assassination plot to foment public support for legislation of the National Security Law . They hire two petty gangsters to execute the plot: Hairy (Zerisawa Courtney Wu), a middle-aged low-level triad member, and Peter (Peter Chan), an immigrant from India. While the two argue over who should fire the gun, the director of the Liaison Office decides that the leaders of both the TMD and the Fortune Parties are to get shot with real bullets, so as to instigate greater panic in the territory. Misbelieving they will get paid and flee to India afterwards, both Hairy and Peter attempt the assassination but are killed instantly on scene by the police. Later, the government identifies the perpetrators as terrorists and restates the significance of the upcoming legislation.", "Director Kwok Zune stated that the triad-like behaviour of the officials was inspired by real-world pro-establishment groups in Hong Kong, who were accused of beating and sexually assaulting pro-democratic protesters during the 2014 Hong Kong protests . [ 5 ]", "Wong Ching (herself) and Lau Ho-chi (himself) attempt to preserve objects from homes destroyed by bulldozers . The last specimen Lau wants to create is his own body.", "As the government enacts laws limiting operating areas of non- Mandarin -speaking taxi drivers, a Cantonese-speaking driver (Leung Kin-ping) finds himself marginalised as he fails to pass the national Mandarin proficiency test. The driver's wife instructs him to stop using Cantonese with their son, Kongson, so that the boy will do better at his Mandarin medium of instruction school. A series of vignettes further illustrate the increasing dominance of Mandarin and Leung's struggle adjusting. He is unable to make himself understood by his Mandarin GPS unit and is ridiculed by a passenger for it. Two Mandarin-speaking fares opt to take another cab when they realise he cannot speak the language. One of his passengers, an office lady ( Catherine Chau ), is fired from her job for failing to clearly explain something to a client in Mandarin.", "The film alludes to a 2003 real-world proposal by the Transport Department that failed, as well as a regulation introduced in Wuhan . [ 5 ] In Mainland China , Mandarin (a.k.a. Putonghua) is promoted as a national language, and legislation such as the Guangdong National Language Regulations restricts the use of Cantonese and all other varieties of Chinese. The name Dialect comes from the fact that the Mainland government refers to Cantonese as a dialect despite the fact that it is mutually unintelligible with Mandarin. [ 6 ] The short was directed by Jevons Au Man-kit, a graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts , who said that the taxi driver's plight was influenced by his own struggles to write scripts in Mandarin in an increasingly Mainland-oriented Hong Kong film sector. [ 5 ]", "Au-yeung Kin-fung ( Ng Siu Hin ), a young hardline supporter for Hong Kong independence , becomes the first to be convicted under the National Security Law and dies during a hunger strike in prison. An unknown person commits self-immolation in front of the British Consulate-General in Admiralty . This escalates public concerns about Hong Kong's undecided future beyond 2047. Au-yeung's friend Karen (Tanzela Qoser) is initially feared to be the self-immolator but is later revealed to have been kidnapped by secret police. Au-yeung's allies, led by Marco ( Neo Yau ), break into and set fire to the Central Government Liaison Office in Sai Wan , while a group of Christians gather and pray outside the British Consulate-General to urge the Britons to uphold the Sino-British Joint Declaration co-signed with the Beijing authorities. The Communist Party labels the demand for independence a diplomatic affair, thereby justifying the deployment of the People's Liberation Army in the city. The protests in Sai Wan and Admiralty are crushed violently. As a flashback reveals, after witnessing Au-yeung being severely beaten by police, an old woman was moved to commit self-immolation outside the British Consulate-General. The film ends on a prolonged shot of her umbrella burning, alluding to the Umbrella Movement .", "The storytelling is intertwined with interviews with commentators analysing ongoing events and providing background information such as Hong Kong's removal from the UN decolonisation list in 1972 at China's behest.", "Directed by Kiwi Chow, Self-immolator alludes to the common practice of self-immolation in mainland China as a form of protest, particularly among Tibetans . [ 6 ] Chow stated that while the plot of this piece may seem extreme, \"In 2004, people would also find it hard to believe that [the police can drag a protester into a dark corner and beat him up]\", alluding to the beating of Ken Tsang and other incidents of police brutality during the 2014 Hong Kong protests . [ 5 ]", "Sam ( Liu Kai-chi ), a grocery store keeper, is told about the closure of the last chicken farm in Hong Kong. He then visits his egg supplier, farm owner Cheung who recalls the government's actions to gradually kill off the industry despite the fact that he has been meeting their demands. Sam's store is frequently checked by Youth Guards, members of a Red Guards -like uniform group, since his use of \"local eggs\" on his label is on the censor list. He questions why \"local eggs\" must be relabeled \"Hong Kong eggs\" when they refer to the same thing. Sam finds his son Ming among a squad of Youth Guards throwing eggs at a bookstore, but Ming assures his father that he has kept his teaching in mind and has not participated in the vandalism; instead, he often leaks the censor lists and actions to bookstore keepers so that they can remain safe and preserve the books. Relaxed at his son's critical thinking, Sam reminds a bookstore keeper not to get used to such suppressive acts. [ 7 ]", "Ten Years ends with a quote from the Book of Amos : .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}", "and \"Already too late\" fading out and replaced by \"Not too late\".", "The independent film was conceived by Ng Ka-leung, a graduate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University . Ng said that the idea predated the Umbrella Movement , and was inspired by ongoing political, educational and housing problems. He explained in late 2015:", "The film was produced on a budget of HK$500,000 (US$64,000). [ 7 ] The cast and crew were mainly volunteers. [ 6 ] It was filmed in Hong Kong.", "The film was featured at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival in November 2015 before its general release. [ 7 ] It was initially released on only one screen in Hong Kong at the Broadway Cinematheque in Yau Ma Tei at the end of 2015. It was a surprise hit, and subsequently received a release at select UA Cinemas. It was further picked up by two independent cinemas, the Metroplex in Kowloon Bay and the Ma On Shan Classics Cinema. [ 8 ] The Metroplex decided to show the film in its largest cinema (430 seats) boosting ticket sales. [ 8 ]", "By early February 2016, only the independent cinema in Ma On Shan was showing the film. It ended its run there following the weekend of 12 February. [ 9 ] Since being pulled from theatres, the film has been showing at private screening at universities and other rented venues, advertised on social media. [ 10 ]", "In February 2016, the international distribution rights for the film were purchased by Golden Scene , a Hong Kong-based distributor. [ 11 ] [ 12 ]", "On 1 April 2016, with no cinemas screening the film despite high demand, Ten Years was simultaneously screened at 34 different public locations around Hong Kong, including the underside of motorway flyovers (in Sham Shui Po and Mei Foo ), the public steps leading to the Sha Tin Town Hall , and the forecourt of the Legislative Council Complex . [ 13 ] The screenings were organised by a variety of community groups, educational institutions, and churches. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] They were attended by thousands, many of whom were frustrated to have been unable to get tickets before the film was pulled from cinemas. [ 15 ] [ 16 ]", "In 2019, the film was made available globally via Netflix. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The film was removed from Netflix in 2021 and is no longer available on the streaming service. [ 17 ]", "In the first month of its general release, most showings were sold out. [ 18 ] At the only cinema showing it in the week of its opening, it grossed more ticket sales than Star Wars: The Force Awakens , [ 5 ] and ranked top ten in Hong Kong's weekend box office. [ 19 ] At the end of January 2016 the film surpassed HK$5 million in box office earnings, which one of the directors called a miracle given the film's modest budget and limited screening. [ 8 ] At the time the film was only being shown at UA Megabox , the Metroplex and the Ma On Shan Classics Cinema. [ 8 ] By mid-February, when Ten Years ended its run at the sole screen where it was still being shown, the film had grossed more than HK$6 million. [ 20 ]", "The South China Morning Post reported that \" Ten Years \" topped the charts on Chinese download site zimuzu.tv after the Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony, but that users were disappointed to find they had downloaded the 2011 American film of the same name . [ 21 ]", "Ten Years received generally positive reviews locally. Some viewers reportedly left the cinema in tears. [ 9 ] Time Out Hong Kong called the film \"powerful, poignant, relevant and brave\", as well as \"nightmarish\". [ 22 ] The Hong Kong Economic Journal called it \"well-constructed\", and wrote: \"Viewers will realize that although some of the scenes may seem unfamiliar and others way too radical, the stories are always anchored on developments in the past and the present. There’s always something in the movie that viewers can identify with, something believable and within the realm of the possible.\" [ 7 ] Writing in the South China Morning Post , Edmund Lee called the film \"a reminder of the power of independent, intelligent filmmaking as a vehicle for social and political critique\" and \"one of the most thought-provoking local films in years\". [ 23 ] Alice Wu said: \"Provocation is an art form. Perhaps the true value of Ten Years lies in how uncomfortable it is to us all... As a portrayal of our worst fears, it is arguably the quintessential political horror film of our time. It perfectly plays (or should it be 'preys'?) on many Hongkongers’ primal fears...\" [ 24 ]", "A review in Hong Kong Free Press responded that \"while Global Times and other reviewers have primarily directed their critiques at the likelihood of the film's events actually taking place, the film cannot be entirely interpreted as a prediction for the year 2025. Ten Years is not a forecast calculated via econometric modelling; it is simply a portrayal of the Hong Kong public's worst fears. Perhaps a more pertinent question raised by the film is why people have come to dread – rather than look forward to – the city’s future. The answer is probably because we have been shown no realistic alternative.\" [ 25 ] The same reviewer observed a message about belonging in Hong Kong: \"For example, Extras and Self-Immolator [...] portray mainland immigrants, South Asians and elderly characters without treating them as antagonists or resorting to stereotypes. The latter film even features a mixed-race relationship, advocating the idea that Hong Kong identity should be based on civic, not ethnic, factors.\" [ 25 ]", "The film was selected to be screened at the 18th Taipei Film Festival opening on 30 June 2016. [ 26 ]", "Peter Lam , chairman of Media Asia and of the Hong Kong Tourism Board, said: \"The fact that the film got the prize is a tragedy for Hong Kong's movie industry [because] politics has kidnapped the profession and politicised film-awarding events.\" Lam added that, from a film investor's perspective: \"The movie did not possess the qualities of best film, as you can see that it was not nominated for best actress or best actor awards, nor was it a blockbuster.\" Crucindo Hung, former chairman of the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong, criticised the award as \"an out-of-your-mind and outrageous decision.\" [ 27 ] Lam defended his remark from criticism, but earned further rebuke to his statement by implying that a wonton noodles shop never ought to be voted best restaurant in Hong Kong. [ 28 ] Some members of the Chamber of Films said they would submit a proposal to the Hong Kong Film Awards Association to change the voting mechanism of the awards. Daniel Lam, Chamber of Films member and owner of Universe Films, whose film Little Big Master lost to Ten Years , said that current voting mechanism \"can be easily manipulated to produce an irrational result\". [ 29 ] [ 30 ]", "On the other hand, the Chinese Communist Party -controlled Global Times called the film absurd and ridiculous, and accused the filmmakers of trying to spread anxiety. [ 31 ] It referred to the film's political message as a \"virus of the mind\" and claimed its box office earnings were minimal. [ 31 ] [ 32 ]", "Due to the fact that the film was nominated for best picture in the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards , the state-owned China Central Television announced that it would not live telecast the ceremony, as it had done every year since 1991. [ 10 ] The online video website Tencent has said that it will also not cover the event. [ 33 ] China's leading film review websites Douban and Mtime.com do not allow users to create a page for the film. [ 34 ] Derek Yee , chairman of Hong Kong Film Awards, who presented the award to the directors, said that it had been hard to find anyone else to present the award, due to fears of being blacklisted for mainland opportunities. [ 35 ]", "Major mainland news websites, including Sina and Tencent, covered the awards ceremony, held 3 April 2016, but neglected to mention the winner of best picture, considered one of Asia's top film awards. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] In mainland Chinese cities where TVB , the main Hong Kong television channel, is aired, users on social media reported that the programme was blacked out and replaced with a cooking programme. [ 35 ]", "During the week of 11 April 2016, Apple was ordered by the Chinese State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television to shut down its iTunes Movie and iBooks stores, [ 38 ] which had been approved approximately six months earlier. [ 39 ] This appears to be in response to the availability of Ten Years in the iTunes Movie store. News of the store closures broke shortly before the movie became available on iTunes in Hong Kong. [ 40 ]", "In October 2017, a pan-Asian franchise based on the film was announced. [ 42 ] Producer Andrew Choi stated that he hoped to make it a cross-regional exchange platform to collectively reflect on and discuss 'our future.' Japanese , Taiwanese and Thai versions were planned, each offering a very specific take on those societies' \"hidden dangers and hidden fears\", according to Rina B. Tsou , one of five Taiwanese directors on that project. For instance, the Japanese version would explore a country \"plagued by pollution and aging\" as well as a \"society where morality and personal history are manipulated by technology.\" \"Surveillance and government control\" in a Thailand a decade hence will be envisaged by director Aditya Assarat , while the Taiwanese project foretells an island where \"immigrant workers are systematically exploited and the loss of culture and dropping birth rate\" have caused its inhabitants to turn to \"virtual reality escapes.\" [ 42 ]", "Executive producers for the franchise include Andrew Choi, one of the original Hong Kong 'Ten Years' producers, and Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda . [ 42 ] Films released in 2018 were titled Ten Years Japan ( Jû-nen ), [ 43 ] Ten Years Taiwan , [ 44 ] Ten Years Thailand , [ 45 ] respectively. Ten Years Myanmar was released in 2023. [ 46 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/df/Ten_Years_poster.jpg/250px-Ten_Years_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Jamie Linden", "Written by": "Jamie Linden", "Produced by": "Marty Bowen Reid Carolin Wyck Godfrey Channing Tatum", "Starring": "Channing Tatum Jenna Dewan Justin Long Kate Mara Rosario Dawson Lynn Collins Brian Geraghty Ari Graynor Oscar Isaac Ron Livingston Anthony Mackie Max Minghella Aubrey Plaza Scott Porter Chris Pratt Aaron Yoo", "Cinematography": "Steve Fierberg", "Edited by": "Jake Pushinsky", "Music by": "Chad Fischer", "Production companies": "Boss Media Temple Hill Entertainment Iron Horse", "Distributed by": "Anchor Bay Films", "Release dates": "September 12, 2011 ( 2011-09-12 ) ( TIFF ) September 14, 2012 ( 2012-09-14 ) (United States)", "Running time": "101 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$987,640"}
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["10 Years is a 2011 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Jamie Linden in his directorial debut. [ 1 ] It stars an ensemble cast including Channing Tatum , Jenna Dewan , Justin Long , Kate Mara , Rosario Dawson , Oscar Isaac , Lynn Collins , Chris Pratt , Scott Porter , Brian Geraghty , Aubrey Plaza , and Anthony Mackie . It was released September 14, 2012, in select theaters.", "On the day of their 10-year high school reunion , Jake and his girlfriend Jess arrive at the home of his now-married high school friends Cully and Sam. Other friends begin to arrive, including best friends Marty and AJ, famous musician Reeves, and the adventurous Scott with his wife, Suki. They depart for the reunion and reunite with their friend Garrity and meet his wife Olivia; and reconnect with Garrity's best friend Andre. Meanwhile, reclusive classmate Elise arrives at the reunion alone. She is ignored by the party planner, prom queen Anna.", "Jake, Cully, Andre, and Reeves smoke a joint in Jake's car when he reveals an envelope with an engagement ring inside, stating that he has intended to ask Jess to marry him for quite some time but hasn't found the right moment to propose. However, Jake is conflicted when he sees his high school sweetheart Mary and her new husband Paul. The two couples share awkward introductions, as Jake and Mary reconnect for the first time in eight years. Reeves approaches Elise and the pair reminisce when he spots an old picture of her wearing bright yellow shoes.", "As the night continues, Olivia unexpectedly discovers that Garrity has an affinity for hip hop , Cully drunkenly attempts and fails to appropriately apologize to some geeky classmates for bullying them in high school, and Marty and AJ attempt to flirt with Anna, causing tension between the duo. Jake and Mary discuss prom, which they couldn't attend as Mary's father had a heart attack that night.", "As the reunion comes to a close, the group departs for a local karaoke bar . Reeves flirts with Elise but she turns him down. As Anna leaves the party early, Marty and AJ decide to toilet paper her house. At the bar, Jess takes notice of Jake's behavior around Mary and decides to return to the hotel under the guise of being tired. Paul does the same. Scott and Suki sing karaoke and Olivia is impressed by Garrity's breakdancing abilities.", "Reeves is pressured by his friends to sing his hit song \"Never Had\", about the girl he misses. The line about bright yellow shoes makes Elise, who had never heard the song, realize it is about her. The two share a kiss and spend the remainder of the night together.", "Anna catches Marty and AJ vandalizing her home and becomes upset, revealing that she is now an unhappy single mother with two children. Marty reveals that he is not a successful New Yorker , but instead lives in a small apartment and is financially unstable, and AJ reveals that he is getting a divorce. The trio bond over their shared life issues.", "As the night comes to a close, Cully becomes embarrassingly drunk and upsets Sam. Scott reveals to his friends that he intends on returning to Japan with Suki to continue their adventures together. Mary asks Jake for the dance they never had at prom, finally giving them an opportunity to properly end their relationship. Mary reveals that she's pregnant, the two agree that they are happy with where their lives have taken them. Jake returns to the hotel and finds Jess still awake. She reveals she left so he could get his closure with Mary.", "Jake and Jess soon join their friends at a local diner. He returns to his car to get the engagement ring from the envelope.", "A short film titled Ten Year was produced in 2011 by Channing Tatum to attract financing for the feature film. [ 2 ]", "The film was produced by Marty Bowen, Reid Carolin , Wyck Godfrey and Channing Tatum , and the screenplay was written by Jamie Linden . Location shooting took place in and around Albuquerque, New Mexico .", "The film had a red carpet premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2011. [ 3 ] It would be a year before the film received a limited theatrical release , on September 14, 2012. [ 4 ]", "The film was released on home video on December 17, 2012. [ 5 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 60% of 58 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's consensus reads: \"A sweet ensemble comedy about a high school reunion, 10 Years is well cast but unfortunately predictable and short on three dimensional characters.\" [ 6 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 67 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 7 ]", "Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times called it \"largely engaging\" but that \"there’s a lot of been-there, done-that going on.\" [ 8 ] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter says the film \"pulls us in eventually, delivering its share of poignant insights and melancholy reflections, even if it does all feel a tad familiar.\" [ 9 ] Patrick Bromley, reviewing the home video release, stated that while \"it traffics in the familiar, 10 Years is not a movie of gigantic revelations. It is a movie of small truths, usually well observed.\" [ 5 ]", "10 Years grossed $203,654 in the United States and Canada, and $782,986 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $987,640. [ 4 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/04/10_to_midnight_poster.jpg/250px-10_to_midnight_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "J. Lee Thompson", "Written by": "William Roberts J. Lee Thompson", "Produced by": "Pancho Kohner Lance Hool", "Starring": "Charles Bronson Lisa Eilbacher Andrew Stevens Gene Davis Geoffrey Lewis Wilford Brimley", "Cinematography": "Adam Greenberg", "Edited by": "Peter Lee Thompson", "Music by": "Robert O. Ragland", "Production companies": "Cannon Group City Films", "Distributed by": "Cannon Films [ 1 ]", "Release date": "March 11, 1983 ( 1983-03-11 ) (United States)", "Running time": "102 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$4 million", "Box office": "$7 million [ 2 ]"}
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["10 to Midnight is a 1983 American neo noir - thriller film [ 3 ] directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay originally written by William Roberts . The film stars Charles Bronson in the lead role with a supporting cast that includes Lisa Eilbacher , Andrew Stevens , Gene Davis , Geoffrey Lewis , and Wilford Brimley . 10 to Midnight was released by City Films, a subsidiary of Cannon Films , to American cinemas on March 11, 1983.", "Warren Stacey is a young office equipment repairman who kills women after they reject his sexual advances. His attempts at flirting are always seen as creepy by women, resulting in frequent rejections. [ 4 ] One night, Stacey attends a showing of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at a theatre and deliberately accosts the women sitting next to him, so they will recall him. As the movie plays, he heads for the theatre's bathroom, strips naked, puts on gloves and slips out through a window. He tracks Betty, a co-worker who had rejected his advances, down to a wooded area, and observes her having sex with her boyfriend in the back of a van. He ambushes the couple, kills the boyfriend and chases her into the forest, eventually catching up to her and stabbing her to death. Afterwards, he returns to the theatre and exits with the other attendees, giving him a solid alibi.", "Detective Leo Kessler and his partner Paul McAnn are investigating the murders. Kessler is a seasoned veteran of the force, while McAnn is considerably younger. Meanwhile, Laurie Kessler, a nursing student, is struggling to reconcile her relationship with Leo, her father.", "Stacey attends Betty's funeral and hears her father mention to Kessler, a family friend, that Betty kept a diary about her encounters with other men. Fearing he might be mentioned in the diary, Stacey searches Betty's bedroom in her apartment, but is interrupted when Karen Smalley, Betty's roommate and co-worker, returns from the funeral. Stacey stabs her to death in the kitchen and resumes searching for the diary, only to find it missing; Kessler had already acquired it from Karen during his questioning.", "Eventually, Stacey is formally arrested and charged. Kessler decides to plant evidence in order to frame Stacey and put him away for good; when McAnn discovers this, he confronts Kessler and refuses to go along out of fear of committing perjury , as he had been called to the witness stand in the case. Kessler ultimately confesses to planting the evidence in court, resulting in the case against Stacey being dismissed and Kessler being fired from the force.", "Now a free man, Stacey taunts Kessler over the phone, but Kessler returns the favor by ransacking Stacey's apartment, taunting him over the phone in turn, and getting him fired from his office job. That evening, Kessler tails Stacey through the streets of Los Angeles, and observes him picking up a prostitute and taking her to a seedy hotel. However, when he arrives at the hotel, he finds the prostitute unconscious and Stacey gone. Realizing that he is going after Laurie, he frantically calls her dorm at the nursing college where she stays to warn her and her roommates, but he is too late; Stacey breaks into the dorm and brutally murders Laurie's three roommates while Laurie hides from him.", "As Leo alerts McAnn to Stacey's whereabouts and they both head for the dorm, Laurie manages to escape after wounding Stacey with a hot curling iron. He chases her through the street fully nude, but McAnn and Leo manage to catch up to him, saving Laurie. Stacey begins ranting about how he is insane and thus liable to be released after doing jail time. As the police arrive and handcuff him, Stacey warns Leo that \"the whole fucking world\" will hear from him again, to which Leo coldly responds, \"No, we won't,\" and shoots him through the head, killing him.", "Producer Pancho Kohner had made a number of films with Charles Bronson and J. Lee Thompson. They purchased the film rights to the 1978 novel The Evil That Men Do , by R. Lance Hill . Cannon Films chairman Menahem Golan wanted to market Bronson's next film project and the adaptation of the novel was going to be that project. But Kohner estimated the rights to the novel and the cost of the screenplay to be worth $200,000. Menahem refused to pay and the deal fell through. [ 5 ]", "However, Menahem still offered to market Bronson's next film project, just not based on that novel. He and Kohner had already arranged a visit to the Cannes Film Festival to promote The Evil That Men Do . He asked Kohner to come up with a new project and fresh title, and 10 to Midnight was the result of his brainstorm. At the Festival they promoted the project to potential buyers, as a film featuring action, danger, and revenge. But at this point, they really had no script for the suggested film. Back in Los Angeles, they went in search of a story. A colleague of Kohner's, Lance Hool, suggested using the screenplay Bloody Sunday by William Roberts. They simply attached the already chosen title to that screenplay. [ 5 ] ( The Evil That Men Do later ended up being financed by ITC Entertainment.)", "The name of killer Warren for Warren Stacy was based on Hollywood star Warren Beatty .", "Actor Gene Davis , who played Warren, said that director J. Lee Thompson pretty much left him alone to form his character, but told him \"We don't want the role to be sympathetic...\" presumably so as to make the ending have more impact. [ 6 ]", "Two scenes in the original script were eventually not shot, one with Warren interacting with a 10-year old girl at the park, and another with Warren being hit on by a gay man. The original ending had Leo wrestle Warren down to the ground during their final confrontation, but Bronson refused to get up close and personal with a naked Davis. [ 7 ]", "The music for 10 to Midnight was composed by Cannon Films mainstay Robert O. Ragland and the film was recorded by cinematographer Adam Greenberg. The film also features actor Robert F. Lyons and actress Kelly Preston (listed as Kelly Palzis) in smaller roles.", "Heavy on violence, nudity, vulgar language and sexual situations, 10 to Midnight drew scathing reviews from film critics, including a \"zero stars\" rating from Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times who wrote, \"I admired [Bronson's] strong, simple talent once. What is he doing in a garbage disposal like this?\" [ 8 ]", "The film did receive positive feedback from others, such as Ebert's colleague Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune , and was a moderate financial success. [ 9 ]", "The film has maintained a sizeable cult following through home video releases and cable TV showings. [ citation needed ] The film was often heavily edited for television broadcasts which displayed alternate scenes of Stacy and his victims in their underwear instead of being totally naked.", "On Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 5.33/10. [ 10 ] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 12 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating \"Overwhelming Dislike\". [ 11 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/95/10_Things_I_Hate_About_You_film.jpg/250px-10_Things_I_Hate_About_You_film.jpg", "Directed by": "Gil Junger", "Written by": "Karen McCullah Kirsten Smith", "Based on": "The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare", "Produced by": "Andrew Lazar", "Starring": "Julia Stiles Heath Ledger Joseph Gordon-Levitt Larisa Oleynik Larry Miller Andrew Keegan David Krumholtz Susan May Pratt Gabrielle Union", "Cinematography": "Mark Irwin", "Edited by": "O. Nicholas Brown", "Music by": "Richard Gibbs", "Production companies": "Touchstone Pictures [ 1 ] Mad Chance Jaret Entertainment", "Distributed by": "Buena Vista Pictures Distribution", "Release date": "March 31, 1999 ( 1999-03-31 )", "Running time": "97 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$13 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$53.5 million [ 3 ]"}
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["10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger in his film directorial debut and starring Julia Stiles , Heath Ledger , Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Gabrielle Union , and Larisa Oleynik . The screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith is a modernization of William Shakespeare 's comedy The Taming of the Shrew , retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. The film follows new student Cameron James (Gordon-Levitt) who is smitten with Bianca Stratford (Oleynik) and attempts to get bad boy Patrick Verona (Ledger) to date her antisocial sister Kat (Stiles) in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating. Named after a poem Kat writes about her romance with Patrick, the film was mostly shot in the Seattle metropolitan area , with many scenes filmed at Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington .", "Released on March 31, 1999, 10 Things I Hate About You grossed $53.5 million and received generally positive reviews from critics. It provided breakthrough roles for Stiles, Ledger, and Gordon-Levitt, all of whom were nominated for various teen-oriented awards. Ten years later, it was adapted into a television reboot , which ran for twenty episodes and featured Larry Miller reprising his role as Walter Stratford. Since release, it has gained popularity as a cult classic , often being cited as one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time.", "Cameron James, a new student at Padua High School in the Seattle area, immediately becomes smitten with beautiful and popular sophomore Bianca Stratford. Geeky Michael Eckman warns him that she is vapid and conceited, and that her overprotective single father Walter, an obstetrician worried about teenage pregnancy , does not allow her or her shrewish older sister Kat, a senior, to date. Kat is accepted to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, but Walter wants her to stay close to home and attend his alma mater, the University of Washington . Bianca wishes to date affluent senior Joey Donner, but Walter will not allow his daughters to date until they graduate. Frustrated by Bianca's insistence and Kat's rebelliousness, Walter relents and declares that Bianca may date only when Kat does, knowing that Kat's antisocial attitude will greatly complicate it.", "When Cameron asks Bianca out, she informs him of her father's new rule and suggests he find someone willing to date Kat so that she can freely date Joey. He selects Australian \"bad boy\" Patrick Verona , who initially frightens him with his attitude. Michael assists by convincing Joey to pay Patrick to take Kat out, believing that it will allow Joey to date Bianca. Patrick agrees to the deal, but Kat initially rebuffs his first few advances. After Michael and Cameron assist him by probing Bianca for information on Kat's preferences, Patrick begins to win Kat's interest. She goes to a party with him, which enables Bianca to tag along, greatly upsetting Walter.", "At the party, Kat becomes upset upon seeing Bianca with Joey, and responds by getting intoxicated. Patrick attends to her, and she starts to open up to him, expressing her interest in forming a band. When Kat attempts to kiss him, Patrick pulls away, causing her to depart, infuriated. Meanwhile, Bianca upsets Cameron by ignoring him for Joey, but soon realizes that Joey is indeed shallow and self-absorbed. When she asks Cameron to drive her home, he admits his feelings for her are indeed genuine and her treatment of him has frustrated him, and she reconciliatorily kisses him in response.", "Joey offers to pay Patrick to take Kat to the prom so he can take Bianca. He initially refuses, but relents when Joey offers him more money. Although Kat is still angry with Patrick, he eventually wins her over by serenading her, accompanied by the Padua High School marching band, with a performance of \" Can't Take My Eyes Off You \" by Frankie Valli , and she returns the favor by assisting him in sneaking out of detention. Their subsequent date turns romantic, but Kat becomes suspicious when Patrick insists that she accompany him to the prom, which she adamantly opposes.", "Irritated at not being asked to the prom by Cameron, Bianca accepts Joey's invitation, but Walter declines to allow it unless Kat accompanies her. Kat confesses to Bianca that she dated Joey when they were freshmen and, succumbing to peer pressure, had sex with him, later regretting it. After Joey dumped her, she vowed against doing anything out of peer pressure. Bianca insists that she can decide her own life, so Kat agrees to attend the prom with Patrick, and Bianca decides to go with Cameron instead of Joey. At the prom, Bianca learns that Joey planned to have sex with her that night. Angry that Bianca has spurned him for Cameron, Joey reveals his arrangement with Patrick, which causes Kat to leave, heartbroken. Joey then shoves Michael and punches Cameron, but Bianca then assaults him for having hurt her, Kat, and Cameron. Bianca and Cameron share another kiss.", "The following day, Bianca reconciles with Kat and begins dating Cameron. Comfortable that Kat can handle herself, Walter permits her to attend Sarah Lawrence College. For an assignment in which the students were tasked to write their own versions of William Shakespeare 's Sonnet 141 , Kat reads aloud a poem she composed, entitled \"10 Things I Hate About You\", revealing that she still loves and cares for Patrick. He surprises her with a Fender Stratocaster that he bought with the money Joey paid him, and confesses that he has fallen for her. Kat forgives him, and they reconcile with a kiss.", "Writing duo Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith were inspired to write 10 Things I Hate About You after watching Clueless (1995). Being a fan of teen films , the pair set out to find a classic play or myth to turn it into a contemporary high-school movie, eventually settling on The Taming of the Shrew , a comedy by William Shakespeare . [ 4 ] They wanted to write a strong-willed, feminist character. Patrick Verona was inspired by Judd Nelson 's character in The Breakfast Club (1985). The script was finalized in November 1997. [ 5 ] The screenplay was eventually picked up by The Walt Disney Company , with Gil Junger attached to direct.", "Junger was keen to find unknown actors for the movie. Josh Hartnett and Ashton Kutcher were in the running to play Patrick Verona. Eliza Dushku auditioned for the role of Kat Stratford. Katie Holmes was also considered for the role. Kate Hudson was offered the part but her mother, Goldie Hawn , did not like the script, so she passed on the role. [ 6 ] Casting director Marcia Ross contacted Junger and recommended Julia Stiles for the role. [ 4 ] \nJunger met her that evening and was \"immediately taken\"; after the 10 minute meeting, he gave her the role. [ 4 ] Joseph Gordon Levitt auditioned for the roles of Cameron and Michael, despite initial reluctance to act in a \"high school film\". [ 7 ] The role of Michael eventually went to David Krumholtz and Levitt was then offered the role of Cameron, but he wasn't interested doing a high school film until the director convinced him to take it. [ citation needed ] Casting for Patrick Verona was a long process, with Andrew Lazar reporting he had seen over 1,000 boys for the role. [ 4 ] Three and a half weeks before filming was due to start, Ross brought Heath Ledger into a casting session, who charmed Junger and was immediately cast. [ citation needed ]", "Filming took place in 1998, between June 8 and August 6. [ 4 ] Many of the scenes were filmed on location at Stadium High School and at a house in the North End of Tacoma, Washington . The prom sequence was shot over three days in Seattle . [ 8 ] Ledger's singing scene in the high-school bleachers, regarded as one of the most iconic scenes of the movie, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] had just three takes . The song for the scene changed numerous times, almost being \" I Touch Myself \" by Australian rock band Divinyls , before \" Can't Take My Eyes Off You \" by Frankie Valli was settled on. [ 4 ]", "Costume designer Kim Tillman designed original dresses for Larisa Oleynik and Julia Stiles, as well as the period outfits for Susan May Pratt and David Krumholtz. Gabrielle Union's snakeskin prom dress is a Betsey Johnson design. Heath Ledger's and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's vintage tuxedos came from Isadora's in Seattle. [ 8 ]", "In its opening weekend, the film grossed $8.3 million in 2,271 theaters domestically, finishing second at the box office, behind The Matrix . It earned $21 million in the first five days of release. [ 12 ] The movie grossed a total of $38.2 million in the U.S. and Canada, and $15.3 million in other territories, for $53.7 million worldwide. [ 3 ]", "On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 92 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The website's critics consensus states: \"Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger add strong performances to an unexpectedly clever script, elevating 10 Things (slightly) above typical teen fare.\" [ 13 ] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 14 ]", "Geoff Andrew from Time Out praised the film's leads, writing, \"Stiles grows into her character, and Ledger is effortlessly charming.\" [ 15 ] Brad Laidman of Film Threat said the film was \"pure of heart and perfectly executed.\" [ 16 ] Ron Wells, also of Film Threat , wrote, \"Of all the teen films released this year, this one is, by far, the best.\" [ 17 ] Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying that he \"liked the movie's spirit, the actors and some of the scenes. The music, much of it by the band Letters to Cleo, is subtle and inventive while still cheerful. The movie almost but not quite achieves liftoff against the gravitational pull of the tired story formula.\" [ 18 ] Entertainment Weekly put the film 49th on its list of Best High School Movies. [ 19 ] The costuming was praised by Vogue for being stylish and helping illustrate the divide between the Stratford sisters, [ 20 ] referring to the movie as a \"time capsule\" for 90s fashion . [ 21 ]", "10 Things I Hate About You provided breakthrough roles for Stiles, Ledger, and Gordon-Levitt. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Gordon-Levitt, Stiles, and Oleynik each received YoungStar Award nominations for Best Actor/Actress in a Comedy Film. The movie was nominated for seven Teen Choice Awards : Choice Movie: Breakout Star (Stiles), Choice Movie: Comedy , Choice Movie: Funniest Scene (featuring Krumholtz), Choice Movie: Love Scene (featuring Stiles and Ledger), Choice Movie: Hissy Fit (Gordon-Levitt), Choice Movie: Villain (Andrew Keegan) and Choice Movie: Soundtrack at the 1999 Teen Choice Awards . The film's casting directors Marcia Ross and Donna Morong were nominated for Best Casting for Feature Film, Comedy at the Casting Society of America 's Artios Awards in 1999. In 2000, Stiles won the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress (tied with Émilie Dequenne in Rosetta ) at the 1999 CFCA Awards and an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance at the 2000 MTV Movie Awards . Ledger was also nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Performance for the song \" Can't Take My Eyes Off You \". [ 25 ]", "The film's soundtrack album, featuring Letters to Cleo performing cover versions of Cheap Trick 's \" I Want You to Want Me \" and Nick Lowe 's \" Cruel to Be Kind \", stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for seven weeks, peaking at no. 52. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Reviewer S. Peeples of AllMusic rated it 3 stars out of 5, calling it \"one of the best modern rock soundtracks of the spring 1999 season\". [ 28 ]", "The film is often considered one of the greatest teen and romantic comedies of all time, [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] receiving praise for subverting expectations and having a feminist lead character. [ 35 ] The film has been cited as an influence for Netflix 's romcom revival. [ 36 ] Kat's defiance for conventional feminine attitudes was seen as an \"extreme\" brand of feminism at the time; however, the independent female character is now retrospectively regarded as a progressive portrayal that challenged the traditional teen movie archetypes, aligning more closely with modern feminist ideals. [ 37 ] The film is often regarded to be a cult classic due to the unconventional stereotypes resonating throughout generations and in youth culture years later. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] [ 40 ] Teen Vogue ranked the movie number one on their list for best teen romance movies. [ 41 ] GQ included the film on their list of the best 90s movies , [ 42 ] and Harper's Bazaar had it on their list of the best movies that defined the 90s. [ 43 ]", "In 2024, during the Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud , Drake responded to Lamar's diss track \" Euphoria \" by sharing a clip of the movie on Instagram, showing Stiles' reading the titular poem. [ 44 ] [ 45 ]", "In June 1999, the Scholastic Corporation published a novelization of the story, adapted by David Levithan . [ 46 ] The story is retold as it is in the film, with each chapter written from the point of view of either Bianca, Cameron, Kat, Patrick, or Michael.", "In October 2008, ABC Family ordered a pilot episode of 10 Things I Hate About You , a half-hour, single-camera comedy series based on the film. Larry Miller is the only actor from the film to reprise his role of Walter Stratford in the TV series. The director of the film, Gil Junger , directed many of the episodes, including the pilot; the film's composer, Richard Gibbs, also returned to do the show's music. The series was adapted and produced by Carter Covington . [ 47 ] The show premiered on July 7, 2009, [ 48 ] and ended on May 24, 2010, lasting 20 episodes.", "In May 2012, a standalone sequel titled 10 Things I Hate About Life was announced to be in development with Gil Junger serving as director and screenwriter. [ 49 ] Evan Rachel Wood and Thomas McDonell were cast in the lead roles, and while production commenced principal photography halted with delays in continuing the production. [ 50 ] The movie was ultimately shelved indefinitely, resulting in legal action taken by its producers. [ 51 ]", "In May 2025, a sequel was in development with the title 10 Things I Hate About Dating . Gil Junger will once again serve as director, with the filmmaker co-writing the script with Naya Elle James. Junger stated that similar to the previous movie being a William Shakespeare contemporary retelling, the new project will be based on Jean-Baptiste \"Molière\" Poquelin 's The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover . The director expressed hopes that cast from the original movie would reprise the roles, in a variety of cameos or as a featured supporting cast alongside the new characters. The movie is intended to be the first in a trilogy of sequels, with the additional projects tentatively titled: 10 Things I Hate About Marriage , and 10 Things I Hate About Kids . Junger acknowledged that while Ledger cannot appear in the new installment, there will be reference and tribute made to the deceased actor. [ 52 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/10_Rules_for_Sleeping_Around_poster.jpg/250px-10_Rules_for_Sleeping_Around_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Leslie Greif", "Written by": "Leslie Greif", "Produced by": "Harry Basil Leslie Greif Vince Maggio Herb Nanas", "Starring": "Jesse Bradford Chris Marquette Tammin Sursok Virginia Williams Reid Ewing", "Cinematography": "Tom Priestley Jr.", "Edited by": "Richard Nord", "Music by": "Nathan Matthew David Alan Ett", "Production company": "Thinkfactory Media", "Distributed by": "Screen Media Films", "Release dates": "August 13, 2013 ( 2013-08-13 ) (Netherlands) April 4, 2014 ( 2014-04-04 )", "Running time": "94 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["10 Rules for Sleeping Around is a 2013 American screwball romantic sex comedy film written, produced, and directed by Leslie Greif and starring Jesse Bradford , Chris Marquette , Tammin Sursok , Virginia Williams and Reid Ewing .", "The film is about two couples whose sexual escapades land them in a tangle of lies. By following ten simple rules, 20-somethings Vince and Cameron spice up their relationship by sleeping around. But when their straitlaced friends get engaged, their relationship gets turned upside down.", "10 Rules for Sleeping Around was first released via DVD in the Netherlands on August 13, 2013, before arriving in the United States, on April 4, 2014.", "On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has a 0% rating based on reviews from 8 critics. [ 1 ] On Metacritic it has a score of 1 out of 100 based on reviews from 5 critics, indicating \"overwhelming dislike\". [ 2 ] It is one of ten films to hold this rating of 1; the other nine being Bio-Dome , Chaos , inAPPropriate Comedy , Not Cool , The Singing Forest , The Garbage Pail Kids Movie , Death of a Nation , Hardbodies , and United Passions .", "John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter calls the film \"a numbingly unfunny sex farce .\" [ 3 ] 1NFLUX Magazine ' s review was slightly more positive, giving the film a C+. [ 4 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8d/10_Rillington_Place_quad_poster.jpg/250px-10_Rillington_Place_quad_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Richard Fleischer", "Screenplay by": "Clive Exton", "Based on": "Ten Rillington Place by Ludovic Kennedy", "Produced by": "Leslie Linder Martin Ransohoff", "Starring": "Richard Attenborough Judy Geeson John Hurt Pat Heywood", "Cinematography": "Denys Coop", "Edited by": "Ernest Walter", "Music by": "John Dankworth", "Production companies": "Filmways Pictures [ 1 ] Genesis Productions", "Distributed by": "Columbia Pictures [ 1 ]", "Release date": "28 January 1971 ( 1971-01-28 )", "Running time": "111 minutes", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English"}
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["10 Rillington Place is a 1971 British crime drama horror film [ i ] directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Richard Attenborough , Judy Geeson , John Hurt , and Pat Heywood . [ 6 ] \nThe film dramatises the case of British serial killer John Christie , who committed many of his crimes in the titular London terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving his neighbour Timothy Evans . It was adapted by Clive Exton from the 1961 nonfiction book Ten Rillington Place by Ludovic Kennedy (who also acted as technical advisor to the production) and produced by Leslie Linder and Martin Ransohoff .", "Previous attempts at making a film based on Christie's crimes were blocked by the British Board of Film Classification until clearance was ultimately given to Linder and Director Fleischer in 1970. [ 7 ] Principal photography began in the spring of 1970 on location in London. While most of the location shooting occurred in a flat near the actual site of the crimes, Attenborough did film a scene inside 10 Rillington Place, which was demolished shortly after the film was completed.", "Distributed by Columbia Pictures , 10 Rillington Place premiered in London on 28 January 1971, and received mixed reviews from film critics. Hurt received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Evans.", "In 1944, John Christie murders an acquaintance called Muriel Eady. He lures her to his west London flat at 10 Rillington Place by promising to cure her bronchitis with a \"special mixture\", then incapacitates her with Town Gas , strangles her with a piece of rope, and (it is implied) has sex with her corpse . He buries her in his flat block's communal garden, and whilst digging the grave he accidentally uncovers Ruth Fuerst, one of his previous victims.", "In 1949, Tim and Beryl Evans move into 10 Rillington Place with their infant daughter Geraldine. Beryl is pregnant again and attempts a medical abortion . When she informs Tim, they have a violent argument, which Christie breaks up. Soon after, Christie offers to help Beryl terminate the pregnancy. He pretends to read a medical textbook one day in an effort to convince Tim of his expertise. Tim is essentially illiterate and cannot tell that Christie is lying. The Evanses agree to let Christie perform the procedure.", "Christie occupies his wife, Ethel, by sending her to his place of work with some paperwork. He grabs his killing tools, makes a cup of tea, and heads upstairs to Beryl. He is interrupted by a couple of builders who arrive to renovate the outbuilding. He lets them in, and when he sees they are well-occupied, pours a new cup of tea and heads back upstairs. Beryl has a violent reaction to the gas, and Christie punches her in the face to knock her out. He then strangles and sexually assaults her.", "When Tim returns, Christie tells him that Beryl died of complications from the procedure. Tim wants to go to the police, but Christie convinces him that he will be seen as an accessory . Christie suggests that Tim leave town that night, while Christie disposes of Beryl's body. He promises that he will place the baby in the care of a childless couple from East Acton . Tim reluctantly agrees, and leaves the house in the middle of the night. Christie then strangles Geraldine with a tie.", "Tim hides out with his aunt and uncle in Merthyr Tydfil , pretending he is in town on business. He claims that Beryl and the baby are visiting her family in Brighton . Tim's relatives send a letter to Beryl's father, who sends a telegram in response to say that he has not seen Beryl in months. When confronted by his relatives, Tim pretends Beryl ran away with a rich man and then visits the local police station. He confesses to disposing of Beryl's body in the sewer after the botched abortion. Three London police officers lift the manhole, but do not find Beryl's body. A search of 10 Rillington Place eventually uncovers the bodies of Beryl and the baby in the washroom, where Christie hid them.", "When Tim is brought back to London, he is charged with the murders of his wife and daughter. In shock, and despondent over the news, he confesses to both crimes , though he is guilty of neither. During his trial, Christie is a key witness. Tim's defence attacks Christie's credibility by revealing that he has a history of theft and violence . Nevertheless, Tim is found guilty and is hanged.", "Two years after the trial, Ethel begins to fear her husband, and informs Christie she will move out to stay with relatives. When he begs her not to leave him, Ethel implies that he should be in prison. Christie murders her that night and hides her body under the floorboards in their front room. Later, he meets a woman suffering from a migraine in a café. He pretends to be an ex-doctor and promises her a cure. He is next seen putting fresh wallpaper on a wall in his kitchen; it is implied that he has hidden the woman's body in the space behind the wall.", "In 1953, Christie is living in a dosshouse . Meanwhile, new tenant Beresford Brown is moving into the Christies' flat. There is an awful smell in the kitchen and Brown peels off the wallpaper to find a space behind the wall, where he finds three of Christie's victims. Soon afterwards, Christie is noticed by a police officer in Putney and arrested. The film ends with an intertitle explaining that Christie was hanged and Tim Evans was posthumously pardoned and reinterred in consecrated ground.", "The British Board of Film Classification had blocked the making of a film based on the murders committed by John Christie for over ten years. [ 7 ] The film was developed initially by screenwriter Sean Graham, alongside producer Leslie Linder and American director Richard Fleischer , who had previously directed the crime film The Boston Strangler (1968). [ 8 ] Graham eventually dropped out of the project after he felt that Fleischer was flouting his \"sensitive\" approach to the material, with Fleischer stating that he wanted to make a hard-edged \" horror film to end all horror films... [Fleischer] wants to go for it. There is no censorship any more in America.\" [ 9 ] Commenting on his aesthetic approach, Fleischer said: \"Show too much and you run the risk of gratuitous sensationalism; show too little and falsify the nature of the murderer. After all, it's easy to feel compassion for Christie or the Boston Strangler if you never see what they actually did.\" [ 10 ]", "The film was ultimately produced by Linder and Martin Ransohoff . [ 11 ]", "The film relies on the same argument advanced by Kennedy that Evans was innocent of the murders and was framed by Christie. That argument was accepted by the Crown and Evans was officially pardoned by Home Secretary Roy Jenkins in 1966. The case is one of the first major miscarriages of justice known to have occurred in the immediate postwar period. Most of the script, narrative and character development of it was drawn up in the 1960s. [ 12 ]", "In 1954, the year after Christie's execution, Rillington Place in Notting Hill , west London, was renamed Ruston Close, but number 10 continued to be occupied. In 1958, a Mr. King moved into the flat the Christies had occupied. King is reported to have said he was often woken in the night sensing an oppressive, dark energy of a woman in the room; he bought incense in an attempt to cleanse number 10. [ citation needed ]", "Producer Leslie Linder called the movie \"an anti capital punishment film\" and was not worried by polls that said the majority of British people wanted to bring hanging back. [ 13 ] Richard Fleischer said \"The film we are making is basically a very exciting suspense-drama about characters who fascinate and elements that horrify. We shall make no attempt to analyse Christie to try to explain why he became a psychotic strangler. We shall just let the facts speak for themselves.\" [ 14 ]", "Richard Attenborough , who played Christie in the film, spoke of his reluctance to accept the role: \"I do not like playing the part, but I accepted it at once without seeing the script. I have never felt so totally involved in any part as this. It is a most devastating statement on capital punishment .\" [ 15 ] Attenborough was offered the lead by Leslie Linder while preparing his film Young Winston . Attenborough wrote \"It’s difficult to describe Leslie Linder. As Johnny Redway’s ex-partner, he was an agent, and he was also a restaurateur: at the same time he was an impresario, a film producer, a keep-fit fiend, and a man bursting with creative ideas.\" Attenborough was attracted by the role in part because there was a push to reintroduce the death penalty. [ 16 ]", "John Hurt called it \"the best role I'd done\". [ 17 ]", "Filming began May 1970. In the 2016 documentary Being Beryl on the Indicator Blu-ray release, actress Judy Geeson revealed that the family living at number 10 in 1970 were too afraid to move out temporarily in fear of not being allowed back, so exterior scenes and window shots were filmed at the nearby number 7. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Only Attenborough filmed inside no.10 (the scene where London police officers lift the manhole in the street and Christie is seen looking out of the bay window). [ 20 ] [ 18 ]", "Interior sets were used at Shepperton Studios in London. The house and street were demolished shortly after the film was completed [ 21 ] and the area redeveloped beyond all recognition. A small communal garden occupies a spot directly in front of the former number 10 location, whilst flats built in the late 1970s [ 22 ] cover its exact location, (the apartments were built on where the kitchen, wash house and back garden of number 10 once stood). Residents living there have often reported problems with the electrics going wrong. [ 23 ]", "Filming also took place in the village of Merthyr Vale , the real life hometown of Timothy Evans. The pub scenes were filmed at the Victoria Hotel on Burdett Road in east London. The pub was subsequently demolished as part of the redevelopment of the area in 1972–1973.", "Hangman Albert Pierrepoint , who had hanged both Evans and Christie, served as an uncredited technical advisor on the film to ensure the authenticity of the hanging scene. Hitherto, judicial hangings had been portrayed as long, drawn-out procedures in which a tearful, repentant condemned man or woman would be slowly led to a gallows and invited to say their last words; now, for the first time, the public saw the reality in which a hanging was actually carried out in silence in a matter of a few seconds. [ 24 ]", "Following a sneak preview in Harrow on 13 November 1970, [ 25 ] 10 Rillington Place had its world premiere on 28 January 1971, distributed by Columbia Pictures . [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The film received an X certificate in the United Kingdom. [ 28 ] The film premiered in the United States on 12 May 1971, opening in New York City. [ 29 ]", "RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video released a VHS in the United Kingdom in late 1982, [ 30 ] following with a United States release in 1986. [ 31 ]", "In 2010, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment made the film available on DVD on-demand through their Sony Screen Classics By Request online store. [ 3 ] Twilight Time released a limited edition Blu-ray in the United States on 15 March 2016. [ 32 ] In the United Kingdom, Indicator Films released a Blu-ray and DVD set on 28 November 2016. [ 33 ]", "10 Rillington Place opened to mixed reviews from British film critics. [ 28 ] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: \" 10 Rillington Place focuses exclusively on Christie and Evans; and its schizophrenic approach (sober documentation side by side with confected suspense) affects the overall style rather than the construction. Clive Exton's screenplay – based on Ludovic Kennedy's book – is neat and believable ...but Fleischer's direction is rather less discreet. ...Attenborough's Christie is the work of a clever actor subduing his natural ebullience, but it remains essentially actorish – and worse, borrows most of its mannerisms from an earlier Attenborough performance, the henpecked psychopath of Seance on a Wet Afternoon . By contrast, Hurt makes Evans pathetically red-eyed and hangdog, and compels total belief; his breakdown on discovering Beryl's death is done with sufficient intensity to make his later surrender and false confession completely plausible as an attempt to give his misery some definition. It is a performance that only emphasises how much better the film could have been without the Victorian trappings.\" [ 34 ]", "Critic Derek Malcolm described the film as \"methodical reconstruction of one of the most macabre murder cases of the century,\" ultimately feeling that it failed to function for purposes of entertainment or serious analysis. [ 35 ]", "Variety ' s critic wrote: \"Richard Fleischer has turned out an authenticated documentary-feature which is an absorbing and disturbing picture. But the film has the serious flaw of not even attempting to probe the reasons that turned a man into a monstrous pervert.\" Praise went to John Hurt for his \"remarkably subtle and fascinating performance as the bewildered young man who plays into the hands of both the murderer and the police.\" [ 36 ]", "Vincent Canby of The New York Times described 10 Rillington Place as \"a solemn, earnest polemic of a movie, one with very little vulgar suspense ... The problem with the film is very much the problem with the actual case, which involved small, unimaginative people.\" [ 37 ]", "John Hurt received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor . [ 38 ] [ 39 ]", "In a 2009 review, J. Hoberman of The Village Voice wrote: \"More highly regarded these days than when it was released in 1971, Richard Fleischer's 10 Rillington Place is a grimly efficient treatment of a once-notorious case\". [ 40 ]", "The same year, Keith Uhlich of Time Out gave the film a 5-star review and described it as an \"underseen gem\". [ 41 ] In 2023, Jack Hawkins of /Film wrote that 10 Rillington Place had \"barely a flaw of note\" and listed it among the most underrated films of the 1970s. [ 42 ]", "In an interview with Robert K. Elder in his book The Best Film You've Never Seen , director Sean Durkin states that 10 Rillington Place \"depicts this story the way that a piece of journalism might, as opposed to worrying about preconceived notions of what a film should achieve.\" [ 43 ] Phil Hardy of the British Film Institute observed Attenborough had the ability of \"getting into the flesh of the paranoid and the distressed\", describing the film as a \"detailed account of life under the shadow of World War II [which] is powerful and compelling\". [ 44 ]", "BBC Culture film critic Andrew Male said of the film: \"I think 10 Rillington Place is a masterpiece that I have no desire to ever revisit. I think it's so effective in conjuring up an atmosphere of evil and malaise that I find it far scarier than any so-called horror film I've ever seen.\" [ 21 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9c/TenLittleIndians1965Poster.jpg/250px-TenLittleIndians1965Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "George Pollock", "Screenplay by": "Peter Welbeck Peter Yeldham Erich Kröhnke Enrique Llovet", "Based on": "And Then There Were None 1939 novel by Agatha Christie", "Produced by": "Oliver A. Unger", "Starring": "Hugh O'Brian Shirley Eaton Fabian Leo Genn Stanley Holloway Wilfrid Hyde White Daliah Lavi Dennis Price Marianne Hoppe Mario Adorf", "Cinematography": "Ernest Steward", "Edited by": "Peter Boita", "Music by": "Malcolm Lockyer", "Production company": "Tenlit Films", "Distributed by": "Warner - Pathé (United Kingdom) Seven Arts Productions (United States)", "Release dates": "September 1965 ( 1965-09 ) (Austria) 6 February 1966 ( 1966-02-06 ) (United Kingdom) 9 February 1966 ( 1966-02-09 ) (New York City)", "Running time": "91 minutes", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$850,000 [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$1,500,000 (North American rentals) [ 1 ]"}
