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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d4/The_Wounds.jpg/250px-The_Wounds.jpg", "Directed by": "Srđan Dragojević", "Written by": "Srđan Dragojević", "Produced by": "Dragan Bjelogrlić Goran Bjelogrlić Nikola Kojo Milko Josifov Aleksandar Avramović", "Starring": "Dušan Pekić Milan Marić Dragan Bjelogrlić Branka Katić Vesna Trivalić Branka Katic", "Cinematography": "Dušan Joksimović", "Edited by": "Petar Marković", "Music by": "Aleksandar Habić", "Production companies": "RTS , Cobra Films", "Release date": "15 May 1998 ( 1998-05-15 ) ( Yugoslavia )", "Running time": "103 minutes", "Country": "Yugoslavia", "Language": "Serbian", "Budget": "$800,000 [ 1 ]"}
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["The Wounds ( Serbian : Ране , romanized : Rane ) is a 1998 Serbian drama film written and directed by Srđan Dragojević .", "It depicts the violent lives of two boys in Belgrade as they aspire to make names for themselves in the city's underworld. The story takes place throughout the 1990s, against the backdrop of Yugoslav Wars and growing ethnic hatred .", "The film won a Bronze Horse at the Stockholm International Film Festival and a FIPRESCI Prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival , \"For its powerful, dramatic depiction of the brutal reality and complexity of life in the Balkans today.\" [ 2 ]", "Rane' s opening sequence announces it as being \"dedicated to the generations born after Tito \". The film follows two boys, Pinki and Švaba, through their preadolescence and early adolescence as they're growing up in New Belgrade during the Yugoslav Wars (1991–95).", "Born on 4 May 1980—the day Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito died —Pinki had been given his unusual name by his father Stojan Mučibabić, an idealistic, impulsive, and patriotic Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) officer deeply devoted to the Titoist brand of communism. Father's first choice for his firstborn's name was actually Tito, but the municipal office registry administrators thought it provocative and inappropriate in the time of grieving so he quickly pulled out his backup options—including Ramiz after a communist resistance Partisan guerrilla fighter —eventually settling on Pinki after another Partisan . Meanwhile, Pinki's best friend Švaba is raised and cared for only by his grandmother, a Croatian Serb who had fled to Serbia during World War II amid genocide being perpetrated against the Serbs by the Croatian fascist movement Ustaše .", "Living in a block of apartment buildings in New Belgrade's neighbourhood of Paviljoni , both kids are extremely juvenile; Pinki is a bit more thoughtful and articulate while Švaba is moody, impulsive, and prone to anger outbursts. The duo also has another friend in the neighbourhood—Dijabola, an eager, geeky, and bespectacled outsider whose sexy and aloof single mother Lidija is a well-known television personality, hosting her own highly rated interview program while his Slovenian father is absent from his life. Though they hang out with Dijabola, Pinki and Švaba mostly consider him a third wheel and treat him poorly. He is constantly the butt of their insults and target of their roughhousing that occasionally crosses the line into physical violence.", "The story begins during late summer 1991 as the kids watch Serbian troops (regular JNA troops and various volunteer militias) going off to war in neighbouring Croatia where the Battle of Vukovar is raging. Pinki's father Stojan is extremely frustrated about being forced into early retirement by the JNA and thus missing his chance to go to war. He spends his days glued to the television set, watching news reports from Vukovar and cheering on the JNA. By now he has transformed into a Miloševićesque Serbian nationalist; his impulsiveness nowadays mostly manifesting through petty quarrels with neighbours and verbal outbursts with ethnic and political overtones. Instead of Tito, he's become a huge supporter of Slobodan Milošević while immensely disliking Milošević's main political rival Vuk Drašković . Prepubescent Pinki, for his part, is mostly oblivious to the events around him, spending most of his time compulsively masturbating—often with neighbour Lidija in mind.", "By 1992 and 1993, Serbia is under a UN trade embargo , and the war has spread from Croatia to Bosnia as well. Entering their early teens, Pinki, Švaba and Dijabola begin their fascination with a neighbour across the street nicknamed Kure who drives a nice car, makes regular robbing excursions to Germany while dating a trashy kafana singer. They're deeply impressed with his swagger and lifestyle and are ecstatic one day when he invites them to unload his car that's full of apparel and appliances he brought over from Germany. In fact, he sends Dijabola away and picks only Švaba, but then upon Švaba's suggestion tells Pinki to come along as well.", "Like many of their peers, Pinki and Švaba enter the world of crime at fourteen years of age in an ex-communist community that is in hyper-transition, which, because of war and sanctions, reminds the two friends of a theater of the absurd. The idols of the main characters are famous Belgrade gangsters featured on a TV show called Puls Asfalta ( Pulse of the Asphalt ), which turns them into media stars. Pinki and Švaba fantasize of being on the show one day and they attempt to be noticed by its producers by committing crimes. After they succeed in establishing themselves as influential criminals and drug dealers, their uprising in the world of crime is cut by mutual conflict as both start having sex with Lidija. Švaba shoots Pinki five times in the same places that Jesus was wounded two thousand years ago. Pinki manages to survive and after some time he escapes from the hospital, and calls his friend to make peace. The truce is more than terrible, as the wounded boy has, after an unwritten rule, to inflict five identical wounds to his friend, so the friendship can be rebuilt.\nAfter shooting Švaba three times, he considers wounding him one more time instead of the required two. They are suddenly interrupted by a furious Dijabola who shoots at them, especially Švaba, for killing his mother. A shootout occurs and Švaba and Dijabola are killed. In the end, Pinki, who is wounded and is lying on the ground, laughs at the audience by claiming that he \"made out better than you.", "With the positive critical reaction to his 1996 film Lepa sela lepo gore on the festival circuit throughout North America , thirty-three-year-old director Dragojević ended up signing with the William Morris Agency whose representatives first approached him at the Montreal World Film Festival . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Receiving backing from one of Hollywood's most prominent talent agencies along with having a successful film on his hands, would lead to the young director spending most of the late summer and early fall 1996 in advanced talks about continuing his career in the United States. [ 3 ]", "Simultaneously, back home in Serbia he had two film ideas in the early stages of development—epic World War I story St. George Slays the Dragon and a smaller film based on a television news report about two teenage criminals in contemporary Belgrade—both of which his Serbian producers, Cobra Film owned by the Bjelogrlić brothers ( Goran and Dragan ), wanted him to do before potentially leaving for the United States. In the end, after going through multiple Hollywood meetings during which he reportedly got offered scripts that he found \"execrable\", [ 3 ] Dragojević decided not to move to America, choosing instead to do the smaller of the two films in Serbia.", "The story is built around a real-life occurrence depicted in a 1994 episode of Tragač , television series hosted and produced by Predrag Jeremić (1962-2022) [ 5 ] that aired on RTV Studio B , about Mirko \"Beša\" Bešević and Marko \"Kameni\" Pejković—two criminally-involved Belgrade adolescents who started out as friends before viciously turning on one another. [ 6 ] In a fit of anger one youth shot the other five times, but the wounded youth survived and recovered. Later, attempting to 'repair' their friendship, the shooter offered his recovered friend to shoot him five times in the exact body parts in order to get even. The recovered victim accepted the offer and shot his assailant back five times before they resumed their friendship. [ 7 ]", "Dragojević was reportedly told of this by friends and decided to use it as basis for a screenplay he says he wrote in thirteen days. [ 4 ] He furthermore claims to have purposely avoided watching the actual TV report because he didn't want to have his writing, casting, and directorial decisions subconsciously influenced by images or language in it.", "After finally seeing the report upon film's completion, Dragojević said he was amazed with the visual and behavioural similarities between the two sets of teens. [ 8 ]", "Looking for first-time actors to cast in the two main roles, the production team organized mass auditions during which reportedly thousands of Belgrade youths were looked at in area high schools, [ 4 ] [ 9 ] with director Dragojević seeing several hundreds of them. As the number of candidates was narrowed down to ten, they were enrolled in Mika Aleksić [ sr ] 's acting studio for specific two-month training that included going over the entire script scene-by-scene before the final duo—seventeen-year-old Pekić and sixteen-year-old Marić—were selected. [ 4 ] Dragojević cast Dušan Pekić for the lead role of Pinki, noting that Pekić shared a similar background with the character. [ 9 ] The film proved to be Pekić's first and only role, as he died in 2000. [ 10 ]", "The filming began in fall 1997 and had 78 shooting days. [ 11 ]", "The film's was funded in large part by the state institutions such as the state-run broadcaster RTS . Among its corporate sponsors, the movie's closing credits also list the McDonald's Corporation and Fruit of the Loom .", "As Rane was going into theatrical release, the film's director, Srđan Dragojević, put out an accompanying statement explaining his personal motivation to revisit the subject of Yugoslav Wars, this time from the perspective of those living behind the frontlines. In it he directly accused the Milošević administration of \"forcing the young people of Serbia to grow up in the country flooded by the wave of primitivism and nationalism where those who went through puberty while Vukovar and Sarajevo were being destroyed have been made the terrible victims whose wounds will never heal\": \"This is a story about young criminals whom I believe have a deep moral right to be violent, even to murder, despite the political unacceptability of this idea. An insensitive society and a totalitarian Serbian regime have made thousands of Serbian teenagers dangerous, senseless killing machines, ironically whose main victims are themselves\". [ 12 ]", "The film was released in FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) in May 1998 where it became a cinema hit with 450,000 admission tickets sold [ 13 ] despite its promotional cycle in the country being severely impacted by the government's refusal to run the film's ads on state television RTS (then under general manager Dragoljub Milanović). The authorities had been dissatisfied with the country's bleak portrayal in the film. [ 14 ] Talking to the Serbian edition of Playboy in 2004, the movie's producer Dragan Bjelogrlić said the following: .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}}", "In January 2014, as guest on Veče sa Ivanom Ivanovićem , Bjelogrlić expanded on the problem Rane had with Serbian authorities back in 1998.", "Starting in April 1999, the film began a theatrical distribution in Croatia thus becoming the first Serbian film in the post-Yugoslav Wars era to have distribution in that country. Another curiosity of its release in Croatia was the fact that it was subtitled. Even its title was translated from Rane to Ozljede , all of which became subject of much outrage [ 18 ] and ridicule. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] It became a hit in the cinemas regardless, selling more than 40,000 admission tickets (~42,000) in Croatia.", "Looking back on his acting career, in February 2012, Bjelogrlić brought up the role of Čika Kure as being one of the dearest to him, but also revealed a later personal realization that he \"could've done a much better job portraying it\". [ 21 ]", "Amy Taubin of The Village Voice finds Rane' s pace to be erratic and frequently frantic, seeing its final scene as having \"a relentless, demented logic of its own\" while noting \"there's nothing gratuitous about the violence of Dragojević's cinematic language\". She further remarks that the movie's imagery is \"a bit too invested in martyrdom\" representing \"a politicized and catholicized version of live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse \" before she detects \"a touch of Holden Caulfield in Pinki's voiceover narration\", while noting \"the film plays like a cross between Los Olvidados and Dead Presidents \". [ 9 ]", "The New York Times ' Janet Maslin brings up Emir Kusturica 's Underground as having \"demonstrated the anguish in the Balkans may be better conveyed through raucous, stinging satire than by more conventionally compassionate means\" and notes that Dragojević employed the same tonal approach, which \"helped him define a new generation of thugs who arouse both horror and pity\". She concludes that the movie is \"filmed with enough stylistic bravado and sardonic narration to recall Trainspotting , seeing it best appreciated as an answer to the question Švaba poses late in the movie (in response to Pinki's statement \"You've got to care about something\") — \"What if you can't find anything?\" [ 22 ]", "Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club sees Rane as being \"modeled in many respects after GoodFellas \" while \"Dragojević's decision to let lost youth tell its own story reinforces the power of his forceful narrative and visual style, as Pinki's nihilistic musings reveal a character for whom hope has never been an option\". Phipps also picks up on Dragojević's statement about Rane being a very cruel and shocking film that makes A Clockwork Orange seem like a Disney production by saying that \"Dragojević's post-Tito kids live in a world that Burgess and Kubrick could only have imagined; where Clockwork carried a heavy allegorical weight, Rane has the disturbing feel of reportage\". [ 23 ]"]
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Wounded Game
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fe/Wounded_Game.jpg/250px-Wounded_Game.jpg", "Directed by": "Nikolai Gubenko", "Written by": "Nikolai Gubenko", "Starring": "Juozas Budraitis Aleksandr Kalyagin Zhanna Bolotova Rolan Bykov Bukhuti Zaqariadze Evgeni Evstigneev", "Cinematography": "Alexander Knyazhinsky", "Production company": "Mosfilm", "Release date": "20 June 1977 ( 1977-06-20 )", "Running time": "93 minutes", "Country": "Soviet Union", "Language": "Russian"}
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["Wounded Game ( Russian : Подранки , romanized : Podranki , also released on video in the US as The Orphans ) [ 1 ] is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Nikolai Gubenko . It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival . [ 2 ]", "The film tells the story of a writer who returns to his wartime childhood city to uncover the fates of his estranged siblings, reliving a harsh past of loss, survival, and fractured family bonds amid the lingering shadows of war.", "The film opens with an epigraph quoting the writer Alexander Tvardovsky: \"Children and war—there is no more horrifying convergence of opposites in the world.", "Writer Alexey Bartenev returns to the city where he spent his childhood. Having grown up in an orphanage after losing his parents during the war—his father died on the front lines, and his mother took her own life when Alexey was still an infant—he embarks on a quest to reconnect with his past. His search centers on finding his two brothers, whom he does not remember. Through archival records, he uncovers the fate of his siblings. His sister, Natasha, passed away in 1947. His older brothers were adopted by different families: Sergey Pogartsev became a habitual criminal and was serving his third prison sentence when Alexey found him. Meanwhile, Denis Kuskov, the middle brother, was adopted by a high-ranking Party official and grew up in relative comfort, unlike the rest of his family.", "Natasha had once visited Denis but experienced a cold reception, the details of which she chose not to share with Alexey. When Alexey attempted to meet Denis himself, Denis feigned ignorance of their connection. Years later, as an adult, Denis admitted that he remembered everything and expressed regret for his behavior.", "The film recounts Alexey's fragmented memories of a harsh post-war childhood in Odessa. Scenes include Alexey, pretending to be mute, teaming up with a group of street children and his sister Natasha to trade a stolen gramophone for a piece of bread. In another episode, the children attempt to steal food from an apartment by distracting a woman with a chicken. Natasha provides the diversion while Alexey sneaks into the apartment via the balcony. However, a neighbor who is a policeman catches Alexey and turns him over to a state shelter for orphans. Determined to stay together, Natasha voluntarily joins her brother in the orphanage.", "The film concludes with a voiceover reading excerpts from Gennady Shpalikov's poem \"By Misfortune or by Happiness,\" capturing the somber tone of Alexey’s story and the lasting scars of war and loss."]
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The Wounded Angel
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/The_Wounded_Angel_%28film%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Emir Baigazin", "Written by": "Emir Baigazin", "Produced by": "Anna Vilgelmi", "Starring": "Nurlybek Saktaganov", "Release date": "16 February 2016 ( 2016-02-16 ) ( Berlin )", "Running time": "113 minutes", "Country": "Kazakhstan", "Languages": "Kazakh Russian"}
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["The Wounded Angel ( Kazakh : Жаралы періште , Jaraly perishte ; Russian : Раненый ангел ) is a 2016 Kazakhstani drama film directed by Emir Baigazin . [ 1 ] It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival . [ 2 ]"]
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Wounded in Action
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/Wounded_in_Action_poster.jpg/250px-Wounded_in_Action_poster.jpg", "Narrated by": "Lorne Greene", "Production company": "National Film Board of Canada", "Distributed by": "Columbia Pictures of Canada", "Release date": "1944 ( 1944 )", "Running time": "22 minutes", "Country": "Canada", "Language": "English"}
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["Wounded in Action is a 22-minute Canadian documentary film made in 1944. It was made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the wartime Canada Carries On series. [ 1 ] The film documents the work carried out by medical services in saving the lives of those who are wounded in action during the Second World War . The French version title of Wounded in Action is Blessé au combat . .mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}", "Every day during the Second World War, fighting men are \"wounded in action\", the terse military declaration in telegrams sent back to family and loved ones. Compared to similar wounds suffered in the First World War , 97% of the wounded are brought back to health.", "The first line of medical care takes place directly at the frontlines where medical services operate advance stations. All nations provide immediate emergency medical care. In the Soviet Union , nurses are even parachuted down to the frontlines wherever the need is greatest.", "In other theaters of war, stretcher bearers use whatever is there from ambulances, toboggans, and in the Pacific , even donkeys or mules are employed to carry the wounded to treatment centers. More than anything else, the use of aircraft as an ambulance service has made the difference for many of the wounded at the battlefields. [ Note 1 ] Serious cases are also sent home by ship so that skilled medical staff can be enlisted in recovery, convalescence and rest.", "The object is to try to rapidly intervene in the \"golden hours\", the first six hours after a wound is suffered. Care for a wounded man follows a basic pattern, first administer first aid on the spot, then quickly transfer the wounded to first aid posts close to the frontlines, sometimes working right under the guns of the enemy, or other dressing stations, field hospitals and surgical units behind the rear lines.", "The wounded are identified by the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps by the serious nature of the wounds. The Canadian Army field dressing stations, working within 4,000 yards of the frontlines, treats group one wounds because the patients cannot be moved. Group two wounds require surgical operations within a few hours while group three wounds which make up 3/4 of the cases, have the patients evacuated back to the rear for treatment at hospitals.", "Doctors and nurses at the front have been receiving support from research scientists, who are using modern science to combat the effects of high altitude flying, heal burns and even reconstruct shattered limbs and faces. New treatments stressing recovery in both body and mind are also showing impressive results.", "Typical of the NFB's Second World War documentary short films in the Canada Carries On series, Wounded in Action was created as a morale boosting propaganda film . The film was a compilation documentary that relied heavily on combat footage shot by the Canadian armed forces, and the film units of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, United States Army Air Forces and the British Army, edited to provide a coherent message. [ 2 ]", "The voice of stage actor Lorne Greene was featured as the narration of Wounded in Action . Greene was known for his work on radio broadcasts as a news announcer at CBC , as well as narrating many of the Canada Carries On series. [ 3 ] His sonorous recitation led to his nickname, \"The Voice of Canada\", and to some observers, the \"voice-of-God\". [ 4 ] When reading grim battle statistics or narrating a particularly serious topic, he was known as \"The Voice of Doom\". [ 5 ]", "Wounded in Action was produced in 35 mm for the theatrical market. Each film was shown over a six-month period as part of the shorts or newsreel segments in approximately 800 theaters across Canada. The NFB had an arrangement with Famous Players theatres to ensure that Canadians from coast-to-coast could see them, with further distribution by Columbia Pictures . [ 6 ]", "After the six-month theatrical tour ended, individual films were made available on 16 mm to schools, libraries, churches and factories, extending the life of these films for another year or two. They were also made available to film libraries operated by university and provincial authorities. A total of 199 films were produced before the series was canceled in 1959. [ 7 ]", "Wounded in Action in the NFB collection catalog"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5b/Wounded_%282013_film%29_poster.jpg/250px-Wounded_%282013_film%29_poster.jpg", "Spanish": "La herida", "Directed by": "Fernando Franco", "Written by": "Enric Rufas Fernando Franco", "Produced by": "Roberto Butragueño Manuel Calvo Fernando Franco Mario Madueño Samuel Martínez Koldo Zuazua", "Starring": "Marian Álvarez Rosana Pastor", "Cinematography": "Santiago Racaj", "Edited by": "David Pinillos", "Production companies": "Kowalski Films Pantalla Partida Elamedia Encanta Films Ferdydurke Films", "Release dates": "September 2013 ( 2013-09 ) ( SSIFF ) 4 October 2013 ( 2013-10-04 ) (Spain)", "Running time": "95 minutes", "Country": "Spain", "Language": "Spanish"}
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["Wounded (Spanish: La herida ) is a 2013 Spanish drama film directed by Fernando Franco , who also co-wrote it. The film stars Marian Álvarez . [ 1 ] It is a Kowalski Films, Pantalla Partida, Elamedia, Encanta Films and Ferdydurke Films production. [ 2 ]", "The fiction follows a 28-year-old woman with a dysfunctional personality outside her job, unknowingly suffering from a BPD condition. [ 3 ]", "The film screened at the San Sebastián International Film Festival (SSIFF) in September 2013. It was theatrically released in Spain on 4 October 2013. [ 5 ]"]
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{"Directed by": "Krishna Mishra", "Written by": "Saloni Goel Aziz Burney", "Produced by": "Shree Hari Om Films", "Cinematography": "Aloke Dasgupta", "Edited by": "Kamal Saigal", "Music by": "Ajay Babla Mehta", "Release date": "9 March 2007 ( 2007-03-09 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi", "Budget": "1.25 crore [ 1 ]"}
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["Wounded: The Bandit Queen is a 2007 Hindi language film that was directed by Krishna Mishra . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film was first released on 9 March 2007. The film is based on the true story of Seema Parihar , [ 4 ] who plays herself in the film. [ 5 ]", "Parihar was abducted at the age of 13 from her village and the film depicts her transformation into a bandit.", "Planning for Wounded began around 2002, when Tarun Kumar Bagchi, A.K. Joshi and Krishna Mishra were inspired to create a film based upon Seema Parihar's life. The three men lobbied for Parihar's release on bail, as they wanted her to play as herself in the movie. [ 6 ] They were successful and filming began in 2004, upon which point it received some media notice due to it being one of the first films where a former dacoit plays herself. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] During filming Mishra and Parihar received threats of bodily harm from dacoit Nirbhaya Gujjar, who led the gang that Parihar formerly led, [ 9 ] as he believed that she was \"defaming the lives of dacoits\". [ 10 ] Several attacks were made upon the production. [ 11 ] Upon completion of filming, the censor board of India initially refused to clear Wounded as they had objections over slang words used in the movie. [ 12 ] The Bombay High Court later cleared the film without removing any of the language that the censor board wanted to remove. [ 13 ]", "Turnout for Wounded was poor and reception was described as \"lackluster\" by the Hindustan Times. [ 14 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/The_Wound_%282017_film%29.jpg", "Xhosa": "Inxeba", "Directed by": "John Trengove", "Written by": "John Trengove Thando Mgqolozana Malusi Bengu", "Produced by": "Elias Ribeiro Cait Pansegrouw", "Starring": "Nakhane", "Cinematography": "Paul Ozgur", "Edited by": "Matthew Swanepoel", "Music by": "João Orecchia", "Release date": "22 January 2017 ( 2017-01-22 ) ( Sundance )", "Running time": "88 minutes", "Countries": "South Africa France Germany [ 1 ]", "Language": "Xhosa", "Box office": "$30,678 (USA) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] R598,571 (ZA) [ 4 ]"}
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["The Wound ( Xhosa : Inxeba [ 5 ] .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%} Xhosa pronunciation: [íŋǁeːɓa] ) is a 2017 South African drama film directed by John Trengove . [ 6 ] It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival [ 7 ] and the Panorama section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival . [ 8 ] The film opened the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival 2017. [ 9 ] It was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] making the December shortlist. [ 12 ]", "The story tracks a closeted relationship between two men in the context of the Xhosa initiation ritual of Ulwaluko . [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Xolani, a factory worker, joins the men of his community at the annual ceremony in the mountains of Eastern Cape. In addition to serving as a mentor to the initiates, Xolani looks forward to the event as it provides him the opportunity to reestablish his sexual and romantic relationship with Vija. When Xolani is assigned to be the mentor of Kwanda, a young man from Johannesburg, he quickly realizes that Kwanda is also gay, and Kwanda soon realizes the nature of the relationship between Vija and Xolani. Tensions soon emerge between the three. [ 15 ]", "Inspiration for The Wound came after director John Trengove read A Man Who is Not a Man , a novel by Thando Mgqolozana on the topic of the Xhosa initiation ceremony. [ 16 ] Trengove wished to challenge the notion that homosexuality was a product of western culture that posed a threat to traditional African culture. [ 17 ] The film received funding from the National Film and Video Foundation. [ 18 ] Cultural experts were consulted to ensure the authenticity of the material. [ 19 ]", "On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 89%, based on 44 reviews with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \" The Wound uses its complex, timely story as effective grist for a thought-provoking exploration of the human dynamic.\" [ 20 ] Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 80 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 21 ]", "Inxeba received 19 awards at 44 festivals worldwide; received eight South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA) nominationsm and won five including Best Feature Film, Best Actor in a Feature Film, Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film, Best Achievement in Directing in a Feature Film, and Best Achievement in Editing in a Feature Film [ 22 ] and was short-listed for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. [ 16 ] [ 23 ]", "The film has been accused of portraying secretive initiation rituals. However, other media covering the same topic, like Nelson Mandela 's Long Walk to Freedom , have not received similar criticism, leading to accusations that complaints about the film are instead motivated by homophobia . [ 13 ] [ 16 ] [ 18 ]", "A day after the film's release in South Africa, cinemas in the Eastern Cape province were forced to cancel screenings of the film and offer refunds because of protests, intimidation and vandalism. Nu Metro Cinemas subsequently cancelled screenings countrywide, while Ster-Kinekor continued to show it outside of the Eastern Cape. The film's producers filed complaints with the Human Rights Commission and the Commission for Gender Equality over threats and violence. [ 16 ] [ 23 ] Crew and cast received death threats and were forced to go into hiding. [ 4 ]", "The film was initially classified as 16LS by South Africa's Film and Publication Board (FPB), but was later reclassified as X18 by the FPB's Appeal Tribunal after complaints by the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa and other cultural and Christian organisations. X18 is the rating reserved for hardcore pornography , although Inxeba contains none, and meant that distribution was limited to premises licensed to show pornography, resulting in the film's removal from all South African cinemas. [ 14 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] The Democratic Alliance criticised the decision of the Appeal Tribunal, characterising it as \"nothing short of censorship\" by \"patriarchs and homophobes\". [ 27 ] FPB classifiers themselves have concluded that the Appeal Tribunal's rating amounted to unlawful censorship based on homophobia. [ 26 ] [ 28 ]", "Urucu Media, the producers of Inxeba , and the SA Screen Federation challenged the film's X18 rating in court, on the basis that they were denied an opportunity to make representation to the Tribunal, and that the Appeal Tribunal's decision was incompatible with the principles of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa . [ 26 ] [ 28 ] In March 2018 the Gauteng Division of the High Court allowed the film to be shown in cinemas with an 18 rating while the court action was pending. [ 29 ] In June 2018 the court overturned the Appeal Tribunal's decision and restored the original rating of 16LS. [ 30 ]"]
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The Wound of Separation
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7a/The_Wound_of_Separation.jpg/250px-The_Wound_of_Separation.jpg", "Directed by": "Metin Erksan", "Screenplay by": "Metin Erksan", "Produced by": "Nazif Duru", "Starring": "Sadri Alisik , Mualla Kaynak , and Nese Yulaç", "Cinematography": "Kemal Akkavuk", "Production company": "Atlas Film", "Release date": "1959 ( 1959 )", "Country": "Turkey", "Language": "Turkish"}
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["The Wound of Separation ( Turkish : Hicran Yarası ) is a 1959 Turkish romantic drama film directed by Metin Erksan . [ 1 ] It stars Sadri Alisik , Mualla Kaynak , and Nese Yulaç ."]
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Would You Rather
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fc/Would_You_Rather_Poster.png/250px-Would_You_Rather_Poster.png", "Directed by": "David Guy Levy", "Written by": "Steffen Schlachtenhaufen", "Produced by": "Zak Kilberg Maura Anderson David Guy Levy", "Starring": "Brittany Snow Jeffrey Combs Enver Gjokaj Charlie Hofheimer Sasha Grey John Heard Jonny Coyne June Squibb Logan Miller Lawrence Gilliard Jr. Eddie Steeples Robin Lord Taylor Robb Wells", "Cinematography": "Steven Capitano Calitri", "Edited by": "Josh Schaeffer", "Music by": "Daniel Hunt Barði Jóhannsson", "Production companies": "The Lambrick Foundation Periscope Entertainment Social Construct Films Dreamher Productions", "Distributed by": "IFC Midnight", "Release dates": "October 14, 2012 ( 2012-10-14 ) ( Screamfest ) February 8, 2013 ( 2013-02-08 ) (United States)", "Running time": "93 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["Would You Rather is a 2012 American psychological horror thriller film directed by David Guy Levy and starring Brittany Snow and Jeffrey Combs . It is based on the party game \" would you rather \", and centers on a woman named Iris as she attends a dinner party, where she must partake in life-threatening games to help her sick younger brother secure a donor after he contracts leukemia .", "The film premiered at Screamfest on October 14, 2012. [ 1 ] It was released in select theaters and through video on demand in the United States on February 8, 2013, by IFC Midnight . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "Iris is a young woman who is desperately trying to find a way to afford her brother Raleigh's leukemia treatment by making money in any way she can. Their oncologist , Dr. Barden, introduces Iris to Shepard Lambrick, a wealthy philanthropist who offers her a deal. If she wins a mysterious game at a dinner party hosted by Shepard, he will pay for Raleigh's treatment and use his foundation's influence to find a bone marrow donor.", "At the dinner party, Iris meets the other contestants: Julian, Shepard's son; Lucas; Travis, a war veteran; Linda, a paralyzed elderly woman; Peter, a gambling addict; Amy; Conway, an alcoholic debtor; and Cal. Shepard tries to test their principles by offering money for compromising choices. Iris reluctantly accepts $10,000 to eat meat despite being a vegetarian, and Conway accepts $50,000 to drink a decanter of Scotch as a recovering alcoholic.", "Once dinner is over, Shepard reveals that the game is a reality version of \" would you rather .\" The contestants must make difficult choices, and the last person standing will win. Conway tries to leave but is shot dead by Bevans, Shepard's butler, demonstrating the seriousness of the game. The first round involves an electric shock machine, and no one is eliminated.", "Tensions rise, particularly between Travis and Julian, as the second round begins. Each player must choose to stab the person next to them with an ice pick or whip Travis with a sjambok . Iris and Lucas choose to whip Travis out of fear, while Peter stabs Linda, resulting in her death. Amy stabs Iris, but she survives thanks to Lucas's intervention. Cal then whips Travis until he is incapacitated and removed from the game.", "Amidst the chaos, Lucas creates a distraction, and everyone except Amy attempts to escape. Cal is shot and killed during the escape attempt. Julian tries to rape Iris but is stabbed by her. Dr. Barden, having regretted his decision to involve Iris, tries to save her but is killed by Bevans. Iris is brought back to the game, and Shepard apologizes for his son's behavior.", "The third round presents a choice between being submerged underwater for two minutes or picking a task from a card. Peter's card leads to his death from a heart attack caused by an explosive firecracker . Lucas slits his own eyeball as required by his card but survives. Iris chooses the barrel and survives, while Amy, who witnessed her husband drown their daughter, pulls a card that doubles the required time to four minutes submerged underwater, and is forced into the barrel and drowns after not getting a chance to take a deep breath first.", "In the final round, only Iris and Lucas remain. Iris is given the choice to kill Lucas and win the game or spare him, resulting in no reward for either of them. After hesitation, Iris shoots Lucas, winning the game. Shepard declares her the champion, providing her with a bag of money to cover Raleigh's treatment and more. He reveals that a bone marrow donor has already been found for Raleigh in Romania .", "However, upon returning home, Iris discovers that Raleigh has committed suicide, feeling like a burden. She realizes that the horrific acts she committed to win the money were all in vain. Overwhelmed with despair, Iris cries for the loss of her brother and the meaningless nature of her victory.", "Principal photography on Would You Rather began in July 2011. [ 4 ] It was filmed on location in Pasadena , Woodland Hills , and Los Angeles, California.", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 61% based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, \"Though restrained by most torture porn standards, Would You Rather 's brilliant premise is ultimately harmed by its tendency towards blood and guts.\" [ 5 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 20 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating \"generally unfavorable\" reviews. [ 6 ]"]
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The Wound
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d0/Yara_%28album%29.jpg/250px-Yara_%28album%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Yılmaz Arslan", "Written by": "Yılmaz Arslan", "Produced by": "Yılmaz Arslan Murat Kadıoğlu", "Starring": "Yelda Reynaud Halil Ergün Füsun Demirel Mustafa Suphi Baltacı Nazım Yılmaz Kader Demir", "Cinematography": "Jürgen Jürges", "Music by": "Rabih Abou-Khalil", "Production companies": "Vega Film Gün İzi Film Prodüksiyon", "Release date": "7 September 1998 ( 1998-09-07 )", "Running time": "98 minutes", "Countries": "Turkey Germany Switzerland Austria", "Language": "Turkish", "Released": "1998", "Recorded": "4–6 June 1998", "Studio": "Studio Zerkall, Hürtgenwald, Germany", "Genre": "Film score", "Length": "55 : 41", "Label": "Enja ENJ 9360", "Producer": "Rabih Abou-Khalil, Walter Quintus"}
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["The Wound ( Turkish : Yara ) is a 1998 international co-production drama film , written, produced and directed by Yılmaz Arslan , starring Yelda Reynaud as a young Turkish emigrant who is forcibly repatriated by her own family. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on 4 February 2000 ( 2000-02-04 ) , won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul, including the Golden Orange for Best Film.", "The film was shot on location in Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main , Germany and, Aksaray and Istanbul , Turkey . [ 1 ]", "Variety reviewer David Stratton said \" Yara succeeds on one level: as a portrait of an independent femme’s struggle to escape her environment and survive against all the odds stacked against her. But pic suffers from melodramatic elements and a lack of motivation, making for dim international commercial prospects\". [ 2 ]", "The film score was composed, by Rabih Abou-Khalil and the soundtrack album was released on the Enja label in 1998. [ 3 ]", "Allmusic 's Michael G. Nastos noted, \"the music of Khalil does stand beautifully on its own ... Selections flow freely into each other, much unison playing between the string instruments is prevalent, and Khalil takes the bulk of the lead ... There's pure wonder and revelation in this music. You'll have to see the film to get the full gist, but without the moving pictures, Khalil's unique music is indeed a moving experience in and of its own accord. Recommended\". [ 4 ] In JazzTimes , Josef Woodard said \" Yara emerges here as a set of tunes standing up on its own musical merits-with cinematic evocations, but also a coherent life of its own. The pieces tend to be based on linear, horizontal constructions, entrancingly winding melodies ... this chamber setting conveys a sense of melancholic elegance, alternately bustling with subtle energy and purring with a sad, languid beauty\". [ 5 ]", "All compositions by Rabih Abou-Khalil", "The film score was composed, by Rabih Abou-Khalil and the soundtrack album was released on the Enja label in 1998. [ 3 ]", "Allmusic 's Michael G. Nastos noted, \"the music of Khalil does stand beautifully on its own ... Selections flow freely into each other, much unison playing between the string instruments is prevalent, and Khalil takes the bulk of the lead ... There's pure wonder and revelation in this music. You'll have to see the film to get the full gist, but without the moving pictures, Khalil's unique music is indeed a moving experience in and of its own accord. Recommended\". [ 4 ] In JazzTimes , Josef Woodard said \" Yara emerges here as a set of tunes standing up on its own musical merits-with cinematic evocations, but also a coherent life of its own. The pieces tend to be based on linear, horizontal constructions, entrancingly winding melodies ... this chamber setting conveys a sense of melancholic elegance, alternately bustling with subtle energy and purring with a sad, languid beauty\". [ 5 ]", "All compositions by Rabih Abou-Khalil"]
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Would You Marry Me?
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{"Directed by": "Enrique Carreras", "Written by": "Abel Santacruz", "Produced by": "Cesáreo González", "Cinematography": "Antonio Merayo", "Edited by": "Jorge Gárate", "Music by": "Tito Ribero", "Production companies": "Producciones J.C.C Suevia Films", "Distributed by": "Argentina Sono Film Suevia Films", "Release date": "18 September 1967 ( 1967-09-18 )", "Running time": "87 minutes", "Countries": "Argentina Spain", "Language": "Spanish"}
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["Would You Marry Me? (Spanish: Quiere casarse conmigo...?! ) is a 1967 Argentine-Spanish musical comedy film directed by Enrique Carreras and starring Palito Ortega , Sonia Bruno and Eddie Pequenino . [ 1 ] The film's art direction was by Gori Muñoz ."]
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Would You Have Sex with an Arab?
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8e/Would_You_Have_Sex_with_an_Arab%3F_poster.jpg/250px-Would_You_Have_Sex_with_an_Arab%3F_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Yolande Zauberman", "Written by": "Yolande Zauberman , Sélim Nassib", "Produced by": "Yves Chanvillard, Nadim Cheikhroucha, Orly Dahan, Natacha Delmon Casanova, Jean-Luc Ormieres", "Distributed by": "Urban Distribution", "Release dates": "September 2011 ( 2011-09 ) (Venice) September 12, 2012 ( 2012-09-12 )", "Running time": "85 minutes", "Languages": "French, Hebrew, Arabic, English"}
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["Would You Have Sex with an Arab? is a feature-length documentary film by French director Yolande Zauberman . It premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival , [ 1 ] and released in France on 12 September 2012.", "Shot in Israel , the film is an orchestration of interviews with people who all answer the same questions posed by the author – \"Would you have sex with an Arab?\" and \"Would you have sex with an Israeli Jew?\". Most, if not all of the scenes are shot at night in dance clubs, bars, cafes, public spaces, and personal homes in Tel Aviv , Israel. Interviews are conducted in French , Hebrew , Arabic , and English . The film is currently [ when? ] available with both French and English subtitles.", "Zauberman has said that she chose Tel Aviv as the site of her documentary because the city feels “guilty of nothing” and “has a certain blindness to it.” Zauberman said that in the past she sometimes “felt the incapacity to understand, to realize what happens in the rest of the country,” in Tel Aviv and “that is why there is a very special way of looking at Arabic [sic] people” in the city. [ 2 ]", "Zaumberman personally conducted interviews accompanied by two production crew carrying a light, a microphone, and an unobtrusive handheld camera. The crew spoke English, French, Hebrew and Arabic and thus were able to communicate with many of those interviewed in their native tongues; however, the majority of the interviews are conducted in English and Hebrew. [ 2 ]", "The documentary is dedicated to Zauberman’s close friend Juliano Mer-Khamis , the Arab-Israeli actor, director, and political activist featured in the film. [ 3 ] Mer-Khamis was murdered in front of his “Theater of Freedom” in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin in the West Bank on April 4, 2011. He was shot five times by masked militants believed to be Muslim Palestinians. [ 4 ]", "Mer Khamis was born and raised in Nazareth. His mother, Arna Mer, was an Israeli Jewish activist for Palestinian rights. His father, Saliba Khamis, was a Christian Palestinian. [ 4 ]", "Would You Have Sex with an Arab? was selected at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in 2011. [ 5 ]"]
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Would You Believe It!
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{"Directed by": "Walter Forde", "Written by": "Walter Forde Harry Fowler Mear", "Produced by": "Archibald Nettlefold", "Starring": "Walter Forde Pauline Johnson Arthur Stratton Albert Brouett", "Cinematography": "Geoffrey Faithfull", "Edited by": "Culley Forde", "Music by": "Paul Mulder", "Production company": "Nettlefold Films", "Distributed by": "Butcher's Film Service", "Release date": "May 1929 ( 1929-05 )", "Running time": "57 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Languages": "Sound (Synchronized) English Intertitles"}
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["Would You Believe It! is a 1929 British silent comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Forde, Pauline Johnson and Arthur Stratton. It was made at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames and released as a supporting feature . [ 2 ] Due to the general public's apathy toward silent films, it was quickly released in a sound version that features a synchronized musical score with sound effects.", "A British inventor develops a new high-tech tank and is pursued by foreign agents who wish to capture the design."]