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["Ten Little Indians is a 1965 British crime mystery film directed by George Pollock . It is the second film version of Agatha Christie 's 1939 novel . [ 2 ] It was produced by Oliver A. Unger , with co-producer Harry Alan Towers also credited as co-writer under his pen name Peter Welbeck.", "Although its background story is the same as the 1945 adaptation ( And Then There Were None ), with ten people invited to a remote location by a mysterious stranger, this one takes place on an isolated snowy mountain. This version is also the first adaptation of the novel to show the murders on screen. Actor Christopher Lee (uncredited) provided the pre-recorded gramophone voice of \"Mr UN Owen\".", "Ten people travel by aerial tramway to a snowbound mansion, invited there by a Mr UN Owen (Unknown) to spend the weekend. They discover that none of them has actually ever met Owen, including his secretary as well as a married housekeeper and cook, all hired through an agency.", "Framed copies of the children's nursery rhyme \" Ten Little Indians \" are hung on the walls of each guest's bedroom. Dinner is served by the butler Grohmann on a tray adorned with ten little Indian figurines, as well. At exactly 9 p.m., as instructed, Grohmann switches on a hidden tape recording. A man identifying himself as Owen reveals that each of the 10 guests has a scandalous secret, their involvement in various innocent people's deaths.", "One by one, the guests begin dying off. Mike Raven chokes after taking a drink and dies, and a small Indian figurine from the centrepiece tray is broken away. In the morning, the tram cable is cut, killing the cook, Mrs. Grohmann, who attempted to escape. General Mandrake conducts a search of the chalet's catacombs, splitting everyone into pairs, ultimately leading to his demise, stabbed after being led to a planted distraction (a cat). It becomes clear that their unseen killer is following the nursery rhyme. Ann Clyde, the secretary, enters into a romantic relationship with engineer Hugh Lombard as they and the others begin a deadly cat-and-mouse game, ultimately deducing that Owen is not their host but, in reality, one of them.", "After falling under suspicion from the others, Grohmann attempts to make his escape down the mountain peak, Devil's Leap, ending in his death after his lifeline is severed with an axe. Ilona bitterly confesses to having driven her husband to suicide, and is later found dead in her bedroom, killed with a syringe. By now, the five remaining guests fall under distrust of one another, and alliances are formed as the generator shuts down, casting the mansion into total darkness. At dinner, each person reveals the nature of their accusations, but before Ann can attest to her crime, she separates from the group to her room, where she screams upon discovering an Indian decoy hung from the ceiling. In the confusion, Judge Cannon is found with a gunshot wound to his head.", "Dr. Armstrong intimates his suspicions of Ann, which Lombard angrily rebuffs. Lombard later comes to Ann's room and confides that his real name is Charles Morley, and that the real Lombard, a friend of Morley's, had committed suicide. Sorting out Lombard's things, Morley found the invitation and decided to accept it, posing as Lombard, to see if he could throw light on why his friend killed himself. Morley gives Ann his revolver for her protection. In the morning, Blore discovers that Armstrong has vanished and the three conduct a search for him. Blore separates and goes outside, where he is crushed by a large statue of a bear. Ann and Morley discover the body of Dr. Armstrong in the snow and conclude that the killer can only be either of them. Ann pulls the revolver on Morley and shoots at him, before returning to the mansion. She goes upstairs and discovers Judge Cannon very much alive, who explains how he persuaded Dr. Armstrong to help him fake his death. He adds that he intends to poison himself, leaving Ann as the last remaining survivor, who must hang herself and fulfil the rhyme, or be punished by the law instead.", "As Judge Cannon is explaining his plan, having taken a fatal dose of poison, Morley reappears, alive. As he dies, Judge Cannon realises his plan has failed, and Ann and Morley kiss in relief. They see the cat sitting with the fruit tray, with only two Indians attached.", "It was one of the first films Fabian made after his contract with Fox ended. [ 3 ]", "The house used in the film was Kenure House in Rush , County Dublin , Ireland . [ 4 ] Most outdoor scenes were shot in the Zillertal in Tyrol , Austria. [ 5 ]", "The film was sold to Seven Arts for $250,000 for distribution in the US. [ 1 ]", "Referring to And Then There Were None (1945), Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times : \"It would be foolish to say this remake comes within a country mile of that former movie version, which was directed by René Clair.\" Crowther added: \"It does have sufficient of the essence of Miss Christie's strange and creepy tale ... to make it a gripping entertainment for youthful (and unfamiliar) mystery fans\". [ 6 ]", "Variety magazine commented the film \"works quite a bit of suspense into the restricted action, successfully hiding identity of the tenth Indian without resorting to too many 'red herrings'\". [ 7 ]", "The reviewer for Time magazine wrote:", "Stuart Galbraith IV, writing for DVD Talk in 2006, described this version as \"no better than workmanlike but the story is so good that it overcomes the blandness of the adaptation\". It is \"devoid of visual flair, quite unlike the dreamlike sweep\" of the earlier version. [ 8 ]", "AllMovie notes that \"the pacing is brisk and the twists and turns engaging.\" [ 9 ] The film critic Leslie Halliwell said that this version was \"a fair copy of a classic whodunnit\". [ 10 ]", "Ten Little Indians was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on 14 March 2006 as a Region 1 widescreen DVD and also by Warner Archive as a MOD (manufacture-on-demand) DVD."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/10_Cloverfield_Lane.png", "Directed by": "Dan Trachtenberg", "Screenplay by": "Josh Campbell Matt Stuecken Damien Chazelle", "Story by": "Josh Campbell Matt Stuecken", "Produced by": "J. J. Abrams Lindsey Weber", "Starring": "Mary Elizabeth Winstead John Goodman John Gallagher Jr.", "Cinematography": "Jeff Cutter", "Edited by": "Stefan Grube", "Music by": "Bear McCreary", "Production company": "Bad Robot", "Distributed by": "Paramount Pictures", "Release dates": "March 8, 2016 ( 2016-03-08 ) ( New York City ) March 11, 2016 ( 2016-03-11 ) (United States)", "Running time": "104 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$15 million [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]", "Box office": "$110.2 million [ 5 ]"}
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["10 Cloverfield Lane is a 2016 American science fiction horror thriller [ 6 ] film directed by Dan Trachtenberg in his directorial debut , produced by J. J. Abrams and Lindsey Weber and written by Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken, and Damien Chazelle . The second film in the Cloverfield franchise , it stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead , John Goodman , and John Gallagher Jr. The story follows a young woman who, after a car crash, wakes up in an underground bunker with two men who insist that an event has left the surface of Earth uninhabitable.", "The film was developed from a script titled The Cellar ; but under production by Bad Robot , it was turned into a spiritual successor to the 2008 film Cloverfield . It is presented in a third-person narrative , in contrast to its predecessor's found-footage style. Principal photography took place under the title Valencia in New Orleans , Louisiana , from October 20 to December 15, 2014.", "10 Cloverfield Lane premiered in New York City on March 8, 2016, and was released in select countries on March 10. It was released in the United States on March 11, 2016, in both conventional and IMAX formats. The film received positive reviews and grossed over $110 million worldwide. A successor, The Cloverfield Paradox , was released on February 4, 2018.", "After an argument with her fiancé, a young woman named Michelle leaves her New Orleans apartment. That night, while driving through rural Louisiana , she hears news reports of blackouts in several major cities. Suddenly, her car is struck off the road, knocking her unconscious. Awakening with an injured leg, Michelle finds she is chained in a bunker . Her captor, an older man named Howard, unchains her. He explains he took her to the bunker to save her life and claims that the air outside is poisoned after an attack.", "Howard gives Michelle a tour of his bunker, introducing her to Emmet, his construction assistant. Through a viewport at the airlock , Howard shows her two decayed pigs outside, supposedly killed by the attack. Michelle also sees Howard's truck and recalls it striking her car. She privately talks to Emmett, who assures her the attack is real: he begged to be let in after witnessing the attack.", "During dinner, Howard shows flashes of jealousy when Michelle grows closer to Emmett. Michelle steals Howard's keychain and flees. At the airlock, she prepares to open the outside door when she witnesses a woman covered with lesions screaming to be let in before dying. Michelle retreats back to the bunker, and Howard explains he accidentally struck her car while rushing to the bunker. Michelle is seemingly convinced.", "Over the next few days, the trio begins to adapt to life underground, and Howard opens up about his daughter, showing Michelle a photo. After something loud passes overhead, the air ventilation system fails. Howard sends Michelle through a small duct to reactivate it. In the control room, she finds a padlocked skylight with the word \"HELP\" scratched on the inside, and an earring she saw in the photo. Michelle shares this with Emmett, who recognizes the girl as a local who disappeared two years earlier; Howard's actual daughter left with his wife. Deciding to escape, Michelle fashions a makeshift hazmat suit by stealing Howard's supplies and tools.", "Howard discovers their plot, and threatens to immerse them both in perchloric acid . When Emmett claims responsibility, Howard shoots and kills him. He tells a shocked Michelle that now they can be a family of two. While Howard cleans up, Michelle secretly finishes the suit. When discovered, Michelle flees, overturning a barrel of acid. The corrosive puddle disfigures Howard and starts a fire. Leaving Howard to his fate, Michelle dons the suit and escapes.", "Outside, Michelle sees an approaching biomechanical alien craft, attracted by the bunker fire. The craft discharges a green gas, which she overcomes with her mask and takes shelter in Howard's truck. The craft's tentacles lift the truck to get to Michelle, but she destroys it with a Molotov cocktail . She drives away in the dead woman's car.", "On the car radio, Michelle hears a broadcast about the battle with the invaders. Michelle heads for Houston , where help is requested from people with medical or combat training. A larger alien craft is revealed at a distance.", "10 Cloverfield Lane originated from an \"ultra low budget\" spec script penned by Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, titled The Cellar . [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Tracking Board included the script in \"The Hit List\" of 2012 [ 11 ] – an annually published list of spec scripts written within the year that have impressed its voting members. [ 12 ] In 2012, Paramount Pictures bought the script and commenced further development under Bad Robot for Insurge Pictures , Paramount's specialty label for films with a micro-budget. When Bad Robot became involved, the film was assigned the codename Valencia to keep exact details of the production a secret. [ 13 ]", "Damien Chazelle was brought in to rewrite Campbell and Stuecken's draft and direct the film. Chazelle dropped out from directing when his Whiplash project received funding. [ 7 ] On April 3, 2014, it was reported production for Valencia was greenlit to begin in the fall of 2014, under the direction of Dan Trachtenberg with the latest draft being written by an uncredited Daniel Casey . [ 14 ] A budget of about $5 million was reported to be expected, in keeping with the mandate of Paramount's Insurge division of producing micro-budgeted films. [ 15 ]", "On July 8, 2014, Variety reported John Goodman was in negotiations to star in the film. [ 16 ] On August 25, 2014, they reported Mary Elizabeth Winstead had entered negotiations, [ 17 ] and on September 22, 2014, John Gallagher Jr. reportedly joined the cast. [ 18 ]", "During production, the filmmakers noticed core similarities to Cloverfield , [ 19 ] and decided to make the picture what Abrams calls \"a blood relative\" or \"spiritual successor\" of that film. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] \"The spirit of it, the genre of it, the heart of it, the fear factor, the comedy factor, the weirdness factor, there were so many elements that felt like the DNA of this story were of the same place that Cloverfield was born out of\", said Abrams. In other interviews he explained: \"Those characters and that monster [from Cloverfield ] are not in this movie, but there are other characters and other monsters\", [ 21 ] and \"This movie is very purposefully not called Cloverfield 2 , because it's not Cloverfield 2 , [...] So if you're approaching it as a literal sequel, you'll be surprised to see what this movie is. But while it's not what you might expect from a movie that has the name Cloverfield in it, I think you'll find that you'll understand the connection when you see the whole thing.\" [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Winstead and Gallagher mentioned that during production they were aware that the film had thematic similarities to Cloverfield , but did not learn that there would be an official connection until they were informed of the chosen title, only a few days before the release of the trailer. [ 25 ] Abrams came up with the title after finishing Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). [ 26 ] [ 27 ]", "In a March 2015 interview, a few months after production wrapped, Winstead was asked about her experience during Valencia and described it as a \"really contained film\", reiterating the premise of The Cellar about a woman being trapped with her mysterious savior in a supposed post-nuclear fallout world. [ 28 ] Later in the month, Insurge Pictures was reported to have been dismantled and its staff absorbed by its parent company. Insurge's only film that had yet to be released was reported to be Valencia . [ 29 ] Speaking of rewrites that took place during production, Winstead called them \"nothing that was major\". [ 30 ]", "During an interview with Abrams to promote 10 Cloverfield Lane , he said the creative team behind the original had some ideas on developing Cloverfield 2 , but the release of films such as Godzilla (2014) and Pacific Rim (2013) led them to abandon them as they found the concept of kaiju films played out. [ 22 ]", "Principal photography on the film began on October 20, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana . [ 31 ] Filming took place in chronological order on only one set . [ 32 ] Scenes involving explosions, fire, and smoke were shot in early December 2014 in Hahnville, Louisiana . [ 33 ] Filming ended on December 15, 2014. [ 34 ]", "Bear McCreary composed the music for the film. [ 32 ] The soundtrack was digitally released on March 11, 2016. [ 35 ]", "The film's title was revealed on January 15, 2016, in a trailer attached to 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi . [ 20 ] As with Cloverfield , a viral marketing campaign was used that included elements of an alternate reality game . Bad Robot kick-started the campaign in early February 2016 by updating the Tagruato.jp website used for the original film. [ 8 ] The campaign revealed backstory information about the character Howard Stambler and his daughter. [ 36 ]", "The film was released in select countries on March 10, 2016, in regular and IMAX theaters, before its official release in North America on March 11, also in conventional and IMAX theaters. [ 37 ] Those who attended screenings of the film at AMC IMAX theaters were eligible to receive collectible movie posters, which illustrated the three main characters separately. [ 38 ] The film was rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for \"thematic material including frightening sequences of threat with some violence, and brief language\". [ 39 ]", "10 Cloverfield Lane grossed $72.2 million in the United States and $38.1 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $110.2 million. [ 5 ]", "In the United States and Canada, the film made $1.8 million from its Thursday night previews at 2,500 theaters, [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] and $9 million on its first day (including Thursday previews). [ 43 ] In its opening weekend, it earned $24.7 million, finishing in second place at the box office behind Zootopia ($51.3 million), which was in its second weekend. [ 44 ]", "Outside North America, 10 Cloverfield Lane received a staggered release, [ 45 ] across 54 countries. [ 46 ] It earned $1.5 million in its opening weekend from six international markets with a bulk of it coming from Australia ($1 million). [ 45 ] Overall, the top openings were in the United Kingdom and Ireland ($2.2 million), South Korea ($1.7 million), and France ($1.4 million). [ 47 ] [ 48 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes , 91% of 316 critic reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"Smart, solidly crafted, and palpably tense, 10 Cloverfield Lane makes the most of its confined setting and outstanding cast—and suggests a new frontier for franchise filmmaking.\" [ 49 ] According to Metacritic , which calculated a weighted average score of 76 out of 100 based on 43 critics, the film received \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 50 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B−\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 51 ]", "Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun-Times gave 10 Cloverfield Lane four stars out of four, commending the film as \"continually gripping and extremely engrossing ... [Dan Trachtenberg] helmed this film with artistry, imagination and skillful precision.\" [ 52 ] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times praised the cast's performance and Jeff Cutter's cinematography, while writing: \"Sneakily tweaking our fears of terrorism, '10 Cloverfield Lane,' though no more than a kissing cousin to its namesake , is smartly chilling and finally spectacular. A sequel is virtually a given.\" [ 53 ] Alan Scherstuhl of the Village Voice also praised the acting and technical aspects, but wrote that the film \"is less compelling in terms of character and meaning.\" [ 54 ]", "In a mixed review for Slant , Chuck Bowen found a lack of character development between the three leads, and labeled the film's ending as anticlimactic. Bowen also writes: \"The film hits its expositional narrative marks and nothing else ... 10 Cloverfield Lane will almost immediately evaporate from the mind, before J.J. Abrams commences in selling you the same thing all over again.\" [ 55 ] Soren Andersen of the Seattle Times , who gave 10 Cloverfield Lane one and half stars out of four, similarly criticized the film's ending, labeling it as \"full-bore\" and \"Too little. Too late.\" [ 56 ] James Verniere of the Boston Herald disapproved of the characters and pacing, and he ultimately described the film as \"a crummy, low-rent, intellectually bereft thriller.\" [ 57 ]", "Having originally planned the film as a direct sequel to Cloverfield , Abrams suggested that he had thought of something which, if they were lucky enough to get it made, \"could be really cool [insofar as it] connects some stories\" in a third film, even teasing a larger Cloverfield universe. [ 22 ] [ 69 ] Interviews with Trachtenberg and Winstead confirm that the movie is, and always was intended to be, an expansion of the first film, with Trachtenberg calling it the \"Cloververse\". [ 70 ] Winstead has voiced her interest in returning for another installment. [ 71 ]", "In October 2016, it was revealed that the Abrams-produced God Particle would be the third installment in the Cloverfield franchise. [ 72 ] After several postponements of the film's release date, it was released as a Netflix Original on February 4, 2018, under the new title The Cloverfield Paradox .", "In The Cloverfield Paradox , Donal Logue cameos as Mark Stambler, a conspiracy theorist discussing the \"Cloverfield Paradox\"; reviewers observed that the character shares the same surname as Howard Stambler in 10 Cloverfield Lane . [ 73 ] Suzanne Cryer , who appeared as Leslie in 10 Cloverfield Lane , also appears in a brief cameo role as a newscaster who interviews Stambler. [ 73 ]"]
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The Ten Commandments: The Movie
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1b/TheTenCommandmentsTheMovie2016.jpg/250px-TheTenCommandmentsTheMovie2016.jpg", "Directed by": "Alexandre Avancini", "Screenplay by": "Vívian de Oliveira", "Based on": "Os Dez Mandamentos", "Produced by": "RecordTV", "Starring": "Guilherme Winter Sérgio Marone Camila Rodrigues Giselle Itié Petrônio Gontijo Gabriela Durlo Larissa Maciel Denise Del Vecchio Marco Antônio Gimenez Vera Zimmermann Paulo Gorgulho", "Distributed by": "Paris Filmes", "Release date": "28 January 2016 ( 2016-01-28 )", "Running time": "120 min", "Country": "Brazil", "Language": "Portuguese", "Box office": "R$ 116.4 million ($36.4 million) [ 1 ]"}
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["The Ten Commandments ( Portuguese : Os Dez Mandamentos - O Filme ) is a 2016 Brazilian film released by RecordTV in an association with Paris Filmes. It is an adaptation of the eponymous television series presented by Rede Record in 2015, with new footage and different developments of which were shown in its last chapter on television. [ 2 ] The adaptation was written by Vivian de Oliveira and directed by Alexandre Avancini, with the same cast as the soap opera. [ 3 ]", "Earning over R$ 116.4 million, The Ten Commandments is currently the fourth highest-grossing Brazilian film. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]", "The film tells the story of Moses leading the Israelite people out of Egypt into the promised land. The plot has the loose adaptation of four books of the Bible that have this trajectory: Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers and Deuteronomy . Welcomed by Pharaoh 's daughter as a baby, Moses grows as an Egyptian Prince, but turns against his adoptive family in favor of the suffering people of Israel, whom he should lead to liberty .", "The soap opera The Ten Commandments is considered biblical teledramaturgy. [ 6 ] In 2010, RecordTV launched the first product on television with this theme, with the debut of the 10-episode miniseries , The Story of Esther . In 2011, the 18-episode minisseries Samson and Delilah debuted. In 2012, it was the time of King David , with 30 episodes. In 2013, Joseph from Egypt debuted, with 38 episodes. In 2014, the series Miracles of Jesus debuted with 18 episodes in the first season, and in 2015 the second season premiered with 17 episodes. [ 7 ]", "The film is an adaptation of the eponymous soap opera produced by Record and broadcast from 23 March to 23 November 2015. This is the first biblical novel produced in the world. [ 8 ] Broke records of ratings and topped the most-watched Primetime shows. [ 9 ] After the last episodes of the first season in 2015, the network announced the film on 19 November 2015. [ 9 ]", "On 1 January 2016, Cinemark movie network started the pre-sale of tickets for the film. [ 10 ] On 7 January, more than 401,000 tickets had been sold. [ 11 ]", "The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God released the film and asked the faithful to buy tickets and donate to others. [ 12 ] In Recife one person bought 22,700 tickets for R$220,000, according to the website UOL. [ 13 ] Universo Online website also reported that, despite this strategy, journalists found empty rooms at the premiere of the film in São Paulo . [ 14 ] In a first note on its official website, UCKG vehemently denied the information, stating that \"the church has never forced anyone to perform any act\" and criticized the news. [ 15 ] In another note, UCKG also denied an information about vacancies in sessions, stating that \"they were not pre-sale but marketed in piecemeal fashion.\" [ 16 ]", "About 10.8 million tickets have been sold since the debut of the film, making The Ten Commandments the second largest audience in Brazil's cinema history. [ 17 ] However, Folha de S.Paulo points out that the list made by Ancine mentions \" public \", not \" sold tickets \". while several sessions of the film had empty seats even with all tickets sold. [ 17 ] After two weeks, the film grossed R$42 million. [ 18 ]", "The film received generally negative reviews from critics, who reproached its narrative, acting, editing and adaptation of 176 chapters into two hours. Renato Marafon, from Cinepop website gave the film one star and a half out of 5, with an emphasis on \"disjointed scenes and lack of focus on the main characters\" and stressed the \"modern slangs\" used in a production about Ancient Egypt . [ 19 ] Renato Hermsdorff, from AdoroCinema website, also gave the film a rating of one star and a half out of 5, writing that \"characters come and go at a crazy pace, preventing the viewer from understanding exactly what is happening,\" and described the technical point of view the film as \"exaggerated and poor [...] from the scenery to the costumes, everything reminds a great parade of carnival.\" [ 20 ] Folha de S.Paulo in its online version written by Inácio Araújo, criticized the narrative, script, casting and editing of the film, but praised the action scenes, \"in particular the special effects\" but also criticized the use of slow motion in them. [ 21 ] Giovanni Rizzo, from Observatório do Cinema , gave the film 1 star out of 5, saying that \"the sound mixing is poorly crafted and sometimes the audio bursts and it's impossible to understand what a character says.\" [ 22 ] Roberto Sadovski, writing a review on his blog in UOL, has heavily criticized the film, as the lack of context in important scenes as the relationship between Moses and Pharaoh, and the \"visual poverty and inadequate cast and scenarios.\" [ 23 ]", "The UCKG was criticised for heavily promoting the film at their services, and asking those attending for money to buy tickets for those who could not afford them; pastors at church services distributed envelopes with the Ten Commandments logo, and asked for them to be filled with money and returned to help the \"cause\", interspersed with stressing the importance of tithing 10% of salary, plus extra donations, every month. [ 24 ]"]
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100 Feet
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/100_Feet_%28movie_poster%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Eric Red", "Written by": "Eric Red", "Produced by": "Sarah Black Ed Elbert Jonathan Sanger", "Starring": "Famke Janssen Bobby Cannavale Ed Westwick Michael Paré", "Cinematography": "Ken Kelsch", "Edited by": "Anthony Redman", "Music by": "John Frizzell", "Distributed by": "Voltage Pictures The Asylum [ 1 ]", "Release date": "August 14, 2008 ( 2008-08-14 ) (Hamburg Fantasy Filmfest)", "Running time": "105 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["100 Feet is a 2008 American horror film written and directed by Eric Red and starring Famke Janssen , Bobby Cannavale , Ed Westwick and Michael Paré .", "Marnie Watson ( Famke Jannsen ) is being driven home in a police car after killing her abusive husband in self-defense - to be placed under house arrest. She is escorted home by Lou Shanks ( Bobby Cannavale ), a police officer and former partner of her husband. After they get inside, another officer arrives to fit Marnie's ankle bracelet, telling her she cannot move more than 100 feet (30 m) from the detector in the hallway, and if the alarm sounds for more than three minutes, the police will be notified.", "The next day a delivery boy Joey ( Ed Westwick ) arrives with groceries, and Marnie tells him she needs him to come by on a regular basis. Later that night while in bed her husband's face suddenly appears. Frightened, she leaps up and flees from the room. Her husband's ghost, Mike ( Michael Paré ), pushes her down the stairs. Marnie crawls to the front door setting off the detector. Shanks arrives a short time later and finds her unconscious at the front door. She tells him she fell down the stairs. He asks her if someone is beating her and chastises her for not cleaning up the blood stain which has reappeared on the wall.", "Marnie has Joey get her some books from the library about ghosts. She reads that she must get rid of all of Mike's things and begins collecting everything, including the suitcase she threw in the basement. While in the basement, Marnie is attacked by Mike's ghost and dragged down the stairs before she can finally get up and run to safety. Once upstairs, Shanks is knocking at her door after hearing screams and begins looking throughout the house demanding answers. He claims that Marnie is covering for the real murderer and gets upset at her lack of clarity. In the end, he apologizes for not being able to protect her and vows to do everything in his power to protect her now.", "Mike's ghost continues to threaten Marnie and she continues to rid the house of his presence. Feeling lonely, Marnie calls Joey in the night, and against her wishes, he runs over and refuses to leave unless she lets him in. They make their way upstairs and have sex, during which Marnie sees Mike's ghost and continues, seeming unfazed, almost happy that the ghost is watching. Everything seems fine until the next morning when they are getting out of bed and Mike's ghost attacks them, brutally killing Joey.", "Shanks has been watching her all night and comes with a warrant to arrest Joey, claiming he knows he's in there. Marnie says she is taking a shower to buy herself some time to hide the body in the floorboards before Shanks can reach her room. While downstairs talking, the ceiling breaks above them and Joey's body falls through the ceiling. Shanks gets ready to arrest Marnie and takes her from the house when Mike's ghost attacks Marnie, throwing her about the room. Stunned by what he sees, Shanks himself is then attacked by Mike's apparition. The ghost then sets the house on fire.", "Shanks is thrown down the stairs and Marnie follows, escaping out the window to safety, but returning when she hears Shanks inside awake and searching for her. She helps him outright as Mike's ghost pulls her back through the window. As the two struggle, Marnie removes her ring and throws it at her ex-husband's ghost. The ghost catches it and then disappears in a ball of fire. As a crowd of people begins gathering outside, Shanks tells her to escape. Marnie is then seen on a bus, while a passenger reads a USA Today paper, where the headline proclaims she died in the fire saving Shanks' life.", "The film played on Syfy on April 26, 2009. [ 2 ] The DVD was in limited release two days later. [ 3 ] It was released nationwide on October 6, 2009 through The Asylum . [ 4 ]", "Brian Collins of Bloody Disgusting rated the film 4/5 stars and said, \"Like I’ve said before, I don’t usually find ghosts/supernatural type things to be particularly scary, but this one works.\" [ 5 ] Steve Barton of Dread Central rated the film 3.5/5 and called it a \"surprisingly spooky little flick.\" [ 6 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/10_1979_film_poster.jpg/250px-10_1979_film_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Blake Edwards", "Written by": "Blake Edwards", "Produced by": "Blake Edwards Tony Adams", "Starring": "Dudley Moore Julie Andrews Bo Derek Robert Webber", "Cinematography": "Frank Stanley", "Edited by": "Ralph E. Winters", "Music by": "Henry Mancini", "Production company": "Orion Pictures", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros.", "Release date": "October 5, 1979 ( 1979-10-05 )", "Running time": "122 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$5-6 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$107 million [ 2 ]"}
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["10 is a 1979 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Dudley Moore , Julie Andrews , Robert Webber , and Bo Derek . It was considered a trendsetting film at the time of its release and became one of the year's biggest box-office hits. The film follows a middle-aged composer who becomes infatuated with a newlywed young woman he has never met and pursues her to Mexico.", "During a surprise 42nd birthday party for the wealthy and famous composer George Webber thrown by his actress girlfriend Samantha Taylor, George finds that he is coping badly with his age. From his car, George glimpses a bride on her way to be married and is instantly obsessed with her beauty. Following her to the church, he crashes into a police cruiser, is stung by a bee and nearly disrupts the wedding ceremony.", "Later that night, Sam and George argue over his treatment of women and his habit of spying on the intimate acts of a neighbor with his consent.", "George visits the minister who performed the wedding and learns that the woman is Jenny Miles, daughter of a prominent Beverly Hills dentist. The following day, while spying on his neighbor, George hits himself with the telescope and falls down an embankment, causing him to miss Sam's phone call. Still obsessed with Jenny, he schedules a dental appointment with her father and learns that Jenny and her husband David have gone to Mexico for their honeymoon . The effects of a comically implausible amount of treatment accompanied by a heavy dose of novocaine , aggravated by immediate heavy drinking, leave George completely incoherent. Sam finally reaches him on the phone, but mistakes him for an intruder and calls the police, who hold George at gunpoint while trying to understand his gibberish. George visits his neighbor's house to take part in an ongoing orgy, but Sam spots him through his telescope, widening the rift between them.", "George impulsively boards a plane to follow the newlyweds to their exclusive resort in Mexico. In the bar, George encounters old acquaintance Mary Lewis, who lacks self-confidence. When they attempt a fling, Mary interprets George's inadequacy in bed as confirmation of her own insecurities.", "At the beach, George sees Jenny in a swimsuit and is awestruck again by her beauty. Noticing that her husband has fallen asleep on a surfboard, George rents a catamaran and rescues David, making him a hero. Sam sees George on a TV newscast and tries to contact him unsuccessfully. David is hospitalized with sunburn , allowing Jenny and George to spend time alone together. Jenny smokes marijuana and seduces George, but he is horrified when Jenny takes a call from David and casually informs him of George's presence. George is even more confused with David's complete lack of concern. Jenny explains she is in an open marriage and married David only because of pressure from her conservative father. George leaves after realizing that Jenny sees their tryst as nothing more than a casual fling.", "After flying home, George reconciles with Sam by performing an apologetic new song and demonstrating greater maturity. He suggests getting married, but they agree they should first work on arguing less and making love more. George takes an idea from Jenny when he starts Boléro on his phonograph and he makes love with Sam in full view of the neighbor's telescope, though the neighbor has already stopped watching out of frustration that he provides erotic entertainment for George and gets nothing in return.", "10 originally had a budget of $5–6 million and was due to start filming on October 2, 1978, but George Segal didn't show up and the production was cancelled. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Dudley Moore was a last-minute replacement and the script was rewritten. [ 5 ] [ 4 ] Edwards sued Segal and won $270,000. [ 6 ] Due to the stopping and restarting of production, the budget was expected to be higher than originally planned. Filming took place in Los Angeles and Mexico. [ 4 ]", "Peter Sellers originally had a cameo as a night club drummer but the scene was cut. [ citation needed ]", "10 was released by Warner Bros. on October 5, 1979, opening in 706 theaters. [ 7 ] It was released on DVD through Warner Home Video on May 21, 1997, and a Blu-ray edition was released on February 1, 2011. The supplemental material consists of the original theatrical trailer and a four-minute promotional documentary, present on both media.", "10 opened at number one in the United States, grossing $3,526,692 ($15.3 million in 2023) for its opening weekend. The film went on to make a total of $74,865,517 ($232 million in 2023) in the U.S. and Canada by the end of 1980, making it one of the top-grossing films released in 1979. [ 7 ] Worldwide, it grossed over $107 million. [ 2 ] It received mostly positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes , it has an approval rating of 65% based on 26 reviews, with an average rating of 6.40/10. The site's consensus states: \"Blake Edwards' bawdy comedy may not score a perfect 10, but Dudley Moore's self-deprecating performance makes this midlife crisis persistently funny.\" [ 8 ] On Metacritic , the film has a score of 68% based on reviews from seven critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 9 ]", "Vincent Canby of The New York Times described 10 as \"frequently hilarious\", praising the performances by Moore and Andrews and concluding that the film \"is loaded with odd surprises\". [ 10 ] Roger Ebert gave the film four stars in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times , calling it \"one of the best films Blake Edwards has ever made\"; [ 11 ] he also ranked it 10th on his annual top-ten list. [ 12 ] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune called the film \"a very funny comedy that couldn't be more serious about the plight of its lead character\". He also noted that the film \"turns out to be a gentle essay on the problems of male menopause\". [ 13 ]", "The New York Times included the film on its Best 1,000 Movies Ever list from 2003. [ 14 ]", "Bo Derek 's role shot her to instant stardom and status as a sex symbol. Her beaded and plaited cornrow hairstyle in the film was widely copied. [ 15 ] [ 16 ]", "The film also brought renewed fame to the one-movement orchestral piece Boléro by Maurice Ravel , whose music was still under copyright at the time. As a result of the film, sales of Boléro generated an estimated $1 million in royalties and briefly made Ravel the best-selling classical composer 40 years after his death. [ 17 ] Derek appeared in a 1984 film named Bolero , titled to capitalize upon the piece's renewed popularity.", "In 2003, it was announced that Blake Edwards would direct a remake to be titled 10 Again for MDP Worldwide , but the project was abandoned. [ 18 ]"]
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10 Items or Less
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Items_or_Less_(film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4d/Ten_items_or_less_poster.jpg/250px-Ten_items_or_less_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Brad Silberling", "Written by": "Brad Silberling", "Produced by": "Julie Lynn Lori McCreary Brad Silberling", "Starring": "Morgan Freeman Paz Vega Kumar Pallana Jonah Hill", "Cinematography": "Phedon Papamichael Jr.", "Edited by": "Michael Kahn", "Music by": "Antônio Pinto", "Production companies": "ClickStar Revelations Entertainment Mockingbird Pictures", "Distributed by": "THINKFilm", "Release dates": "September 11, 2006 ( 2006-09-11 ) ( TIFF ) December 1, 2006 ( 2006-12-01 ) (United States)", "Running time": "82 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$1.4 million [ 1 ]"}
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["10 Items or Less is a 2006 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Brad Silberling and starring Morgan Freeman and Paz Vega . Shot in fifteen days, [ 2 ] 10 Items or Less made its release as a digital download – the first such release via the Internet – while it was still in theaters. [ 2 ]", "Through circumstance, two strangers—an actor preparing for an upcoming role and a cashier —drive around Los Angeles together, having a number of conversations about life and exploring the differences and similarities between their worlds.", "ClickStar , founded by Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary , made the film available digitally on December 15, 2006, fourteen days after its theatrical debut. This event was highlighted by the American Film Institute in their AFI Awards 2006 \"Moments of Significance\". [ 3 ]", "A known Hollywood actor, who has not had an acting role in four years, gets recruited for a potential one as a supermarket manager by young filmmaker Packy. He has not agreed to commit to the role, but goes along with the enthusiastic guy to spend an hour studying the inner workings of a Carver City, hispanic supermarket called Archie's Ranch Market .", "Expecting to be picked up in an hour by Packy, the actor looks around the supermarket to get a feel for it. He comes cross a film he had done with Ashley Judd, with the price marked down, and tries to hide it.", "An authoritative cashier's announcement startles the actor, so he moves up to the registers. The woman in the '10 Items or Less' register is who had made the announcement, so he moves up to get a closer look. He makes an admiring comment on her skills.", "After she and the other cashier have an altercation, she explains that the other does not have to do any work, as she is sleeping with the manager, so runs a normal register. She, on the other hand, gets stuck with the less desireable '10 Items or Less' aisle, the one everyone chooses, so the register is more worn out.", "The actor explains he had hoped to speak to the manager, as he is doing research for a possible film role. Scarlet recognises him from the Ashley Judd film. When Lee, the older assistant manager appears, the method actor shadows him to get a feel for the role. He follows him around, even helps restock a few areas and uses the loudspeaker to commend Scarlet on her work.", "Scarlet's shift ends, and as Packy never turned up to collect him, the actor needs a ride. As he has no phone, Scarlet begrudgingly offers to give him a ride home, after she completes some errands.", "Scarlet unhappily realises her soon-to-be ex-husband has her car keys, so they have to trudge to his house to get them and her car. On the way, the actor compliments her on her transformation and 'wardrobe change' as they go, and passers-by recognize him.", "Arriving at the trailer park, the actor comments on its convenient location in the city. At her ex Bobby's, the other cashier Lorraine is there. Scarlet demands the keys and the money he owes her. The other makes mention of a pregnancy and Scarlet's green card status.", "Scarlet's shirt gets torn as she is getting her things from Bobby. Scarlet intentionally backs into Lorraine's car on their way out. Distraught, she says she will have to cancel her later job interview. The actor calms her down, helping her buy a new blouse in Target , which impresses him, as he has not shopped retail in years.", "Insisting they continue to focus on her first impression, they go to a car wash. As she gets herself ready inside, he interacts there. As Scarlet is nervous, the actor coaches her on interview technique for the construction company secretary. Doing role play, he gives her the confidence she needs for the interview, but also in herself to move on and not give up.", "They both admit that neither have close friends, make '10 Items or Less' lists for favorites and hates. After the actor says he will commit to the acting role, they have arrived to Brentwood , so they part ways with a pact to live, work, look forward and never see each other again.", "Revelation Entertainment produced the film, and Morgan Freeman served as executive producer. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The film was shot in fifteen days, [ 2 ] entirely in Carson, California and Brentwood, Los Angeles, California . [ 4 ]", "The film was released in only fifteen theaters, taking in $ 35,929 in its first weekend. [ 1 ] The total domestic box-office take was $83,291. [ 1 ] The film was more successful internationally, grossing $1,315,931 at the international box office, with $486,895 grossed in Vega's home country of Spain. [ 6 ]", "Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader , called the film \"A friendly demonstration of how two actors with charisma and a relaxed writer-director (Brad Silberling) can make a nice movie for practically nothing.\" [ 7 ] In contrast, Desson Thomson of The Washington Post wrote the film is \"a good-natured but failed experiment in meeting cute -- indie-movie style\". [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Robert Koehler of Variety wrote: \"\nInterplay between a jaunty Freeman as an unemployed movie star and the magnetic Paz Vega as a no-nonsense grocery store checker gives pic humanity and lift.\" [ 4 ]", "Critical reaction to the film was mixed, with general praise for the work of the two main actors. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film had a 64% approval rating based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The critics consensus reads: \"A small film that relies too heavily on the charm of big actors.\" [ 10 ] On Metacritic it has a score of 54% based on reviews from 20 critics. [ 11 ]", "The film was named one of the \"Top Independent Films of 2006\" by the National Board of Review . [ 12 ]", "The DVD was released in the U.S. on April 24, 2007. [ 13 ] It includes audio commentary by Silberling, a featurette on 'the making of', and 6 deleted scenes.", "Although a soundtrack was not officially released, the following songs were included in the film: [ 14 ]"]
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One Week
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_(1920_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Buster_Keaton_One_Week_Ad_-_Motion_Picture_News_%28Oct_9%2C_1920%29.jpg/250px-Buster_Keaton_One_Week_Ad_-_Motion_Picture_News_%28Oct_9%2C_1920%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Buster Keaton Edward F. Cline", "Written by": "Edward F. Cline Buster Keaton", "Produced by": "Joseph M. Schenck", "Starring": "Buster Keaton Sybil Seely Joe Roberts", "Cinematography": "Elgin Lessley", "Edited by": "Buster Keaton", "Distributed by": "Metro Pictures", "Release date": "September 1, 1920 ( 1920-09-01 )", "Running time": "19 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Languages": "Silent film English intertitles"}
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["One Week is a 1920 American two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton , the first independent film production he released on his own. The film was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline , and runs for 19 minutes. Sybil Seely co-stars. The film contains a large number of innovative visual gags largely pertaining to either the house or to ladders.", "In 2008, One Week was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "The story involves a newlywed couple who receive a kit house as a wedding gift. The instructions describe how to construct the house by assembling materials in numbered packing crates. A rejected suitor secretly renumbers packing crates, and the result is a lopsided structure with revolving walls, kitchen fixtures on the exterior, and upper-floor doors that open onto thin air. During a housewarming party on Friday the 13th , a storm spins the house and its occupants around like a merry-go-round.", "The couple find they have built the house on the wrong lot and must move it. They manage to move it on rollers but it stalls on railroad tracks. The couple try to move it out the way of an oncoming train, which eventually passes on the neighboring track. As the couple look relieved, the house is immediately struck and demolished by another train coming the other way. The groom stares at the scene, places a 'For Sale' sign with the heap (attaching the building instructions) and walks off with his bride.", "One Week was likely inspired by Home Made , an educational short film produced by the Ford Motor Company in 1919 to promote prefabricated housing . Keaton used numerous elements seen in the film, including \"the wedding, the Model T and the use of the pages from a daily calendar to show the house being built in one week\" in his comic parody. [ 3 ] Years later, Keaton told an interviewer that the film's title is a play on Three Weeks , a notorious 1907 sex novel by Elinor Glyn . [ 4 ] Keaton reportedly joked that it was \"one-third as scandalous\".", "Knopf notes that One Week is Keaton's first attempt to move away from a plot-driven narrative, as he employed in his earlier film The High Sign , toward mining more and more gags from a few basic elements—in this case, the house and ladders. [ 5 ] According to Kevin Brownlow , One Week \"set the style for all the future Keatons; the opening gag sequence ... the slow build-up ... the frenetic climax ... and then that climax outmatched by the final sequence\". Furthermore, the film lay the basis for the cinematic techniques of his future films: \"The simple setups, the flat comedy lighting, the spare use of titles—and the overall excellence of the direction\". [ 6 ]", "According to Eleanor Keaton , Buster originally thought to combine two of his two-reel films, One Week and The Boat (1921), into a four-reeler charting a young couple's adventures. Virginia Fox , who had been hired for the latter film, was replaced with Sybil Seely who had starred in One Week . However, the idea of combining the films never came to fruition. [ 7 ]", "Sybil Seely plays the young bride in her film debut. [ 8 ] The mischievous rival (\"Handy Hank\") is an unknown actor. [ 9 ] Joe Roberts has a brief bit as a strong-man piano mover.", "Many special effects, such as the house spinning around during a storm and the train collision, were filmed as they occurred and were not model work. The house was constructed on a turntable so that it could spin around during the storm scene. [ 8 ] [ 10 ] The train collision was filmed at the Inglewood train station . [ 11 ]", "Keaton reused the gag of the side of a building falling on him, but emerging unscathed in the opening of a window in the wall, from the Fatty Arbuckle –Keaton film Back Stage ; he would reuse the same joke in The Blacksmith (1922) and Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928). [ 12 ]", "Keaton's fall down two stories after stepping out of the bathroom was one of the few times he injured himself badly. His arms and back swelled up a few hours after the filming. His physical trainer gave him both hot and cold showers and then treated the swelling with olive oil and horse liniment . [ 8 ]", "The film is noted for a risqué (for its time) scene involving Seely's character taking a bath. She drops a bar of soap out of the tub and waits until (as a fourth wall -breaking gag) someone's hand is placed over the camera lens so she can lean out and retrieve it. [ 13 ] Although intended as a joke, the scene has appeared in a number of documentaries as an example of pre-Hays Code censorship.", "One Week was released on September 1, 1920. [ 14 ] It is noted as the first of Keaton's independent releases, although he had filmed The High Sign earlier. Keaton considered the latter film an inferior effort to debut with, and released it the following year when he was convalescing from an injury. [ 15 ]", "One Week was one of the top-grossing releases of 1920. [ 4 ]", "The New York Times review said: \" One Week , a Buster Keaton work, has more fun in it than most slap-stick, trick-property comedies\". [ 16 ] The Muncie Evening Press wrote: \"Buster Keaton's 'One Week' is one of the funniest pictures ever made and plants Buster firmly on his feet as star\". [ 17 ] The Santa Clarita Valley Signal wrote: \"If Buster Keaton in 'One Week' broke loose in a museum he'd tickle the mummies to life again. You never knew such fast and furious fun as this clever comedian provokes in his seven-day wonder\". [ 18 ] The Akron Evening Times agrees: \"It is two reels in length and every foot of the two reels is packed with comedy situations and 'gags' that would start cackles at an undertaker's convention\". [ 19 ] The Los Angeles Evening Express wrote, \"Buster Keaton's 'One Week' stands in a comedy class by itself\". [ 20 ] By early 1921, the film was being termed \"one of the famous Buster Keaton comedies\". [ 21 ]", "More than half a century later, New York Times theater and film critic Walter Kerr wrote in his 1975 book The Silent Clowns , \"To sit through dozens and dozens of short comedies of the period and then to come upon One Week is to see the one thing no man ever sees: a garden at the moment of blooming.\" [ 22 ]", "Some of the themes of One Week were reused in The Three Stooges ' short film The Sitter Downers (1937). [ 23 ]", "Guitarist Bill Frisell released a soundtrack to the film in 1995 on his album The High Sign/One Week ."]
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One Way Passage
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Way_Passage
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9f/One_Way_Passage_-_Film_Poster.jpg/250px-One_Way_Passage_-_Film_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Tay Garnett", "Screenplay by": "Wilson Mizner Joseph Jackson", "Story by": "Robert Lord", "Starring": "William Powell Kay Francis", "Cinematography": "Robert Kurrle", "Edited by": "Ralph Dawson", "Music by": "Music and lyrics \"If I Had My Way\": James Kendis Lou Klein", "Production company": "Warner Bros.", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros.", "Release date": "October 22, 1932 ( 1932-10-22 )", "Running time": "68 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$350,000 [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "Box office": "$1,108,000 [ 2 ] [ 3 ]"}
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["One Way Passage is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic film starring William Powell and Kay Francis as star-crossed lovers, directed by Tay Garnett and released by Warner Bros. The screenplay by Wilson Mizner and Joseph Jackson is based on a story by Robert Lord , who won the Academy Award for Best Story . [ 4 ]", "Dan Hardesty is an escaped murderer, sentenced to hang and on the run. In a Hong Kong bar, he literally bumps into Joan Ames, a terminally ill woman whose friends are wishing her bon voyage. It is love at first sight. In what will become a signature gesture for the couple, they share a Paradise cocktail , then Dan breaks the bowl of his glass, followed by Joan; they leave the stems crossed on the bar.", "San Francisco Police Sergeant Steve Burke captures Dan at gunpoint when he leaves the bar (though out of sight of Joan) and escorts him aboard an ocean liner bound for San Francisco. Dan jumps into the water, dragging Steve with him. He takes the handcuff key from Steve's pocket and frees himself. Then he spots Joan among the passengers looking over the rail at them. He rescues floundering non-swimmer Steve rather than escape. Once the ship is underway, he persuades Steve to remove the handcuffs.", "Dan and Joan fall in love on the month-long cruise, neither knowing that the other is under the shadow of death.", "By chance, two of Dan's friends are also aboard, pickpocket Skippy and con artist \"Barrel House Betty\", masquerading as \"Countess Barilhaus\". The countess distracts Steve as much as she can to help Dan. Just before the only stop, at Honolulu , Steve has Dan put in the brig, but Dan gets out with their help and goes ashore to arrange escape on a steamer leaving that night. Joan intercepts him as he leaves the ship, and they spend an idyllic day together. When they drive back to the dock that evening, Dan starts to tell her why he cannot return to the ship, but she faints. Dan carries her aboard for medical help and stays by her side, forfeiting his chance at escape. Later, Joan's doctor tells Dan about her condition and that the slightest excitement or shock could be fatal. Dan tells the doctor the truth about himself.", "Meanwhile, a romance blooms between Steve and the countess. When they near the end of the voyage, he awkwardly proposes to her. He wants to give up being a cop and live on a chicken ranch he owns. (Earlier in the film, Betty told Skippy that she dreamed of giving it all up and buying herself a chicken ranch.) She starts to tell him her true identity, but her confession is interrupted when a steward delivers a telegram to Steve. It is from his boss, telling him to find notorious con-woman Barrelhouse Betty and bring her in. He says nothing, as he still wants to marry her. They kiss, and Steve throws the telegram overboard.", "Steve and Dan get ready to disembark, an overcoat draped over the handcuffs that link them. On an impulse, Joan goes to their cabin, where a steward who overheard the grim truth tells her about it. She frantically searches for Dan, and finds him with Steve. The two lovers part for the last time without letting on that they know each other's secret, and Joan collapses after Dan is out of sight.", "They had agreed to meet again a month later, on New Year's Eve, at a bar in Agua Caliente , Mexico. At the appointed time and place, the dance floor is full, but the long bar is empty except for Skippy, standing solemnly at one end, and two bartenders at the other. The bartenders are startled by the sound of glass breaking. They turn to find the crossed stems and shattered pieces of two cocktail glasses lying on the bar. They glisten there for a moment and then vanish.", "As the ship draws near San Francisco, Dan and Joan talk about the Golden Gates, remembering the words of a hymn. Dan says that when he was a little boy growing up in San Francisco, he thought the gates in the hymn were the Golden Gate of San Francisco . He is referring to the Golden Gate Strait at the mouth of San Francisco bay, not the Golden Gate Bridge . Construction on the bridge would begin in January 1933.", "The film's working title was S.S. Atlantic . [ 7 ]", "This was the sixth time that Powell and Francis appeared together, and it was their biggest moneymaker. [ 8 ]", "Francis' gowns were created by Orry-Kelly , who had just joined Warner Bros. in 1932. He went on to win three Academy Awards for costume design. [ 9 ]", "James Kendis and Lou Klein are credited as composers. The pervasive love theme was reportedly written by W. Franke Harling , uncredited. [ 10 ] Aloha O'e by Hawai'i's Queen Lili'uokalani , also figures prominently in the soundtrack.", "Wilson Mizner and Joseph Jackson are credited as screenwriters. Critic Ken Hanke gave credit to director Garnett's role in honing the final screenplay: \"The comedy content – involving unscrupulous but lovable con artists – has all the earmarks of being the work of noted cynic and part-time con artist Mizner.\" [ 10 ]", "Warner Bros. chartered the steamship Calawaii , along with a skeleton crew, for six days of intensive filming in May 1932. The ship was filmed at her dock, and at sea off the coast of Los Angeles. [ 11 ]", "Mordaunt Hall wrote in The New York Times , \"In its uncouth, brusque and implausible fashion, 'One Way Passage' ... offers quite a satisfactory entertainment. ... Tay Garnett's direction is clever. He keeps the story on the move with its levity and dashes of far-fetched romance.\" [ 12 ]", "Leonard Maltin gives the film 3 1/2 out of 4 stars, high praise for a \"tender shipboard romance of fugitive Powell and fatally ill Francis, splendidly acted, with good support by MacMahon and McHugh\". [ 9 ]", "Writing in 2013 for the Mountain Express (Asheville, North Carolina), Ken Hanke described the film as: \" The classic doomed lovers/shipboard romance movie... a perfect blend of romantic tragedy and hard-boiled comedy... The two elements perfectly complement each other in a way you find in very few films... A strange and strangely magical film from the very uneven filmmaker Tay Garnett, One Way Passage is a movie that once seen is unlikely to be forgotten... the film's brilliant balance of cynical comedy (provided by Frank McHugh and the wonderful Aline MacMahon) and tragic – ultimately mystical – romance.\" [ 10 ]", "In his autobiography Looking for a Street, Charles Willeford describes seeing the movie as a thirteen-year-old: \" One Way Passage is still my all-time favorite movie, but I have never risked seeing it again. I cried so hard when the movie ended the usher took me out of the lobby and gave me a glass of water.\" [ 13 ]", "President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary on January 8, 1982, that he and Nancy watched the film at Camp David, writing of it: \"We ran an old movie, One Way Passage – Kay Francis, Wm. Powell. It was wonderful.\" [ 14 ]", "According to Warners records, the film earned $791,000 in the US and Canada and $317,000 elsewhere. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This success led the studio to remake the film in 1940. [ 7 ]", "Robert Lord won an Oscar for his original story.", "One Way Passage was remade in 1940 as 'Til We Meet Again , featuring Merle Oberon , George Brent , Pat O'Brien , Binnie Barnes and Geraldine Fitzgerald . Although some scenes strongly echo the original, it is not a word-for-word, shot-for-shot remake, and there are new characters. Frank McHugh reprises his role as Dan's pickpocket friend; his state of perpetual inebriation is a pose in the later film."]
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58,040
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Ten Little Indians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Little_Indians_(1989_film)
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{"Directed by": "Alan Birkinshaw", "Screenplay by": "Jackson Hunsicker Gerry O'Hara", "Based on": "1939 play and novel And Then There Were None Agatha Christie", "Produced by": "Harry Alan Towers", "Starring": "Donald Pleasence Brenda Vaccaro Frank Stallone Sarah Maur Thorp Herbert Lom Warren Berlinger Yehuda Elfroni Moira Lister", "Cinematography": "Arthur Lavis", "Edited by": "Penelope Shaw", "Music by": "George S. Clinton", "Distributed by": "Cannon Films", "Release date": "November 1989 ( 1989-11 ) (U.S.)", "Running time": "98 minutes", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$59,405 [ 1 ]"}
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["Ten Little Indians is a 1989 mystery film directed by Alan Birkinshaw . The fourth English-language screen adaptation of Agatha Christie 's 1939 novel And Then There Were None , it was the third version to be produced by Harry Alan Towers , following his 1965 and 1974 adaptations.", "The opening credits state that this film is based on Christie's 1943 stage adaptation and make no mention of the novel itself, perhaps because the film's climax is taken almost verbatim from the stage script. [ a ] This version also introduced a lesbian affair. Herbert Lom , who plays the General here, previously starred in the 1974 version as Dr. Armstrong.", "As of December 2013, this production has been released on VHS and laserdisc . A German DVD release (including the English version) became available in 2015. It was released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber on 30 June 2020. [ 2 ] As of 2021, the movie is now available on Amazon Prime.", "A group of ten disparate people, strangers to each other, have all been summoned by a mysterious host named Mr. Owen to travel to Africa and join him on a safari he is hosting. Philip Lombard guides the entourage with the aid of local natives through the jungle.", "Things turn ominous: First their native guides abandon them, then cut the bridge line (their only way in and out of camp). As a result, the eight guests, plus a married couple, the Rodgers, find themselves isolated in their hunting camp. In addition, their host, Mr. Owen, is absent. Following their dinner, by means of a gramophone recording, an inhuman voice accuses each person of a murder that they had caused, for which they had escaped justice.", "Marston dies first, choking to death after drinking a poisoned martini . His death mimics the first verse of the English nursery rhyme ' Ten Little Indians '. One of the ten Indian dolls that adorn the dining table is found with its head snapped off. In the morning, Rodgers' wife Ethel Mae is found dead in her bed (possibly from an overdose), fulfilling the second line of the rhyme. Suspicion arises that they are being picked off by a dangerous lunatic. As four of the men set off with rifles to hunt down Mr. Owen, General Romensky is pushed off a cliff and dies. The guests realize that \"Mr. Owen\" may be one of them. It is discovered the radio has been sabotaged and all the ammunition are blanks.", "Rodgers dies next with an axe buried in his head. Marion Marshall dies with a hypodermic syringe filled with poison. This puts suspicion on Dr. Werner. Lombard manages to repair the radio and makes contact with the outside; a spotter plane will be sent the next morning. At night, the terrified remaining guests admit to their guilt. A storm arrives and Wargrave dies, shot in the head. Dr. Werner dies with his throat slit. Blore barricades himself in his tent, only to be found dead the morning after, stabbed in the chest.", "By now, only Lombard and Vera are left, and Vera turns on Lombard with his gun. He lunges at her and she shoots him. She returns to the common tent where Wargrave, alive, is waiting, wearing his judicial robes and wig, with a noose prepared for her to fulfil the last verse of the rhyme. He forces Vera at gunpoint into the noose and explains how Dr. Werner helped him fake his own death so he would be free to spy on the rest of the party: the \"red herring\" from the rhyme. He then killed Dr. Werner. Wargrave explains that after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, he planned the safari – his own 'private, big game hunt'. He wanted to commit murder on a grand scale and execute justice to those 'who had escaped their hangman'. He pulls the chair out from under Vera and watches her struggle in glee as he drinks poisoned wine to kill himself as well. He dies and Lombard re-appears, alive, only grazed by the bullet Vera shot, and rescues her. They leave together as the rescue plane arrives."]
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One, Two, Three
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One,_Two,_Three
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/One_two_three43.jpg/250px-One_two_three43.jpg", "Directed by": "Billy Wilder", "Screenplay by": "I. A. L. Diamond Billy Wilder", "Based on": "Egy, kettő, három by Ferenc Molnár", "Produced by": "Billy Wilder", "Starring": "James Cagney Horst Buchholz Pamela Tiffin Arlene Francis", "Cinematography": "Daniel L. Fapp", "Edited by": "Daniel Mandell", "Music by": "André Previn", "Production companies": "The Mirisch Company Pyramid Productions, A. G.", "Distributed by": "United Artists", "Release date": "December 15, 1961 ( 1961-12-15 ) (United States)", "Running time": "104 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Languages": "English German Russian", "Budget": "$3 million [ 2 ] or $2 million [ 3 ]", "Box office": "$4 million [ 2 ]"}
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["One, Two, Three is a 1961 American political comedy film directed by Billy Wilder , and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond . It is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play Egy, kettő, három by Ferenc Molnár , with a \"plot borrowed partly from\" Ninotchka , a 1939 film co-written by Wilder. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The film stars James Cagney , Horst Buchholz , Liselotte Pulver , Pamela Tiffin , Arlene Francis , Leon Askin and Howard St. John . [ 6 ] It would be Cagney's last film appearance until Ragtime in 1981, 20 years later. [ 7 ] [ 8 ]", "The film is primarily set in West Berlin during the Cold War , but before the construction of the Berlin Wall , and politics is predominant in the premise. [ 9 ] The film is known for its quick pace. [ 10 ]", "C.R. \"Mac\" MacNamara is a high-ranking executive in the Coca-Cola Company , assigned to West Berlin after a business fiasco a few years earlier in the Middle East (about which he is still bitter). While based in West Germany for now, Mac is angling to become head of Western European Coca-Cola Operations, based in London. After working on an arrangement to introduce Coke into the Soviet Union , Mac receives a call from his boss, W.P. Hazeltine, at Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta . Scarlett Hazeltine, the boss's hot-blooded but slightly dim 17-year-old socialite daughter, is coming to West Berlin. Mac is assigned the unenviable task of taking care of her.", "An expected two-week stay extends into two months, and Mac discovers just why Scarlett is so enamored of West Berlin: she surprises him by announcing that she's married to Otto Piffl, a young East German Communist with ardent anti-capitalistic views. When the Southern belle is confronted about her foolishness in the matter of helping him blow up anti-American \"Yankee Go Home\" balloons (how the couple met) she simply replies with, \"It's not anti-American , it's anti-Yankee . Where I come from, everybody's against the Yankees .", "Mac tries to come to terms with letting his boss's daughter marry a Communist and learns the horrible truth: the couple are bound for Moscow to make a new life for themselves (\"They've assigned us a magnificent apartment, just a short walk from the bathroom!\"). Since Hazeltine and his wife are coming to Berlin to collect their daughter the next day, Mac deals with the disaster by bribing East German officials to steal Scarlett’s marriage certificate from the archives. Mac also frames the young Communist firebrand Otto, resulting in his being arrested by the East German police , by planting on his motorcycle a \"Russky Go Home\" balloon and presenting him with a wedding present of an Uncle Sam cuckoo clock wrapped in the Wall Street Journal . After Otto, during interrogation, is forced to listen endlessly to a cover of the song \" Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini \" (which is intentionally badly distorted as it plays) he cracks and signs a confession saying that he is an American spy.", "Under pressure from his exasperated and disapproving wife Phyllis (who wants to take her family back to live in the US), and with the revelation that Scarlett is pregnant—and, worse, unmarried with her East German marriage certificate gone—Mac must now fix the mess he has created. He must restore the marriage certificate and bring Otto back with the help of his new Soviet business associates on whom Mac uses all his wiles, as well as his sexy secretary, Fräulein Ingeborg. With the boss on the way, he finds that his only chance is to turn Otto into a son-in-law in good standing—which means, among other things, making him a capitalist with an aristocratic pedigree (albeit contrived by adoption).", "Mac arranges to have Otto adopted by an impoverished count, who now works as a washroom attendant and includes a photo of the ruins of the family castle with the price of adoption (\"US Airforce, 1944?\" \"No, Turkish Cavalry , 1683.\"). Scarlett is dubious that her father will be fooled by the ruse, but is reassured that her baby will now be part of a long line of bleeders , which will please her snobbish mother. In a frenetic race against time and the arrival of the Hazeltines' plane, Mac outfits Otto in complete paraphernalia befitting his new aristocratic status, while Otto rails against being forced to join the detested bourgeoisie (his Communist Party membership is paid up through the year). Meanwhile, Scarlett and Mac coach Otto on how to speak to her conservative Southern father (\"The Civil War was a draw...\").", "In the end, the Hazeltines approve of their new son-in-law, Otto, who Mac learns from Hazeltine will be named the new head of Western European Operations, with a disappointed Mac getting a promotion to VP of Procurement back in Atlanta. Mac reconciles with his family at the airport, and to celebrate his promotion, buys them Cokes from a vending machine. After handing out the bottles, he discovers that the last one actually is a Pepsi-Cola .", "Cagney decided to take the role primarily because it was to be shot in Germany: while growing up in Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood , he had had fond memories of the area, which was \"teeming with German immigrants .\" [ 11 ] Horst Buchholz was a young European actor who had recently finished The Magnificent Seven with Yul Brynner , Eli Wallach and Steve McQueen ; during the production, he became the only actor that Cagney ever openly disliked. [ 11 ]", "Wilder was filming in Berlin the morning the Berlin Wall went up , forcing the crew to move to Munich . [ 5 ] During principal photography , Wilder received a call from Joan Crawford , recently appointed to the board of directors of Pepsi-Cola following her husband Alfred Steele 's death. In response to Crawford's protests over the use of the Coca-Cola brand in the film, Wilder scattered some references to Pepsi, including the final scene. [ 12 ] Some scenes were shot at Bavaria Film Studios . [ 11 ] [ 13 ]", "The theatrical release poster for the film, with a woman holding three balloons, was designed by Saul Bass . The Bass designed poster that Wilder originally intended for the film's release featured a United States style flag sticking out of a Coca-Cola-style bottle. The poster had to be replaced, however, when Coca-Cola threatened legal action against United Artists for copyright infringement. [ 14 ]", "Aram Khachaturian 's lively \" Sabre Dance \" marks the moments when Mac moves into energetic action (Ingeborg's table dance at Grand Hotel Potemkin and car chase) and is also played during the opening credits. [ citation needed ] The \" Ride of the Valkyries \" is played on the way to the Grand Hotel Potemkin. The conductor of the orchestra sings a German language version of \" Yes! We Have No Bananas \" on the arrival of Mac at the Grand Hotel Potemkin.", "When the movie opened, it came with a spoken preface by Cagney, added by Wilder:", "Critic Bosley Crowther applauded the work of Cagney and wrote,", "Time magazine called it a \"yell-mell, hard-sell, Sennett -with-a-sound-track satire of iron curtains and color lines , of people's demockeracy, Coca-Colonization , peaceful noexistence [ sic ], and the Deep Southern concept that all facilities are created separate but equal.\" [ 4 ] Time notes Wilder \"purposely neglects the high precision of hilarity that made Some Like It Hot a screwball classic and The Apartment a peerless comedy of officemanship. But in the rapid, brutal, whambam style of a man swatting flies with a pile driver, he has produced a sometimes beWildered [ sic ], often wonderfully funny exercise in nonstop nuttiness.\" The film won kudos from the staff at Variety . They wrote, \"Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three is a fast-paced, high-pitched, hard-hitting, lighthearted farce crammed with topical gags and spiced with satirical overtones. Story is so furiously quick-witted that some of its wit gets snarled and smothered in overlap. But total experience packs a considerable wallop.\" [ 15 ] Pauline Kael , on the other hand, dismissed the film as a tiresome succession of stale and inane gags. She was also bemused by what seemed to her the forced enthusiasm of the favorable reviews. [ citation needed ]", "According to J. Hoberman , screenwriter Abby Mann (who wrote Judgment at Nuremberg ) \"deemed Wilder's [film] so tasteless, he felt obliged to apologize for it at the Moscow Film Festival .\" [ 5 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds a score of 88% based on 25 reviews, with the consensus reading, \"Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three is an uproarious Cold War satire, offering devastating critiques of both factions with an effortless touch and a powerhouse performance from James Cagney.\" [ 16 ]", "One, Two, Three did not do well at either the U.S. or German box office. The lighthearted East-West Berlin story felt much more sinister at the release, since the Berlin Wall had been built after principal photography began. [ 17 ] It earned rentals over $2 million in the US and Canada. [ 18 ]", "The film recorded a loss of $1.6 million. [ 2 ] However, it was re-released in 1985 in France and West Germany and became a box office success, especially in West Berlin. [ 17 ]", "One, Two, Three was banned in Finland, which had a policy of Finlandization , from 1962 to 1986 on \"political\" grounds — it was feared that the film would harm relations between Finland and the Soviet Union. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] United Pictures Finland tried to get the film released theatrically in 1962, 1966 and 1969 but it was only in 1986 that the Finnish Board of Film Classification allowed the film to be distributed.", "Nominations", "One, Two, Three aired on The ABC Sunday Night Movie on January 31, 1965. [ 22 ] It was received enthusiastically in Germany upon its 1985 re-release in cinemas. [ 17 ] One, Two, Three was given a grand re-première at a large outdoor showing in West Berlin which was broadcast simultaneously on television. The film went on to spend a year in West Berlin cinemas, where it was rediscovered by West Berlin citizens."]
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One Week
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/27/One_week_poster.jpg/250px-One_week_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Michael McGowan", "Written by": "Michael McGowan", "Produced by": "Michael McGowan Nicholas de Pencier Jane Tattersall", "Starring": "Joshua Jackson Liane Balaban", "Narrated by": "Campbell Scott", "Cinematography": "Arthur E. Cooper", "Edited by": "Roderick Deogrades", "Music by": "Andrew Lockington", "Production company": "Mulmur Feed Co.", "Distributed by": "Mongrel Media", "Release dates": "September 8, 2008 ( 2008-09-08 ) ( TIFF ) March 6, 2009 ( 2009-03-06 ) (Canada)", "Running time": "94 minutes", "Country": "Canada", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$ 2 million (est)", "Box office": "$488,697 [ 1 ]"}
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["One Week is a 2008 Canadian drama film written and directed by Michael McGowan and starring Joshua Jackson , Liane Balaban , and Campbell Scott . The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2008, and was released theatrically in Canada by Mongrel Media on March 6, 2009. [ 2 ]", "Jackson plays Ben Tyler, who has been diagnosed with cancer . Requiring immediate treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto across Canada to Vancouver Island . Along the way, he meets several people that help him reevaluate his relationship with his fiancée Samantha (played by Balaban), his job, and his dream of becoming a writer.", "The scenic backdrop of the Canadian landscape as well as an all-Canadian soundtrack serve as prevalent influences in the film.", "Joshua Jackson won Best Actor at the 2010 Genie Awards for his portrayal of Ben Tyler. Liane Balaban was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.", "Ben Tyler is a young elementary school English teacher living in Toronto . Ben is told that he has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer in its fourth and final stage.", "On the way home, he encounters an elderly man selling his 1973 Norton Commando motorcycle. The narrator notes that Ben's fiancée, Samantha Pierce, despises motorcycles, but he buys it. Finishing a Tim Hortons coffee, he rolls up the cup's rim to see if he has won a prize, but sees only a message that reads \"Go West Young Man\".", "He breaks the news of his cancer to Samantha, as well as his desire to take a two-day excursion on the motorcycle. She objects, arguing that he should begin treatment immediately, but he feels a need for an adventure before \"becoming a patient\". He asks Samantha to come with him, but she refuses, and he ultimately sets out from Toronto by himself. Early in the trip he begins to question the trip's worth, and turns back. But he encounters two young men bicycling from Newfoundland to Vancouver on a wager of a case of beer. His adventure seems reasonable by comparison, so he resumes it.", "He finds that Samantha has packed a copy of a book he had written as a child, hoping that an attached note about reading it to his children someday would persuade him to return and begin treatment. But the story, about a mythical creature called Grumps, which his father had said would bring good fortune to any child who managed to find one, strengthens his resolve to symbolically resume his search for Grumps.", "Ben begins to question his future with Samantha: He recalls their discovery while planning their wedding that their religious beliefs – Ben has none – differ, and they have a telephone argument about compromises she's made for him. He meets a middle-aged man staying in the same motel, who successfully treated his cancer years before; he tells Ben that if he's unsure if he's in love, he isn't.", "His motorcycle breaks down in rural Saskatchewan . Nearby, he finds a dead dog and phones its owner, a middle-aged rancher. In gratitude, she picks up him and his motorcycle, takes him on a scenic horseback ride, and fixes the minor problem with his bike. She is twice-divorced with a son and granddaughter she rarely sees, but the narrator explains that the time with Ben inspires her to seek the son out, coincidentally meeting the new \"love of her life\".", "Continuing the trip beyond the promised two days, he arrives at Banff National Park in Alberta , and checks into an expensive hotel suite. Samantha has told his family about his cancer, and is flying out to get him. He goes on what he fears will be a last adventure in the woods, where he gets lost and meets Tracy, a backpacker exploring the backcountry with her dog. At her campsite, she chides Ben for giving up too easily on his dreams: of a singing career quashed by a teacher's harsh remarks, and a novel for which he failed to find a publisher. Ben spends the night with her. The next morning, Samantha has arrived earlier than expected, and Ben admits to sleeping with Tracy. He also tells Samantha that he does not love her like she loves him; she leaves him and returns home.", "Ben makes his way to the west coast of Vancouver Island . At a diner, he finds himself unable to eat his meal, and meanwhile a truck hits his motorcycle in the parking lot, wrecking it. He rents a surfboard and takes it out into the Pacific, but rather than catching a wave to ride back in, he keeps going, despondent. He sees a humpback whale dramatically breach the surface. Ben remembers that his father had said to him as a child that anyone who searched for Grumps would \"know him when you see him\"; Ben is satisfied that he has, and returns home. He and Samantha discuss his prospects and their impending breakup, and he goes home to see his family.", "The final sequence reveals the movie's narrator recording the final chapter of an audio book, revealed to be One Week by Ben Tyler, a memoir of his motorcycle trip.", "Cameo appearances are made by Canadian musicians Gordon Downie of the Tragically Hip as a cancer survivor, Joel Plaskett of the Joel Plaskett Emergency as a street performer, and Emm Gryner as a fellow hiker who finds Ben in the forest in Banff. Veteran actor Chris Benson appears as the town mayor.", "A very music-heavy film,\" as described by director Michael McGowan , [ 3 ] the soundtrack and score provides an integral role in One Week . Making a concerted effort to have the soundtrack reflect the Canadian-heavy theme of the film, McGowan assembled an all-Canadian ensemble of artists, notably Sam Roberts , the Great Lake Swimmers , Wintersleep , Patrick Watson , Stars , Luke Doucet , the Sunparlour Players and Lights . [ 4 ]", "One Week screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008 and in October at the Edmonton International Film Festival . It was the opening night film for the Kingston Canadian Film Festival . Its Canadian theatrical release was on March 6, 2009. [ 2 ]", "In December 2019, the film was released online on the Canada Media Fund 's Encore+ YouTube channel.", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 50% of eight critics' reviews are positive. [ 5 ]", "Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote, \"Result is inoffensive. But even the protag's looming mortality never seems more than a familiar narrative gimmick. Similarly, Arthur E. Cooper's widescreen lensing captures much spectacular scenery unspectacularly; the soundtrack is wallpapered with Canadian contemporary singer-songwriter tracks that are nice, but tend to blur together. All other aspects are pro if uninspired.\" [ 6 ]", "Greg Quill of the Toronto Star wrote, \"[T]he movie's real strength comes from three sources – the understated craft in Jackson's performance as he tenderly steers his character toward enlightenment and acceptance; the distinctive qualities of the Canadian landscape, and the third-person narrative provided by Campbell Scott. His eloquent, conversational commentary provides both a deeper understanding of our pilgrim's progress and the bigger-picture wisdom of a seasoned observer of life's mysteries, large and small.\" [ 7 ]"]
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_Our_Dinosaurs_Is_Missing
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/66/One_of_our_dinosaurs_is_missing_movie_poster.jpg/250px-One_of_our_dinosaurs_is_missing_movie_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Robert Stevenson", "Written by": "Bill Walsh", "Based on": "The Great Dinosaur Robbery by David Forrest", "Produced by": "Bill Walsh", "Starring": "Peter Ustinov Helen Hayes Clive Revill Derek Nimmo", "Cinematography": "Paul Beeson", "Edited by": "Peter Boita", "Music by": "Ron Goodwin", "Production company": "Walt Disney Productions", "Distributed by": "Buena Vista Distribution", "Release date": "July 9, 1975 ( 1975-07-09 )", "Running time": "100 minutes", "Countries": "United Kingdom United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$5.5 million (North American rentals) [ 1 ]"}
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["One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing is a 1975 comedy film set in the early 1920s, about the theft of a dinosaur skeleton from the Natural History Museum . The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution Company . The title is a parody of the film title One of Our Aircraft Is Missing , in which both Peter Ustinov and Hugh Burden also appeared. The film was based on the 1970 novel The Great Dinosaur Robbery by David Forrest (pseudonym of David Eliades and Robert Forrest Webb). It was the last work of producer and screenwriter Bill Walsh before his death on January 27, 1975, almost six months before the film's release. [ 2 ]", "Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious \"Lotus X\", Lord Edward Southmere, a King's Messenger , is chased by a group of Chinese spies.", "Back in London , Lord Southmere runs into the Natural History Museum and hides the microfilm in the bones of a large dinosaur skeleton. The spies decide to steal the dinosaur, so they can search it properly, and load the Brontosaurus skeleton on the back of their steam lorry . Some nannies steal the vehicle, which they drive through the foggy streets of London before being carried off to safety on a flat wagon at the back of a train.", "The spies eventually find the microfilm at the museum inside the bones of another large dinosaur skeleton, and all misunderstanding is set aside, with good results for all.", "The book on which the film was based, The Great Dinosaur Robbery , was aimed at an adult audience by its authors, Robert Forrest Webb and David Eliades, and was set in New York. The authors, both very experienced UK national journalists and best-selling authors, extensively researched material in New York and were greatly assisted by the American Museum of Natural History , and by the New York Police Department responsible for that area. The authors were disappointed that the humour of the film was aimed at a very much younger audience than that in the book, which had been published, in several languages, extremely successfully throughout Europe and also in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S.", "The film was shot on location in England at Elstree Studios and Pinewood Studios . Additional filming took place at London Zoo , the Natural History Museum, and around Windsor and Holyport Green, Maidenhead . [ 3 ] While One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing was in production, Bresslaw and Sims also appeared in Carry On Behind , another film being made concurrently at Pinewood Studios.", "Ustinov, Revill, and Bresslaw—all white actors—performed in yellowface makeup to portray Chinese characters in the film. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]", "The special photographic effects for One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing were handled by British special effects artist John Stears . The steam lorry used in the film was a mockup, with the mocked up boiler smaller than that on a real steam lorry. [ 6 ] The Diplodocus skeleton model featured in the film was later used in Star Wars (1977), in the opening scenes in the Tunisian desert. [ 7 ]", "One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing has been released on VHS and DVD. The DVD last physical format release was in the UK on April 12th, 2004 [ 8 ]", "The film is absent from streaming on Disney+ ."]
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The 1 Second Film
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6b/The1secondfilm-flier.jpg/250px-The1secondfilm-flier.jpg", "Directed by": "Nirvan Mullick", "Produced by": "Collaboration Foundation [ 1 ]", "Running time": "61 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "US$1 million (intended)"}
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["The 1 Second Film is an American non-profit collaborative art project which began as a student project by Nirvan Mullick in 2001. Receiving contributions from thousands of people around the world, including many celebrities, the project is currently dormant. [ 2 ]", "The film is built around one second of animation (composed of 12 large collaborative paintings), and is followed by one hour of credits, listing everyone who signs up (regardless of whether a contribution is made or not). A feature-length \"making of\" documentary will play alongside the credits. [ 3 ]", "The project allows people around the world to participate online, and lists everyone who joins the crew as \"Special Thanks\" in the film credits. [ 4 ] The production relies on crowd funding to raise the budget; everyone who donates or raises US$1 or more gets their name listed as a Producer in the film's credits. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The production also gives a Publicist credit to crew members who refer at least one friend. [ 7 ] The film has over 56,000 crew members from 158 countries. [ 1 ]", "In 2016, the director, Nirvan Mullick , posted an update on the project. He stated it had been dormant, being put on the \"back burner\" in 2012, but he planned to revive it shortly. As of 2025 this has yet to occur. [ 8 ] By January 2019, the project's website was offline entirely due to a database corruption. [ 9 ] [ better source needed ]", "The title of The 1 Second Film derives from the fact that the animation at the core of the film project is just one second long (24 frames). The animation consists of 12 large frames (9 ft x 5 ft paintings). The frames were painted by hundreds of people during a multi-disciplinary event on March 8, 2001 ( International Women's Day ) at California Institute of the Arts . [ citation needed ] The event included live-performers and musicians; people attending the event were invited to help paint the frames of animation. Each frame had an art director that engaged the audience as participants; [ citation needed ] color design for the animation was selected by Jules Engel . Each of the 12 paintings is filmed twice (on 70 mm film ) to create the 24 frames in one second of film.", "The one second of animation will be immediately followed by an estimated one hour of end credits. Alongside the credits will be a feature-length documentary on the creation of the artwork. [ 10 ]", "The film is being crowd-funded by public donations. [ 11 ] Donors are to receive a Producer credit in the film for a minimum of $1.00. Producers are to be listed in order of amount donated.", "The 1 Second Film began as a student project by Nirvan Mullick in 2001 while at California Institute of the Arts . The director set out to create a collaborative art project that would bring his school together, and later expanded the project after the success of the initial event. [ 12 ] Seed funds for the animation painting event came from a $1,500 CalArts Grant, an additional $3,000 was raised by selling producer credits for donations of $1 or more. In 2004, after graduating and finishing two other animated short films, the director began fundraising to expand The 1 Second Film project by selling $1 producer credits on the streets of Los Angeles. After raising enough to buy a video camera, the director began to document the fundraising process to include as part of a documentary about the project. In 2005, after getting several celebrities to donate, the director launched a petition drive along with the help of Stephen Colbert to get the credits of The 1 Second Film listed on the Internet Movie Database . In March 2005, IMDb began listing the credits. [ 13 ] \nThe IMDb listing helped the project to grow online. In May 2006, a video of several high-profile celebrities donating to The 1 Second Film was featured on the homepage of YouTube , helping the project raise over $7,000 in four days. In 2007, the project's first automated website was built to give community profiles to all participants, allowing for the project to scale up. The film's failure to materialize to date has led to speculation of fraud . [ citation needed ]", "The director of The 1 Second Film submitted the celebrity producer credits of The 1 Second Film to the Internet Movie Database . After being rejected, the director sent a link to a video of Stephen Colbert requesting his $11 producer credit be listed on IMDb. IMDb then began to list all of The 1 Second Film's credits, [ 14 ] including unknowns who donated $1 or more to the project online. Thousands of people began to discover the film title under the production credits of the various celebrities involved. The project spread online, attracting donations from around the world [ citation needed ] . Several celebrities also donated online, including Jonah Hill and Ryan Reynolds . The IMDb listing reached over 3,000 producers. Due to the high volume of submissions, IMDb replaced all of the film's individual producer credits with a single credit for \"Producers of The 1 Second Film.\" [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The entire project was later removed from IMDb. Jon Reeves, head of data acquisition at IMDb, released a statement calling the project a \"performance art project (rather) than an actual film\". [ 17 ]", "A variety of celebrities have donated to become producers of the project. Producers include: [ citation needed ]", "Contributors also include former YouTube CEO Chad Hurley , YouTube stars including iJustine and Brookers , as well as Kyle MacDonald from One red paperclip ."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2d/One_Hour_Photo_movie.jpg/250px-One_Hour_Photo_movie.jpg", "Directed by": "Mark Romanek", "Written by": "Mark Romanek", "Produced by": "Pamela Koffler Christine Vachon Stan Wlodkowski", "Starring": "Robin Williams Connie Nielsen Michael Vartan Gary Cole Eriq La Salle", "Cinematography": "Jeff Cronenweth", "Edited by": "Jeffrey Ford", "Music by": "Reinhold Heil Johnny Klimek", "Production companies": "Catch 23 Entertainment Killer Films John Wells Productions", "Distributed by": "Fox Searchlight Pictures", "Release dates": "January 13, 2002 ( 2002-01-13 ) ( Sundance ) August 21, 2002 ( 2002-08-21 ) (United States)", "Running time": "96 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$12 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$52.2 million [ 1 ]"}
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["One Hour Photo is a 2002 American psychological thriller film [ 2 ] [ 3 ] written and directed by Mark Romanek . It stars Robin Williams as a photo technician who develops an unhealthy obsession with a family to whom he has long provided services. Connie Nielsen , Michael Vartan , Gary Cole , and Eriq La Salle appear in supporting roles.", "The film premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival , followed by a limited release on August 21, 2002, and a wider release on September 13. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It received positive reviews from film critics, with praise for Williams' against- type performance, and grossed over $52 million on a $12 million budget. [ 6 ]", "Sy Parrish is a photo technician at a one-hour photo lab in big-box store SavMart. He lives alone with a pet hamster, has no friends or love life, and lives only for his work, which he considers a \"vital service\". His favorite customers are the Yorkin family, whose photos he has developed for many years. Over the years, he has grown obsessed with the family, enshrining them in his home with their photos that he secretly copies.", "Sy eventually manages to spark a connection with Nina Yorkin when he pretends to be interested in a book that he saw her purchase. Nina learns that Sy lives a solitary existence, something only her son Jake had considered previously. The next day, store manager Bill Owens discovers, through an audit investigation on company expenditures, that over the span of nine years, Sy has printed many more prints than those that have been ordered and paid for by the customers. For this, as well as other infractions, Sy is fired from SavMart. Bill allows him to finish the week, although Sy is devastated.", "While inspecting a customer's photos, Sy discovers that Will Yorkin is having an affair , and his idyllic conception of the Yorkins as the perfect family is shattered. He surreptitiously places the photos of Will and his mistress, Maya Burson, into a packet of photos that Nina was scheduled to pick up. Meanwhile, Sy takes paparazzi -style photos of Bill's young daughter, sends the film with the photos to Yoshi (another SavMart employee), who turns them over to Bill, who reports the matter to the police.", "While detectives James Van Der Zee and Paul Outerbridge discover Sy's obsession, Sy confronts Will and Maya during a rendezvous in their hotel room. Armed with a knife and a camera, Sy forces the lovers to pose naked in sexual positions while he takes pictures. After the confrontation, Sy notices that the police have arrived at the hotel, and escapes through an emergency exit. The exit door trips an alarm, and Van Der Zee pursues Sy while Outerbridge finds Will and Maya physically unharmed but emotionally traumatized. The police apprehend Sy in the parking garage. On his arrest, Sy claims \"I just took pictures.", "In the police interrogation room, Sy begins speaking. Sy implies that his father took pornographic photos of Sy when he was a child. Before the detective leaves, Sy asks if he can see his photos; the detective obliges and we see that they are merely shots of random objects and furnishings of a hotel room, i.e., there was no film left when Sy was terrorizing Will and Maya. The film ends with a photo of the Yorkins with Sy, each person in the photo smiling.", "Trent Reznor of the band Nine Inch Nails was originally asked to compose the film's score . However, early in the process, Romanek was allegedly pressured by the studio to hire a \"real composer\", and Reznor was dropped from the production. Some of the music that Reznor created for the film evolved into material found on the Nine Inch Nails EP Still . [ 7 ] [ 8 ]", "In accordance with the photography-themed movie, the names of several characters are drawn from actual photographers: Sy's assistant at the Savmart, Yoshi Araki (named for Nobuyoshi Araki ), manager Bill Owens ( Bill Owens ), Det. Van Der Zee ( James Van Der Zee ), Det. Outerbridge ( Paul Outerbridge ), Maya Burson ( Nancy Burson ), and Savmart customers Mrs. von Unwerth ( Ellen von Unwerth ) and Mr. Siskind ( Aaron Siskind ).", "In one of the voice-over pieces, Sy can be heard saying, \"They actually believe that any idiot that attends a two-day seminar can master the art of making beautiful prints in less than an hour. But of course, like most things, there's far more to it than meets the eye.\" Williams prepared for the role by training for two and a half days in a Southern California photo development lab. [ 9 ]", "In an interview, Romanek said that he was inspired to create the movie by films from the 1970s about \"lonely men\", notably Taxi Driver (1976).", "In the DVD commentary, Romanek says that Jack Nicholson was first approached to play the lead character. Nicholson turned down the role reportedly because he thought that the character was too similar to the role he played in The Shining (1980).", "On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , One Hour Photo holds an approval rating of 82% based on 195 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The site's critics consensus reads: \"Robin Williams is very effective in this creepy, well-shot thriller.\" [ 10 ] At Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 64 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 11 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"C\" on a scale of A+ to F. [ 12 ]", "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four, and wrote, \"Robin Williams plays Sy, another of his open-faced, smiling madmen, like the killer in Insomnia . He does this so well you don't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role.\" [ 13 ]", "Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle noted that the film is \"not nearly as intelligent, thoughtful or penetrating as it promises to be. Yet the consistent delicacy and emotional clarity of Williams' acting in One Hour Photo makes the picture impossible to dismiss.\" [ 14 ]", "In 2013 GamesRadar+ named the lead character one of the \"50 Creepiest Movie Psychopaths\". [ 15 ]", "The film's limited release began on August 21, 2002, in seven theaters, opening to a $321,515 weekend, with an average of $45,930 per theater. Its wide release began on September 13, with a 1,212-theater count. Still, the film made just over $8 million that weekend, and went on to gross $31,597,131 in the US, with an additional $20,626,175 in overseas territories, for an international total of $52,223,306. [ 1 ]"]
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One Million Years B.C.