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Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2f/Wotakoi-_Love_Is_Hard_for_Otaku_poster.jpg/250px-Wotakoi-_Love_Is_Hard_for_Otaku_poster.jpg", "Kanji": "ヲタクに恋は難しい", "Revised Hepburn": "Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii", "Directed by": "Yūichi Fukuda", "Written by": "Yūichi Fukuda", "Based on": "Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku by Fujita", "Produced by": "Hiroki Wakamatsu", "Starring": "Mitsuki Takahata Kento Yamazaki Nanao Takumi Saitoh", "Cinematography": "Tetsuya Kudō Yasuyuki Suzuki", "Edited by": "Eri Usuki", "Music by": "Shirō Sagisu Eishi Segawa Moe Hyūga Mayuka Sakai", "Production companies": "CREDEUS Toho Pictures", "Distributed by": "Toho", "Release date": "February 7, 2020 ( 2020-02-07 )", "Running time": "122 minutes", "Country": "Japan", "Language": "Japanese", "Box office": "$11.7 million [ 1 ]"}
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["Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku ( ヲタクに恋は難しい , Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii ) is a 2020 Japanese musical romantic comedy film based on the webmanga series of the same name , [ 2 ] directed by Yuichi Fukuda and distributed by Toho . It stars Mitsuki Takahata as Narumi and Kento Yamazaki as Hirotaka. It was released in Japanese theaters on February 7, 2020. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]", "Narumi Momose is a female office worker who hides her fujoshi otaku lifestyle. At her new workplace she meets her old childhood friend Hirotaka, a handsome and capable company man who is a game otaku . The two seem perfect for each other, but love is difficult for otaku.", "On July 26, 2018, a video promoting the sixth volume of the manga revealed that a live-action movie adaptation was in production. [ 8 ]", "On September 18, 2018, the lead actors were announced: Mitsuki Takahata and Kento Yamazaki to play Narumi and Hirotaka. [ 9 ]", "First filming began on October 3, 2018 at Sake Dojo Jinya Nakamoto store. [ 10 ] [ 11 ]", "Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku earned $11,702,371 at the box office. [ 1 ]"]
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Woubi Chéri
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1c/Woubi_Cheri_DVD_Region_2_PAL_cover.png/250px-Woubi_Cheri_DVD_Region_2_PAL_cover.png", "Directed by": "Laurent Bocahut Philip Brooks", "Edited by": "Nadia Ben Rachid [ 1 ]", "Release date": "1998 ( 1998 )", "Running time": "62 minutes", "Countries": "France Côte d'Ivoire", "Language": "French"}
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["Woubi Chéri (English: Darling Woubi [ 2 ] ) is a 1998 French / Ivorian documentary that shows a few days in the life of various members of the gay and transgender community in Abidjan , Côte d'Ivoire. [ 3 ] At the time of its release, it was one of the very few films from Africa to deal with LGBT issues. [ 3 ]", "The title comes from the term \"woubi\", meaning a man who plays the role of a wife in a homosexual relationship. [ 2 ] Also featured in the documentary are \"yossis\", men who act as husbands to woubis, who are often bisexual and also in conventional marriages. [ 4 ] The film won Best Documentary awards at the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival , the Turin International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival , and the Transgender Festival in London . [ 1 ]"]
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Wot a Night
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{"Directed by": "John Foster George Stallings", "Produced by": "Amadee J. Van Beuren", "Starring": "Unknown", "Music by": "Gene Rodemich", "Animation by": "Jim Tyer (Uncredited)", "Color process": "Black and white", "Distributed by": "R-K-O Radio Pictures", "Release date": "August 1, 1931 ( 1931-08-01 )", "Running time": "8 minutes 19 seconds", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["Wot a Night is a 1931 animated film. It is the first film in Van Beuren's Tom and Jerry series, later re-issued as \" Dick and Larry \".", "In their first film, Tom and Jerry are taxi drivers at the train station on a stormy day, waiting for a fare. A train comes up, and stops with an engine hauling a coach to let off two identical-looking men, who come out, similar to the pair from the Farmer Alfalfa cartoon Wooden Money. They both try to get them in the taxi. After the men are settled, Tom drives the men. It rains so much, a frog jumps in to the taxi and gets back again.", "They reach a castle, and as the men walk in, Tom and Jerry run to the men to be paid, but are locked inside. Then, a cloud turns into a human-like figure with arms. He then plays crenellations as piano keys, and while near towers act as pipes, similar to a pipe organ , two trees play their own branches like piccolos . As they walk, Tom is mortified as Jerry is interested as a giant bat -like creature appears in front of them.", "They come to a room where a skeleton is cleaning itself. After this point, they are sure that paranormal things are happening. Odd things that happen include: ghosts standing behind them, finding a skeleton playing a piano while another skeleton dances to the music, a glove dancing, and a blackface quartette of skeletons singing a song, which includes a few lines from versions of \" Golden Slippers \", such as a \"long white robe\" and a \"starry crown\", and to stop gambling.", "After these things have happened, the two men walk in and point at Jerry. Jerry lifts his shirt, and now realizes that he is a skeleton, too. Tom laughs, and now realizes that he is a skeleton when Jerry lifts his shirt, too. Tom is terrified, and as both men run for their lives, the cartoon ends."]
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Worth
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/92/Worth_%28film%29.jpg/250px-Worth_%28film%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Sara Colangelo", "Written by": "Max Borenstein [ 1 ]", "Based on": "What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11 by Kenneth Feinberg (inspiration)", "Produced by": "Marc Butan Anthony Katagas Michael Sugar Bard Dorros Sean Sorensen Max Borenstein Michael Keaton", "Starring": "Michael Keaton Stanley Tucci Amy Ryan Tate Donovan Talia Balsam Laura Benanti", "Cinematography": "Pepe Avila del Pino", "Edited by": "Julia Bloch", "Music by": "Nico Muhly", "Production companies": "MadRiver Pictures Anonymous Content Sugar23 Royal Viking Entertainment Steeplechase Amusements", "Distributed by": "Netflix Higher Ground Productions", "Release dates": "January 24, 2020 ( 2020-01-24 ) ( Sundance ) August 27, 2021 ( 2021-08-27 ) (United States)", "Running time": "118 minutes [ 2 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$106,645"}
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["Worth is a 2020 American biographical film written and co-produced by Max Borenstein and directed by Sara Colangelo . Based on the memoir by lawyer Kenneth Feinberg , the film depicts Feinberg's handling of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund . It stars Michael Keaton , Stanley Tucci , Amy Ryan , Tate Donovan , Talia Balsam , and Laura Benanti . The film premiered at 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2020, where it was acquired by Netflix and Higher Ground Productions . The film was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on August 27, 2021, followed by a streaming release on Netflix on September 3.", "The film opens with Kenneth Feinberg detailing the law's recognition of the monetary value of a person's life to his class at Columbia University . Some time later, the September 11 attacks occur. Feinberg is appointed the Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund while his law partner, Camille Biros, is appointed as his administrative deputy. Feinberg develops a rigid formula for each payout based on the victim's income, and is instructed that if he cannot convince at least 80 percent of the 7,000 estimated victims to sign on then they will be eligible to file a lawsuit which they may lose (as well as the pressure from the political administrations to save the airlines from being sued, leading to financial disaster). Feinberg is given until December 22, 2003, to accomplish this.", "At an introductory meeting with victims in which he attempts to explain the rules governing the fund, Feinberg is perceived as insensitive to the losses suffered by attendees. The hostile group is calmed when Charles Wolf, the husband of a woman killed in the attacks, demands that they listen to what Feinberg has to say. After the meeting, Feinberg is confronted by Frank Donato, the brother of a deceased New York City Fire Department (FDNY) firefighter, Nick. His brother had re-entered the tower to find him after communication, which may not have reached Nick, warned that the building would fail. Frank demands that Feinberg includes this information in the report to remedy this flaw in the communication system for first responders. Feinberg deflects that demand in lawyerly fashion. Feinberg also is disturbed to learn that Wolf was offended by the callous nature of the fund's formula and has started a protest group.", "Biros leads the staff in holding meetings with victims and is moved by the story of a gay man, Graham Morris, whose partner (whose parents vehemently denied that their son was gay) was killed in the attack. Due to the rules governing the fund, he cannot be compensated as he is a resident of the state of Virginia, which does not recognize civil partnerships. Feinberg also meets with several lawyers representing the loved ones of upper-class victims of the attacks, who want more money, which threatens the success of the group as a whole. As the months drag on, the fund manages to attract only a fraction of the necessary applicants, leading Feinberg to hold a private meeting with Wolf in which the latter accuses Feinberg of serving only the interests of the Bush administration .", "A lawyer representing Donato's extra-marital partner calls Feinberg to inform him that Donato has two daughters from that relationship who qualify for compensation. This leads Feinberg to try to inform Donato's widow to convince her to sign on after she had earlier refused. As the months drag on, Feinberg is increasingly unsuccessful in convincing victims to file for compensation from the government fund. After Wolf approaches him one evening at the opera and recounts an anecdote from years earlier in which his deceased wife encouraged him to persevere in the face of failure, Feinberg finds his spirit renewed.", "Feinberg and Biros begin to use the discretion government gave him to expand the rules to cover as many victims as they can under the fund. Feinberg begins to meet victims. He constructs a shrine in his office from the various mementos given to him by fund applicants. When Wolf sees that Feinberg truly cares for the victims of the attacks, he is able to convince his fellow victims to trust Feinberg. By the deadline, the vast majority of those eligible for compensation sign the forms, ensuring the success of the project. Feinberg is visited by Donato's widow to sign on behalf of her husband's children. Biros tearfully calls Morris to inform him that while she was unable to help him as the gay partner of a victim, because his state did not recognize their relationship, the fund did compensate many other gay couples who lived in states that recognized same-sex unions. The film ends with a title card stating that Feinberg and Biros were able to distribute billions in government money to 97 percent of eligible victims and that they continue to work on similar cases.", "The project was announced during the 2018 Berlin Film Festival , with David Frankel directing from a screenplay by Max Borenstein , which was featured in the 2008 Black List . Michael Keaton was cast to play the role of Kenneth Feinberg. [ 3 ] Sales for the film took place at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival . [ 4 ] In February 2019, Sara Colangelo replaced Frankel as director and Stanley Tucci was added to the cast. [ 5 ] In March, Shunori Ramanathan and Victor Slezak were cast. [ 6 ] In April 2019, Laura Benanti , Amy Ryan , Talia Balsam and Tate Donovan joined the cast of the film. [ 7 ] [ 8 ]", "Principal photography began in April 2019. [ 9 ] [ 10 ]", "It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2020. [ 11 ] In February 2021, Netflix and Higher Ground Productions acquired distribution rights to the film. [ 12 ] It was released in a limited release and on Netflix on September 3, 2021. [ 13 ]", "According to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 82% of 99 critic reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads, \"It isn't as hard-hitting as one might expect, but Worth remains a powerfully performed and rewardingly complex dramatization of real-life events.\" [ 14 ] On Metacritic , it has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100 based on 25 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 15 ]"]
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["The Worst Person in the World ( Norwegian : Verdens verste menneske ) is a 2021 romantic dramedy film directed by Joachim Trier , who co-wrote the screenplay with Eskil Vogt . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It is the third film in the director's Oslo trilogy , following Reprise (2006) and Oslo, August 31st (2011).", "The film premiered in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival to widespread critical acclaim, with Renate Reinsve winning the award for Best Actress for her performance in the film. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] At the 94th Academy Awards , the film was nominated for Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay . [ 10 ]", "Julie, a medical student in Oslo , transitions from medicine to psychology and then photography. In her late 20s, she begins a relationship with Aksel Willman, a comic artist 15 years her senior. Now exploring writing, she spends a weekend with Aksel at his parents' house. Aksel suggests starting a family, but Julie is uncertain. While walking home from a publishing event for Aksel, Julie crashes a wedding reception and meets Eivind, a barista. Despite both being in relationships, they spend the night together sharing jokes and intimacies, but refrain from sexual relations. They exchange only their first names before parting ways.", "Julie writes a short story about feminism and oral sex, impressing Aksel, who encourages her to post it online. It gains attention. She celebrates her 30th birthday at her divorced mother's home, but her father fails to attend, citing back pain. Days later, Julie's half-sister inadvertently reveals that their father was actually watching her play at a football tournament on Julie's birthday. He makes excuses to decline Aksel's invitation to visit them in Oslo. While working at a bookstore, Julie encounters Eivind and his girlfriend Sunniva. During dinner with Aksel's brother and sister-in-law, Aksel complains about the sanitized cinematic adaptation of his politically incorrect comic series Bobcat ( Gaupe in Norwegian), leaving Julie feeling bored and ignored. She daydreams about going on a date with Eivind, imagining falling in love. The next day, she ends her relationship with Aksel.", "Eivind breaks up with the obsessively social-justice-and-climate-conscious Sunniva due to her restrictive lifestyle. Julie and Eivind move in together. At a small party Eivind hosts, one of his friends discovers Eivind's stash of psychedelic mushrooms , which Julie consumes, leading to hallucinations. The following night, Julie confesses to Eivind that she feels comfortable being herself around him. Aksel's brother later reveals to Julie at her workplace that Aksel has incurable pancreatic cancer . Sometime later, Eivind discovers a short story Julie wrote. Assuming it is autobiographical, he asks her about it, complimenting its writing. Still emotionally overwhelmed by the news about Aksel, she angrily denies it, patronizing him.", "Julie discovers she is pregnant and hesitates to tell Eivind. She visits Aksel in the hospital, where he expresses fear of dying but still professes his love for her. Julie confesses her pregnancy, and although Aksel insists she would be a good mother, she remains scared. Upon returning home, she informs Eivind of her pregnancy, stating she needs time to decide whether to keep the child. Later, she receives a voicemail from Aksel's brother, informing her that Aksel is unlikely to survive the night. While showering, she experiences a miscarriage.", "Some time later, Julie works as an on-set photographer at a film shoot. She photographs an actress and later sees the actress outside with Eivind and a baby. Returning home, she begins editing the day's photos.", "mk2 Films secured a sales deal on the film in February 2021. [ 11 ] The film had its world premiere in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on 7 July. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] A week later, the film's US distribution rights were sold to Neon , while UK, Irish and Indian rights were acquired by Mubi . [ 15 ] [ 16 ]", "The Worst Person in the World had its North American premiere on 11 September as a Gala Presentation at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival . [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The film was released theatrically in France on 13 October 2021 by Memento Distribution, in Norway on 15 October 2021 by SF Studios, in Sweden on 19 November 2021 by TriArt Film and in Denmark on 16 June 2022 by Camera Film. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ]", "The Worst Person in the World became a part of The Criterion Collection with Blu-ray and DVD releases on 28 June 2022. [ 24 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 96% of 251 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.8/10. The website's consensus reads: \" The Worst Person in the World concludes Joachim Trier's Oslo trilogy with a romantic comedy that delightfully subverts the genre's well-worn tropes.\" [ 25 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 91 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". [ 26 ] A review on newcityfilm.com called it \"a drama in the fashion of a romantic comedy, with serious moments woven with an assured touch into heightened feeling and occasional subjective fantasy\". [ 27 ]", "The Guardian 's Peter Bradshaw described the film as \"one of Cannes' best\" and \"an instant classic\". [ 28 ] Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair called it \"exquisite, wistful (and downright sad)\", praising the cast performances and Trier's writing. [ 29 ] In a review for IndieWire , David Ehrlich gave the film a grade of B and commended Reinsve's performance, writing, \"If Julie is less of a character than a vividly realized archetype, Reinsve didn’t get the message.\" [ 30 ] Vanity Fair and The Atlantic declared The Worst Person in the World the best film of 2021. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] In June 2025, IndieWire ranked the film at number 62 on its list of \"The 100 Best Movies of the 2020s (So Far).\" [ 33 ] In 2025, it ranked number 95 on The New York Times ' list of \"The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century.\" [ 34 ]", "Among the negative reviews, Deborah Ross wrote, \"The ‘messy young woman’ trope has become, I think, rather overdone.... It’s got to the point where a film about a woman who, say, sticks to a profession, fills in her tax return on time, has developed some certitudes about life might be the more interesting, more original option.... The two hours go by pleasantly enough but the bottom line is: I felt nothing and didn’t care.\" [ 35 ] Richard Brody concludes that the film \"is a sham, except for its lead performance. Joachim Trier’s drama about an intrepid and passionate young woman in Oslo reduces her to a handful of character traits. [...] Trier’s film is set up like a deck of tarot cards, with each scene and event... corresponding clearly to a character trait and pushing a button of pre-programmed emotional response. Its narrowness of dramatic form reflects the narrowness with which it views its protagonist and the narrowness of the world view that it embodies....The movie offers no details about any conflict between domestic and artistic life...driven by a relentless focus on Julie’s personal life, but it’s a focus that remains obliviously impersonal.\" [ 36 ]"]
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["Faces of Death (later re-released as The Original Faces of Death ) is a 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited under the pseudonyms \"Conan Le Cilaire\" and \"Alan Black\" respectively. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]", "The film, presented as if it were an actual documentary , centers on pathologist Francis B. Gröss, played by actor Michael Carr, [ 5 ] who presents the viewer with footage showing different gruesome ways of dying from a variety of sources. Many scenes were faked for the film, but most portions include pre-existing video footage of real deaths and its aftermath.", "Faces of Death received generally negative reviews, but it was a huge success at the box office, reportedly grossing over $35 million worldwide. It gained a cult following and spawned several sequels, the first of which, Faces of Death II , was released in 1981.", "After performing an open heart surgery , pathologist Francis B. Gröss tells the viewer that he is interested in the transitional periods of life and death thanks to a recurring dream. At the same time, his experience as a surgeon has desensitized him to grotesque deaths. He has compiled footage to understand the many \"faces of death.", "Footage is played of various animal deaths, including a man killed by an alligator , which Gröss calls a \"violent retaliation from a creature who has suffered continued abuse from mankind\". Gröss next narrates over recordings of assassinations, stating that humans are the only species to kill for greed. Assassin François Jordan is interviewed, admitting that he kills solely for payment, not political or social value. If there were a case on which he had thoughts, he would immediately but respectfully decline the missions. Gröss introduces another type of killer, \"the one who kills for no apparent reason.\" A gunfight ensues between a SWAT team and an armed murderer. During the gunfight, the SWAT team throws tear gas into the house of the murderer, who is later shot, after which the team enters the killer's house to find his family stabbed to death; Gröss questions whether the man's actions were caused by society. As criminal Larry DeSilva is executed by electric chair , Gröss questions \"if two wrongs make a right.", "Gröss visits the Los Angeles County coroner's office , where Dr. Thomas Noguchi is embalming multiple corpses after their autopsies. One cadaver is a horrifically bloated drowned woman; the other is a decapitated man whose skin is peeled off his skull for examination. Gröss asks Noguchi for his thoughts on his own embalming process after he dies, to which he replies: \"life is purely a transitory state\".", "One man, Samuel Berkowitz has his body subjected to cryopreservation after death; his bodily fluids are replaced with a liquid with a low freezing point, then he is stored in a freezer to preserve his body for future science to revive him. The \"theater of preservation\" transitions to a brief discussion on suicide with footage of a woman jumping from a building; Gröss admits this was \"a face of death he wishes never to face again.", "The next segment displays war and atrocities in history, including the Holocaust . Footage of German forces slaughtering enemy forces is shown, as they were becoming more desperate in the latter years of the war. The segment ends with footage of Nazis being obliterated in battle and symbols of Nazism destroyed, with Gröss saying that Hitler \"lost control not only of his army but of his mind.", "Footage of animals dying due to litter and pollution is shown, followed by sick children in impoverished villages. Nature is examined with footage of a search party finding a body in caves, a drowned man recovered at a beach, and footage of a bear mauling irresponsible campers. More of the \"horrific nature of man\" is examined with footage of a venomous snake cult in Louisville, Kentucky, killing a handler and a cannibalistic cult eating a cadaver stolen from a morgue before partaking in an orgy .", "Footage of several more tragic accidents is shown, culminating in a scene of a person attempting a parachute jump but dying after the parachute fails to open correctly. Gröss disputes the notion that this death was quick and painless, as he would have been conscious and aware of the entire fall to the ground. The segment ends with a section on PSA Flight 182 and its grisly aftermath, featuring photographs of the accident, excerpts of audio from air traffic control , and footage of scattered body parts and destroyed houses at the crash site. Gröss states that the neighborhood smells like \"rotting bodies and jet fuel\" and that a mutilated body with only its torso and right hand \"is the worst face of death.", "Gröss introduces his next topic, the role of supernatural forces in death. He meets with architect Joseph Binder, whose wife and son both died under tragic circumstances. Binder confides to the viewer that he believes his family remains as ghosts in his house that attempt to communicate with him. To verify this, Gröss enlists the services of parapsychologists . The team takes photographs of footprints and two apparitions. Binder communicates with his family's spirits through a medium , seemingly confirming the existence of life after death.", "After studying Binder's case, Gröss concludes that \"when we die, it isn't the end\" as \"the soul in each of us remains a traveller forever.\" Gröss questions whether death is \"the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end\" and leaves the footage he has shown to the viewer's interpretation. The film ends with peaceful music, footage of a baby's birth, and photos of the child and its mother being together and happy.", "The film was written and directed by John Alan Schwartz (credited as \"Alan Black\" for writing and as \"Conan LeCilaire\" for directing). Schwartz also took credit as second unit director , this time as \"Johnny Getyerkokov\". He also appears in one of the segments of the film, as the leader of the alleged flesh eating cult in San Francisco and has brief appearances in several other movies of this series. Schwartz wanted to depict very real death with \"an analytical view, rather than a purely exploitive purpose\", but the film's inclusion of fake scenes have brought this to debate. The movie features Michael Carr as the narrator , and 'creative consultant' called \"Dr. Francis B. Gröss\", whose voice is reminiscent of Leonard Nimoy in the popular TV show In Search of... (which Schwartz worked on). [ 6 ] Schwartz states that the movie's budget was $450,000 and there are estimates that it has grossed more than $35 million worldwide in theatrical releases, not including rentals. [ 2 ]", "No real humans dying are featured graphically in the movie, although some from a distance and real human corpses appear in archival footage. Approximately 60% of the film was real footage bought from news stations, medical researchers, witnesses of the Flight 182 crash, graphic war footage, deleted footage from other documentaries, and/or filmed by the actual crew in morgues or on a beach. [ 7 ]", "Many sequences in the film were recreations of news footage; special effects artist Douglas White stated the producers watched hundreds of hours of news footage and studied crime scene photos to determine whether their effects looked realistic. [ 7 ] Editor Glenn Turner stated the initial version of the movie consisted of gruesome newsreel footage bought and compiled, but the lack of narrative made it \"difficult to watch\", [ 7 ] leading to the decision to recreate some of the footage instead.", "With the exception of the slaughterhouse sequence (which uses methods of killing that are long outdated), chicken beheading and African tribe sacrificing a cow, several scenes of animals were inauthentic: a seal clubbing which featured choreographed clubbing to avoid harming the seals, and a \"violent dog fight\" that was simply two dogs covered in theater blood playing with dramatic editing and music, whilst a scene showing a monkey being \"killed and having its brains eaten\" used cauliflower and theater blood for \"brains\". [ 7 ]", "The electric chair execution was achieved by building a fake chair, using toothpaste to emulate saliva, and adding electricity sounds in post-production. Schwartz was inspired to make the scene after reading about electric execution in the southern USA, and was surprised to find it still in practice. He wanted to find a way to film a real chair execution, but none were available during production. [ 8 ]", "The only \"real, unscripted\" part of the film features a body of a dead surfer who had washed upon shore as filmmakers were filming B-roll of litter for the pollution sequence nearby and beachgoers started a commotion. [ 7 ]", "White and Allen Apone's newly formed special effects company had been given no details about the film upon being hired; they conceived of the police shootout, the alligator attack, the monkey brain dinner, the decapitation sequence and the cannibalistic cult scene with Schwartz himself playing the leader. [ 7 ]", "The Morgue, suicide jumper, parachute jumper, snake cult, war and Holocaust footage, and some of the vehicular accidents were authentic. The snake cult footage was later used in Michael Bolton 's music video \"Everybody's Crazy\", without the handler dying of a snake bite. The World War 2 footage was also used, with the exception of the Holocaust & graphic battle footage. In their book Killing for Culture , authors David Kerekes and David Slater note that the nadir of the movie is the inclusion of an extreme fatal accident; \"the shattered remains of a cyclist are seen under a semi-tractor trailer. The camera pans long enough to capture paramedics scooping up blood clots, brain matter and clumps of hair from the tarmac; this incident is authentic and culled from newsreels.\" [ 9 ] The train derailment footage was authentic, but the grisly aftermath was faked.", "The Flight 182 crash happened less than 2 months before the film's release, and graphic footage depicting the crash aftermath, destroyed houses and scattered body parts were included in the film near the climax. Still images and air traffic audio were used to simulate the crash itself, because no actual footage is known to exist. According to Schwartz, the film was largely completed, but reworked immediately after the crash occurred. [ citation needed ]", "One sequence involves cryogenic patient Samuel Berkowitz, who was frozen in July 1978 and stored in northern California. The relatives who were funding the suspension began to lose interest and wherewithal, and an offer was made to continue the suspension as a neuro (head-only) free of charge, but was turned down. Instead, in October 1983 they had Berkowitz thawed, submerged in formaldehyde , given a proper funeral and buried. No attempt was made to preserve the brain. [ 10 ]", "Due to its graphic content, Faces of Death was banned and censored in many countries. The movie is often billed as \"Banned in 46 Countries\", but this claim is exaggerated for marketing purpose. [ 11 ] In the United Kingdom, the film was prosecuted and added to the \" video nasty \" list, as it was deemed to violate the Obscene Publications Act 1959 . [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In 2003, the film was allowed to be released on DVD in the UK; however, cuts of 2 minutes and 19 seconds were required by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) to remove scenes of \"fighting dogs and [a] monkey being cruelly beaten to death in accordance with Cinematograph Films (Animals Act) 1937 and BBFC Guidelines.\" [ 14 ] In 1980, Faces of Death was refused classification by the Australian Classification Board . Despite the ban, several bootleg VHS tapes were released in the country, and the film was unbanned and released uncut on DVD in 2007. However, its sequels remain banned in the country. [ 15 ] The film was also banned in New Zealand in 1989. [ 15 ] In Germany, the film was edited for a VHS release, with the removal of some graphic scenes. [ 16 ] The ban in Germany was lifted in 2022. [ 17 ]", "The film was received relatively poorly by critics, both retrospective and contemporary. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that Faces of Death received a 27% critical approval rating of 11 surveyed critics; the average rating was 4.3/10. [ 18 ] Writing for the Kansas City Kansan , reviewer Steve Crum denounced the film as \"crude, tasteless exploitation footage. Filmed carnage.\" He ended his review urging the viewer to \"be ashamed to watch this garbage.\" [ 19 ]", "Joshua Siebalt of Dread Central had mixed feelings about the film: \"as a curiosity piece, Faces of Death is well worth a look, especially if you've not seen it in a very long time. As for its place in horror cinema history, well, that remains to be seen. As I said it's not a film that holds up very well at all, but considering how groundbreaking it was for its time, I doubt anyone will ever forget it. And while it is nice to have all of the myths about Faces finally addressed by the people who created it, it also takes some of the fun out if it, too.\" [ 20 ]", "Christopher Kulik of DVD Verdict wrote, \"The YouTube generation will be unable to comprehend what purpose the film served thirty years ago, and thus it's difficult to ignore how hopelessly dated Faces of Death really is. In short, it's a cinematic experiment which has long outlived its effects, although it remains compelling for film and horror buffs viewing the film in the proper perspective. For the curious virgins, I say give it a shot only if you can handle what has been described up until this point; if you can get through Faces of Death , then you can get through just about anything. Feel free to judge for yourself.\" [ 21 ]", "In his review, Screen Anarchy 's Ard Vijn was dismissive of the film, remarking that \"many of the segments have lost their ability to shock, or can easily be recognized as fake by today's more media-savvy audience. Interesting as a curious bit of film history, but nothing more.\" [ 22 ]", "It was ranked #50 on Entertainment Weekly ' s \"Top 50 Cult Films of All Time\" in 2003. [ 23 ]", "A number of straight to video sequels were made, containing far more real footage, some containing only real footage. Faces of Death II , Faces of Death III - The Final Assault , The Worst of the Faces of Death , and Faces of Death IV , as well as Faces of Death: Fact or Fiction? (a documentary on the making of the series) were written and at least partially directed by John Alan Schwartz.", "Originally released in theaters on November 10, 1978, Faces of Death was released on VHS and Betamax in October 1983, [ 24 ] although a heavily edited version (running at 73 minutes) was released in the United Kingdom by \"Atlantis Video Productions LTD\" in 1982, only to later get banned and placed on the \"video nasty\" list (as listed in the \"Censorship\" section). [ 25 ]", "Originally released in theaters in late 1981 (May 1981 in Japan), [ 26 ] Faces of Death II was later released on VHS and Betamax on May 22, 1985. [ 27 ] It contained real footage of a dead body being pulled from under a pier, Guerrilla death squads in El Salvador, napalm bombings in Vietnam, Buddhist self-immolations, the drugging of a monkey, a dolphin slaughter, a train disaster in India, Cambodian patients with leprosy, a death museum featuring Joaquin Murrieta 's preserved head, a driver high on PCP and a boxer going down for his \"final\" count. The gas station robbery is the only scene outside of the narration to have been faked. Much like the PSA Aircraft crash, the assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan occurred recently before the film's completion, and was included as well.", "Faces of Death III was released on VHS in mid-August 1986, with the earliest known date being August 20 (March 10, 1985 in Japan). [ 28 ] It was originally planned to be released on November 1, 1985, but was withheld from purchase due to concerns of its content, and protests from a number of animal rights groups, in which resulted in \"National Video Inc.\" banning the first two movies from over 550 video rental stores. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] It featured real footage of the German Autobahn , drug smugglers getting blown away by the Coast Guard, a parachutist landing in a crocodile pit, a videotaped rape/murder (the killer being played by Schwartz), a car thief getting ripped apart by two junkyard dogs, and footage of the last public execution by guillotine in France featuring a very young Christopher Lee .", "The Worst of the Faces of Death was released on VHS in the Fall of 1991 as a 60-minute compilation film featuring the \"worst\" of the previous three movies, which included some new footage as well. [ 32 ] It was originally planned to be released on February 28, 1990, [ 33 ] [ 34 ] but would be delayed for unknown reasons. This compilation film was likely produced because of both the delay of Faces of Death IV , and because the original trilogy was briefly discontinued in 1987 by \"MPI Home video\" due to controversy surrounding the franchise until it was rereleased in the early 1990s by its spin-off company, \"Gorgon Video\". [ 35 ] [ 36 ]", "Originally released in America as a midnight showing as early as August 29, 1991, [ 37 ] Faces of Death IV was later released on VHS around late 1991/early 1992 (November 28, 1990 in Germany). [ 32 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] [ 40 ] The film was originally produced in 1985, and was planned to be released in the Summer of 1987, [ 41 ] but it would be delayed due to similar concerns that Faces of Death III had previously faced with their content, resulting in the previous movies being temporary discontinued from circulation (read The Worst of the Faces of Death section above). According to the copyright, the film was planned to be released in 1990, but was again delayed. The ending of the film features footage of the Symphony Orchestra Stage Collapse in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The narrator claims that it resulted in many deaths, where various shots of injured musicians, corpses and ripped limbs were shown over the end credits. However, when the footage was shown on other TV shows, such as Maximum Exposure and Stupid Behavior: Caught on Tape , it clarified that while 43 people were left injured, no one was killed by the collapse. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Since the film was delayed for a few years due to the controversy, it was able to include the aforementioned stage collapse footage from March 1988.", "Faces of Death: Fact or Fiction was released on VHS and DVD on September 28, 1999. Unlike the previous entries in the series, this film goes into debunking some of the well known scenes in the franchise, such as \"the leg amputation scenes and the infamous eating live-monkey-brains sequence...\", explaining how the reenacted scenes were produced to look realistic. While the VHS release also included a \"Faces of Death\" music and \"Scenes From the Underground\" (a compilation short of shocking, explicit footage from the Gorgon Video vaults), the DVD release also included the VHS bonuses, and the entire first Faces of Death film. [ 44 ]", "The franchise would have various Friday/Saturday midnight showings throughout the 1990s, with the earliest known date being late-August 1991, [ 37 ] and the last known showing being October 16, 1999. [ 45 ]", "Faces of Death V and Faces of Death VI were released in the mid-90s, and are compilations made up entirely of highlights from the first four movies, with no new footage, intentionally released in countries where the original movies were banned. The first three featured Carr as \"Dr. Gröss\", although The Worst of Faces of Death (released between installments III and IV and consisting of highlights from the first three installments) instead featured Schwartz's brother, James Schwartz, as \"Dr. Louis Flellis\". Flellis explains that he accidentally killed \"Dr. Gröss\" while operating on him the prior week. However, in Faces of Death IV , Flellis explains the absence of Dr. Gröss by stating that he had killed himself, having been driven insane as a result of witnessing so much death.", "Also released with the title Faces of Death VII , was a condensed version of Nick Bougas 's 1989 film Death Scenes , hosted by Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey ; and another assemblage of stock footage titled Faces of Death part 7 was released as an online file sometime during the late 1990s. [ 46 ]", "Faces of Death 8 followed soon after. Released only in Germany, and made by unknown individuals, it is a collection of mostly unrelated gore scenes from around the world, with no narration, and no on-screen credits, aside from its title. [ citation needed ]", "In May 2021, it was reported that Legendary Entertainment had purchased the rights to the film, and a remake was in development, with filmmakers Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber attached to direct. [ 47 ] The film will star Barbie Ferreira and Dacre Montgomery . [ 48 ] Josie Totah was later announced to have joined the cast with Ferreira and Montgomery, with filming starting April 2023. [ 49 ] Singer Charli XCX also joined the cast in a small role. The reboot will be a narrative film, surrounding an online moderator finding obscene content. [ 50 ]", "In June 1985, mathematics teacher Bart Schwarz showed the film to his class at Escondido High School in Escondido, California . Two of his students, Diane Feese and Sherry Forget, claimed they were so traumatized by the film that they both \"developed an unnatural fear of dying and suffered emotional distress.\" The families of the two girls sued the school district and received a combined $100,000 settlement ($57,500 for Feese and $42,500 for Forget). Schwarz was suspended from the school for 15 days without pay, but was not fired. [ 51 ]", "In November 1986, 14-year-old Rod Matthews of Canton, Massachusetts bludgeoned his Canton High School classmate Shaun Ouillette to death with a baseball bat. Matthews claimed the idea to kill Ouillette was conceived after he viewed Faces of Death , as he was curious about what it would be like to kill someone. He had shown previous signs of mental illness. [ 52 ] [ 3 ] [ 53 ] Matthews was sentenced to life in prison, with parole eligibility after 15 years. In November 2024, he was granted parole on his fifth appeal. [ 54 ] [ 55 ]", "Faces of Death and its sequels were released in boxset form on DVD by MPI Home Video in July 2002. [ 56 ] Australian distributor Umbrella Entertainment released the film on DVD in 2007. [ 15 ] In 2008, Gorgon Video released the movie on DVD and Blu-ray for its 30th anniversary. A brand new high definition transfer was made with new material and a 5.1 digital soundtrack. The company still offers VHS editions of the film, with the 1980s and 1990s box art. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] Due to its graphic content and legal difficulties, the film has never been broadcast on television, but was briefly available to stream on Tubi & Shudder."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1e/Worstfriends-artwork.jpg/250px-Worstfriends-artwork.jpg", "Directed by": "Ralph Arend", "Screenplay by": "Ralph Arend", "Produced by": "Ralph Arend Erika Hampson Richard Tanne Noah Barrow", "Starring": "Richard Tanne Kristen Connolly Cody Horn Geoffrey Arend Larry Fessenden Noah Barrow Kathryn Erbe", "Cinematography": "Vincent Peone", "Edited by": "Joe Lindquist", "Music by": "Mike Fiore", "Distributed by": "Level 33 Entertainment", "Release date": "November 4, 2014 ( 2014-11-04 )", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["Worst Friends is an American comedy film , written, produced and directed by Ralph Arend and starring Richard Tanne , Noah Barrow, Kristen Connolly , and Cody Horn , with Larry Fessenden , Geoffrey Arend , and Kathryn Erbe . It was released on November 4, 2014. [ 1 ]", "Worst Friends has been described as a dark Indie comedy. The film is set in an unnamed New Jersey suburb and focuses around a number of key characters. The film opens explaining the close but troubled friendship of two young boys. [ 2 ]", "It explores the role of friendships when a traumatic incident takes place and how there can be a fine line between help and dependence. Jake ( Richard Tanne ) is a young man suffering traumatic injuries after he is hit by a car. He turns to his childhood friend Sam (Noah Barrow) for support and to help him recover. [ 3 ]", "A physical therapist ( Cody Horn ) is enlisted and begins to help Sam with Jake's recovery. Sam and Jake's friendship takes a turn for the worse when Sam's childhood sweetheart, Zoe ( Kristen Connolly ), returns to town. Her presence becomes a true test of Sam and Jake's friendship. [ 4 ]", "The concept of the plot was taken from Richard Tanne 's own experiences in 2010. While recovering from an injury in his home state of New Jersey , Tanne reconnected with filmmakers Ralph Arend and Noah Barrow and the idea generated traction over the coming weeks. [ 3 ]", "On July 28, 2010, the producers launched a Kickstarter campaign aiming to make $11,000 to fund the film. By August 11, 2010, the campaign had raised over $17,000. [ 5 ]", "Following the online premiere of the trailer, it was announced by Deadline that Level 33 Entertainment would be distributing the film across North America . [ 6 ] [ 7 ]", "The film was then released on November 4, 2014 through video on-demand and DVD . [ 8 ] [ 9 ]", "The film received mainly positive reviews following its launch in 2014. [ 10 ]", "In its review, Yes! Weekly described the film as a “loose, likeable comedy” with a “fun cast.” Actor Larry Fessenden was singled out for “amusingly channeling Jack Nicholson .” [ 11 ]", "Videoviews.org awarded the film 3 1/2 out of 5 stars and wrote, \"Worst Friends is a simple story but the acting and well-written dialogue take it up a notch.\" [ 12 ]", "Spectrum Culture reviewed the film in 2014, stating the film covered the harsh realities of some friendships and praised the film’s opening for its effective storytelling, but ultimately only awarded the film 2 out of 5 stars. [ 2 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/Worlds_Apart%2C_Official_Poster.jpg/250px-Worlds_Apart%2C_Official_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Christoforos Papakaliatis", "Starring": "J. K. Simmons Christoforos Papakaliatis Andrea Osvárt Maria Kavoyianni Minas Hatzisavvas Tawfeek Barhom Niki Vakali", "Release date": "17 December 2015 ( 2015-12-17 )", "Running time": "113 minutes", "Country": "Greece", "Languages": "Greek English", "Box office": "$5.1 million [ 1 ]"}