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Original_1966_UK_One_Million_Years_B.C._poster.jpeg/250px-Original_1966_UK_One_Million_Years_B.C._poster.jpeg", "Directed by": "Don Chaffey", "Screenplay by": "Michael Carreras [ 1 ]", "Based on": "One Million B.C. 1940 film by Mickell Novack George Baker Joseph Frickert", "Produced by": "Michael Carreras", "Starring": "Raquel Welch John Richardson Percy Herbert Robert Brown Martine Beswick", "Cinematography": "Wilkie Cooper", "Edited by": "Tom Simpson", "Music by": "Mario Nascimbene", "Production companies": "Hammer Film Productions Seven Arts", "Distributed by": "Warner-Pathé Distributors", "Release dates": "25 October 1966 ( 1966-10-25 ) ( London ) 30 December 1966 ( 1966-12-30 )", "Running time": "100 minutes (U.K.) 91 minutes (U.S.)", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Budget": "£422,816 [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$8 million ( United States ) [ 2 ]"}
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["One Million Years B.C. is a 1966 British adventure fantasy film directed by Don Chaffey . The film was produced by Hammer Film Productions and Seven Arts , and is a remake of the 1940 American fantasy film One Million B.C. . The film stars Raquel Welch and John Richardson , set in a fictional age of cavemen and dinosaurs existing together. Location scenes were filmed on the Canary Islands in the middle of winter, in late 1965. The UK release prints of this film were printed in dye transfer Technicolor . The U.S. version released by 20th Century Fox was cut by nine minutes, [ 3 ] printed in DeLuxe Color , and released in 1967. [ 4 ]", "Like the original film, this remake is largely ahistorical. It portrays dinosaurs and humans living at the same point in time; according to the geological time scale , the last non-avian dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago , and modern humans ( Homo sapiens ) did not exist until about 300,000 years B.C. Ray Harryhausen , who animated all of the dinosaur attacks using stop-motion animation techniques, commented on the U.S. King Kong DVD that he did not make One Million Years B.C. for \"professors...who probably don't go to see these kinds of movies anyway.", "Men of the dark-haired Rock tribe, led by chief Akhoba, who is accompanied by his rivalrous sons, Tumak and Sakana, capture and kill a warthog and return to share it with the rest of the tribe. Tumak and Akhoba fight over the meat, and Akhoba banishes Tumak to the harsh desert. After surviving several encounters with various prehistoric creatures, Tumak collapses on a remote beach and is spotted by Loana and other women of the fair-haired Shell tribe. Joined by some of the men from the tribe, Loana rescues Tumak from an Archelon which is driven into the sea. Tumak is taken to the Shell tribe's village where he discovers they are more civilized and advanced than the Rock Tribe.", "Back at the Rock tribe, Sakana tries to seize power by killing Akhoba. Akhoba survives, but is a broken man as Sakana becomes the new leader.", "With the Shell tribe, Tumak rescues a small girl from an attack by an Allosaurus , endearing him to Loana. However, Tumak is banished from the village after he fights Shell tribe member Ahot for possession of the spear Tumak used to fight the creature. Loana decides to accompany Tumak, and Ahot surrenders the spear to Tumak in a gesture of good will. Tumak, with Loana in tow, wanders back to the Rock Tribe camp, but again, there are altercations. They eventually witness an epic fight between a Triceratops and a Ceratosaurus after they encountered and are chased by one of them. The most dramatic fight is a fight between Tumak's current love interest Loana and his former lover Nupondi. Loana wins the fight but refuses to strike the killing blow, despite the encouragement from the other members of the tribe. Sakana resents Tumak's and Loana's attempts at incorporating Shell tribe ways into their culture. While the Rock tribe is swimming, a female Pteranodon attacks and snatches Loana to feed her to her offspring. However, a Rhamphorhynchus intervenes and a fight ensues. Loana is dropped into the sea and makes it to shore. At first, Tumak mistakenly believes Loana is dead, but they are soon reunited.", "Sakana leads a group of like-minded fellow hunters in an armed revolt against Akhoba. Tumak, Ahot and Loana, and other members of the Shell tribe arrive and join the fight against Sakana. In the midst of the battle, a volcano suddenly erupts. Members of both tribes are killed by either the effects of the volcano, or by their attackers. Sakana is speared to death and Akhoba is crushed by falling rock. Tumak, Loana, and the surviving members of both tribes emerge from the desolation and jointly set off to find a new home, with Tumak as the new leader.", "Hammer Films has enjoyed success with a number of remakes, and Kenneth Hyman of Seven Arts Productions - Hammers' key financial partner at the time - wanted to remake King Kong . When they were unable to obtain the rights, Hyman and producer Michael Carreras decided to remake One Million B.C. (1940). Carreras hired Ray Harryhausen to do the effects and Don Chaffey to direct. [ 6 ]", "Originally Hammer offered the role of Loana to Ursula Andress , who had just made She for Hammer. When Andress passed on the project due to commitments and salary demands, a search for a replacement resulted in the selection of Welch. [ 7 ] Welch, who had finished doing Fantastic Voyage for Fox, was under contract to the studio (who held U.S. distribution rights for the film) and was told by studio President Richard Zanuck that she would be loaned out to Hammer for the production. Although reluctant, Welch said that the selling point was the chance to spend six to eight weeks of filming in London (while shooting interiors) during the height of its \"swinging\" period. [ 8 ] Her male lead, John Richardson, had just appeared in She alongside Andress. [ 6 ]", "The exterior scenes were filmed on Lanzarote and Tenerife in the Canary Islands in the middle of winter. The film features the Echium wildpretii plant, as a homage to Tenerife's unique endemic flora. However, the plants are set in scenes filmed on the Lanzarote beach. In actuality, this plant only flowers from May to June, and never in the time frame of the filming. It is found in Tenerife mountain zones higher than 1,600 m (5,200 ft). As a conclusion , the endemic plants featured in the movie were plastic replacements.\nAs there were no active volcanoes in the Canary Islands, the studio had to construct a 6–7 ft (2-metre) high volcano on the Associated British Picture Corporation 's studio back lot. The eruption, lava explosions and lava flows were composed of a mixture of wallpaper paste, oatmeal, dry ice and red dye. [ citation needed ] Harryhausen filmed the dinosaur visuals in his personal studio in London .", "As the Shell people are attacked by a giant turtle, the women call it Archelon which is the real scientific name for the animal. The film uses six live creatures: a vulture , a python , a green iguana , a warthog , a Loaghtan and a tarantula (a cricket can be seen at the tarantula's side). Ray Harryhausen was asked repeatedly about these unanimated creatures, and he confessed they were his idea. At the time, he felt the use of real creatures would convince the audience that all of what they were about to see was indeed real.", "Shortly after, Tumak encounters a dinosaur skeleton, which helped build audience anticipation for further dinosaur encounters. This supposedly massive skeleton was actually only about 12 inches in length, made of plaster and shot against a blue backing and matted into the foreground.", "The scene where the young Allosaurus attacks the village is similar to one in the original film . Shortly after the creature appears it plucks a man out of the water. They used an actor suspended on wires and Harryhausen positioned an animated model man over the actor, on the rear projection plate; thus it seemed as if the live actor was being eaten. Another technically complex scene in this part of the film was when a man fighting the young Allosaurus is trapped under a shelter: the dinosaur grabs a support and collapses it. The team used a full-size shelter rigged to collapse at that point during the action. Harryhausen then placed a miniature part in the creature's mouth which, when all lined up on the rear projection plate, blended in perfectly. The final significant scene in this sequence is when Tumak impales the creature on a spear from below. John Richardson, the actor who played Tumak, held nothing in the long shots and pretended to have a pole in his hands, but he did hold a pole in the close-up shots. A miniature pole was built and used for the long shots. It was placed in the studio in front of Richardson's hands, and then Harryhausen animated the young Allosaurus suspended on wires in front of John, on top of the miniature pole.", "The Pteranodon sequence took much time to create, primarily because of how hard it would be to make a model pterosaur pick up a real woman. However the solution was simple: Instead of using a large crane on location, the crew had Raquel Welch fall behind a rock, and then the model Pteranodon swoops down and flies off with a model of Welch, which was substituted during the single second in which she is behind the rock and not visible. Later, when the creature takes her to its nest, the nest was matted into the scene atop a real rock face by double printing the film. For the Pteranodon and Rhamphorhynchus fight scene, when she is dropped into the water, Harryhausen and the crew released her from two dummy rubber Pteranodon claws and while the real Welch fell onto a mattress, the film cut to a long shot of the Welch model suspended on wires. [ 9 ]", "Robert Brown (Akhoba) wears makeup similar to that worn by Lon Chaney Jr. in the same role in the 1940 version, One Million B.C. [ citation needed ]", "Welch wore a bikini made of fur and hide in the film. She was described as \"wearing mankind's first bikini\" and the bikini was described as a \"definitive look of the 1960s\". The publicity photograph of Welch from the film became a best-selling pinup poster, [ 10 ] and something of a cultural phenomenon. [ 11 ] [ 12 ]", "The iconic image was copied by the artist Tom Chantrell to create the film poster promoting the theatrical release of One Million Years B.C. Welch's depiction is accompanied by the film's title in bold red lettering across a landscape populated with dinosaurs. [ 13 ]", "Welch stated in a 2012 interview that three form-fitting bikinis were made for her, including two for a wet scene and a fight scene, by costume designer Carl Toms : \"Carl just draped me in doe-skin, and I stood there while he worked on it with scissors.\" Many noted photographers had been flown to Tenerife by 20th Century Fox on a publicity junket, [ citation needed ] but the iconic pose of Welch was taken by the unit still photographer. [ 14 ] The poster is a story element in the film The Shawshank Redemption . [ 15 ] [ 16 ]", "Composer Mario Nascimbene was in charge of the film's music and score . A soundtrack was released in Italy as a 7-track limited edition vinyl LP on the Intermezzo label in 1985. [ 17 ] It was re-released in Italy on compact disc in 1994 (now out of print) as a soundtrack compilation including two other Hammer films . [ 18 ] \nThe original score for the film:", "It was first screened on 25 October 1966 at the Warner Theatre, London, with a general release in the United Kingdom on 30 December 1966, by Warner-Pathé . It was released in the United States on 21 February 1967, by 20th Century Fox . [ 19 ] The U.S. cut was censored for a broader audience, losing around nine minutes. Deleted scenes included a provocative dance from Martine Beswick , a gruesome end to one of the ape men in the cave and some footage of the young Allosaurus ' s attack on the Shell tribe. On 17 October 1966, the British Board of Film Classification announced that the film would receive an A certificate rating. It is currently a PG certificate applied on video in March 1989 distributed by Warner Home Video Ltd. [ 20 ]", "The film was originally available on VHS and laserdisc . [ 21 ] In 2002 Warner Bros. released a UK DVD, including a \"Raquel Welch in the Valley of the Dinosaurs\" featurette , a 12-minute interview with Ray Harryhausen and the theatrical trailer. [ 22 ] A Region 1 DVD (featuring the U.S. edit) was released by 20th Century Fox in 2004. [ 23 ]", "In October 2016, a special two-disc 50th anniversary edition DVD and Blu-ray was released in the UK by Studio Canal , with new interviews with Welch and Beswick, new Harryhausen storyboard stills, and other promotional imagery. [ 24 ] In the United States, a Blu-ray was released on 14 February 2017 by Kino Lorber Studio Classics and includes the international (Disc 1) and U.S. cut (Disc 2) of the film. This issue has more bonus material than the UK edition, including previous interviews with Welch and Harryhausen from 2002 and an audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas. [ 25 ]", "Despite the censorship upon release in the U.S., the film was still popular and made $2.5 million in U.S. rentals during its first year of release. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] It was one of the twelve most popular films at the British box office in 1967. [ 28 ]", "According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $2,250,000 in rentals to break even and made $4,425,000, meaning it made a solid profit. [ 29 ]", "In 1968, it was re-released in the UK on a double feature alongside She (1965), an earlier Hammer film. The pairing became the ninth most popular theatrical release of the year. [ 30 ]", "On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 15 reviews, with an average rating of 5.64/10. [ 31 ] \nAmong contemporary reviews, Variety wrote \"the whole thing is good humored full-of-action commercial nonsense, but the moppets will love it and older male moppets will probably love Miss Welch\"; [ 32 ] and The Monthly Film Bulletin noted \"Very easy to dismiss the film as a silly spectacle; but Hammer production finesse is much in evidence and Don Chaffey has done a competent job of direction. And it is all hugely enjoyable\"; [ 33 ] while more recently, The Times wrote that \"seen nowadays it is a kitschy, retro scream. Yet as dinosaurs and giant sea-turtles roam the volcanic earth in One Million Years BC , this is also a chance to appreciate the early work of the great special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen.\" [ 34 ] Similarly, TV Guide concluded \"While far from being one of Harryhausen's best films (the quality of which had little to do with his abilities), the movie has superb effects that are worth a look for his fans.\" [ 35 ]", "All the dinosaur models from this film still exist, although the Ceratosaurus and Triceratops were re-purposed for The Valley of Gwangi (1969), as Gwangi the Allosaurus and the Styracosaurus . One Million Years B.C. was the first in an unconnected series of prehistoric films from Hammer. It was followed by Prehistoric Women (1967), When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) and Creatures the World Forgot (1971). [ 36 ] Stock footage depicting the landslide was reused for Alex's daydream scene in Stanley Kubrick 's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange . [ 37 ] Although the films are not connected, the 1970 follow-up film, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth , did use some of the same language as this movie, dialogue that was also used in the 1940 original. Words such as M’Kan (Kill) and Akita (Look/there) are used in all three films. The character played by Robert Brown (and, in the original, Lon Chaney Jr) is called Akhoba, a word used in the 1970 film to mean mercy. [ 38 ]", "The film was adapted into a 15-page comic strip for the May 1978 issue of the magazine House of Hammer (volume 2 #14, published by Top Sellers Ltd ). It was drawn by John Bolton from a script by Steve Moore . The cover of the issue featured a painting by Brian Lewis of Welch in the famous fur bikini.", "In the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption , a large poster of Welch in her role as Loana is used by Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins ) to conceal his tunnel digging.", "In the 2021 film Belfast , Buddy (played by Jude Hill ) and his family go to the cinema and his father (played by Jamie Dornan ) chooses to watch One Million Years B.C.", "Raquel Welch's fur bikini costume design and overall looks in this film served as the primary basis for the creation of the character Ayla for the 1995 video game Chrono Trigger . Ayla is a prehistoric woman that lived in \"65000000 B.C.\" timeline, and is also a subject of anachronistic and ahistoric narrative, with other contemporaries from her timeline being depicted as a mixture of Rock and Shell people from this movie, who live in a world where dinosaurs still roam the land."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Miloš Forman", "Screenplay by": "Lawrence Hauben Bo Goldman", "Based on": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey", "Produced by": "Saul Zaentz Michael Douglas", "Starring": "Jack Nicholson Louise Fletcher William Redfield", "Cinematography": "Haskell Wexler Additional photography: Bill Butler William Fraker", "Edited by": "Richard Chew Lynzee Klingman Sheldon Kahn", "Music by": "Jack Nitzsche", "Production company": "Fantasy Films", "Distributed by": "United Artists", "Release date": "November 19, 1975 ( 1975-11-19 )", "Running time": "135 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$3–4.4 million [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$163.3 million [ 3 ]"}
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["One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological comedy-drama film [ 4 ] directed by Miloš Forman , based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey . The film stars Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution and Louise Fletcher as the domineering head nurse. Will Sampson , Danny DeVito , Sydney Lassick , William Redfield , Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif play supporting roles, with the latter two making their feature film debuts.", "Originally announced in 1962 with Kirk Douglas starring, the film took 13 years to develop. [ 5 ] Filming finally began in January 1975 and lasted three months, on location in Salem, Oregon and the surrounding area, and in Depoe Bay on the north Oregon coast. The producers shot the film in the Oregon State Hospital , an actual psychiatric hospital, which is also the novel's setting. The hospital is still in operation, though the original buildings in the film have been demolished. The film was released on November 19, 1975.", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest received critical acclaim, and is considered by critics and audiences to be one of the greatest films ever made . It is the second of three films to win all five major Academy Awards ( Best Picture , Best Actor , Best Actress , Director , and Screenplay ) following It Happened One Night (1934), and preceding 1991's The Silence of the Lambs . It won numerous Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards . In 1993, the film was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" by the United States Library of Congress , and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry . Additionally, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was ranked No. 33 on the American Film Institute 's updated 100 Years... 100 Movies list in 2007.", "In 1963 Oregon, Randle McMurphy is incarcerated for the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl (which he claims he committed under the assumption that she was an 18-year-old), with five previous arrests for assault. He feigns mental illness so that he can be moved to a mental institution and avoid hard labor at a work farm . The medical ward is dominated by the cold, passive-aggressive Nurse Ratched , who intimidates her patients and maintains control through fear.", "The other patients include young, anxious, stuttering Billy Bibbit; Charlie Cheswick, who is prone to temper tantrums; delusional, child-like Martini; the articulate and repressed Dale Harding; belligerent and profane Max Taber; epileptics Jim Sefelt and Bruce Fredrickson; quiet but violent-minded Scanlon; tall, deaf-mute Native American Chief Bromden; and several others with chronic conditions.", "Ratched sees McMurphy's lively, rebellious presence as a threat to her authority, to which she responds by confiscating and rationing the patients' cigarettes and suspending their card-playing privileges. McMurphy finds himself in a battle of wills against Ratched. One night, he makes a bet with the other inmates that he can escape by tearing a hydrotherapy fountain off its base and hurling it through a locked window, but is predictably unable to lift it. Shortly after, he hijacks a charter bus, picks up his girlfriend Candy, and escapes with several patients to steal a recreational fishing boat, exposing them to the outside world and encouraging them to discover their abilities and find self-confidence.", "After an orderly tells him that his sentence term does not apply in the mental institution, and can become indefinite, McMurphy questions why no one had told him this before. He also learns that he, Chief, and Taber are the only non-chronic patients who have been involuntarily committed; the others have committed themselves voluntarily but are too afraid to leave. After Cheswick bursts into a fit and demands his cigarettes from Ratched, McMurphy starts a fight with the orderlies, and Chief intervenes to help him.", "McMurphy, Chief, and Cheswick are then sent to the disturbed ward, and Chief reveals to McMurphy that he can speak and hear normally, having faked deaf-muteness to avoid engaging with anyone. The two make plans to escape to Canada together. McMurphy is subjected to electroconvulsive therapy , and returns to the ward pretending to be brain-damaged before revealing that the treatment has made him even more determined to defeat Ratched. McMurphy and Chief plan to throw a secret Christmas party for their friends after Ratched and the orderlies leave for the night, before making their escape.", "McMurphy sneaks Candy and her friend Rose into the ward, each bringing bottles of alcohol for the party, and bribes the night orderly Turkle to allow the party. McMurphy and Chief prepare to escape, inviting Billy to come with them. Billy refuses but asks for a \"date\" with Candy; McMurphy arranges for him to have sex with her. McMurphy and the others get drunk, and McMurphy falls asleep instead of escaping with Chief.", "Ratched arrives in the morning to find the ward in disarray; most patients have passed out. She discovers Billy and Candy in bed together and aims to embarrass Billy in front of everyone. Billy manages to overcome his stutter and stands up to Ratched. When she threatens to tell his mother, Billy cracks under the pressure and reverts to stuttering, before Ratched orders he be locked in a separate room as punishment. McMurphy punches an orderly when trying to escape out of a window with Chief, causing the other orderlies to intervene. Locked up alone, Billy kills himself by slitting his throat with a broken glass, causing a huge commotion. Ratched tries to control the situation by calling for the day's routine to continue as usual, but her nonchalant reaction enrages McMurphy, who begins strangling her. The orderlies violently subdue McMurphy, saving Ratched's life.", "Sometime later, Ratched is wearing a neck brace and speaking weakly although still sternly, and Harding leads the now unsuspended card-playing. McMurphy is nowhere to be found, leading to a rumor that he has escaped. Later that night, Chief sees McMurphy being returned to his bed. He is initially elated that McMurphy had kept his promise not to escape without him, until discovering that McMurphy has been lobotomized . After tearfully embracing McMurphy, Chief smothers him to death with a pillow. He then rips the hydrotherapy fountain off its base and throws it through the window as McMurphy had earlier attempted. Chief escapes, with Taber and the other inmates awakening to cheer him on as he runs into the surrounding countryside.", "In 1962, Kirk Douglas's company Joel Productions announced that it had acquired the rights to make Broadway stage and film adaptations of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Douglas starring as McMurphy in both the play and the film, Dale Wasserman writing the stageplay, and George Roy Hill directing the film based on Wasserman's play. Jack Nicholson had also tried to buy the film rights to the novel but was outbid by Douglas. [ 6 ] Wasserman's 1963–1964 Broadway stage adaptation successfully opened, but Douglas was unable to find a studio willing to make the film with him. [ 5 ]", "Kirk Douglas hired Miloš Forman to direct after meeting him in Prague during a tour of the Eastern Bloc . Avco-Embassy Pictures optioned the film in 1969, but Forman was prevented from directing the film by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and the beginning of the \" normalization \" period in which the Soviet Union forced Czechoslovakia to reverse most of its Prague Spring liberalization reforms. Forman and Douglas fell completely out of contact after the Czechoslovak StB put Forman under strict surveillance. It also intercepted a copy of the novel Douglas sent to his home in Prague, which meant he was unable to read the book. [ 5 ]", "Wasserman subsequently sold his film rights to Douglas in 1970, but then delayed the film for several more years with lawsuits. [ 5 ] In 1971, Kirk Douglas's son Michael Douglas convinced his father to allow him to produce the film, as he was drawn to the novel's \"one man against the system\" plot due to his involvement with student activism at the University of California, Santa Barbara . [ 2 ] Michael Douglas optioned the film to director Richard Rush , but Rush was unable to secure financing from major studios. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In March 1973, Michael Douglas announced a new deal in which he would co-produce the film with Saul Zaentz as the first project of Fantasy Records ' new film division. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ]", "Zaentz, a voracious reader, felt an affinity with Kesey, and so after Hauben's first attempt he asked Kesey to write the screenplay. [ 2 ] Kesey participated in the early stages of script development, but withdrew after creative differences with the producers over casting and narrative point of view; ultimately he filed suit against the production and won a settlement. [ 9 ] Although Kesey was paid for his work, his screenplay from the first-person point of view of Chief Bromden was not used. Instead, Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman wrote a new screenplay from a third-person perspective. [ 5 ]", "Hal Ashby was hired to replace Rush as director in 1973, but he was also replaced by Forman after Forman had successfully fled to the United States. Although Michael Douglas and Zaentz were unaware that Forman had been Kirk Douglas's first choice to direct, they began considering him after Hauben showed them Forman's 1967 Czechoslovak film The Firemen's Ball . [ 5 ] [ 2 ] Michael Douglas later said that the film \"had the sort of qualities we were looking for: it took place in one enclosed situation, with a plethora of unique characters he had the ability to juggle\". [ 2 ]", "Although Forman was suffering from a mental health crisis and refused to leave his Hotel Chelsea room in New York City for months, Douglas and Zaentz sent him a copy of the novel. Although Forman was not aware that the novel was the one which Douglas's father had hired him to direct in the 1960s, he quickly decided that it was \"the best material I’d come across in America\" and flew to California to discuss the film further with Douglas and Zaentz. [ 6 ] They quickly hired Forman because, in Douglas's words, \"Unlike the other directors we saw, who kept their cards close to their chest, he went through the script page by page and told us what he would do.\" [ 2 ] Forman wrote in 2012: \"To me, [the story] was not just literature, but real life, the life I lived in Czechoslovakia from my birth in 1932 until 1968. The Communist Party was my Nurse Ratched, telling me what I could and could not do; what I was or was not allowed to say; where I was and was not allowed to go; even who I was and was not.\" [ 10 ]", "Although Kirk Douglas allowed his son to produce the film, he remained interested in playing McMurphy. However, Ashby and Forman felt Kirk Douglas was too old for the role and decided to recast him. This decision would strain relations between Kirk and Michael Douglas for many years, although Michael Douglas claimed it had not been his decision to recast him. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Gene Hackman , [ 13 ] [ 14 ] James Caan , [ 15 ] Marlon Brando , [ 13 ] [ 14 ] and Burt Reynolds [ 16 ] were all considered for the role of McMurphy. Ashby wanted 37-year-old Jack Nicholson to play McMurphy, but Douglas was unsure if he was right for the role and Forman's first choice was Reynolds. [ 17 ] All four turned down the role, which ultimately went to Nicholson. [ 18 ] Nicholson had never played this type of role before. Production was delayed for about six months because of Nicholson's schedule. Douglas later stated in an interview that \"that turned out to be a great blessing: it gave us the chance to get the ensemble right\". [ 2 ] Nicholson did extensive research for the role and even met patients in a psychiatric ward to watch electroconvulsive shock therapy to prepare for the role.", "Danny DeVito was the first to be cast, reprising his role as the patient Martini from the 1971 off-Broadway production. Chief Bromden (who turns out to be the title character), played by Will Sampson , was referred by Mel Lambert (who portrayed the harbormaster in the fishing scene), a used car dealer Douglas met on an airplane flight when Douglas told him they wanted a \"big guy\" to play the part. Lambert's father often sold cars to Native American customers and six months later Lambert called Douglas to say: \"the biggest sonofabitch Indian came in the other day!\" [ 2 ]", "Jeanne Moreau , Angela Lansbury , Colleen Dewhurst , Geraldine Page , Ellen Burstyn , Anne Bancroft , and Jane Fonda all were considered to portray Nurse Ratched before Lily Tomlin was ultimately cast in the role. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] However, Forman became interested in recasting Tomlin with Louise Fletcher , who had a supporting role in the film, after viewing her film Thieves Like Us (1974). A mutual acquaintance, the casting director Fred Roos , had already mentioned Fletcher's name as a possibility. Even so, it took four or five meetings, across one year, for Fletcher to secure the role of Nurse Ratched. [ 19 ] [ 5 ] Her final audition was late in 1974, with Forman, Zaentz, and Douglas. The day after Christmas, her agent called to say she was expected at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem on January 4 to begin rehearsals. [ 20 ] Tomlin subsequently left the film to replace Fletcher in Nashville (1975). In 2016, Fletcher recalled that Nicholson's salary was \"enormous\", while the rest of the cast worked at or close to scale. She put in 11 weeks, grossing US$10,000 (equivalent to $58,000 in 2024). [ 20 ]", "Forman also considered Shelley Duvall for the role of Candy; coincidentally, she, Nicholson, and Scatman Crothers (who portrays Turkle) all later appeared as part of the main cast of The Shining . Bud Cort was considered for the role of Billy Bibbit before Brad Dourif was cast. [ 21 ]", "Prior to commencement of filming, a week of rehearsals started on January 4, 1975, in Oregon shortly after Nicholson concluded his previous film The Fortune (1975). [ 5 ] The cast watched the patients in their daily routine and at group therapy. Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher also witnessed electroconvulsive therapy being performed on a patient. [ 2 ]", "Principal photography began on January 13, 1975, and concluded approximately three months later. [ 5 ] The film was shot on location in Salem, Oregon , the surrounding area, and the coastal town of Depoe Bay, Oregon . [ 5 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ]", "The producers decided to shoot the film in the Oregon State Hospital , an actual mental hospital, as this is also the setting of the novel. [ 24 ] The hospital's director, Dean Brooks, was supportive of the filming and eventually ended up playing the character of Dr. John Spivey in the film. Brooks identified a patient for each of the actors to shadow, and some of the cast even slept on the wards at night. He also wanted to incorporate his patients into the crew, to which the producers agreed. Douglas recalls that it was not until later that he found out that many of them were criminally insane. [ 2 ]", "For the group therapy scenes, Forman and his cinematographer Haskell Wexler used three cameras to record all shots for the scene simultaneously. Although this was unusual for the time and more expensive, it allowed Forman and Wexler to capture the actors' authentic reactions to each other. [ 2 ]", "As Forman did not allow the actors to see the day's filming, this led to the cast losing confidence in him, while Nicholson also began to wonder about his performance. Douglas convinced Forman to show Nicholson something, which he did, and restored the actor's confidence. [ 2 ]", "Haskell Wexler was fired as cinematographer and replaced by Bill Butler . Wexler believed his dismissal was due to his concurrent work on the documentary Underground , in which the radical militant group the Weather Underground were being interviewed while hiding from the law. However, Forman said he had terminated Wexler's services over artistic differences. Douglas also claimed Wexler wanted to get Forman fired in order to direct the film himself, and was fueling the cast's distrust of Forman and lack of confidence in their own performances. Both Wexler and Butler received Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , though Wexler said there was \"only about a minute or two minutes in that film I didn't shoot\". [ 25 ]", "According to Butler, Nicholson refused to speak to Forman: \"...[Jack] never talked to Miloš at all, he only talked to me\". [ 26 ]", "The production went over the initial budget of $2 million and over-schedule, but Zaentz, who was personally financing the movie, was able to come up with the difference by borrowing against his company, Fantasy Records. The total production budget came to $4.4 million. [ 2 ]", "The film premiered at the Sutton and Paramount Theatres in New York City on November 19, 1975. [ 27 ] It was the second-highest-grossing film released in 1975 in the United States and Canada at $109 million, [ 1 ] one of the seventh-highest-grossing films of all time at the time. [ 27 ] As it was released toward the end of the year, most of its gross was in 1976 and was the highest-grosser for calendar year 1976 with rentals of $56.5 million. [ 28 ]", "Worldwide, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest grossed $163,250,000. It was the highest-grossing film released by UA up to that time. [ 3 ] [ 27 ]", "Critics praised the film, sometimes with reservations. Roger Ebert said: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}", "Ebert later put the film on his \"Great Movies\" list. [ 30 ] A.D. Murphy of Variety wrote a mixed review as well, [ 31 ] as did Vincent Canby in The New York Times :", "The film opens and closes with original music by composer Jack Nitzsche , featuring an eerie bowed saw (performed by Robert Armstrong ) and wine glasses . On the score, reviewer Steven McDonald:", "The film won the \"Big Five\" Academy Awards at the 48th Oscar ceremony . These include the Best Actor for Jack Nicholson , Best Actress for Louise Fletcher , Best Direction for Forman, Best Picture , and Best Adapted Screenplay for Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman . The film has a 93% rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 115 critics, with an average rating of 9.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads: \"Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher are worthy adversaries in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , with Miloš Forman's more grounded and morally ambiguous approach to Ken Kesey's surrealistic novel yielding a film of outsized power.\" [ 34 ] The film has an 84 rating on Metacritic .", "While Kesey claimed never to have seen the movie, he disliked what he knew of it, [ 9 ] which was confirmed by author Chuck Palahniuk , who wrote: \"The first time I heard this story, it was through the movie starring Jack Nicholson. A movie that Kesey once told me he disliked.\" [ 35 ]", "In 1993, the film was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry . [ 36 ]", "The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited Cuckoo's Nest as one of his 100 favorite films. [ 37 ]", "In 2014, WhatCulture ranked Louise Fletcher' role second in top \"10 Most Convincing Movie Psychopath Performances\" [ 38 ]", "Pantera singer Phil Anselmo released a music video, \" Choosing Mental Illness \", [ 39 ] with his band Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals . The music video pays tribute to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and it shows scenes recreated from the film with Anselmo playing McMurphy and the rest of the band playing other characters from the film, and Nurse Ratched played by actor Michael St. Michaels. [ 40 ]", "The film has been referenced several times on The Simpsons , including an episode where Homer is committed to an insane asylum and meets a man who believes himself to be Michael Jackson . In an episode from the fourth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia , titled \"Sweet Dee Has a Heart Attack\", Danny DeVito's character Frank Reynolds is part of subplot that directly parodies the film.", "Danny DeVito 's role in the parody is significant since he was cast in the original film as the character \"Martini\". In the episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia , a reference is made to DeVito's original role with a character in the parody named \"Martini\". Additionally, the 1975 film featured Will Sampson as Chief Bromden. In the parody, Tim Sampson, son of Will Sampson, plays \"Chief\" in mirroring his father's role in the film.", "In 2015, the film ranked 59th on BBC 's \"100 Greatest American Films\" list, voted on by film critics from around the world. [ 53 ]", "American Film Institute"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/Day_One_%281989_film%29.jpg/250px-Day_One_%281989_film%29.jpg", "Genre": "Drama History", "Teleplay by": "David W. Rintels", "Directed by": "Joseph Sargent", "Starring": "Brian Dennehy David Strathairn Michael Tucker Hume Cronyn Richard Dysart Hal Holbrook Barnard Hughes John McMartin David Ogden Stiers Anne Twomey", "Music by": "Mason Daring", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original language": "English", "Executive producers": "Aaron Spelling E. Duke Vincent", "Producers": "Josette Perrotta David W. Rintels", "Cinematography": "Kees Van Oostrum", "Editor": "Debra Karen", "Running time": "145 mins.", "Production companies": "AT&T Spelling Television World International Network", "Network": "CBS", "Release": "March 5, 1989 ( 1989-03-05 )"}
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["Day One is a made-for-TV docudrama film about The Manhattan Project , the research and development of the atomic bomb during World War II . It is based on the book by Peter Wyden . The film was written by David W. Rintels and directed by Joseph Sargent . It starred Brian Dennehy as General Leslie Groves , David Strathairn as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Michael Tucker as Dr. Leo Szilard . It premiered in the United States on March 5, 1989 on the CBS network. It won the 1989 Emmy award for Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special. [ 1 ] The movie received critical acclaim for its historical accuracy despite being a drama.", "When Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe he eventually arrives in the United States where, with the help of Albert Einstein , he persuades the Federal government to build an atomic bomb . General Leslie Groves selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico , where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard (whose idea was responsible for the progress made) has second thoughts about atomic weapons and debates how and when to use the bomb.", "The film focuses on the organization and the politics of the whole affair, such as tensions between the scientists and the military, the communist affiliation of many scientists around that time, the risks of espionage and the decision whether to use the bomb after Germany is defeated. Concerning the actual scientific work on the bomb, some of it is shown, but not explained, so an understanding of the workings of the bomb is needed to understand what is going on in that respect.", "The story starts with Leo Szilard fleeing Germany on the last train out and trying to convince the military that a nuclear bomb can be built and that the Germans are already working on it. In England, his idea is filed and ignored, so he travels to the US, but there too, he has to wait a year until something is done with it and Project Manhattan is started.", "As Germany is being defeated and its scientists interrogated, it is found out that they have not even come close to constructing a nuclear bomb (partly due to bad cooperation by scientists). Despite the fact that no one has the technology now, and the original reason for project Manhattan is gone, work continues. Szilard, who first used Einstein to get his ideas about building a bomb across to the US leaders, now convinces him to join him in writing a letter to the president to do the opposite, namely not to build the bomb, in order to avoid an arms race. 68 scientists sign a petition, but that is held back by the military.", "U.S. President Truman is faced with four options: peace talks (which would require the Japanese to keep their emperor, as eventually happened), a blockade (which was thought to be cowardly), an invasion (estimated by some to cost up to a million lives, though such numbers have been widely disputed), or dropping the bomb. Another consideration is that the USSR had said they would enter the war against Japan three months after the surrender of Germany and there is a fear that they might not leave. So Truman decides that the best course of action is to drop the bomb on Hiroshima , against the advice of General Eisenhower .", "In order to depict a desert setting, certain scenes of the film were filmed in a town named Notre Dame de Lourdes , located in the province of Quebec. The town offered a wide expanse of sand quarry that was used for filming."]
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One Fine Day
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/One_Fine_Day_%281996_film%29_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Michael Hoffman", "Written by": "Terrel Seltzer Ellen Simon", "Produced by": "Lynda Obst", "Starring": "Michelle Pfeiffer George Clooney Mae Whitman Charles Durning", "Cinematography": "Oliver Stapleton", "Edited by": "Garth Craven", "Music by": "James Newton Howard", "Production companies": "Lynda Obst Productions Via Rosa Productions", "Distributed by": "20th Century Fox", "Release date": "December 20, 1996 ( 1996-12-20 )", "Running time": "108 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$97.5 million [ 1 ]", "Released": "December 10, 1996", "Length": "52 : 22", "Label": "Columbia"}
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["One Fine Day is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Michael Hoffman , starring Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney . Alex D. Linz and Mae Whitman play their children. The title comes from the 1963 song \" One Fine Day \" by Carole King , which is heard in the film.", "Pfeiffer served as an executive producer for the film, which was produced in association with her company Via Rosa Productions. [ 2 ]", "The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song (\" For the First Time \").", "Melanie Parker is an architect whose day gets off to a bad start when she is late to drop off her son Sammy at school, due to the forgetfulness of fellow divorced father Jack Taylor, a New York Daily News reporter whose daughter, Maggie, is thrust into his care that morning by his former wife who leaves to go on her honeymoon with her new husband. The children arrive just a moment too late to go on a school field trip, a Circle Line boat cruise . Their parents realize that, on top of hectically busy schedules, they must work together that day to supervise the children. In the confusion of sharing a taxi, they accidentally switch cell phones, causing each of them, all morning, to receive calls intended for the other one, which they then have to relay to the other person.", "Melanie must make an architectural design presentation to an important client. Jack has to find a source for a scoop on the New York mayor's mob connections. Sammy causes havoc at Melanie's office with his toy cars, causing her to trip and break her scale model display. In frustration, she takes him to a day care center (which is having a \"Superhero Day\"), where she coincidentally comes across Jack trying to convince Maggie to stay and behave herself. They create impromptu costumes for the children, using his imagination and her resourcefulness. She takes her model to a shop to get it quickly repaired. Having left for a meeting, she panics when she receives a phone call from Sammy about another child having a psychedelic drug. She phones Jack in desperation and asks him to pick up the children. He agrees, on the condition that she take over their care at 3:15 while he chases down a potential news source.", "While in Melanie's care, Maggie goes missing from a store and wanders some distance down a crowded midtown sidewalk. Melanie breaks down in despair at the police station, files a missing child report, and then goes to a mayoral press conference to find Jack. He is notified by the police that Maggie has been found, and makes it to the press conference just barely in time to confront the mayor with his scoop about corruption. He had earlier tracked down its source, just as she was leaving a beauty salon in a limousine. Although they have been antagonistic, Melanie and Jack work together to take the children, by taxi, to a soccer game. She insists that she will have time first to do her presentation to the new clients, despite him protesting that it will make them late for the game. She begins her pitch over drinks at the 21 Club lounge, but upon seeing Sammy in high spirits, she realizes that she cares more about him than her job. Insisting that she must leave immediately to be with him, she fully expects to be fired, but the clients are impressed.", "At the game, Melanie meets with her former husband, Eddie, a musician; he informs her that he will not be able to take Sammy fishing in the summer as he will be touring as a drummer with Bruce Springsteen instead. That evening, Jack wants a reason to visit Melanie's apartment, so he takes Maggie to buy goldfish to replace the ones that were eaten earlier in the day by a cat. At Melanie's apartment, the children watch The Wizard of Oz while she and Jack share a first kiss. She goes to the bathroom to freshen up; when she returns, an exhausted Jack is asleep on the sofa. She joins him and they fall asleep together, with the children happily observing.", "Clooney's character did not exist in the script's original draft. Producer Lynda Obst explained the change: \"We were being incredibly sexist. There are plenty of divorced, single working fathers going through the exact same thing.\" The studios initially wanted Kevin Costner or Tom Cruise to portray Jack Taylor, but they passed and Clooney ultimately received the part. The film was shot in 44 Manhattan locations. [ 3 ]", "One Fine Day: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the film. It was released on December 10, 1996, by Columbia Records . The album peaked at number 57 on Billboard 200 in 1997.", "One Fine Day earned a total of $6.2 million during its opening weekend, ranking in fifth place at the box office behind Beavis and Butt-Head Do America , Jerry Maguire , 101 Dalmatians and Scream . [ 5 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 53% based on 36 reviews, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads, \"With a throwback 1930s vibe, this screwball romantic comedy is perfect for One Fine Day of folding laundry.\" [ 6 ] It was considered a commercial disappointment by Twentieth Century Fox . [ 7 ]", "Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, \"A 50's romp with a few glaring 90's touches (dueling cellular phones, frazzled single parents), One Fine Day makes for sunny, pleasant fluff. Both stars are enjoyably breezy, and there's enough chemistry to deflect attention from the story's endless contrivances... he's [Clooney] such a natural as a movie star that he hardly needs false flattery. Ms Pfeiffer, meanwhile, shows a flair for physical comedy.\" [ 8 ]", "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, \"'Cinema is the history of boys photographing girls.' Or so Jean-Luc Godard is claimed to have said. I thought of his words while watching One Fine Day , an uninspired formula movie with another fine performance by Michelle Pfeiffer. She does everything in this movie that a much better movie would have required from her, but the screenplay lets her down... Pfeiffer looks, acts and sounds wonderful throughout all of this, and George Clooney is perfectly serviceable as a romantic lead, sort of a Mel Gibson lite. I liked them. I wanted them to get together. I wanted them to live happily ever after. The sooner the better.\" [ 9 ]", "Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote, \"Director Michael Hoffman, whose idiosyncratic portfolio includes the period comedy Restoration and the spoof Soapdish , sets a mellow pace and alternates old-fashioned split screen with crosscutting to enliven the many phone scenes. If the stars don't click, of course, nothing else matters. Happily, Pfeiffer and Clooney, now officially a movie star, not only click, they send off sparks.\" [ 10 ]", "Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote, \" One Fine Day is fortunate in its casting. Not only does it have Michelle Pfeiffer, whose gift for this kind of business was visible as far back as Married to the Mob and The Fabulous Baker Boys , but it marks the emergence of George Clooney as a major romantic star... Still, despite feeling like its moments have been micro-managed for maximum audience response, One Fine Day often passes for a pleasant diversion. But with actors so suited to each other, it's too bad the film didn't give them more original material to work with.\" [ 2 ]", "Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, \"We've seen it before, but Pfeiffer and Clooney do everything in their power to make it seem fresh and delightful. That's ultimately not enough, and even though the stars have some chemistry and Pfeiffer delivers her usual spotless performance, One Fine Day never manages to be more than a harmless, forgettable time-filler.\" [ 11 ]", "Rob Nelson of the Boston Phoenix wrote, \"Privilege and coincidence have always been central to screwball comedy , but the speed of crosstown travel here rivals Die Hard 3 for plausibility. And it's these convenient shortcuts that waylay the film from examining the condition it purports to critique: that is, the '90s compulsion to drive at full throttle.\" [ 12 ]", "One Fine Day: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the film. It was released on December 10, 1996, by Columbia Records . The album peaked at number 57 on Billboard 200 in 1997.", "One Fine Day earned a total of $6.2 million during its opening weekend, ranking in fifth place at the box office behind Beavis and Butt-Head Do America , Jerry Maguire , 101 Dalmatians and Scream . [ 5 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 53% based on 36 reviews, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads, \"With a throwback 1930s vibe, this screwball romantic comedy is perfect for One Fine Day of folding laundry.\" [ 6 ] It was considered a commercial disappointment by Twentieth Century Fox . [ 7 ]", "Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, \"A 50's romp with a few glaring 90's touches (dueling cellular phones, frazzled single parents), One Fine Day makes for sunny, pleasant fluff. Both stars are enjoyably breezy, and there's enough chemistry to deflect attention from the story's endless contrivances... he's [Clooney] such a natural as a movie star that he hardly needs false flattery. Ms Pfeiffer, meanwhile, shows a flair for physical comedy.\" [ 8 ]", "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, \"'Cinema is the history of boys photographing girls.' Or so Jean-Luc Godard is claimed to have said. I thought of his words while watching One Fine Day , an uninspired formula movie with another fine performance by Michelle Pfeiffer. She does everything in this movie that a much better movie would have required from her, but the screenplay lets her down... Pfeiffer looks, acts and sounds wonderful throughout all of this, and George Clooney is perfectly serviceable as a romantic lead, sort of a Mel Gibson lite. I liked them. I wanted them to get together. I wanted them to live happily ever after. The sooner the better.\" [ 9 ]", "Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote, \"Director Michael Hoffman, whose idiosyncratic portfolio includes the period comedy Restoration and the spoof Soapdish , sets a mellow pace and alternates old-fashioned split screen with crosscutting to enliven the many phone scenes. If the stars don't click, of course, nothing else matters. Happily, Pfeiffer and Clooney, now officially a movie star, not only click, they send off sparks.\" [ 10 ]", "Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote, \" One Fine Day is fortunate in its casting. Not only does it have Michelle Pfeiffer, whose gift for this kind of business was visible as far back as Married to the Mob and The Fabulous Baker Boys , but it marks the emergence of George Clooney as a major romantic star... Still, despite feeling like its moments have been micro-managed for maximum audience response, One Fine Day often passes for a pleasant diversion. But with actors so suited to each other, it's too bad the film didn't give them more original material to work with.\" [ 2 ]", "Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, \"We've seen it before, but Pfeiffer and Clooney do everything in their power to make it seem fresh and delightful. That's ultimately not enough, and even though the stars have some chemistry and Pfeiffer delivers her usual spotless performance, One Fine Day never manages to be more than a harmless, forgettable time-filler.\" [ 11 ]", "Rob Nelson of the Boston Phoenix wrote, \"Privilege and coincidence have always been central to screwball comedy , but the speed of crosstown travel here rivals Die Hard 3 for plausibility. And it's these convenient shortcuts that waylay the film from examining the condition it purports to critique: that is, the '90s compulsion to drive at full throttle.\" [ 12 ]"]
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One False Move
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/One_false_move.JPG", "Directed by": "Carl Franklin", "Written by": "Billy Bob Thornton Tom Epperson", "Produced by": "Jesse Beaton Ben Myron", "Starring": "Bill Paxton Cynda Williams Billy Bob Thornton Michael Beach Earl Billings Jim Metzler", "Cinematography": "James L. Carter", "Edited by": "Carole Kravetz", "Music by": "Peter Haycock Derek Holt Terry Plumeri", "Distributed by": "I.R.S. Releasing", "Release date": "May 8, 1992 ( 1992-05-08 )", "Running time": "105 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$2.5 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$1.5 million"}
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["One False Move is a 1992 American crime thriller film directed by Carl Franklin and written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson . The film stars Thornton alongside Bill Paxton and Cynda Williams . The low-budget production was about to be released straight to home video when it was finished, but became popular through word of mouth, convincing the distributor to give the film a theatrical release.", "Three criminals, Ray, Pluto and Fantasia (Ray's girlfriend), commit six brutal murders over the course of one night in Los Angeles as they seek a cache of money and cocaine. The trio leave for Houston to sell the cocaine to a friend of Pluto's.", "LAPD Detectives Dud Cole and John McFeely are investigating the case. After getting a few leads, they discover that the three are possibly headed for Star City, Arkansas . The LAPD contacts the Star City Police Chief, Dale \"Hurricane\" Dixon, who is excited about the case, as it gives him an opportunity to do \"some real police work\". He is well-known throughout the small county, chatting with locals while on patrol. The detectives fly to Star City and meet Dale. He attempts to ingratiate himself with the detectives, whom he reveres, while they pretend to respect him.", "After stopping at a convenience store, a state trooper pulls over and attempts to arrest Ray and Pluto but Fantasia kills him as she is asked to get out of the car. Word of the trooper's murder gets to the detectives in Star City, and the trio review surveillance photos of Ray and Fantasia in the store confirming their identity. Dale informs the detectives that Fantasia is Lila Walker and she grew up in Star City. He recalls she was a troubled youth who left for Hollywood with dreams of an acting career.", "The detectives sense Dale may know Fantasia better than he is letting on after they stop by her mother's house. They question Fantasia's mother and brother Ronnie about Fantasia's whereabouts and if she had contacted them recently. They also meet a young boy, Byron, who is revealed to be Lila's young son. The detectives suspect that Lila will be coming home to see him.", "Ray, Fantasia and Pluto arrive in Houston to sell the drugs as planned. Fantasia takes a bus to Star City. Angry that their buyers are reneging on the previously agreed upon price for the cocaine, Pluto and Ray kill them and flee. They drive to Star City to meet up with Fantasia and plan their next move.", "When Fantasia arrives in Star City, she hides at a rural house. Dale confronts her, and it is revealed that the boy is Dale and Lila's son, conceived during an affair years earlier. After tense conversation, they make a deal: Lila will lure Ray and Pluto to ensure their arrest and in exchange, Dale will help her leave town.", "Pluto and Ray arrive at the house and are immediately confronted by the armed police chief. Lila distracts Dale, allowing Pluto to stab him in the stomach, during which Dale manages to shoot Pluto. Ray draws his gun and runs outside while shooting at Dale. The two fire at each other, but Fantasia stops Dale from killing Ray, only to have Ray errantly shoot her in the head. Seriously wounded, Dale steadies himself and shoots Ray to death. Pluto walks outside and falls dead in the grass. Dale calls for help with his police radio, and the LAPD detectives arrive, amazed at what the chief has accomplished. Byron walks over and talks to Dale as he lies bleeding, and he asks the boy to tell him about himself.", "Carl Franklin, who was transitioning from a career as an actor, attracted the attention of producers Jesse Beaton and Ben Myron with his American Film Institute thesis film, Punk . [ 1 ] Beaton and Myron, who owned the rights to One False Move , were impressed by Franklin’s “maturity” and his understanding of the film’s subtexts of race relations, the conflicts between city and country life and gender issues. [ 1 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 93% of 57 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's consensus reads: \" One False Move makes nary a misstep as it unfurls a seedy caper with hard-hitting action and sly humor, marking an arresting debut for director Carl Franklin.\" [ 2 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 87 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". [ 3 ]", "Writing for The Washington Post , Hal Hinson praised the film: \"'One False Move' is a thriller with a hair-trigger sense of tension. Directed by newcomer Carl Franklin, its power comes from the stripped-down simplicity of its style and the unblinking savagery of its violence.\" [ 4 ] Film critic Roger Ebert praised the film's director in his review: \"It is a powerful directing job. He starts with an extraordinary screenplay and then finds the right tones and moods for every scene, realizing it's not the plot we care about, it’s the people.\" [ 5 ] At year end, film critic Gene Siskel voted the film as his favorite of 1992. [ 6 ]", "The film was nominated for the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics . [ citation needed ]", "In the United States and Canada, One False Move grossed $1.5 million at the box office [ 7 ] against a budget of $2.5 million. [ 8 ]"]
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One A.M.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_A.M._(1916_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/One_A.M._poster.jpg/250px-One_A.M._poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Charlie Chaplin Edward Brewer (technical director)", "Written by": "Charlie Chaplin (scenario) Vincent Bryan (scenario) Maverick Terrell (scenario)", "Produced by": "Henry P. Caulfield", "Starring": "Charlie Chaplin", "Cinematography": "William C. Foster Roland Totheroh", "Edited by": "Charlie Chaplin", "Distributed by": "Mutual Film Corporation", "Release date": "August 7, 1916 ( 1916-08-07 )", "Running time": "2 reels (full length unknown) c. 34 mins.", "Country": "United States", "Languages": "Silent film English intertitles"}
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["One A.M. is a unique Charlie Chaplin silent film created for Mutual Film in 1916 . It was the first film he starred in alone, and also one of the very few films in which he did not play the Tramp character.", "The film opens with a scene of a wealthy young man (Chaplin) arriving at his house in a taxi in the morning after a night of heavy drinking. He tries in vain to grasp the handle on the outside. He thinks, \"They really need to place the handles near the door.", "When he finally does find it after some searching, he gets out, with his hand on the open taxi window. However, in his drunkenness, he thinks his hand is stuck, and tries to pull it out. \"I never did like taxis,\" he remarks.", "He then takes out his handkerchief, blows his nose on it, and wipes the mucus onto the taxi door, in an attempt to free his hand. However, his handkerchief falls, and Charlie, in his drunkenness, never thinks of the fact that he has to just withdraw his hand and walk from the side to retrieve his handkerchief, almost wrecks the taxi and very nearly kills himself in trying to retrieve his handkerchief the hard way.", "All this while, the taxi driver ( Albert Austin ) never reacts. Thanks to a big miracle (well, according to the drunk, anyway!), Charlie withdraws his hand, and headbutts the taxi door so hard he knocks himself back inside. Fortunately, though, he'd grabbed his hanky by then. This is what has been questioned by critics—how a drunk man can have better reflexes than the average sober man.", "He looks at the money he has to pay to the taxi driver. However, the numbers are moving fast—too fast for Charlie. He stares at it for some seconds, then looks back at the scenery, and then stares back at it again, when the numbers are still moving. He thinks the numbers have gone nuts and just puts on his top hat. He then lights up his cigar and, accidentally, burns the taxi driver's hand with the lit end. He hastily pays and decides to leave.", "However, he does not observe the fact that his jacket is trapped in the closed door. His hat falls off as he's jerked back towards the taxi. He almost punctures a wheel in his attempt to free the jacket, and the door, unexpectedly, opens with a jolt. Of course, he's knocked back out.", "He walks up to his front door. When he reaches it, however, another problem faces him. He thinks that he has forgotten the key and has to enter through the window. He knocks it out and climbs in. In the process, he steps into a fishbowl placed underneath it, and then slips on a mat. He finds his key was in his coat pocket all along, and decides to enter the \"proper\" way, that is, via the door.", "However, when he enters, he slips on a mat, and for 10 seconds of some heart-in-mouth slipping and standing, the door becomes Charlie's only lean-on. Of course, the door is the worst possible option for a lean-on, and Charlie pays the price. He struggles to balance, and wonders whether he's wearing skates. He finally slips when he lets go of the door, regains his balance but soon loses it, considering he has to balance against the jacket-hanger, and then slips again, landing on his jaw.", "He retrieves himself, and walks surprisingly steadily for a few steps, until another mat approaches him, and his legs slide out from below him, causing him to fall on his back. He lands between a tiger rug and a stuffed Eurasian lynx , which terrify him as he thinks they are real. He tries edging away from each other, only resulting in more hilarity as Charlie tries kicking the tiger rug away and then later thinks his foot is being eaten by the tiger. However, it doesn't end there. He tries to lure the lynx by giving it an air-kiss, and then walks up to it and kicks it away. That, however, ends when he proceeds onto the table.", "There, he tries to pour himself a drink, but his jacket accidentally gets stuck onto a hole in the table, and the table top spins around. Unaware of the jacket that is stuck on the table, he keeps chasing the drinks and never gives up. He tries swatting his hands over to the drinks, but they elude him. Charlie's willpower increases minute-by-minute, and his running gets faster as it does—and so does the table top. \"That's the fastest round of drinks I ever saw!\" he remarks when the drink keeps eluding him.", "By and by, Charlie tires, and stops for a second. However, he sees the drinks have stopped, too, and thinks he can get to them by just walking up to them. But alas! When he does, the table top starts spinning again, and the wild goose-chase resumes. Charlie staggers backwards, and the drinks come within his reach. However, when he tries getting them, the goose-chase resumes and Charlie continues the run.", "And then, of all the times, does he realize the jacket was the cause for the spinning table top. He takes it off, and walks towards the drinks, but the table keeps spinning. This is because Charlie's foot is on the jacket, and he resumes running after it. He finally falls down out of sheer exhaustion, and, lo and behold, the table top stops spinning. He looks at the drinks in wonder as they've stopped. \"What detained you?\" he asks.", "He takes the drink—and as fate would have it, poured it on the table. Seeing the glass still empty, he takes another glass and pours the drink on the table again. He then attempts to pour it directly onto the glass, and he found a way to mess that up as well—carelessly, he sloshed it everywhere around the floor and on his shoes.", "He then attempts to light a cigarette, but messes that up too. He cannot light it, and dumps it in his hat, that is, thanks to his goose-chase, on the floor, thinking of it as a dustbin, and then burns his hand with the lit end. He walks over to his hat and takes the cigar out, then dumps it on the large pool of beer he's got. \"This has been done,\" he remarks, and throws it in the hat.", "He takes out another cigarette from his cigar-pouch, slips on a carpet, unsuccessfully attempts to hang his hat against the peg, puts it on anyway, and then slips on another carpet, his head landing on the bottom of the stairs. He dumps his jacket and hat, and heads towards his drinks. Paranoid that he's in for another goose-chase, he leaps onto them. Of course, he gets them, pours them and chugs them.", "He then walks on the lynx, and thinks his leg is trapped between its legs. Of course, instead of just withdrawing his legs, he instead kicks its mouth from his left leg. As a bad element, however, his feet slide out from under him, and he lands flat on his back.", "All this has drained him. \"Good night! I'm off!\" he declares, and tries to head up the stairs to his bedroom. But at the last step, he falters, losing his balance, and, of course, slides all the 13 stairs down. He tries again, and gets knocked back down, nearly slipping on the carpet. He walks up to the drinks, drinks another glass, and staggers, falling flat on his back. Cigarette in mouth, he tries again—and fails again. He proceeds to fail several times in climbing the stairs, and a large cuckoo clock on the upstairs landing also poses a problem, due to its pendulum's implausibly wide swing. He becomes increasingly creative with his attempts to climb the stairs, using mountain gear, for instance, in his next attempt.", "This does not go down well. The rope is not lengthy, which means Charlie can only use it for a limited length. When he reaches the top, the rope gives in, and Charlie slides down helplessly. \"If I knew how to yodel, I'd make it!\" he remarks, upon sliding down. He tries climbing again, and, miraculously, reaches upstairs. However, the pendulum knocks into his jaw, and Charlie staggers back towards the stairs—back to where he started.", "I'll try another route.\" He tries going up the second staircase, walks all the way back down, and then wonders how he got knocked down again. He climbs up the table top, and he's already run a marathon before he can gain his balance. And he's still running the marathon as he looks determinedly to his room. \"Light exercise,\" he thinks—and falls off the next minute.", "He tries climbing via the first staircase again, and falls all the way back down again—only this time, he drags the carpet with him. Wrapped up in this carpet, he takes another shot and then tries climbing via the jacket-hanger. It is very dangerous, and Charlie's life hangs in balance for a second, until Charlie grasps hold of the staircase and manages to get to the door of his room.", "Alas! The pendulum interferes again. The next thing he knows, Charlie is sliding all the way down. He re-attempts going to his room via the same route, and this time is successful. The pendulum smashes into his jaw again, but Charlie isn't knocked down the stairs, and enters like a four-legged animal into his room.", "He searches for his Murphy bed . Soon, the hilarity ensues again, which ends with Charlie wrecking his bed and tearing his hat. He gives up on the idea of sleeping in his bed and goes to bathroom for further inspiration. He enters the shower and, of course, in his drunken state, turns it on. He wets himself, and, soaked, he gets into the bathtub and then falls asleep under a towel.", "A reviewer for the Louisville Herald wrote, \"Chaplin, by himself, creates all the action that is necessary to produce the laughs for which he has become noted, and there is no doubt that this is the most exacting role the comedian has ever essayed.", "Edna Purviance 's absence from the cast was a rarity. Apart from His New Job , One A.M. was the only Chaplin film from 1915 to 1923 not to feature Purviance in some role.", "In 1932, Amedee Van Beuren of Van Beuren Studios, purchased Chaplin's Mutual comedies for $10,000 each, added music by Gene Rodemich and Winston Sharples and sound effects, and re-released them through RKO Radio Pictures . Chaplin had no legal recourse to stop the RKO release. Many Chaplin fans consider this version of ‘One A.M.’ to be a brilliant combination of music and sound effects with the action. [ 1 ]", "One A.M restored and with new orchestral score 2023 - this version is unique - available to view for free Here"]
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One Hundred Men and a Girl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Men_and_a_Girl
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Original_movie_poster_for_the_film_One_Hundred_Men_and_a_Girl.jpg", "Directed by": "Henry Koster", "Screenplay by": "Charles Kenyon Bruce Manning James Mulhauser", "Story by": "Hanns Kräly", "Produced by": "Joe Pasternak Charles R. Rogers", "Starring": "Deanna Durbin and Leopold Stokowski", "Cinematography": "Joseph A. Valentine", "Edited by": "Bernard W. Burton", "Music by": "Charles Previn Frank Skinner Leopold Stokowski", "Production company": "Universal Pictures", "Distributed by": "Universal Pictures", "Release date": "September 5, 1937 ( 1937-09-05 ) (USA)", "Running time": "85 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$762,000 [ 1 ] or $733,000 [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$2,270,200 [ 1 ]"}
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["One Hundred Men and a Girl (styled 100 Men and a Girl in advertising) is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin and the maestro Leopold Stokowski . Written by Charles Kenyon , Bruce Manning , and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kräly , the film is about the daughter of a struggling musician who forms a symphony orchestra consisting of his unemployed friends. Through persistence, charm, and a few misunderstandings, they are able to get famed conductor Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert, which leads to a radio contract. One Hundred Men and a Girl was the first of two motion pictures featuring Leopold Stokowski, and is also one of the films for which Durbin is best remembered as an actress and a singer.", "John Cardwell, a trombone player, is only one of a large group of unemployed musicians. He tries unsuccessfully to gain an interview and audition with Leopold Stokowski , but not to disappoint his daughter, Patricia (Patsy), he tells her that he has managed to get the job with Stokowski's orchestra. Patsy soon learns the truth and also learns that her father, desperate for rent money, has used some of the cash in a lady's evening bag he has found to pay his debts.", "The irrepressible and wilful Patsy seeks an interview with Mrs. Frost, whose bag it was, and confesses her father's actions. Mrs. Frost, a society matron and wife of rich radio station owner John R. Frost, lightheartedly offers to sponsor an orchestra of unemployed musicians. Taking her at her word, Patsy and her father recruit 100 musicians, rent a garage space and start to rehearse. Realizing that Patsy took her seriously, Mrs. Frost flees to Europe.", "Mr. Frost tells John and his friends that he will not sponsor them, as they had supposed, unless they can attract a well-recognized guest conductor to give them a 'name' and launch them on their opening night.", "Patsy, undaunted, sets out to recruit none other than Leopold Stokowski to be that conductor. Stokowski at first definitely refuses—though when Patsy sings as the orchestra is rehearsing Mozart 's \"Alleluia\" from Exsultate, jubilate , he strongly suggests that she seek professional voice training and eventual representation.", "By mistake, Patsy conveys the story to a newspaper music critic that Stokowski will conduct an orchestra of unemployed musicians, and that John R. Frost would broadcast the concert on the radio. When the story breaks, Frost protests his embarrassment to his friends, but they suggest valuable publicity would result. Frost immediately signs the one-hundred-man orchestra to a contract, though Patsy tries to tell them that Stokowski has not agreed.", "Stokowski is astonished and offended at the news, but Patsy enters Stokowski's palatial house surreptitiously, along with the entire orchestra. She apologizes to him and insists that he listen to the players. The conductor is so moved by their performance of Liszt 's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 that he postpones a European tour and agrees to the engagement.", "The concert is a rousing success for everyone, especially when Patsy, called upon to make a speech, instead agrees to sing the \"Brindisi\" (Drinking Song) from Verdi 's opera La traviata .", "Everybody said you can't top Three Smart Girls \", said Pasternak years later. \"I said you can top anything as long as you're honest, you don't fool yourself, you get the right subject and you create a public taste for it.\" [ 3 ]", "The film was originally called 120 Men and One Girl and was announced in December 1936. [ 4 ] It was based on an original story and screenplay by Hans Kraly. [ 5 ]", "Leopold Stokowski was, at the time of the film's release, co-conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy . Political and artistic differences with the orchestra's board had already led Stokowski to allow Ormandy to assume a greater leadership role at the orchestra and eventually would lead Stokowski to break with the orchestra entirely. This might explain why the city in which the film is set, and by extension Stokowski's \"regular\" orchestra, is never positively identified in the film. The music was recorded in multi-channel stereophonic sound but released in monaural sound; three years later Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra appeared in the first feature film to be presented in stereo, Fantasia . Jane Barlow, ballerina and a student of Nijinska, was a body double for Deanna Durbin in this film. [ 6 ]", "Casting Stokowski was reportedly Durbin's idea. [ 7 ] Stokowski signed to make the film in February 1937. [ 8 ] His fee was reportedly $80,000. Paramount objected saying they had signed a contract with the conductor but it turned out this was only verbal. [ 9 ] Filming started in March.", "The film opened to highly favorable critical reviews and is remembered as a hit. Of all the elements of the film, Deanna Durbin's ability to both sing and act drew the highest praise. [ 11 ]", "The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture . In addition, Charles Previn , in his role as head of the music department for Universal Pictures , won the Academy Award for Original Music Score . (No specific composer credit was ever specified.) Previn's scoring consisted of using two original songs (by Sam Coslow and Friedrich Hollaender) and a carefully chosen selection of music from classical symphonic works and operas. The other three awards for which this film was nominated were Best Film Editing , Best Sound Mixing ( Homer G. Tasker ), and Best Original Story . [ 12 ]", "The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:"]
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The $1,000,000 Reward
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_$1,000,000_Reward
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/The_%241%2C000%2C000_Reward_%281920%29_-_1.jpg/250px-The_%241%2C000%2C000_Reward_%281920%29_-_1.jpg", "Directed by": "George Lessey", "Produced by": "Harry Grossman", "Starring": "Coit Albertson", "Distributed by": "Grossman Pictures", "Release date": "January 1920 ( 1920-01 )", "Running time": "15 episodes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "Silent (English intertitles )"}
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["The $1,000,000 Reward is a 1920 American drama serial film directed by George Lessey and produced by Harry Grossman. This is now considered to be a lost film , [ 1 ] as there are no available copies of it."]
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cd/One_Hundred_and_One_Dalmatians_movie_poster.jpg/250px-One_Hundred_and_One_Dalmatians_movie_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Wolfgang Reitherman Hamilton Luske Clyde Geronimi", "Screenplay by": "Bill Peet (uncredited) [ 1 ]", "Story by": "Bill Peet", "Based on": "The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith", "Produced by": "Walt Disney", "Starring": "Rod Taylor Cate Bauer Betty Lou Gerson Ben Wright Lisa Davis Martha Wentworth", "Edited by": "Roy M. Brewer, Jr. Donald Halliday", "Music by": "George Bruns", "Production company": "Walt Disney Productions", "Distributed by": "Buena Vista Distribution", "Release date": "January 25, 1961 ( 1961-01-25 )", "Running time": "79 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$3.6–4 million [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "Box office": "$303 million [ 4 ]"}
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["One Hundred and One Dalmatians (also known as 101 Dalmatians ) is a 1961 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions with distribution by Buena Vista Distribution . Adapted from Dodie Smith 's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians , the film was directed by Hamilton Luske , Clyde Geronimi , and Wolfgang Reitherman in his feature-length directorial debut, from a script by Bill Peet . [ a ] It features the voice talents of Rod Taylor , J. Pat O'Malley , Betty Lou Gerson , Martha Wentworth , Ben Wright , Cate Bauer, Dave Frankham , and Fred Worlock . The film's plot follows Pongo and Perdita, two British Dalmatians who give birth to a litter of fifteen puppies, who are later kidnapped by the obsessive socialite Cruella de Vil , wanting to make their fur into coats. Pongo and Perdita set out on a cross-country rescue mission to save the litter from the maniacal Cruella. They rescue 84 additional Dalmatians in the process, bringing the total to 101.", "One Hundred and One Dalmatians was released in theaters on January 25, 1961, to positive reviews from critics and was a box-office success, grossing $14 million domestically in its original theatrical run. It became the first animated feature to earn over $10 million during its initial release, and became the eighth-highest-grossing film of the year in the North American box office and the highest-grossing animated film when reissues of films are not counted. Aside from its box-office revenue, the employment of inexpensive animation techniques, such as using xerography during the process of inking and painting traditional animation cels , kept production costs down. Counting reissues, the film grossed $303 million worldwide, and when adjusted for inflation, is the twelfth-highest-grossing film in the North American box office and the second-highest-grossing animated film globally. [ 5 ] It is also the traditionally animated film that had the most ticket admissions at an estimate of over 199,800,000 sold tickets. [ 6 ]", "The success of the film made Disney expand it into a media franchise , with a live-action remake released in 1996, followed by a sequel in 2000. A direct-to-video animated sequel to the 1961 film, 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure , was released in 2003. Two animated television series based on the franchise were also produced, with 101 Dalmatians: The Series in 1997 and 101 Dalmatian Street in 2019. A live-action reboot, Cruella , was released in 2021.", "In 1957, aspiring songwriter Roger Radcliffe lives in a bachelor flat near Regent's Park in London with his pet Dalmatian , Pongo. Deciding both of them need a \"mate\", Pongo watches women and their dogs in the street. Noticing a young woman named Anita and her Dalmatian Perdita, he drags Roger to the park to arrange a meeting. Roger and Anita fall in love, and soon marry, with Pongo and Perdita attending.", "The Radcliffes hire a nanny and move into a small townhouse near Regent's Park. After Perdita becomes pregnant with a litter of 15 puppies , Anita's fur-obsessed former schoolmate, Cruella de Vil , arrives and demands to know when the puppies will arrive. Roger responds by writing a jazzy song mocking her. A frightened Perdita confesses to Pongo that she now regrets the idea of having puppies due to Cruella wanting them. When the puppies are born, Cruella returns demanding to buy them. Roger firmly denies her offer and Cruella, refusing to take no for an answer, swears revenge as she storms out.", "Several weeks later, Cruella makes good on her threat; secretly hiring Jasper and Horace Badun, two burglar brothers, to steal the puppies. With Scotland Yard unable to find the puppies or prove Cruella was involved, Pongo and Perdita use the \"Twilight Bark\", a canine gossip line, to solicit help from the other dogs in London, and eventually all of England.", "On the farm of a retired cavalry officer, the Colonel, a military-like Old English Sheepdog , along with his feline compatriot Sergeant Tibbs, investigate nearby Hell Hall, the \"Old De Vil Place\", where puppies had been heard barking two nights earlier. Tibbs finds the puppies in the old mansion and learns that Cruella intends to make them into dog-skin fur coats . After the Colonel sends word back to London, Pongo and Perdita leave through a back window and begin a long cross-country journey, crossing an icy river and running through the snow toward Suffolk .", "Meanwhile, Tibbs overhears Cruella ordering the Baduns to kill the puppies that night out of fear the police will soon find them. In response, Tibbs helps the puppies escape through a hole in the wall, but the Baduns notice and give chase. Pongo and Perdita break into the house and confront the Baduns just as they are about to attack the cornered Tibbs and the puppies. While they fight the two men, the Colonel and Tibbs guide the puppies from the house. Following a happy reunion with their own puppies, Pongo and Perdita discover there are 84 more puppies with them. Shocked at Cruella's evil plans, they decide to adopt all the puppies, certain that Roger and Anita would never reject them.", "The Dalmatians start their homeward trek, pursued by Cruella and the Baduns. They take shelter from a blizzard in a dairy farm with a friendly collie and four cows, then make their way to Dinsford, where they meet a Black Labrador waiting for them in a blacksmith 's shop. Cruella and the Baduns arrive, prompting Pongo to have his entire family roll in a sooty fireplace to disguise themselves as other Labradors. The Labrador helps them board a moving van bound for London, but melting snow falls on Lucky and clears the soot off of him, blowing the dogs' cover. Enraged, Cruella pursues the van in her car and tries to ram it off the road, but the Baduns, attempting to do the same with their lorry, end up colliding with her. Both vehicles crash into a ditch, and Cruella yells at the two in frustration for ruining everything before weeping over the loss of both her car and her dream coat. Jasper, having had enough of her, tells her to shut up as the van drives away.", "In London, a depressed Nanny and the Radcliffes try to enjoy Christmas and the wealth they have acquired from the song about Cruella de Vil, which has become a big radio hit. The soot-covered Dalmatians suddenly flood the house. Upon removing the soot and counting the massive family of dogs, Roger chooses to use his songwriting royalties to buy a big house in the country so they can keep all 101 Dalmatians.", "Additionally, the film features Mickey Maga, Barbara Beaird, Mimi Gibson , and Sandra Abbott as Patch, Rolly, Lucky, and Penny, [ 17 ] Dalmatian puppies from Pongo and Perdita's litter. [ 8 ] Max Smith, Bob Stevens, Clarence Nash , and Dal McKennon provided the sounds of dog barks. [ 15 ] Thurl Ravenscroft voiced Captain, [ 36 ] a gray horse and aide of Colonel and Sergeant Tibbs. [ 16 ] Barbara Luddy (who voiced characters in previous films such as Lady and the Tramp and Sleeping Beauty ) and Rickie Sorensen voiced Rover [ 17 ] and Spotty, [ 39 ] two of the eighty-four Dalmatian puppies that were bought by Cruella. [ 40 ] Jeanne Gayle (the wife of the film's composer George Bruns ) performed the radio version of \"Cruella De Vil\" song in the film's final scene. [ 23 ] Paul Frees voiced Dirty Dawson, [ 41 ] the villain in the Thunderbolt TV show. [ 42 ] Lucille Bliss performed the \"Kanine Krunchies\" jingle in a TV commercial. [ 43 ]", "The children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith had been published on November 19, 1956, [ 44 ] to an immediate success. [ 45 ] By February 1957, screenwriter Charles Brackett brought it to the attention of Walt Disney , [ 46 ] who acquired the film rights to the novel on November 26 of that year [ 47 ] (after lengthy negotiations) [ 48 ] for $25,000. [ 46 ] The project was set to be Disney's next animated feature after Sleeping Beauty (which was still in production at the time) [ 48 ] and was originally expected to be finished within two years. [ 47 ] Story artist Bill Peet was assigned to single-handedly develop the story, [ 49 ] marking the first time a Disney animated film was written by one person. [ 50 ] Disney also tasked Peet to write a detailed screenplay first before storyboarding; since Peet never learned to use a typewriter, he wrote the initial draft by hand on legal paper. [ 1 ] The manuscript was completed and typed up within two months, after which, having received Disney's approval, Peet began storyboarding and was charged with recording the voice-over process. [ 51 ] This was the first time that a complete screenplay was approved for a Disney feature animated film before storyboarding began, but it was \"a short-lived experiment\" and that particular approach would not be used again at Disney Animation until The Great Mouse Detective (1986). [ 52 ]", "Peet closely followed the plot of Smith's novel, but condensed some of its characters, which included Cruella's husband and cat, [ 27 ] as well as Cadpig, the female runt of Pongo and Missis' puppies, whose traits were transferred to Lucky in the final film. [ 22 ] [ b ] He also merged two Dalmatian mothers, birth mother Missis and adopted mother Perdita, into one, [ 50 ] naming her after the latter; [ 27 ] likewise, Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler from the novel were amalgamated into one character, simply named Nanny. [ 22 ] The Colonel's cat assistant was re-gendered from the female Pussy Willow into the male Sergeant Tibbs, and Horace Badun was renamed from Saul. [ 54 ] Among other things, Peet retained a scene from the original book in which Pongo and Perdita exchange wedding vows in unison with their owners, who were also renamed from Mr. and Mrs. Dearly to Roger and Anita Radcliffe. [ 22 ] However, after the censor board warned that it might offend certain religious audiences if the animals repeated the exact words of a solemn religious ceremony, it was reworked to be less religious, down to having Roger and Anita dressed in formal clothes. [ 55 ] Also, the film's original ending involved the newly rich Roger selling his song about Cruella and buying the Hell Hall to turn it into a Dalmatian Plantation, with Pongo and Perdita expecting another litter of puppies. It was ultimately cut short and rewritten to have Dalmatians reunite with their owners after they escape from Cruella. [ 56 ]", "Although Disney had not been as involved in the production of the animated films as frequently as in previous years, he was always present at story meetings. [ 57 ] When Peet sent Dodie Smith some drawings of the characters, she wrote back saying that he had improved her story and that the designs looked better than the illustrations in the book.", "The filmmakers deliberately cast actors with deeper voices for the roles of dogs, so they would have more power than those of the human characters. [ 58 ] Rod Taylor , who had extensive radio experience, was one of the first actors cast in the film; [ 23 ] he got the role of Pongo. [ 59 ] Lisa Daniels was originally cast as Perdita and recorded about the third of her lines but then got married and moved to New York ; [ 23 ] Cate Bauer replaced her for the rest of the film. [ 59 ] J. Pat O'Malley , who was a regular voice actor for the studio and one of Disney's personal favorites, [ 23 ] got the roles of Jasper and Colonel, [ 60 ] and also voiced several minor characters in the film. [ 59 ] David Frankham was cast as Sergeant Tibbs in the spring of 1959 and finished his recording within three sessions from May 1959 to January 1960; [ 61 ] he was also asked to record the part of Scottie, the Skye Terrier who appears early in the \"Twilight Bark\" sequence. [ 31 ]", "Disney originally had Lisa Davis read for the role of Cruella De Vil, but she did not think that she was right for the part, and wanted to try reading the role of Anita instead. [ 62 ] Disney agreed, and, after they read the script for a second time, she landed the part. [ 32 ] Davis also provided live-action reference for the character. [ 63 ] Betty Lou Gerson , who was previously the narrator for Cinderella (1950), auditioned for the role of Cruella De Vil in front of Marc Davis , the character's supervising animator, and sequence director Wolfgang Reitherman , and immediately landed it. [ 64 ] While searching for the right accent of the character, she landed on a \"phony theatrical voice, someone who's set sail from New York but hasn't quite reached England.\" [ 65 ] During the recording process, Gerson was thought to be imitating Tallulah Bankhead , [ 20 ] but she later disputed that she \"didn't intentionally imitate her ... We both had phony English accents on top of our Southern accents and a great deal of flair. So our voices came out that way.\" [ 66 ] Gerson finished her recording sessions in fourteen days. [ 64 ]", "After Sleeping Beauty (1959) disappointed at the box office, Disney was losing money and there were discussions about closing down the animation department. [ 57 ] During the film's production, Disney told animator Eric Larson : \"I don't think we can continue; it's too expensive.\" [ 67 ] Despite this, he still had deep feelings towards animation because he had built the company upon it. [ 57 ]", "Ub Iwerks , in charge of special processes at the studio, had been experimenting with Xerox photography to aid in animation. By 1959, he used a Xerox camera to transfer drawings by animators directly to animation cels , eliminating the inking process, thus saving time and money while preserving the spontaneity of the penciled elements. [ 68 ] However, because of its limitations, the camera was unable to deviate from a black scratchy outline and lacked the fine lavish quality of hand inking. [ 68 ] Disney would first use the Xerox process for a thorn forest in Sleeping Beauty , [ 67 ] and the first production to make full use of the process was Goliath II (1960). [ 68 ] For One Hundred and One Dalmatians , one of the benefits of the process was that it was a great help towards animating the spotted dogs. According to Chuck Jones , Disney was able to complete the film for about half of what it would have cost if they had had to animate all the dogs and spots. [ 69 ]", "Meanwhile, Ken Anderson , the studio's art director, learned a television production studio—Hurrell Productions—was using Xerography to produce television commercials featuring Disney characters. [ 70 ] Inspired by the aesthetic, Anderson experimented with a Xerox copier to directly transfer the animators' drawings onto transparent cels , thereby eliminating the inking process. Anderson screened an animation test to Disney and the animators; although Disney expressed concern at the graphic style, he gave his approval stating: \"Ah, yeah, yeah, you can fool around all you want to.\" [ 71 ] For the stylized art direction, Anderson took inspiration from British cartoonist Ronald Searle , [ 72 ] who once advised him to use a Mont Blanc pen and India ink for his artwork. [ 71 ]", "In addition to the character animation, Anderson also sought to use Xerography on \"the background painting because I was going to apply the same technique to the whole picture.\" [ 71 ] Along with color stylist Walt Peregoy , the two had the line drawings be printed on a separate animation cel before being laid over the background, which gave the appearance similar to the Xeroxed animation. [ 57 ] [ 73 ] Disney disliked the artistic look of the film and felt he was losing the \"fantasy\" element of his animated films. [ 57 ] In a meeting with the animation staff concerning future films, Disney angrily said, \"We're never gonna have one of those goddamned things\", referring to the film's art direction; he also stated, \"Ken's never going to be an art director again.\" [ 74 ]", "Anderson took this to heart, but Disney eventually forgave him on his final trip to the studio in late 1966. As Anderson recalled in an interview:", "Marc Davis was the sole animator on Cruella De Vil. During production, Davis claimed her character was partly inspired by Bette Davis (no relation), Rosalind Russell , and Tallulah Bankhead . He took further influence from her voice actress, Betty Lou Gerson , whose cheekbones he added to the character. He later complimented, \"[t]hat [her] voice was the greatest thing I've ever had a chance to work with. A voice like Betty Lou's gives you something to do. You get a performance going there, and if you don't take advantage of it, you're off your rocker\". [ 37 ] While her hair coloring originated from the illustrations in the novel, Davis found its disheveled style by looking \"through old magazines for hairdos from 1940 till now\". Her coat was exaggerated to match her oversized personality, and the lining was red because \"there's a devil image involved\". [ 75 ]", "As with the previous Disney films, the actors provided live-action reference as an aid to the animators before the animation process begun. [ 76 ] By January 1959, [ 77 ] Mary Wickes , who had played the maid Katie in The Mickey Mouse Club serial Annette , [ 78 ] was hired as a model for Cruella De Vil. [ 21 ] The live-action reference for Nanny was provided by both Don Barclay and Barbara Luddy , who had voiced Lady in Lady and the Tramp (1955) and Merryweather in Sleeping Beauty (1959). [ 23 ] Helene Stanley – who had been a model for the titular character in Cinderella (1950) and Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty (1959) – performed the live-action reference for Anita. [ 79 ]", "One Hundred and One Dalmatians was the first Disney animated feature film to be a non-musical. To have music involved in the narrative, Peet used an old theater trick by which the protagonist is a down-and-out songwriter. However, unlike the previous animated Disney films at the time, the songs were not composed by a team, but by Mel Leven who composed both lyrics and music. [ 56 ] Previously, Leven had composed songs for the UPA animation studio in which animators, who transferred to work at the Disney studios, had recommended him to Walt Disney. [ 80 ] His first assignment was to compose \"Cruella De Vil,\" of which Leven composed three versions. The final version used in the film was composed as a \"bluesy number\" before a meeting with Walt in forty-five minutes. [ 56 ]", "The other two songs included in the film are \"Kanine Krunchies Jingle\" (sung by Lucille Bliss , who voiced Anastasia Tremaine in Disney's 1950 film Cinderella ), and \"Dalmatian Plantation\" in which Roger sings only two lines at its closure. Leven had also written additional songs that were not included in the film. The first song, \"Don't Buy a Parrot from a Sailor,\" a cockney chant, was meant to be sung by Jasper and Horace at the De Vil Mansion. A second song, \"Cheerio, Good-Bye, Toodle-oo, Hip Hip!\" was to be sung by the dalmatian puppies as they make their way into London. [ 81 ] A third song titled \"March of the One Hundred and One\" was meant for the dogs to sing after escaping Cruella by van. Different, longer versions of \"Kanine Krunchies Jingle\" and \"Dalmatian Plantation\" appear on the Disneyland Records read-along album based on the film. [ 82 ]", "The Sherman Brothers wrote a title song, \"One Hundred and One Dalmatians\", but it was not used in the film. [ 83 ] The song has been released on other Disney recordings, however. [ 82 ] [ 84 ]", "One Hundred and One Dalmatians premiered and was released in theaters on January 25, 1961, [ 85 ] accompanied by the documentary The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960). [ 47 ] To promote the film, an updated version of the 1957 Disneyland episode \"The Best Doggoned Dog in the World\" was aired on ABC on February 12, 1961, [ 29 ] featuring the footage from One Hundred and One Dalmatians instead of scenes from Old Yeller (1957). [ 86 ]", "During its initial theatrical run, the film grossed $14 million in the United States and Canada, [ 87 ] which generated $6.2 million in distributor rentals. [ 88 ] It was the first animated feature to earn more than $10 million on its initial release, [ 89 ] as well as the most popular film of the year in France, [ 90 ] with admissions of 14.7 million ranking tenth on their all-time list. [ 91 ] The box-office success of One Hundred and One Dalmatians allowed to pull the studio's animation department out of the financial slump caused by the underperformance of Sleeping Beauty two years prior; [ 92 ] despite this, it did nothing to rekindle Disney's fading interest in animation, [ 93 ] with him being more focused on working on Disneyland and producing live-action films by then. [ 94 ]", "One Hundred and One Dalmatians was re-released theatrically in the United States in 1969, 1979, 1985, and 1991. [ 95 ] During its first re-release in 1969, it earned $15 million. [ 96 ] In 1979, it grossed $19 million while playing on a double bill with another Disney film The Last Flight of Noah's Ark , and in its 1985 theatrical re-release, the film earned $32 million. [ 96 ] During its fourth re-release in 1991, it grossed $60.8 million, [ 97 ] becoming the 17th highest-grossing film of the year in the United States. [ 98 ] In 1980, the film earned rentals of $8 million in France, Belgium and Switzerland. [ 99 ] By 1995, the film had grossed $86 million internationally, [ 100 ] and in the same year it grossed $71 million overseas, bringing its international total to $157 million. [ 101 ] The film's total domestic lifetime gross is $145 million, [ 102 ] and its total worldwide gross is $303 million. [ 4 ] Adjusted for inflation, and incorporating subsequent releases, the film has a lifetime gross of $936.2 million. [ 103 ]", "One Hundred and One Dalmatians was first released on VHS on April 10, 1992, as part of the Walt Disney Classics video series; [ 104 ] 11.1 million copies had been sold by June of that year. [ 105 ] At the time of its release, it was the sixth best-selling video of all time. [ 102 ] The film was re-released on VHS and LaserDisc on March 9, 1999, as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection [ 106 ] for a limited 101-day time period. [ 107 ] The DVD edition was originally scheduled for release in the spring of that year, [ 106 ] but was delayed until November 11; it was released as a Walt Disney Limited Issue for a limited 60-day time period before going into moratorium . [ 108 ]", "By 2007, One Hundred and One Dalmatians underwent a digital restoration [ 109 ] and was released as a two-disc Platinum Edition DVD on March 4, 2008. [ 110 ] The set included a behind-the-scenes documentary Redefining the Line: The Making of One Hundred and One Dalmatians , two additional featurettes – Cruella de Vil: Drawn to Be Bad (dedicated to the talents behind the creation of the eponymous character) and Sincerely Yours, Walt Disney (covering Disney's correspondence with Dodie Smith), deleted songs, a virtual gallery of concept art and other production photos, theatrical trailers, radio and TV spots. [ 111 ] It returned to the Disney Vault on January 30, 2010. [ 112 ]", "One Hundred and One Dalmatians was released for the first time on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2012. [ 113 ] In North America, it was released on Diamond Edition Blu-ray and Digital HD on February 10, 2015, [ 114 ] featuring a new making-of featurette Lucky Dogs , [ 115 ] the animated short The Further Adventures of Thunderbolt (based on the Thunderbolt TV show in the film), [ 42 ] a 1961 version of the Disneyland episode \"The Best Doggoned Dog in the World\", and several bonus features from the previous DVD release. [ 114 ] The set was re-released as a limited Blu-ray/DVD combo pack for the Disney Movie Club on November 6, 2018. [ 116 ] On September 24, 2019, One Hundred and One Dalmatians was re-released for HD digital download and on Blu-ray as part of the Walt Disney Signature Collection. [ 117 ]", "In its initial release, One Hundred and One Dalmatians received acclaim from critics, many of whom hailed it as the studio's best release since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and the closest to a real \"Disney\" film in many years. [ 118 ] Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote, \"While the story moves steadily toward a stark, melodramatic \"chase\" climax, it remains enclosed in a typical Disney frame of warm family love, human and canine.\" However, he later opined that the \"[s]ongs are scarce, too. A few more would have braced the final starkness.\" [ 119 ] Variety claimed that \"While not as indelibly enchanting or inspired as some of the studio's most unforgettable animated endeavors, this is nonetheless a painstaking creative effort.\" [ 120 ] A review in Time magazine praised the film as \"the wittiest, most charming, least pretentious cartoon feature Walt Disney has ever made.\" [ 121 ] Harrison's Reports felt all children and adults will be \"highly entertained by Walt Disney's latest, a semi-sophisticated, laugh-provoking, all cartoon, feature-lengther in Technicolor.\" [ 122 ] Dodie Smith also enjoyed the film where she particularly praised the animation and backgrounds of the film. [ 48 ] Phil Thomas of Empire Magazine gave the film 5 stars out of 5, and said \"One of Disney's finest, most underrated moments.\" [ 123 ]", "Contemporary reviews have remained positive. Reviewing the film during its 1991 re-release, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times , while giving the film three stars out of four, asserted that \"it's an uneven film, with moments of inspiration in a fairly conventional tale of kidnapping and rescue. This is not one of the great Disney classics - it's not in the same league with Snow White or Pinocchio - but it's passable fun, and will entertain its target family audiences.\" [ 124 ] Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel , in his 1991 review, also gave the film three stars out of four. [ 125 ] Ralph Novak of People wrote \"What it lacks in romantic extravagance and plush spectacle, this 1961 Disney film makes up for in quiet charm and subtlety. In fact, if any movie with dogs, cats, and horses who talk can be said to belong in the realm of realistic drama, this is it.\" [ 126 ] However, in 2011, Craig Berman of MSNBC ranked it and its 1996 remake as two of the worst children's films of all time, saying that, \"The plot itself is a bit nutty. Making a coat out of dogs? Who does that? But worse than Cruella de Vil's fashion sense is the fact that your children will definitely start asking for a Dalmatian of their own for their next birthday.\" [ 127 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on 53 reviews, with an average score of 8.2/10. The website's critics consensus reads, \"With plenty of pooches and a memorable villain (Cruella De Vil), this is one of Disney's most enduring, entertaining animated films.\" [ 128 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 83 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". [ 129 ]", "Cruella De Vil ranked 39th on AFI's list of \"100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains\" . [ 130 ]", "Since the original release of One Hundred and One Dalmatians in 1961, Disney has taken the property in various directions.", "In 1996, it was announced that an animated television series based on the film would be created through a partnership between Disney and Kellogg’s . [ 102 ] Co-produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Jumbo Pictures , 101 Dalmatians: The Series aired in syndication and on ABC from 1997 to 1998. [ 132 ]", "101 Dalmatian Street is the second TV series with a plot in the 21st century, with a new art style and a concept loosely based on the source material. Set 60 years after the original film, the show mostly focuses on a completely new family of Dalmatians, (who are descendants of Pongo and Perdita) who all live without a human in Camden Town .", "A direct-to-video sequel to the original animated film, 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure , [ 133 ] was released in 2003. [ 134 ] The main focus of the sequel is Patch, the loneliest of puppies, feeling \"lost in a sea of spots\". After he gets left behind during the Radcliffe's moving day, he encounters his TV hero, Thunderbolt, who enlists him on a publicity campaign.", "A live-action remake of the 1961 film, 101 Dalmatians , was released in 1996; [ 135 ] unlike the animated film, none of the animals had speaking voices in this version. [ 136 ] It was followed by a sequel, 102 Dalmatians , in 2000. [ 137 ] A live-action version of Cruella De Vil is featured as one of the main antagonists in the fourth season of the fantasy television series, Once Upon a Time (produced by Disney-owned ABC Studios ). [ 138 ] Cruella is one of the four main villains in the 2015 television film Descendants , [ 139 ] which follows the teenage children of Disney's iconic heroes and villains (including Cruella's son, Carlos). [ 140 ] A 2021 live-action reboot , Cruella , [ 141 ] focuses on the origin of the eponymous character. [ 142 ] A sequel to this film is currently in development. [ 143 ]", "The characters from One Hundred and One Dalmatians make cameo appearances in the television series House of Mouse , with Cruella De Vil featured as one of the main villains in the stand-alone feature Mickey's House of Villains (2002). [ 144 ] Like other Walt Disney Animation Studios characters, the film's characters have cameo appearances in the short film Once Upon a Studio (2023). [ 145 ]", "In the first Kingdom Hearts game, a side quest consists of Sora tracking down the 99 puppies whose world has been destroyed and returning them to Pongo and Perdita, who have been given shelter in Traverse Town by Squall Leonhart ."]
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["Zero Tolerance is a 1994 American action film from PM Entertainment Group directed by Joseph Merhi and starring Robert Patrick and Mick Fleetwood .", "After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow feds Jimmy ( William Steis ) and Gene ( Michael Gregory ) as they transport Mafia boss Raymond Manta ( Titus Welliver ) out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas ( Robert Patrick ) becomes an unwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel.", "The White Hand lies to Jeff and says that his family is being held hostage and he has to help them smuggle a huge drug shipment to get them released unharmed, Jeff is forced to turn one-time courier for the White Hand, whose leaders are Manta and four others—Helmut Vitch ( Mick Fleetwood ), Milt Kowalski ( Miles O'Keeffe ), Russ LaFleur ( Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter ), and Hansel Lee ( Gustav Vintas ). In truth, the cartel had already murdered his wife and two young children, and planned to kill Jeff after he succeeded in delivering their drugs.", "The drugs are delivered and the White Hand sets Jeff up to be killed in a car bombing in Las Vegas, but Jeff's instincts kick in and he is only slightly injured in the blast, and the cartel thinks he is dead and gone. Jeff learns that his family was killed, and he breaks down in tears. A short time later, the FBI wants to get him back to work, but Jeff has begun planning to wipe out the White Hand cartel.", "Officially censured but unofficially aided by concerned agent Megan ( Kristen Meadows ), whose mother was raped and murdered years ago, Jeff steals some FBI files and kicks off his cartel extermination campaign by killing Vitch in Las Vegas, at Vitch's casino.", "In New Orleans, Jeff sabotages LaFleur's liquid-heroin deal with a factory fire, and then at LaFleur's night club, Jeff finishes him off in full view of a satellite hook-up watched by Manta and Kowalski at their hide-out. Kowalski does not enjoy killing and is angry that Manta's brutal murder plan is disrupting their business, which begins to anger Manta in turn.", "After that, Jeff kills Lee in his heavily guarded mansion in Seattle. After Megan arrives to speed up Jeff's getaway, the couple is apprehended by local cops, and then ambushed by Manta's men.", "Although Megan is captured and taken away in a helicopter, Jeff momentarily flees. Angered by Kowalski's accurate descriptions of him as a sadistic creep, Manta shoots and kills Kowalski at his complex, but endures a savage beating from Jeff who is able to rescue Megan.", "Under arrest at FBI headquarters, Manta says it's not over by a long shot. Manta grabs a gun, and in an effort to disarm Manta, Jeff plows into Manta and sends him through a window. As a result, Manta takes a fall to his death, which completes Jeff's mission to wipe out the White Hand cartel.", "The film was released on home video in the UK by First Independent Films , and on the Dutch Filmworks label in the Netherlands."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/Kj%C3%A6rlighetenskj%C3%B8tere.jpg/250px-Kj%C3%A6rlighetenskj%C3%B8tere.jpg", "Directed by": "Hans Petter Moland", "Written by": "Lars Bill Lundholm", "Produced by": "Esben Høilund Carlsen", "Starring": "Stellan Skarsgård Bjørn Sundquist Gard B. Eidsvold Camilla Martens", "Cinematography": "Philip Øgaard", "Edited by": "Einar Egeland", "Music by": "Terje Rypdal", "Release date": "September 29, 1995 ( 1995-09-29 )", "Running time": "118 minutes", "Country": "Norway", "Language": "Norwegian", "Box office": "$2.5 million"}
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["Zero Kelvin ( Norwegian : Kjærlighetens kjøtere ) is a 1995 Norwegian psychological thriller film directed by Hans Petter Moland and starring Gard B. Eidsvold [ no ] and Stellan Skarsgård . [ 1 ] It explores the tensions between three men in an isolated Greenland trapping station in the 1920s.", "In 1920s Oslo , Henrik Larsen, an aspiring poet, leaves his girlfriend Gertrude to spend a year as a trapper in Greenland. There he shares a small winter hut with the station master Randbæk and a scientist named Holm. Randbaek mocks Larsen's poetry, violin playing, and kindness to the sled dogs. Larsen soon proves himself superior at several tasks, but this only angers Randbaek further. He discovers a letter from Gertrude rejecting Larsen's marriage proposal and taunts Larsen that she is unfaithful.", "Concerned with their dwindling supplies, Randbaek and Holm agree to kill one of the dogs over Larsen's objections. To spite Larsen, Randbaek deliberately wounds the dog rather than kill it. Randbaek and Larsen fight, and Holm attacks Randbaek to stop him from murdering Larsen. To make amends, Randbaek surprises Larsen with a Christmas feast, but when the two again argue about the dogs, Randbaek angrily destroys the decorations. Disgusted with both men, Holm renounces his friendship with Randbaek and departs the station alone by sled.", "A few days later, Randbaek drunkenly knocks over a lantern, burning down the cabin. Now without shelter, the pair try to travel by sled dog to another settlement. When Randbaek refuses to share the work and whips Larsen's face, Larsen throws him from the sled, and they exchange gunfire. After Larsen finds Holm's sled crashed into a ravine, however, he lets Randbaek overtake him, and they agree to work together to survive.", "Larsen attempts to cross the ice of a fjord despite Randbaek's warning and plunges into the water. The dogs pull him free and he finds shelter in the prow of a wrecked ship, where he loses consciousness. He wakes to find Randbaek has saved his life by building a fire. Shortly after, when Randbaek begins brutally beating Larsen's favorite dog to death for food, Larsen shoots him repeatedly. As he dies, Randbaek confesses that he had once murdered a lover of his wife, and for him, the murder was \"the end of love\"; he predicts Larsen will now become like him.", "Safely returned to Oslo, Larsen claims that Randbaek died in the fire and is reunited with Gertrude, who now agrees to marry him. As she prepares to shave him, he begins to weep.", "The film's Greenland scenes were shot in Svalbard , Norway. [ 2 ]"]
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58,057
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Zero Hour!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour!
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4d/Zerohourposter.jpg/250px-Zerohourposter.jpg", "Directed by": "Hall Bartlett", "Screenplay by": "Arthur Hailey Hall Bartlett John Champion", "Based on": "Flight into Danger 1956 teleplay on General Motors Theatre by Arthur Hailey", "Produced by": "John C. Champion Hall Bartlett", "Starring": "Dana Andrews Linda Darnell Sterling Hayden", "Narrated by": "William Conrad", "Cinematography": "John F. Warren", "Edited by": "John C. Fuller", "Music by": "Ted Dale Arthur Hamilton", "Production company": "Paramount Pictures", "Distributed by": "Paramount Pictures", "Release date": "November 13, 1957 ( 1957-11-13 )", "Running time": "81 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$400,764. [ 1 ] or $650,000 [ 2 ]"}
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["Zero Hour! is a 1957 American drama film directed by Hall Bartlett from a screenplay by Bartlett, Arthur Hailey , and John Champion. It stars Dana Andrews , Linda Darnell , and Sterling Hayden and features Peggy King , Elroy \"Crazy Legs\" Hirsch , Geoffrey Toone , and Jerry Paris in supporting roles. It was released by Paramount Pictures . [ 3 ]", "Zero Hour! was a remake of the Canadian television play Flight into Danger , and was in turn used as the basis for the 1980 parody film Airplane! .", "During the closing days of the Second World War , six members of the Royal Canadian Air Force fighter squadron led by pilot Ted Stryker are killed because of a command decision he made. Stryker blamed himself for that bad decision, falling into a deep sense of depression and anxiety which impede him to fly again. Years later, in civilian life in Winnipeg , Manitoba, a guilt-stricken Stryker goes through many jobs, and his marriage is in trouble.", "Stryker finds a note at home: his wife Ellen has taken their young son Joey and is leaving him, flying to Vancouver . He rushes to Winnipeg Airport to board the same flight, Cross-Canada Air Lines Flight 714, operated by a Douglas DC-4 . He asks his wife for one last chance, but Ellen says that she can no longer love a man she does not respect.", "Stewardess Janet Turner begins the meal service, offering meat or fish as the choices. When a number of passengers and the co-pilot begin feeling sick, a doctor aboard determines that the fish is the cause. The pilot also becomes seriously ill and cannot fly the airplane. Before he passes out, he turns on the autopilot .", "The stewardess determines that Stryker is the only passenger with flying experience, but he has not flown in 10 years and has never piloted an aircraft of this size. Owing to dense fog, Flight 714 cannot land at Calgary or any other airport east of the Canadian Rockies , but must continue on to Vancouver.", "Stryker's superior in the war, the tough-minded Captain Treleaven, is summoned to Vancouver Airport . Treleaven blames Stryker for the wartime deaths and has no faith in him. However, he has no choice but to work with him, getting him familiarized with the airplane and teaching him how to land. Ellen joins her husband in the cockpit to handle the radio.", "As they approach Vancouver, it is shrouded in fog. Treleaven orders him to circle, for hours if necessary, in the hope that it will lift, but Stryker decides to try to land immediately because passengers will die if they do not get medical treatment soon. Stryker makes a rough landing, but none of the passengers are injured. He has conquered his demons and regained the respect of both Ellen and Captain Treleaven.", "Zero Hour! was an adaptation of Hailey's original 1956 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation teleplay Flight into Danger , starring James Doohan as George Spencer, the original name for the Stryker character. [ 4 ] Hailey also co-wrote a novel with John Castle based on the same plot titled Flight Into Danger: Runway Zero-Eight (1958), although this is based more closely on the television version than on the film.", "Principal photography took place from May 8–28, 1957, with retakes on July 23–24, 1957. The primary filming location was Santa Ana, California . [ 5 ] Nightclub and television performer Peggy King made her feature film debut in Zero Hour! , recording the song \"Zero Hour\" for Columbia Records to coincide with the film's release. [ 1 ] [ Note 1 ]", "John Ashley has a small role appearing on television as a pop star, although the vocals were provided by Duke Mitchell. [ 6 ]", "The New York Times reviewer Bosley Crowther called Zero Hour! an \"exciting contemplation of a frightening adventure in the skies\" based on a \"good terse script ... Dana Andrews as the hero and Sterling Hayden as the captain are first-rate in these roles, keeping them hard and unrelenting.\" [ 7 ] Time magazine , however, called the script a \"bloopy inflation of a 1956 television show\" and said its \"moral struggle comes off fairly well, but the general situation is as patently contrived as one of Walter Mitty 's daydreams.\" [ 8 ]", "In 1971, the film was remade as a made-for-television movie, Terror in the Sky , a Movie of the Week special with Doug McClure in the Ted Stryker role (renamed George Spencer, as in the original). [ 9 ] Zero Hour! was also used as the basis for the parody film Airplane! (1980). [ 10 ]", "Screenplay writer Hailey went on to write the popular 1968 novel Airport , which revisited the air disaster genre and led to a film franchise that was also spoofed by Airplane! and its own sequel ."]