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["Worlds Apart is a 2015 Greek drama film directed by Christoforos Papakaliatis . It consists of three separate narratives, each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek . Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end. [ 2 ]", "Worlds Apart grossed $4.8 million at the Greek box office, making it the highest grossing 2015 film in Greece. [ 3 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 67% based on 9 reviews. [ 4 ] On Metacritic , it has a score of 61 based on 5 critics, indicating \"generally favourable reviews\". [ 5 ]", "Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: \"Worlds Apart doesn’t manage to transcend the forced and familiar-feeling aspects of its multipart narrative, but it does offer an evocative portrait of its troubled milieu, and one of its segments, at least, has genuine emotional resonance.\" [ 6 ] \n Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote: \"It isn't bad, but it’s kind of a trifle. Though it treats its themes with reasonable honesty, it can't help but come off as a bit diagrammed.\" [ 7 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Worlds_Apart_2008.jpg/250px-Worlds_Apart_2008.jpg", "Danish": "To verdener", "Directed by": "Niels Arden Oplev", "Written by": "Niels Arden Oplev Steen Bille", "Produced by": "Thomas Heinesen", "Starring": "Rosalinde Mynster Pilou Asbæk Jens Jørn Spottag", "Cinematography": "Lars Vestergaard", "Edited by": "Anne Østerud", "Music by": "Jakob Groth", "Distributed by": "Nordisk Film", "Release dates": "11 February 2008 ( 2008-02-11 ) (Berlin International Film Festival) 22 February 2008 ( 2008-02-22 )", "Running time": "116 minutes", "Country": "Denmark", "Language": "Danish", "Box office": "$4,361,860 [ 1 ]"}
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["Worlds Apart ( Danish : To verdener ) is a 2008 Danish drama film directed by Niels Arden Oplev and written by Oplev and Steen Bille. The film stars Rosalinde Mynster and Pilou Asbæk . Based upon a true story, the film is about a 17-year-old Jehovah's Witness girl who struggles to reconcile her faith and her secret romance with a non-believer boy. Worlds Apart played at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival and was submitted by Denmark for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .", "Sara is a teenager who lives with her family, who are Jehovah's Witnesses . The family's devout image is questioned when the parents divorce as a consequence of the father's infidelity. One night at a party Sara meets Teis, an older boy who takes an interest in her. Teis is not a Witness, and their relationship is rejected by her father, but Sara falls in love and begins to doubt her faith. Facing ostracism from her faith and family , Sara must make the toughest choice of her young life. [ 2 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/Worst_Friends_%282009_film%29.jpg/250px-Worst_Friends_%282009_film%29.jpg", "Hangul": "최악의 친구들", "RR": "Choeagui chingudeul", "MR": "Ch'oeagŭi ch'in'gudŭl", "Directed by": "Namkoong Sun", "Written by": "Namkoong Sun", "Produced by": "Kim Bora", "Starring": "Kim Soo-hyun Bae Hye-mi Jung So-min", "Cinematography": "Jung Jaekeun", "Edited by": "Namkoong Sun Um Yoonzoo", "Music by": "Kim Saebom Kim Yeonhwa Han Jeongwon", "Release date": "2009 ( 2009 )", "Running time": "38 minutes", "Country": "South Korea", "Language": "Korean"}
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["Worst Friends ( Korean : 최악의 친구들 ; RR : Choeagui chingudeul ) is a 2009 South Korean short film starring Kim Soo-hyun . Its directorial intention is a retrospective of losing a friend in delirious Seoul . Directed and written by Namkoong Sun, it was made at the Korea National University of Arts ' Department of Film Graduation Workshop. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Jun-ki ( Kim Soo-hyun ), a boy with shaggy hair that covers his face, returns to Korea from an unsuccessful American educational trip. When the 19 year old In-sun hears that her first ever intimate experience partner is coming back, she is thrilled."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5e/Worm_%282013_film%29_video_cover.jpg/250px-Worm_%282013_film%29_video_cover.jpg", "Directed by": "Doug Mallette", "Produced by": "Jennifer Bonior Julian Herrera Doug Mallette Jeremy Pearce", "Starring": "John Ferguson Shane O'Brien Jes Mercer", "Cinematography": "Rob Bennett", "Edited by": "Ryan Kendrick", "Music by": "Bill Mitchell", "Production company": "Untrademarked Productions", "Distributed by": "Synapse Films", "Release dates": "April 18, 2013 ( 2013-04-18 ) (Nashville Film Festival) August 12, 2014 ( 2014-08-12 )", "Running time": "94 minutes [ 1 ]", "Language": "English"}
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["Worm is a 2013 American science fiction horror film directed by Doug Mallette and starring John Ferguson, Jes Mercer, and Shane O’Brien. Produced by Untrademarked Productions, the film was released by Synapse Films on August 12, 2015. [ 2 ]", "Small town journalist, Posey Mapleton, does a Special Report on Fantasites, a genetically-engineered parasite that allows users to once again dream - an ability they all lost 30 years ago. Seeing the new miracle product as a way escape his boring life, socially inept maintenance man, Charles, attempts to purchase Fantasites but discovers he can only afford the cheaper Economy version as opposed to the highly sought after Premium.\nWhen his Economy worms aren’t enough to impress his neighbor, Reed (a Premium user), Charles considers giving up Fantasites all together. But when a delivery of Premium worms are left outside Reed’s apartment, Charles decides to start swapping them for his undesired Economy worms. With the Premium Fantasites in his possession, Charles is finally able to live out his wildest fantasies.", "With a new found confidence, Charles’ focus soon shifts from wanting Reed to be his friend to starting a romantic relationship with Reed’s live-in girlfriend, June. Out of pity, June pressures Reed into becoming friends with the lonely maintenance man. The plan backfires and Reed humiliates Charles at a dinner date that Charles had hoped would be only between himself and June.", "Completely heartbroken, Charles throws himself into Fantasites, continuing to steal from Reed and becoming more detached from others and more lost in his dreams. Soon, the harmful side effects and addictive nature of Fantasites become a national concern, and the worms are made illegal.", "Desperate to continue using, Charles turns to Reed who has found a way to continue getting Fantasites through an underground network. Hoping to continue to use worms and wanting to provide for June, who turns out is a fellow Fantasite addict suffering from withdrawals, Charles commits himself to a dangerous group of Fantasite-masked men. The group is run by Stephen, who has found a way to reclaim worms by smashing the skulls of users and re-selling the worms extracted from their brains.", "Believing that a home invasion on a house of high-class users will give him enough worms to escape with June for good, Charles takes Reed up on an offer for a final job. When the home invasion turns into a massacre, Reed steals the worms and leaves Charles to take the blame.", "When Charles attempts to reconnect with June and make their escape, she turns him down, knowing they’ll eventually be tracked down. Not accepting this future, Charles returns to the apartment for June, not knowing that Stephen and his Fantasite-masked men had already found Reed and June. He arrives too late to save his love and decides to once more use a Fantasite and find her in his dreams.", "The film premiered at the Nashville Film Festival in 2013. [ 3 ] It was released on DVD and VOD by Synapse Films on August 12, 2014. [ 4 ]", "Worm was met with critical acclaim upon its release. Generating buzz from indie genre sites, the now defunct Film Threat called it \"an exceptional film that masters its diverse mix of tone, proving its storytellers to be both ambitious and skilled.\" The UK Horror Scene called it \"an original, modern tale of love and addiction plus the isolation and desperation that both these subjects can sometimes cause.\" [ 5 ] Worm also landed on several sites' \"Top Horror Films of the Year\" lists including Film Bizarro, [ 6 ] Goregasmic Cinema, [ 7 ] and 22 Shots Of Moodz and Horror. [ 8 ]"]
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["Worm ( Russian : Червь ) is a 2006 Russian thriller drama film directed by Aleksei Muradov . It was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival . [ 1 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Worlds_Apart_%281921%29_-_3.jpg/250px-Worlds_Apart_%281921%29_-_3.jpg", "Directed by": "Alan Crosland", "Written by": "John Lynch R. Cecil Smith", "Produced by": "Lewis J. Selznick", "Starring": "Eugene O'Brien Olive Tell William H. Tooker", "Cinematography": "Jules Cronjager", "Production company": "Selznick Pictures", "Distributed by": "Select Pictures", "Release date": "January 1921 ( 1921-01 )", "Country": "United States", "Language": "Silent ( English intertitles)"}
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["Worlds Apart is a lost [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 1921 American silent mystery film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Eugene O'Brien , Olive Tell and William H. Tooker . [ 3 ]"]
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{"Directed by": "George A. Cooper", "Screenplay by": "H. Fowler Mear", "Based on": "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil , a 1912 play by Laurence Cowen", "Produced by": "Julius Hagen", "Starring": "Harold Huth Isla Bevan Victor Stanley", "Cinematography": "James E. Rogers", "Edited by": "Stewart B. Moss", "Music by": "William Trytel", "Production company": "Real Art Productions", "Distributed by": "RKO Pictures", "Release date": "23 November 1932 ( 1932-11-23 )", "Running time": "53 minutes", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English"}
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["The World, the Flesh, the Devil is a 1932 British crime film directed by George A. Cooper and starring Harold Huth , Isla Bevan and Victor Stanley . [ 1 ] It was based on a play by Laurence Cowen. It was shot at Beaconsfield and Twickenham Studios as a quota quickie for release by RKO Pictures .", "The screenplay concerns a lawyer who plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a0/World_Flesh_Devil_1959.jpg/250px-World_Flesh_Devil_1959.jpg", "Directed by": "Ranald MacDougall", "Screenplay by": "Ranald MacDougall", "Based on": "End of the World\" by Ferdinand Reyher The Purple Cloud 1901 novel by M. P. Shiel", "Produced by": "Sol C. Siegel George Englund Harry Belafonte (uncredited)", "Starring": "Harry Belafonte Inger Stevens Mel Ferrer", "Cinematography": "Harold J. Marzorati", "Edited by": "Harold F. Kress", "Music by": "Miklós Rózsa", "Distributed by": "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer", "Release date": "April 23, 1959 ( 1959-04-23 ) (Cleveland)", "Running time": "95 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$1,659,000 [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$1,085,000 (rentals) [ 2 ]"}
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["The World, the Flesh and the Devil is a 1959 American science fiction [ 3 ] [ 4 ] doomsday film written and directed by Ranald MacDougall . The film stars Harry Belafonte , who was then at the peak of his film career. [ 4 ] The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world with very few human survivors. It is based on two sources: the 1901 novel The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel [ 5 ] and the story \"End of the World\" by Ferdinand Reyher .", "Black mine inspector Ralph Burton becomes trapped in a cave-in at a Pennsylvania coal mine. He can hear rescuers digging towards him, but after five days they slow down and then stop completely, along with the drainage pumps keeping the shaft from flooding. Ralph frantically digs his own way out, but upon emerging from the mine, he finds a world devoid of any people, living or dead. Discarded newspapers provide an explanation: one proclaims \"UN Retaliates For Use Of Atomic Poison\", another that \"Millions Flee From Cities! End Of The World\". Ralph later plays tapes at a radio station and learns that an unknown country had dispersed large quantities of radioactive sodium isotopes into the atmosphere. The resulting lethal dust cloud spread around the world, killing every human who came into contact with it over a five-day period before the isotopes decayed into a harmless state.", "Ralph travels to New York City in search of survivors, but in vain. He restores power to a building where he takes up residence. To stave off loneliness, he takes in a pair of mannequins. As the solitude starts to become intolerable, he throws a mannequin off the building, and hears a scream. Sarah Crandall, a White woman in her early twenties, had been living in the city and surreptitiously observing Ralph for some time, but was afraid to reveal herself. She screamed because she thought Ralph had committed suicide.", "Ralph, an engineer, gets utilities working again and raises their standard of living, but the two remain in separate apartment buildings. Even as they become friends and grow closer, vestiges of racial division become evident when Sarah casually uses the phrase that she is \" free, white, and 21 \" to describe her ability to make decisions. Ralph describes the phrase as \"an arrow in my guts.\" In the same conversation, Sarah laments that \"“there is nobody left to marry.\" Resentful, Ralph refuses Sarah's suggestion that she move into his apartment building. Ralph maintains his distance when it becomes clear that Sarah is developing stronger feelings for him, unsure how she will react if they discover others alive. Despite living in a post-apocalyptic world, tensions remain that were instilled by the mores earned in a racially segregated American society.", "Ralph regularly broadcasts on the radio in the hope of contacting other survivors, and eventually receives a transmission in French, confirming there are others. One day, ill white man Benson Thacker arrives by boat. Ralph and Sarah nurse him back to health, but once he recovers, Ben sets his sights on Sarah and sees Ralph as a rival. Ralph is torn by conflicting emotions. He avoids Sarah as much as possible to give Ben every opportunity to win her affections, but cannot quite bring himself to leave the city.", "Ben finally grows tired of the whole situation, realizing he stands little chance with Sarah as long as Ralph remains nearby. He warns Ralph that the next time he sees him, he will try to kill him. The two armed men hunt each other through the empty streets. Finally, Ralph passes by the United Nations headquarters , climbs the steps in Ralph Bunche Park , and reads the inscription \"They shall beat their swords into plowshares . And their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. Neither shall they learn war any more\", from the Book of Isaiah . He throws down his rifle and goes unarmed to confront Ben, who in turn finds himself unable to shoot his foe. Defeated, he starts walking away. Sarah appears. When Ralph starts to turn away from her, she makes him take her hand; then she calls to Ben and gives him her other hand. Together, the three walk down the street to build a new future together. The film ends not with \"The End\", but with \"The Beginning\".", "Paramount wanted to produce this film under a different title in 1940 but it was delayed. [ 6 ] Paramount revisited the project in 1945; however, by this time many studios were making films that dealt with nuclear warfare after the atomic bombings on Japan , so with the market saturated, production once again was put on hold. [ 6 ] It wasn't until 1956 that Sol C. Siegel purchased the rights to The Purple Cloud and thus that The World, The Flesh and The Devil would finally be produced. [ 6 ] With this film, Siegel held a strong ideal and hope that blending the issues of racial tension and potential nuclear conflict would catalyze audiences to find some kind of resolution to both. [ 6 ]", "Harry Belafonte's production company, Harbel Productions, helped to co-produce the film. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] With his company, Belafonte hoped to create films that would accurately depict African-American lives and experiences as well as promote an African-American presence in Hollywood filmmaking. [ 7 ] The World, The Flesh and The Devil was the first film that Harbel helped to produce. [ 7 ]", "Co-producer Siegel reached out to Belafonte thinking that he would be a good choice for the role of Ralph and that Harbel would benefit from the guidance of Siegel's production advising. [ 7 ] Siegel believed that casting Belafonte would add gravitas to the film's story and appeal to a wider array of audiences and races. [ 7 ] Belafonte agreed to sign on even with the script yet to be finished. He admired how interracial relationships became the focus of the film. [ 7 ] However, these feelings would later change.", "According to multiple members of the production team, the original ending was reshot for various reasons: scene quality differing between shooting locations, production office arguments, and the effect the original ending being different than what was artistically intended. [ 6 ] The new ending that was used instead received some negative critical attention from audiences as well as cast members. [ 6 ] Apparently, all three co-stars, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer, and Harry Belafonte, complained to Siegel during production that they were concerned by the representation of race in the movie. [ 6 ]", "Harry Belafonte was paid $350,000 against 50% of the net profits. [ 8 ]", "The film had its premiere in Cleveland, Ohio on April 23, 1959. [ 1 ] According to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer records, the film earned theatrical rentals of $585,000 in the US and Canada and $500,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $1,442,000. [ 2 ]", "While The World, The Flesh and The Devil was praised for its cinematic quality, it also received quite a bit of negative criticism after its release. [ 6 ] Many complained that the ending lacked any real message or significance, especially about race and interracial relationships. [ 6 ] The film was released five years after the beginning of the American Civil Rights Movement , and critics felt let down by its alleged failure to solve any racial conflicts since the three survivors band together in the end, making their trials and tribulations throughout the movie amount to nothing. [ 6 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] A 1959 review of the film from Time stated that,", "While New York Times critic Bosley Crowther complained that the ending of the movie was unreal and forced:", "MacDougall and the producers found it convenient that the three of them walked together at the end of the film because interracial relationships were forbidden. [ 11 ] Recent scholars and critics have praised the film for choosing to go against featuring an all-white cast, although still find great fault in the racial issues that it has, [ 12 ] feeling that it rather makes the topics of race, integration, and nuclear war more divided—the opposite of what was intended by the producers and a major disappointment to audiences' expectations of seeing a fully fledged interracial couple on screen. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The ending also caused confusion surrounding the message behind the platonic nature of Ralph, Sarah, and Ben, which then impacted the entire message of the film as well. [ 13 ] Many critics have stated that the lack of a victor between Ralph and Ben, and thus a lack of a final couple, left an impression that was not only unrealistic in the post-apocalyptic sense but that also seemed as more of a mockery of the issues the film was trying to address. [ 12 ] [ 13 ]"]
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{"Directed by": "F. Martin Thornton", "Written by": "Laurence Cowen", "Based on": "The World, the Flesh and the Devil play by Laurence Cowen", "Produced by": "Charles Urban", "Starring": "Frank Esmond Stella St. Audrie Warwick Wellington", "Distributed by": "Natural Color Kinematograph Company", "Release date": "9 April 1914 ( 1914-04-09 )", "Running time": "50 minutes", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English"}
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["The World, the Flesh and the Devil is a 1914 British silent drama film . Now considered a lost film , [ citation needed ] it was made using the additive color Kinemacolor process.", "The title comes from the Litany in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer : \"From all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil, spare us, good Lord.\" [ citation needed ]", "A very miserable woman hatches a plot to switch the babies of a poor family and a rich family. But the nurse hired to pull off this transfer refuses to go through with it, leaving each baby with its proper family. When the babies are grown, the man from the poor family (who has been led to believe that he did come from the rich family) goes to the house of the other and throws him out. The remainder of the film deals with the frustrations of mistaken identity.", "It premièred at the Holborn Empire , High Holborn , London, on 9 April 1914 as part of a Kinemacolor season. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was one of the first natural colour feature films, preceded by With Our King and Queen Through India released in February 1912, and Making of the Panama Canal , also released in 1912."]
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The World's Strongest
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Johndoe456789.jpg/250px-Johndoe456789.jpg", "Directed by": "Daisuke Nishio", "Screenplay by": "Takao Koyama", "Based on": "Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama", "Starring": "See below", "Cinematography": "Motoaki Ikegami", "Edited by": "Shinichi Fukumitsu", "Music by": "Shunsuke Kikuchi", "Production company": "Toei Animation", "Distributed by": "Toei Company", "Release date": "March 10, 1990 ( 1990-03-10 ) (Japan)", "Running time": "58 Minutes", "Country": "Japan", "Language": "Japanese", "Box office": "¥1.70 billion ( est. )"}
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["Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest ( Japanese : ドラゴンボールZ この世で一番強いヤツ , Hepburn : Doragon Bōru Zetto: Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu ) [ a ] is a 1990 Japanese animated science fiction martial arts film and the second feature film in the Dragon Ball Z franchise. It was originally released in Japan on March 10 between episodes 39 and 40 of DBZ , at the \"Toei Manga Matsuri\" film festival along with the second Akuma-kun film ( Welcome to Devil Land ) and the 1990 film version of Sally the Witch . It was preceded by Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone and followed by Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might .", "Gohan and Oolong search for the magical Dragon Balls and their radar shows them that the orbs are being gathered by another, unknown party. They investigate near a large wall of ice where Piccolo is training. Meanwhile, the mad scientist Dr. Kochin, having successfully gathered all of the Dragon Balls, summons the eternal dragon Shenron and wishes for Dr. Wheelo and his lab to be released from the ice. The ice breaks away as a building emerges, and Gohan and Oolong are attacked by Dr. Kochin's \"bio-men\". Piccolo saves them, but is overcome by three mysterious warriors while Gohan and Oolong escape.", "Dr. Kochin and his bio-men soon present themselves to Master Roshi , who refuses to accompany them to Wheelo's lab and defeats the bio-men. Dr. Kochin kidnaps Bulma to force Master Roshi to pursue them. At Wheelo's lab, Master Roshi is forced to fight three \"bio-warriors\" but is swiftly defeated. Bulma discovers that Dr. Wheelo's mission is to obtain the body of the strongest warrior on Earth to become the host for his brain, which is currently separated from his deceased body and kept alive by his advanced technology. Bulma informs him that Goku will undoubtedly be coming to rescue them and that he is much stronger than Roshi.", "Meanwhile, Goku learns of the situation, arrives at Dr. Wheelo's lab, and is confronted by Mikokatsun, Kishime, and Ebifurya – Dr. Kochin's three bio-warrior henchmen . Goku defeats Mikokatsun but is frozen by an ice-like attack launched by Ebifurya. Gohan and Krillin arrive to help, but are no match for Kishime. Goku breaks free from ice with his Kaio-ken technique, defeats the two remaining bio-warriors, and confronts Dr. Wheelo. Piccolo, who Dr. Wheelo has brainwashed, attacks Goku. Gohan tries to stop Piccolo but fails, causing his anger to explode and shatter Dr. Wheelo's brainwashing device. Dr. Wheelo is stunned by Gohan's power and desires to steal his body instead. He breaks his robot body free from the ice wall, subsequently knocking Dr. Kochin down a shaft, which kills him.", "Dr. Wheelo attacks and overwhelms the fighters, leaving only Goku and Piccolo to oppose him. Goku knocks Dr. Wheelo into the atmosphere and begins to form a Spirit Bomb attack. Wheelo interrupts him before he can finish gathering the energy , requiring Goku's allies to distract Him. Goku successfully launches the bomb, and Wheelo is killed.", "Although the Ox-King does not appear in this film, the 2008 \"remastered\" version of the Funimation dub miscredits him as voiced by Christopher Sabat .", "A fourth English dub, produced and released exclusively in Malaysia by Speedy Video, features an unknown voice cast.", "The Toonami version replaced \"Cha-La Head-Cha-La\" and \"Ikusa\" with Jeremy Sweet's \" Rock the Dragon \" but kept the original Japanese background music, including the insert song \"I Lo~ve Mr. Piccolo♡\". Home video releases of the Pioneer dub left \"Cha-La Head-Cha-La\" and \"Ikusa\" intact.", "The score for the 2006 English dub's composed by Nathan Johnson . The Double Feature release that came out 2 years later in 2008 contains an alternate audio track containing the English dub with original Japanese background music by Shunsuke Kikuchi and the original ending theme, \"Ikusa\".", "At the Japanese box office, the film sold 2.7 million tickets and earned a net distribution rental income of ¥1 billion .", "Overseas in Europe, the film grossed $1,009,767 in Germany, Austria and Poland during 2002–2003. [ 2 ]", "It was released on VHS and DVD in North America on May 26, 1998, with an English dub, produced by Pioneer Entertainment in association with Funimation . Pioneer's dub used the original Ocean Productions voice cast of the TV series. Since then, Funimation was released the Ocean dub of the film on the Rock the Dragon Edition DVD set on August 13, 2013, it has 53 edited episodes of the TV series, plus two edited films of Dead Zone and The Tree of Might as they aired on Toonami.", "Once their sub-license expired, Funimation also released the film to DVD in \"Ultimate Uncut Edition\" on November 14, 2006 as part of a film set subtitled \"First Strike\", also containing Dead Zone (1989) and The Tree of Might (1990), with completely new dub done by Funimation's voice cast. It was later released in Double Feature set along with Dead Zone (1989) for Blu-ray and DVD on May 27, 2008, both feature full 1080p format in HD remastered 16:9 aspect ratio and an enhanced 5.1 surround mix. The film was re-released to DVD in remastered thinpak collection on November 1, 2011, containing the first 5 Dragon Ball Z films. [ 3 ]", "Outside of the United States, there have been two other English dubs of this film: one in Malaysia and one by AB Groupe in France. The Malaysian English dub was released to VCD in Malaysia, while AB Groupe's English dub aired on TV in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, as well as seeing a home release to VHS and DVD in some of the formerly mentioned countries. Both dubs use Toei's official English title rather than Funimation's title, and until recently, the voice cast of the AB Groupe dub version was unknown, but then it has been determined that they used voice actors who were involved in French TV shows like Code Lyoko , while the Malaysian dub's cast remains unknown."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Les_plus_belles_escroqueries_du_monde.jpg", "French": "Les plus belles escroqueries du monde", "Directed by": "Claude Chabrol Jean-Luc Godard Ugo Gregoretti Hiromichi Horikawa Roman Polanski", "Written by": "Gérard Brach Claude Chabrol Paul Gégauff Jean-Luc Godard Ugo Gregoretti Roman Polanski", "Produced by": "Pierre Roustang", "Starring": "Catherine Deneuve Charles Denner Jean Seberg Mie Hama", "Cinematography": "Raoul Coutard Tonino Delli Colli Jerzy Lipman Asakazu Nakai Jean Rabier", "Edited by": "Jacques Gaillard Agnès Guillemot Rita van Royen Hervé de Luze", "Music by": "Serge Gainsbourg Pierre Jansen Krzysztof Komeda Michel Legrand Keitaro Miho Piero Umiliani", "Production companies": "Ulysse Productions Primex Films Lux Films Vides Toho Caesar Films [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France (France) [ 2 ] Paramount Films of Italy (Italy) [ 3 ]", "Release dates": "14 August 1964 ( 1964-08-14 ) (France) 4 October 1964 ( 1964-10-04 ) (Japan) 1964 ( 1964 ) (Italy) 12 November 1965 ( 1965-11-12 ) (Netherlands)", "Running time": "111 minutes", "Countries": "France Netherlands Japan Italy [ 1 ]", "Languages": "French Dutch Japanese Italian [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$679,824 [ 4 ]"}
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["The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers ( French : Les plus belles escroqueries du monde ) is a 1964 crime comedy anthology film composed of five segments, each of which was created with a different set of writers, directors, and actors. [ 1 ]", "The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers was released in France in August 1964, in Italy in 1964, in Japan on 4 October 1964 and in the Netherlands on 12 November 1965. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 5 ] In the United States, the film was released on 12 September 1967 by Ellis Films and Continental Distributing. [ 1 ]", "The film was unavailable for many decades, until it was restored and released on home video in France on 23 September 2016 and in the United States on 25 April 2017. [ 6 ] [ 7 ]", "Roman Polanski's segment of the film, \"La rivière de diamants\" (\"A River of Diamonds\"), has been removed, at his direct request, and that portion is thus still unavailable. [ 8 ]"]
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World's Greatest Dad
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Greatest_Dad
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/Worldsgreatestdad.jpg/250px-Worldsgreatestdad.jpg", "Directed by": "Bobcat Goldthwait", "Written by": "Bobcat Goldthwait", "Produced by": "Howard Gertler Ted Hamm Richard Kelly Sean McKittrick Tim Perell", "Starring": "Robin Williams Daryl Sabara Alexie Gilmore Evan Martin Lorraine Nicholson Henry Simmons Geoff Pierson", "Cinematography": "Horacio Marquínez", "Edited by": "Jason Stewart", "Music by": "Gerald Brunskill", "Production company": "Darko Entertainment", "Distributed by": "Magnolia Pictures [ 1 ]", "Release date": "August 21, 2009 ( 2009-08-21 )", "Running time": "99 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$10 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$295,750 [ 3 ]"}
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["World's Greatest Dad is a 2009 American black-comedy drama film written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and starring Robin Williams , Daryl Sabara and Alexie Gilmore . The film was released on July 24, 2009, on video on demand providers before its limited theatrical release on August 21, 2009.", "Lance Clayton is a single father and high school English teacher who dreams of becoming a famous writer, but his previous novels have all been rejected by publishers. His 15-year-old son Kyle is a sex-obsessed, underachieving misanthrope who is a student at the school where Lance teaches an unpopular poetry class.", "Kyle's poor academic performance and vile behavior gain the attention of the school principal, who advises Lance to transfer Kyle to a special-needs school. One night, Lance discovers that Kyle has died in an autoerotic asphyxiation accident in his bedroom. To salvage his son's dignity, Lance stages Kyle's death as a suicide. He hangs Kyle in a closet and posts a fake suicide note on his body.", "A classmate obtains the suicide note from police records and publishes it in the school newspaper. The note strikes a chord with the students and faculty, and many students suddenly claim to have been friends with Kyle, touched by how deep and intelligent he shows himself to be in his writings. Enjoying the attention that his writing is finally receiving, Lance decides to write and publish a phony journal that was supposedly written by his son before his death.", "Kyle becomes somewhat of a post-mortem cult phenomenon at the school, and Lance begins to receive the adoration that he has always desired. He becomes much more interesting to his girlfriend Claire, a fellow teacher who had previously shown an interest in their younger colleague Mike. Andrew, Kyle's sole friend, finds Kyle's suicide note and journals highly uncharacteristic based on Kyle's personality when he was alive, but Lance brushes Andrew off when Andrew confronts him.", "The journal attracts the attention of book publishers, and Lance lands a television appearance on a national talk show. The school principal decides to rename the school library in Kyle's honor. At the library dedication, Lance feels guilt for exploiting his son's death for his own benefit, as well as animosity toward those feigning fondness for Kyle. While giving a speech, Lance decides that he can no longer continue the charade and confesses to everyone that Kyle's death was accidental, and that he wrote the suicide note and journal. Predictably, Lance is denounced by the students and faculty, including Claire, and simultaneously realizes that it is better to be alone than to be with people who make him feel alone.", "Despite being generally despised, Lance feels reborn and dives naked into the school's swimming pool. Outside, Andrew tells Lance that he knew the truth all along but nevertheless enjoyed his writing, and encourages him to keep writing. The two happily watch a zombie movie at Lance's home with his neighbor Bonnie.", "The film was shot in Seattle , Washington , largely at the former F.A. McDonald School in Wallingford . [ 4 ] Seattle resident and former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic has a wordless cameo while consoling Robin Williams 's character at a newspaper stand ; Goldthwait had previously been an opening act for Nirvana. Bruce Hornsby appears as himself at the library dedication. [ citation needed ]", "As of December 2024 [update] , World's Greatest Dad holds an 88% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 117 reviews, with an average rating of 6.93/10. The critical consensus reads: \" World's Greatest Dad is a risky, deadpan, dark comedy that effectively explores the nature of posthumous cults of celebrity.\" [ 5 ] The film also holds a score of 69 out of 100 on Metacritic , based on 24 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 6 ]", "Paul Fischer of Dark Horizons named it as one of the best films of the year. [ 7 ] [ better source needed ]", "Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz both gave the film favorable reviews on At the Movies . Mankiewicz saluted Daryl Sabara's performance as exceptionally well done, commented on the film's \"remarkably funny script\", and overall considered it a \"little gem\". [ citation needed ]", "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave World's Greatest Dad three stars out of four, but noticed that the material could have been even darker in its satire , and he questioned whether it was the director's intention. [ 8 ]", "In later years, the film's plot has been compared to that of the 2015 stage musical Dear Evan Hansen due to its similar premise of a suicide note landing in the wrong hands and causing a chain of events that result in consequences. [ 9 ]", "The movie was released on DVD on December 8, 2009, and features an audio commentary by the director, as well as deleted scenes, outtakes and a \"making-of\" featurette. [ 10 ]"]
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The World's Greatest Lover
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Greatest_Lover
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/The_World%27s_Greatest_Lover.jpg/250px-The_World%27s_Greatest_Lover.jpg", "Directed by": "Gene Wilder", "Written by": "Gene Wilder", "Produced by": "Gene Wilder", "Starring": "Gene Wilder Carol Kane Dom DeLuise", "Cinematography": "Gerald Hirschfeld", "Edited by": "Anthony A. Pellegrino", "Music by": "John Morris", "Production company": "20th Century-Fox [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "20th Century Fox", "Release dates": "December 16, 1977 ( 1977-12-16 ) (New York) December 18, 1977 ( 1977-12-18 ) (Los Angeles)", "Running time": "89 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$4.8 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$21 million [ 3 ]"}
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["The World's Greatest Lover is a 1977 American parody film directed, written by and starring Gene Wilder , and co-starring Carol Kane and Dom DeLuise . It is a tribute/spoof of classic silent comedies and the \"old Hollywood\" of the 1920s, specifically the popularity of romantic icon Rudolph Valentino .", "In the silent film era, Rainbow Studios executives figure they are losing revenue to a rival studio because they do not have Rudolph Valentino . Led by studio head Adolph Zitz, they decide to hold a contest for the World's Greatest Lover in order to find a star to combat Valentino's popularity.", "Rudy Hickman is a neurotic baker from Milwaukee , but aspires to become a Hollywood star. His entry into the contest tests his marriage, and his neuroses manifest in his screen test , where he nearly kills his fellow actress. Surprisingly, this behavior scores favorably with Zitz and the studio executives reviewing his performance. Now calling himself \"Rudy Valentine,\" he gets a slot in the final phase of the contest, just after finding his wife Annie has left him.", "The railroad scenes when Valentine and his wife travel from Milwaukee to Hollywood were filmed on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California . [ 4 ]", "The world premiere of The World's Greatest Lover took place in New York, on December 16, 1977. It was screened in Los Angeles on December 18, 1977 and released in the United States nationwide, by 20th Century Fox. [ 1 ]", "The film was originally released in many countries on VHS . 20th Century Fox released the film on DVD in April 2006 with two special features; an audio commentary with Gene Wilder and the original theatrical trailer. [ 5 ]", "Critics who compared it to Wilder's earlier works with Mel Brooks were left largely unimpressed by the film, feeling it was not as balanced as previous works, and felt more excessive.", "Vincent Canby of The New York Times described the film as not only \"frequently side-splitting,\" but \"uncommonly handsome\" for a comedy, \"the period sets and costumes having a lot of the fantasy quality of a stylish Broadway musical.\" [ 6 ] Arthur D. Murphy of Variety called the film \"a good period comedy,\" adding, \"This time the individual sketchpieces ... emerge as varyingly humorous episodes strung out on a skimpy story line.\" [ 7 ] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 2 stars out of 4 and reported, \"I rarely laughed or even smiled during 'The World's Greatest Lover.' Quite the contrary, I found it depressing, because at the same time I wasn't laughing I realized that Wilder, one of the screen's finest bittersweet comic actors, seems hell-bent on a directing career. Therefore, to see 'The World's Greatest Lover' is to be filled with a sense of loss, the loss of seeing less of Wilder in Brooks' films or films other than his own.\" [ 8 ] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called the film \"not very clever at all\" and wrote, \"The prevailing tone of 'Lover' is shrill wretched excess, in both slapstick and sentimental passages.\" [ 9 ] Clyde Jeavons of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, \"On top of its statutory, and for the most part uninspired slapstick, the film borrows freely from many of Hollywood's more anarchic comedians, from the Marx Brothers to Jerry Lewis , but never accurately enough to give the audience the satisfaction of recognition. Most unsettling of all is Wilder's own brand of rampaging comic hysteria, which here goes disastrously unchecked ... and augmented by the similar excesses of Dom DeLuise, Fritz Feld and Carl Ballantine, generates more decibels than laughs.\" [ 10 ]", "Despite the negative reception, the film was a commercial success. Produced on a budget of $4.8 million, [ 2 ] the film grossed $21 million at the box office, [ 3 ] earning $9.9 million US theatrical rentals . [ 11 ] It was the 25th highest grossing film of 1977 ."]
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The World's Greatest Athlete
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/The_World%27s_Greatest_Athlete_poster.jpg/250px-The_World%27s_Greatest_Athlete_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Robert Scheerer", "Written by": "Dee Caruso Gerald Gardner", "Produced by": "Bill Walsh", "Starring": "John Amos Roscoe Lee Browne Tim Conway Dayle Haddon Jan-Michael Vincent", "Cinematography": "Frank V. Phillips", "Edited by": "Cotton Warburton", "Music by": "Marvin Hamlisch", "Production company": "Walt Disney Productions", "Distributed by": "Buena Vista Distribution", "Release date": "February 1, 1973 ( 1973-02-01 ) [ 1 ]", "Running time": "93 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$22,583,370 [ 2 ]"}
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["The World's Greatest Athlete is a 1973 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Scheerer and starring John Amos , Roscoe Lee Browne , Tim Conway , Dayle Haddon , and Jan-Michael Vincent . Released by Walt Disney Productions , it is one of the few wide-release Hollywood sports films to look at the world of track and field. In the film, two coaches (portrayed by Amos and Conway) make use of a jungle boy (played by Vincent) and have him make history by winning every event at the NCAA Track & Field Championship . The screenplay was by Dee Caruso and Gerald Gardner who also did a novelisation of the film. This film was also one of Billy De Wolfe 's final roles before he died the following year.", "Sam Archer (Amos) and his assistant Milo Jackson (Conway) are coaches at Merrivale College. They have lost every game in every sport which they have coached, raising the concerns of the head of the Alumni Association. With only one year left on his contract, Archer decides that he is in need of a vacation. Together, Archer and Jackson head to Zambia in Southern Africa.", "While out on a safari, the pair catch sight with their guide Morumba of the Tarzan -like jungle boy named Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent), who can outrun a cheetah in full bound. Seeing this, the coaching staff quickly whip out their recruitment pen and papers, but soon fall (literally) into the clutches of Nanu's godfather, spiritual leader Gazenga (Roscoe Lee Browne). Because Nanu is an orphan and an innocent child of the bush, Gazenga believes that throwing Nanu into the world of competitive United States college athletics would interfere with his spiritual development.", "Despite Gazenga's concerns, the ambitious coaches persuade Nanu to join the Merrivale College program as Nanu brings his pet Bengal tiger Harry with him. From this point forward, the plot is driven by a combination of slapstick and suspense, for Nanu's destiny as the World's Greatest Athlete will annoy several powerful people who are used to getting their way.", "Nanu's innocence, Archer's scheming, Jackson's ineptitude, Gazenga's outraged wisdom, and the Machiavellian plotting of the villains all play roles in the action as the film heads toward the final track meet. The atmosphere of American competition does indeed threaten Nanu, but he is saved from disintegration by love interest Jane Douglas (Dayle Haddon). Jane and Nanu's budding relationship angers rival Leopold Maxwell (Danny Goldman), whose attempts to sabotage the budding star build toward a crescendo as the ultimate competition approaches. The climactic track meet is peppered with commentary by ABC-TV sportscaster Howard Cosell . After his victory, Nanu decides to return home, accompanied by Jane and Harry, and Archer and Jackson bid him farewell at the airport.", "In the final scene, a framing device is shown where Archer and Jackson are depicted trying to recruit a new athletic phenomenon that resides in China.", "The film also features many prolific athletes and sports journalists in small or cameo roles, including Howard Cosell , Frank Gifford , Jim McKay , Bud Palmer , Joe Kapp , and Bill Toomey .", "An unidentified Bengal tiger actor was used to portray Harry, Nanu's companion and pet who he brings with him from Africa to California. As tigers are not native to Africa, Nanu explains to Archer and Jackson that Harry emigrated from India to Africa as a cub.", "Much of the film was shot at University of the Pacific and San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California , and in the Newhall neighborhood of Santa Clarita, California . The track scenes were filmed at California State University-Los Angeles . The live-action jungle scenes were shot at Caswell Memorial State Park , on the Stanislaus River outside of Ripon, California .", "The film opened on February 1, 1973 [ 1 ] at Radio City Music Hall in New York City . [ 3 ] It opened on February 7 in Los Angeles [ 1 ] and then expanded on the 14th.", "The World's Greatest Athlete was released on VHS in October 1986 by Walt Disney Home Video, and by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on March 18, 1997. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The film was also released on DVD on August 2, 2005. [ 6 ] As of March 2024, the film had not appeared on the Disney+ streaming service (unlike the majority of Disney's catalogue titles), for reasons unknown.", "Upon the film's release, A.H. Weiler of The New York Times wrote: \"It's a dream that is more often simple-minded than simple and generally as hilarious as finishing fourth in the mile run. It should be stressed, however, that this ribbing of the Tarzan myth runs a good, clean course that should grab all red-blooded sports fans up to and including the 14-year-old group. It might be added that everyone from coach Amos to Jan-Michael Vincent, in the title role, athletically tries without much success to make all this good-natured nonsense funny.\" [ 7 ]", "The film opened with a disappointing $125,000 in its first week in New York [ 3 ] but was one of the most popular releases of 1973, earning $10,600,000 in theatrical rentals in the United States and Canada that year. [ 8 ]"]
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The World's Fastest Indian
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/68/Worlds_fastest_indian.jpg/250px-Worlds_fastest_indian.jpg", "Directed by": "Roger Donaldson", "Written by": "Roger Donaldson", "Produced by": "Roger Donaldson Gary Hannam", "Starring": "Anthony Hopkins Diane Ladd Paul Rodriguez Aaron Murphy", "Cinematography": "David Gribble", "Edited by": "John Gilbert", "Music by": "J. Peter Robinson", "Production companies": "OLC/Rights Entertainment Tanlay Productions New Zealand Film Production Fund New Zealand Film Commission 3 Dogs And A Pony 2929 Entertainment Cameo FJ Entertainment", "Distributed by": "Becker Group (Australia and New Zealand) Magnolia Pictures (United States)", "Release date": "7 December 2005 ( 2005-12-07 ) (New Zealand)", "Running time": "127 minutes", "Country": "New Zealand", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$25 million", "Box office": "$18.3 million"}
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["The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical sports drama film based on the story of New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle. [ 1 ] Munro set numerous land speed records for motorcycles with engines less than 1,000 cc at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. The film stars Anthony Hopkins , and was produced, written, and directed by Roger Donaldson .", "The film opened on 7 December 2005 in New Zealand to positive reviews, [ 2 ] and quickly became the highest grossing local film at the New Zealand box-office taking in NZ$7,043,000; [ 3 ] and taking in over US$18,297,690 worldwide. [ 4 ] The film was theatrically released on 3 February 2006 in the United States by Magnolia Pictures ; and was subsequently released on DVD on 22 December 2006 by Magnolia Home Entertainment.", "In 1967, Burt Munro is a sort of folk hero in Invercargill , known for his friendly easy-going personality, for having the fastest motorcycle in New Zealand and Australia, and for being featured in Popular Mechanics magazine. However, that recognition is contrasted by his exasperated next-door neighbours, some of whom are fed up with his un-neighbourly habits, such as revving his motorcycle early in the morning, urinating on his lemon tree, and not mowing his grass. Burt, however, has a long-time dream; to travel to the US and test his motorcycle's capabilities at the Bonneville Speedway . However, while modifying his motorcycle, Burt suffers a heart attack. An ambulance takes him to the hospital and he is told he has angina , and is advised to take it easy and not to ride his motorcycle. Burt ignores this advice, and is given medication.", "Burt is finally able to save enough to travel by cargo ship to Los Angeles , working his passage as the cook, but when he arrives, he experiences bureaucracy , scepticism, and the indifference of big city people. It is his blunt but gregarious nature which overcomes each hurdle. He wins over the motel clerk, a cross-dresser named Tina, who assists him in clearing customs and helps him in buying a car. The car salesman allows Burt to use his workshop and junkyard to build a trailer, and later offers him a job after Burt fine-tunes a number of the cars on the lot. Burt declines the offer, however, and shortly afterwards begins his long trip to Utah .", "Along the way, Burt meets numerous helpful people, including highway police, a Native American man called Jake who aids him when his trailer fails, a woman named Ada who allows him to repair his trailer in her garage and briefly becomes his lover, and an Air Force pilot who is on leave from military service in Vietnam.", "He finally arrives at the Bonneville Salt Flats , only to be blocked by race officials for not registering his motorcycle for competition in advance, and not having the mandated safety equipment. In a show of sportsmanship, however, various competitors and fans in the Bonneville series intervene on his behalf, and he is eventually allowed to make a timed run. Despite various problems, he succeeds in his quest and sets a new land speed record at the 8th mile of his run; when he reaches 201.851 mph (324.847 km/h). By the end, his leg is burned by the exhaust, and he then falls with the motorcycle and skids to a stop, but he is able to return home to New Zealand as a hero. An epilogue describes that he went to Bonneville again nine times to compete and set new records.", "Director Roger Donaldson had been working on this film for over 20 years before he started filming it, and had previously directed a short television documentary about Munro called Burt Munro: Offerings to the God of Speed in 1971. Arranging the financing for a full feature film was much more difficult, but a key Japanese investor, and Donaldson and Hannam's own money, allowed the film to be made. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ]", "In interviews, Hopkins stated that Munro was one of the easiest roles that he has ever played in his career, simply because Munro's view on life was not all that different from his own. [ 8 ]", "Many of the props used for filming were actually owned by Munro, including all the exploded pistons and the piston mould that Hopkins uses for a scene in the film. These were on display at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery . [ citation needed ] The location used for Burt Munro's home and workshop in New Zealand took place on an empty section on Lithgow Street in Invercargill, this section was used as the headquarters for the notorious Black Power gang during the 1990s until the house burnt down in 1998. A house has been built on the plot since the film was released.", "Then- Mayor of Invercargill Tim Shadbolt was given a cameo role in the film as Frank.", "The real Burt Munro married Florence Beryl Martyn on 6 August 1925; they divorced in 1950–51. While the couple had four children together, no mention is made of children in the film; but it is implied that he was married, and either estranged or divorced. [ citation needed ]", "The Munro portrayed in the film recalls the death of a twin brother named Ernie, who died when a tree fell on him. The real Munro had an older brother who was killed when a tree fell on him. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Munro also had a stillborn twin sister. The real Munro had set numerous speed records in New Zealand during the late 1930s through the early 1970s. However, these records are only implied in the film. Munro was never known to actually urinate on his lemon tree; film director Roger Donaldson added that detail as a tribute to his own father, who did. [ citation needed ]", "In reality, Munro's record-breaking run at Bonneville came after several separate visits to the US, beginning in 1956. This was demonstrated, for instance, by a letter published in the May 1957 edition of Popular Mechanics (p. 6), which referred to 'H. A. \"Dad\" Munro' and his 1920 Indian Scout. [ 11 ] The visit to Bonneville shown in the film was a composite of several made by Munro. In 1962 he set a record of 178.971 mph at Bonneville. His fastest complete run there was 190.07 mph. While Munro did reach 205.67 mph on an uncompleted run, on which he crashed, [ 12 ] he never set a record of 201 mph at Bonneville (as the film suggests).", "Near the end of the film, Speed Week participants throw money into 'the hat', and Burt Munro is presented with a bag of cash before he sets the speed record. In fact, Munro had to take up a collection before Speed Week, as US Customs required a cash bond before releasing his motorcycle. [ 13 ] A photograph of the gathered crowd presenting Munro with the bag of cash in 1962 was reprinted in a 2006 issue of Hot Rod magazine.", "The 1920 Indian Scout 'Burt Munro Special' — the 1920 Indian Scout portrayed in the film — started life as a 600 cc motorcycle with a designed top speed of 55 mph. Munro's streamlined record-setter was substantially modified with capacity being increased to 950 cc, and a recorded speed of 205 mph. These modifications were largely done in Munro's workshop , using basic methods and tools as depicted in the film. Four motorcycles are used in the film to depict the actual 'Munro Special'; two of which were replica Indian Scouts, the others being Ducatis . [ 14 ]", "Antarctic Angels Bikes — the motorcycles ridden by the New Zealand bikers comprise largely early- to mid-1960s Triumphs and BSAs . Most of these motorcycles are twin cylinder models and are 500 cc or larger.", "Burt's car (in New Zealand) — a 1954 Vauxhall Velox with an inline six cylinder engine — was typical of the many British-built cars common in New Zealand at the time.", "On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an 83% score, based on 143 critics with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads, \"Overcomes its formulaic storyline thanks to Anthony Hopkins' warm and endearing portrayal of an age-defying thrill seeker.\" [ 15 ] On Metacritic , which uses a weighted average, the film holds a score of 68 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 16 ]", "The Welsh -born Hopkins did not employ the Kiwi accent which the real Munro would have had — the review in The New Zealand Herald said that \"his vowels swoop from the Welsh valleys to the high veldt without ever alighting in Southland \" (Munro's home region of New Zealand). Nevertheless, the same reviewer had said Hopkins gives a \"generous, genial and utterly approachable performance … he nails the backyard eccentric genius dead centre … he has inhaled the nature of a mid-century Kiwi bloody good bloke and he inhabits the part to perfection\". [ 7 ]"]
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World's Biggest Gang Bang
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Biggest_Gang_Bang
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{"Directed by": "John T. Bone", "Starring": "Annabel Chong Ron Jeremy", "Release date": "1995 ( 1995 )"}
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["The World's Biggest Gang Bang is a pornographic film staged in a Hollywood studio starring Annabel Chong and billed as her having sex with 300 men. In reality, the participants were far fewer than advertised. They are said to have engaged with Chong in a total of 251 sex acts. The event was organized by pornographic film director John T. Bone .", "The resulting video, released in 1995, is one of the highest-grossing pornographic films ever. [ 1 ] The record attempt caught the attention of film director Gough Lewis and Chong became the subject of his documentary Sex: The Annabel Chong Story . Lewis's documentary was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize .", "The event begins with a few interviews with some of the participants. Annabel Chong arrives later and is greeted by the event director. Bone briefs Chong on the format and then gives a briefing to the rest of the participants. The footage cuts to an interview Chong gives to the press . Ron Jeremy (host of the event) introduces the fluff girls and commences the gang bang . Chong, changed into a gown , emerges from a side entrance and climbs onto the stage. The stage, built to look like a Roman playground, has a bed in the middle; the setting was intended to allude to the orgy of Roman empress Messalina . [ 2 ] Bone, using a loudspeaker, calls for the first five participants. Chong engages in sex acts with the participants for five to ten minutes until the next group is called. Chong had insisted on the use of condoms for the event, but those of the men who were professional performers were allowed to participate without using them. [ 2 ]", "Criticism was levied against the producers of The World's Biggest Gang Bang for the level of risk Chong unknowingly exposed herself to. There was no requirement for the men to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases other than AIDS. It later emerged that they had not provided proof of testing negative for HIV – contrary to what Chong had been led to believe. A number of men participated without the use of a condom. [ 2 ]", "A seeming failure to pay Chong also attracted criticism. The movie is one of the highest-grossing pornographic films, but as alluded to in the documentary Sex: The Annabel Chong Story , Chong was never paid the US$ 10,000 she was promised, [ 3 ] and apparently did not receive any money at all from the video. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]"]
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The World's End
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/The_World%27s_End_poster.jpg/250px-The_World%27s_End_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Edgar Wright", "Written by": "Simon Pegg Edgar Wright", "Produced by": "Nira Park Tim Bevan Eric Fellner", "Starring": "Simon Pegg Nick Frost Paddy Considine Martin Freeman Eddie Marsan Rosamund Pike", "Cinematography": "Bill Pope", "Edited by": "Paul Machliss", "Music by": "Steven Price", "Production companies": "Relativity Media Working Title Films Big Talk Pictures Dentsu", "Distributed by": "Universal Pictures", "Release dates": "10 July 2013 ( 2013-07-10 ) ( Leicester Square ) 19 July 2013 ( 2013-07-19 ) (United Kingdom) 23 August 2013 ( 2013-08-23 ) (United States)", "Running time": "109 minutes [ 1 ]", "Countries": "United Kingdom [ 2 ] Japan [ 2 ]", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$20 million [ 3 ]", "Box office": "$46.1 million [ 4 ]"}
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["The World's End is a 2013 science fiction action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright and written by Wright and Simon Pegg . It is the third and final film in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, after Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). Starring Pegg, Nick Frost , Paddy Considine , Martin Freeman , Eddie Marsan , Rosamund Pike and Pierce Brosnan , the film focuses on five friends who return to their hometown for a pub crawl and uncover an alien invasion .", "In 1995, Wright wrote a screenplay titled Crawl about teenagers on a pub crawl. Deciding it was better suited as a comedic exploration of young adulthood and aging, he reworked the screenplay with Pegg in the early 2010s. The film was produced by Relativity Media , Big Talk Productions and Working Title Films . [ 5 ] Principal photography began on 28 September 2012 and lasted until that December, with filming locations including Elstree Studios , Letchworth Garden City , and Welwyn Garden City . The stunts were coordinated by members of Jackie Chan Stunt Team , and The World's End is considered a social science fiction film. [ 6 ]", "The World's End premiered at Leicester Square in London on 10 July 2013, and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures on 19 July. Its release in the United States by Focus Features followed on 23 August. The film received positive reviews, with praise for the screenplay, performances of the cast, humour and direction. It won Best British Film at the 19th Empire Awards , and was nominated for Best Comedy at the 19th Critics' Choice Awards . The World's End grossed $46.1 million worldwide on a budget of $20 million.", "Gary King, an immature 40-year-old alcoholic , decides to recapture his youth by contacting and inviting boyhood friends Oliver Chamberlain, Peter Page, Steven Prince, and Andrew Knightley, to complete the \"Golden Mile\", a pub crawl encompassing 12 pubs in their hometown of Newton Haven. The group attempted the crawl as teens in 1990, but fell short and did not reach the final pub, The World's End. Andy, now a teetotaller due to a drunk driving incident years before involving himself and Gary, reluctantly agrees to join after Gary lies about his mother dying.", "The group encounters Oliver's sister, Sam, who Gary and Steven fought over in school. In the fourth pub, Gary goes to the toilet and gets into a fight with a teenager. He knocks his head off, exposing him as an android . Gary's friends encounter several other androids and fight them off. They realize androids, which they dub \"Blanks\", have taken over the town.", "Gary urges continuing the pub crawl to avoid suspicion. They bump into Sam once more, and she, Gary, and Steven fight Blank versions of Sam's childhood friends, known as the \"twins\". Sam tags along, and Steven is told by Basil, a local conspiracy theorist who has not yet been replaced by a Blank, that the Blanks are trying to build a galactic conglomerate, and that any humans refusing will be replaced with identical simulants. The Blanks attempt to convince the humans to join their assimilation. Unwilling to lose their humanity and, finding out that both Oliver and their old school teacher, Mr. Shepherd, have been replaced, the group fights a bar full of Blanks.", "Gary lets Sam escape Newton Haven; Pete is captured after attacking the Blank that has replaced his childhood bully; and, when Andy and Steven try to escape, Gary ditches them to finish the Golden Mile alone. Andy and Steven pursue Gary, as does the rest of Newton Haven, as Steven is captured.", "In The World's End, Andy confronts Gary and reveals his troubled marriage, while Gary admits a recent suicide attempt. Andy tries to stop Gary from drawing his final pint, but Gary clings to completing the Mile, as it is all he has left in his life.", "When Gary pulls the lever to pour himself a pint, the floor lowers into a hidden chamber. A disembodied alien entity, known as the Network, tells Gary and Andy that the Blank invasion is the first step to humanity joining a galactic community. The Network offers Gary eternal youth if he becomes a Blank, but he refuses. Along with Andy and Steven, who has survived, Gary calls out the tyranny in the Network's plan and demands that humanity be left to its own devices. The Network, exasperated, agrees to abandon the invasion. Sam rescues Gary, Andy, and Steven as the town is destroyed, but they are unable to outrun the pulse triggered by the departure of the Network, which deactivates Sam's car.", "Some time later, Andy relates that the pulse triggered a worldwide blackout that destroyed all electrical power on Earth, sending humanity back to the Dark Ages . The remaining Blanks reactivated a few weeks later and, although they are now independent from the Network, they are mistrusted and shunned by most of the surviving humans. Andy's marriage has recovered, Steven is in a relationship with Sam, and the simulant versions of Peter and Oliver have picked up where their human versions left off. In the ruins of Newton Haven, the now-sober Gary enters a pub with the Blank versions of his younger friends and orders water. When the bartender refuses to serve Blanks, Gary leads his friends into a brawl with Gary declaring himself the king.", "The World's End originated as a screenplay by writer-director Edgar Wright in 1995 at the age of 21 titled Crawl , about a group of teenagers on a pub crawl . He later realised the idea could work with adult characters to capture \"the bittersweet feeling of returning to your home town and feeling like a stranger\". [ 7 ] Wright also said he wanted to satirise the \"strange homogeneous branding that becomes like a virus\", explaining: \"This doesn't just extend to pubs, it's the same with cafés and restaurants. If you live in a small town and you move to London, which I did when I was 20, then when you go back out into the other small towns in England you go 'oh my god, it's all the same!' It's like Bodysnatchers : literally our towns are being changed to death.\" [ 8 ]", "In an interview for Entertainment Weekly , Pegg told Clark Collis, \"People think we choose the genre first every time, and it's not true. We find the stories first. The notion of alienation from your hometown taken to its literal conclusion was how we got to science fiction.\" [ 9 ]", "After the story was complete, Wright and Pegg examined a list of real pub names and \"tried to make them like tarot cards\" to foreshadow the events of the story. Wright explained: \"So we said, 'OK this one's the Famous Cock, because this is where Gary is trying to puff up his own importance.' ... We did go through and work out in each one how the pub sign was going to relate.\" [ 8 ]", "Principal photography for The World's End began on 28 September 2012. [ 10 ] Filming took place in Hertfordshire , at Elstree Studios and on location in Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City . [ 11 ] Part of the film was also shot at High Wycombe railway station , Buckinghamshire . [ 12 ]", "All twelve pubs in the film use identical signage on menus and walls, reflecting what Wright called \"that fake hand-written chalk\" common to modern British pubs. [ 8 ] The exteriors of the real pubs were shot at locations in Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth Garden City, with altered signage. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Letchworth Garden City railway station received a makeover to become the \"Hole in the Wall\". [ 15 ] \nStunts were coordinated by Brad Allan , of martial arts film director Jackie Chan 's stunt team . Wright said: \"In Drunken Master , Jackie Chan has to get drunk to fight, but this is more the idea of Dutch courage . You know, when you're kind of drunk and you think 'ah, I can climb up that scaffolding!' Or just that you're impervious to pain. One of the things we talked about is this idea that [the characters] become better fighters the more oiled they get.\" [ 8 ]", "The Broadway Cinema, Letchworth, a renovated independent cinema built in the 1930s in the Art Deco style, [ 16 ] was used to portray the Mermaid pub. This cinema was also the first outside London to play the film, with a special introduction by Pegg thanking the residents of Letchworth for their help during its making; over 800 viewers watched the film at the cinema on its opening night. [ 17 ]", "The film uses alternative rock and pop music from the time of the characters' adolescence. Wright explained: \"A lot of those songs are ones that really hit me and Simon hard when we were that age... [Gary] is still living by those rules. It's like he decided to take ' Loaded ' and ' I'm Free ' to heart and thinks the party's never going to end.\" [ 8 ]", "The soundtrack for the film was released on 5 August 2013 in the UK and 20 August 2013 in the United States, with the film's score, composed by Steven Price , released on the same day. In addition to songs featured in the film, the album also features dialogue snippets.", "The only songs featured in the film that did not make it onto the soundtrack are \" The Only One I Know \", \"Summer's Magic\", and \"The Only Rhyme That Bites\" by the Charlatans , MC Tunes and 808 State respectively. The version of \"20 Seconds to Comply\" which features in the film is the mix from Silver Bullet 's album Bring Down the Walls No Limit Squad Returns , albeit edited to remove dialogue samples from RoboCop . On the soundtrack album, it is replaced by the Bomb Squad mix (again re-edited to remove the samples). The original soundtrack tributes the song \"No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed\" by Yes when the young characters reach the hills.", "The World's End premiered on 10 July 2013 at Leicester Square in London [ 18 ] [ 19 ] and was released on 19 July 2013 in the United Kingdom. [ 18 ] It was released in the United States on 23 August 2013. [ 20 ]", "The World's End earned £2,122,288 during its UK opening weekend, losing the top spot to Monsters University . Its weekend grosses were higher than Shaun of the Dead ' s £1.6 million but lower than Hot Fuzz ' s £5.4 million. [ 21 ]", "In the United States, the film was released on 23 August and earned $3.5 million on its opening day, outperforming The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and You're Next . It had the highest per-cinema average out of all films in theatres throughout the country on its opening day. [ 22 ] Its opening weekend, the film earned $8,790,237, finishing fourth at the box office behind Lee Daniels' The Butler , We're the Millers , and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones . [ 23 ] This total exceeded box office expectations, which had ranged from $7 million [ 24 ] to $8.5 million, [ 25 ] and was also the biggest opening weekend for any of the films in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. [ 26 ]", "On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an 89% approval rating, with a weighted average score of 7.40/10, based on 244 reviews. The website's critics consensus reads: \"Madcap and heartfelt, Edgar Wright's apocalypse comedy The World's End benefits from the typically hilarious Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with a plethora of supporting players.\" [ 27 ] On Metacritic , it has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". [ 28 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B+\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 29 ]", "Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B+, praising it as \"hilarious\" and the \"best\" collaboration of Wright, Pegg and Frost, and saying that \"these pint-swilling Peter Pans also know how to work the heart and the brain for belly laughs... The finale is a little too shaggy and silly. But what do you expect after a dozen beers?\" [ 30 ]", "Mark Dinning of Empire magazine gave the film four stars out of five, writing: \"Bravely refusing to rigidly adhere to a formula that has been so successful, Wright, Pegg and Frost's Cornetto Trilogy closer has tonal shifts you won't expect, but the same beating heart you've been craving.\" [ 31 ]", "Henry Barnes of The Guardian gave the film four stars out of five, writing: \"With this final film they've slowed down a bit, grown up a lot. And saved the richest bite until last.\" [ 32 ]", "Keith Uhlich of Time Out New York named The World's End the ninth-best film of 2013, praising Pegg's \"hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of over-the-hill deadbeatness.\" [ 33 ]", "At the 19th Critics' Choice Awards in January 2014, The World's End received two nominations, for Best Actor in a Comedy (for Simon Pegg) and for Best Comedy, but lost to Leonardo DiCaprio and American Hustle , respectively. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] The film won Best British Film at the 19th Empire Awards held in London in March 2014. [ 36 ]", "It received nominations for three awards at the 40th Saturn Awards : Best International Film , Best Writing , and Best Actor for Pegg. [ 37 ] At the 2014 MTV Movie Awards it received nominations for: Best Fight (for Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, & Eddie Marsan) & Best Comedic Performance (for Simon Pegg). [ 38 ] [ 39 ]"]
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World on a Wire
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Welt_Am_Draht_poster.jpg", "Based on": "Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye", "Screenplay by": "Fritz Müller-Scherz Rainer Werner Fassbinder", "Directed by": "Rainer Werner Fassbinder", "Starring": "Klaus Löwitsch Barbara Valentin Mascha Rabben Karl-Heinz Vosgerau Wolfgang Schenck Günter Lamprecht Ulli Lommel", "Music by": "Gottfried Hüngsberg", "Country of origin": "West Germany", "Original language": "German", "Producers": "Peter Märthesheimer Alexander Wesemann", "Cinematography": "Michael Ballhaus Ulrich Prinz", "Editors": "Ursula Elles Marie Anne Gerhardt", "Running time": "206 minutes ( I: 100 / II: 106) [ 1 ]", "Release": "14 October ( 1973-10-14 ) – 16 October 1973 ( 1973-10-16 )"}
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["World on a Wire ( German : Welt am Draht ) is a 1973 West German science fiction television serial , starring Klaus Löwitsch and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder . Shot in 16 mm , it was made for West German television and originally aired in 1973 in ARD as a two-part miniseries. It was based on the 1964 novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye . An adaptation of the Fassbinder version was presented as the play World of Wires , directed by Jay Scheib , in 2012. [ 2 ]", "Its focus is not on action, but on sophistic and philosophic aspects of the human mind , simulation , and the role of scientific research . A movie based on the same novel titled The Thirteenth Floor starring Craig Bierko was released in 1999.", "In the present day, the Institute for Cybernetics and Futurology's (Institut für Kybernetik und Zukunftsforschung) new supercomputer hosts a simulation program that includes an artificial world with more than 9,000 \"identity units\" who live as human beings, unaware that their world is just a simulation. Professor Vollmer ( Adrian Hoven ), who is the technical director of the program, is apparently on the verge of an incredible secret discovery. He becomes increasingly agitated and anti-social before dying in a mysterious accident. His successor, Dr. Fred Stiller, has a discussion with Günther Lause, the security adviser of the institute when the latter suddenly disappears without a trace before he is able to pass on Vollmer's secret to Stiller. More mysterious still is the fact that none of the other IKZ employees seem to have any memory of Lause.", "Meanwhile, one of the identity units in the simulation attempts suicide. This unit is deleted by Stiller's colleague Walfang to keep the simulation stable. To investigate the reasons for the suicide, Stiller enters into the simulated world to interview the contact unit. The unit, called Einstein, is the only identity unit that knows the \"world\" is a simulation, and this is necessary to run the program. In an attempt to become a real person, Einstein switches his mind into Walfang's body while Stiller is in contact with the simulated world. Einstein gives Stiller an explanation for the mysteries, vanishing memories, and vanishing persons, telling him that Stiller's \"real world\" is nothing but a simulation of the real world, which is one level above.", "This knowledge causes Stiller to slip into insanity. The other \"real\" people interrogate Stiller and he is threatened with death, incarceration, and involuntary commitment. Stiller is finally able to convince Hahn, the IKZ psychologist, of his theory. The latter soon dies in an accident that is pinned on Stiller, marking him as the suspected murderer of both Hahn and Vollmer.", "Stiller flees and searches for the necessary contact unit who can connect his \"real\" world with the real world, a level above. He survives several assassination attempts and discovers the contact is Eva, who was projected into the simulation after Vollmer's death (as his non-existent daughter). Stiller accepts her presence, believing they once had a romance. Eva tells him he was modeled on the real Fred Stiller, a person whom Eva loved, but who went mad with power from directing the simulation in the world above. While Stiller is programmed to die in an ambush, Eva switches the minds of the two Stillers and brings the simulated Stiller into the real world.", "The martial folk song \"Westerwaldlied\" and standard German love song \" Lili Marleen \" are both featured in an extended scene in which Stiller seeks temporary respite in a cabaret. During the Siskins house party scene early in the movie, Ingrid Caven sings the song \"The Boys in the Back Room\" . \"The instrumental \" Albatross \" by Fleetwood Mac plays during the credits of both parts, as well as a scene in Part 2.", "The original TV miniseries was shot at 16mm with PAL system, then the standard TV encoding system in much of the Europe. [ 3 ] A restored version was shown at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in 2010. It was also released on Region 2 DVD by Kinowelt/Arthaus as part of the Arthaus premium series and by Second Sight in the UK. It has since screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival , New York's Museum of Modern Art , Rochester, NY's Dryden Theatre , the Harvard Film Archive , San Francisco's Roxie Theater , the Cleveland Cinematheque , Nashville's Belcourt Theatre , the University of Colorado at Boulder's International Film Series, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2010 and 2011, as well as at The New Beverly Cinema in 2022. [ 4 ]", "The series was released on Blu-ray and two-disc DVD by The Criterion Collection in February 2012. [ 5 ] The Criterion release is using the 24 frames per second native blu-ray HD encoding system. [ 6 ] It was also released on limited edition Blu-ray by Second Sight in February 2019, simulating 25 frames per second of the PAL system. [ 7 ] [ 6 ]"]
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World Without End
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Worldwithoutend.jpg/250px-Worldwithoutend.jpg", "Directed by": "Edward Bernds", "Screenplay by": "Edward Bernds", "Story by": "Edward Bernds", "Produced by": "Richard Heermance", "Starring": "Hugh Marlowe Nancy Gates", "Cinematography": "Ellsworth Fredricks", "Edited by": "Eda Warren", "Music by": "Leith Stevens", "Production company": "Allied Artists Pictures Corporation", "Distributed by": "Allied Artists Pictures Corporation", "Release date": "March 25, 1956 ( 1956-03-25 )", "Running time": "80 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["World Without End (also known as Flight to the Future ) is a 1956 American science fiction film directed by Edward Bernds and starring Hugh Marlowe and Nancy Gates . It was made in CinemaScope and Technicolor by Allied Artists and produced by Richard Heermance.", "World Without End features an early screen role for Australian-born Rod Taylor . The film was distributed on a double feature with the Lon Chaney Jr. film Indestructible Man . .mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}", "In March 1957, commander Dr. Eldon Galbraithe, engineer Henry Jaffe, radioman Herbert Ellis and scientist John Borden, are returning to Earth from the first spaceflight, a reconnaissance trip around Mars . Suddenly, their spaceship is somehow accelerated to incredible velocities, and they are knocked unconscious. Their ship crash lands on a snow-covered mountain. When they venture out, they discover that they have become victims of time dilation and are now in the future.", "They theorize, from seeing time-worn gravestones and after their ship's instruments register heightened residual radiation, that a devastating atomic war had broken out in 2188, and that they are at least 200 years past that date. (They later learn that the year is 2508). Jaffe is particularly hard hit, as he realizes that his wife and children have long since died.", "After surviving an ambush by giant, mutant spiders, they are attacked by one of the two remnants of human society. The \"mutates\" (as the astronauts label them) are violent, primitive surface dwellers. They have mutated due to generations of exposure to heightened radioactivity. (However, the background radiation has decreased to tolerable levels, and the men later learn that normal humans are often born to the mutates. These, however, are enslaved.)", "Seeking shelter from the attacking mutates in a cave, the four men discover the entrance to an underground city, whose residents are the descendants of those who fled there from the atomic war. These people live in a high-tech, sophisticated culture. They are a peaceful group led by Timmek, the president of the ruling council. Underground, the men have grown less virile, and there are fewer and fewer children born each generation. In contrast, the women remain physically fertile (and ready for romance). Elaine admires a shirtless Herbert Ellis, commenting that the astronauts are \"more muscular than our men\". Deena, rescued from the surface as a child, falls in love with Ellis.", "The astronauts try to persuade the underground people to arm themselves and reclaim the surface, but they are content with their comfortable existence.", "When Timmek's daughter Garnet shows she is attracted to John Borden, Mories, an already hostile member of the council, becomes jealous. He retrieves the astronauts' confiscated pistols, but has to kill a man when he is caught in the act. Mories plants the guns in the astronauts' quarters. Finding the weapons, Timmek orders the astronauts expelled, but Deena testifies that she saw Mories hide the guns. Mories flees to the surface, where he is killed by mutates.", "With Timmek now cooperative, the astronauts manufacture a bazooka and head back to the surface. Fleeing the deadly bazooka fire, the mutates take shelter in caves. Borden offers to fight their chief, Naga, in single combat for leadership of the mutates after Naga threatens to slaughter the unmutated slaves. Borden slays Naga and orders the remaining deformed mutates to leave. The astronauts then establish a thriving settlement, including members of both groups.", "Under the working title, Flight to the Future , principal photography took place from July 19 to early August 1955. Locations included the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California . [ 1 ]", "Edward Bernds was a prolific director with experience in both television and cinema, and worked in many different genres. In 1956, he also helmed the comedy Navy Wife and crime thriller Calling Homicide . In directing World Without End , Bernds \"crammed\" in order to make a science fiction film. He studied Albert Einstein 's theory of relativity to give his space and time travellers a plausible way to go into the future. [ 1 ]", "World Without End was partly made in order to reuse footage and costumes from the earlier Allied Artists science fiction film Flight to Mars (1951). [ 2 ] A number of people who worked on the film went on to have notable film careers, including Sam Peckinpah (dialogue director) and Walter Mirisch (an executive at Allied Artists). Alberto Vargas (set sketches) was a famed artist whose only screen credit was World Without End . [ 3 ] [ Note 1 ]", "World Without End was \"sufficiently successful\" and drew attention from the estate of H.G. Wells . The similarities to The Time Machine (1895) led to a threatened lawsuit. [ 5 ] The plot of World Without End was later repeated in other films, The Mole People (1956), The Time Travelers (1964), and Planet of the Apes (1968). Rod Taylor would later star in George Pal 's The Time Machine (1960), an adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel. [ 1 ]", "As a \"B\" movie , World Without End received few critical reviews, although one reviewer commented that the appearance of a shirtless Rod Taylor, contains \"... the best bit of beefcake in the entire genre\". [ 6 ] In a later 1986 interview in Starlog magazine, Taylor recalled: \"I was so thrilled to have a sizable role in an American movie. It gave me the confidence to know that I could work with established Hollywood professionals and come out maybe equally as well.\" The director was taken with the enthusiasm of his fifth-credited actor, who literally threw himself into the role (struggling with a mutant spider). [ 7 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/40px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png", "Genre": "Alternate history Pseudo-documentary", "Written by": "Ingo Helm Robert Stone", "Directed by": "Robert Stone", "Starring": "Boris Leskin, Klaus Schleif, Christopher Wynkoop", "Narrated by": "David McCallum", "Music by": "John Kusiak Caleb Sampson", "Country of origin": "Germany", "Original languages": "German English Russian French", "Producer": "Ulrich Lenze", "Running time": "94 minutes", "Network": "ZDF TLC", "Release": "December 1998 ( 1998-12 )", "Date Location Result": "Initially, dissolution of East Germany and its impending reunification with West Germany. Ultimately, a global nuclear war and possible human extinction .", "Date": "February 18 – April 1, 1990 (1 month and 14 days)", "Location": "Initially Germany ; eventually Europe , North America , and the Soviet Union", "Result": "Initially, dissolution of East Germany and its impending reunification with West Germany. Ultimately, a global nuclear war and possible human extinction ."}