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Zero for Conduct
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_for_Conduct
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Zero_de_conduite.jpg", "Directed by": "Jean Vigo", "Written by": "Jean Vigo", "Produced by": "Jean Vigo", "Starring": "Jean Dasté", "Cinematography": "Boris Kaufman", "Edited by": "Jean Vigo", "Music by": "Maurice Jaubert", "Production company": "Argui-Films", "Distributed by": "Gaumont Film Company Comptoir Français de Distribution de Films Franfilmdis", "Release date": "7 April 1933 ( 1933-04-07 )", "Running time": "48 minutes", "Country": "France", "Language": "French", "Budget": "₣200,000"}
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["Zero for Conduct ( French : Zéro de conduite ) is a 1933 French featurette directed by Jean Vigo . It was first shown on 7 April 1933 and was subsequently banned in France until November 1945. [ 2 ]", "The film draws extensively on Vigo's boarding school experiences to depict a repressive and bureaucratised educational establishment in which surreal acts of rebellion occur, reflecting Vigo's anarchist view of childhood . The title refers to a mark the boys would get which prevented them from going out on Sundays.", "Though the film was not an immediate success with audiences, it has proven to be enduringly influential. François Truffaut paid homage to Zero for Conduct in his film The 400 Blows (1959). The anarchic classroom and recess scenes in Truffaut's film borrow from Vigo's film, as does a classic scene in which a mischievous group of schoolboys are led through the streets by one of their schoolmasters. Director Lindsay Anderson has acknowledged that his own film if.... was inspired by Zero for Conduct .", "Four rebellious young boys at a repressive French boarding school plot and execute a revolt against their teachers and take over the school. [ 3 ] The film opens by showing the joyful, carefree nature of childhood as two boys (Caussat and Colin) returning to boarding school on the train enjoy playing pranks on each other and their fellow travelers. Back on campus, they are reprimanded by the school teachers and staff who inflict severe punishments on them and deprive them of their freedom and creativity. Three of the youngest of the protagonists: Caussaut (the leader), Colin (the cook’s son), and Bruel are singled out and form a bond of friendship over their shared defiance of the school’s strict rules and absurd punishments.", "As the school term progresses, the boys engage in various pranks and acts of rebellion, including disrupting classes and mocking their overseers. They are encouraged, however by the support of a new class supervisor, Huguet, who is closer to the age and mentality of the young students and sympathizes with them, taking them out into the town for some fun. Adept at imitating Charlie Chaplin, Huguet shows himself capable of doing a handstand on a desk in the middle of the enthusiastic boys. [ 4 ] Another class supervisor, quite different from Huguet, puts an end to this chaotic fun and punishes the boys with another zero for conduct, meaning they will not be permitted to leave the school on Sundays. The boys determine to plot a rebellion at the recently announced celebration to honor important alumni and visitors. [ 5 ] Emboldened by their plans for revolution, the boys stage a food fight at the cafeteria in protest of the bad food. Unwanted attention from the science teacher provokes Tabard, a very young protagonist with delicate and effeminate features, to talk back rudely.", "In the dormitory, the boys begin their revolt by raising their skull and crossbones flag, [ 4 ] tying up the supervising teacher snoozing in his bed, instigating a pillow fight, and marching around in their nightshirts. The action reaches its peak on the day of the school festival. The four boys implement their plan to revolt, during which the celebration’s decorations and exhibitions are destroyed and the guests scattered as tin cans and other garbage is thrown down at them. [ 5 ] The four boys triumphantly mount the rooftops, marching towards the serene skies that guarantee their newfound freedom.", "In late 1932, Vigo and his wife Lydou Vigo were both in poor health and Vigo was at a low point in his career. He then met and befriended Jacques-Louis Nounez, a rich businessman who was interested in making films. Vigo discussed the idea of a film about his childhood experiences at a Millau boarding school and Nounez agreed to finance it. [ 3 ]", "Zero for Conduct was shot from December 1932 until January 1933 with a budget of 200,000 francs. Vigo used mostly non-professional actors and sometimes people that he found on the street. The four main characters are all based on real people that Vigo had known in his youth. Caussat and Bruel were based on friends from Millau, Colin was based on a friend he had known in Chartes and Tabard was based on Vigo himself. The teachers depicted in the film were based on the guards at La Petite Roquette juvenile prison where Vigo's father Miguel Almereyda had once been an inmate. The film's soundtrack was of poor quality due to budgetary constraints but Vigo's use of poetic, rhythmic dialogue has been said to make it much easier to understand what characters are saying. [ 3 ] At one point in the film, Tabard tells his teachers \"shit on you!\", which was once a famous headline in a French newspaper that Vigo's father had directed at all world governments. Vigo's poor health became worse during the film's production but he was able to complete the editing. [ 6 ]", "The film was first screened on April 7, 1933, in Paris. The premiere shocked many audience members who hissed and booed Vigo. Other audience members, most notably Jacques Prevert , loudly clapped. [ 6 ]", "French film critics were strongly divided about the film. Some called it \"simply ridiculous\" and compared it to \"lavatory flushing\" while others praised its \"fiery daring\" and called Vigo \"the Céline of the cinema.\" [ 6 ] The film's most vocal critics included a French Catholic journal which called it a scatological work by \"an obsessed maniac.\" Zero for Conduct was quickly banned in France, with some believing that the French Ministry of the Interior considered it a threat capable of \"creating disturbances and hindering the maintenance of order.\" [ 6 ]", "Like all of Vigo's work, Zero for Conduct first began to be rediscovered in about 1945 when a revival screening of his films was organized. Since then, its reputation has grown and it has influenced such films as François Truffaut 's The 400 Blows (1959) and Lindsay Anderson 's if.... (1968). [ 6 ] Truffaut praised the film and said that \"in one sense Zero de Conduite represents something more rare than L'Atalante because the masterpieces consecrated to childhood in literature or cinema can be counted on the fingers of one hand. They move us doubly since the esthetic emotion is compounded by a biographical, personal and intimate emotion ... They bring us back to our short pants, to school, to the blackboard, to vacations, to our beginnings in life.\" [ 7 ]", "Vigo's biographer Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes has discussed Vigo's \"extreme sensitivity to anything concerning a child's vulnerability in the adult world\" and his \"respect for children and their feelings.\" [ 6 ]", "Gomes also compared the boarding school in the film to a microcosm of the world, stating that \"the division to the children and adults inside the school corresponds to the division of society into classes outside: a strong minority imposing its will on a weak majority.\" [ 6 ]", "Hodson shows how Vigo's film aligns \"surrealist poetry\" with \"anarchist pedagogy,\" offering the audience a special kind of experience which he call a \"magical transformation of mundane space\" [ 8 ] This is attributed to his lack of experience in filmmaking that opened up a space of creative freedom for his directing. Difficulties recording the dialogue forced Vigo to ignore the conventions of building the film's narrative; instead the apparent disorganization of the shots reflects Vigo's penchant for anarchism in the integration of his personal experience in a boarding school. [ 8 ]", "The 2011 Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award posthumously honoured Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct [ 9 ] and was presented to his daughter and French film critic Luce Vigo by the actor Jon Voight . [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Martin Scorsese wrote a letter for the occasion, with praise for Vigo, Sergei Parajanov and Mikhail Vartanov , all of whom struggled with heavy censorship. [ 10 ]"]
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58,059
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Zero Effect
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Effect
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/Zero_Effect.jpg/250px-Zero_Effect.jpg", "Directed by": "Jake Kasdan", "Written by": "Jake Kasdan", "Based on": " A Scandal in Bohemia \" by Arthur Conan Doyle", "Produced by": "Lisa Henson Jake Kasdan Janet Yang", "Starring": "Bill Pullman Ben Stiller Kim Dickens Angela Featherstone Ryan O'Neal", "Cinematography": "Bill Pope", "Edited by": "Tara Timpone", "Music by": "The Greyboy Allstars", "Production company": "Castle Rock Entertainment [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Columbia Pictures [ 1 ]", "Release date": "January 30, 1998 ( 1998-01-30 )", "Running time": "116 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$5 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$2 million (US) [ 2 ]"}
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["Zero Effect is a 1998 American mystery comedy film written and directed by Jake Kasdan in his feature directional debut . Starring Bill Pullman as \"the world's most private detective\", Daryl Zero, and Ben Stiller as his assistant Steve Arlo, the film's plot is loosely based on the Arthur Conan Doyle short story \" A Scandal in Bohemia \". [ 3 ]", "Shot in Portland, Oregon [ 4 ] and scored by The Greyboy Allstars , the film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival . [ 5 ]", "The film did not perform well at the box-office, grossing $2 million with a budget of $5 million.", "Daryl Zero is the world's greatest detective, but is also a socially maladroit misanthrope . Among his quirks is that he never meets or has direct contact with his clients, instead conducting business through his assistant, Steve Arlo. Throughout the movie, Zero provides narration as he reads lines from his proposed autobiography.", "Zero and Arlo are hired by Portland area millionaire Gregory Stark, who has lost the key to a safe deposit box and is being blackmailed by an unknown person who forces him to follow elaborate instructions to deliver the cash payments. Zero quickly discovers that the blackmailer is Gloria Sullivan, an EMT with a mysterious past. Zero becomes attracted to Gloria and they sleep together, compromising his trademark objectivity. He lets his guard down and tells her that his mother was killed by his abusive father, who later committed suicide.", "Stark pressures Arlo to reveal the blackmailer's identity so that he can have that person killed. Arlo must also deal with Zero's absurd demands on his time, which increasingly interfere with Arlo's relationship with his girlfriend Jess.", "Zero eventually discovers that Stark had raped Gloria's mother after she broke up with him. She later blackmailed Stark with the threat of exposing him as a rapist, so he had her killed. However, she had already given birth to their daughter Gloria, who was discovered and raised by the hitman who killed her mother. Gloria grew up knowing that Stark was behind her mother's murder, and when her adoptive father (the hitman) contracted a terminal illness, she used the information to blackmail Stark, using the money to pay for medical treatment.", "At the meeting to deliver the final blackmail payment, Stark collapses from a heart attack and Gloria is compelled to save his life. She then flees the country with Zero's assistance.", "In April 1997, Castle Rock Entertainment acquired Zero Effect written by Jake Kasdan with Bill Pullman and Ben Stiller with Kasdan set to make his feature debut after having previously directed theater productions. [ 6 ] Kasdan wrote the character of Daryl Zero specifically with Pullman in mind. [ 6 ]", "Released in January 1998 on Work Group , the official soundtrack for the film includes:", "Rotten Tomatoes , a review aggregator , reports that 66% of 56 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 6.8/10. The site's consensus reads: \"A promising debut for writer/director Jake Kasdan, Zero Effect overcomes its flaws with its off-kilter humor and likeable leads.\" [ 7 ] Leonard Klady of Variety called it \"scattershot entertainment that misses as often as it hits its targets\". [ 8 ] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated 3.5/4 stars and wrote that he was surprised by how involved he became in the film. [ 9 ] Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote of the film's focus on the relation between Pullman and Stiller, \"For all its admirable ambitions, this loosely focused first feature has the makings of a better buddy story than detective tale anyhow.\" [ 10 ] Jack Matthews of the Los Angeles Times called it \"a confident first film and one of the freshest detective yarns to come along in a while\". [ 11 ] Ruthe Stein of The San Francisco Chronicle rated it 2/4 stars and called it \"more an interesting idea for a detective movie than it is an interesting film\". [ 12 ] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly rated it C+ and called it \"a very shaggy and minor comedy\". [ 13 ] Geoff Andrew of Time Out London wrote, \"Kasdan's is a very promising debut, its own dearth of feeling offset by able writing, engaging playing and a sure sense of pace.\" [ 14 ]", "Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"C+\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 15 ]", "In 2002, Kasdan attempted to resurrect the character Daryl Zero for the NBC television network. [ 16 ] He shared the screenwriting duties with Walon Green and directed the pilot. He was also one of the producers. The series was intended to be a prequel, tracing the early adventures of Zero as he and Arlo became a team. [ 16 ] The pilot stars Alan Cumming as Zero and David Julian Hirsh as the Arlo character, renamed Jeff Winslow. The cast also features Krista Allen and Natasha Gregson Wagner . [ 17 ] NBC did not pick up the pilot."]
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Zero Day
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Day_(2003_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Zero_Day_film.jpg", "Directed by": "Ben Coccio", "Written by": "Ben Coccio Christopher Coccio", "Produced by": "Ben Coccio", "Starring": "Andre Keuck Cal Robertson", "Cinematography": "Ben Coccio", "Edited by": "Ben Coccio David Shuff", "Music by": "Benji Cossa", "Distributed by": "Avatar Films", "Release date": "September 3, 2003 ( 2003-09-03 )", "Running time": "92 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$20,000", "Box office": "$8,466 [ 1 ]"}
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["Zero Day is a 2003 American found footage drama film written and directed by Ben Coccio and starring Andre Keuck and Cal Robertson , revolving around a duo planning a school shooting through the perspective of a video filming camera. [ 2 ]", "Andre Kriegman (born July 17, 1982) and Calvin \"Cal\" Gabriel (born February 5, 1983) announce their intention to attack Iroquois High School, where they are both students, [ 3 ] calling their plan \"Zero Day\". Both teens are extremely troubled, as Cal suffers from depression and suicidal ideation , while Andre is a violent and hateful individual. The majority of the film is portrayed through their video filming camera , and shows them documenting their planning and preparation for the attack, while hiding it from their friends and families.", "Other scenes show the two attending Andre's birthday party, egging the house of Brad Hoff, and Cal going to prom, while Andre closes up and works at a pizza establishment. In one video entry, Cal notes the origin of the name \"Zero Day\": when Cal and Andre originally planned to attack the school on the first day that the temperature would drop to zero degrees Fahrenheit, after they had finished their preparations. However, this only occurred once, during which Andre was sick, and they set May 1, 2001, as the new date. Wanting their attack to have a memorable name, they agreed to keep the original title.", "The two arrive at school on May 1 and prepare their plan and weapons in Andre's car. Andre says that he could never have carried out Zero Day without his partner Cal's help, a sentiment that Cal echoes. The video camera continues to film as they both run into the school through its west entrance, armed with three handguns, an M1 carbine , and a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun , all stolen from Andre's father and cousin. The pair also carried with them at least 20 explosive devices and several knives. [ 3 ] The massacre is shown through the viewpoint of several security cameras throughout the building, with audio of a 911 dispatcher playing in the background, who is attempting to persuade the two out of the attack and into surrendering peacefully. The dialogue is heard via the cellphone of student Omar, who was shot and killed.", "Shooting at anyone they see and threatening and taunting several witnesses, Andre and Cal kill eleven students, and one school resource officer . They wound eighteen others. [ 3 ] Eventually, the two see law enforcement surrounding the school after fourteen minutes of the incident in progress. After debating over whether to confront the police in gunfire, the pair decide to instead commit suicide.", "Several days after the shooting, dated May 10, a group of youths film themselves driving to a memorial for those slain in the attack, including Andre and Cal. The group finds the pair's wooden crosses, before subsequently setting them on fire and swiftly escaping the area.", "In order of appearance:", "The director of the film, Ben Coccio recalls that he was in a pizzeria in Brooklyn, New York on the day of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre , and saw coverage of the event on the eatery's television, commenting, \"I remember thinking that I was surprised that it hadn't happened sooner.\" Coccio was also struck by the extent to which Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold planned that shooting, compared to the impromptu crimes of passion that typified other school shootings. Coccio became eager to address a story in a way that was very different and not exploitative, and drew upon his own views of high school as a place of tension where \"anything could happen at any time\". Coccio's theory of student school shooters is not that they are the most bullied, as such students tend to develop feelings of inferiority and are likely to harm themselves. Coccio feels that shooters tend to be students with feelings of superiority , and that \"when other people don't confirm that, it really gets under their skin.", "None of the Connecticut high schools where he sought to film the movie would allow Coccio access, and he ended up using the interior of a building at State University of New York at Purchase in Purchase, New York. The \"appropriately fortress-like\" exterior of the High School was New Milford High School in New Milford, Connecticut, where Coccio lived at the time.", "When casting, Coccio inquired at high schools throughout Connecticut looking for teenagers interested in acting who might not have much or any professional experience. Coccio had three days of open auditions. Andre Keuck responded to an ad Coccio placed in Backstage Magazine and brought his classmate and fellow theater enthusiast Cal Robertson along to the audition. Both boys had acted in Shakespeare productions at the Stratford Avon Theater in Stratford, Connecticut. They were encouraged to improvise throughout the film's production. [ 2 ]", "An official website was made as a tie-in to promote the film, made to look like an official police report by the fictional \"Essex County Sheriff's Department\" on the event, describing details about the massacre that were never seen in the final film and glimpses about the perpetrators, the weapons used, and mentions that the movie actually consists of footage sent at the request of Kriegman and Gabriel's parents to an amateur filmmaker friend . The website is now archived by use of the Wayback Machine , although some features pushing the narrative that it was real have been lost. [ 3 ]", "Zero Day has received mostly positive reviews from critics, currently holding a 68% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 41 critic reviews. [ 4 ] Despite the positive reception from critics and audiences, Zero Day was a box office bomb, gaining only $8,466 against a $20,000 budget.", "Discussing mental illness and its portrayal in films, Alyssa Miller wrote that \"director Ben Coccio created a perfect portrayal of psychopathy in character Andre, who does not have remorse for the things he does, even if they are done to people close to him\". On the other hand, Alyssa continues, \"character Calvin, Andre's accomplice, is more of a sociopath due to his visible remorse towards the people he cares about and his reckless disregard for his own safety.\" [ 5 ]"]
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Zero Charisma
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/Zero_Charisma_Poster.jpg/250px-Zero_Charisma_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Katie Graham Andrew Matthews", "Written by": "Andrew Matthews", "Produced by": "Ezra Venetos Thomas Fernandes", "Starring": "Sam Eidson Anne Gee Byrd Brock England Garrett Graham Cyndi Williams", "Cinematography": "Ellie Ann Fenton", "Music by": "Bobby Tahouri", "Production company": "Shark Films\nMagic Stone Productions", "Distributed by": "Tribeca Film Nerdist Industries", "Release date": "October 11, 2013 ( 2013-10-11 )", "Running time": "1 hour 28 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["Zero Charisma is a 2013 American comedy film written by Andrew Matthews and co-directed by Matthews and Katie Graham. It stars Sam Eidson, Anne Gee Byrd, Brock England, Garrett Graham, and Cyndi Williams . The film premiered at the South By Southwest film festival in 2013 and later screened at multiple North American Film Festivals including the Maryland Film Festival , the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal and the Newport Beach Film Festival .", "Scott Weidemeyer (Sam Eidson) is an overweight, surly delivery driver. He has a poor relationship with his family, including his grandmother, Wanda (Anne Gee Byrd), with whom he lives. Once a week, he hosts a table top game which he rules with an iron fist. One evening, a player abruptly quits the game permanently to work on his marriage. Scott tries to replace him, but his foul temper makes him untouchable to anyone who knows him. While out delivering food to the local game shop he previously worked for, he meets a charismatic hipster named Miles (Garrett Graham). Scott offers him a place in his game and Miles accepts.", "Miles’s friendly and accepting attitude helps him fit in with Scott’s friends, including Wayne (Brock England), Scott’s best friend. But Scott is defensive and touchy around Miles because of all of Miles’s success in life, including his attractive girlfriend and running a successful popular culture website.", "Hours after the game, Wanda has a stroke. His mother Barbara (Cyndi Williams), comes to visit, bringing her 3rd fiancé, Bob (Larry Jack Dotson). Scott is antagonistic towards Barbara, resenting her for leaving him with his grandmother as a boy to go live in a commune . The following week, Scott tries to run a smooth game night but Barbara interrupts, humiliates Scott in front of the group and forces them to end early.", "The players decide to host the next game night at Miles's house, which frustrates Scott. Before the game, Scott attempts to impress the group by declaring that The Matrix was written by him in junior high. When Miles begins to poke holes in his claim, Scott begins to yell at Miles and goes to the bathroom to cry. During the game, Miles decides to venture off the story Scott has planned and to kill off an important story non-player character . Scott attempts to cheat his way out of it but Miles's girlfriend catches him. The players tell Scott the game has become too serious and it's no longer fun when he's the dungeon master . Scott has a meltdown and orders them all to leave, but his friends opt to stay and play with Miles instead, which further enrages Scott.", "Back at his grandmother's house, Scott finds out his mother wants to sell Wanda's house to settle debt she has accumulated. Barbara manages to convince Wanda to sell the house after offering her a comfortable retirement near Barbara's house in Arizona. An angry Scott, who was promised the house by Wanda, berates his grandmother until she hits him for his disrespect.", "Scott returns to the local gaming shop where his hero, Greg Goran (Dakin Matthews), is making an appearance. Scott humbly asks the assistant manager, Pete (John Gholson) for his old job back. During a Q&A, Scott asks a question seeking validation of his attitude and Goran tells Scott that the GM (game master) is responsible for insuring that the players have fun above all else. Scott becomes enraged, cusses out Goran, insults Pete and denigrates the store. Pete then tells the audience that Scott was fired for masturbating to hentai anime pornography in the backroom while the store was being robbed. An angry and humiliated Scott storms out.", "Scott blames Miles for everything wrong with his life now. He drives to Miles’s house to confront him and finds Miles is hosting a party. Scott begins drinking and talking with several of Miles's friends. After seeing Scott in his home, Miles calls Wayne and asks him to come get Scott. An intoxicated Scott publicly challenges Miles to a faux battle using crutches as swords. A reluctant Miles agrees, urged on by the party-goers who are amused by Scott’s ridiculous fantasy antics. Scott loses control, lashes out and hits Miles hard in the face. Miles retaliates by striking him in the stomach which puts him on the floor. Wayne, hurt for not being invited to the party and seeing his friend beaten, decides to attack Miles. Miles throws him back and angrily sends them both away. As Wayne drives Scott home, Scott admits he belittled him because he “needed someone to be a bigger loser than me.”", "A few months later, Scott is employed at the Arizona retirement home where his grandmother lives. He himself lives with Bob and Barbara, whose marriage is rapidly deteriorating. Happier and more responsible, he plays his game with a small group of seniors. In the final scene, Scott shows a sliver of improvement in his attitude while still clinging to his serious, competitive nature.", "Zero Charisma received generally positive reviews. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 77% of 26 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The website's consensus reads: \" Zero Charisma takes a refreshingly empathetic -- and often quite funny -- look at characters historically marginalized as one-dimensional archetypes.\" [ 1 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 63 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 2 ]", "A.A. Dowd of The A.V. Club gave the film a B grade, citing the film as one with \"perverse pleasures\" in its character study of a distinctly unlikable outcast. [ 3 ]"]
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["Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American political action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal . Produced by Boal, Bigelow, and Megan Ellison , and independently financed by Ellison's Annapurna Pictures , the film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for Osama bin Laden , leader of the terrorist network Al-Qaeda , after the September 11 attacks , which culminates in the discovery of his compound in Pakistan and the U.S. military raid where bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011. It stars Jessica Chastain as Maya, a fictional CIA intelligence analyst , with Jason Clarke and Joel Edgerton appearing in supporting roles. [ 5 ] [ 6 ]", "Widely released on January 11, 2013, following its premiere in Los Angeles on December 10, 2012, [ 7 ] Zero Dark Thirty received critical acclaim for its acting, direction, screenplay, sound design, and editing, and was a major box office success, grossing $132 million worldwide. It appeared on 95 critics' top ten lists of 2012 and received 5 nominations at the 85th Academy Awards : Best Picture , Best Actress for Chastain, Best Original Screenplay , Best Film Editing , and Best Sound Editing , which it won in a tie with Skyfall ; it also earned four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) for Chastain, who won. Conversely, the film was accused of being pro- torture by U.S. senators John McCain , Dianne Feinstein , and Carl Levin .", "Maya is a CIA analyst tasked with finding the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden . In 2003, she is stationed at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan . She and CIA officer Dan Fuller attend the black site interrogations of Ammar , a detainee with suspected links to several of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks and who is subjected to approved enhanced interrogation techniques . Ammar provides unreliable information on a suspected attack in Saudi Arabia , but reveals the name of the personal courier for bin Laden, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti . Other detainee intelligence connects courier traffic by Abu Ahmed between Abu Faraj al-Libbi and bin Laden. In 2005, Faraj denies knowing about a courier named Abu Ahmed; Maya interprets this as an attempt by Faraj to conceal the importance of Abu Ahmed.", "In 2009, Maya's fellow officer and friend Jessica travels to a US base in Afghanistan to meet a Jordanian doctor, highly placed in al-Qaeda, who has offered to become a US spy for $25 million. Instead, he turns out to be a triple agent loyal to al-Qaeda, and Jessica is killed, along with several other CIA officers, when he detonates a suicide vest in what will come to be known as the Camp Chapman attack , the worst attack on CIA personnel in 25 years.", "Thomas, an analyst who linked the Abu Ahmed lead, shares with Maya an interrogation of a Jordanian detainee claiming to have buried Abu Ahmed in 2001. Maya learns what the CIA was told five years earlier, information that was buried and lost track of in one of the many files of information that had been accumulated at the time—that is—that in 2001, a man named Ibrahim Sayeed traveled under the nom de guerre of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. Seeing his picture, realizing that it is similar to but not the man in the picture they had that they thought was of Abu Ahmed, and that her lead may be alive, Maya contacts Dan, now a senior officer at the CIA headquarters . She speculates that the CIA's photograph of Ahmed is in fact one of his brother, Habeeb, who was killed in Afghanistan. Maya says that their beards and native clothes make the brothers look alike, explaining the account of Ahmed's supposed death in 2001.", "A Kuwaiti prince trades the phone number of Sayeed's mother to Dan for a Lamborghini Gallardo Bicolore . Maya and her CIA team in Pakistan use electronic methods to eventually pinpoint a caller in a moving vehicle who exhibits behaviors that delay confirmation of his identity (which Maya calls tradecraft , thus confirming that the subject is likely a senior courier). They track the vehicle to a large urban compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan. After gunmen attack Maya while she is in her vehicle, she is recalled to Washington, D.C. as her cover is believed blown.", "The CIA puts the compound under surveillance but obtains no conclusive identification of bin Laden. The President's National Security Advisor tasks the CIA with creating a plan to capture or kill bin Laden. Before briefing President Barack Obama , the CIA director holds a meeting of his senior officers, who estimate that bin Laden is 60–80% likely to be in the compound. Maya, also in the meeting, places her confidence at 100%.", "On May 2, 2011, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment flies two stealth helicopters from Afghanistan into Pakistan with members of DEVGRU (SEAL Team Six) and the CIA's Special Activities Division to raid the compound. The SEALs gain entry and kill several people in the compound, including a man whom they believe is bin Laden. At a U.S. base in Jalalabad , Afghanistan, Maya confirms the identity of the corpse.", "She boards a military transport back to the U.S., the sole passenger. She is asked where she wants to go and begins to cry.", "CIA", "US Navy", "Other", "The film's working title was For God and Country . [ 8 ] The title Zero Dark Thirty was officially confirmed at the end of the film's teaser trailer. [ 9 ] Bigelow has explained that \"it's a military term for early morning before dawn, and it refers also to the darkness and secrecy that cloaked the entire decade-long mission.\" [ 10 ]", "Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal had initially worked on and finished a screenplay centered on the December 2001 Battle of Tora Bora , and the long, unsuccessful efforts to find Osama bin Laden in the region. The two were about to begin filming when news broke that bin Laden had been killed.", "They immediately shelved the film they had been working on and redirected their focus, essentially starting from scratch. \"But a lot of the homework I'd done for the first script and a lot of the contacts I made, carried over,\" Boal remarked during an interview with Entertainment Weekly . He added, \"The years I had spent talking to military and intelligence operators involved in counter-terrorism was helpful in both projects. Some of the sourcing I had developed long, long ago continued to be helpful for this version.\" [ 10 ]", "Along with painstakingly recreating the historic night-vision raid on the Abbottabad compound, the script and the film stress the little-reported role of the tenacious young female CIA officer who tracked down Osama bin Laden. Screenwriter Boal said that while researching for the film, \"I heard through the grapevine that women played a big role in the CIA in general and in this team. I heard that a woman was there on the night of the raid as one of the CIA's liaison officers on the ground – and that was the start of it.\" He then turned up stories about a young case officer who was recruited out of college, who had spent her entire career chasing bin Laden. Maya's tough-minded, monomaniacal persona, Boal said, is \"based on a real person, but she also represents the work of a lot of other women.\" [ 11 ] In December 2014 Jane Mayer of The New Yorker wrote that \"Maya\" was modeled in part after CIA officer Alfreda Frances Bikowsky . [ 12 ]", "Zero Dark Thirty producers built a real compound in Jordan, based on what they could learn (from diagrams and reporting) about the building where the CIA's pursuit ended. The production designer—Jeremy Hindle, who had never made a feature film before—was responsible for making the building as real as possible. The cinder blocks with which the building was made, for example, were distressed so that they didn't look new. Parts of the film were shot at PEC University of Technology in Chandigarh , India . [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Some parts of Chandigarh were designed to look like Lahore and Abbottabad in Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was found and killed on May 2, 2011. [ 15 ] Parts of the film were shot in Mani Majra . [ 16 ] Local members of right-wing parties protested, expressing anti-bin Laden and anti-Pakistan sentiments as they objected to Pakistani locations being portrayed on Indian soil. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] \nFor a lone scene shot in Poland , the city of Gdańsk was reportedly offended for depicting it as a location for the CIA's clandestine and dark operations. [ 19 ]", "National security expert Peter Bergen , who reviewed an early cut of the film as an unpaid adviser, said at the time that the film's torture scenes \"were overwrought\". Boal said they were \"toned down\" in the final cut. [ 20 ]", "Alexandre Desplat composed and conducted the film's score. [ 21 ] The score, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra , was released as a soundtrack album by Madison Gate Records on December 19, 2012. [ 22 ]", "Columbia Pictures distributed the film in the United States with Annapurna Pictures' international sales arm Panorama Media handling international rights through a independent distributors, Universal Pictures International co-distributed the film with Panorama in select European territories and South Africa. Icon Film Distribution distributed the film in Australia and Entertainment One distributed the film in Canada.", "Electronic Arts promoted Zero Dark Thirty in its video game Medal of Honor: Warfighter by offering downloadable maps of locations depicted in the film. Additional maps for the game were made available on December 19, to coincide with the film's initial release. Electronic Arts donated $1 to nonprofit organizations that support veterans for each Zero Dark Thirty map pack sold. [ 23 ]", "The film premiered in Los Angeles on December 10, 2012. [ 7 ] It had a limited theatrical release on December 19, 2012, before expanding wide on January 11, 2013.", "Zero Dark Thirty was released on DVD [ 24 ] and Blu-ray Disc on March 26, 2013 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment . [ 25 ]", "The limited release of Zero Dark Thirty grossed $417,150 in the United States and Canada in only five theaters. [ 26 ] A wide release followed on January 11.", "Entertainment Weekly wrote, \"The controversial Oscar contender easily topped the chart in its first weekend of wide release with $24.4 million.\" [ 27 ] Zero Dark Thirty grossed $95,720,716 in the U.S. and Canada, along with $37,100,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $132,820,716. [ 2 ] It was the top-grossing film of its wide release premiere weekend. [ 28 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 91% based on 302 reviews, with an average rating of 8.60/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \"Gripping, suspenseful, and brilliantly crafted, Zero Dark Thirty dramatizes the hunt for Osama bin Laden with intelligence and an eye for detail.\" [ 29 ] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 95 out of 100, based on 46 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". It was the site's best-reviewed film of 2012. [ 30 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A−\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 31 ]", "New York Times critic Manohla Dargis , who designated the film a New York Times critics' pick, said that the film \"shows the dark side of that war. It shows the unspeakable and lets us decide if the death of Bin Laden was worth the price we paid.\" [ 32 ]", "Richard Corliss 's review in Time magazine called it \"a fine\" movie and \"a police procedural on the grand scale\", saying it \"blows Argo out of the water\". [ 33 ] Calling Zero Dark Thirty \"a milestone in post-Sept. 11 cinema\", critic A. O. Scott of The New York Times listed the film at number six of the top 10 films of 2012. [ 34 ]", "The New Yorker film critic David Denby lauded the filmmakers for their approach. \"The virtue of Zero Dark Thirty \", wrote Denby, \"is that it pays close attention to the way life does work; it combines ruthlessness and humanity in a manner that is paradoxical and disconcerting yet satisfying as art.\" But Denby faulted the filmmakers for getting lodged on the divide between fact and fiction. [ 35 ]", "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four. [ 36 ] He believed the \"opening scenes are not great filmmaking\", but Ebert thought Zero Dark Thirty eventually proved itself with the quiet determination of Chastain's performance and a gripping portrayal of the behind-the-scenes detail that led to bin Laden's death.", "Zero Dark Thirty was listed on many critics' top ten lists. According to Metacritic the film appeared on 95 critics' top ten lists of 2012, 17 of which placed the film at No. 1. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ]", "In 2016, Zero Dark Thirty was voted the 57th greatest film to be released since 2000 in a critics' poll conducted by the BBC . [ 40 ]", "Zero Dark Thirty was nominated for five Academy Awards at the 85th Academy Awards : Best Picture ,\n Best Actress , Best Original Screenplay , Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing . Paul N. J. Ottosson won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, tying with Skyfall . This was only the sixth tie in Academy Awards history, and the first since 1994. Zero Dark Thirty was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards at the 70th Golden Globe Awards , including Best Motion Picture – Drama , Best Director , Best Screenplay , with Chastain winning Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama .", "The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 's award for Best Director was given to Bigelow, the second time the honor has gone to a woman (the first also being Bigelow for The Hurt Locker ). The film swept critics groups' awards for Best Director and Best Picture including the Washington D.C., New York Film Critics Online, Chicago and Boston film critics associations. [ 41 ]", "The February 2020 issue of New York Magazine lists Zero Dark Thirty as among \"The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars.\" [ 42 ]", "Zero Dark Thirty has received criticism for historical inaccuracy. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Graham T. Allison has stated that the film is inaccurate in three important regards: the overstatement of the positive role of torture, the understatement of the role of the Obama administration, and the portrayal of the efforts as being driven by one agent battling against the CIA \"system\". [ 43 ]", "Steve Coll criticized the early depictions in the film that portrayed it as \"journalism\" with the use of composite characters . He took issue with the film's using the names of historical figures and details of their lives for characters, such as using details for \"Ammar\" to suggest that he was Ali Abdul Aziz Ali , whose nom de guerre was Ammar al-Baluchi . Coll said the facts about him were different from what was portrayed in the film, which suggests the detainee will never leave the black site . Al-Baluchi was transferred to Guantanamo in 2006 for a military tribunal. [ 44 ]", "It was also criticized for its stereotypical portrayal of Pakistan as well as the inaccurate portrayal of Pakistani nationals speaking Arabic instead of Urdu and other regional languages, and locals wearing obsolete headgear. [ 45 ]", "Partisan political controversy related to the film arose before shooting began. [ 10 ] Opponents of the Obama Administration charged that Zero Dark Thirty was scheduled for an October release just before the November presidential election to support his re-election. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] Sony denied that politics was a factor in release scheduling and said the date was the best available spot for an action-thriller in a crowded lineup. The film's screenwriter added, \"the president is not depicted in the movie. He's just not in the movie.\" [ 48 ]", "The distributor, Columbia Pictures , sensitive to political perceptions, considered rescheduling the film release for as late as early 2013. It set a limited-release date for December 19, 2012, well after the election and rendering moot any alleged political conflict. [ 8 ] [ 49 ] [ 50 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ] The nationwide release date was pushed back to January 11, 2013, moving it out of the crowded Christmas period and closer to the Academy Awards . [ 53 ] After the film's limited release, given the controversy related to the film's depiction of torture and its role in gaining critical information, The New York Times columnist Frank Bruni concluded that the film is \"a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be\". [ 54 ] Two months later, the paper's columnist Roger Cohen wrote that the film was \"a courageous work that is disturbing in the way that art should be\". Cohen disagreed with Steve Coll's critique of the screenwriter's stated effort not to \"play fast and loose with history\", writing that \"Boal has honored those words\". Cohen ended with a note about a Timothy Garton Ash analysis of George Orwell mixing fact and \"invented\" stories in Down and Out in Paris and London – as further support for Boal's method. [ 55 ]", "Several Republican sources charged the Obama Administration of improperly providing Bigelow and her team access to classified information during their research for the film. These charges, along with charges of other leaks to the media, became a prevalent election season talking point by conservatives. The Republican national convention party platform even claimed Obama \"has tolerated publicizing the details of the operation to kill the leader of Al Qaeda.\" [ 50 ] No release of these details has been proven according to the Navy Times . [ 56 ]", "The Republican congressman Peter T. King requested that the CIA and the U.S. Defense Department investigate if classified information was inappropriately released; both departments said they would look into it. [ 57 ] The CIA responded to Congressman King writing, \"the protection of national security equities – including the preservation of our ability to conduct effective counterterrorism operations – is the decisive factor in determining how the CIA engages with filmmakers and the media as a whole.\" [ 58 ]", "The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch publicized CIA and U.S. Defense Department documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, and alleged that \"unusual access to agency information\" was granted to the filmmakers. An examination of the documents showed no evidence that classified information was leaked to the filmmakers. In addition, CIA records did not show any involvement by the White House in relation to the filmmakers. [ 8 ] [ 50 ] The filmmakers have said they were not given access to classified details about Osama bin Laden's killing. [ 59 ] In 2012, Judicial Watch released an article stating the Obama Administration admitted that the information provided to the production team could pose an \"unnecessary security and counterintelligence risk\" if the information were to be released to the public. Judicial Watch also found emails containing information on five CIA and military operatives that were involved in the Bin Laden operations. These emails were provided to the filmmakers, as was later confirmed by the Obama Administration in a sworn declaration. [ 60 ]", "In January 2013, Reuters reported that the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would review the contacts between the CIA and the filmmakers to find out whether Bigelow and Boal had inappropriate access to classified information. [ 61 ] In February, Reuters reported that the inquiry had been dropped. [ 62 ]", "In June 2013, information was released in regards to an unreleased U.S. Defense Department Inspector General 's office report. It stated that in June 2011, while giving a speech at a CIA Headquarters event honoring the people involved in the Osama Bin Laden raid, CIA Director Leon Panetta disclosed information classified as \"Secret\" and \"Top Secret\" regarding personnel involved in the raid on the Bin Laden compound. [ 63 ] He identified the unit that conducted the raid as well as naming the ground commander that was in charge. Panetta also revealed DoD information during his speech that was classified as \"Top Secret\". Unknown to him, screenwriter Mark Boal was among the around 1300 present during the ceremony. [ 64 ]", "The film has been both criticized and praised for its handling of its subject matter, including the portrayal of the harsh \" enhanced interrogation techniques \", commonly classified as torture. The use of these techniques was long kept secret by the Bush administration . (See Torture Memos , The Torture Report .) Glenn Greenwald , in The Guardian , stated that the film takes a pro-torture stance, describing it as \"pernicious propaganda\" and stating that it \"presents torture as its CIA proponents and administrators see it: as a dirty, ugly business that is necessary to protect America.\" [ 65 ] Critic Frank Bruni concluded that the film appears to suggest \"No waterboarding , no Bin Laden\". [ 54 ] Jesse David Fox writes that the film \"doesn't explicitly say that torture caught bin Laden, but in portraying torture as one part of the successful search, it can be read that way.\" [ 66 ] Emily Bazelon said, \"The filmmakers didn't set out to be Bush-Cheney apologists\", but \"they adopted a close-to-the-ground point of view, and perhaps they're in denial about how far down the path to condoning torture this led them.\" [ 67 ]", "Journalist Michael Wolff slammed the film as a \"nasty piece of pulp and propaganda\" and Bigelow as a \"fetishist and sadist\" for distorting history with a pro-torture viewpoint. Wolff disputed the efficacy of torture and the claim that it contributed to the discovery of bin Laden. [ 68 ] In an open letter, social critic and feminist Naomi Wolf criticized Bigelow for claiming the film was \"part documentary\" and speculated over the reasons for Bigelow's \"amoral compromising\" of film-making, suggesting that the more pro-military a film, the easier it is to acquire Pentagon support for scenes involving expensive, futuristic military equipment. Wolf likened Bigelow to the acclaimed director and propagandist for the Nazi regime Leni Riefenstahl , saying: \"Like Riefenstahl, you are a great artist. But now you will be remembered forever as torture's handmaiden.\" [ 69 ] Author Karen J. Greenberg wrote that \"Bigelow has bought in, hook, line, and sinker, to the ethos of the Bush administration and its apologists\" and called the film \"the perfect piece of propaganda, with all the appeal that naked brutality, fear, and revenge can bring\". [ 70 ] Peter Maass of The Atlantic said the film \"represents a troubling new frontier of government-embedded filmmaking\". [ 71 ]", "Jane Mayer of The New Yorker , who has published The Dark Side , a book about the use of torture during the Bush administration, criticized the film, saying that Bigelow was", "Author Greg Mitchell wrote that \"the film's depiction of torture helping to get bin Laden is muddled at best – but the overall impression by the end, for most viewers, probably will be: Yes, torture played an important (if not the key) role.\" [ 73 ] Filmmaker Alex Gibney called the film a \"stylistic masterwork\" but criticized the \"irresponsible and inaccurate\" depiction of torture, writing:", "Philosopher Slavoj Žižek , in an article for The Guardian , criticized what he perceived as a \"normalization\" of torture in the film, arguing that the mere neutrality on an issue many see as revolting is already a type of endorsement per se . Žižek proposed that if a similar film were made about a brutal rape or the Holocaust , such a movie would \"embody a deeply immoral fascination with its topic, or it would count on the obscene neutrality of its style to engender dismay and horror in spectators.\" Žižek further panned Bigelow's stance of coldly presenting the issue in a rational manner, instead of being dogmatically rejected as a repulsive, unethical proposition. [ 75 ]", "Journalist Steve Coll , who has written on foreign policy, national security and the bin Laden family, criticized the filmmakers for saying the film was \"journalistic\", which implies that it is based in fact. At the same time, they claimed artistic license , which he described \"as an excuse for shoddy reporting about a subject as important as whether torture had a vital part in the search for bin Laden\". [ 44 ] Coll wrote that \"arguably, the film's degree of emphasis on torture's significance goes beyond what even the most die-hard defenders of the CIA interrogation regime ... have argued\", as he said it was shown as critical at several points. [ 44 ]", "U.S. Senator John McCain , who was tortured during his time as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam , said that the film left him sick – \"because it's wrong\". In a speech in the Senate, he said, \"Not only did the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not provide us with key leads on bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed, it actually produced false and misleading information.\" [ 76 ] McCain and fellow senators Dianne Feinstein and Carl Levin sent a critical letter to Michael Lynton , chairman of the film's distributor, Sony Pictures Entertainment, stating, \"[W]ith the release of Zero Dark Thirty , the filmmakers and your production studio are perpetuating the myth that torture is effective. You have a social and moral obligation to get the facts right.\" [ 77 ]", "Michael Morell , the CIA's acting director, sent a public letter on December 21, 2012, to the agency's employees, which said that Zero Dark Thirty", "The Huffington Post writer G. Roger Denson countered this, saying that the filmmakers were being made scapegoats for information openly admitted by government and intelligence officials. Denson said that Leon Panetta , three days after Osama bin Laden's death, seemed to say that waterboarding was a means of extracting reliable and crucial information in the hunt for bin Laden. [ 79 ] Denson noted Panetta speaking as the CIA chief in May 2011, saying that \"enhanced interrogation techniques were used to extract information that led to the mission's success\". Panetta said waterboarding was among the techniques used. [ 80 ] In a Huffington Post article written a week later, Denson cited other statements from Bush government officials saying that torture had yielded information to locate bin Laden. [ 79 ]", "Human Rights Watch criticized the film for \"wrongly suggest[ing] that torture was an ugly but useful tactic in the fight against terrorism\", and for falsely depicting the use of torture as critical to leading to locating bin Laden, citing statements by McCain, Feinstein, Levin and Morell. The article also called for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to declassify the report on torture adopted by the committee in December 2012 in order to \"counter misinformation about the supposed value of “enhanced interrogation techniques” and to provide the public with a full accounting of past US government policy and practice.\" [ 81 ] Laura Pitter, the former deputy director of the US Program at HRW, criticized CIA counterterrorism chief Jose Rodriguez 's response to the film, stating \"[the film]... has spawned a wide array of commentary. None is as misleading or morally disturbing, however, as the one from... Rodriguez, who seized on the film as an opportunity to defend—and completely distort—the CIA torture program he supervised. This from the guy who, ignoring instructions from the White House and CIA, destroyed 92 videotapes depicting the waterboarding of detainees in CIA custody ...\" Pitter also wrote of the discussion around the film, \"We would not even be having this debate, and this film probably would not have even been made in the way it was, had the U.S. government not gone to such great lengths over the past 11 years to cover up the tracks of its crimes and bury the facts...\" [ 82 ]", "National security reporter Spencer Ackerman said the film \"does not present torture as a silver bullet that led to bin Laden; it presents torture as the ignorant alternative to that silver bullet\". [ 83 ] Critic Glenn Kenny said that he \"saw a movie that subverted a lot of expectations concerning viewer identification and empathy\" and that \"rather than endorsing the barbarity, the picture makes the viewer in a sense complicit with it\", which is \"[a] whole other can of worms\". [ 84 ] Writer Andrew Sullivan said, \"the movie is not an apology for torture, as so many have said, and as I have worried about. It is an exposure of torture. It removes any doubt that war criminals ran this country for seven years\". [ 85 ] Filmmaker Michael Moore similarly said, \"I left the movie thinking it made an incredible statement against torture\", and noted that the film showed the abject brutality of torture. [ 86 ] Critic Andrew O'Hehir said that the filmmaker's position on torture in the film is ambiguous, and creative choices were made and the film poses \"excellent questions for us to ask ourselves, arguably defining questions of the age, and I think the longer you look at them the thornier they get\". [ 87 ]", "Screenwriter Boal described the pro-torture accusations as \"preposterous\", stating that \"it's just misreading the film to say that it shows torture leading to the information about bin Laden\", while director Bigelow added: \"Do I wish [torture] was not part of that history? Yes. But it was.\" [ 88 ] In February 2013 in The Wall Street Journal , Boal responded to the Senate critics, being quoted as saying \"[D]oes that mean they can use the movie as a political platform to talk about what they've been wanting to talk about for years and years and years? Do I think that Feinstein used the movie as a publicity tool to get a conversation going about her report? I believe it, ...\" referring to the intelligence committee's report on enhanced interrogations. He also said the senators' letter showed they were still concerned about public opinion supporting the effectiveness of torture and didn't want the movie reinforcing that. Boal said, though, \"I don't think that [effectiveness] issue has really been resolved\" if there is a suspect with possible knowledge of imminent attack who will not talk. [ 89 ]", "In an interview with Time magazine, Bigelow said: \"I'm proud of the movie, and I stand behind it completely. I think that it's a deeply moral movie that questions the use of force. It questions what was done in the name of finding bin Laden.\" [ 90 ]", "An extensive clip of the phone call to headquarters from Betty Ong , a flight attendant on one of the hijacked American Airlines planes, was used in the beginning of the film without attribution. [ 91 ] Ong's family requested that, if the film won any awards, the filmmakers apologize at the Academy Awards ceremony for using the clip without getting her heirs' consent. Her family also asked that the film's U.S. distributors make a charitable donation in Ong's name, and should go on record that the Ong family does not endorse the use of torture, which is depicted in the film during the search for Osama bin Laden. [ 91 ] Neither the filmmakers nor the U.S. distributors ever heeded any of the Ong family's requests. [ 92 ]", "Mary and Frank Fetchet, parents of Brad Fetchet, who worked on the 89th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower, criticized the filmmakers for using a recording of their son's voicemail without permission. The recording has previously been heard in broadcast TV news reports and in testimony for the 9/11 Commission . [ 93 ]", "="]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/One_Day_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Lone Scherfig", "Screenplay by": "David Nicholls", "Based on": "One Day by David Nicholls", "Produced by": "Nina Jacobson", "Starring": "Anne Hathaway Jim Sturgess Patricia Clarkson Ken Stott Romola Garai", "Cinematography": "Benoît Delhomme [ 1 ]", "Edited by": "Barney Pilling [ 1 ]", "Music by": "Rachel Portman", "Production companies": "Random House Films Film4 Color Force", "Distributed by": "Focus Features (United States) Universal Pictures (United Kingdom)", "Release dates": "8 August 2011 ( 2011-08-08 ) ( New York City premiere ) 19 August 2011 ( 2011-08-19 ) (United States) 24 August 2011 ( 2011-08-24 ) (United Kingdom)", "Running time": "108 minutes", "Countries": "United States United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$15 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$59.4 million [ 3 ]", "Released": "August 16, 2011", "Genre": "Alternative rock Electronic Pop", "Label": "Island"}