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["World War III ( Der Dritte Weltkrieg ) is a 1998 German alternate history television pseudo-documentary , directed by Robert Stone and distributed by ZDF . An English version was also made, which aired on TLC in May 1999. It depicts what might have transpired if, following the overthrow of Mikhail Gorbachev , Soviet troops, under orders from a new hard-line regime, had opened fire on demonstrators in Berlin in the fall of 1989 and precipitated World War III . The film mixes real footage of world leaders and archive footage of (for example) combat exercises and news events, with newly shot footage of citizens, soldiers, and political staff.", "In the summer of 1989, East Germany is in turmoil. Many citizens are dissatisfied with their nation’s Communist leadership and seek reunification with West Germany . As demonstrations against the regime spread throughout the country, East German leader Erich Honecker hopes to crush the uprisings with military force. On October 7, CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev , a supporter of those reforms, visits East Berlin . During his return flight, the hard-line Communist leadership stages a coup that deposes Gorbachev. Following a plenary session of the Central Committee, (fictional) Lieutenant General Vladimir Soshkin, a senior official in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Soviet security apparatus , is installed as the new General Secretary. The Soviet government announces Gorbachev resigned for \"reasons of ill health,\" and he is never heard from again.", "Soshkin and the hard-liners resist the rise of glasnost and perestroika . Gorbachev's reforms are quickly reversed, and the Soviet Union experiences democratic backsliding as the country returns to autocratic rule.They are determined to end the uprisings in the Eastern Bloc with a swift and brutal Chinese-style military crackdown in late October. (In East Germany at least, the crackdown is not limited to demonstrators; numerous moderate Communists such as Egon Krenz and Günter Schabowski are also \"disappeared\".) The crackdown inflames popular opposition to communism. In late November, a demonstration in Leipzig is repressed by the East German military and police at great loss of life. Two days later, a demonstration at the Brandenburg Gate ends with East German Grenztruppen border guards and Army soldiers killing many East Berlin residents trying to scale the Berlin Wall . Those soldiers also fire shots over the wall into West Berlin .", "Soon after, the East German government responds to the international condemnation of their conduct by ordering all foreign journalists out of the country, effectively imposing a media blackout . Following the bloodshed, Soshkin holds his first ever interview with western media in Moscow. Sitting down with West German ZDF correspondent Dirk Sager , he attempts to justify the recent bloody events by accusing the western news media of using Gorbachev's reforms to discredit the Soviet system and using the status of West Berlin as a 'base of aggression' against Warsaw Pact nations. He also claims that he and his co-conspirators had no other choice but to 'take defensive action' and remove Gorbachev from power.", "In mid-December, NATO airlifts military reinforcements to West Berlin following threats by both far-left and far right groups. Soon after, Secretary of State James Baker arrives in West Berlin to secretly meet with General Dmitry Leonov, the Soviet commander in East Germany, who opposes Soshkin's crackdown. However, on the way to the meeting, Leonov is killed by a car bomb, for which a West German neo-Nazi group claims responsibility. After Soshkin implicitly threatens West Berlin, an American colonel orders that tactical nuclear weapons in West Germany be placed on high alert. Soshkin responds with new threats, a massive deployment of the Soviet submarine fleet, and incursions of Soviet Bear bombers into Alaskan airspace. On January 25, 1990, several East German and Soviet tank divisions are mobilized to cut off transportation and supply links between West Germany and West Berlin, and the Soviet Air Force moves to close off East Germany's airspace. Soshkin hopes the plan will prevent the West from encroaching into the Soviet sphere of influence and isolate Berlin from the West. NATO deploys thousands of additional troops into West Germany to strengthen their existing garrisons there.", "As the United States prepares their first military convoy across the North Atlantic , the Soviets announce their intention to blockade the U.S. Navy transports. The US and Britain condemn the blockade and last-minute attempts at a compromise fall through. When the convoy crosses into the designated exclusion zone, Soviet forces are ordered to attack. Nearly a quarter of the convoy is sunk in the ensuing battle before the NATO fleet clears the air and sea lanes to Europe. Shortly afterward, the UN Security Council holds an emergency session in New York as angry demonstrators gather outside and burn the effigy of President Bush . Hoping to diffuse the conflict, the Security Council tries to reach a solution to the crisis, but each superpower refuses to back down until the other does so. The world panics after the failed session and the USA dispatches (fictional) National Security Advisor Martin Jacobs to the Soviet Union for last-ditch effort talks with Soshkin. Figuring that Soshkin knows that the Soviets are losing power in Eastern Europe, Jacobs offers Soshkin an extended timetable for the Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe in exchange for a de-escalation of the military buildup. Soshkin refuses him, speaking only once in the entire meeting: \"Nyet\" (No).", "On March 12, Soshkin orders a massive amphibious landing near Kiel on the Baltic coast, carried out by the Volksmarine and the Soviet Navy 's Baltic Fleet . The landings catch NATO off-guard, and they scramble forces northward to push back the beachhead. The next day, Warsaw Pact ground forces drive through the Fulda Gap , with orders to push to the Rhine to divide the stretched-out NATO armies. To support the assault, the Soviet Air Force bombards targets on the Baltic coast and NATO bases further inland, such as Ramstein Air Base . The plan is to cripple the NATO buildup with a swift strike and then press for a new round of diplomatic bargaining from a stronger strategic position. NATO forces are pushed back, though they inflict substantial losses on the Warsaw Pact forces; both sides lose well over 1,000 dead in the first 24 hours. By March 17, the Warsaw Pact forces have advanced 50 miles into West Germany. Entire towns are destroyed in the fighting as increasingly-desperate NATO commanders try to stall the Warsaw Pact's advance, and civilian and military casualties are heavy, overwhelming NATO medical personnel. Public order collapses amid the mass panic, and 20 million automobiles jam the roads as West German civilians try to flee.", "While preparing to launch a tactical nuclear counter-assault, NATO carries out a last-ditch conventional air campaign––code-named Operation Bloody Nose––launched 24 hours before the nuclear strikes were to begin. The already-overworked NATO aviators are given just one day to turn the tide of an entire war, and they and their Warsaw Pact counterparts battle fiercely for control of the skies. Thanks in part to a raid on the Soviet Army's forward headquarters in Poland and the use of American stealth aircraft , Bloody Nose is a resounding success: the initial strikes cripple Warsaw Pact command and control posts, throwing their armies in the field into chaos. During the accompanying aerial battles, NATO also inflicts devastating losses on the Soviet Air Force (which had already lost 20% of the aircraft supporting the initial offensives), thereby gaining supremacy over Eastern European airspace. Combined with assistance from the Polish underground that cuts off Soviet supply lines, the tide of the war turns. With their numerical superiority negated by Western technological superiority, the East German and Soviet armies melt under NATO airstrikes, and counterattacking NATO forces cross into East Germany on March 23.", "NATO forces reach and liberate West Berlin on March 27. Now in full retreat, the Soviet Army withdraws to Poland, abandoning the East Germans to fend for themselves. With the East German military beaten, its central government falling apart, and foreign armies advancing into the country, East Germany collapses, leaving many on both sides of the Iron Curtain to hope that reunification is at hand. With victory close, the American leadership tries to reassure Soshkin that NATO has no intention of pressing their advance beyond East Germany. Open revolt erupts across the Eastern Bloc as citizens of the communist nations, as well ethnic minorities within the Soviet Union, press for the overthrow of their own leaders, emboldened by the collapse of East Germany. Soshkin's paranoia rises as the Eastern Bloc starts falling apart, and while NATO has no intention of actually doing so, he is convinced they will fight all the way to Moscow.", "As a show of force , on March 31 Soshkin orders a nuclear strike above the North Sea . The USA responds by going to full nuclear alert and preparing to execute the Single Integrated Operational Plan . On April 1 , a Soviet radar post suffers an equipment malfunction. Falsely believing the USSR is under nuclear attack, Soshkin orders an all-out retaliatory strike against the West. The nuclear powers of NATO have no choice but to respond in kind, and thousands of nuclear devices are launched across the Northern Hemisphere. The narrator intones, \" There is no further historical record of what happens next,\" suggesting that civilization was either wiped out or destroyed to such a great extent, that overall post-war human survival -- much less, the rebuilding of civilization itself -- would be rendered all but impossible.", "On that grim, ghastly note, the film suddenly backtracks to Gorbachev's visit to East Berlin. A montage ensues, with heartwarming music, where the audience is reminded how the Cold War actually ended - with the fall of the Berlin Wall , the collapse of the eastern bloc regimes , concluding with the different course history actually took.", "On March 12, Soshkin orders a massive amphibious landing near Kiel on the Baltic coast, carried out by the Volksmarine and the Soviet Navy 's Baltic Fleet . The landings catch NATO off-guard, and they scramble forces northward to push back the beachhead. The next day, Warsaw Pact ground forces drive through the Fulda Gap , with orders to push to the Rhine to divide the stretched-out NATO armies. To support the assault, the Soviet Air Force bombards targets on the Baltic coast and NATO bases further inland, such as Ramstein Air Base . The plan is to cripple the NATO buildup with a swift strike and then press for a new round of diplomatic bargaining from a stronger strategic position. NATO forces are pushed back, though they inflict substantial losses on the Warsaw Pact forces; both sides lose well over 1,000 dead in the first 24 hours. By March 17, the Warsaw Pact forces have advanced 50 miles into West Germany. Entire towns are destroyed in the fighting as increasingly-desperate NATO commanders try to stall the Warsaw Pact's advance, and civilian and military casualties are heavy, overwhelming NATO medical personnel. Public order collapses amid the mass panic, and 20 million automobiles jam the roads as West German civilians try to flee.", "While preparing to launch a tactical nuclear counter-assault, NATO carries out a last-ditch conventional air campaign––code-named Operation Bloody Nose––launched 24 hours before the nuclear strikes were to begin. The already-overworked NATO aviators are given just one day to turn the tide of an entire war, and they and their Warsaw Pact counterparts battle fiercely for control of the skies. Thanks in part to a raid on the Soviet Army's forward headquarters in Poland and the use of American stealth aircraft , Bloody Nose is a resounding success: the initial strikes cripple Warsaw Pact command and control posts, throwing their armies in the field into chaos. During the accompanying aerial battles, NATO also inflicts devastating losses on the Soviet Air Force (which had already lost 20% of the aircraft supporting the initial offensives), thereby gaining supremacy over Eastern European airspace. Combined with assistance from the Polish underground that cuts off Soviet supply lines, the tide of the war turns. With their numerical superiority negated by Western technological superiority, the East German and Soviet armies melt under NATO airstrikes, and counterattacking NATO forces cross into East Germany on March 23.", "NATO forces reach and liberate West Berlin on March 27. Now in full retreat, the Soviet Army withdraws to Poland, abandoning the East Germans to fend for themselves. With the East German military beaten, its central government falling apart, and foreign armies advancing into the country, East Germany collapses, leaving many on both sides of the Iron Curtain to hope that reunification is at hand. With victory close, the American leadership tries to reassure Soshkin that NATO has no intention of pressing their advance beyond East Germany. Open revolt erupts across the Eastern Bloc as citizens of the communist nations, as well ethnic minorities within the Soviet Union, press for the overthrow of their own leaders, emboldened by the collapse of East Germany. Soshkin's paranoia rises as the Eastern Bloc starts falling apart, and while NATO has no intention of actually doing so, he is convinced they will fight all the way to Moscow.", "As a show of force , on March 31 Soshkin orders a nuclear strike above the North Sea . The USA responds by going to full nuclear alert and preparing to execute the Single Integrated Operational Plan . On April 1 , a Soviet radar post suffers an equipment malfunction. Falsely believing the USSR is under nuclear attack, Soshkin orders an all-out retaliatory strike against the West. The nuclear powers of NATO have no choice but to respond in kind, and thousands of nuclear devices are launched across the Northern Hemisphere. The narrator intones, \" There is no further historical record of what happens next,\" suggesting that civilization was either wiped out or destroyed to such a great extent, that overall post-war human survival -- much less, the rebuilding of civilization itself -- would be rendered all but impossible.", "On that grim, ghastly note, the film suddenly backtracks to Gorbachev's visit to East Berlin. A montage ensues, with heartwarming music, where the audience is reminded how the Cold War actually ended - with the fall of the Berlin Wall , the collapse of the eastern bloc regimes , concluding with the different course history actually took."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dc/World_War_Z_poster.jpg/250px-World_War_Z_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Marc Forster", "Screenplay by": "Matthew Michael Carnahan Drew Goddard Damon Lindelof", "Story by": "Matthew Michael Carnahan J. Michael Straczynski", "Based on": "World War Z 2006 novel by Max Brooks", "Produced by": "Brad Pitt Dede Gardner Jeremy Kleiner Ian Bryce", "Starring": "Brad Pitt Mireille Enos James Badge Dale", "Cinematography": "Ben Seresin [ a ]", "Edited by": "Roger Barton Matt Chessé", "Music by": "Marco Beltrami", "Production companies": "Plan B Entertainment Skydance Productions Hemisphere Media Capital GK Films 2DUX²", "Distributed by": "Paramount Pictures", "Release dates": "June 2, 2013 ( 2013-06-02 ) ( Empire Cinema ) June 21, 2013 ( 2013-06-21 ) (United States)", "Running time": "116 minutes [ 5 ]", "Country": "United States [ 6 ] [ 7 ]", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$190–269 million [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ]", "Box office": "$540 million [ 11 ]"}
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["World War Z is a 2013 American action horror film directed by Marc Forster , with a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan , Drew Goddard , and Damon Lindelof , from a story by Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski , inspired by the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks . It stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who travels the world seeking a solution for a sudden zombie apocalypse , [ 12 ] along with an ensemble supporting cast including Mireille Enos , and James Badge Dale .", "Pitt's Plan B Entertainment secured the film rights to Brooks' novel in 2007, and Straczynski was approached to write and Forster was approached to direct. In 2009, Carnahan was hired to rewrite the script. With a planned December 2012 release and a projected budget of $125 million, filming began in July 2011 in Malta , before moving to Glasgow in August and Budapest in October. The production suffered some setbacks, and, in June 2012, the release date was pushed back, and the crew returned to Budapest for seven weeks of additional shooting. Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the third act, but did not have time to finish the script, and Drew Goddard was hired to finish the rewrite. The reshoots took place between September and October 2012, ballooning the budget to a reported $190 million, although some publications have listed it as high as $269 million.", "World War Z premiered in London on June 2, 2013, and was chosen to open the 35th Moscow International Film Festival . It premiered in New York and Los Angeles on June 14, and was theatrically released elsewhere in the United States on June 21. Reviews were generally positive, with praise for Pitt's performance and for the film as a revival of the zombie genre, but criticism of what some felt was an anti-climax and a lack of faithfulness to the source material. The film was a commercial success, grossing over $540 million against a production budget of $190 million, making it the highest-grossing zombie film of all time. A sequel was announced shortly after the film's release, but was cancelled in February 2019, reportedly due to budget issues. [ 13 ]", "Former United Nations investigator Gerald \"Gerry\" Lane, his wife, Karin, and their two daughters, Rachel and Connie, are caught in traffic in downtown Philadelphia when a zombie outbreak hits. Escaping the ensuing chaos, they travel to Newark and pick up Tommy a young boy whose family hunkered down in their apartment and refused to leave. They are rescued by a helicopter sent by Thierry Umutoni, the UN Deputy Secretary-General .", "The group is then taken to a US Navy vessel stationed in the Atlantic Ocean , where a team of scientists studies the outbreak. Among them is virologist Andrew Fassbach, who believes that the plague is caused by a virus and that finding its origin is crucial for developing a vaccine. Faced with the threat of eviction from the vessel, Gerry reluctantly agrees to assist Fassbach.", "Gerry, Fassbach, and a Navy SEAL escort fly to Camp Humphreys in South Korea , where the first report of zombies was received. Upon arrival, the group is attacked by zombies, causing a panicked Fassbach to slip on the plane ramp and accidentally shoot himself dead. The team is saved by US soldiers stationed at the camp, and Gerry discovers that the infection was brought to the base by its doctor. A CIA officer imprisoned there guides Gerry towards Israel , where the Mossad has established a secure area.", "In Jerusalem , Gerry encounters Jurgen Warmbrunn, a high-ranking Mossad official, who mentions that intercepted communications of Indian troops fighting zombies is what led Israel to set up defenses. Jerusalem has protected itself by constructing a massive wall and allowing refugees to seek shelter within the city. However, the refugees' loud celebrations attract zombies, which instinctively form massive castells to overcome the wall. As the city becomes overrun, Warmbrunn instructs Israeli soldiers to accompany Gerry back to his plane. Amidst the mayhem, Gerry observes zombies ignoring an elderly man and a malnourished boy. When one of Gerry's escorts, \"Segen\", is bitten on her hand, he amputates that limb to prevent her from turning. Together, they escape on a commercial airliner.", "Gerry redirects the plane to a medical research facility in Cardiff owned by the World Health Organization . During the journey, a stowaway zombie attacks the passengers. To eliminate the zombies, Gerry detonates a grenade to breach the cabin and expel them; resulting in the plane's crash landing . With Gerry presumed killed, his family is relocated from the carrier to Nova Scotia .", "Gerry and Segen survive the crash, although Gerry is trapped in his seat and has sustained injuries. Segen comes to Gerry's aid, and together, they reach the Cardiff facility. Exhausted and wounded, Gerry loses consciousness and wakes up three days later, having been treated by the WHO staff. Sharing his observations, Gerry deduces that the zombies ignore the sick or injured, as they are not suitable hosts for spreading the infection. He proposes injecting healthy individuals with a curable pathogen as a form of \"camouflage\" against the zombies. The pathogen samples are in a section of the WHO facility infested with zombies. Gerry, Segen, and the head doctor attempt to sneak through the lab but accidentally alert the zombies. The three are separated in a chaotic chase, with Segen and the doctor forced to retreat, leaving Gerry the only one able to reach the samples. Gerry retrieves the samples but is unable to leave because of a lone zombie blocking his path. Out of options, Gerry tests his theory by injecting himself with a sample. As he opens the door, his theory is proven correct: the zombie ignores him completely.", "Gerry and Segen reach a secure area in Freeport, Nova Scotia and are reunited with Karin, Gerry's daughters and Tommy, who is now being raised by Karin and Gerry. A vaccine is created, serving as stealth against the zombies, enabling civilians to evacuate infected regions safely and empowering the military to combat the zombies more effectively.", "In addition, Elyes Gabel plays Andrew Fassbach, a soon-dead virologist whom Gerry escorted to South Korea. Matthew Fox appears as a crew member of the Navy vessel the Lanes stay on, although most of his scenes were cut from the final film.", "After a bidding war with Appian Way Productions , Brad Pitt 's Plan B Entertainment secured the screen rights to Max Brooks ' novel in 2007. [ 14 ] The first draft of the screenplay was written by J. Michael Straczynski , who identified the challenge in adapting the work as \"creating a main character out of a book that reads as a UN report on the zombie wars.\" [ 15 ] Marc Forster signed on to direct, and described the film as reminiscent of 1970s conspiracy thrillers like All the President's Men (1974). [ 16 ] Straczynski identified the 2002 spy film The Bourne Identity as an appropriate comparison, and noted that the film would have a large international scope that maintained the political emphasis. [ 17 ] When asked about his involvement with the film, Brooks stated he had \"zero control\", but favored a role for Pitt, [ 18 ] and expressed approval for Straczynski as screenwriter. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Brooks said: \"I can't give it away, but Straczynski found a way to tie it all together. The last draft I read was amazing.\" [ 21 ]", "An early script was leaked onto the internet in March 2008, leading to a review by Ain't It Cool News that called it \"[not] just a good adaptation of a difficult book [but] a genre-defining piece of work that could well see us all arguing about whether or not a zombie movie qualifies as ' Best Picture ' material\". [ 22 ] The script was well-enough respected to find a place on the 2007 Black List of \"most liked\" screenplays not yet produced. [ 23 ] The Ain't It Cool News review also noted the film appears stylistically similar to Children of Men (2006), following Gerry Lane as he travels the post-war world and interviews survivors of the zombie war who are \"starting to wonder if survival is a victory of any kind.\" [ 22 ]", "In December 2008, Straczynski said he hoped the film would begin production by the start of 2009, [ 17 ] but, in March 2009, Forster said the script was still in development and he was not sure if World War Z would be his next film. [ 24 ] Later in March, rumors surfaced that production offices were set up and the film was in early pre-production. [ 25 ] Then, in June, Forster told an interviewer that the film would be delayed, stating that its script still needed a lot of development and was \"still far from realization\". [ 26 ]", "Brooks revealed that the script was being re-written by Matthew Michael Carnahan in July 2009. He said he believed this \"show[ed] [the producer's] confidence in this project\" because of the amount of money that was being invested in it. [ 27 ] Paramount Pictures and UTV Motion Pictures announced at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con that Forster was set as director, and Pitt was confirmed to be playing the lead role. [ 28 ] In March 2011, it was reported on Vulture that Paramount was searching for a co-financier, and would likely pull the plug on the adaptation without one. [ 29 ] The article also stated that \"an eleventh-hour effort is being made to court frequent Paramount co-financier David Ellison .\" A week later, it was reported that \"hot and heavy talks are going on with David Ellison's Skydance Productions and as many as two other financiers.\" [ 30 ]", "Pre-production began in April 2011, with Robert Richardson being announced as the cinematographer and Nigel Phelps as production designer . [ 31 ] In the same month, it was reported that filming locations would include Pinewood Studios and London , England . [ 32 ] Also in April, Mireille Enos was cast as Gerry Lane's wife and mother of their two children. [ 33 ]", "In June, James Badge Dale entered negotiations to join the film as an American soldier who tries to alert the authorities to the zombie threat. [ 34 ] Matthew Fox and Ed Harris entered talks, and Julia Levy-Boeken was set to join the film. [ 35 ] It was reported that filming would begin in Malta the next month and would encompass Valletta and the Three Cities . [ 36 ] A few days later, it was reported that filming would also take place in Glasgow , Scotland , in August, [ 37 ] the city doubling for Philadelphia , \"with false shop fronts being constructed and American cars on the roads.\" [ 38 ] Glasgow was reportedly chosen after \"many months looking for the perfect city centre location to play an important part in the film.\" [ 37 ] Philadelphia was passed on due to \"uncertainties about state tax credits for filmmakers.\" [ 39 ] Filming was originally planned to take place in Royal Tunbridge Wells , England before moving to Glasgow. [ 40 ]", "Later in June, visual effects house Cinesite announced that it would work on \"a significant amount of shots\". [ 41 ] At the end of the month, it was reported that, despite previous reports, neither Fox nor Harris would be starring in the film; Fox had a scheduling conflict stemming from his prior commitment to star in Alex Cross with Tyler Perry at Summit Entertainment , [ 42 ] though he was later spotted filming scenes for World War Z in Falmouth, Cornwall . [ 43 ]", "With a reported budget of over $125 million, [ 29 ] World War Z began principal photography in July 2011 in Malta, with the first images of production being released a few days later. [ 44 ] Filming was scheduled to move to Glasgow in August, with the production company looking to recruit 2,000 local extras for the shoot. [ 45 ] At least 3,000 people showed up at a casting call in Glasgow on July 9, hoping for the opportunity to appear in a scene set in a financial district in Philadelphia. [ 46 ] Scenes were also shot in Falmouth, Cornwall . [ 47 ] Also in July, actor Elyes Gabel was cast as a character named Fassbach. [ 48 ] Despite opposition from residents, some scenes were shot on the Heygate Estate in South London. [ 49 ]", "In August, Bryan Cranston entered negotiations to join the film in a \"small but flashy\" role, but he ultimately had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. Also in August, filming was set to take place along a road on the perimeter of the Grangemouth Refinery in Grangemouth , Scotland, the location chosen for the length of the road, which was crucial to the shot. [ 50 ] A few days later, Paramount announced the film would be released on December 21, 2012. [ 51 ] Later in the same month, filming began in Glasgow. The location manager for the film said Glasgow had been chosen because of its architecture, wide roads, and grid layout. [ 52 ] Scenes were also filmed aboard the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship RFA Argus , before the Glasgow shoot. The ship was turned into the \"USS Madison \", which involved stenciling a new pennant number on the funnel and adding some \"Americanism\" to the superstructure. Steven McMenemy, the Argus ' s navigator said: \"The ship sailed and we were joined by four small catamarans which were being used as markers for the cameras, so that warships could be added in with CGI later.\" [ 53 ] In October, David Morse was cast as a \"prisoner living in an abandoned jail.\" [ 54 ]", "The filmmakers initially intended to film a climactic battle scene set in Russia , and the crew moved to Budapest to film it there. [ 55 ] Filming in Budapest commenced on the evening of October 10. [ 56 ] That morning, the Hungarian Counter Terrorism Centre raided the warehouse where guns had been delivered for use as filming props. [ 56 ] The 85 assault rifles, sniper rifles, and handguns had been flown into Budapest overnight on a private aircraft, but the film's producers had failed to clear the delivery with Hungarian authorities, and, while the import documentation indicated the weapons had been disabled, all were found to be fully functional. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] On February 10, 2012, the charges were dropped after investigators were unable to identify exactly which \"organization or person\" had \"ownership rights\"; therefore they could not \"establish which party was criminally liable\". [ 58 ]", "Principal photography wrapped on November 4, 2011.", "In June 2012, screenwriter Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the film's third act, with reshoots scheduled to begin that September or October. [ 59 ] He was brought in as a new set of eyes not burdened by all the history of the script and said: \"[Brad Pitt] took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it. But when we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together.\" [ 60 ] Lindelof explained that there were inefficiencies in the script in relation to the shooting that started before the script was finalized, making the ending \"abrupt and incoherent\", and that the film was missing a large chunk of footage. He presented two options to executives, who ultimately chose to shoot 30 to 40 minutes of additional footage to change the ending. However, Lindelof did not have time to script the new ending, so in July Paramount hired his Lost partner Drew Goddard to finish the work. [ 61 ] Goddard later told Creative Screenwriting : \"To me the big lesson of World War Z was that Paramount, Plan B and Brad Pitt simply said, 'Let's take the time to make this movie the best version of the movie before we put it on the screen for audience.' [ sic ] That doesn't happen a lot. A lot of times they just throw the movie out there and say, 'We'll make all our money opening weekend and then the movie will go away.' I came away from it thinking, 'Why don't we do this on more movies?'\" [ 62 ]", "The re-shoots, coupled with other overages, caused the film's budget to balloon to around $190 million, which shocked Paramount president Marc Evans. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 63 ] Several of the scenes shot in Budapest, including a large-scale battle with the zombies in Moscow's Red Square , [ 64 ] were dropped from the final cut in order to water down the film's political undertones and steer it towards a more generally friendly summer blockbuster. [ 65 ] The climactic battle scene in Russia, for which there was 12 minutes of footage, reportedly had Pitt's character fighting through zombies more like \"a warrior hero\" than \"the sympathetic family man\" of the earlier acts. The second-unit director, Simon Crane, said: \"It wasn't character-driven anymore... [The filmmakers] really needed to think about what they wanted to do with the third act.\" [ 55 ] Additional scenes were also filmed at the Pfizer building at Discovery Park in Sandwich, Kent , for scenes where Gerry tries to find a cure for the zombie pandemic. [ 66 ]", "In March 2013, it was reported that Paramount changed a scene in the film, in which the characters speculate that the zombie outbreak originated in mainland China, in hopes of landing a distribution deal in the country. [ 67 ] An executive familiar with upcoming releases in China told TheWrap in June that a cut of the film was rejected by Chinese censors . A Paramount executive contended that he was \"unaware of any rejection\", explaining: \"We have submitted one version and have yet to receive a response.\" [ 68 ]", "In December 2011, it was reported that Marco Beltrami had signed on to score World War Z . [ 69 ] In May 2013, the British rock band Muse posted a video on their YouTube channel that hinted they would be contributing to the soundtrack of the film; the song \"The 2nd Law: Isolated System\" from their 2012 album The 2nd Law and the instrumental version of \" Follow Me \" produced by the electronic band Nero were used. [ 70 ] On June 18, 2013, Warner Bros. Records released the soundtrack album for the film, which featured the original score composed by Beltrami. [ 71 ]", "World War Z was initially scheduled for release by Paramount and Skydance on December 21, 2012, but in March 2012 it was pushed back to June 21, 2013, with Paramount electing to release Jack Reacher on the December 2012 date. [ 51 ] [ 72 ] Its world premiere was held at the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square , London, on June 2, 2013. [ 73 ] On June 6, Brad Pitt attended screenings of the film in Atlanta , Philadelphia , Chicago , and Austin , all on the same day. [ 74 ] The film was released at Glasgow's Grosvenor Cinema in Ashton Lane on June 19, two days before its global launch, [ 75 ] and opened the 35th Moscow International Film Festival the next day. [ 76 ] In all, Paramount spent $160 million marketing the film worldwide. [ 10 ]", "The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 24, 2013. The Blu-ray release includes an unrated alternate cut of the film [ 77 ] that features seven minutes of additional footage, most of which consists of additional moments of violence and suspense in the action scenes.", "The film grossed $202.41 million in North America and $337.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $540 million. [ 11 ] Variety called it a \"bona-fide box office hit\", [ 78 ] although Deadline Hollywood later said it \"barely broke even\". [ 10 ]", "In North America, the film earned $25.2 million on its opening day, [ 79 ] including $3.6 million from Thursday night and midnight shows. [ 80 ] It went on to earn $66.4 million its opening weekend, finishing second to Monsters University at the box office. [ 81 ] This was, at the time, the second-largest opening weekend for a film that did not debut in first place (behind The Day After Tomorrow (2004) with $85.8 million), [ 82 ] the largest opening weekend for a film starring Brad Pitt, [ 81 ] and the sixth-largest opening among films released in June. [ 83 ]", "In other territories, the film earned $5.7 million on its opening day (Thursday, June 20, 2013), [ 80 ] and $45.8 million its opening weekend, ranking third. [ 81 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 67% of 278 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The website's consensus reads: \"It's uneven and diverges from the source book, but World War Z still brings smart, fast-moving thrills and a solid performance from Brad Pitt to the zombie genre.\" [ 84 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 63 out of 100, based on 46 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 85 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B+\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 86 ]", "Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a 3.5 out of 4, saying: \"It's entertaining as hell\" and provides \"nearly non-stop action\". Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film a 3 out of 4, saying that \"the suspense is killer\". [ 87 ] Henry Barnes of The Guardian considered the film an \"attempt at large-scale seriousness\" in the zombie genre that resulted in a \"punchy, if conventional action thriller.\" [ 88 ] Writing for Variety , Scott Foundas found the film a \"surprisingly smart, gripping and imaginative addition to the zombie-movie canon\", which shows \"few visible signs of the massive rewrites, reshoots and other post-production patchwork.\" [ 89 ] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter opined that \"Brad Pitt delivers a capable performance in an immersive apocalyptic spectacle about a global zombie uprising.\" [ 90 ] A. O. Scott of The New York Times said, \"[It] does not try to extend the boundaries of commercial entertainment but does what it can to find interesting ways to pass the time within them.\" [ 91 ] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times remarked that \" World War Z plays a bit like a series of separate films and the juncture where the new final act was grafted onto the proceedings is unmistakable, but unless you knew about the film's troubled past, you'd never guess it existed.\" [ 92 ]", "In a negative review, Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News said that World War Z \"is no summer thriller. It's an anemic actioner that fosters excitement like dead limbs as it lumbers toward a conclusion.\" [ 93 ] Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph thought the film had been affected by its troubled development, observing that \"the final product has an elaborate uselessness about it\", and the film has \"no heart to be found amid the guts.\" [ 94 ] Alonso Duralde of TheWrap said: \"For all its effectiveness at portraying the horror of possible human extinction, the film's actual humans are so soulless that this could just as well be the movie version of the video game Plants vs. Zombies .\" [ 95 ]", "Rotten Tomatoes lists the film on its 100 Best Zombie Movies, Ranked by Tomatometer. [ 96 ]", "A tie-in mobile game was developed by Phosphor Games Studio and released for iOS in May 2013. The game is a spin-off from the movie, set in Denver , Kyoto and Paris and features an original cast of characters. [ 99 ]", "In April 2019, Saber Interactive released a co-operative third-person shooter game of the same name for PlayStation 4 , Windows PC , Xbox One and Nintendo Switch , which includes missions set around the world in New York , Jerusalem , Moscow , Tokyo , and Marseille . [ 100 ] [ 101 ]", "According to a report in the Los Angeles Times in January 2012, at that time Marc Forster and Paramount Pictures both viewed \" World War Z as a trilogy that would have the grounded, gun-metal realism of, say, Damon 's Jason Bourne series tethered to the unsettling end-times vibe of AMC 's The Walking Dead .\" [ 102 ] Plans for future installments were shelved for a time due to the film's production troubles, but in June 2013, after the successful opening of the film, Paramount announced it was moving ahead with a sequel. [ 103 ] In December, it was reported that J. A. Bayona had been chosen to direct the film, [ 104 ] and in May 2014 Steven Knight was set to write the script. [ 105 ] In May 2015, it was announced the sequel would be released on June 9, 2017, [ 106 ] but in January 2016 Paramount announced director Bayona had left the project due to other commitments. [ 107 ]", "Variety reported in August 2016 that the sequel was not yet in production, but David Fincher had entered negotiations to be the director, and in April 2017 it was reported Fincher was close to a deal to sign on. [ 108 ] [ 109 ] On February 8, 2017, Paramount announced the sequel had still not started filming and would not be released until 2018, or possibly even 2019. [ 110 ]", "Fincher was confirmed by Paramount as the director of the sequel in June 2017, with Brad Pitt to play again the role of Gerry Lane. [ 111 ] Filming was slated to start in fall of 2018, [ 112 ] though this later changed due to Fincher's involvement in the television series Mindhunter . [ 113 ] In October 2018, producer Dede Gardner confirmed the sequel would begin filming in June 2019, [ 114 ] and there were several months of pre-production and staffing for principal photography in five countries, but, in February 2019, the film was cancelled. [ 115 ] A source quoted by The Hollywood Reporter said the Chinese government's ban on films featuring zombies or ghosts was the single major reason that Paramount canceled the sequel. [ 116 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1e/Worldtrade.jpg", "Directed by": "Oliver Stone", "Written by": "Andrea Berloff", "Produced by": "Moritz Borman Debra Hill Michael Shamberg Stacey Sher", "Starring": "Nicolas Cage Michael Peña Maggie Gyllenhaal Maria Bello Stephen Dorff Jay Hernandez Michael Shannon", "Cinematography": "Seamus McGarvey", "Edited by": "David Brenner Julie Monroe", "Music by": "Craig Armstrong", "Production companies": "Double Feature Films Intermedia Films Ixtlan Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft & Company", "Distributed by": "Paramount Pictures", "Release date": "August 9, 2006 ( 2006-08-09 )", "Running time": "129 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$65 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$163.5 million [ 2 ]"}
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["World Trade Center is a 2006 American docudrama disaster film [ 3 ] directed by Oliver Stone and written by Andrea Berloff . Starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña , the film is based on the experience of a team of Port Authority Police Officers during the September 11 attacks , in which they were trapped inside the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center .", "The film was shot between October 2005 and February 2006, and theatrically released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on August 9, 2006. It was met with generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $163 million worldwide.", "On September 11, 2001, members of the Port Authority Police are dispatched to Downtown Manhattan in response to the North Tower of the World Trade Center having been hit by a plane . The officers learn en route that the South Tower also was hit by another plane . Sergeant John McLoughlin , veteran of the 1993 bombing , assembles a group of volunteers; officers Antonio Rodrigues, Will Jimeno and Dominick Pezzulo , to retrieve rescue equipment from Building 5 . They are joined by Officer Christopher Amoroso.", "As the five officers prepare to enter the North Tower from the concourse, the South Tower begins to collapse onto them, and McLoughlin realizes that their only chance of survival is to take shelter in the elevator shaft. McLoughlin, Jimeno, and Pezzulo are the only survivors, but they are trapped beneath the rubble. Pezzulo tries but fails to free Jimeno, whose lower half is pinned. McLoughlin, who is also pinned, listens helplessly as the North Tower begins to collapse. Pezzulo is fatally injured when a concrete slab crushes his torso, but manages to fire his sidearm once into the air, in an attempt to alert rescuers to their whereabouts just before dying. Jimeno and McLoughlin spend painful, terrifying hours under the rubble telling each other about their lives. Meanwhile, their families try to learn if they are still alive.", "When Building 7 collapses, both men scream and accept their demise, but they survive without further harm. McLoughlin tries to keep Jimeno awake by encouraging him to repeatedly pull on metal rebar that potential rescuers might hear. Hours pass, and McLoughlin falls in and out of consciousness. Both agree to stay alive for one another.", "Two United States Marines , Dave Karnes and Jason Thomas , who are searching for survivors, hear the noise produced by Jimeno and find the men, calling for help to dig them out. After hours and effort by first responders , Jimeno is rescued first, and then hours later McLoughlin is lifted out of the debris in critical condition. Both men are reunited with their families at the hospital and undergo medical treatment, including extensive surgeries, and McLoughlin is placed in a medically induced coma .", "In 2003, Jimeno and McLoughlin, both medically retired from duty, attend a celebratory barbecue with their families. The epilogue reveals that both men were two of twenty people found alive at Ground Zero, and they were numbers eighteen and nineteen, respectively. David Karnes reenlisted in the Marines and served two tours in the Iraq War .", "The Port Authority police officers portrayed by Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña, John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno, and their wives, played by Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal, were involved with the writing and overall production. John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno said they wanted to have a film made to honor their rescuers and comrades who died on September 11, not for personal gain. [ citation needed ]", "McLoughlin's wife Donna has said: \"We got involved because we felt it needed to be done accurately. We wanted to do the right thing and I think the filmmakers wanted to do the right thing too.\" [ 5 ] Both John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno appear at the end of the film during the barbecue scene.", "The real ESU (Emergency Services Unit) police from New York who are depicted in the film—Scott Strauss and Paddy McGee—were on set as technical advisers. In addition, the firemen in the film were played by real FDNY members who served on 9/11. All of them enthusiastically supported the film and its intention to accurately portray the rescue of McLoughlin and Jimeno.", "Jeanette Pezzulo, the widow of Port Authority police officer Dominick Pezzulo (who died in the attacks and is played by Jay Hernandez in the film), expressed anger with the film, criticizing McLoughlin's and Jimeno's participation in its production. She is quoted as saying, \"My thing is: this man died for you. How do you do this to his family?\" [ 5 ] Staten Island resident Jamie Amoroso, whose husband also died during the rescue operation, also expressed her anger over the film and said she did \"not need a movie\" to tell her \"what a hero\" her husband was. [ 5 ]", "Many major American newspapers ran editorials accusing Stone of having his film examine 9/11 conspiracy theories because Stone was known for examining various conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination in JFK . However, Stone has stated that the film does not explore the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11. He, the producers, and the real McLoughlin and Jimeno, have said the film is a simple dedication to the heroism and sadness of the day with little-to-no political themes. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ]", "The film has been accused of not providing a fair portrayal of the character and motives of rescuer Dave Karnes and paramedic Chuck Sereika. They did not participate in the making of the film and felt their roles of being the first rescuers to reach the trapped men did not receive enough screen time. Sereika began treating and extricating Jimeno a full 20 minutes before officers from the New York City Police Department 's Emergency Services Unit arrived. [ 8 ]", "Certain details about the story were altered. For instance, the film depicts McLoughlin's team being completely oblivious to the crash into the South Tower, having arrived at the World Trade Center site and entered the concourse before United Airlines Flight 175 struck; in reality, Will Jimeno has clarified in interviews that they were well aware of the second impact as it occurred while they were en route to the complex. [ 9 ]", "John McLoughlin graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego , where he was a member of the Sigma Tau Chi fraternity . He was rescued after 22 hours, the 19th of 20 people pulled out of the rubble alive. Doctors kept him in an induced coma for six weeks. He underwent 27 surgeries and spent nearly three months in the hospital and rehabilitation. Four months after their rescue, McLoughlin and Jimeno—who both have since retired—took part in a ceremony at Ground Zero to watch as the final column was removed. When all the uniformed officers walked out of The Pit, the last two were McLoughlin and Jimeno. On June 11, 2002, McLoughlin received the Port Authority's Medal of Honor . [ 10 ] He resided in Goshen, New York .", "Will Jimeno was born on November 26, 1967, in Colombia but immigrated to New York City as a boy with his family. At the time of the attacks, he was a rookie cop assigned to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. [ 11 ] He was pulled out of the rubble after 13 hours, the 18th of 20 people pulled out alive. On June 11, 2002, Jimeno received the Port Authority's Medal of Honor. [ 11 ] Jimeno and McLoughlin make a cameo in the film. [ 12 ]", "Christopher Amoroso was born on June 1, 1972, and raised in North Bergen, New Jersey where he attended North Bergen High School . [ 13 ] Since 2010 the Chopper 2002 Foundation has presented their annual invitational softball tournament in North Bergen on the first weekend of June.", "Dominick Pezzulo was born on August 15, 1965, in Italy to Dino and Victoria Pezzulo. He was named after his grandfather Domenico Pezzulo. Pezzulo taught auto repair, math and computer technology. After seven years as a teacher, Pezzulo became a police officer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department 13 months before the attack. He was stationed at the Port Authority Bus Terminal . On September 9, 2005, all of the public safety officers killed on September 11, 2001, were posthumously awarded the 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor by President George W. Bush. [ 14 ] At the National 9/11 Memorial , Pezzulo is memorialized at the South Pool, on Panel S-29. [ 15 ] In his birthplace of Giano Vetusto , Italy, a plaque has been erected on the door of the house he grew up in. [ 16 ]", "Bruce A. Reynolds was born in Inwood and resided in Knowlton Township, New Jersey with his wife and two kids. He joined the Port Authority in 1986 and was stationed at the bus terminal on 42nd Street. On September 11, 2001 - Reynolds was sent to the World Trade Center from his post at the George Washington Bridge . Despite having respiratory problems, he went into the South Tower to help with the rescue effort. [ 17 ]", "David W. Karnes was born c. 1958 and spent 23 years in the Marine Corps infantry. He left his accounting office at Deloitte and Touche in Wilton, Connecticut soon after witnessing the attacks on television to assist in the rescue efforts. Karnes spent nine days at the site before returning to his office. He then reenlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve and went on to serve in the Philippines and Iraq . He served for 17 months, including two tours of duty in Iraq. Karnes did not cooperate in the making of Stone's World Trade Center movie due to Stone's antipathy towards U.S. President George W. Bush . Some critics took issue with the portrayal in the film. Rebecca Liss of Slate magazine observed, \"The film seems to overplay his zeal without conveying his motivations and reasoning.\" It notes he is unfairly portrayed as \"a robotic soldier of Christ—a little wacky and simplistic.\" [ 18 ]", "Jason Thomas was born c. 1974 and was dropping his daughter off at the home of his mother on Long Island when she told him about the attacks. Despite having left active duty in August 2001, Thomas drove to Manhattan to assist in the rescue efforts, [ 19 ] telling the Associated Press : \"Someone needed help. It didn't matter who. I didn't even have a plan. But I have all this training as a Marine, and all I could think was, 'My city is in need.'\" [ 19 ] As of 2013, Thomas is serving in the United States Air Force as a medical technician. [ 20 ] His portrayal by a white actor in the film generated controversy, although the producers claimed that they were unaware that the real Thomas was black until they had already started filming. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] On February 11, 2007, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition aired a special two-hour episode about Thomas and his family. Following the attacks, Thomas and his wife had moved their four children from New York to Columbus, Ohio . The house they bought began to deteriorate and the show intervened to help them. On September 2, 2013, Channel 4 broadcast The Lost Hero of 9/11 [ 23 ] which detailed Thomas's involvement in the rescue operation following the collapse of both towers. As of 2018, Thomas was living in Columbus with his wife Kirsti and their children. He worked as an officer for the Ohio Supreme Court. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Thomas is in 15 Septembers Later which has appeared on the History Channel. [ 26 ]", "In its opening weekend, the film made $18.7 million in the U.S. and Canada. In total, the film grossed $70.3 million in North America, and $93 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $163.2 million. [ 2 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 66% based on 234 reviews, and an average rating of 6.70/10. The website's critics consensus states: \"As a visually stunning tribute to lives lost in tragedy, World Trade Center succeeds unequivocally, and it is more politically muted than many of Stone's other works.\" [ 27 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 28 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A−\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 29 ]", "The producers met with all relevant September 11 victims groups before production began to inform them of the intent. After its release, they, the NYPD , and the FDNY were very pleased with it. Former mayor Rudy Giuliani , former Governor George Pataki , and then-Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta , as well as representatives from the NY Port Authority, were at the premiere of the film at the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan.", "The film was released on DVD and HD DVD on December 12, 2006, and on Blu-ray on June 3, 2008. A 4k Blu-ray release is planned to release on August 12, 2025."]
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A World Without Thieves
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/A_World_Without_Thieves.jpg/250px-A_World_Without_Thieves.jpg", "Directed by": "Feng Xiaogang", "Screenplay by": "Feng Xiaogang Wang Gang Lin Lisheng Zhang Jialu", "Based on": "A World Without Thieves by Zhao Benfu", "Produced by": "Liu Zhenyun Wang Zhonglei Yan Yujing", "Starring": "Andy Lau Rene Liu Ge You Li Bingbing Wang Baoqiang", "Cinematography": "Zhang Li", "Edited by": "Liu Miaomiao", "Music by": "Wang Liguang", "Distributed by": "Media Asia Distribution Ltd.", "Release dates": "5 December 2004 ( 2004-12-05 ) (China) 9 December 2004 ( 2004-12-09 ) (Hong Kong) 21 January 2005 ( 2005-01-21 ) (Taiwan)", "Running time": "113 min.", "Countries": "China [ 1 ] Hong Kong [ 1 ]", "Language": "Mandarin [ 1 ]"}
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["A World Without Thieves ( simplified Chinese : 天下无贼 ; traditional Chinese : 天下無賊 ; pinyin : Tiānxià Wú Zéi ) is a 2004 comedy action drama film directed by Feng Xiaogang and starring Andy Lau , Rene Liu , Ge You , Wang Baoqiang and Li Bingbing . A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film is an adaptation of a 1999 novelette of the same title by Zhao Benfu. The original story is moderately different from the film adaptation. The film was first released in Shanghai, China on 5 December 2004. It clinched the 2005 Golden Horse Award for Best Screenplay Adaptation.", "The film was released in Hong Kong with Cantonese dubbing provided by Lau for his own role, Anthony Wong for the role of Uncle Li, and Chapman To for the role of Sha Gen.", "The plot is centered on a naïve village boy who does not believe in the existence of thieves. Returning home on board a train with his savings, he soon becomes the target of many thieves. The film explores the theme of the fundamental human goodness and also addresses humorously the issue of thievery on public transport in Mainland China .", "The story is set primarily on a train bound inland from Tibet . Sha Gen (\"Dumbo\" in the U.S. version, played by Wang Baoqiang ), a naïve village boy working as construction worker in Tibet, was returning home to get married. Refusing to believe that thieves exist in the world, Sha Gen insists on carrying his five years of savings worth ¥ 60,000 ($8,400 USD [ 1 ] ) with him rather than use remittance. Sha Gen also brazenly shouts his earnings in a crowded street. As such, he has attracted the attention of Wang Bo (Andy Lau) and Wang Li (Rene Liu), who are lovers as well as highly skilled professional thieves. Wang Bo wants to steal the money as a last hit to end their career, but Wang Li, pregnant with their child and moved by Sha Gen's innocence, decides to protect the boy.", "The situation is further complicated when a small gang of thieves led by Hu Li ( homophone of fox (狐狸 Húli ) in Chinese), also known as Uncle Li ( Ge You ), boards the train. Uncle Li instructs his followers, among them Xiao Ye ( Li Bingbing ) and Four-Eyes ( Gordon Lam ), to refrain from doing a job on the train. Tempted by the huge amount of cash, however, some members disobey and strike, only to be robbed by Wang Bo moments later. This exposes Wang's skills to Uncle Li, who becomes highly interested in recruiting him. When Wang declines, the contest between the Wangs and Uncle Li's gang quickly escalates, with Sha Gen still completely unaware of the danger surrounding him.", "While the two sides tussle, however, a plainclothes police detective ( Zhang Hanyu ) has been silently watching and awaiting his chance. As the police force eventually closes in, Uncle Li attempts to make off with Sha Gen's money but is confronted by Wang Bo, who has finally promised to lend his help to Wang Li to protect Sha Gen's innocence. The two engage in a violent hand-to-hand combat. Although Wang succeeds in retrieving the money and giving it back, he is seriously injured in the fray, and subsequently dies. Uncle Li and his gang are all apprehended as the train pulls into station, but the police officer lets Wang Li go on compassionate grounds. Wang Li returns to Tibet sometime later, and prays to the heavens in a show of penance.", "The film recorded ¥ 100,000 in box office earnings on its premier night in Beijing. [ 3 ] Within ten days of release the total box office earnings in Mainland China exceeded ¥80 million. [ 4 ] This figure rose to ¥100 million on the last day of 2004. This, together with a comparable box office achievement by the Stephen Chow production Kung Fu Hustle , released within the same month, has been hailed as a new milestone for the Chinese film industry. [ 5 ] However, the film did not do as well in the Hong Kong market.", "Almost two months after the film's release, China Post voiced dissatisfaction over the film's misguiding information on the administrative charges for remitting money through China Post. In a scene, Sha Gen claimed that remitting ¥ 60,000 requires an administrative charge of ¥600. China Post verified that it would only require ¥100 and said it would not rule out seeking damages. [ 6 ]"]
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World Without Sun
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1f/Le_Monde_Sans_Soleil.jpg/250px-Le_Monde_Sans_Soleil.jpg", "Directed by": "Jacques-Yves Cousteau", "Written by": "Jacques-Yves Cousteau James Dugan", "Distributed by": "Columbia Pictures (United States)", "Release dates": "September 30, 1964 ( 1964-09-30 ) ( France ) December 22, 1964 ( 1964-12-22 ) ( USA )", "Running time": "93 minutes", "Countries": "France Italy", "Language": "French"}
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["World Without Sun ( French : Le Monde sans soleil ) is a 1964 French documentary film directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau . The film was Cousteau's second to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature , following The Silent World in 1956.", "The film chronicles Continental Shelf Station Two , or \"Conshelf Two\", the first ambitious attempt to create an environment in which men could live and work on the seafloor. In it, a half-dozen oceanauts lived 10 meters down in the Red Sea off Sudan in a star-fish shaped house for 30 days. The undersea living experiment also had two other structures, one a submarine hangar that housed a small, two-man submarine referred to as the \"diving saucer\" for its resemblance to a science fiction flying saucer , and a smaller \"deep cabin\" where two oceanauts lived at a depth of 30 meters for a week. The undersea colony was supported by air, water, food, power, all essentials of life, from a large support team above. Men on the bottom performed a number of experiments intended to determine the practicality of working on the sea floor and were subjected to continual medical examinations.", "Funded in part by the French petrochemical industry , the Conshelf Two experiment was originally intended to demonstrate the practicality of exploitation of the sea using underwater habitats as base stations. In the end, Cousteau repudiated such an approach, turning his efforts instead toward conservation . The lyrical and dramatic underwater sequences also likely contributed to the beginning of an era of ocean conservation as well as incidentally promoting sport diving . Memorable sequences involve men cavorting with fishes, an underwater chess game and the diving saucer reaching depths of 300 meters, encountering new and unique forms of life.", "The documentary received wide international theatrical distribution, and won Best Documentary at the 37th Academy Awards , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Cousteau's second Oscar following The Silent World in 1956, as well as numerous other honors.", "Reviews were overwhelmingly positive, although some criticism arose around accusations of \"faking\" footage, most notably by New York Times reviewer Bosley Crowther , who questioned the authenticity of two of the more dramatic scenes. He stated in his 1964 review, \"Oceanographers consulted here yesterday said it was highly unlikely that a deep-sea cavern, containing a \"bubble,\" or pocket of air, at its top, could exist. If it did, the atmosphere in that bubble would surely be noxious, they said. It would be methane or marsh gas. And the pressure in it would be intolerable for man.\" [ 3 ]", "The confusion stemmed from Crowther's assertion that the footage was filmed at great depth, an issue not clearly addressed in the film proper. His other complaint was a long tracking shot moving out from the window of one of the underwater structures, which Crowther claimed could only have been produced in an aquarium. Cousteau, taking great offense, went on to demonstrate how he and his son Philippe produced the shot with a combination of ropes and small underwater motorized vehicles.", "The Academy Film Archive preserved World Without Sun in 2010. [ 4 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/37/SuzieWongPoster.jpg/250px-SuzieWongPoster.jpg", "Directed by": "Richard Quine", "Written by": "John Patrick Based on the play by Paul Osborn", "Produced by": "Ray Stark", "Starring": "William Holden Nancy Kwan Sylvia Syms Michael Wilding", "Cinematography": "Geoffrey Unsworth", "Edited by": "Bert Bates", "Music by": "George Duning", "Production companies": "World Enterprises, Inc. Worldfilm, Ltd Paramount British Pictures, Ltd [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Paramount Pictures", "Release date": "November 10, 1960 ( 1960-11-10 ) (US)", "Running time": "126 minutes", "Countries": "United Kingdom United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$2,000,000 [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$7,300,000 (US and Canada) [ 3 ] [ 4 ]"}
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["The World of Suzie Wong is a 1960 British-American romantic drama film directed by Richard Quine and starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan . The screenplay by John Patrick was adapted from the 1958 stage play by Paul Osborn , which was based on the 1957 novel of the same title by Richard Mason .", "American architect Robert Lomax (William Holden) is living in Hong Kong for a year to try and make a living as an artist. While aboard a ferry, he meets Mi-Ling (Nancy Kwan), a smartly dressed young woman who claims her father is wealthy. When the ferry docks, they part ways.", "Robert looks for an inexpensive living place in Wan Chai , a poor area known for prostitution. By chance, he sees Mi-Ling leaving the run-down Nam Kok Hotel. When he inquires inside, the hotel owner replies that he does not know any Mi-Ling, but he and Robert negotiate a monthly room rate. At the bar adjoining the hotel, Robert sees Mi-Ling dressed in a slinky red cheongsam and with a sailor. He learns her real name is Suzie Wong, and she is the bar's most popular girl.", "The following day, Robert visits a Western bank and sets up an account with banker Mr. O'Neill, who also provides him letters of introduction. His secretary and daughter, Kay (Sylvia Syms), is immediately attracted to Robert.", "Robert hires Suzie to pose for him. He eventually learns that she was forced into prostitution after being abandoned when she was ten. Suzie begins falling in love with Robert, but he dissuades her, though he keeps her as his muse. Meanwhile, Kay discreetly pursues Robert. One night after a party at Kay's house, Robert invites her to see his paintings but is embarrassed to find Suzie on his bed. After Kay departs, Robert orders Suzie out. As she is leaving, a sailor whom she spurned earlier that evening beats her in the stairwell. Enraged, Robert punches the sailor.", "Suzie accepts her client Ben's (Michael Wilding) offer to be his mistress to make Robert jealous. When Ben reconciles with his wife, he asks Robert to tell Suzie the news. She is so hurt by the rejection that Robert finally admits he loves her and asks her to stay with him.", "Soon the couple is living together in the hotel, with Robert painting more enthusiastically than ever. Curious about Suzie's daily absences, he follows her up a hillside path to a small house. He finds Suzie visiting her baby son, whom she has kept secret. Robert accepts the child.", "Robert faces financial difficulties when his paintings fail to sell. Both Kay and Suzie offer him money, but he refuses. When Suzie pays his rent and wants to resume working as a prostitute to help him, he angrily drives her away. Robert quickly regrets his actions and spends days searching for Suzie. Meanwhile, Kay informs Robert that a portrait of Suzie has sold in London. Robert reveals that he has lost Suzie. Kay, misunderstanding, says he can find another model; she romantically pursues Robert but he rebuffs her.", "Robert finds Suzie waiting outside the hotel. She asks for his help to retrieve her son, who is in danger due to the heavy rains. Robert and Suzie force their way up the hillside house, but the baby has been killed by a landslide. After the funereal temple ceremony for her son, Robert asks Suzie to marry him. She agrees.", "France Nuyen , who had played the role of Suzie Wong in the Broadway production opposite William Shatner [ 6 ] and was familiar to film audiences from her appearance in South Pacific , originally signed to reprise the role on screen. After five weeks of location shooting in Hong Kong, the cast and crew – including original director Jean Negulesco – moved to London to film interiors.", "Nuyen was romantically involved with Marlon Brando , and rumors of his affair with Barbara Luna was causing her distress. She began overeating, and before long was unable to fit into the body-hugging silk cheongsams her character was required to wear. Unwilling to halt production until she could lose enough weight for the production's requirements, executive producer Ray Stark replaced her with Nancy Kwan , who was touring the United States and Canada as the understudy to the lead in the road company performing the play. Stark had auditioned her for the film but had felt that she was too inexperienced to handle the lead. [ 7 ]", "Stark also fired the director, Negulesco, and replaced him with Richard Quine . Everyone involved in the completed Hong Kong scenes was required to return to reshoot them with Kwan, and all the unpublished publicity with Nuyen, including an article and photo layout for Esquire , had to be redone. [ 7 ]", "The film's title song was written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen . Artist Dong Kingman acted as the film's technical advisor [ 8 ] and painted sets for the film. The movie features location filming in Hong Kong, and art direction and production design by John Box , Syd Cain , Liz Moore, Roy Rossotti and R. L. M. Davidson at MGM British Studios.", "Sylvia Syms had just made Ferry to Hong Kong in Hong Kong. [ 9 ]", "The film premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.", "Although set in Wanchai, the film featured locations from around Hong Kong, sometimes misrepresenting their geographical proximity for cinematic effect. The film serves as a valuable historical record of 1960s Hong Kong . Locations seen in the film include Tsim Sha Tsui , Central / Sheung Wan (especially around Ladder Street ), [ 10 ] Yau Ma Tei , Sai Ying Pun , Aberdeen and Telegraph Bay . [ 11 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 38% based on eight reviews, with an average rating of 5.75 out of 10. [ 12 ]", "When the film was released it attracted a mixed response. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times observed that sceptics could assume \"that what we have here is a tale so purely idealized in the telling that it wafts into the realm of sheer romance. But the point is that idealization is accomplished so unrestrainedly and with such open reliance upon the impact of elemental clichés that it almost builds up the persuasiveness of real sincerity. Unless you shut your eyes and start thinking, you might almost believe it to be true.\" He added, \"Mr. Patrick's screenplay contrives such a winning yum-yum girl that, even if she is invented, she's a charming little thing to have around . . . And a new girl named Nancy Kwan plays her so blithely and innocently that even the ladies should love her. She and the scenery are the best things in the film.\" [ 13 ]", "Variety said, \"Holden gives a first-class performance, restrained and sincere. He brings authority and compassion to the role. Kwan is not always perfect in her timing of lines (she has a tendency to anticipate) and appears to lack a full range of depth or warmth, but on the whole she manages a fairly believable portrayal.\" [ 14 ]", "Some years after the film's release, the London listing magazine Time Out commented that because the film is \"denied the chance of being honest about its subject, it soon degenerates into euphemistic soap opera, with vague gestures towards bohemianism and lukewarm titillation.\" [ 15 ]", "In 2013, the Japanese American Citizens League called out Katy Perry 's geisha-styled performance on the American Music Awards , as \"the latest rendition of the bad movie we've all seen before. There is a persistent strain in our culture that refuses to move beyond the stereotype of Asian women as exotic and subservient. These stereotypes have been reinforced in our popular culture through plays and movies from our distant past such as Madame Butterfly and The World of Suzie Wong .\" [ 16 ]", "The film was regarded as a \"money maker\" at the British box office in 1961. [ 17 ]", "Nancy Kwan was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama [ 18 ] but lost to Greer Garson in Sunrise at Campobello . George Duning was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score but lost to Dimitri Tiomkin for The Alamo .", "The film was released on Region 1 DVD on June 29, 2004. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with an audio track and subtitles in English."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/World_and_Time_Enough_VHS.jpg", "Directed by": "Eric Mueller", "Written by": "Eric Mueller", "Produced by": "Julie Hartley Andrew Peterson", "Starring": "Gregory Giles Matt Guidry Kraig Swartz", "Music by": "Eugene Huddleston", "Distributed by": "1 in 10 Films/ Strand Releasing", "Release date": "1994 ( 1994 )", "Running time": "90 minutes", "Language": "English"}
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["World and Time Enough is a 1994 independent gay -themed romantic comedy - drama written and directed by Eric Mueller and starring Gregory Giles, Matt Guidry, and Kraig Swartz.", "Narrated by their friend David (Swartz), World and Time Enough is the story of Mark (Guidry) and Joey (Giles). Mark is an HIV -positive art student who creates temporary \"sculptures\" on topics including AIDS , abortion and the Bush economy. Joey works as a garbage collector, picking up trash along the roadways. He sometimes brings home interesting items that he finds on the job.", "Mark's mother was killed when he was a child, in a freak accident in a church when she was crushed by a large falling cross. Since that day, his father has been obsessed with building model cathedrals . Mark and his father are somewhat distant and out of touch and Mark reaches out to him through a series of phone calls, leaving messages on his father's answering machine. Unknown to Mark, his father has died alone in his home but hasn't yet been discovered.", "Joey's relationship with his adoptive parents is also strained because of his father's issues with Joey's homosexuality. Although he remains close with his sister, Joey feels the need to seek out his birth parents through the adoption social service agency.", "Mark discovers his father's body and in his grief he assumes his father's obsession with cathedral building. Rather than a model, however, Mark begins work on a full-size cathedral in a local open field.", "Joey learns the identity of his birth parents, but also learns that they have died. He visits their gravesite and says the things there that he would have told them while they were alive.", "Mark experiences a vision of his father, who tells him that he's making a mistake, to go home. Mark feverishly climbs the scaffolding and falls off it to the ground. Joey discovers him there.", "Later, together, out of the scaffolds, surviving bits of Mark's sculptures and the things Joey's gathered, they build their own \"cathedral.", "It was filmed on location in Edina and Minneapolis, Minnesota . The film was made with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, and a local film organization. The final budget was about $60,000. [ 1 ]", "The film was generally well-received by critics, although having 2 heterosexual actors play romantic leads in an LGBTQ+ film was noted in reviews. [ 2 ]"]
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World for Ransom
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/04/World_for_Ransom_movie_poster.jpg/250px-World_for_Ransom_movie_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Robert Aldrich (uncredited)", "Screenplay by": "Lindsay Hardy Hugo Butler (uncredited)", "Produced by": "Bernard Tabakin Robert Aldrich", "Starring": "Dan Duryea Gene Lockhart Patric Knowles", "Cinematography": "Joseph Biroc", "Edited by": "Michael Luciano", "Music by": "Frank De Vol", "Production company": "Plaza Production", "Distributed by": "Allied Artists Pictures", "Release dates": "January 27, 1954 ( 1954-01-27 ) (Los Angeles, California) January 31, 1954 ( 1954-01-31 ) (United States)", "Running time": "82 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$100,000 [ 1 ]", "Box office": "441,946 admissions (France) [ 2 ]"}
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["World for Ransom is a 1954 American film noir drama directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Dan Duryea , Patric Knowles , Gene Lockhart , Reginald Denny , and Nigel Bruce (in his final film role). [ 3 ] [ 4 ]", "Many of the actors and sets used in the film were from the Dan Duryea television show China Smith . Aldrich and cinematographer Joseph Biroc also worked on the series.", "Aldrich later said the film \"first embedded what I wanted to say in films. It was mainly about two men with good and bad points. Both men believed in individual liberty but the belief of one man was weaker than the other because he had no respect for humanity.\" [ 5 ]", "Mike Callahan (Duryea) is an Irish émigré and war veteran working in Singapore as a private detective. He takes on a case from a former flame, now a nightclub singer . She thinks her husband Julian March (Knowles) is involved in criminal activities and asks him to help out.", "Callahan learns that a man named Alexis Pederas (Lockhart) has involved Julian in a plot to kidnap a prominent nuclear scientist Sean O'Connor and hold him for ransom to the highest bidder. O'Connor is one of the only four men in the world that knows how to detonate the H-Bomb .", "Aldrich said he got the idea to make the film while directing episodes of China Smith . When production was on hiatus he wrote a story with a colleague. [ 6 ] Bernard Tabakin, who produced China Smith , agreed to produce the film along with Aldrich. [ 7 ]", "Aldrich says the script was almost entirely written by Hugo Butler but Butler does not get credit due to being blacklisted. Aldrich said \"There are optimists in the society, not many left, who thought that someday those guys [on the Hollywood Blacklist] would get post-mortem credits for their work. So he wrote World for Ransom and I put my name on it to try and get him the credit. And it went into arbitration with the Writer's Guild, and another guy Lindsay Hardy got total screen credit on it. It was a joke. He no more wrote that script than walk on the water. Butler made that total screenplay.\" [ 8 ]", "Filming started 13 April 1953 at the Motion Picture Center Studio . [ 9 ]", "The film was shot in 11 days, on a budget that has been reported between $90,000 and $100,000. It was shot over 6 days, then Aldrich halted production to shoot TV commercials in order to raise money for the film's post-production. Then there was a five-day shoot to finish it. [ 10 ] [ 6 ]", "It was a strange and very enjoyable experience and – except for the end result – a marvellous collaboration\", said Aldrich. \"It really had no sets and thanks to Joe Biroc we had reflections in the water where there was no water and all sorts of silly things. I've always looked back on World for Ransom with a kind of wistful happy feeling..\" [ 6 ]", "The film is similar to another film noir with a nuclear theme by Aldrich, Kiss Me Deadly , the difference being that Callahan is trying to get an old girlfriend back, while Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly was in it for the money.", "The film had a considerable impact on Aldrich's career – in July 1953 Harold Hecht hired him to direct Burt Lancaster in Apache . [ 11 ]", "When the film was released, film critic Bosley Crowther was negative about the film but appreciated the actors, writing, \"Nothing gives it distinction, save possibly the people in its cast ... Robert Aldrich produced and directed. He was trying. Some day he may learn how.\" [ 12 ]", "More recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz was positive about the film, and wrote, \"This is a marvelously understated film noir that parodies all those big-budget spy/adventure films and in my opinion does a better job than most in getting to the underbelly of that genre. Aldrich was upset with censors for lifting the scene where Duryea learns his love interest is a lesbian. He could forgive her love for other men, but not with other women. The 1950s wasn't ready for such relationships, at least not in films. Nevertheless, this was a compelling film doing a fantastic job exploring the uncertainty of partnerships and the indeterminate nature of trust.\" [ 13 ]"]
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World in My Corner
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/30/World_in_My_Corner.jpg/250px-World_in_My_Corner.jpg", "Directed by": "Jesse Hibbs", "Screenplay by": "Jack Sher", "Story by": "Jack Sher Joseph Stone", "Produced by": "Aaron Rosenberg", "Starring": "Audie Murphy Barbara Rush Jeff Morrow", "Cinematography": "Maury Gertsman", "Edited by": "Milton Carruth", "Music by": "Joseph Gershenson", "Color process": "Black and white", "Production company": "Universal Pictures", "Distributed by": "Universal Pictures", "Release date": "February 17, 1956 ( 1956-02-17 ) (United States)", "Running time": "82 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["World in My Corner is a 1956 American film noir drama sports film directed by Jesse Hibbs and starring Audie Murphy , Barbara Rush and Jeff Morrow . The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures . It is one of the few non-Western films in which Murphy appeared. [ 1 ]", "Tommy Shea, a boxer from Jersey City , is sponsored by millionaire Robert Mallinson. He falls for Mallinson's daughter Dorothy, who wants freedom from her father's controlling ways and to pursue her writing career. In order to acquire enough money to begin his life with Dorothy, Tommy begins to work for crooked fight promoter Harry Cram. This causes conflict with his honest manager, Dave Bernstein. As his big fight approaches, Tommy is torn about what he should do.", "The film was Murphy's first following the tremendous box-office success of To Hell and Back (1955), a film with the same producer and director as for World in My Corner . Murphy fights with several real-life boxers on screen, including Chico Vejar, Art Aragon and Cisco Andrade. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Andrade later praised Murphy as being \"the first actor I ever saw who wasn't afraid of getting hit hard in a prize fight scene.\" [ 8 ]", "In a contemporary review for The New York Times , critic Milton Esterow wrote: \"The prizefighters on the Palace screen are getting thinner. The Palace ring dramas aren't putting on any weight, either. The theatre's last fight film was about a middleweight (160 pounds). Yesterday's offering, 'World in My Corner,\" concerns a welterweight (147 pounds). ... Universal-International keeps the leather flying with the aid of a gent named Chico Vejar, who has been in the ring for real. But please, U-I, hang up the gloves and toss in the towel for a while. We're getting a little punchy.\" [ 9 ]", "According to Murphy's biographer, the film \"didn't do anything at the box office\". [ 8 ]"]
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The World in His Arms
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/WorldInHisArms-poster.jpg/250px-WorldInHisArms-poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Raoul Walsh", "Written by": "Borden Chase Horace McCoy (additional dialog)", "Based on": "The World in His Arms by Rex Beach", "Produced by": "Aaron Rosenberg", "Starring": "Gregory Peck Ann Blyth Anthony Quinn", "Cinematography": "Russell Metty", "Edited by": "Frank Gross", "Music by": "Frank Skinner", "Distributed by": "Universal-International", "Release date": "October 9, 1952 ( 1952-10-09 )", "Running time": "104 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$3 million (US rentals) [ 1 ]"}
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["The World in His Arms is a 1952 American seafaring adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Gregory Peck , Ann Blyth and Anthony Quinn , with John McIntire , Carl Esmond , Andrea King , Eugenie Leontovich , Hans Conried , and Sig Ruman . Made by Universal-International , it was produced by Aaron Rosenberg from a screenplay by Borden Chase and Horace McCoy . It is based on the novel by Rex Beach . The music score was by Frank Skinner and the cinematography by Russell Metty .", "In 1850 San Francisco, Russian Countess Marina Selanova (Blyth) flees from an arranged marriage to Prince Semyon (Esmond). She books passage with \"Portugee\" (Quinn) to Sitka , where her uncle Governor Ivan Vorashilov (Sig Ruman) can protect her.", "When Portugee's bitter rival, Captain Jonathan Clark, \"the Boston -man\" (Peck), frees his shanghaied crew, she sends a man to negotiate with him instead. However, Jonathan hates all Russians and turns down the offer. In desperation, Marina goes to the party he is throwing and, pretending to be the Countess's companion, gets him to change his mind. As he shows her the sights of the city in one whirlwind night, they fall in love. Jonathan proposes marriage and she gladly accepts.", "However, Prince Semyon finds Marina and takes her to Sitka. Believing Marina has tricked him, Jonathan races Portugee to Alaska, recklessly wagering his ship on who gets there first. Jonathan wins, but that doesn't stop Portugee from trying to steal his ship anyway. Unluckily, while both crews are brawling, a Russian gunboat appears and takes them all captive to Sitka.", "Once there, Prince Semyon forces Marina to agree to marry him in return for Jonathan's freedom. Jonathan and his men double back, rescue Marina, and sail away.", "The film was shot on the Universal Studios Lot over a period of 47 days. Due to budgetary constraints, the cast was not available for shipboard filming. Assistant director James Havens filmed the boat race scenes over a period of 50 days off the Atlantic coast near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and closeups of the lead actors were intercut later. [ 2 ] Gregory Peck was paid $100,000 and a percentage of the profits for his role in the film. [ 3 ]", "The World in His Arms premiered at Fourth Avenue Theatre in Anchorage, Alaska on June 18, 1952. Actresses Lori Nelson , Joyce Holden , Kathleen Hughes and Jeanne Cooper attended the premiere along with star Ann Blyth. The film's general American release took place on October 9. [ 4 ]", "Craig Butler of AllMovie says, \"Although it has its ups and down, The World in His Arms is generally a good action-adventure-romance yarn. Chief among its assets is the thrilling sea race that is the centerpiece of the film...Credit goes to the director Raoul Walsh...there's so much spirit and heart in this sequence that you can practically touch it...If the rest of the film were as exciting as this section, it would be a masterpiece. Unfortunately, this isn't the case – but fortunately, much of the rest of the film is still quite good and at its worst, it's still average...Quinn plays the part as if he were born to it. Ann Blyth does well as the love interest, and looks lovely.\" [ 5 ] Leonard Maltin describes it as an \"Unlikely but entertaining tale.\" [ 6 ] Ben Sachs of Chicago Reader comments \"This is not a classic, but it's loads of fun, thanks in part to Walsh's brisk pacing and infectious sympathy for rugged, macho types...Quinn boisterously (overacts) as only he can...even when the story gives way to high seas spectacle, the drama remains stubbornly life-sized.\" [ 7 ]", "Variety said \"a hearty, salty action film well-trouped by a good cast\" [ 8 ] and \"some of the best sea footage ever put on film.\" [ 9 ]", "The film was the eighth most popular movie at the British box office in 1952. [ 10 ]", "Versions of the film have been released as a VHS videotape, [ 11 ] as a region 1 DVD, [ 12 ] and in 2020 as a Region A Blu-ray in North America from Kino Lorber."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/40/WORLDOFH-00AA1-poster_hires.jpg/250px-WORLDOFH-00AA1-poster_hires.jpg", "Directed by": "George Roy Hill", "Screenplay by": "Nora Johnson Nunnally Johnson", "Based on": "The World of Henry Orient 1958 novel by Nora Johnson", "Produced by": "Jerome Hellman", "Starring": "Peter Sellers Paula Prentiss Merrie Spaeth Tippy Walker Tom Bosley Angela Lansbury", "Cinematography": "Boris Kaufman Arthur J. Ornitz", "Edited by": "Stuart Gilmore", "Music by": "Elmer Bernstein", "Production company": "Pan Arts Company", "Distributed by": "United Artists", "Release date": "March 19, 1964 ( 1964-03-19 )", "Running time": "106 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$2 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "est. $2,100,000 (US/ Canada) [ 2 ]"}
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["The World of Henry Orient is a 1964 American comedy-drama film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Peter Sellers , Paula Prentiss , Angela Lansbury , Tippy Walker , Merrie Spaeth , Phyllis Thaxter , Bibi Osterwald , and Tom Bosley . It is based on the novel of the same name [ Wikidata ] by Nora Johnson , who co-wrote the screenplay with her father, Nunnally Johnson .", "The original story was inspired in part by Nora Johnson's own experiences as a schoolgirl, as well as by a real-life incident involving singer Tony Bennett and two teenage fans. [ citation needed ]", "In New York City, concert pianist Henry Orient pursues an affair with a married woman, Stella Dunnworthy, while two adolescent private-school girls, Valerie \"Val\" Boyd and Marian \"Gil\" Gilbert, stalk him and write their fantasies about him in a diary. Henry's paranoia leads him to believe that the two girls, who seem to pop up everywhere he goes, are juvenile private detectives sent by his would-be mistress' husband.", "In reality, 14-year-old Val, the bright, imaginative daughter of wealthy international trade expert Frank Boyd and his unfaithful, snobbish wife Isabel, has developed a teenage crush on Henry after seeing him in concert, and has involved her best friend Gil. Although Gil's parents are divorced, she lives a relatively stable, happy life in a townhouse in the city with her mother and her mother's also-divorced female friend, while Val, whose parents are still married (albeit unhappily), sees a psychiatrist daily and lives with paid caretakers while her parents travel the world.", "When Val's parents return for Christmas, she becomes concerned that her mother Isabel is having an extramarital affair with a young pianist. Val's interference leads her mother to find and read Val's diary. Isabel chastises Val and seeks out Henry, ostensibly to tell him to stay away from her underage daughter. The cheating Isabel and the womanizing Henry are quickly attracted to each other and begin an affair, which Val and Gil accidentally discover while stalking Henry outside his apartment. Val's devastation and Isabel's attempts to cover up her own behavior cause Frank to figure out what happened. Frank and Isabel separate while the paranoid Henry flees the country. However, positive changes for Val result as Frank, who unlike Isabel genuinely cares about his daughter, resolves to stop traveling so often and establish a real home where he and Val can spend more time together. In the end, Val and Gil have matured and moved on from fantasy play to makeup, fashion, and boys their own age.", "The novel was published in 1958. The New York Times said it was written with \"warmth, insight and nostalgia.\" [ 3 ]", "The pianist's unusual surname, \"Orient\", came about because Nora Johnson based the character on Oscar Levant , a real-life concert pianist, raconteur, and film actor on whom she had a crush as a teenager. [ 4 ] Since the word \"levant\" means Orient in French (literally the direction from which the sun rises), the name is a play on words. In the film, several allusions to the pianist's unusual name occur when his two teenage fans put on Chinese conical hats , address their idol as \"Oriental Henry,\" kowtow to an Asian-style altar, and adopt vaguely Japanese-sounding names for themselves.", "Nora Johnson's father Nunnally was a noted screenwriter but he said for three years, \"it never \noccurred to me that it could be filmed, because I couldn't think of two girls to do it. \" [ 5 ] Johnson said his point of view changed when he saw Hayley Mills in a film and felt it could be done with Mills and Patty Duke . Johnson decided to write the script on \"spec\" and gave it to his agent to sell – one of the rare times in his career he had done this. [ 5 ]", "In April 1962, Nunnally Johnson said he wanted to adapt the book into a screenplay for 20th Century Fox. [ 6 ]", "Johnson says his daughter had written a script herself but felt it did not work as she was too inexperienced as a dramatist and too faithful to the book. He purchased the screen rights from her and they agreed to split the screenplay fee 50-50. [ 7 ]", "United Artists were interested in buying the script. Henry Koster , who had directed several comedies written by Johnson at Fox, read the script and loved it and pressured Richard Zanuck at Fox to buy it; Zanuck was keen but wanted his father Daryl to read it first. Daryl did not get around to reading it and Johnson decided to sell to United Artists. This upset Daryl Zanuck who felt he had been misled and ended the formerly close relationship between him and Johnson. [ 8 ]", "In April 1963, George Roy Hill announced that he and producer Jerome Hellman had bought the screen rights and would film it for their Pan Arts company which had a deal with United Artists. [ 9 ]", "Johnson wrote the role of Henry Orient for Rex Harrison but Harrison turned it down as the part was not big enough. [ 10 ] In May 1963, Peter Sellers signed to play the male lead. It would be his first American movie. [ 11 ] Sellers reportedly became available when a broken ankle meant he missed out on another job. The film's production was sped up to take advantage of his availability. [ 1 ]", "Sellers said his character had \"a dreadful Brooklynese accent but in an attempt to appear cultured and charming he hides it with a phony French accent.\" [ 12 ]", "Spaeth, who was 15 at the time of filming, had no previous acting experience except for a minor role in a school production, and was cast after the head of her school's drama department suggested her to a talent scout. The World of Henry Orient is Spaeth's only film appearance, as she shortly thereafter left acting. [ 4 ]", "Walker, who was 16 at the time of filming and turned 17 shortly before the film was released, had worked as a model and was suggested to the film's producer by a photographer. [ 13 ] The filmmakers had auditioned hundreds of girls but the two who were chosen were recommended through friends. [ 14 ]", "According to a 2012 article in The New Yorker by John Colapinto , director George Roy Hill handpicked Walker from hundreds of actresses who auditioned for the role of \"Val\". The filmmakers were so impressed with her performance that they reshaped the film during editing to focus more on her character, and shot the scene of her walking through a snowy Central Park months after production had wrapped. According to Colapinto, in the 2000s Walker revealed through a series of posts on IMDb that she and Hill fell in love during the filming, and that the relationship lasted throughout most of Walker's senior year in high school, even though Hill was married with children and, at age 44, nearly 30 years older than Walker. Walker claimed that the resulting Hollywood gossip made others reluctant to cast her and contributed to her decision to stop acting in the early 1970s. [ 4 ]", "Eddie Duchin 's son Peter made his acting debut in the film. [ 15 ]", "Filming started on July 29, 1963, at the Long Island studios at Roosevelt Field. It wrapped that October.", "Johnson said Hill made some notable contributions to the film including \"those runs through the park. He used trampolines and some kind of slow motion, and it gave it a real quality of soaring childhood, released, all the way through. He's one of these dedicated directors, one that takes trouble. I thought he did it beautifully, and I appreciated it.\" [ 16 ]", "The World of Henry Orient premiered at Radio City Music Hall on March 19, 1964.", "It was the official U.S. entry at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival . [ 17 ] [ 18 ]", "In 1965, it was nominated for the Golden Globe Award in the category \"Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy\" and for a Writers Guild of America Award for \"Best Written American Comedy.", "The film was well received by critics and has an 88% rating at Rotten Tomatoes . In his review for The New York Times , Bosley Crowther wrote that it was \"one of the most joyous and comforting movies about teenagers that we've had in a long time\". [ 19 ]", "It was voted one of the Year's Ten Best Films by the National Board of Review in 1964. [ 20 ]", "Johnson said \"when I saw the picture, I was just delighted with it.\" [ 5 ]", "Johnson says the film performed strongly at the box office in New York but struggled elsewhere and failed to return its costs. He and Hill felt that \"the title was very bad though he didn't realize it then. It conveyed nothing to anybody.\" Johnson felt that this may have turned children off from going into the film. [ 16 ] Johnson also thought Peter Sellers, while funny, played the role too broadly, and that the film would have worked better with Rex Harrison. [ 10 ]", "A Broadway musical adaptation of The World of Henry Orient called Henry, Sweet Henry , with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill , book by Nunnally Johnson (the father of Nora Johnson), direction by George Roy Hill and choreography by Michael Bennett , opened at the Palace Theatre on October 23, 1967. It starred Don Ameche as Henry Orient, Neva Small as Marian Gilbert, Robin Wilson as Valerie Boyd, Milo Bouton as Mr Boyd, Carol Bruce as Mrs. Boyd and Louise Lasser as Stella. Pia Zadora also appeared in the role of a student. The show ran for 80 performances and closed on December 31, 1967, receiving less than stellar reviews. [ 21 ] William Goldman , in his study of the 1967–68 theater year, The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway , claimed that the musical was of high quality but was old fashioned, and \"had the misfortune\" to open just a week after all the critics \"were overcome by Hair ,\" which had a modern sound.", "Although the show was not a success, one of its performers, Alice Playten , received a 1968 Theatre World Award , and was nominated for a Tony Award for \"Best Featured Actress in a Musical\" for playing the role of Kafritz, which was enlarged substantially for the play. In addition, Michael Bennett was nominated for a Tony for \"Best Choreography.\" [ 22 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/16/The_World_Gone_Mad.jpg/250px-The_World_Gone_Mad.jpg", "Directed by": "Christy Cabanne", "Written by": "Edward T. Lowe Jr.", "Produced by": "Phil Goldstone Larry Darmour", "Starring": "Pat O'Brien Evelyn Brent Neil Hamilton", "Cinematography": "Ira H. Morgan", "Edited by": "Otis Garrett", "Production company": "Majestic Pictures", "Distributed by": "Capitol Film Exchange", "Release date": "April 15, 1933 ( 1933-04-15 )", "Running time": "70 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["The World Gone Mad (also released as The Public Be Hanged ) is a 1933 American pre-Code crime film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Pat O'Brien , Evelyn Brent and Neil Hamilton . [ 1 ] It was made on a low-budget by the independent Majestic Pictures , a Poverty Row forerunner of Republic Pictures . [ 2 ]", "When a district attorney who has been investigating a utility company's directors for fraud is suddenly killed, his wisecracking newspaperman friend ( Pat O'Brien ) gets curious. He and the upstanding new district attorney ( Neil Hamilton ) separately pursue the case. Cultivated but sinister businessmen, a shady nightclub owner specializing in \"import and export\", several beautiful young women always seen in evening gowns, a \"Latin lover\" type who reads Casanova and an abundance of suave men in evening dress provide eye-candy for the duration."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/World_of_Delight_poster.jpeg/250px-World_of_Delight_poster.jpeg", "Kanji": "レインツリーの国", "Transcriptions Revised Hepburn": "Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Reintsurī no Kuni", "Revised Hepburn": "Reintsurī no Kuni", "Directed by": "Yoshishige Miyake", "Screenplay by": "Chiho Watanabe [ 1 ]", "Based on": "Raintree no Kuni [ ja ] by Hiro Arikawa", "Cinematography": "Hiroo Yanagida", "Music by": "Yugo Kannno", "Distributed by": "Showgate [ 2 ]", "Release date": "November 21, 2015 ( 2015-11-21 )", "Running time": "108 minutes", "Country": "Japan", "Language": "Japanese", "Box office": "¥124 million [ 2 ]"}
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["World of Delight ( レインツリーの国 , Reintsurī no Kuni ; Raintree Country) is a 2015 Japanese youth romance film directed by Yoshishige Miyake. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is based on the novel Raintree no Kuni [ ja ] by Hiro Arikawa . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was released on November 21, 2015. [ 3 ]", "This work is a love story between the main charactor, who is a normal hearing person, and the heroine who is the late-deafened. [ 4 ] Hiro Arikawa , the author of this work, had experience of having her husband suffer sudden hearing loss twice, and fortunately, because he was treated quickly, he did not lose his hearing and was able to return to hearing, but this experience of hers would have gone into the image of a heroine who suffers from hearing loss. [ 5 ] There is an expression in the work where she is distressed because she cannot hear Nobuyuki's voice. [ 6 ]", "Yuta Tamamori , who plays the lead role of Nobuyuki, had this to say about his character, \"He is straight and says what he thinks clearly. He is the complete opposite of me (laughs). I've never played a businessman before, so I asked my friends beforehand how difficult it would be. It's a warm movie about two very straight people in love, so I hope it will make people who watch it swoon\". [ 7 ] Mariya Nishiuchi , who plays Rika Hitomi, said \"Playing the role of Hitomi made me think about the importance of love and words. [ 8 ] I'm curious to see how Hitomi's step-by-step progress reached everyone's hearts, so I'd be very happy to hear your thoughts on it.\" [ 9 ]", "Tamamori had to use the Kansai dialect for his role, and he had difficulty with intonation in the Kansai dialect . He said that the script was black with countless intonations written in pen. Seeing Tamamori like this, co-star Kataoka Ainosuke VI gave him advice as a Kansai region person. Kataoka said, \"Tamamori-kun was a really nice young man and eager to learn,\" and added, \"I want you to become a member of the Kansai people (laughs)\". [ 10 ]", "According to art director Chie Matsumoto, the room interiors were created with great care for this shoot. Kousaka's house, which she moved to Tokyo from Osaka, was made to have a lived-in feel without being too stylish. Osaka-like accessories were also placed on the set of her parents' house in Osaka. In Hitomi's house, the direction and arrangement of the furniture were considered after talking to an actual hearing-impaired person. [ 11 ]", "Nobuyuki Sakisaka is a businessman who sometimes works at the hospital as a helper. While cleaning out his parents' house, he found a book he once loved, but noticed that only the bottom volume was missing. As he reads through the upper and middle volumes, he can't help but feel compelled to read the lower volume. Curious about the contents of the second volume, I searched the Internet and found the website \"Raintree Country,\" of which Hitomi is the administrator. he was so moved by the comments he read on the site that he couldn't help but send a message to Hitomi. Hitomi replied, and the two had a great time talking about their favorite works.\nNobuyuki wanted to meet Hitomi and told her that he wanted to see her, but then she stopped replying. Nobuyuki, who really wanted to meet Hitomi, waited for a while, but Hitomi actually had a handicap in her hearing and did not want to meet him. Hitomi had a hard life because of her ear disorder. However, her life changes little by little when she meets Nobuyuki, who cares about Hitomi as a woman.", "The film was number-two on its opening weekend by box office gross behind Girls und Panzer der Film , with ¥124 million , and number-one by admissions, with 91,700. [ 2 ]", "With Japanese subtitles and audio guidance released May 25, 2016 by Avex Inc."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3a/WorldoftheDeadTheZombieDiariesposter.jpg/250px-WorldoftheDeadTheZombieDiariesposter.jpg", "Directed by": "Kevin Gates Michael Bartlett", "Written by": "Kevin Gates", "Produced by": "Rob Weston", "Cinematography": "George Carpenter", "Edited by": "Drew Cullingham Mark Tehnsuko", "Music by": "Pete Renton", "Distributed by": "Dimension Films", "Release date": "24 June 2011 ( 2011-06-24 )", "Running time": "88 minutes", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English"}