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["One Day is a 2011 romantic drama film directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by David Nicholls , based on Nicholls' 2009 novel of the same name . It stars Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess , with Patricia Clarkson , Ken Stott and Romola Garai in supporting roles. It was released in the United States on 19 August 2011 by Focus Features and in the United Kingdom on 24 August 2011 by Universal Pictures .", "After meeting and spending the night together on St. Swithun 's Day on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year over 20 years on this same date, facing small fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. As time goes on, we discover the true meaning of this one crucial day for them.", "A television series adaptation of the same source novel, starring Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall was released on Netflix in 2024. [ 4 ]", "Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley meet every 15 July—St. Swithun 's Day—over 20 years. Dexter is from a southern, wealthy, upper-class family, privately educated at Winchester College whilst Emma is from a lower middle-class family from northern England. On 15 July 1988, after graduation from the University of Edinburgh , they spend a platonic night together, agreeing to \"just be friends.", "One year later, Dexter helps Emma move to London to become a writer before heading to India. Finding little success by 1990, she starts working in a Mexican restaurant, where she meets Ian, an aspiring comedian and sci-fi buff.", "World traveler Dexter works as a TEFL teacher in Paris. Visiting Emma on 15 July 1991, he suggests they take a holiday, so the next year they travel to Dinard . Despite their mutual attraction, Emma turns down Dexter's advances as he lacks commitment.", "By 1993, Dexter is a successful television presenter on a raucous late-night show. Visiting his parents on 15 July 1994 after his mother's terminal cancer diagnosis, he arrives still inebriated from last night's partying, infuriating his father. Unimpressed with Dexter's wild lifestyle, she tells him he is not yet a nice person. That night, Emma has a first date with Ian; despite their lack of chemistry, they begin a relationship.", "By 1995, Emma has become a schoolteacher and lives with Ian, who increasingly irritates her. Dexter's new show makes him \"the most annoying man on telly\". Meeting Emma for dinner on 15 July 1996, Dexter gets high on cocaine , flirts with another, and insults Emma quoting George Bernard Shaw , \"Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.” Storming off, she declares they have outgrown each other, telling him that although she loves him, she no longer likes him.", "Two years later, now mid-30, Dexter loses his television career, failing to capture younger audiences, and by 1999, is in a serious relationship with Sylvie. Meanwhile, Emma has split up with Ian; who confronts her over their breakup and his jealousy of Dexter after reading her diary whilst she reminds him she pays the mortgage and despises Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Ian's obsession.", "Before leaving, Ian nonetheless praises her short stories, urging her to have them published. On 15 July 2000, Emma and Dexter attend the wedding of mutual friends. His old roommate Callum, now very wealthy, offers him a job. Emma reveals she has received a book deal, and Dexter that he is engaged to a pregnant Sylvie. Dexter and Emma rekindle their friendship.", "By 2001, Dexter is a devoted father to Jasmine and unaware Sylvie is cheating with Callum. Emma's book is published. Two years pass, and Dexter is divorced. He travels to Paris on the Eurostar to visit successful author Emma, who lives there.", "Hopeful after a previous drunken tryst with Emma following his divorce, Dexter learns of her new French, jazz musician boyfriend Jean-Pierre, so he departs. Having second thoughts, Emma chases after Dexter. They share a passionate kiss on the banks of Canal Saint-Martin and finally begin a relationship.", "Emma and Dexter are engaged by 2004 and eventually marry. Dexter opens a café in England, sharing custody of Jasmine, and he and Emma try, unsuccessfully, to have a child. On 15 July 2006, Emma is killed by a lorry whilst riding her bicycle.", "Inconsolable, Dexter returns to being self-destructive. Over the years, he is comforted by Sylvie, Jasmine, his widowed father, and even Ian, now working in insurance and happily married with children, who visits Dexter and tells him Emma \"lit up\" around him, assuring him that \"she made you decent... and you made her so happy\".", "On 15 July 2011, Dexter visits Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh with Jasmine. The film flashes back to 1988: after their night together, Dexter declines Emma's invitation to spend the day together, but changes his mind. They climb Arthur's Seat and at the top, he suggests that instead of being casual friends, they \"finish what they started\" the previous night. Racing back to the flat, they bump into Dexter's parents. Emma leaves, and Dexter tells them she is just a friend, but chases after her for her number. They kiss passionately, and promise to see", "The film is a co-production between Random House Films and Focus Features . Film4 Productions is co-financing. [ 1 ]", "Actress Anne Hathaway said she was clandestinely given the script as the film was set in the United Kingdom and director Scherfig was not looking for any American actresses for the part. Hathaway flew to London for a meeting with Scherfig to explain why she should get the part. Hathaway later said it was \"the worst meeting of my life... I was just inarticulate\", but on leaving Hathaway wrote out a list of songs for Scherfig to listen to, saying, \"I clearly didn't communicate to you what I needed to today. But I think these songs can do it for me.\" Scherfig did listen to them, which led to Hathaway getting the part. [ 5 ]", "Principal photography commenced in July 2010. Filming took place on location in Scotland, England and France. [ 1 ] The production filmed in Edinburgh , the city where Dexter and Emma first meet, in August 2010. [ 6 ] Various landmark locations, including Arthur's Seat , were used. [ 7 ] Production then moved to London. Parliament Hill Lido in north London was used for scenes in which Emma, of varying ages, swims. [ 8 ] Filming took place inside a house in Granville Road in Stroud Green for scenes involving Jim Sturgess and Romola Garai. [ 9 ] Scenes in the shop and cafe were filmed at Leila's shop and cafe on Arnold Circus, close to Brick Lane in the East End. [ 10 ] UK railway station filming took place at Ridgmont Station on the Bedford to Bletchley Marston Vale Line . [ 11 ] Filming in France took place in Dinan and Dinard , near Saint-Malo , in Brittany . A seaside club was turned into the Café Paradis, designed to ape Greek themes.", "On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 37% approval rating based on 145 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1/10. The site's consensus states: \"Despite some fresh narrative twists, One Day lacks the emotion, depth, or insight of its bestselling source material\". [ 12 ] On Metacritic , it has a score of 48% based on reviews from 41 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". [ 13 ] CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a \"B−\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 14 ]", "Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times called it a \"heartbreaking disappointment of a film\" [ 15 ] while Peter Howell of the Toronto Star said \"Long before the credits roll, you may find yourself wishing your life could flash before your eyes, to end the monotony of this relentless turning of calendar pages.\" [ 16 ] In contrast, Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four, saying, \" One Day has style, freshness, and witty bantering dialogue.\" [ 17 ] Anne Hathaway's Yorkshire accent in the role of Emma was regarded as subpar by the newspaper columnist Suzanne Moore . Reviewing the film on BBC Radio 4 's Front Row , she said the accents were \"all over the shop\". Moore went on to say, \"Sometimes she's from Scotland, sometimes she's from New York, you just can't tell\". [ 18 ]", "In November 2021, it was announced that Netflix would be adapting the novel on which the film was based into a television series. The writing team for the series is headed by Nicole Taylor , working with Anna Jordan , Vinay Patel and Bijan Sheibani and will be produced by Drama Republic, Universal International Studios and Focus Features. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall are to star in the lead roles. [ 21 ]", "In November 2021, it was announced that Netflix would be adapting the novel on which the film was based into a television series. The writing team for the series is headed by Nicole Taylor , working with Anna Jordan , Vinay Patel and Bijan Sheibani and will be produced by Drama Republic, Universal International Studios and Focus Features. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall are to star in the lead roles. [ 21 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Zero_official_poster.jpg/250px-Zero_official_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Aanand L. Rai", "Written by": "Himanshu Sharma", "Produced by": "Gauri Khan Aanand L. Rai", "Starring": "Shah Rukh Khan Katrina Kaif Anushka Sharma", "Cinematography": "Manu Anand", "Edited by": "Hemal Kothari", "Music by": "Ajay-Atul", "Production companies": "Red Chillies Entertainment Colour Yellow Productions [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Pen Marudhar Entertainment and PVR Pictures (India) Eveready Pictures (Pakistan) Zee Studios (Canada) Yash Raj Films (International) [ a ]", "Release date": "December 21, 2018 ( 2018-12-21 ) (India) [ 3 ]", "Running time": "164 minutes [ 4 ]", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi", "Budget": "₹200 crore [ 5 ]", "Box office": "₹191.43 crore [ 6 ]"}
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["Zero is a 2018 Indian Hindi -language comedy drama film written by Himanshu Sharma , directed by Aanand L. Rai and produced by Colour Yellow Productions in collaboration with Red Chillies Entertainment . The film stars Shah Rukh Khan , and Katrina Kaif , while Anushka Sharma , Abhay Deol , R. Madhavan and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub in important supporting cast. The plot revolves around Bauua Singh, a short man from Meerut who, after having difficulty finding a marriage partner, finds a companion in Aafia Bhinder, a NSAR (a fictional space research facility) scientist with cerebral palsy . However, film superstar Babita also gets close with him, testing his first relationship, before this love triangle takes them to far-off cities, thrusting Bauua into an adventure to discover both his true love and completeness in a life lived to the fullest.", "The project was conceived by Rai in 2012, before pre-production commenced in 2016. Initially under the working title Katrina Meri Jaan , it went through numerous name changes before arriving at the final title in early 2018. Principal photography began in Mumbai during May 2017 and concluded in 2018 in Orlando . The soundtrack is composed by Ajay–Atul with lyrics written by Irshad Kamil , under the label T-Series .", "Zero was released on 21 December 2018, to mixed-to-negative reviews from both critics and audiences alike. The lead performances (especially Khan and Kaif) and visual effects received acclaim. However, the direction, story, plot, and inconsistent screenplay were largely criticized. Despite having widespread hype prior to release, the film was one of the biggest box-office failures in Khan's career leading him to take a five year hiatus.", "At the 64th Filmfare Awards , Zero received seven nominations, including Best Actor (Khan) and Best Supporting Actress (Kaif), and won Best Special Effects . [ 7 ] [ 8 ]", "Bauua Singh, a young man from Meerut with short stature, has trouble finding a marriage partner. After using matrimonial agencies with little luck, he eventually finds his companion in Aafia Yusufzai Bhinder, a NSAR scientist (a fictionalized depiction of NASA ) with cerebral palsy . In the events that followed, both fall in love with each other, but Bauua dumps her after five months. However, Aafia comes looking for him, and Bauua's parents fix their marriage. On their marriage day, Bauua's friend Guddu tells him that he is shortlisted for a dance competition where he had applied earlier, where the winner gets a chance to meet Babita Kumari, a Bollywood actress. Baua, determined to meet Babita, runs away from the marriage after a confrontation with Aafia, leaving everyone devastated.", "Bauua wins and gets to meet Babita at a party, accompanied by other famous Bollywood actors. Babita offers him a job after he displays an ability to guess what goes on in people's mind by observing them. He accompanies her on film schedules and award functions, helping her patch up with her ex-boyfriend Aditya Kapoor, who had previously cheated on her. Bauua tells Babita about Aafia, who in turn falsely tells him that her parents were dwarves and her father cheated on her mother, to make Bauua realise his mistake. He realizes his wrongdoings and wishing to reconcile with Aafia, starts an argument at a party organized by Babita, following which Babita throws him out and breaks all ties with Aditya, realizing the latter is cheating on her again.", "Bauua and Guddu travel to New York , where Aafia is attending a seminar. Bauaa crashes the seminar to meet her, but Aafia refuses to see him. Aafia's father tells him that Aafia was pregnant with Bauua's child, due to which she wanted him to marry her in the first place. A heartbroken Bauua decides to leave the city, but decides to try his luck one more time. After meeting with Aafia again at NSAR and getting rejected by her, Bauua enlists in a program recruiting human volunteers to be sent to Mars on a rocket. After painstaking training and getting help from one of the applicants, Bauaa gets selected, while Guddu is rejected for his vision disability. On the day of his launch, Aafia, who is supposed to marry Srinivasan, a fellow scientist and Aafia's colleague, leaves him, and she reaches NSAR seconds before Bauua's launch. Bauua assures her that he always loved her, just before the rocket takes off. The launch is witnessed by Aafia, Guddu and Srinivasan, along with Babita and Bauua's family via television broadcast. The launch is successful, and the rocket thrusts off in space.", "In a voice-over by Aafia, it is revealed that Bauua eventually reaches Mars , and sends a video recording of himself from there. His rocket gets lost somewhere in space on the return journey, and Aafia waits for him. Fifteen years later, a Chinese space station receives the signal of Bauua's escape pod, which crash lands in the Pacific Ocean , revealing Bauua is still alive.", "Director Aanand L. Rai conceived the film in 2012 after watching Krrish (2006) and drawing parallels of the titular character with that of American superheroes such as Superman , Batman and Spider-Man . He appreciated the achievement of Indians having their own superhero film but felt wary of the outreach, saying, \"I loved seeing Hrithik Roshan fly off a 250-feet building, it was brilliantly done, but deep down I felt this wasn't us. Apart from our mythological demigods , Indians aren't ready for superheroes\" and \"That's what made me want to live life from the perspective of a dwarf [ sic ].\" [ 31 ]", "The film was initially titled Katrina Meri Jaan . However, this was later scrapped because the producers thought the title would be too misleading to people and make them presume the film is about Kaif. [ 32 ] In between productions, the film underwent numerous working titles such as Bauaa , Bauna , Butka , Bandhua and Batla . Red Chillies Entertainment registered three names for use as the film's title. [ 33 ] In the end, a unanimous decision was made to call the film Zero , revealed in January 2018. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ]", "Bollywood Hungama reported the budget of the film to be around ₹ 150 crore. [ 37 ] Rai refuted these reports and stated that the film did have a big budget at that time, but less than the reported amount, and that the amount might change. [ 38 ] In October 2018, after post-production work was completed, the film's budget was revealed to be ₹ 2 billion, making it the most expensive film starring Khan. [ 5 ] Himanshu Sharma , who wrote the script, confirmed the story to be a romantic drama. [ 39 ] He stated that while the story does feature a little person as a character, the plot does not revolve only around that character. [ 39 ]", "Initially, Salman Khan was approached for the role in 2012. [ 40 ] The role then went to Shah Rukh Khan . His casting was confirmed in March 2016. [ 41 ] He plays a man with dwarfism. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Rai cast Khan to play the lead role because he needed a big star for the story to penetrate globally. He needed \"an intelligent actor, who also can carry that happy-go-lucky attitude,\" and he felt Khan possessed those qualities. [ 30 ] [ 44 ] Rai realised the difference between a six-foot tall person saying \"I love you\" and a four-foot tall person; hence he hired Khan. [ 31 ] Khan is the fifth actor of normal stature in Indian cinema to play a little person after Kamal Haasan in Apoorva Sagodharargal (1989), [ 45 ] Johnny Lever in Aashiq (2001), Jagathy Sreekumar in Athbhutha Dweepu (2005) and Anupam Kher in Jaan-E-Mann (2006). [ 46 ]", "After much speculation, Rai confirmed Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif as the female lead actors in the film in June 2017; this would be the second collaboration between the two actresses and Khan after their 2012 film Jab Tak Hai Jaan . While Kaif was the first choice for the first lead, Sharma's role was initially offered to Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhatt who play cameos in the film, they dropped out due to date issues. [ 47 ] Sharma was reported to play a differently-abled person, [ 32 ] whereas Kaif confirmed that she will portray the role of an actress. [ 34 ] Both Sharma and Kaif were offered the role not because of their stardom but because they fit the role according to Rai. [ 44 ] According to Kaif, she was offered the film before Khan was cast. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] She later confirmed that the script and story of Zero had changed over two years, hinting that Khan recommended this. [ 50 ]", "Tigmanshu Dhulia portrayed the father of Khan's character. He showed interest in the project after hearing about its heavy technical involvements. [ 32 ] Abhay Deol was cast as a love interest, [ 15 ] and Madhavan , who had previously worked with Rai in both Tanu Weds Manu films, announced his casting by sharing a selfie with Rai on the film's set in late May 2018. [ 17 ] Khan refrained from signing any other film during Zero ' s production. [ 51 ] The film features guest appearances by Salman Khan, Sridevi , Juhi Chawla , Kajol , Rani Mukerji , Karisma Kapoor , Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhatt who will portray themselves. [ 52 ] This marked Sridevi ’s posthumous appearance in a film, as she died before the film's release shortly after filming. [ 32 ] [ 53 ]", "In August 2016, it was said that filming would begin in December 2016. [ 54 ] This was later postponed to 2017. [ 55 ] Principal photography of the film eventually began in May 2017 in Mumbai . [ 56 ] [ 57 ] In May, an accident occurred on the set, in which crew members were injured. [ 58 ] In June 2017, Khan revealed that only 10 minutes of footage had been completed. [ 59 ] Kaif joined the team on 22 September 2017. [ 60 ] Sharma started shooting in September. [ 61 ] On 8 January, she resumed her shooting after taking a break for a couple of weeks for her wedding. [ 62 ] Two days later, Khan was photographed on the sets of the film in suburban Mumbai. [ 63 ] The crew took a break during the Makara Sankranti festival. [ 64 ] The shoot was also extended to Bandra, Mumbai. [ 65 ] Around January 2018, Kajol completed filming for her cameo. [ 66 ] Parts of the film were also shot in Dubai . [ 67 ] Overall, the film took 200 days to shoot, instead of the originally allotted 140 days. [ 68 ]", "For the scenes in the film taking place in Meerut , preparations were undertaken by the producers to ensure an authentic setting. A large-scale replica of the city was reproduced in Mumbai's Film City, where special attention was given to recreating the streets (and even buildings like the famed clock-tower) accurately. Director Rai also flew 300 actors from Meerut onto the sets to simulate the \"feel\" of the town; actors familiar with the Meerut area, like Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, also helped Shah Rukh Khan understand and integrate local mannerisms into Bauua's character. [ 69 ]", "Visual effects were heavily used to make Khan's character three feet tall. [ 42 ] According to Khan, this was done as \"I would have a problem if I have to do it on my knees. I am trying to avoid that part because that looks unreal also, and in today's time and age, you don't want to do that.\" [ 70 ] The makers took inspiration from the technology used in The Lord of the Rings . Khan noted that he had to be careful about the \"little things\" in enacting Bauua, such as not making his strides too long, and using a ramp instead of stairs; for many scenes, he would be made to stand in a pit (which would be edited out in post-production), so the other actors would be looking at him from a slightly higher vantage point and hence creating a sense of realism for his short stature. [ 68 ] The character was also shot using Forced Perspective, which according to NDTV , is \"a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It will make SRK look shorter.\" [ 71 ] According to Rai, the film will use the most visual effects for an Indian film. [ 72 ]", "To better prepare for playing a wheelchair user, Sharma met with an occupational therapist and an audiologist, who taught her how to create an involuntary spasm-like action during her dialogue scenes; the occupational therapist was always on set to monitor Sharma's performance. [ 20 ] In an interview with The Telegraph , Sharma noted that in the beginning stages of the shoot, shaping the physicality of the character was difficult for her and that she would ask for many more takes than usual because her movements didn't feel correct. During the first schedule, she asked Khan to be more patient with her during their scenes while she got used to the character, which he obliged. She observed that because the character performed involuntary movements, they were very difficult to do and required \"heavy breathing, which would get me very tired and my body would go into spasms because I had tightened it so much.\" [ 73 ] She eventually got more comfortable in her performance later on. In between takes, instead of returning to her normal physicality as most actors would, she would stay in the wheelchair, then \"go to another mark on my wheelchair and sit there alone. I would rarely leave the wheelchair on set, and ended up staying away from everybody as well.\" [ 73 ]", "Kaif was initially relucatant to play Babita; to her the character \"seemed like just another film star going through pain,\" with Kaif herself having recently reached a personal point of equilibrium after coming out a challenging phase in her life. [ 74 ] Director Rai eventually convinced her of the role and the internal transformation the character would undertake, with Kaif noting that it was \"an intense journey we went on together.\" Babita's vulnerability, and her continuous struggle to hide her true feelings from the world, appealed to Kaif and she eventually found the character intriguing. She noted that in real life, most people eventually hide their feelings from the real world in some way or another, and that they would find Babita relatable as she was dealing with her own issues and personal insecurities; she would often react defensively or aggressively, and yet the fact that she was \"fighting for herself\" gave her respectability and makes her interesting to watch. [ 74 ]", "In the behind-the-scenes video of the making of the song \"Mere Naam Tu,\" [ 75 ] Anushka Sharma details the video in a voice-over, and she mentions several aspects of the song's making. She noted that choreographer Remo D'Souza directed the video and brought his trademark creativity, including the inclusion of children, into the song's dance sequence. The sequence was filmed over the course of 14 days, with Sharma mostly wearing pajamas and using a wheelchair for its duration. It was filmed in the corridor of a hotel, yet was transformed into a \"fantasy land,\" with the addition of on-set rain and Holi colors. While on set, wheelchair user Sharma can be seen on an elevated platform while interacting with Shah Rukh Khan's character Bauua, to create the illusion of his short stature.", "Most of the film was filmed entirely in Film City . [ 76 ] In February 2018, it was reported that the post-production work of a second teaser was being carried out. [ 77 ] From 4–8 April 2018, Khan shot the film's schedule in Vasai, Mumbai, flying in a helicopter to avoid the traffic. [ 78 ] In middle April, the film's shooting was reported to shift to the United States for a sequence. [ 52 ] Some sequences were also filmed in Huntsville, Alabama . [ 79 ] Khan finished filming for Zero , and wrapped the film's principal photography in Orlando , during the month of June 2018. [ 80 ] [ 81 ]", "The film's score and soundtrack were composed and produced by Ajay–Atul collaborating with Khan for the first time, while Tanishk Bagchi worked as a guest composer. [ 82 ] Lyrics are written by Irshad Kamil and Kumaar . The first single, \"Mere Naam Tu\" was released on 23 November 2018. [ 83 ] It was sung by Abhay Jodhpurkar (who made Bollywood debut) and arranged by Ustad K. Shayan-Hussaini (who also played its piano pieces); other instrumentals include the Indian flute by Varad Kathapurkar and the Nylon guitar by Pawan Rasayli. On 4 December, \"Issaqbaazi,\" the film's second song, was released; a fast-paced, rustic dance number picturized on a jubilant Bauua dancing with Salman Khan after being kissed by Babita, it was sung by Sukhwinder Singh and Divya Kumar , and was composed by Ajay–Atul, with lyrics by Irshad Kamil. [ 84 ] The third single track \"Husn Parcham\" was released on 1 December 2018. [ 85 ] The song was sung by Bhoomi Trivedi and Raja Kumari . On 20 December 2018, a fourth song was released, titled \"Heer Badnaam.\" [ 86 ] Revealing the stardom and personal issues of Babita Kumari, and depicting Bauua as her long-standing fan, the song is reminiscent of the Punjabi song \"Daru Badnaam\" by Kamal Kahlon and Param Singh; it is composed by Tanishk Bagchi , lyricized by Kumaar , and sung by Romy. [ 87 ] The album was released by T-Series on 7 December 2018. [ 88 ]", "The title of the film was announced by Khan and Rai on 1 January 2018 in a minute long teaser trailer posted on Twitter due to robust demand from fans. The video showed Khan in his dwarf avatar singing and dancing to Mohammed Rafi 's \" Hum Ko Tum Pe Pyar Aaya \". [ 89 ] [ 90 ] Although neither Kaif nor Sharma appeared in the teaser video, in one of the scenes, Khan wore a jacket with a collage of Kaif's pictures imprinted on it. [ 91 ] In less than 24 hours, the video garnered over 3 million views on YouTube alone, and Khan's announcement tweet had over 30,000 likes. [ 92 ] Red Chillies Entertainment later announced that Zero -related posts had reached over 10 million views, likes and mentions across various social media platforms like Facebook , YouTube, Twitter and Instagram . [ 93 ] The following day, the first teaser poster with the tagline \"21st December 2018 se aapke piche\" was unveiled by Red Chillies Entertainment, revealing that the film would release on 21 December 2018. [ 30 ] [ 94 ]", "According to Rai, Zero was chosen to be released in December since it is \"a month when we celebrate life and what better time for a boy who celebrates that he is physically incomplete and in his incompleteness completes others as he travels from Meerut to New York . There is a beauty in incompleteness we are celebrating.\" [ 44 ] During the Islamic festival of Eid , a promotional teaser [ 95 ] was released on 13 June 2018, featuring Shah Rukh and Salman, the latter in the attire sported by him in the film Tiger Zinda Hai (2017). [ 96 ] In late August 2018, Rai confirmed to news agency Bollywood Hungama that the trailer for Zero would release on 2 November, Khan's birthday. [ 97 ] In late October 2018, as part of the promotional campaign, a verified Twitter account emerged in the name of Bauua, Khan's character from the film, featuring the cartoon version of Bauua Singh's first look and posting humorous tweets. [ 98 ] [ 99 ]", "On 1 November, the day before the release of the trailer, two official posters [ 100 ] were revealed by Khan on his social media pages: one featuring Khan's character Bauua Singh and Anushka Sharma's character in Connaught Place in New Delhi , [ 101 ] and another with Singh and Katrina Kaif's character in front of Meerut 's clock tower. [ 102 ] \nOn the morning of 2 November, Director Aanand L. Rai released a third poster on his Twitter page, depicting Khan's Bauua Singh standing on a street near Broadway in New York City . [ 103 ] The same day, Red Chillies Entertainment released the official trailer on YouTube. [ 21 ] The trailer recorded more than 54 million views within 24 hours, [ 104 ] and eventually recorded the fastest 100 million views on YouTube for any Indian film, surpassing Thugs of Hindostan to become YouTube's most-watched Indian trailer of all time. [ 105 ] On 10 November, Zero ' s trailer was screened at the 24th Kolkata International Film Festival in the presence of Khan and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee . [ 106 ] On 20 November, Red Chillies Entertainment uploaded an official promo video to their YouTube channel. [ 107 ] On the same day, the film's makers launched an exclusive Bauua Singh WhatsApp sticker pack available for download. [ 108 ]", "On 21 November, in starting a month-long countdown to the release of the film, a humorous behind-the-scenes look was released, entitled \"Mera Samosa Waapis Karo\" – revealing Director Aanand L. Rai's fondness for samosas and Shah Rukh Khan's playful prank on him about it. [ 109 ] Also on 21 November, Red Chillies Entertainment tweeted to announce official merchandise for the film – including phone covers, mugs, shirts, and headphone sets – which would be available for purchase on their company website's store page. [ 110 ] On 22 November, Red Chillies Entertainment revealed a new film poster depicting Bauua kissing Aafia on the forehead in front of a large sunlit dome-arched window, and announced that the first song of the film would release the following day. [ 111 ] On 23 November, the first song of the film was released, titled \"Mere Naam Tu\"; [ 83 ] an orchestral ballad picturized on Bauua as he sweepingly proclaims his love for Aafia, it was composed by Ajay–Atul, lyricized by Irshad Kamil and sung by Abhay Jodhpurkar . [ 112 ]", "On 30 November, Red Chillies Entertainment announced a fan-interaction website, called \"Bauua Ki Toli.\" By completing social-media related activities and earning points, fans can earn the chance to become Bauua's \"Khaasam Khaas\" and win Zero merchandise, personalised autographed posters from Shah Rukh Khan, as well as movie ticket cashback from Paytm and exclusive Bauua apparel. [ 113 ] On 2 December, the producers released a new poster, featuring Khan's Bauua Singh being held by Salman Khan in the center-stage of a crowded dance hall, announcing the release of a new song, \"Issaqbaazi.\" [ 114 ]", "On 5 December, Shah Rukh Khan flew to Dubai to promote the film, greeting fans at a club on the rooftop of the Meydan Racecourse 's grandstand; [ 115 ] [ 116 ] the following day, he entertained 100,000 viewers [ 117 ] at Dubai's Global Village , dancing to several hit songs from his films. On 7 December, he travelled to Muscat (Oman), and Kuwait as part of the film's promotional tour. [ 118 ] On 7 December, Red Chillies Entertainment uploaded onto YouTube a behind-the-scenes video of the making of the \"Mere Naam Tu\" music video. [ 75 ] On 10 December, a teaser for a new song was released, \"Husn Parcham.\" [ 85 ] On 14 December, a new dialogue promo featuring Bauua Singh was released, called \"Bhabhi Ke Naam Ki Biryani,\" revealing his relationship with his father and his \"quirky sense of humor.\" [ 119 ]", "In late December, Red Chillies Entertainment partnered with Amazon to bring an interactive Bauua Singh voice (available only in India) to their Alexa device, Echo smart speakers, and other Alexa built-in devices, which allows users to listen to his \"jokes, anecdotes, and poetry\" as requested; the producers have also released special GIFs from the film that can be used across all social-media platforms. [ 120 ] Zero also partnered with Snapchat to become the first film in India to use their Augmented Reality Lens' feature promotionally; users applying the Lens can transform into Bauua, with his sunglasses and a garland around them, and will be \"able to interact with the plotline of the movie.\" Shah Rukh Khan debuted the feature on Snapchat himself, sharing a story using the Lens. [ 121 ] On 18 December 2018, a fourth poster for the film was released to announce advance-show bookings, showing Bauua sitting on the railing of a high-rise building, with one arm around a chimpanzee, and his other arm pointing up at the sky. [ 122 ]", "A fifth poster was also released by Red Chillies Entertainment on the same day, depicting Bauua and Aafia in a zero-gravity simulator, holding onto each other's arms, with an enlarged and well-lit moon and sky in the background. [ 123 ] [ 124 ]", "Zero was released on 21 December 2018. According to film trade analyst Taran Adarsh , it was shown on 4380 screens in India and 1585 overseas (noting that additional international territories will open later), for a worldwide total of 5965 screens. [ 125 ] Domestically, the film had the third-widest release of all Hindi films released in 2018, behind only Thugs of Hindostan (5000 screens) and Race 3 (4400 screens). [ 126 ]", "In mid-December 2018, the film passed the British Board of Film Classification with a certified 12A rating and a 164-minute runtime. [ 127 ] In Pakistan, Zero was cleared by the Central Board of Film Censors without any cuts. It was released in 156 screens across the country by local distributor Eveready Pictures, which is said to be the highest number of screens for any film in Pakistan. [ 128 ] \nThe film, which was initially planned for a 20 December 2018 release in Germany, was postponed on 17 January 2019, to ensure a wider release. [ 129 ] \nThe film released in China in March 2019. [ 130 ] Zero was the closing film of Beijing International Film Festival . [ 131 ]", "Upon release on home video in 2019, Zero became the top-selling film on the Google Play Store , beating Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star is Born . [ 132 ] [ 133 ] The film is also available on Netflix .", "Zero collected ₹18.78 Crore at the Indian box office on its first day. In its three-day opening weekend, the film earned approximately ₹53 Crore domestically. [ 6 ] It earned on Monday ₹ 9.5 Crore and on Tuesday (Christmas holiday) ₹12.75 Crore in domestic circuit. [ 134 ] [ 135 ] The USA Box office collection of Zero on Day 2 (22 December) was $283,808 ( ₹19.9 million ) from 262 screens. [ 136 ] \nThe total domestic gross collection of the film is ₹87 Crore , and the overseas gross collection was $14 million according to Box Office India . The film's worldwide gross collection is ₹191 Crore . [ 6 ] The film was considered highly unsuccessful. [ 137 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 31% of 16 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.7/10. [ 138 ]", "Zero released to mixed reviews from critics. [ 139 ] Most praised the film's visual effects and agreed that Kaif gave the best performance of her career, while they were critical about its plot, [ 140 ] which was \"cut short by the resources at hand\", and that the second half in particular was \"aimless\" and \"scattered.\" [ 141 ] [ 142 ] \n Baradwaj Rangan gave the film 3.5 stars out of five, saying the film was \"all heart\" and that he found it \"easy to embrace\". He called the film Rai's most \"fluid\" film yet, and mentioned that Khan was \"fantastic\". [ 143 ] \nRaja Sen of the Hindustan Times gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, calling the first half of the film \"flat-out fantastic, an unabashed charm-offensive,\" and noting that the writing and dialogues \"crackle with spontaneity and inventiveness.\" Yet he says that when the film outgrows the small town of Meerut, it finds it hard to keep its witty nature along with the ambitious second half; where the film should have \"gone bonkers,\" it takes a melodramatic approach that doesn't work. Sen commends the actors, particularly Sharma's commitment to the role and Khan's tremendous energy. He implies that Khan saves the film with his trademark acting, regardless of the film's writing issues. [ 144 ] Swetha Ramakrishnan of Firstpost praised the \"ambitious\" nature of the film and called it \"extremely self-aware,\" particularly in its first half, crediting it for grounding the plot in warmth. She praised Sharma's \"impassioned\" role and Kaif's performance as a strong yet vulnerable actress, and commended both actresses for digging into their roles. She also praised Khan's charm and wrote, \"You may or may not like the film, but you will most certainly fall in love with Bauua Singh.\" However, she noted that the second half felt \"surreal\" and that it was hard to keep up with, saying that it \"falls prey to the second-half curse\". [ 145 ] \nRachit Gupta of The Times of India gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying the film had an \"inspiring concept\" yet was poorly executed. He said that while the film puts forth many ideas, few of them stick and the romantic moments and visuals, while striking, only stay for a little while. The film felt too long and the second half, when Bauua travels out of his hometown, feels more audacious than the first. Yet the positive is that the characters stay upbeat despite their challenges, and the lead actors (particularly Kaif in a striking role) give good performances. Gupta concludes in saying that while the film builds up an exciting story well, it doesn't quite finish it in the way the viewer would anticipate. [ 146 ] Ankur Pathak of Huffington Post India praised the performances of the leads, yet says that the film was \"weighed down by its own excesses.\" While the film was ambitious, it was mostly \"heightened and exaggerated and hyper-glamorized.\" He called the main characters excellent, and praised Khan's performance, with Kaif being \"a huge revelation\" and acting in ways hitherto unseen. Yet the \"starkly different, bizarre visual language of the second half hampers the overall experience of the movie.\" Despite this, Pathak believes that Khan's performance saves the film and that \"although this ride has a few breakdowns, overall, one comes out smiling...\" [ 147 ]", "Rajeev Masand of News18 gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, saying that while the first half was impressive, the ambitious screenplay and ideas were plagued by an \"overwrought screenplay\" and that the second half that \"feels like an entirely different film.\" He commended the effort of the actors and producers, particularly the acting of Khan; yet noted that the second half becomes undone. He said it seemed as if the writers \" threw everything at the wall and decided to see what sticks. Unfortunately, very little does.\" [ 148 ] Anupama Chopra of Film Companion gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, saying that it was so \"bizarre and implausible and incoherent\" despite having \"ferociously talented people both in front of the camera and behind it.\" She says in the second half the \"promising premise derails;\" while the individual characters are interesting, the \"connective tissue between...is so thin that the narrative starts to wobble.\" She praised the VFX, scope and imaginative feel, but was \"sad\" that the artistic ambition of the creators wasn't achieved. [ 149 ] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, noting that while the impressive acting of the leads and stellar visual effects aided the film, ultimately the screenplay was its undoing and left it a \"monumental mess.\" The plot was undermined by a \"slew of whimsicalities that defy logic and an uneven tone that borders on the gratuitously facetious.\" He notes that while Khan's electric performance powers the film, it never gives the film enough to make sense, noting that the second half \"flies too high and too helter-skelter.\" He commended the physical efforts of Sharma's acting and Kaif's vulnerability, yet felt that the film aimed too high without sensitively portraying the struggles of disabled people. [ 150 ]", "Anna MM Vetticad of Firstpost gave the film 1.5 out of 5 stars, saying that Shah Rukh Khan is the best part about it, and that without him the film would have little to show; the first half lets the actor have fun to the hilt, while the second tries to take a serious message but fails to deliver properly. She noted that while Zero does not have the misogyny of Rai's previous films, it also \"does not know what to do with\" its female characters – while commending Bauua's sharp wit and strong character in facing the odds of life. Writer Sharma doesn't know how to write about relatable women – and thus Aafia and Babita come off as \"bores.\" Overall, the film was \"a spluttering, tottering affair.\" [ 151 ]"]
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The Only Way
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3d/The_only_way_poster.jpg/250px-The_only_way_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "David Zimmerman III Levi Obery", "Written by": "Levi Obery", "Produced by": "David Zimmerman III Levi Obery", "Starring": "Billy Kearney", "Cinematography": "David Zimmerman III", "Production companies": "Ten Thirty-One Pictures Entertainment Z3 Films", "Distributed by": "Ten Thirty-One Pictures Entertainment", "Release date": "May 21, 2004 ( 2004-05-21 )", "Running time": "84 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["The Only Way is a 2004 American film about a school shooting directed by David Zimmerman III and Levi Obery . The film is loosely based on the Columbine High School massacre . The film was shot on location in Metamora, Illinois , Washington, Illinois , Pekin, Illinois , and Peoria, Illinois with Metamora Township High School , the same high school from which the film's directors graduated, serving as the principal location. [ 1 ]", "Devon Browning (Billy Kearney) is a bullied outcast who has a family member dead, causing him to be depressed. As a result, he shoots up his school , killing his bullies and his date, Jamie (Victoria Corwin), before he is arrested.", "A limited edition DVD of the film was released on June 19, 2007. The DVD contained the original version of the film (also referred to as the \"school cut\") and a new \"re-cut\" version of the film. The 2007 version is slightly different from the original version and most notably contains more violent gruesome imagery and language not suitable for the premiere of the film, which took place at Metamora Township High School . On December 29, 2008, two new DVDs were released: the School Cut Special Edition and the Re-Cut Special Edition. Both versions of the film were also made available On Demand for the first time. The School Cut is targeted at schools and other organizations for educational purposes. A new website, The Only Way: Resources for Teachers and Parents, [ 2 ] was launched by the filmmakers as a companion to the School Cut."]
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Vaashi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaashi_(2022_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Release_poster_of_Vaashi_%282022_film%29.jpeg/250px-Release_poster_of_Vaashi_%282022_film%29.jpeg", "Directed by": "Vishnu G Raghav", "Written by": "Vishnu G Raghav", "Story by": "Janiz Chacko Simon", "Produced by": "G. Suresh Kumar", "Starring": "Tovino Thomas Keerthy Suresh", "Cinematography": "Neil D'Cunha", "Edited by": "Arju Benn", "Music by": "Kailas Menon", "Production company": "Revathy Kalamandhir", "Distributed by": "Urvasi Theatres Remya Movies", "Release date": "17 June 2022 ( 2022-06-17 )", "Running time": "128 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam", "Box office": "₹ 1.8 crore [ 1 ]"}
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["Vaashi is a 2022 Indian Malayalam -language courtroom drama film [ 2 ] written and directed by Vishnu G Raghav and produced by G. Suresh Kumar and co-produced by Menaka Suresh and Revathy Suresh. The film stars Tovino Thomas and Keerthy Suresh [ 3 ] in the lead roles. The music is composed by Kailas Menon [ 4 ] with cinematography by Neil D'Cunha and editing by Arju Benn. The film released theatrically on 17 June 2022. [ 5 ] [ 6 ]", "Advocates Ebin and Madhavi are colleagues who fall in love and get married. However, they find themselves on opposite sides of an IPC 375 case that also involves elements of IPC 417. Despite their personal feelings, they both fight the case with the intention of winning, which causes problems in their personal lives. Their mentor and friend, Adv. Mulloor reminds them not to mix personal and professional lives, and eventually, they take his advice and reconcile with each other. Unfortunately, Madhavi's side loses the case, and the victim experiences a form of Stockholm syndrome . Madhavi decides to challenge the case in High Court. Then, both Ebin and Madhavi struggle to accept the moral boundaries of their profession, but they decide to keep their professional and personal lives separate. They come to realize that their love is beyond the egos of the courtroom.", "Principal photography began on 17 November 2021 and filming was wrapped up on 19 January 2022. [ 8 ]", "The film was released in theatres on June 17, 2022.", "The digital streaming rights of the film is acquired by Netflix from amount of ₹ 10 crores. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] \nThe film started streaming on Netflix from 17 July 2022 in Malayalam and dubbed versions of Tamil , Telugu and Kannada languages. [ 11 ] [ 12 ]", "Soundtrack of Vaashi is composed by Kailas Menon and lyrics by Vinayak Sasikumar . [ 13 ] The music rights of the film are owned by Think Music ."]
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Vaastav: The Reality
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaastav:_The_Reality
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Vaastav_The_Reality.jpg", "Directed by": "Mahesh Manjrekar", "Screenplay by": "Mahesh Manjrekar", "Story by": "Mahesh Manjrekar", "Dialogue by": "Imtiyaz Husain", "Produced by": "Deepak Nikalje", "Starring": "Sanjay Dutt Namrata Shirodkar Mohnish Bahl Shivaji Satam Reema Lagoo Paresh Rawal Sanjay Narvekar", "Narrated by": "Reema Lagoo", "Cinematography": "Vijay Kumar Arora", "Edited by": "V. N. Mayekar", "Music by": "Songs: Jatin–Lalit Rahul Ranade Background Score: Sandeep Chowta", "Production company": "Adishakti Films", "Release date": "7 October 1999 ( 1999-10-07 )", "Running time": "144 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi", "Budget": "₹7.5 crores", "Box office": "₹20.7 crores [ citation needed ]", "Accolades": "Accolades Award Won Nominated Bollywood Movie Awards 1 1 Filmfare Awards 2 6 International Indian Film Academy Awards 2 7 Screen Awards 1 5 Zee Cine Awards 2 5"}
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["Vaastav: The Reality is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language action film [ 2 ] written and directed by Mahesh Manjrekar in his directorial debut, and starring Sanjay Dutt , Namrata Shirodkar , and Sanjay Narvekar in lead roles, with Mohnish Behl , Paresh Rawal , Reema Lagoo and Shivaji Satam in supporting roles.", "Vaastav was promoted with the tag-line \"The Reality\", referring to the harsh realities of life in the Mumbai underworld . The film is said to be loosely based on the life of Mumbai underworld gangster Chhota Rajan . [ 3 ]", "Released on 7 October 1999, Vaastav: The Reality received positive reviews from critics, with major praise directed towards Dutt's performance, which is widely considered as his career-best. It emerged as a major commercial success at the domestic and overseas box-office. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]", "At the 45th Filmfare Awards , Vaastav: The Reality received 6 nominations, including Best Film , Best Director (Manjrekar), Best Supporting Actor (Narvekar) and Best Supporting Actress (Lagoo), and won 2 awards – Best Actor (Dutt) and Filmfare – Sony Award (Manjrekar).", "Dutt's performance received universal critical acclaim and was unanimously regarded by critics amongst one of Indian cinema 's most memorable onscreen characters. [ 6 ] Over the years, it has become a cult film . [ 7 ]", "The film was remade into Telugu as Bhavani (2000), in Kannada as Bhagavan Dada (2000) and in Tamil language as Don Chera (2006). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It was followed by the 2002 sequel Hathyar . In 2013, it was dubbed in Bhojpuri as Tohar Ko Thok Debe .", "Raghunath Namdev Shivalkar alias \"Raghu\" and his best friend \"Dedh Footiya\" (literally meaning \"One and a half feet tall\" in Hindi) struggle to find work in Mumbai . Raghu lives in a chawl with his father Namdev who used to work at a mill, mother Shanta and a graduate but unemployed brother Vijay. Raghu has no interest in studies so he, Dedh Footiya and his friends decide to run a pav bhaji stall. Their hard work pays off and things go well until the brother of a local goon Fracture Bandya and his men start visiting their stall in a drunken state and abuse Dedh Footiya. One day, Fracture Bandya's brother beats up Dedh Footiya badly. Unable to keep their emotions and anger in the face of abuse continuously for days, Raghu and Dedh Footiya accidentally kill Fracture Bandya's brother. Now on the run, with the help of their friend Sub-Inspector Kishore Kadam, the two of them are given protection by Vitthal Kaanya, a rival gang lord. The two eventually kill Fracture Bandya as well, when the latter tries to find them and kill them both treacherously by arranging a meeting through Suleiman Bhai, a middle man in the Mumbai underworld. Raghu and Dedh Footiya eventually end up in the Mumbai underworld.", "Raghu becomes a respected hitman under Vitthal Kaanya, with Dedh Footiya as his accomplice. With Raghu in his gang, Vitthal Kaanya hits a peak in the Mumbai underworld. Later, Raghu is approached by home minister Babban Rao Kadam who asks Raghu to work for him and uses Raghu for his criminal activities. Raghu agrees, much against the wishes of Kishore, who continues to help him by advising him and providing inside information. Vitthal Kaanya is eventually killed by the Fracture gang. During Dedh Footiya's father's funeral, an attempt is made on Raghu by the Fracture gang, but his father is injured in the process. In retaliation, Raghu and Dedh Footiya learn from Inspector Rane who works for the Fracture gang that the whole gang will be going to Shirdi the next day. Raghu kills the inspector. They intercept the Fracture gang on the bridge and eliminate the gang, making Raghu the most dreaded gangster in the city.", "While Babban Rao relies on Raghu and Dedh Footiya, there are some others who despise Raghu and are on the sidelines waiting for him to make a mistake. Kishore tells Raghu and Dedh Footiya not to continue working for Babban Rao as he is just using them to fulfill his own goals and would dispose them off when they're not needed but the duo don't pay any heed. Under the minister's order, Dedh Footiya kills an innocent Muslim man which sparks riots and causes loss of many lives. The duo then threaten a poor Parsi man in order to take his land. However, when the Parsi starts yapping about reporting the crime, Raghu, in a fit of rage, kills him. Babban Rao is soon under serious pressure from the public and government as he's alleged to have ties to Raghu. He issues a shoot-to-kill warrant for Raghu and Dedh Footiya. The latter is killed in an encounter in order to lure Raghu out from hiding. Kishore informs Raghu that the police have been ordered to kill him in an encounter. Raghu is now on the run, both from the police and Babban Rao's men. Raghu knows now that he must protect his wife Sonia, parents, and family, as they too are in danger. He realises that there is no escape from this harsh reality. He arranges to meet Babban Rao with the help of Suleiman Bhai and kills Babban Rao as he would ruin others' lives like him in the future. Suleiman Bhai is also killed in an attempt to save Raghu.", "Unable to save himself from the police, Raghu returns to his home and tells his mother to save him. He apparently has lost his mental balance , become crazy and starts hallucinating . His mother takes him away to safety. He gives her his gun and his gold chains to sell them off; she remembers how Raghu had once taught her how to use a gun, points it at him, pulls the trigger and kills him .", "The family later fulfills Raghu's annual rites on the Mumbai beach. His mother tells her young grandson Rohit about Raghu and prays that his sins might be pardoned.", "Reviewing the film for Rediff.com , Suparn Verma compared its theme to Hollywood films Scarface (1983), The Godfather (1972), and Indian films such as Satya (1998), Nayakan (1987) and Agneepath (1990). He felt the film offered \"no new insight into the underworld\" and added that it was \"fast-paced and taut at times\". However, he felt the film was \"well shot and edited\" and criticized the \"lengthy dialogues\". He concluded commending the acting performance of Sanjay Dutt and called it \"one of the best performances of his career\". He added, \"From an easy-going guy to a broken man -- the role is essayed with great care by him, maintaining a consistency throughout.\" [ 28 ] Mukhtar Anjoom of Deccan Herald felt Dutt, who looked \"terrific\", couldn't \"hold the excitement for long\" due to the \"shaky screenplay\". [ 29 ]", "Reviewing the film for Rediff.com , Suparn Verma compared its theme to Hollywood films Scarface (1983), The Godfather (1972), and Indian films such as Satya (1998), Nayakan (1987) and Agneepath (1990). He felt the film offered \"no new insight into the underworld\" and added that it was \"fast-paced and taut at times\". However, he felt the film was \"well shot and edited\" and criticized the \"lengthy dialogues\". He concluded commending the acting performance of Sanjay Dutt and called it \"one of the best performances of his career\". He added, \"From an easy-going guy to a broken man -- the role is essayed with great care by him, maintaining a consistency throughout.\" [ 28 ] Mukhtar Anjoom of Deccan Herald felt Dutt, who looked \"terrific\", couldn't \"hold the excitement for long\" due to the \"shaky screenplay\". [ 29 ]"]
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Vaasthavam
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/Vaasthavam.jpg", "Directed by": "M. Padmakumar", "Written by": "Babu Janardhanan", "Starring": "Prithviraj Sukumaran Kavya Madhavan Samvrutha Sunil Murali Jagathi Sreekumar Sindhu Menon", "Cinematography": "Manoj Pillai", "Edited by": "L. Bhoominathan", "Music by": "Alex Paul C. Rajamani (Score)", "Production company": "Shrichakra Films Private Ltd", "Distributed by": "Shrichakra Films Release", "Release date": "10 November 2006 ( 2006-11-10 )", "Running time": "155 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Vaasthavam ( transl. Fact ) is a 2006 Indian Malayalam -language political drama film written by Babu Janardhanan and directed by M. Padmakumar . The film revolves around a youth, Balachandran Adiga ( Prithviraj Sukumaran ), and follows his rise and fall in politics. The story is loosely based on Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai 's novel Enippadikal . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Prithviraj won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor for his performance, making him the youngest recipient of the award at age 24.", "Raghavan Master, a scion of a high Adiga Brahmin family and an ardent communist , is now in crisis as his tharavadu is devoid of the fame and fortune it once had. Balachandran, his only son, has the burden of looking after the family and his four sisters. He is aware of the difficulties in bringing the family back from the brink of nothingness and marrying off his sisters.", "Balachandran's eldest sister, Shobha, does some tailoring and manages a low earning with which the family is kept out of hunger. Balachandran is engaged to Sumithra, his cousin. But in the turn of events, Thripran Namboodhiri comes with an offer to marry his niece to Balachandran, agreeing to ensure that he secures a job in the Secretariat as his name is in the rank list which would expire soon and thereby save his family from dire straits. Sumithra forces Balachandran to give up their dreams for the sake of his family.", "He marries Surabhi, a girl from a rich family, to tackle the serious economic adversities his family faces. Notwithstanding the family chaos, Balachandran's younger sister, Shubha, walks out with an Adivasi leader, Sreedharan, on the day of Balachandran's marriage. This causes irreparable damage to the family's reputation, following which his mother dies. Sumithra marries a cruel and corrupt police officer who constantly doubts his wife's character.", "At this juncture, Balachandran joins the job at the Secretariat. He lives with seventy-year-old Unnithan Asan who acts as his guide all through the corruption-filled secretariat. His financial needs force him to become a corrupt officer always on the lookout for money and power. He deliberately pretends to be a bachelor, to encourage the affections of Vimala, a divorcee and his colleague. With the help of Vimala, the niece of the new revenue minister Pattam Raveendran, Balachandran is posted to the minister's personal staff and quickly climbs the ladder of bureaucracy. What follows next is a series of events that turn Balachandran's mind so as to tear off his new life and go back to his native place to lead a simple, peaceful life with Surabhi and his family.", "The movie features an acclaimed soundtrack composed by Alex Paul and lyrics penned by Vayalar Sarathchandravarma.", "The movie received positive reviews from critics. [ citation needed ]", "Kerala State Film Awards [ 3 ]"]
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Vaastu Shastra
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Vaastu_Shastra.jpg", "Directed by": "Saurab Usha Narang", "Written by": "Charu Du Acharya", "Produced by": "Ram Gopal Varma", "Starring": "Sushmita Sen Peeya Rai Chowdhary J. D. Chakravarthy", "Cinematography": "Sachin K. Krishn", "Edited by": "Aarif Sheikh", "Music by": "Amar Mohile", "Distributed by": "K Sera Sera", "Release date": "22 October 2004 ( 2004-10-22 )", "Running time": "106 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi", "Budget": "₹ 5 crore [ 2 ]", "Box office": "₹ 10 crore [ 2 ]"}
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["Vaastu Shastra ( lit. ' Science of architecture ' ) is a 2004 Indian Hindi -language horror film produced by Ram Gopal Varma and directed by Saurab Usha Narang, starring Peeya Rai Chowdhary , Sushmita Sen , and J. D. Chakravarthy . It is loosely based on the 1980 film The Shining by Stanley Kubrick , [ 3 ] as well as inspired by the South East Asian films Ju-On: The Grudge and Acacia . [ 4 ] [ 5 ]", "The film was released on 22 October 2004, and was declared a below average performer at the box office, grossing ₹ 10 crore worldwide against a ₹ 5 crore budget. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] The film was dubbed into Telugu as Marri Chettu . [ 7 ]", "Dinesh Dubey, who works at a school in the suburbs of Mumbai , goes to a house where a haunted tree is located. He is killed by unseen forces. The story then moves around a couple, Virag Rao and Jhilmil Rao, buying the same house. Jhilmil, a gynaecologist, and her husband Virag work round the clock — and are hardly present for their little son, Rohan. The problem arises when Jhilmil and Virag find out that Rohan has started making imaginary friends. Rohan starts getting obsessed with his \"friends\" — Manish and Jyoti, two kids, as well as Dinesh Dubey and his witch wife, who are actually ghosts .", "Rukma joins Jhilmil's house as a new maid. Rukma learns about Manish and Jyoti while babysitting Rohan. Rohan points under the bed where Manish and Jyoti are hiding. When Rukma peeps under the bed, Manish throws a tennis ball at her and injures her. She misunderstands, thinking that Rohan threw the ball purposefully. It turns out that Rukma is actually a thief and is spotted thieving by Rohan, but she blackmails and mistreats Rohan so that he does not reveal the truth to his family. She is then hit by a speeding lorry on a lone road while returning home. Jhilmil is worried and attempts to find out why all of this is happening.", "Jhilmil's sister Radhika invites her boyfriend Murli over when the whole family goes out to watch a movie. They have sex, but Murli suddenly vanishes. Radhika thinks that he is playing a game of \"hide and seek.\" She drops her clothes to entice him. However, she sees ghosts staring at her and is horrified while she was naked. When Jhilmil, Virag, and Rohan come back home, they find Murli's mutilated corpse on Radhika's bed and find Radhika outside, hanging dead naked from the tree.", "Jhilmil is warned several times by a madman, who implores her to vacate the house. It is revealed that Rohan's \"imaginary friends\" are ghosts who have been telling him to move out of their house. Virag is murdered by the ghosts, and after becoming a ghost himself, he tries to kill Jhilmil and Rohan. Inspector Bhupal Gorpade, who comes to help Jhilmil, is murdered as well. Bhupal also becomes a ghost and chases Jhilmil. Somehow, Jhilmil crashes her car onto the haunted tree and comes out. The car explodes, burning the tree and defeating the evil spirits. Then Jhilmil is admitted to the hospital along with Rohan.", "At the house, the mad person is happy to see that the tree has been burned. He starts urinating on the tree, but it turns out that the spirits were not put to rest. The ghosts murder him as well. Back at the hospital, the doctor advises Jhilmil to take care. The film closes with Rohan's eyes turning black, similar to Manish's eyes, indicating that he has also been killed earlier and has become a ghost.", "Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama gave the film 2 stars out of 5, and found it appealing it parts, particularly in comparison with the acclaimed Bhoot . He found the writing unconvincing and labeled the climax a \"downer\", but appreciated the sound effects and cinematography. [ 3 ] Raja Sen from Rediff.com labeled it a \"severely scary film, and certainly not for the faint of heart.\" He praised the performances and cinematography, while feeling the plot was banal and the end, hurriedly finished. [ 8 ]", "Reviewing the Telugu version, Jeevi from Idlebrain.com awarded the film 2.75 stars out of 5, noting the film's similarities with The Shining and The Others . He appreciated the scariness and sound effects but found the second half slightly boring and certain scenes repetitive. [ 9 ]"]
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Vaastu Prakaara
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e5/2015_Kannada_film_Vaastu_Prakaara_poster.jpg/250px-2015_Kannada_film_Vaastu_Prakaara_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Yogaraj Bhat", "Produced by": "N. Kumar Yogaraj Bhat", "Starring": "Jaggesh Rakshit Shetty Aishani Shetty Parul Yadav", "Cinematography": "Santosh Rai Pathaje", "Edited by": "Suresh Arumugam", "Music by": "V. Harikrishna", "Production company": "Yogaraj Movies", "Release date": "2 April 2015 ( 2015-04-02 )", "Running time": "145 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Kannada", "Released": "12 December 2014", "Recorded": "2014", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Length": "17 : 37", "Label": "D Beats", "Producer": "V. Harikrishna"}
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["Vaastu Prakaara ( Kannada : ವಾಸ್ತು ಪ್ರಕಾರ ) is a 2015 Indian Kannada language satirical comedy film directed by Yogaraj Bhat starring Rakshit Shetty , Jaggesh , Aishani Shetty and Parul Yadav . The supporting cast features Anant Nag , Sudha Rani , T. N. Seetharam and Sudha Belawadi. The film deals in the belief of Indians in astrology and superstition and how it is being blindly followed and overlooked over science. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Upon theatrical release on 2 April 2015, the film received mixed reviews from critics. They felt, carrying expectations along as a 'Yogaraj Bhat film', the film failed to deliver as it lacked a \"strong foundation\" and \"a sound structure\". However, the performances of Jaggesh and Nag received unanimous praise. [ 3 ]", "Yogaraj Bhat 's first directorial came in Mani (2003) produced by Kari Subbu, and his second came in Ranga SSLC (2004) produced by N. Kumar. Bhat announced that he would direct a film under their production in February 2013, which however did not take off for over a year. [ 5 ] After the announcement of Vaastu Prakaara by Bhat, who would co-produce the film, he announced that a percentage of the film's profits would go to Subbu and Kumar, considering the average performances of Mani and Ranga SSLC . [ 6 ]", "The film was announced in March 2014. [ 7 ] Reports said Rakshit Shetty and Amulya would be playing the lead roles in the film. A week later, reports carried news of Rachita Ram having replaced Amulya as the female lead. [ 8 ] However, reports in early May 2014 finalized that Aishani Shetty would be playing the female lead, following Ram's commitment to another Kannada film Dheera Rana Vikrama . [ 9 ] Jaggesh was confirmed to play a parallel lead in the film, in late March 2014. [ 10 ] Film and television series director T. N. Seetharam was signed to play a pivotal role in the film, who marked his return to acting after a brief hiatus. [ 11 ] One among Ragini Dwivedi , Neethu and Nikita Thukral were speculated to play the supporting female lead, opposite Jaggesh. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] However, Parul Yadav was signed later for the role.", "The film was launched on 2 May 2014, with a muhurat shot taken at a Hindu temple in Bangalore . [ 14 ] The first schedule of the filming was completed in Switzerland by the end of June 2014. [ 15 ] The second schedule began in Bangalore in mid-July 2014 at the Bangalore Palace , that apart from the leads, featured Anant Nag and Sudha Rani playing supporting roles. [ 16 ] The filming completed in September 2014, and was set for a 2 October release, but got delayed however in its post-production stages. [ 17 ]", "Prior to the release of the film's video trailer, an audio teaser was launched and was released on YouTube on 6 December 2014. It featured a gibberish language spoken by Aishani Shetty, Siddi Prashanth and Arasu, in Kannada, Hindi and an African language, with subtitles in Kannada. [ 18 ] Promotions were then carried out in the TV series Maja Talkies , following which the team promoted the film during one of the matches of the Celebrity Cricket League in January 2015. [ 19 ]", "V. Harikrishna composed the background score for the film and its soundtrack whose lyrics were written by Yogaraj Bhat and Jayant Kaikini . The album which consists of five tracks. [ 20 ] It was released in Bangalore on 12 December 2014. [ 21 ]", "Veena of Filmibeat.com rated the album 4/5 and called it \"melodious and romantic\". [ 22 ]", "The film released theatrically on 2 April 2015. Upon release, the film received mixed reviews from critics. Shyam Prasad S. of Bangalore Mirror reviewed the film, rated it 3/5 and wrote, \"With Vaastu Prakara, Bhat breaks his style of film-making that focused excessively on characterisation and hardly on the story. This film has something of a story and not any simple subject at that.\" He added, \" It is dialogue-heavy like any other Bhat film. What works for the film is the brilliance of Jaggesh.\" [ 23 ] Muralidhara Khajane of The Hindu felt that Yogaraj Bhat , who keeps stakes high when he makes a film, had his \"magic missing\". On performances of the actors, he wrote, \"Jaggesh who carries the burden of the film to a larger extent. Rakshit and Ishani have nothing major to offer. Anant Nag, Sudha Belwadi, Seetharam and Sudhara Rani will not disappoint the audience.\" [ 24 ] Shashiprasad S. M. of Deccan Chronicle felt that the film was \"as an entertaining package disappointing and certainly not his [Yogaraj Bhat] best ever\". He concluded writing, \"With few good songs, and Jaggesh being the only saviour, Vaastu Prakara lacks Yogaraj's usual magic.\" [ 25 ] A. Sharadhaa of The New Indian Express , like other critics felt that the film \"disappoints mainly because of the towering expectation from a Bhatru [Yogaraj Bhat] film.\" On the acting performances, she wrote, \"The film could get a devoted cult following in part because of the humorous and delightful performance by Jaggesh. He is accompanied well by Rakshit Shetty. Parul Yadav is apt in the role of a lawyer. Young Aishani Shetty has given her best shot too. This apart, the supporting cast of Sudharani, Anant Nag, Sudha Belawadi, and T N Seetharam play their parts to perfection.\" [ 26 ] Shivrajkumar from Nam Cinema put up a Kannada review which concludes that \"though there is good message of Yograj Bhat telling to shun the walls of ego/doubtfulness in mind is the actual Vaastu needed for humans, the screenplay lets down at places\" [ 27 ]", "The film opened strongly at the box-office and collected ₹ 3.78 crore (US$450,000) at the end of three days from release. At the end of five days, it stood at ₹ 6.11 crore (US$720,000). [ 28 ]", "V. Harikrishna composed the background score for the film and its soundtrack whose lyrics were written by Yogaraj Bhat and Jayant Kaikini . The album which consists of five tracks. [ 20 ] It was released in Bangalore on 12 December 2014. [ 21 ]", "Veena of Filmibeat.com rated the album 4/5 and called it \"melodious and romantic\". [ 22 ]", "The film released theatrically on 2 April 2015. Upon release, the film received mixed reviews from critics. Shyam Prasad S. of Bangalore Mirror reviewed the film, rated it 3/5 and wrote, \"With Vaastu Prakara, Bhat breaks his style of film-making that focused excessively on characterisation and hardly on the story. This film has something of a story and not any simple subject at that.\" He added, \" It is dialogue-heavy like any other Bhat film. What works for the film is the brilliance of Jaggesh.\" [ 23 ] Muralidhara Khajane of The Hindu felt that Yogaraj Bhat , who keeps stakes high when he makes a film, had his \"magic missing\". On performances of the actors, he wrote, \"Jaggesh who carries the burden of the film to a larger extent. Rakshit and Ishani have nothing major to offer. Anant Nag, Sudha Belwadi, Seetharam and Sudhara Rani will not disappoint the audience.\" [ 24 ] Shashiprasad S. M. of Deccan Chronicle felt that the film was \"as an entertaining package disappointing and certainly not his [Yogaraj Bhat] best ever\". He concluded writing, \"With few good songs, and Jaggesh being the only saviour, Vaastu Prakara lacks Yogaraj's usual magic.\" [ 25 ] A. Sharadhaa of The New Indian Express , like other critics felt that the film \"disappoints mainly because of the towering expectation from a Bhatru [Yogaraj Bhat] film.\" On the acting performances, she wrote, \"The film could get a devoted cult following in part because of the humorous and delightful performance by Jaggesh. He is accompanied well by Rakshit Shetty. Parul Yadav is apt in the role of a lawyer. Young Aishani Shetty has given her best shot too. This apart, the supporting cast of Sudharani, Anant Nag, Sudha Belawadi, and T N Seetharam play their parts to perfection.\" [ 26 ] Shivrajkumar from Nam Cinema put up a Kannada review which concludes that \"though there is good message of Yograj Bhat telling to shun the walls of ego/doubtfulness in mind is the actual Vaastu needed for humans, the screenplay lets down at places\" [ 27 ]", "The film opened strongly at the box-office and collected ₹ 3.78 crore (US$450,000) at the end of three days from release. At the end of five days, it stood at ₹ 6.11 crore (US$720,000). [ 28 ]"]
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Vaasu Naan Pakka Commercial
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{"Directed by": "Ajithvasan Uggina", "Written by": "Ajithvasan Uggina", "Produced by": "Anish Tejeshwar", "Starring": "Anish Tejeshwar Nishvika Naidu", "Cinematography": "Dilip Chakravarthy", "Edited by": "Srikanth Gowda", "Music by": "B. Ajaneesh Loknath", "Production company": "Winkwhistle Productions", "Release date": "3 August 2018 ( 2018-08-03 )", "Running time": "138 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Kannada"}
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["Vaasu Naan Pakka Commercial is a 2018 Kannada -language masala film written and directed by Ajithvasan Uggina and produced by Anish Tejeshwar . The film stars Anish Tejashwar and Nishvika Naidu in the lead roles, while Raj Deepak Shetty , Avinash Yelandur , Archana Kottige and Manjunath Hegde appear in supporting roles.", "Mahalakshmi is the daughter of a rich business tycoon named Janardhan who is madly in love with Vaasu, a son of a real-estate broker. However, a misunderstanding between the duo separates them. How Vaasu reunites with Mahalakshmi forms the crux of the story.", "Sunayana Suresh of The Times of India gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote \" Vaasu Naan Pakka Commercial might just be the film you choose to watch if you're looking for the masala entertainer with songs, action, comedy and romance.\" [ 1 ]"]
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Vaayai Moodi Pesavum
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Vaayai_Moodi_Pesavum.jpg", "Directed by": "Balaji Mohan", "Written by": "Balaji Mohan Malayalam dialogues: Bipin Chandran", "Produced by": "S. Sashikanth Varun Manian", "Starring": "Dulquer Salmaan Nazriya Nazim", "Cinematography": "Soundararajan", "Edited by": "Abhinav Sunder Nayak", "Music by": "Sean Roldan", "Production companies": "YNOT Studios Radiance Media", "Release date": "25 April 2014 ( 2014-04-25 )", "Country": "India", "Languages": "Tamil Malayalam"}
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["Vaayai Moodi Pesavum ( transl. Speak with the mouth shut ) is a 2014 Indian satirical romantic comedy film directed by Balaji Mohan . Produced by Varun Manian and S. Sashikanth under their respective production houses, Radiance Media Group and YNOT Studios , the film stars Dulquer Salmaan and Nazriya Nazim . It was filmed simultaneously in Tamil and Malayalam , the latter titled Samsaaram Aarogyathinu Haanikaram ( transl. Speaking is injurious to health ) with a slightly changed supporting cast. The story revolves around a flu that causes muteness.", "Principal photography commenced in November 2013 and concluded a month later, taking place at Munnar . The film's technical crew includes newcomer Sean Roldan as the music composer, Soundararajan as the cinematographer and Abhinav Sunder Nayak as the editor respectively. Both the versions were released on 25 April 2014, and became commercially successful.", "The following plot focuses on the Tamil version only.", "The story takes place in Panimalai, a hill city, during the spring season. The film begins with RJ Balaji coming to Panimalai to be a guest of a live radio show. In the middle of the show, he starts coughing severely and suddenly loses his voice. He is diagnosed with a new type of virus called the mute flu that causes sudden muteness and sometimes even death.", "Aravind is a sales representative working with a glue company. His dream is to become a radio jockey, and he even attends interviews with an FM station. As the mute flu spreads across the city, the state government sends Health Minister Sundaralingam to Panimalai to take care of the situation. The people are asked to undergo a medical checkup to check whether they are affected by the virus or not. Aravind goes to the hospital and meets Anjana, a junior doctor and attends the check up. While Anjana is testing Aravind, some young boys waiting for the test tease Anjana and in frustration, Anjana pokes a cotton bud into Aravinds' nose with which he starts choking and feels like vomiting, but is comforted by Anjana and they both start talking and here we learn more about Anjana, who believes that talking is the only cause of all the problems in the world and if people keep things to themselves, then things will be very fine. Anjana is in a relationship with Vinodh, a possessive guy who always commands her on what she should do and what she should wear. Anjana lives with her father and stepmother Vidhya. Since Anjana lost her mother at a young age, she is reluctant to accept Vidhya as her mother, though she is a sweet and caring woman and always maintains a distance from her. Vidhya is an award winning writer who is trying to get her husband's attention and support to write her third book. Her husband finds no time to talk to her as he is too busy with his work.", "Panimalai comes into the news for another issue, where \"Nuclear Star\" Bhoomesh, a film superstar who has gone to shoot one of his films, is being opposed by Mattai Ravi, a drunkard who is President of the Drinkers Association, over the issue of Bhoomesh showing drunkards in a bad light in his films. The Drinkers Association and Bhoomesh's fans, led by Ganesh, form groups to fight over this issue.", "Aravind and Anjana begin a friendship, and he insists to her that if everything is spoken directly from the heart, then there would be no problem between anyone. He asks her to speak openly with Vinodh and sort out the difference of opinion between them. She does not agree to this, and Aravind challenges her that if he successfully stops the feud between Bhoomesh and Ravi just by means of speaking, Anjana should talk openly with Vinodh to sort out their issues. However Aravind hates Bhoomesh to core, even the photo of him makes Aravind feel nauseous & disgusted. They both agree on the challenge and mark a deadline day. Aravind tries so many ways to stop the feud between Bhoomesh's fans and the Drinkers Association, but it ends up in an even bitter fight. As time goes by, Aravind falls in love with Anjana, not knowing that she is engaged to Vinodh.", "Aravind is brought up in an orphanage that belongs to Adhikesavan, a stubborn old man who is constantly asking the orphanage to be vacated so that he can rent it to richer tenants. Though Aravind helps the children in the orphanage by donating some of his money, it is not enough to save the orphanage. Aravind tries to speak to Adhikesavan and sort the issue, but the latter is too hesitant to speak with him. Aravind and his friend Sathish kidnap Adhikesavan and leave him in his son's house, making a close relationship.", "The final report by the health organisation says that the dumb flu spreads only by means of speaking, and issues a speaking ban in the town. Everyone in the town tries to adjust to living with not speaking. Aravind conducts the meeting with the Drinkers Association and Bhoomesh's fans, and they reconcile. A cure for the illness is invented, but if the virus has already infected but has not removed the voice of a person, the cure has a 50% probability of a side effect that the patient might lose the ability to speak. The film ends with everyone getting cured, but Sundaralingam, who has been faking the illness being given cure medicine on the stage for a photo op, loses his voice for real.", "In June 2013, the Radiance Group , led by Varun Manian entered a five-film deal with S. Sashikanth 's YNOT Studios and venture into film production with a new entertainment company called Radiance Media . [ 1 ] Varun stated that the company will be producing their first film with director Balaji Mohan for a bilingual film and plan to launch Dulquer Salmaan as the male lead, thus making his feature film debut in Tamil . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Nazriya Nazim was signed as the heroine. About her role Nazriya said, \"Anjana, my character, is somebody I haven't played in my career yet\". [ 4 ] Soundararajan was signed up as the cinematographer, [ 3 ] and Abhinav Sunder Nayak as the editor. [ 5 ]", "Principal photography began in Munnar on 4 November 2013, with Madhoo joining the cast, making her comeback in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Each scene was first shot in Tamil and then in Malayalam. [ 8 ] Filming concluded in December after 52 working days. [ 9 ] Dulquer Salmaan dubbed himself in Tamil for this film. [ 10 ]", "Balaji Mohan described Vaayai Moodi Pesavum as a \"sort of social and political satire. It presents a critique of our country's political and social setup.\" He described the fictional flu, which renders people incapable of speaking, as a \"metaphor for society's refusal to communicate freely, which, I believe, is the root cause of all problems — personal, social and political.\" [ 11 ]", "The soundtrack and score for the film was composed by newcomer Sean Roldan , previously an independent musician . [ 12 ] It was initially reported that Anirudh Ravichander was to be the film's composer, and that he opted out. [ 13 ] The audio launch of the Tamil version was released on 21 March 2014, at Sathyam Cinemas , Chennai , [ 14 ] with Mani Ratnam being the chief guest for the event. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The soundtrack for the Malayalam version was released on 11 April 2014. [ 17 ]", "Vaayai Moodi Pesavum and its Malayalam version, Samsaaram Aarogyathinu Haanikaram were released worldwide on 25 April 2014. [ 10 ] [ 18 ] As a part of the film's marketing strategy, the multiplex partner SPI Cinemas showcased exclusive game kiosks for audiences on 23 April 2014, where people would participate in the game and win exclusive tickets for the film on 25 April. [ 19 ]", "Sify wrote, \" Vaayai Moodi Pesavum is refreshingly fresh, quirky and innovative. It is one of the best romcoms laced with satire in recent times, and a lead pair that crackles\", going on to add, \"Balaji Mohan has reinvented the romcom formula\". [ 20 ] Malini Mannath of The New Indian Express wrote, \"The film may fall short in its entertainment quotient as compared to the director's earlier film. But Mohan should be appreciated for his wacky, daring and innovative attempt\". [ 21 ] Subha J. Rao of The Hindu wrote, \"While the laughter is loud and frequent in the theatre, half an hour later you wonder what the reason was for all the fuss. The film doesn't have a taut storyline that lingers in your mind. If that had been nailed, this would have been an experiment that really worked\". [ 22 ] M. Suganth of The Times of India gave the film 4/5 and wrote, \" Vaayai Moodi Pesavum is truly an ambitious effort, at least by Indian cinema standards, and what's truly heartening is that Balaji Mohan succeeds in his attempt. [ 23 ] Deccan Chronicle gave it 3.5/5 and wrote, \"there are many subtexts to the film – a little too many to delve into. However, like fine wine and certain genres of music, it does take a little getting used to. Vaayai Moodi Pesavum is definitely a bold attempt\". [ 24 ] IANS also gave 3.5/5 and called it \"an almost brilliant film that contradicts itself at several junctures for reasons that are never explained and left to be figured out by the viewer\". [ 25 ]", "S. Saraswathi of Rediff.com gave a 3.5/5 rating and wrote, \"A totally new concept coupled with the director's unique narrative style and a screenplay loaded with satire and comedy, makes Vaayai Moodi Pesavum , a thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable film\". [ 26 ] In contrast, Gautaman Bhaskaran of the Hindustan Times gave 2/5 and wrote, \"For a good part, the film runs without dialogues, though the loud, almost irritatingly intrusive, background score robs the work of, what could have been otherwise, beautiful silence\", concluding, \"If only there was greater finesse in treatment and the excision of some scenes, Vaayai Moodi Pesavum could have been gripping.\" [ 27 ] Aswin J Kumar of The Times of India gave the Malayalam version a rating of one-and-a-half out of five stars and opined, \"At the end what we feel for this film and its director is the same emotion we reserve for a naughty kid who just wandered into a dense forest and just lost his way\". [ 28 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Vaathiyaar_Veettu_Pillai.jpg", "Directed by": "P. Vasu", "Written by": "P. Vasu", "Produced by": "M. Ramanathan", "Starring": "Sathyaraj Shobana", "Cinematography": "A. Sabapathy", "Edited by": "P. Mohanraj", "Music by": "Ilaiyaraaja", "Production company": "Raaj Films International", "Release date": "28 October 1989 ( 1989-10-28 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Tamil"}
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["Vaathiyaar Veettu Pillai ( transl. Son from Teacher's house ) is a 1989 Indian Tamil -language film, directed by P. Vasu . It stars Sathyaraj and Shobana . This was Sathyaraj's 100th film as an actor. Vaathiyaar Veettu Pillai was released on 28 October 1989, alongside another Sathyaraj film Dravidan . It was commercially unsuccessful. The film was a remake of Kannada film Nammoora Raja for which Vasu wrote the story. [ citation needed ]", "A corrupt landlord's plan of constructing a chemical factory is foiled by Thangaraj. Things take a turn when Thangaraj falls in love with the landlord's daughter. Thangaraj's family gets affected by the landlord. The rest of the film revolves how Thangaraj thwarts the plans of the landlord and saves his family.", "The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Vaathiyaar Veettu Pillai was released on 28 October 1989, alongside another Sathyaraj film Dravidan . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] P. S. S. of Kalki lamented the fact that Sathyaraj's 100th film was underwhelming. [ 5 ] The film was a box office failure. [ 6 ]"]
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Vaazha Vaitha Deivam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaazha_Vaitha_Deivam
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/Vaazha_Vaitha_Deivam_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "M. A. Thirumugam", "Written by": "Aaroor Dass", "Produced by": "Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar", "Starring": "Gemini Ganesan B. Saroja Devi", "Cinematography": "C. V. Moorthy", "Edited by": "M. A. Thirumugam M. G. Balu Rao M. A. Mariyappan", "Music by": "K. V. Mahadevan", "Production company": "Thevar Films", "Release date": "28 August 1959 ( 1959-08-28 )", "Running time": "141 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Tamil"}
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["Vaazha Vaitha Deivam ( transl. The god who gave life ) is 1959 Indian Tamil -language romantic drama film, directed by M. A. Thirumugam , produced by Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar and written by Aaroor Dass with music by K. V. Mahadevan . It stars Gemini Ganesan and B. Saroja Devi , with T. S. Balaiah , V. K. Ramasamy , S. V. Subbaiah, P. Kannamba and T. P. Muthulakshmi in supporting roles. [ 1 ] The film was released on 28 August 1959 and emerged a box office success.", "Vaazha Vaitha Deivam was the first film for Aaroor Dass as a \"full fledged story and dialogue writer\". At his suggestion, Gemini Ganesan and B. Saroja Devi were cast as the lead pair. [ 2 ] According to T. S. Balaiah 's son Junior Balaiah , when Thevar named this film, \"he said he had [T. S.] Balaiah in mind\". [ 3 ]", "Music was by K. V. Mahadevan and lyrics were written by Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass , A. Maruthakasi , Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram , A. S. Narayanan and Kovai Kumaradevan. [ 4 ]", "Vaazha Vaitha Deivam was released on 28 August 1959, [ 5 ] and emerged a box office success. It was dubbed into Telugu as Karmika Vijayam , which did not meet with the same success. [ 1 ]"]
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Only the Valiant
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_the_Valiant
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Only_the_Valiant_Lobby_Card.jpg/250px-Only_the_Valiant_Lobby_Card.jpg", "Directed by": "Gordon Douglas", "Written by": "Charles Marquis Warren (novel)", "Screenplay by": "Edmund H. North Harry Brown", "Produced by": "William Cagney", "Starring": "Gregory Peck Barbara Payton Ward Bond", "Cinematography": "Lionel Lindon", "Edited by": "Walter Hannemann Robert S. Seiter", "Music by": "Franz Waxman", "Color process": "Black and white", "Production company": "William Cagney Productions", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros.", "Release date": "April 21, 1951 ( 1951-04-21 )", "Running time": "105 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$1,499,000 [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$3,085,000 [ 1 ] $2 million (US rentals) [ 2 ]"}
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["Only the Valiant , also known as Fort Invincible , is a 1951 American Western film produced by William Cagney (younger brother of James Cagney ), directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Gregory Peck , Barbara Payton , and Ward Bond . The screenplay was written by Edmund H. North and Harry Brown , based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Charles Marquis Warren . [ 3 ]", "Gregory Peck, in a role he considered a low point of his career, [ 4 ] plays Captain Richard Lance, a by-the-book West Point graduate who is not very popular with the men under his command.", "This film is in the public domain . [ 5 ]", "Following the American Civil War , peace is maintained in the New Mexico Territory by Fort Invincible, a fortification set up outside a mountain pass that blocks marauding bands of Apache . The Apache are able to eventually take the fort by cutting off its water supply, then assaulting the fort when its garrison is at its weakest and killing all the defenders.", "Captain Richard Lance arrives with a patrol soon after the battle and captures Tucsos, the charismatic leader of the Apache. Lance's scout advises the captain to kill Tucsos, but Lance will not shoot a prisoner.", "Back at the headquarters of the 5th Cavalry , the invalid commanding officer orders Lance to assign an officer to command an escort to take Tucsos to a larger post. Lance decides to lead the patrol himself, but at the last minute, the colonel says he needs Lance to stay at the fort in case of an Apache attack, and orders him to assign another (but more popular) officer, Lieutenant Holloway, to lead the small group of men escorting Tucsos. The Apache free Tucsos and Lieutenant Holloway ends up dead. The men at the fort blame Captain Lance, unaware of the colonel's order. They believe that his decision to assign Lieutenant Holloway to the dangerous mission was for a personal reason (both officers were vying for the affection of Cathy Eversham, an officer's daughter). Cathy Eversham believes it too, and bitterly breaks up with him.", "Lance's standing with the soldiers at the fort only gets worse when he assembles a group of misfit cavalrymen to hold off the rampaging Indians at the ruins of Fort Invincible, which is considered a suicide mission.", "In 1950, David O. Selznick was struggling financially so he loaned Gregory Peck to Warner Bros for $150,000. His co-star Barbara Payton was paid $10,000 per week for her leading role. The film was shot on location in New Mexico and Peck and Payton had a brief affair on set. [ 6 ]", "According to Warner Bros accounts, the film earned $1,796,000 domestically and $1,630,000 foreign. [ 1 ]", "Time Out said \"The often brutal physical confrontations show the kind of edge [the director] could deliver when he put his mind to it, and a sinewy, unsympathetic Peck impresses.\" [ 7 ] Leonard Maltin says it is \"unusually brutal.\" [ 8 ] In a review of the 2013 Blu-ray release, Creative Loafing assessed that \"This middling Western isn't awful so much as it's awfully indifferent.\" The reviewer cited a routine and largely nonsensical plot, but praised the fun supporting performances from Ward Bond and Lon Chaney Jr. , and gave the film two stars. [ 4 ]"]
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Only When I Laugh
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/Only_when_i_laugh.jpg/250px-Only_when_i_laugh.jpg", "Directed by": "Glenn Jordan", "Written by": "Neil Simon Based on The Gingerbread Lady", "Produced by": "Neil Simon Roger M. Rothstein", "Starring": "Marsha Mason Kristy McNichol James Coco Joan Hackett David Dukes", "Cinematography": "David M. Walsh", "Edited by": "John Wright", "Music by": "David Shire", "Production company": "Rastar", "Distributed by": "Columbia Pictures", "Release date": "September 23, 1981 ( 1981-09-23 )", "Running time": "120 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$25,524,778"}
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["Only When I Laugh is a 1981 American comedy-drama film based on Neil Simon 's 1970 play The Gingerbread Lady .", "The story is about an alcoholic Broadway actress who reenters society after a long stay in a rehab clinic. As she tries to stay sober there are the triple responsibilities of raising her estranged teenaged daughter, getting a new acting role and maintaining her co-dependent relations with two close friends; one a wealthy, vain woman who fears the loss of her looks and a gay actor relegated to small roles in third-rate shows.", "Simon changed the main character's name to Georgia Hines for the film adaptation; the character was named Evy Meara in the stage version. The main character went from being a cabaret singer to a Broadway stage actress.", "The film, written by Simon and directed by Glenn Jordan , stars Marsha Mason , Joan Hackett , James Coco , and Kristy McNichol . It also features two short scenes with then-unknowns Kevin Bacon and John Vargas . Simon's next release, I Ought to Be in Pictures , was released just six months later, and its plot was similar.", "It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Marsha Mason), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (James Coco), and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Joan Hackett). Only When I Laugh proved to be very successful at the box office.", "Coco was also nominated for Worst Supporting Actor in Golden Raspberry Awards for the same role.", "Actress Georgia Hines is released from alcohol rehab and returns to her Manhattan apartment and her friends: Jimmy, a gay unemployed actor, and Toby, a sophisticated socialite. She says she will maintain her sobriety and slowly ease back into theatre work.", "Georgia's teenaged daughter Polly, who has been living with her father and her new stepmother, asks if she could move in with her mother. Georgia agrees.", "Georgia receives a phonecall from her ex-lover, writer David Lowe, who asks if they can meet. At dinner, David presents his new script, based on their turbulent, alcohol-filled relationship. He wants Georgia to play the lead/herself. She eventually agrees.", "Georgia shines in rehearsals. When she confuses art with life during a scene and loses her composure, David consoles her and says that she is the only one who can do this part, kissing her on the cheek as he exits.", "Meanwhile, Jimmy is given a part in another play. At her own rehearsals, Georgia brings David a gift-wrapped present. David is taken aback, then introduces Georgia to his new girlfriend. Georgia realizes that David's affections towards her were only as a friend. She then learns that Toby's husband has just asked for a divorce. Devastated for Toby, the circle of friends agrees to meet at her place that evening.", "Georgia is greeted at the door by an impeccably dressed Toby. Georgia keeps refilling Toby's champagne glass while Toby reminisces about life as an enviable college beauty, an untalented actress, and then a perfect wife. Toby's composure crumbles and when she excuses herself to retouch her makeup, Georgia answers the door to a shaking Jimmy. He starts downing champagne and reveals that he was fired from his play, three nights before the opening. Georgia retreats to the kitchen and proceeds to drink multiple glasses of champagne. She returns to the room tipsy and tries to rally her friends, who are shocked after realizing she has started drinking again.", "Polly, unaware of events, arrives at Toby's with her new boyfriend. The three friends form a plan to conceal their problems from Polly, but Georgia, now very drunk, has an over-the-top reaction to Polly and her date. Polly realizes that Georgia has relapsed, and that Toby and Jimmy are back to covering up for her. She scolds Georgia for her insensitive attitude towards everyone around her, then storms out with her boyfriend.", "Jimmy gets Georgia home, where she insists that Jimmy can trust her to be by herself. After he leaves, Georgia goes out to buy cigarettes at a neighborhood bar, but then sits down to start drinking and strikes up a flirty conversation with a stranger. When Georgia leaves, the stranger follows, drags her into an alley and beats her up.", "A battered Georgia makes it to Toby's, but begs her not to call the police. While Toby tends to Georgia's wounded face, Georgia continues to drink. When Toby tries to make her see how self-destructive she has become, Georgia lashes out and mocks her. A furious Toby expresses that she has had it covering for Georgia, telling her to do everyone a favor and stop being such an “astronomical pain in the ass”. The two friends share a laugh and reconcile.", "The next morning, Polly tries to convince Georgia to meet for lunch at Tavern at the Green with the father to discuss divided parental responsibilities, but Georgia circumnavigates the subject using the injury as excuse and eventually refuses. Georgia admits to Polly that she is not ready to handle the responsibilities of caring for another person. Polly feels rejected, again, by her mother's decision. After Polly moves out, Georgia starts to accept Jimmy's consoling when she realizes that she uses her friends to enable her behavior. Georgia later meets Polly and Polly's father for lunch.", "Roger Ebert gave the film one star out of four and wrote, \"The only genuine moments amid the phony landscapes of this film come from Kristy McNichol, who turns in a wonderful performance as Mason's daughter. McNichol carries conviction. She suggests the real passions and hurts that her character must feel. The other people in the movie seem to be drawn from superficial medical advice columns, advice for the lovelorn, and the character insights of popular songs.\" [ 1 ] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune also awarded it one star out of four and wrote, \"The script by Neil Simon is as phony as can be, with only McNichol giving any credibility to her character. The film would like to be funny and poignant, and it is neither.\" [ 2 ] Vincent Canby of The New York Times was positive, writing that \"Mr. Simon's screenplay is also one of his best, and it's been treated with care by Glenn Jordan, a television director whose first theatrical film this is.\" Canby found the performances \"excellent\" with the exception of McNichol, whom he faulted for playing her role \"in that triply unreal manner of an adult actress imitating an old-time Hollywood child actress imitating an adult actress.\" [ 3 ] Variety praised a \"bravura performance\" from McNichol and added, \"Glenn Jordan's economic direction is sensitively tuned to the border-treading emotions that populate the film, and manages to almost completely skirt the danger of hackneyed treatment this hardly virgin territory might easily have provoked.\" [ 4 ] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called the film \"sleekly entertaining, well-produced (in part by Simon himself, a first for him) and a worthy successor to ' The Goodbye Girl ' and ' Chapter Two .' [ 5 ] David Ansen of Newsweek stated, \"Functioning for the first time as his own film producer, Simon made a wise choice in TV director Glenn Jordan. The pathos and the wisecracks don't come at you with the usual relentlessness. Jordan gives both the audience and his excellent cast room to breathe and neatly keeps things just off the brink of overbearing melodrama.\" [ 6 ]", "Only When I Laugh holds a 63% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on eight reviews. [ 7 ]", "James Coco became the first performer in history to be nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry Award (as of its 1980 inception) for the same performance, for Supporting Actor. Since then, Amy Irving and Glenn Close have also achieved this same feat for their performances in Yentl (1983) and Hillbilly Elegy (2020), respectively, each in Supporting Actress. [ 8 ]", "The film is available for streaming rental and digital download through Apple 's iTunes Store and Amazon Video . [ 9 ] Originally released on Laserdisc , CED Videodisc, and both VHS and Betamax videocassettes, the film is now available on DVD through Amazon via Columbia / Sony 's manufacture-on-demand (MOD) business."]
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The Only Witness
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{"Directed by": "Mikhail Pandoursky", "Written by": "Nikolai Nikiforov", "Cinematography": "Ivo Furnadzhiev", "Music by": "Valeri Milovansky", "Release date": "1990 ( 1990 )", "Language": "Bulgarian"}
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["The Only Witness ( Bulgarian : Edinstveniyat svidetel ) is a 1990 Bulgarian drama film directed by Mikhail Pandoursky . [ 1 ] It was entered into the main competition at the 47th Venice International Film Festival ; [ 2 ] for his performance Oleg Borisov won the Volpi Cup for best actor. [ 3 ]"]
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The Only Woman
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/The_Only_Woman_%281924%29_-_1.jpg/250px-The_Only_Woman_%281924%29_-_1.jpg", "Directed by": "Sidney Olcott", "Written by": "C. Gardner Sullivan", "Produced by": "Joseph M. Schenck", "Starring": "Norma Talmadge", "Cinematography": "Tony Gaudio", "Production company": "Norma Talmadge Film Corporation", "Distributed by": "First National", "Release date": "October 26, 1924 ( 1924-10-26 )", "Running time": "7 reels , 6,670 feet", "Country": "United States", "Language": "Silent (English intertitles )"}
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["The Only Woman is a 1924 American silent drama film produced by Joseph M. Schenck for Norma Talmadge Productions and distributed by First National. It was directed by Sidney Olcott with Norma Talmadge as the leading woman. [ 1 ]", "As described in a review in a film magazine, [ 2 ] Fighting Jerry Herrington (Davis), a financial power, gets proof that William Brinsley (Hall) has speculated with trust funds and threatens to put him in jail unless Brinsley agrees to the marriage of his daughter Helen (Talmadge) to Herrington’s son Rex (O'Brien), who is a drunkard. Herrington believes Helen is the only woman who can reform his son. Helen finally agrees and fulfills her contract to the letter. Herrington finally tells her that, when Rex returns to him sober and with a purpose, he will arrange a divorce. Helen starts to try and make a man of him. She takes him on a cruise and keeps liquor away from him. A storm comes up, there is a collision, all are lost but Helen, Rex, and Ole Hanson (Betz), a sailor who becomes officious. Ole later falls overboard in a fight with Rex. Finally they are rescued and return home. Rex offers to give Helen a divorce, but she tells him that she does not want one.", "Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times wrote, \"Although the actual plot of Norma Talmadge's latest film vehicle. The Only Woman , is not unfamiliar, the story contains several interesting situations which are effectively pictured.\" [ 3 ]", "A print of The Only Woman with some decomposition survives in the Library of Congress , National Audio-Visual Conservation Center collection. [ 4 ] [ 1 ]"]
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The Only Way
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Only_Way_(1970_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c8/The_Only_Way_1970.jpg/250px-The_Only_Way_1970.jpg", "Directed by": "Bent Christensen", "Screenplay by": "John Gould", "Produced by": "Barry Levinson", "Starring": "Jane Seymour Ebbe Rode Helle Virkner Ove Sprogoe", "Cinematography": "Henning Kristiansen", "Edited by": "Norman Wanstall", "Music by": "Carl Davis", "Production companies": "Hemisphere Pictures Laterna Films", "Distributed by": "Universal Marion Corporation", "Release date": "October 20, 1970 ( 1970-10-20 )", "Running time": "86 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["The Only Way is a 1970 war drama film about the Rescue of the Danish Jews starring Jane Seymour .", "In October, 1943, in German-occupied Denmark , the Nazis decide to deport all Danish Jews to extermination camps. However, the Danish people decide to prevent this. Lillian Stein, a Jewish ballet teacher, learns of the Nazi plan; but her father, a violin dealer, refuses to leave.", "The Nazi round-up nets very few Jews, because most have gone into hiding, protected by the Danish resistance. Soldiers break into the Steins' apartment, but they are not there, having hidden upstairs in the apartment of their friend, Mr. Petersen.", "The Resistance plans to spirit the Jews out of the country by hiring fishing boats to take them to neutral Sweden . Petersen meets with various people in an effort to get the Steins out of the country. Mr. Stein leaves the apartment to try to sell a valuable violin he owns, to raise necessary funds. When Dr. Kjær comes to pick up the family, Mrs. Stein refuses to leave without her husband but sends Lillian ahead. The Nazis return to Stein’s shop, but he again eludes capture.", "The next day, as the couple are leaving Petersen’s apartment, Lars, Stein's assistant, gives his life to prevent their capture. After some narrow escapes, both Lillian and her parents reach the evacuation point. They board a small boat and soon reach Sweden."]
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The Only Way
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bb/%22The_Only_Way%22_%281927_film%29.jpg/250px-%22The_Only_Way%22_%281927_film%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Herbert Wilcox", "Written by": "Charles Dickens (novel) Frederick Longbridge (play) Freeman Wills (play)", "Produced by": "Herbert Wilcox", "Starring": "John Martin Harvey Madge Stuart Betty Faire Ben Webster", "Production company": "Herbert Wilcox Productions", "Distributed by": "First National-Pathé Pictures", "Release date": "6 February 1926 ( 1926-02-06 )", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Budget": "£24,000 or less than £20,000 [ 1 ]", "Box office": "£53,000"}
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["The Only Way is a 1926 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring John Martin Harvey , Madge Stuart and Betty Faire . [ 2 ] It was adapted from the play The Only Way which was itself based on the 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens . [ 3 ] John Martin Harvey had been playing Carton in the play since 1899 and it was his most popular work. It cost £24,000 to make and was shot at Twickenham Studios . [ 4 ] The film was a commercial success and reportedly took over £53,000 in its first two years on release. [ 4 ] It was a particularly notable achievement given the collapse in British film production between the Slump of 1924 and the passage of the Cinematograph Films Act 1927 designed to support British film making.", "In 1770s France Doctor Manette is witness to the rape of a young woman, Jeanne Defarge, and the murder of her and brother Jacques by the powerful Marquis d'Evremonde. In order to silence Manette, d'Evremonde arranges to have him locked away in the infamous Bastille Prison , where he languishes for over a decade. Manette's young daughter is spirited out of the country by her guardian, the British banker Jarvis Lorry, to England, where she is brought up by Miss Pross. Ernest Defarge swears vengeance on d'Evremonde and will not rest until the entire family has been wiped out.", "Many years later Doctor Manette is released. His time in the Bastille has left him institutionalised and he initially finds it hard to adjust to life outside the prison. Jarvis Lorry and Manette's now-grown daughter Lucy come to Paris to escort him to England. On the journey back they encounter a young man named Charles Darnay, the son of Marquis d'Evremonde, fleeing France because his liberal views clash with those of his father. Darnay and Lucy soon fall in love, but their hopes of marriage are threatened when Darnay is arrested on his arrival in England for espionage and high treason as an alleged French spy. Darnay's accuser is the unscrupulous Barsad, who is himself in the pay of the French government.", "Darnay's defence case is worked on by an dissolute Englishman, Sidney Carton, whose young idealism has given way to a self-loathing cynicism. Carton bears a striking resemblance to Darnay and uses this in court to discredit Barsad's evidence in court, by raising doubts over Barsad's claims that he clearly saw and heard Darnay talking treason. Darnay is acquitted, and he plans to marry Lucy. Carton is befriended by Lucy, and developing an unrequited attachment for her, he tries to mend his ways and give up his heavy drinking.", "In France, the oppression of the poor finally drives them to breaking point, and the French Revolution breaks out. Marquis d'Evremonde, who has been particularly exploitative of his tenants, is murdered in his bed by Ernest Defarge, and Charles Darnay inherits his title. Desperate to get their hands on the new aristocrat, Defarge and his colleagues trick Darnay into returning to France to assist an old faithful family servant who is now in trouble. Darnay is arrested and accused of being both an aristocrat and a British spy. Carton travels to Paris with Lucy, Lorry and others to try to help Darnay. He pleads Darnay's case and points out how liberal his views are and how he hated his father. He adds by pointing out that Darnay had been accused of treason in Britain and was hated there, to discredit the accusation of espionage.", "Darnay is released, but Defarge is determined to wipe out the last of the d'Evremondes. He has Darnay re-arrested after producing an old letter written by Doctor Manette condemning all Evremondes, and this shifts the court against Darnay, who is sentenced to be executed by guillotine . Realising that Darnay is now facing almost certain death, Carton hatches an outlandish plan to switch places with him based on their facial similarities. He bribes his way into the prison, smuggles Darnay out and takes his place in the condemned cell. In sparing Darnay's life and securing Lucy's happiness, Carton is able to restore his long vanished sense of self-worth. The following day, while Lucy and Darnay escape safely from Paris, he goes to his death calmly and at peace with himself and the world.", "The film, like the play, adds a character named Mimi who is a young waif who is rescued by Carton and works in his house. She becomes devoted to him and elects to die on the guillotine with him after killing Ernest Defarge in self-defence.", "Wilcox says he made the film after \"a period of unimpressive films\". He bought the rights to the play and had John Martin Harvey to reprise his stage role. \"It was a unique experience, since Martin Harvey was the finest actor I had directed up to that time,\" wrote Wilcox. [ 5 ]", "The film reportedly went £5,000 over budget. [ 1 ]", "Wilcox wrote \"I was inundated with congratulations and praise for my direction. But, remembering the hard lesson of the praise lavished on The Wonderful Story [a critical success which had flopped] I took no risks and put all my knowledge of showmanship into presenting it.\" [ 5 ] Wilcox arranged a gala premiere at the London Hippodrome. [ 6 ]", "The film later resulted in a lawsuit involving block booking. [ 1 ]"]
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Only When I Larf
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3b/%22Only_When_I_Larf%22_%281968%29.jpg/250px-%22Only_When_I_Larf%22_%281968%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Basil Dearden", "Screenplay by": "John Salmon", "Based on": "Only When I Larf by Len Deighton", "Produced by": "Len Deighton Brian Duffy", "Starring": "Richard Attenborough David Hemmings Alexandra Stewart Nicholas Pennell", "Cinematography": "Anthony B. Richmond", "Edited by": "Fergus McDonell", "Music by": "Ron Grainer", "Production companies": "Beecord Production Deigton/Duffy Production", "Distributed by": "Paramount British Pictures", "Release date": "May 1968 ( 1968-05 )", "Running time": "104 minutes", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English"}
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["Only When I Larf is a 1968 British comedy crime drama , directed by Basil Dearden and starring Richard Attenborough , David Hemmings , and Alexandra Stewart . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was adapted from the 1968 novel Only When I Larf by Len Deighton , and features Attenborough as an ex-brigadier con man in a variety of guises. [ 2 ]", "In New York City , a trio of confidence tricksters enter a tall office block and go to an empty unit on the 39th floor. They quickly change the identity of the office. Two Americans arrive. Lowther assumes the role of Mr Stevens, the boss. Bob is ushered in by the secretary and introduced as Mr Glover. They discuss high finance in front of the Americans. They persuade the Americans to write a cheque for $250,000. He writes a cheque for $2 million to them. The cheques are placed in a faux wall safe. Bob goes to other side and takes the smaller cheque out. He re-disguises himself as a security guard. He goes to the bank with Liz and she withdraws the $250,000 as cash.", "With the two Americans still in the office Lowther excuses himself for a few minutes but leaves the building. Bob and Liz board a helicopter on a rooftop of the Panam Building near the Chrysler Building . Lowther joins just before it takes off.", "A view of the Tower Bridge and the Thames tells us that we are now in London . Lowther discusses his past in the British Army . Lowther is married to Liz and Bob is his son by an earlier marriage.", "In Africa with Maurice \"Gee Gee\" Gray (their next mark) Liz (now called Miss Smallwood) is introduced to Awana, who wants to buy guns. Lowther plots to give him scrap metal instead of guns. Lowther disguises himself as a brigadier and remembers his time at the Battle of El Alamein . Bob dresses as a corporal. They give Awana a demonstration of anti-tank guns.", "We next see Awana gagged and in a crate. He is described as incompetent by All Lin, the real leader.", "The dynamic of the trio changes when Bob steals a kiss from his step-mother.", "Bob meets his friend Spider in the kitchens of the Carlton Hotel. Spider points out Spencer in the restaurant. He then invites Spencer to join his table on the next night. He introduces Lowther as Longbottom, his private secretary, while posing as Mr Appleyard. They start spending time together: golf, squash, billiards and clay pigeon shooting. He extorts £500,000 out of Spencer, who is led to believe he is getting a 20% commission in a £5 million deal in Lebanon . Lowther dresses as an Arab to try to seal the deal. Bob and Liz plot a two-way split, excluding Lowther.", "In the Lebanon Bob and Liz meet Lowther and drive into the wilderness. They are carrying archaeological gear in case they are stopped. Lowther cons a Lebanese banker into letting him use his office to meet Spencer. When Spencer arrives, he has no cash. Spencer phones a Swiss bank to transfer the cash. Lowther collects the cash, but the banker stops him to explain his \"only when I laugh\" joke from the previous day. Lowther meets Spencer's wife outside and the two join Bob and Liz.", "They drive to Umm Al Amad each trying to cheat the other. Ultimately Liz drives off with the cash alone leaving the others laughing. [ 3 ]", "The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: \"Richard Attenborough gives a virtuoso performance as a conman capable of imitating anyone from Lawrence of Arabia to the popular conception of a psychiatrist, and David Hemmings has a few moderately entertaining lines about the Army being the classic con-trick. Apart from that, the film overflows with technically adept, tourist-type local colour; and a recurring joke about a man with a spear stuck in him who claims it hurts 'only when I larf' is a fair indication of the general level.\" [ 4 ]", "Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times : \"Beneath the surface sheen (the color photography and the décor are smashing) and the bright performances, there are hints of the existence of a real world. They can be seen in what is essentially the father-son rivalry between Attenborough and Hemmings, in the disguises they employ so easily in their work (and which, of course, are parts of their lives), and in man's primordial conviction in the perfidy of woman, at least, as represented by Miss Stewart.Dearden doesn't allow this sort of thing to change the basic shape of the movie, which might have been more interesting if he had. [ 5 ]", "Variety wrote: Only When I Larf is a pleasant little joke ... with sound, unfussy direction and witty, observed thesping. ... Talk is minimal, though the script opens up into a more gabby talk-fest later, but dialog is usually pointed and crisp. Attenborough plays an ex-brigadier and takes on various guises. His brigadier is a masterly piece of observation and the whole film has Attenborough at his considerable comedy best. Hemmings is equally effective as the discontented young whiz-kid lieutenant and Stewart, with little to do, manages to look both efficient and sexy. [ 2 ]", "Time Out wrote: \"Richard Attenborough dons assorted disguises and is sometimes brilliant – notably as a manically jolly psychiatrist. Otherwise this is a plodding adaptation of Len Deighton's jokey novel about a trio of confidence tricksters (Attenborough, Hemmings, Stewart), which opens with a lengthy pre-credits sequence detailing their method of operation, repeats this twice over with variations, and ends on a note of hollow laughter.\" [ 6 ]", "The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: \"The production, in several glamorous locations, is amusingly trendy, in Swinging Sixties style, and Attenborough give sone of his most uninhibited comic performances.\" [ 7 ]", "Leslie Halliwell said: \"Quite likeable but unmemorable 'with it' comedy of the sixties; the tricks are more amusing than the characterisation.\" [ 8 ]"]
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