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["World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2 is a 2011 British horror film written by Kevin Gates, directed by Michael Bartlett and Gates and produced by Rob Weston of Straightwire Entertainment Group. The film stars Alix Wilton Regan , Philip Brodie and Vicky Aracio. [ 1 ] The film is a sequel to The Zombie Diaries .", "The film received critical acclaim after screening at major festivals around the world, including Sitges, and was released theatrically in the UK on 27 June and in US cinemas on 2 September 2011. [ 2 ]", "A family is holding a birthday for their daughter during the apocalypse, maintaining the illusion things are still normal despite their only light source being a camcorder and birthday candles. It is clear, however, that they have barely been surviving as zombies overwhelm them.", "The footage of the \"birthday\" is archived by a military photographer, Jones, who documents his team's efforts of surviving the zombie onslaught in a remote beachside compound. There, they take in survivors, both infected and not, including the sole survivor of the last movie's original film crew, Leeann (now portrayed by Alix Wilton Regan). Together, along with a medical officer, the team attempts to hold out as long as possible. Things take a turn for the worse, as zombies break in and overrun the facility. Only Leeann, Jones, and a handful of soldiers make it out alive, forced to leave behind one of their own.", "The survivors find their way to a remote cabin where they attempt to hold up for the night as it begins snowing. However, the zombie population has grown too much for anywhere to be safe and they are once more forced to flee. With their transportation incapacitated, they make a dangerous trek through the brutal outdoors at night.", "The next day, the survivors continue to seek any kind of sanctuary. While walking in the woods, they discover booby-traps and the macabre remains of dispatched zombies. Figuring it to be human bandits, they carefully avoid numerous traps, until they come across the enemy hideout. It is here they discover the true enemies of the living, a bastion of psychopathic renegades led by the notorious Goke (Russell Jones). Hardened by the elements, Goke is once again aided by his sidekick Manny and several other humans, that he leads with no discrimination.", "Two of the soldiers, Jones and Carter, secretly witness Goke's men sexually assault an infected female, until the leader steps out and shoots her in the head before chastising them. Jones and Carter return to the others to inform them of the situation before falling back into the woods. Leeann, at this point, had yet to see her past tormentors, however she recognises the grim location she had been found prior to the movies opening.", "Throughout the day, the soldiers and Leeann use hand to hand tactics against the undead to keep the bandits from knowing their location. They continue this until night as they camp, each survivor divulging their personal lives as it is now clear that there is indeed hope... a ship preparing to leave. Their discussion is cut short as they hear the sounds of someone nearby, discovering that the bandits are in fact searching for them. Tragedy strikes as Leeann is discovered and reunited with Goke and Manny. Uninterested in raping her again, Goke promises that she will have a special fate. The soldiers, in hiding, strike against the gang and rescue Leeann. In the shootout, zombies overwhelm both sides as Carter is unfortunately shot and subsequently devoured.", "As Leeann and the soldiers are once again forced into the night, they find themselves in a cemetery while the bandits dispatch the living dead. As another dawn once again gives the survivors light, they are unfortunately captured after a devastating shootout leaving the last female soldiers, Kayne (Vicky Araico), injured. Fate is once again cruel to Leeann, as she and her fellow captives are once again in the same barn the military rescued her from.", "Goke, Manny and his crew subdue and tie up the survivors, keeping Kayne separated as well as taking control of Jones' camera. Goke sets his evil sights on torturing them, having a mentally impaired follower named Billy beat the team's leader. Leeann even goes as far as to call Goke by his name, begging him to stop. He does not, allowing Billy to violently assault the leader.", "Goke and Billy enter the next room to find Manny torturing the injured Kayne. they then prepare Billy for \"initiation\", by raping her. Hesitant throughout, Billy is physically forced to sexually assault and stab the woman to death. Before Goke can rape her dead body, gunshots are heard in the next room. The three reenter the holding room of the barn to find that all the survivors are still tied up and one of his men shot dead, a victim of Nicholson, the soldier left behind in the beginning of the movie who had been following behind his comrades all along. Another psycho, Curtis, has his throat slit and Manny is shot. Goke manages to flee outside and after a short shootout, escapes.", "Having been freed by Nicholson, Leeann oversees an injured Manny who taunts her before meeting a bloody end at the young woman's shotgun.", "After the burial and mourning for Kayne, the soldiers leader, Maddox, is interrogated by the others who discover the truth of the UK's fate. A large scale firebombing has been ordered for the next morning. With his hopes set on the boats, Maddox leads Jones, Leeann and Nicholson to a nearby bunker where the last known military holdout was known to be. The soldiers of the bunker are all dead, leaving the survivors in a state of panic. Maddox, close to losing all hope, runs out to find where the soldiers had left markers for the boats which never came. Insistent on waiting, despite the sounds of the jets overhead, he remains behind as the others engage in combat against an army of zombies.", "While Jonesy, Nicholson and Leeann are still in the bunker, zombies come in surrounding them. Nicholson orders them to fight but Jonesy is too scared and can only watch. Nicholson is killed and Jonesy instead watches Leeann fight them herself but she tires out and falls and is killed as well. Jonesy then states his failure to the camera and commits suicide via pistol when a zombie grabs him.", "Footage throughout the film, show soldiers in hazmat gear gathering survivors and killing them to prevent further infection reveal them to be Jones, Maddox, Carter and Kayne, facing the psychological damage of slaughtering possible innocents and burning their remains during a time when the infection wasn't clear. For the last time, a camera blinks out.", "The ending of the film dispenses with the found footage approach and is presented in a traditional cinema style, showing Maddox as the sole survivor of the group. Walking the beach at sunrise, he is taken back at being alive as the beauty of sunrise gives an uncertain future. On the shoreline he stumbles across other survivors, a husband and his pregnant wife, who beg for his help after revealing they had come to the UK in seek of refuge from their destroyed city of Rotterdam in Holland. They reveal they were told that the UK was safe and survivors were gathering there. They ask Maddox to help them.", "Ain't It Cool News [ 3 ] praised the film, saying: “ Zombie Diaries 2 , like its predecessor, is your higher quality zombie film. The gore is top notch. There are quite a few scenes with true scares. And of course, it’s a nice homage to the original Dead trilogy with an adherence to Romero’s rules of zombie.” Time Out also lavished praise on the film stating that, compared to the first film “the production values are classier; and co-directors Michael Bartlett and Kevin Gates’s handling of the relentlessly grim, apocalyptic setting is more assured.” [ 4 ]"]
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A World Apart
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0e/A_world_apart.jpg/250px-A_world_apart.jpg", "Directed by": "Chris Menges", "Written by": "Shawn Slovo", "Produced by": "Sarah Radclyffe", "Starring": "Barbara Hershey David Suchet Jeroen Krabbé Paul Freeman Tim Roth Jodhi May", "Cinematography": "Peter Biziou", "Edited by": "Nicholas Gaster", "Music by": "Hans Zimmer", "Production company": "Working Title Films [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Atlantic Releasing Corporation", "Release dates": "May 1988 ( 1988-05 ) ( Cannes ) 17 June 1988 ( 1988-06-17 ) (New York) August 1988 ( 1988-08 ) (London)", "Running time": "113 minutes", "Countries": "United Kingdom Zimbabwe", "Language": "English", "Budget": "£2.68 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$8 million [ 3 ]"}
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["A World Apart is a 1988 anti- apartheid drama film directed by Chris Menges , and starring Barbara Hershey , David Suchet , Jeroen Krabbé , Paul Freeman , Tim Roth and Jodhi May . Written by Shawn Slovo , it is based on the lives of Slovo's parents, Ruth First and Joe Slovo . The film was a co-production between companies from the UK and Zimbabwe , where it was filmed. It features Hans Zimmer 's first non-collaborative film score . The movie was filmed on location in northeastern Zimbabwe. [ 4 ]", "The film received acclaim, winning BAFTA Awards for Best Screenplay for Shawn Slovo and Best Supporting Actor for David Suchet , [ 5 ] as well as the Special Grand Prize of the Jury at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival . [ 6 ]", "Set in Johannesburg in 1963, the film examines the abrupt ending of 13-year-old Molly's blithe childhood when her father, a member of the South African Communist Party , flees into exile. Ostracised by her peers, Molly draws closer to her mother who is part of the campaign against apartheid . Their relationship is challenged by hardship, political intimidation, and the mother's eventual arrest.", "The film title references both the gap between the mother and her teenage girl, who fails to grasp why their family is so fixated with events beyond their comfortable white suburb, and another separating this world from that of South Africa's poverty-stricken black townships.", "Essentially, the film is a tribute to Ruth First by her daughter and concludes in a moment of epiphany as Molly comes to terms with her mother's activism and understands that she too must play a part in the struggle against racial injustice.", "The film opened at Cinema 1 in New York City on 17 June 1988.", "A World Apart has an overall approval rating of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes from 11 critics. [ 7 ]", "The film was placed on 40 critics' top ten lists, making it one of the most acclaimed films of 1988. [ 8 ]", "The film grossed $20,815 in its opening weekend in New York [ 9 ] and $35,835 (£21,200) for the week. Two months later it opened at the Curzon West End in London and sold out for the week, with a gross of £43,167. [ 1 ] It went on to gross $8 million worldwide, including $2,326,800 in the United States and Canada [ 9 ] and £800,000 at the UK box office. [ 3 ] [ 2 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/The_World_film.jpg", "Directed by": "Jia Zhangke", "Written by": "Jia Zhangke", "Produced by": "Hengameh Panahi Takio Yoshida Chow Keung", "Starring": "Zhao Tao Cheng Taishen", "Cinematography": "Yu Lik-wai", "Edited by": "Kong Jinglei", "Music by": "Lim Giong", "Distributed by": "Zeitgeist Films (U.S.) Celluloid Dreams", "Release dates": "4 September 2004 ( 2004-09-04 ) ( Venice ) 15 April 2005 ( 2005-04-15 ) (China) 1 July 2005 ( 2005-07-01 ) (U.S.)", "Running time": "135 minutes", "Country": "China", "Languages": "Standard Mandarin Jin Chinese"}
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["The World ( Chinese: 世界; pinyin: Shìjiè ) is a 2004 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke , starring Zhao Tao and Cheng Taishen. It was his first film shot outside his hometown of Shanxi Province , and also the first of his works to be granted official production approval by the Chinese government.", "According to the documentary Jia Zhangke, un ragazzo di Fenyang 2014, the inspiration for The World came from a 2003 conversation between Jia and Zhao Tao, in which she recounted her experience working as a dancer at Shenzhen’s “ Window of The World ,” a theme park filled with miniature versions of international landmarks. [ 1 ] This inspired Jia to explore the gap between fantasy and survival for China’s urban underclass and the symbolic role of such theme parks in shaping the spectacle of globalization. However, the film was ultimately set in Beijing World Park, a similar attraction on the outskirts of the capital.", "The film is set in early 21st-century China, during a time of accelerated integration into the social transformation of globalization. It follows a group of young rural migrants, including performers and security guards working at World Park, and some construction workers employed elsewhere in the city.", "The migrant’s lives were swept up in the spectacle of modernization and global consumer culture, where personal dreams frequently clashed with structural realities. Although they appeared to be at the center of a stage representing The World, this “world” is merely a glamorous surface built for tourist consumption. Their jobs still remained low-paid, repetitive, and precarious. The migrants are still trapped in cycles of emotional isolation, unstable employment, and social marginalization.", "Stylistically, scholar David Richler notes that Jia Zhangke departs from his usual observational realism in The World, incorporating computer animation and digital effects to express emotional dislocation and imagined mobility (Richler 7). [ 2 ] The film blends documentary-style cinematography with animation and electronic music, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy, local and global.", "Through the spatial logic and symbolic function of the theme park, Jia Zhangke presents a lived condition in which the promise of “freely traversing The World \" masks a reality of constrained mobility. The film highlights the structural limitations and class immobility faced by marginalized individuals in post-socialist urban China.", "The World premiered in competition at the 61st Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2004, and received critical acclaim for its subtle yet powerful portrayal of contemporary Chinese urban life and its complex entanglement with global spectacle.", "At Beijing World Park , performer Tao ( Zhao Tao ) is visited by her ex-boyfriend en route to Ulaanbaatar . Her boyfriend Taisheng, a security guard, meets them and insists on driving him to the Beijing railway station . Taisheng, frustrated that Tao refuses to have sex with him, is also busy with fellow migrants from his home province of Shanxi . Chen Zhijun is an introverted childhood friend of Taisheng's who has just arrived at the park; he eventually becomes a construction worker .", "Tao, meanwhile, meets Anna, one of the World Park's Russian performers. Though Anna speaks no Chinese, and Tao no Russian, the two become unlikely friends. Anna confesses to Tao that she will quit her job and implies that she must prostitute herself in order to make enough money to see her sister, also in Ulaanbaatar. Later, Tao runs into Anna and it is clear that she has indeed become a prostitute. Anna runs away and Tao cries. Meanwhile, Taisheng is asked by an associate to drive a woman named Qun to Taiyuan so she can deal with her gambling brother, and he eventually becomes attracted to her. The two often meet at her clothing shop, where she tells him about her husband who left for France years ago. Since, she has tried with some difficulty to obtain a visa to join him. Though he pursues her, Qun rejects him.", "Taisheng eventually convinces Tao to have sex with him, with Tao threatening that she will kill him if he ever betrays her. His life, however, quickly spirals out of control when Chen is killed in a construction accident. Some time afterwards, Wei and Niu, two other performers at World Park, announce that they plan to wed despite Niu being dangerously jealous and unstable. At the wedding, Tao discovers a text-message from Qun, who has at last received her visa, to Taisheng, saying that their meeting and relationship was destined. Believing that Taisheng has indeed betrayed her, Tao is devastated and cuts off contact with him while she house-sits for Wei and Niu. When Taisheng goes to visit her, she ignores him. Some time later, Taisheng and Tao have succumbed to a gas leak, presumably in their friends' apartment. As the film fades to black, Taisheng's voice asks, \"Are we dead?\" \"No,\" Tao's voice responds, \"this is only the beginning.", "The World was a joint-production by Jia Zhangke's own Xstream Pictures , Japan's Office Kitano , and France's Lumen Films . It received additional financial support from the Shanghai Film Studio and several Japanese corporations including Bandai Visual and Tokyo FM , among others. [ 3 ]", "The film's nascence began after Jia had lived in Beijing for several years in 2000. After two films based in his native province of Shanxi , Jia decided to make a film about his impressions of Beijing as a world city , [ 4 ] after a cousin back home asked him about life in a metropolitan environment. [ 5 ] Jia, however, would not began writing the screenplay until after the release of his next film Unknown Pleasures , in 2003 during the SARS outbreak. [ 4 ] The screenplay took approximately a year to write, over which time the story slowly changed, such that it became harder to distinguish the fact that it took place in Beijing, and the focus of the setting shifted to that of any large city with many migrants in it. [ 4 ] Filming of The World took place on location at the actual Beijing World Park , as well as at an older but similar park, Window of the World , that sometimes served as a stand-in and is located in the southern city of Shenzhen . [ 6 ]", "The World sets the scene in a World park in Beijing, the capital of China, to present China’s desires and ongoing process of becoming a new global center, and the famous buildings from different countries of smaller sizes are to show a united and harmonious world. Jia is a migrant from Fenyang, Shanxi to Beijing, in his interview he said he “wants to focus on my viewpoint on big cities”. This miniature of a world inside the park presents the migrants wave as a significant global issue. [ 7 ]", "As Jia Zhangke's first film made with the consent of the Chinese Film Bureau , many felt that Jia's hand would be unduly restricted by Communist bureaucrats. As it turned out, Jia claimed that the main impact of government approval was the ability to screen abroad and at home without major obstacles; Jia stated that, .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}}", "Jia attributed the loosening of restrictions as part of the Film Bureau's overall liberalization and acceptance of so-called \"outside directors.\" [ 4 ] Outside observers agreed with Jia's assessment, dismissing claims that Jia had compromised his principles and \"sold out.\" [ 8 ] One definite result of working within the system, however, was that the film became much easier to produce, as Jia no longer had to worry about interference from the central government or from local officials. [ 4 ]", "In Mainland China, directors who insisted on independent views and productions were banned from making films. Despite his director status being banned by the Chinese government in 1999, he persisted to make films. In 2004, he was the first banned director to be reinstated after years of campaigning. Advocations by the film industry were one of the reasons that led the Chinese government to reconsider the functions and role of moves as an economic tool. [ 9 ]", "Jia’s first two films ( Xiao Shan Going Home and Pickpocket ) were primarily self-funded. He gained recognition after winning awards at Berlin, Vancouver and Nantes. His third film Platform received private funding from Pusan, and his next film Unknown Pleasures was also privately funded with support from international companies. Although raising funds was challenging for him, Jia was able to produce and control his films. When The World was being made, Jia finally received national funding from The Shanghai Film Group along with other companies around the world. The World is his first above-ground film, and with support and funding from China, he was finally approved and recognized as a filmmaker in China. [ 10 ]", "Jia Zhangke’s longtime collaborators formed the core creative team of The World. These including cinematographer Yu Lik-wai , sound designer Zhang Yang , and editor Kong Jinglei , all of whom had previously worked with Jia on Platform and continued to collaborate with him on Still Life and 24 City . The film was produced by Office Kitano and Lumen Films , with additional support from Shanghai Film Studio and international parteners. [ 4 ]", "Music plays a more prominent role in The World than in Jia’s earlier films such as Unknown Pleasures , which relied solely on diegetic sound. Jia brought in the Taiwanese composer Lim Giong , who had previously worked with Hou Hsiao-hsien , to score the film using primarily electronic music . [ 4 ] The film features dance performances within the park and employs a soundtrack composed by Lim Giong, a Taiwanese musician known for his collaborations with Hou Hsiao-hsien. Lim’s score incorporates primarily electronic music, which Jia described it evokes the emotional emptiness of the characters’ lives, stating that “Life’s heaviness fades when confronted by the silky lightness of dance and music.\" [ 5 ]", "The integration of music with animated sequences further emphasizes the film’s digital aesthetic, These animations visualize the characters’ internal thoughts, contributing to what Jia has referred to as an “Asian digital life”. [ 5 ] The animated part reflects both the limiting and liberating potential of new technologies and reminds the world that “analog and digital media, realism and simulation, the local and the global, are in fact contemporaneous phenomena”, as the animation in the film blurs the boundaries between the reality and visual fantasy attractions. [ 11 ]", "The World was shot using digital video and includes various moments in which the real and artificial merge. For example, during the scene where Erguniang dies, the image of writings on the wall from Erguniang is not actually written on the wall but instead shown through a digital effect. According to Cecilia Mello, The World does not provide a clear division between the real world and the digital/artificial world. It rather \"point[s] towards a confusion between both, corroborating the point made in the introduction about the coexistence of contraries, so typical of the reality of China's cities.\" [ 12 ]", "The circular discourse is not Jia's fundamental device on film making, but the reversal of the gaze. \"The possibility to poke holes in the fictional system rests on the filmed subject's response to the enquiring gaze of the filming subject.\" [ 13 ] Based on the transition from the circular. discourse to the reversal of the gaze, Anna and Tao from the film as an example on the response to the enquiring gaze between each other. Two characters supposed to not communicate with each other due to the language difference, however, the gaze helped them to talk and feel each other's pains and worries. Outside the movie, the transition to the gaze can create an emotional appeal to audiences. Factual elements from Jia's movie resists the seduction of a seamlessly real fiction, \"you cannot. reveal the world without the world also bearing witness to your presence.\" [ 13 ]", "The World serves as a cinematic lens into a transformative moment in China’s contemporary history, using the symbolic space of the amusement park to interrogate the broader implications of globalization, migration, and identity formation in the new millennium. [ 14 ]", "Jian Zhangke uses the constructed environment of the Beijing World Park to symbolize an idealized life in which characters perform happiness while avoiding deeper truths about their personal relationships and social conditions. However, as the film progresses, these illusions inevitably collapse, forcing the characters to confront the harsh realities of their lives. This narrative arc reflects not only the psychological struggles of the individuals but also broader societal tensions in contemporary China–where the pursuit of modern dreams often obscured underlying social and emotional dislocation. [ 15 ]", "Jia Zhangke, himself a native of the provincial city of Fenyang in Shangxi, draws upon his personal background to offer a nuanced portrayal of migration and marginality. His perspective as an outsider in Beijing informs the film’s sensitive depiction of the psychological and emotional toll of relocation. Jia’s engagement with themes of disconnection and impermanence reflects a broader concern with the human costs of modernization. [ 16 ]", "Jia used the created world as people's ideal life, people in the fictional world pretended to be happy. They did not recognize facts and truth between their relationships and real life, but they finally needed to accept the reality that broke their ideal life in \"The World\". It not only demonstrated the phenomenon in the film, but also revealed the issue within the society.", "Underneath reality, one does not find confirmation of ideological truths, but truth as an imposed and contingent construct. Film should not directly oppose ideology, but subtly punctuate and therefore fragment the solidity of acquired world-views [ 17 ] .", "Jia used a film to describe a general social problem on the young generation in the society. For instance,economic inequality is a serious social issue reflected in this film. It contrasts the life people live with wealth enjoying fancy shows to those who perform these shows live poverty and get paid at lower wages. In addition, another social issue reflected in this film is labour rights. Workers typically overwork in the amusement park but they live in poor living and health conditions. [ 18 ]", "In The World , animated sequences are not decorative interruptions that oppose live-action scenes, but an integral part of the film’s narrative structure, which functions as a visual mechanism to reveal and alienates the character’s psychological states, emotional ruptures and self-imagination.Through multiple animated sequences filled with symbolic resonance, the film breaks the closure of the realist style without disrupting the overall narrative flow, making animation a crucial medium for understanding the character’s inner experiences and social predicaments. Meanwhile, the animation also turn raw feelings into the stylized and consumable images. This not only distances the characters from their own emotions, but also turns their inner lives into something staged and impersonal. Therefore, the film creates a sense of double alienation: the characters are trapped not just by their social realities, but also by the way their emotions are turned into images they can no longer fully feel or control.", "Scholar David Richler uses the animated sequence that appears after Taisheng reads Qun’s text message to illustrate how animation visualizes the character’s inner thoughts. In this scene (Richler 15). [ 2 ] Taisheng fantasizes himself riding a white horse, dressed in his security guard uniform, walking through falling petals. The whole scene is romantic and absurd. The poetic style of this animation stands in sharp contrast to his actual job and dull, repressed daily life. This sequence is not portraying an event that actually happens, but visualizes Taisheng’s fleeting emotional excitement and his illusory sense of masculine pride. Taisheng is aware of his lack of masculinity, especially as highlighted in his relationship with Tao, and thus attempts to reconstruct a brief sense of self-worth through fantasy and cheating (Richler 15). [ 2 ]", "Scholar David Richler further notes the animations help the characters articulate emotions they find difficult to express in words (Richler 15). [ 2 ] For instance, after Tao discovers Taisheng’s betrayal, the screen cuts to an image of a half-skeletal fish slowly swimming. The cold color palette, and underwater murmur create a death-like stillness. This symbolic animation expresses her psychological collapse and frozen emotions, portraying her “sinking” emotional state. On the top of that, scholar Tonglin Lu interprets the fish in this animated sequence as a failed carp attempting to leap over the mythical dragon gate, which a metaphor rooted in the Chinese legend of liyuyue longmen （鲤鱼跃龙门） , which traditionally symbolizes personal transformation and upward mobility (Lu 177). [ 19 ] In the animation, however, a curved barrier continuously blocks the carp’s passage. This suggests that even within Tao’s inner world, the possibility of social ascent is foreclosed. The betrayal thus not only ruptures Tao’s intimate relationship but also extinguishes her last imagined pathway to escape structural marginalization. These layered symbols in this sequence reinforce the film’s broader critique of emotional alienation and systemic confinement faced by rural migrant workers (Lu 177). [ 19 ]", "Moving beyond these individual examples, the film’s use of animation operates within a larger visual regime, as described by scholar Tonglin Lu. While The World constructs a broader dispositif of alienation through performance, labor, and technology, animation plays a particularly revealing role within this structure. Lu observes migrant workers are constantly drawn into visual systems that turn both their labor and emotions into staged images. Among these systems, animation is the most explicit form through which personal feelings often conveyed via text messages are instantly transformed into “cheerful and caricatured spectacle” (Lu 170). [ 19 ] In this sense, animation is not merely a stylistic device, but a crucial visual mechanism that exposes and intensifies the characters’ emotional dislocation.", "Each animated sequence occurs at a moment of inner rupture or happiness, yet instead of allowing the character to express or process that emotion by the live-on scenes, it repackages the feeling into a stylized visual symbol. These moments reveal what Lu calls “double alienation”: the characters are distanced not only from the performative world they inhabit, but also from their own interiority, as their emotions become something external and unfamiliar. Animation thus becomes both a surface for emotional projection and a structure for emotional estrangement, it makes inner life visible, only to turn it into spectacle (Lu 170). [ 19 ]", "Through these examples, the animated sequences in The World are not visual distractions or stylistic flourishes, but meaningful extensions of the characters’ psychological landscapes. They give form to emotions that cannot be spoken, while simultaneously revealing how those emotions are shaped and sometimes distorted by the very conditions in which the characters live. Rather than offering escape, animation confronts the viewer with the characters’ inner struggles and fantasies, exposing how deeply their desires are entangled with structures of confinement and disillusionment. In doing so, The World uses animation to make visible the quiet emotional breakdowns and unresolved tensions that realism alone cannot express.", "The World was Jia Zhangke’s first film to be officially released in China, but its reputation was largely built on international film festivals. As Scholar Xiaoling Shi claims The World present a window into the real contemporary China, highlighting its portrayal of rural migrant workers, emotional alienation, and the surreal environment of the World Park (Shi 220). [ 20 ] Festival promotional materials, including posters and DVD covers, costumed performers, global replicas, and cross-cultural symbols, to construct a digestible image of “contemporary China”, these elements were emphasized to attract global audiences looking for cultural difference.", "However, this version of The World is shaped by the preconceived notions of the interpreters. The film critiques early 2000s globalization in China, showing how a place like the World Park offers the illusion of mobility and counterfeit globalization to workers who remain stuck in low-paying jobs. The park becomes a symbol of China's uneven or hypocritical modernization process, where the promise of progress hides real inequality. For global viewers, the appeal of The World may lie in its seemingly authentic depiction of China's contemporary urban underclass, in which it also affirms their presumptions. However this authenticity is itself part of the cinematic spectacle.", "A contradiction is now evident. What many international viewers see as a raw documentary-style exposure of China’s urban underclass is, in fact, shaped by carefully chosen aesthetics: long takes, muted performances, digital animation. It renders hardship beautiful, and alienation poetic (Rugo 5). [ 17 ] In this sense, even the film’s most critical gestures are susceptible to global misreading and commodification. As a result, even the film’s most critical gestures are vulnerable to global misreading and commodification. International audiences may conflate realist aesthetics with national authenticity, interpreting Jia’s cinematic critique as a direct reflection of China’s broader social reality.", "In the end, how a film is understood depends on who is watching and who gets to define its meaning. The World tries to “expose” the inequity across social class, but once it enters the global festival and cinema system, it risks becoming just another version of the spectacle it set out to critique. Thus, the international reception of The World mirrors the very conditions of spectacle and commodification it critiques. Its global success depends not only on its narrative or political insight, but also on its ability to be packaged as a form of cultural authenticity, reinforcing the same logic of selective representation that defines both theme parks like World Park and the broader mechanisms of globalization.", "Released in 2005 in the United States, The World appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of that year."]
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The World According to Garp
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/1982Garp_film_movieposter.jpg/250px-1982Garp_film_movieposter.jpg", "Directed by": "George Roy Hill", "Screenplay by": "Steve Tesich", "Based on": "The World According to Garp by John Irving", "Produced by": "George Roy Hill", "Starring": "Robin Williams Mary Beth Hurt Glenn Close John Lithgow", "Cinematography": "Miroslav Ondříček", "Edited by": "Stephen A. Rotter", "Production companies": "Warner Bros. Pan Arts", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros.", "Release date": "July 23, 1982 ( 1982-07-23 )", "Running time": "136 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$17 million", "Box office": "$29,712,172"}
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["The World According to Garp is a 1982 American comedy drama film produced and directed by George Roy Hill and starring Robin Williams in the title role. Written by Steve Tesich , it is based on the 1978 novel of the same title by John Irving . For their roles, John Lithgow and Glenn Close (in her film debut) were respectively nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 55th Academy Awards .", "T.S. Garp is the out-of-wedlock son of a feminist mother, Jenny Fields, who wanted a child but not a husband. A nurse during World War II , she encountered a dying ball turret gunner known only as Technical Sergeant Garp (\"Garp\" being all he is able to utter), who was severely brain damaged in combat, and whose morbid priapism allows her to rape him and become impregnated . She names the resultant child after Garp.", "Garp grows up and becomes interested in wrestling and fiction writing, topics in which his mother has little interest. Garp's writing piques the interest of Helen Holm, the daughter of the school's wrestling coach. She is wary of him. His mother observes his interest in sex and is intellectually curious about it, having no more than a clinical interest. She interviews a prostitute and offers to hire her for Garp. Immediately after, Jenny decides to write a book on her observations of lust and human sexuality.", "Her book is a partial autobiography, called Sexual Suspect , and is an overnight sensation. Jenny becomes a feminist icon. She uses the proceeds from the book to fund a center at her home for troubled and abused women. Meanwhile, Garp's first novel is published by his mother's publisher, which impresses Helen. The two marry and eventually have two sons, Duncan and Walt. Garp becomes a devoted parent and successful fiction writer, while Helen becomes a college professor.", "Garp spends time visiting his mother and the people who live at her center, including transgender ex- football player, Roberta Muldoon. He also first hears the story of Ellen James, a girl who was raped at age 11 by two men who then cut out her tongue so that she could not identify her attackers. A group of women represented at Jenny's center, \"Ellen Jamesians\", voluntarily cut out their own tongues as a show of solidarity. Garp is horrified by the practice and learns that the Jamesians have received a letter from Ellen James begging them to stop the practice, but they have voted to continue. Garp flirts with and possibly has sex with his children's 18-year-old babysitter while driving her home.", "Having learned of Helen's infidelity with one of her students, Garp rushes home with his children in the back seat and accidentally crashes into her lover's car parked in their driveway, while she is in the car performing fellatio on the student. As a result, Walt, who frequently foreshadows his fear of death, is killed and Duncan loses an eye. Garp, through the aid of his mother, learns to forgive himself and Helen. The couple reconcile and have a baby daughter, who they name after Jenny.", "Jenny receives death threats because of both her center and her book. To Garp's dismay, she dismisses the danger and decides to publicly endorse a politician who supports her message. Garp writes a thinly fictional book based on the life of Ellen James and its aftermath. The book is very successful and well-regarded, but is highly critical of the Jamesians. Garp begins to receive death threats from them.", "During a political rally, Jenny is shot and killed by an anti-feminist fanatic. The women of Jenny's center hold a memorial for her, but forbid all men from attending. Garp, dressed as a woman, is infiltrated into the memorial by Muldoon. He is identified by Pooh, a voyeuristic and jealous Jamesian he knew when they both were in primary school. A commotion breaks out and Garp is in danger of being hurt, until a woman leads him out of the memorial to a taxi. The woman reveals herself to be Ellen James, and uses the gesture to thank Garp for his book about her. The Jamesians are further outraged that Garp attended the memorial.", "Garp returns to his old school as the wrestling coach, and intimates an ambition to take up hang gliding . One day during practice, Pooh enters the gymnasium and shoots him at close range with a pistol. He is airlifted by helicopter with Helen. Commenting that he is finally flying, Garp flashes back to a time when his mother would toss him into the air (seen in the opening credits sequence).", "In a 2023 interview, John Irving stated that George Roy Hill approached him to write the screenplay, but that a bone of contention was the character of Roberta Muldoon, who Irving imagined more empathetically:", "On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , 71% of 21 critics give the film a positive review, with an average rating of 6.2/10. [ 2 ] On Metacritic , the film holds a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 3 ]", "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four. He was \"entertained but unmoved\", considering it a \"palatable\" interpretation of the novel, \"wonderfully well-written\", yet \"cruel, annoying and smug\", and wrote:", "Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that \"the movie is a very fair rendering of Mr. Irving's novel, with similar strengths and weaknesses. If the novel was picaresque and precious, so is the film – although the absence of the book's self-congratulatory streak helps the movie achieve a much lighter, more easy-going style.\" [ 5 ]", "Pauline Kael of The New Yorker wrote, \"There's no feeling of truth in either the book or the movie,\" and that this \"generally faithful adaptation, seems no more (and no less) than a castration fantasy\". [ 6 ]", "However, Leonard Maltin , in his annual Movie Guide , gave the film a rare four-star review (one of only 408 films out of nearly 16,000 given the designation during the 45-year period that it was published). Calling Garp \"dazzling\" and \"beautifully acted by all, especially Close (in her film debut)... and Lithgow\", Maltin went on to praise the film as an \"absorbing, sure-footed odyssey through vignettes of social observation, absurdist humor, satire and melodrama\". [ 7 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/29/Workingmans_death.jpg/250px-Workingmans_death.jpg", "Directed by": "Michael Glawogger", "Written by": "Michael Glawogger", "Produced by": "Pepe Danquart Erich Lackner Mirjam Quinte", "Cinematography": "Wolfgang Thaler", "Edited by": "Ilse Buchelt Monika Willi", "Music by": "John Zorn", "Distributed by": "Paul Thiltges Distributions", "Release dates": "September 2005 ( 2005-09 ) ( Venice Film Festival ) 25 November 2005 ( 2005-11-25 ) (Austria)", "Running time": "122 minutes", "Countries": "Austria, Germany, Indonesia, France", "Languages": "Pashto, Yoruba, German, English, Igbo, Indonesian, Mandarin, Russian"}
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["Workingman's Death is a 2005 Austrian-German documentary film written and directed by Michael Glawogger . It premiered at the 2005 Venice Film Festival . The film deals with the extremes to which workers go to earn a living in several countries around the world.", "The film is composed of six chapters. The first five depict hazardous conditions of hard laborers around the world and the sixth shows contrasting scenes of youths in a former German industrial complex which had been converted into a leisure park:", "The film was met with a largely positive critical reception with a 73% approval rating reported by Rotten Tomatoes as of March 2011, with several critics praising its visual feel. [ 1 ] Walter Addiego of the San Francisco Chronicle ' wrote that \"Despite the hardships depicted, many sequences have a dreamlike beauty. In addition, the director has a bone-dry sense of irony; during the Ukraine scenes, he frequently cuts away to a statue of Stakhanov , the 'hero' lauded by the Soviets for his superhuman work habits\". [ 2 ]", "Film critic Nathan Rabin , writing for The A.V. Club , said that \"Glawogger is an extraordinarily elegant filmmaker with a photographer's eye for striking compositions. He seems to have selected the jobs documented here as much for their telegenic qualities as their all-around awfulness, and he excels at divining moments of pure cinema and haunting beauty out of the most perilous places and professions on Earth\". [ 3 ]", "The Village Voice ' s Michael Atkinson wrote that \"Glawogger's film may be thematically loose-jointed, but Wolfgang Thaler's cinematography is the glue; the signature move—a flowing Steadicam track before or following a subject—blooms into variations on a visceral theme, especially as it rhymes the Nigerian butchers stalking through acres of red mud dragging bull heads with the Indonesians carrying rocks down smoking, tourist-littered mountain paths\". [ 4 ]"]
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A Working Man
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/A_Working_Man_Poster.jpg/250px-A_Working_Man_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "David Ayer", "Screenplay by": "Sylvester Stallone David Ayer", "Based on": "Levon's Trade by Chuck Dixon", "Produced by": "Chris Long Jason Statham John Friedberg David Ayer Sylvester Stallone Bill Block Kevin King Templeton", "Starring": "Jason Statham Jason Flemyng Michael Peña David Harbour", "Cinematography": "Shawn White", "Edited by": "Fred Raskin", "Music by": "Jared Michael Fry", "Production companies": "Black Bear Cedar Park Entertainment Punch Palace Productions Balboa Productions", "Distributed by": "Amazon MGM Studios (United States) Warner Bros. Pictures (United Kingdom)", "Release dates": "March 28, 2025 ( 2025-03-28 ) (United States and United Kingdom)", "Running time": "116 minutes [ 1 ]", "Countries": "United Kingdom [ 2 ] United States [ 2 ]", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$40 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$99.1 million [ 3 ] [ 2 ]"}
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["A Working Man is a 2025 action thriller film produced and directed by David Ayer , who co-wrote the screenplay with Sylvester Stallone . It is based on the 2014 novel Levon's Trade by Chuck Dixon . The film stars Jason Statham , Michael Peña , and David Harbour .", "A Working Man was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios and in the United Kingdom by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 28, 2025. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $99 million worldwide against a $40 million budget.", "Levon Cade, an ex- Royal Marine Commando , works as a construction foreman in Chicago and has a very close friendship with the Garcia family – Joe, his wife, Carla, and their daughter, Jenny – that runs the company. However, he struggles to gain custody of his daughter, Merry, after his wife committed suicide. Merry is now living with Levon’s father-in-law, Dr. Jordan Roth, who refuses to let him see Merry when he was deployed.", "One night, while Jenny is out hanging with her friends, she is kidnapped by Russian traffickers Viper and Artemis. Joe and Carla report their missing daughter to the police, but they are unable to find any leads to Jenny. Desperate, the parents offer Levon a sum of money to help them find their daughter, but Levon refuses, citing that he wants to move on from his military life. Still unsure, Levon consults his old friend, Gunny, a blind ex- Marine Raider , who suggests doing what is right for the Garcia family, so Levon takes matters into his own hands to bring her back home. He tracks Jenny's last location in a bar where she was hanging out with her friends and the bartender, Johnny. He follows Johnny back to his home and interrogates him before two more thugs arrive. Levon kills all three of them and learns that the bartender and the thugs are working for the Bratva , a Russian mafia crime syndicate with Symon Kharchenko as the enforcer.", "Symon's high-ranking captain, Wolo Kolisnyk, discovers the carnage and has a clean-up crew remove the evidence, but Levon follows him to his private estate where he interrogates Wolo before drowning him in a chair in his private pool. Symon learns of Levon's activities and sends his sons Danya and Vanko to kill Levon.", "Using his contacts from the DEA , Levon infiltrates the organization by pretending to be a dealer to get close to Wolo's son Dimi, who runs the trafficking part of the organization with a biker gang and their leader, Dutch. However, Danya and Vanko chase Levon and manage to capture him (helped in the process by two corrupted cops), but he kills them and crashes the van into a river. Symon learns of his sons' deaths and summons the other high-ranking mafia members to exact revenge on Levon. He gets all of Levon's personal information, including his father-in-law and Merry. Symon sends his men to tie up Jordan and set his home ablaze to kill him, but Levon manages to save him. Levon takes Merry to stay with Gunny while he heads out to fight the mafia.", "Levon brutally interrogates Dimi and gets him to lead him to the compound where Jenny is being kept before he executes Dimi. He gears up and attacks the compound, killing every criminal in his path, including Dutch and his biker gang. Levon finds Jenny, and kills the client and Viper, while Jenny strangles Artemis. Symon arrives to see Levon and Jenny riding away, and calls for backup; however, his boss orders him to leave Levon alone because of how dangerous Levon is and can bring down the mafia, and that nobody in the organization is going to help him in his crusade for vengeance if he goes rogue. This causes Symon to declare revenge on Levon.", "Levon reunites Jenny with her family and returns home to have dinner with Merry and Gunny.", "Sylvester Stallone originally developed an adaptation of the Chuck Dixon novel Levon's Trade as a television series with Balboa Productions . [ 5 ] The project changed into a film that was up for sale at the 2023 American Film Market , where the film was first announced to have David Ayer attached to direct and Jason Statham to star. [ 6 ] In January 2024, Amazon MGM Studios acquired U.S. and select international distribution rights to the film from Black Bear International , which sold the film to independent distributors elsewhere. [ 7 ] The film was put into development in part due to its potential for subsequent entries given the number of novels written by Dixon in the series. [ 8 ]", "In April 2024, David Harbour , Michael Peña , Jason Flemyng , Arianna Rivas, Noemi Gonzalez , Emmett J. Scanlan , Eve Mauro , Maximilian Osinski , Kristina Poli, Andrej Kaminsky , and Isla Gie joined the cast in undisclosed roles. [ 9 ]", "Principal photography began in April 2024 in London . [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Filming also took place at Winnersh Film Studios in Berkshire , where it wrapped on May 31. [ 11 ]", "In April 2024, the film was set to be released in the United States on January 17, 2025. [ 9 ] In December 2024, the title was changed from Levon's Trade to A Working Man , with a new release date of March 28, 2025. The theatrical release also included engagements in 4DX , Dolby Cinema and D-Box . [ 12 ]", "As of May 22, 2025 [update] , A Working Man has grossed $37 million in the United States and Canada, and $62 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $99 million. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "In the United States and Canada, A Working Man was released alongside The Woman in the Yard , The Penguin Lessons , and Death of a Unicorn , and was projected to gross $10–12 million from 3,262 theaters in its opening weekend. [ 13 ] The film made $5.6 million on its first day, including an estimated $1.1 million from Thursday night previews. It went on to slightly overperform and debut to $15.5 million, topping the box office. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In its second weekend, the film made $7.3 million (a drop of 53%), finishing second behind newcomer A Minecraft Movie . [ 16 ] [ 17 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 48% of 153 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.9/10. The website's consensus reads: \"An efficient action flick that delivers on the meat and potatoes of a Jason Statham vehicle while skimping out on the personality, A Working Man clocks in and out without much fuss or flair.\" [ 18 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 52 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews. [ 19 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 14 ]", "In a 2 out of 5 star review for The Guardian , Jesse Hassenger wrote: \"At its best, a movie like A Working Man functions as an update to the hard-boiled detective story, with a resilient bruiser conducting his own off-books missing-person investigation. [...]. But Stallone and Ayer don't have the patience for too much skullduggery; skullsmashery is more their thing, and as an action movie, A Working Man doesn't reach the giddy highs of Statham's best.\" [ 20 ]", "In a review for The Hollywood Reporter , Frank Scheck praised the acting, particularly Harbour's, but stated: \"The film feels overlong at nearly two hours, with repetitiveness settling in early. But it does have its enjoyable eccentric touches, several of which smack of Stallone, who often infuses his portrayals with subtle humor.\" [ 21 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/Working_Woman_film.jpg/250px-Working_Woman_film.jpg", "Directed by": "Michal Aviad", "Written by": "Michal Aviad Michal Vinik Sharon Azulay", "Starring": "Liron Ben-Shlush", "Cinematography": "Daniel Miller", "Edited by": "Nili Feller", "Release date": "31 July 2018 ( 2018-07-31 ) ( Jerusalem FF )", "Running time": "93 minutes", "Country": "Israel", "Language": "Hebrew"}
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["Working Woman ( Hebrew : אישה עובדת , translit. Isha Ovedet) is a 2018 Israeli drama film directed by Michal Aviad . [ 1 ] It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival . [ 2 ]", "Orna (Ben-Shlush) is a married mother of three. Her husband, Ofer (Cohen) recently opened a restaurant, and is struggling financially. She decides to pursue a new career in real estate development, working as a coordinator and project manager for Benny (Noy), a successful developer who is building a luxury condominium complex on the shore of the city of Rishon Lezion . As Orna discovers her talents and abilities in her challenging chosen field, and feels she is growing and succeeding as a person, she simultaneously needs to deal with her husband's jealousy and Benny's growing obsession with her, and accompanying abuse of power.", "Working Woman received critical praise. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on 48 reviews. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The critics consensus reads \" Working Woman delivers its timely message with a polemical force that hits hard without overpowering the engrossing story.\" [ 3 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews.", "Ron Fogel, in his review for The Israeli Film Portal, likened the mood of Aviad's work to that of David Lynch , and described being \"riveted to [his] seat\" both times he viewed the film. He praised the lead actors' performances as \"amazing\", and lauded Daniel Miller's cinematography, as providing an effective and powerful vehicle to depict Orna's world at various stages, from her feelings of fear and claustrophobia, to when she feels as powerful as a lioness. [ 5 ] As did Fogel, film critic Shmulik Duvdevani also attributed the film as a phenomenon of the # MeToo era, and expressed his appreciation of the fact that although the film was initially crowned \"the first film of the MeToo era\", preceding even Hollywood, [ 6 ] that its qualities transcend the \"message\" and stand on their own, both due to Aviad's craft and the stunning performances delivered by the cast. [ 7 ]", "Monica Castillo, on behalf of RobertEbert.com, found the film to be \"a story that's timely yet timeless\", and assessed the film \"a part of that global and cultural conversation, yet it never loses that personal focus of one woman’s experience.\" [ 8 ] The Washington Post reviewer Vanessa H. Larson found the story \"commendably relatable,\" yet at times too familiar. She did, however, comment the \"particularly clear-eyed and realistic way the predicament that far too many women find themselves in, through no fault of their own. It also shows how both subtle and coercive sexual harassment can be. Aside from one especially horrendous moment, the film is set to more a simmer than a boil, deftly capturing the insidiousness of the problem.\" [ 9 ]", "In his Los Angeles Times review, Kenneth Turan states that \"The #MeToo movement has found its film.\" Like some other critics, Turan expressed how impressed he was that though the direction of the film is clear from the outset, Aviad and the writers nevertheless created a well-paced, compelling, persuasive, and relevant work that engages and affects the viewer emotionally. [ 10 ] The newspaper ranked Working Woman as one of the Ten Best Films of the first half of 2019. [ 11 ] Additional positive reviews were published in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Le Figaro , The Boston Globe , and other international publications. [ 6 ] [ 3 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Working_Man_2020_film_poster.jpeg", "Directed by": "Robert Jury", "Written by": "Robert Jury", "Produced by": "Clark Peterson Robert Jury Maya Emelle Lovell Holder", "Starring": "Peter Gerety Billy Brown Talia Shire", "Cinematography": "Piero Basso", "Edited by": "Richard Halsey Morgan Halsey", "Music by": "David Gonzalez", "Distributed by": "Brainstorm Media", "Release dates": "February 2, 2019 ( 2019-02-02 ) ( SBIFF ) May 5, 2020 ( 2020-05-05 ) (United States)", "Running time": "108 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["Working Man is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Robert Jury in his debut, and produced by Jury, Clark Peterson , Maya Emelle and Lovell Holder. [ 1 ] It features Peter Gerety , Billy Brown and Talia Shire in lead roles.", "Working Man was filmed in 2018 in and around Chicago . It premiered at the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival , and was released on video on demand services on May 5, 2020, to positive reviews.", "Working Man was filmed in 2018, [ 2 ] with 20 days of shooting taking place in and around Chicago, Illinois , and one day in Joliet . [ 3 ] The location used as the factory, the Makray Manufacturing plant in Norridge , [ 3 ] closed down in December 2019. [ 4 ]", "The world premiere of Working Man was held on February 2, 2019 at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The film was screened at several other festivals in 2019, including the St. Louis International Film Festival , [ 7 ] the Nashville Film Festival , [ 8 ] the Woods Hole Film Festival , [ 9 ] and the Buffalo International Film Festival . [ 10 ]", "The film's planned theatrical release on March 27, 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . [ 11 ] Director Robert Jury said, \"The timing has just been so strange with this. While it’s personally disappointing for me that we don’t have a theatrical release, in a very strange way, we might have a bigger audience, or at least an audience that maybe can relate to the movie even more because the topic of unemployment is so relevant and prevalent right now.\" [ 2 ]", "Working Man was released on Apple TV , Amazon Prime Video , Google Play , Vudu and Fandango Now video on demand services on May 5, 2020. [ 11 ]", "On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 45 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The site's critics consensus reads: \"A too-rare showcase for an ensemble of talented veteran actors, Working Man quietly builds into an absorbing -- an timely -- character study.\" [ 12 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 13 ]", "Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film 3.5 stars out of 4, praising the performances of Gerety, Brown and Shire - noting that \"Gerety delivers a performance that is simply great. He plays a man who is simple but not ignorant. Troubled but not troublesome\". He added that \"Billy Brown gives a screen-commanding performance as Walter, who comes across as an exceedingly kind and decent man but is battling to keep the demons inside him from bubbling to the surface\", and of Talia Shire's performance: \"Her mannerisms and social awkwardness are reminiscent of Shire's Adrian when we first met her in 'Rocky.'\" [ 14 ]", "Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a \"potent tribute to out-of-work Americans.\" [ 6 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/37/WorkingGirls2010Film.jpg/250px-WorkingGirls2010Film.jpg", "Directed by": "Jose Javier Reyes", "Written by": "Jose Javier Reyes Amado Lacuesta", "Story by": "Jose Javier Reyes Tony Gloria", "Produced by": "Jose Mari Abacan Vincent Del Rosario Veronique Del Rosario Tony Gloria", "Starring": "Eugene Domingo Ruffa Gutierrez Iza Calzado Jennylyn Mercado Cristine Reyes Eula Valdez Bianca King", "Cinematography": "Rodolfo Y. Aves Jr.", "Edited by": "Claire Villareal", "Music by": "Jesse Lucas", "Production companies": "Viva Films GMA Pictures Unitel Pictures", "Distributed by": "Viva Films", "Release date": "April 21, 2010 ( 2010-04-21 )", "Running time": "110 minutes", "Country": "Philippines", "Languages": "Filipino English", "Box office": "₱33.2 million [ 1 ]"}
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["Working Girls is a 2010 Filipino comedy film remake directed by Jose Javier Reyes . The film stars Eugene Domingo , Jennylyn Mercado , Iza Calzado , Cristine Reyes , Bianca King , Eula Valdez and Ruffa Gutierrez . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "In a world where men dominate business and women excel in the office, this movie follows the lives of everyday women navigating their unique challenges.", "Paula (Domingo), the daughter-in-law of Nimfa (Gina Pareño), who reigns as the queen of fake designer bags. Her high earnings support her children’s private school education, compensating for her irresponsible, unemployed husband.", "Ada (Mercado), a single mother, juggles her job as a call center agent by night and her studies by day, striving to provide for her young son. However, her dedication strains her relationship with her mother, Sabel (Locsin). Her close friend, Tobz (Aquino), faces his own troubles with his girlfriend, Wendy (Reyes), a busy aspiring actress who neglects him. Her path crosses with Rodney (Rosell), an attorney for celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Cleo Carillo.", "Marilou (Gutierrez), a beauty queen turned CEO after her husband's death, grapples with conflicts involving her stepdaughter Amanda and her own daughter, Dara (King). A Berkeley graduate, Dara strives to prove herself in a television job while managing pressures from home and her boss, Suzanne (Martin). Meanwhile, Theresa (Calzado), a nurse for Dr. Carillo's husband, finds contentment in her work but struggles with a broken heart.", "In the end, Paula chooses to embrace her role as a loud-mouthed, responsible wife after a brief affair with her temporary driver (Davao). Ada realizes her love for Tobz, while Wendy is left heartbroken when Rodney departs.", "Dara showcases her talent by uncovering the truth about activist Dolorosa \"Rose\" Bonefacio (Lopez), and Marilou discovers Amanda's schemes against the company. Finally, Theresa finds closure by forgiving her ex-suitor.", "This story captures the everyday struggles of women in love, family, finances, and community, serving as a sequel to Ishmael Bernal's blockbuster comedy from the '80s, originally produced by Viva Films."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4e/Working_Girls_DVD_cover.jpg/250px-Working_Girls_DVD_cover.jpg", "Directed by": "Lizzie Borden", "Written by": "Lizzie Borden Sandra Kay", "Produced by": "Lizzie Borden", "Starring": "Louise Smith Deborah Banks Liz Caldwell Ellen McElduff", "Cinematography": "Judy Irola", "Production company": "Alternate Current", "Distributed by": "Miramax Films", "Release dates": "May 28, 1986 ( 1986-05-28 ) ( Cannes ) February 5, 1987 ( 1987-02-05 ) (San Francisco)", "Running time": "91 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$300,000 [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$1.8 million"}
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["Working Girls is a 1986 American independent drama film , written (with Sandra Kay), produced and directed by Lizzie Borden working with cinematographer Judy Irola . Its plot follows a day in the life of several prostitutes in a Manhattan brothel .", "Molly, a Yale graduate in her late twenties living New York City , works in a Manhattan brothel to support herself and her girlfriend, Diane. Dawn, a college student, and Gina, an aspiring boutique owner, also work in the brothel, entertaining various male clients while Lucy, the brothel madam , is out shopping. In Lucy's absence, the three women covertly misrepresent their sessions in the books to keep more of the money. Jerry, a regular client and middle-aged construction foreman, engages in a threesome with Molly and Gina. Gina gives him a prostate massage before he engages in aggressive sex with her.", "John, another regular client, nervously enters the brothel but leaves in a rush before having sex with any of the women. Later, Gina tells Molly that she recently broke up with her boyfriend; although he knew about her work and apparently did not mind, Gina wondered how he could love her given her occupation. Molly subsequently confesses to Gina that Diane does not know she is a prostitute. Fred, another client, visits Molly to engage in a sexual roleplay fantasy in which she pretends to be blind .", "Lucy returns from her shopping trip and chastises the women for smoking weed inside the brothel and not keeping the common area tidy. She then proceeds to flaunt the expensive clothing she has purchased for a ski trip. Robert, a young financial advisor, and Joseph, an older attorney, both enter the brothel to meet with the women. Lucy engages in a discussion with Robert about what to do with her supply of gold.", "Molly goes to have sex with Joseph and is preemptively warned by Lucy that Joseph likes \"light\" BDSM , which she typically does not allow the girls to engage in, but makes an exception for Joseph. Miles, Lucy's boyfriend, visits the brothel and is introduced to several of the girls along with a number of other clients. Debbie, a new employee at the brothel, is casually told by Lucy to not be upset should she make less than the other girls, as she is black and the brothel's clientele tends to prefer white women.", "Molly is sent to run errands to pick up a number of items from a drugstore for the girls in the brothel. After, Lucy demands that Molly work overtime that night. Molly meets with Neil, a shy teacher and regular client who gifts her one of his shirts she had previously complimented him on. Despite their transactional sex, Molly and Neil appear to have a platonic friendship, as Molly tries to help coach him on how to treat the women he goes on dates with. During the night shift, Molly again engages in a threesome with a male client and Mary, a new hire who lacks confidence and is uncomfortable with the profession. Lucy angrily returns to the brothel after finding that the phone lines were left on hold by another employee, April.", "Paul, a musician client who wishes to see Molly outside of the brothel, visits for an appointment with her. During their sexual encounter, Paul asks she meet him in public, when Molly declines he belittles her and calls her a whore. The encounter upsets Molly, and she asks Lucy if she can leave, but Lucy informs her she has already made another appointment for Molly with another regular, Elliot, a wealthy fine furniture dealer. During a subsequent staff meeting, Lucy chastises Mary for talking to her child on the phone during a family emergency, in front of clients. Molly and Elliot have sex, he offers to provide her with enough money to leave the brothel if she should meet him in public, she stalls him. Exausted, after her shift ends, Molly informs Lucy she is quitting the brothel. Lucy, who has fired Mary and is short-staffed, tries to keep Molly from leaving, to no avail. Molly deposits the money she had been saving, buys flowers for her girlfriend and rides home.", "The film was the second feature film directed by Lizzie Borden . Working Girls depicts the world of prostitution, and maintains some of the stylistic and thematic features of her debut, but is more mainstream in its approach. [ 2 ] The film was inspired by some of the women who participated in the making of Born in Flames , who coincidentally supported themselves through prostitution. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Although Working Girls addresses the subject of prostitution in great detail, Borden prefers the film to be discussed as a narrative fiction film rather than as a documentary. [ 5 ] The film was intended to be a \"backstage\" look at prostitution.", "After screening at the Cannes Film Festival , Working Girls was released theatrically in the United States by Miramax , opening in New York City on February 5, 1987. [ 1 ] It was a commercial success, grossing $1,777,378 in the U.S. out of the estimated budget of $300,000. [ 6 ]", "Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, saying \"... the movie does have ... the feeling of real life being observed accurately. I was moved less by the movie's conscious attempts at artistry than by its unadorned honesty\". [ 7 ] Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times called it \"funny and insightful.\" [ 8 ] Vincent Canby of the New York Times wrote a generally positive review, saying", "On Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds a rating of 92% from 24 reviews. [ 10 ]", "It won the Special Jury Recognition at the 1987 Sundance Film Festival . [ 11 ]", "Anchor Bay Entertainment released the film on DVD in 2001. [ 12 ] The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection on July 13, 2021. [ 4 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Working_Girl_film_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Mike Nichols", "Written by": "Kevin Wade", "Produced by": "Douglas Wick", "Starring": "Harrison Ford Sigourney Weaver Melanie Griffith", "Cinematography": "Michael Ballhaus", "Edited by": "Sam O'Steen", "Music by": "Carly Simon Rob Mounsey (score)", "Production company": "20th Century Fox", "Distributed by": "20th Century Fox", "Release date": "December 21, 1988 ( 1988-12-21 )", "Running time": "113 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$28 million", "Box office": "$103 million"}
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["Working Girl is a 1988 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Mike Nichols , written by Kevin Wade , and starring Harrison Ford , Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith . Its plot follows an ambitious secretary from Staten Island working in mergers and acquisitions . The secretary, who has been going to business night school, pitches a profitable idea, only to have her new boss attempt to take credit. When her boss is laid up with a broken leg, she secretly takes over her boss's role to prove her capabilities in the corporate world.", "The film's opening sequence follows Manhattan -bound commuters on the Staten Island Ferry accompanied by Carly Simon 's song \" Let the River Run \", for which she received the Academy Award for Best Original Song [ 1 ] and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song , [ 2 ] and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television , [ 3 ] making her the first artist to win this trio of awards for a song composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist. [ 4 ] \nThe film was met with critical acclaim, and was a major box office success, grossing a worldwide total of $103 million. [ 5 ]", "Working Girl was nominated for six Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Director , and Best Actress for Griffith, while both Weaver and Joan Cusack were nominated for Best Supporting Actress . [ 1 ] The film won four Golden Globes (from six nominations), including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy , Best Actress – Musical or Comedy for Griffith, and Best Supporting Actress for Weaver. [ 2 ] It also received three BAFTA nominations: Best Actress for Griffith, Best Supporting Actress for Weaver, and Best Original Score for Simon. [ 6 ]", "Tess McGill is a working-class Irish-American woman from Staten Island who dreams of climbing the corporate ladder to an executive position. Despite holding a business degree earned through evening classes, her boss and male co-workers at the stockbroker firm in lower Manhattan where she works as a secretary treat her like a bimbo , even though they benefit from her intelligence and business instincts. After reaching her limit with her boss's humiliations, Tess dramatically quits.", "Tess then lands a job as an administrative assistant to Katharine Parker, a young associate at Penny Marsh, a mergers and acquisitions firm. At first, Katharine seems supportive of Tess, encouraging her to share ideas, but eventually tells Tess her proposed purchase of a radio network by Trask Industries would not work out.", "When Katharine breaks her leg skiing, she asks Tess to house-sit. While there, Tess discovers meeting notes that reveal Katharine plans to pass off the Trask Industries idea as her own. She later returns home to find her live-in boyfriend having sex with another woman. He attempts to reconcile and proposes marriage, but she responds ambivalently, and they end things. With her boss away, Tess decides to use Katharine's connections and clothes to move ahead with her merger plans. With the help of her friend Cyn, Tess cuts her hair and borrows Katherine's stylish clothing to look more professional. Tess schedules a meeting with Jack Trainer, a mergers and acquisitions associate from another company. The night before, she attends a dinner on Katharine's behalf, hosted by Trainer's firm in an attempt to say hello prior to their meeting. Trainer is attracted to and approaches Tess at the bar but does not reveal his name, even after she inquires whether he knows a Jack Trainer. Tess eventually leaves and he follows, taking her back to his apartment after she passes out in a cab from a combination of Valium and alcohol.", "Tess leaves early the next morning, believing them to have slept together, to attend her meeting with Trainer and is surprised to see he is the man from the previous night. They both feign non-recognition. Although Tess lacks confidence during the meeting with Trainer and his associates and leaves thinking it was a failure, Jack soon arrives at her office, telling her they did not sleep together and that he wants to move forward with her idea. Together, they prepare the financials for the merger proposal, and they give in to their attraction, ending up in bed. However, Tess is tempted to confess the truth about the idea's origins, but she demurs after discovering Jack is also involved with Katharine, whom he planned to break up with before her injury.", "Katharine returns home on the day of the merger meeting, and while Tess is helping her get settled, Katharine brings up the Trask merger, saying she was intending to take it to Jack and give Tess credit eventually, but was restricted due to Jack's strict ethical code preventing him from looking at other's work without verifying the source after being accused of stealing himself. Jack eventually arrives to end things with Katharine. Tess accidentally leaves her appointment book in Katharine's apartment before leaving for the same meeting, leading to Katharine discovering Tess's deception.", "At the meeting, Tess asks Jack whether he has such an ethical code, and he denies this or that he was ever accused of stealing. Katharine confronts Tess during the meeting, outing her as her secretary and accusing her of stealing the idea. Tess feels she cannot defend herself and leaves, apologizing profusely. Days later, Tess is offered an entry-level job with Trask Industries after Trask confronts Katharine, who is unable to explain where she got the merger idea and promises to have her fired for her actions. Jack and Tess embrace and start a relationship.", "On her first day at Trask, Tess meets a colleague named Alice, who Tess initially assumes will be her new boss but who she then realizes is actually her (Tess's) secretary. Tess insists they work together as colleagues, showing she will be very different from Katharine. Finally, Tess calls her friend Cyn from her own office to tell her that she has made it.", "Screenwriter Kevin Wade was inspired to write the screenplay after visiting New York City in 1984 and witnessing throngs of career women walking through the streets in tennis shoes while carrying their high-heels. [ 7 ]", "Melanie Griffith read the screenplay for Working Girl over a year before the production began, and expressed interest in playing the role of Tess McGill. [ 7 ] Approximately a year later, Mike Nichols agreed to direct the film after reading the screenplay while shooting his film Biloxi Blues in Arkansas . [ 7 ] Following Nichols's attachment, Griffith had a formal audition for the role. [ 7 ] Molly Ringwald auditioned but was deemed \"too young.\" [ 8 ] Nichols was so determined for Griffith to have the part that he threatened to drop out of the production if the studio, 20th Century Fox , would not hire her. [ 7 ]", "Following the casting of Sigourney Weaver and Harrison Ford—both major stars at that point—the studio agreed to cast Griffith, as they felt Weaver and Ford's involvement gave them a higher chance of box-office success. [ 7 ]", "Principal photography of Working Girl began on February 16, 1988, in New York City. [ 7 ] Many scenes were shot in the New Brighton section of Staten Island in New York City. One half-day of shooting to complete the skiing accident scene took place in New Jersey . [ 7 ] Four different buildings portrayed the offices of Petty Marsh—1 State Street Plaza; the Midday Club, which served as the company's club room; the lobby of 7 World Trade Center (one of the buildings destroyed in the September 11 attacks ); and the reading floor of the L. F. Rothschild Building. [ 7 ] One Chase Manhattan Plaza was featured at the end of the film as the Trask Industries building. [ 7 ] Filming completed on April 27, 1988, with the final sequence being shot on the Staten Island Ferry . [ 7 ]", "Throughout the shoot, Griffith was in the midst of struggling with a years-long alcohol and cocaine addiction, which at times interfered with the shoot. [ 9 ] \"There were a lot of things that happened on Working Girl that I did that were not right,\" Griffith recalled in 2019. \"It was the late '80s. There was a lot going on party-wise in New York. There was a lot of cocaine. There was a lot of temptation.\" [ 10 ] After Nichols realized that Griffith had arrived on set high on cocaine, the shoot was temporarily shut down for 24 hours. [ 11 ] Griffith elaborated on the experience:", "Three weeks after filming was completed, Griffith entered a rehabilitation facility to receive treatment for her addiction. [ 12 ] Ironically, according to the biography Mike Nichols: A Life , written by Mark Harris , Nichols had been battling a cocaine addiction of his own around the same time. [ 13 ]", "The film's main theme \" Let the River Run \" was written, arranged, and performed by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon , and won her an Academy Award , a Golden Globe Award , and a Grammy Award for Best Original Song, [ 14 ] making Simon the first artist to win this trio of awards for a song written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist. [ 15 ] As a single, \"Let the River Run\" reached No. 49 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in early 1989. [ 16 ]", "The film's additional soundtrack was scored by Simon and Rob Mounsey . The soundtrack album was released by Arista Records on August 29, 1989, and peaked at No. 45 on the Billboard 200 . [ 17 ]", "The film was released in the United States and Canada on December 21, 1988, in 601 theaters before expanding to 608 theaters on Friday, December 23; 1,046 theaters on Christmas Day ; and 1,051 on Monday, December 26. [ 7 ] [ 18 ] It grossed $4.7 million in its opening four-day weekend and $5.6 million in its first 6 days. [ 5 ] [ 19 ] It went on to gross $63.8 million in the United States and Canda and $39.2 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $103 million. [ 5 ]", "Working Girl was released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1989 by CBS/Fox Video ; \"Family Portrait\", one of the shorts from The Tracey Ullman Show featuring The Simpsons , was included before the movie on the VHS release. The film was released on DVD on April 17, 2001, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment . [ 20 ] Special features included two theatrical trailers and three TV spots. The film was released on Blu-ray on January 6, 2015. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The special features from the DVD release were carried over for the Blu-ray release. [ 22 ]", "Working Girl received critical acclaim upon release. It has an 83% \"Fresh\" rating as of 2024 [update] on Rotten Tomatoes [ 23 ] based on 48 reviews, and an average score of 7/10. The site's consensus is; \"A buoyant corporate Cinderella story, Working Girl has the right cast, right story, and right director to make it all come together.\" The film also has a weighted average score of 73 out of 100 at Metacritic based on reviews from 17 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 24 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A−\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 25 ]", "Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars and wrote, \"The plot of Working Girl is put together like clockwork. It carries you along while you're watching it, but reconstruct it later and you'll see the craftsmanship\". [ 26 ] In her review for the Washington Post , Rita Kempley described Melanie Griffith as \"luminous as Marilyn Monroe , as adorable as one of Disney 's singing mice. She clearly has the stuff of a megastar, and the movie glows from her\". [ 27 ] Janet Maslin , in her review for The New York Times , wrote, \"Mike Nichols, who directed Working Girl , also displays an uncharacteristically blunt touch, and in its later stages the story remains lively but seldom has the perceptiveness or acuity of Mr. Nichols's best work\". [ 28 ] In his review for Time , Richard Corliss wrote, \"Kevin Wade shows this in his smart screenplay, which is full of the atmospheric pressures that allow stars to collide. Director Mike Nichols knows this in his bones. He encourages Weaver to play (brilliantly) an airy shrew. He gives Ford a boyish buoyancy and Griffith the chance to be a grownup mesmerizer\". [ 29 ]", "The February 2020 issue of New York Magazine lists Working Girl as among \"The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars.\" [ 30 ]", "The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:", "Working Girl was also made into a short-lived NBC television series in 1990, starring Sandra Bullock as Tess McGill. [ 42 ] It lasted 12 episodes.", "A Broadway musical version was in the works as of 2017, with a score to be written by Cyndi Lauper from Fox Stage Productions and Aged in Wood Productions. For Aged in Wood, the producers were Robyn Goodman and Josh Fiedler. Instead of a production company on Working Girl , the musical adaptation was switched to a license production by Aged in Wood Productions since Disney took over ownership of Fox Stage in 2019. [ 43 ]", "In 2022 a reboot of Working Girl was reported to be in development at Hulu , with Ilana Peña adapting the script. Selena Gomez was in talks to produce. [ 44 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1f/Working_Girls_%282020_film%29.jpg/250px-Working_Girls_%282020_film%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Frédéric Fonteyne Anne Paulicevich", "Written by": "Anne Paulicevich", "Produced by": "Jacques-Henri Bronckart Olivier Bronckart Yaël Fogiel Laetitia Gonzalez", "Starring": "Sara Forestier", "Cinematography": "Juliette Van Dormael", "Edited by": "Chantal Hymans Damien Keyeux", "Music by": "Vincent Cahay", "Release date": "25 January 2020 ( 2020-01-25 ) ( Rotterdam )", "Running time": "91 minutes", "Countries": "Belgium France", "Language": "French"}
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["Working Girls ( French : Filles de joie ) is a 2020 Belgian-French drama film directed by Frédéric Fonteyne and Anne Paulicevich . It was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards , but it was not nominated. [ 1 ]", "At the 11th Magritte Awards , Working Girls was nominated for three awards, including Best Film and Best Screenplay for Paulicevich. [ 2 ]", "Three prostitutes who work at the border between Belgium and France bury a body. [ 3 ]"]
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{"Directed by": "Dorothy Arzner", "Screenplay by": "Zoë Akins", "Based on": "Blind Mice 1930 play by Vera Caspary Winifred Lenihan", "Starring": "Judith Wood Charles \"Buddy\" Rogers Paul Lukas Stuart Erwin Frances Dee", "Cinematography": "Harry Fischbeck", "Edited by": "Jane Loring", "Music by": "Ralph Rainger", "Production company": "Paramount Pictures", "Distributed by": "Paramount Pictures", "Release date": "December 12, 1931 ( 1931-12-12 )", "Running time": "77 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["Working Girls is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner and written by Zoë Akins , based on the play Blind Mice , written by Vera Caspary and Winifred Lenihan . The film stars Judith Wood , Charles \"Buddy\" Rogers , Paul Lukas , Stuart Erwin , and Frances Dee . The film was released on December 12, 1931, by Paramount Pictures . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Two unsophisticated and undereducated sisters from Indiana, Mae (age 20) and June (age 19) Thorpe, move into the Rolfe charity apartment building for homeless girls in New York City. June applies for a job as a stenographer with scientist Joseph von Schrader, even though his advertisement clearly states it requires a good education, with college preferred. During the interview, June reveals that she never even started high school, then runs downstairs to fetch Mae, who has “a good education.” Von Schrader asks if Mae speaks French or German. Not much she replies, just “Donkey-shane” and “Wee Wee, monsure” , which she learned from a veteran of the War . She completed two whole years of high school, and has no real experience taking dictation. Seeing her feet are wet and she cannot afford rubbers, von Schrader takes pity on her and hires her. His name is pronounced “von Schrahhder”, but Mae starts her job by mispronouncing it with a long A.”", "June tries for work at a fashion house but loses out because of the way she dresses and behaves. Being stylish, she is told, is not the same as having style. She gives herself a makeover and gets a job as a telegraph operator. She begins dating Pat Kelly, a successful saxophonist who performs on the radio. At her prompting, Kelly lavishes gifts—candy, orchids and perfume—on her. Mae meets Boyd Wheeler, a successful lawyer, in the shoe department and goes on to dinner with him. Both sisters barely make the midnight curfew at the Rolfe House..", "Mae turns down a marriage proposal from von Schrader, making it clear she has a beau, and he fires her with the best of intentions, thinking that her future is secure, adding that he would be hurt by having her around. Mae tells June that Boyd—who is actually pretending to be sick—has arranged a double date at a ritzy friend's apartment. June has already signed out for an overnight—actually a date—and tells Mae to make Boyd take her out to eat.", "Boyd's friend cancels. After dinner, Mae tells him she will always trust him and kisses him, Dissolve to Kelly on the bandstand and June dancing. In the morning, June returns to find Mae—who sneaked in—weeping. Mae did not even raise the issue of marriage with Boyd because “it would have seemed fresh…. How could a nice girl mention it if he doesn't?” June is mystified that Boyd is the only thing her sister is so simple about.", "Boyd goes out of town for a month. Mae spends money on new clothes, anticipating his return, but he telegraphs to tell her not to meet the train. She waits in vain to hear from him. In fact, Boyd has just become engaged to a beautiful socialite.", "June unburdens herself to von Schrader, who kindly offers to rehire Mae. He takes June out to a Chinese dinner and draws her portrait, which he places on his desk. He is in love with her.", "After her first week back at work, Mae asks von Schrader to renew his proposal. With some difficulty, she conveys the fact that she is pregnant. He agrees, graciously. Boyd is jilted by his fiancée and returns to Mae while her girlfriends celebrate her engagement. June sees him waiting outside the apartment and tells him to leave. When she tells Mae what she has done, her sister is distraught and finally tells June why she must marry.", "Kelly, Mae, and June—wielding Kelly's gun—go to the apartment where Boyd has been telling Bill how much he loves Mae. Boyd takes a moment to salve his pride and eagerly agrees to marry Mae.", "Later, June and Kelly run into von Schrader at a Chinese restaurant, and after sending Kelly away, June tells von Schrader the news. Far from being disappointed, he reveals he is in love with her, and she reciprocates.", "Arzner later described the film (characterized later as a feminist work) as one of her favorites, but the movie did not receive much attention on a limited release. The film languished in obscurity without a home video release from its rightsholder (which was Universal Pictures after the studio bought a number of Paramount's old library). Prints exist of the film, which included one screened at UCLA in 2015, in addition to bootlegs. The film is often available on The Criterion Channel , most recently in September 2024. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/The_Working_Class_Goes_to_Heaven_movie_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Elio Petri", "Screenplay by": "Elio Petri Ugo Pirro", "Produced by": "Ugo Tucci", "Starring": "Gian Maria Volonté Mariangela Melato Gino Pernice Luigi Diberti Donato Castellaneta Salvo Randone", "Cinematography": "Luigi Kuveiller", "Music by": "Ennio Morricone", "Production company": "Euro International Films", "Distributed by": "Euro International Films [ 1 ]", "Release dates": "1971 ( 1971 ) (Italy) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 11 May 1975 ( 1975-05-11 ) ( New York ) [ 3 ]", "Running time": "125 minutes", "Country": "Italy", "Language": "Italian"}
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["The Working Class Goes to Heaven ( Italian : La classe operaia va in paradiso ), released in the US as Lulu the Tool , is a 1971 Italian satirical [ 4 ] political drama film directed by Elio Petri . It depicts a factory worker's realisation of his own condition as a simple tool in the process of production. The film was awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film at the 25th Cannes Film Festival , [ 1 ] [ 5 ] sharing it with Francesco Rosi 's The Mattei Affair . [ 3 ]", "Lulù Massa, 31 years old, has been working in the same factory for 15 years. Because the management uses his efficiency to justify their demands for higher output, he is disliked by his colleagues. Lulù cares neither for the unionists who demand higher pay rates and reduced working hours, nor the students outside the factory gates who appeal to the workers to rise up against the factory owners. From time to time, he visits his former colleague Militina who has been interred in a mental institution after collapsing under the working conditions. Militina fantasizes about militant actions and \"breaking the wall\".", "When Lulù loses a finger in a working accident, his attitude changes drastically. He joins a radical fraction among the workers who call for a strike, has an affair with a female co-worker and invites the students to move into his flat. As a result, his lover Lidia leaves him together with her son. After the unionists have reached an agreement with the management, the employees return to work, except Lulù who has been fired for his agitational behaviour. Lulù goes to see the student protestors, who declare that he is of no use for them because he is an individual case.", "Lulù, now on the verge of madness, only vaguely realises that Lidia and her son have moved back in and that the unionists have convinced the management to rehire him. Back in the factory, working in an assembly line with other colleagues, he recounts a dream in which he broke a wall, finding himself and his co-workers emerge from a fog.", "The factory scenes in The Working Class Goes to Heaven were shot in a factory in Novara , Piedmont , which had shut down and been occupied by its former workers, with many of the personnel serving as extras in the film. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] Other shooting locations included the Ospedale Maggiore di Novara and the Istituto Tecnico Industriale OMAR. [ 6 ]", "The Working Class Goes to Heaven premiered at the 1971 Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Libero (\"International exhibition of free cinema\") in Porretta Terme , Emilia-Romagna . [ 7 ] Petri later claimed that, after the screening, filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub demanded that the film be burned. [ 8 ] Other sources attribute this statement to film critic Pio Baldelli [ it ] . [ 9 ]", "The film's reception by the Italian press was mixed. The Segnalazioni cinematografiche lauded its \"solid cinematographic language\" and the precise portrayal of its central character, but criticised the \"overabundance of themes and some long-windedness\". [ 1 ] Natalia Ginzburg in La Stampa accused the film of being superfluous and confusing, held together only by Gian Maria Volonté's presence. [ 2 ]", "In the Spring 1973 volume of Film Quarterly , James Roy MacBean compared The Working Class Goes to Heaven to the prison drama The Brig as a \"jarringly abrasive\" portrayal of factory work. [ 10 ] The New York Times critic A. H. Weiler called the film \"both fascinating and sobering\" upon its 1975 New York premiere. [ 3 ] Contrary to this, author Mira Liehm referred to it as a \"weaker\" Petri film and \"heavy-handed\" in her 1986 book on Italian Cinema. [ 11 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Working_Class_Boy_2018_film.jpg/250px-Working_Class_Boy_2018_film.jpg", "Directed by": "Mark Joffe", "Production company": "CJZ", "Distributed by": "Universal Pictures", "Release date": "23 August 2018 ( 2018-08-23 )", "Running time": "104 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "Australia", "Language": "English"}
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["Working Class Boy is a 2018 Australian documentary film about the life of Jimmy Barnes , based on the 2016 memoir of the same name . The film looks on one of Australia's most legendary and iconic artists; his traumatic childhood, fuelled with domestic violence, poverty and alcoholism and his evolution from James Dixon Swan to Jimmy Barnes. [ 2 ]", "The film also features musical performances with his children Mahalia Barnes and David Campbell , as well as his brother-in-law, Diesel . [ 3 ]", "Barnes told news.com.au , \"Everyone wanted to do a TV miniseries like Molly or Olivia Newton-John and I told them it is just not happening. I wanted it to be true to the book. We’re dealing with sensitive issues, sensitive to me, my family, my siblings, my friends and I didn’t want to glamorise it or play down the gravity of the violence of abuse.\" [ 4 ]", "The film was released on 23 August 2018 in over 220 cinemas around Australia. [ 5 ] The special was broadcast on free-to-air television 6 weeks later on October 1, 2018, due to an early interest in the project by the Seven Network . [ 6 ]"]
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{"Directed by": "Cliff Caines", "Written by": "Cliff Caines", "Produced by": "Cliff Caines", "Cinematography": "Ryan Randall", "Edited by": "Cliff Caines Roland Schlimme", "Music by": "Tom Third", "Production company": "Headframe Films", "Release date": "November 17, 2019 ( 2019-11-17 ) ( RIDM )", "Running time": "82 minutes", "Country": "Canada", "Language": "English"}
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["Workhorse is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Cliff Caines and released in 2019. [ 1 ] A meditation on the relationship between humans and animals, the film profiles a logger and a farmer who still to this day use old-fashioned workhorses rather than contemporary mechanical equipment in their jobs, as well as a family who raise and train horses to participate in workhorse competitions at agricultural fairs. [ 2 ]", "The film premiered on November 17, 2019 at the Montreal International Documentary Festival . [ 3 ]", "Ryan Randall won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, [ 4 ] and was a nominee for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers ' Robert Brooks Award for Documentary Cinematography."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/SortiedesOuvriersdel1895-01.jpg/250px-SortiedesOuvriersdel1895-01.jpg", "Directed by": "Louis Lumière", "Produced by": "Louis Lumière", "Cinematography": "Louis Lumière", "Distributed by": "Lumière", "Release date": "22 March 1895 ( 1895-03-22 )", "Running time": "46 seconds", "Country": "France", "Language": "Silent"}
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["Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon ( French : La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon ), also known as Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory and Exiting the Factory , is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière . It is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, [ 1 ] although Louis Le Prince 's 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene pre-dated it by six and a half years.", "Three separate versions of this film exist, which differ from one another in numerous ways-the clothing style changes demonstrating the different seasons in which they were filmed. They are often referred to as the \"one horse\", \"two horses\", and \"no horse\" versions, in reference to a horse-drawn carriage that appears in the first two versions (pulled by one horse in the original and two horses in the first remake). [ 2 ] Another film with the same theme was made in 1896, that features another factory (or another entrance to the same factory) with different people. [ 3 ]", "This film was made in the 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and at a speed of 16 frames per second. At that rate, the 17 meters of film length provided a duration of 46 seconds, holding a total of 800 frames. [ 4 ]", "Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet. It has also featured in a number of film collections including Landmarks of Early Film volume 1 , The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894 - 1913 and The Lumière Brothers' First Films .", "The film has been known by a large number of alternative titles in France and the United States over the years since its production including La Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon-Montplaisir , Sortie de l'Usine Lumière , La Sortie des Usines , Les ouvriers et ouvrières sortant de l'Usine Lumière , Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory , Leaving the Factory , Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory , Lunch Hour at the Lumière Factory , Dinner Hour at the Factory Gate of M. Lumière at Lyon , Exiting the Factory , La Sortie des ouvriers de l'Usine Lumière . [ 5 ] [ 6 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Official_poster_WWW.jpg/250px-Official_poster_WWW.jpg", "Directed by": "Harpreet Sandhu", "Written by": "Harpreet Sandhu", "Produced by": "Harpreet Sandhu, Reema Nagra", "Starring": "Harpreet Sandhu Reema Nagra Dilbag Brar Kirat Bhattal", "Music by": "Harpreet Sandhu, Sukhjinder Alfaaz", "Distributed by": "StarGauge Films Inc.", "Release date": "14 November 2014 ( 2014-11-14 )", "Country": "Canada", "Language": "Punjabi", "Released": "15 August 2014 ( 2014-08-15 )", "Recorded": "ArtGauge Films Inc.", "Genre": "Hindi Film Soundtrack", "Label": "ArtGauge Films Inc.", "Producer": "Harpreet Sandhu , Reema Nagra"}
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["Work Weather Wife ( Gurmukhi : ਵਰਕ ਵੇਦਰ ਵਾਈਫ, Devanagari: वोर्क वेदेर वाईफ़) is a Canadian Punjabi feature film starring Harpreet Sandhu and Reema Nagra in the lead role with Dilbag Brar and Kirat Bhattal and is directed by Harpreet Sandhu . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "The film had two songs, \"Moon\" and \"Long Braid\" in consideration for a nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Song prior to the 87th Academy Awards . [ 4 ] At the 72nd Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Feature Film, Work Weather Wife was one of 53 films approved for consideration in the Foreign Language category. [ 5 ]", "Vick tricks his way into Dimple and CJ's fragile family. The film outlines the major community issue of honour killings. CJ, who belongs to the working class , doesn't have time for the daily household routine, and Vick outsmarts CJ on a scam. [ 6 ]", "The soundtrack features ten songs composed by Harpreet Sandhu , Dilbag Brar and Sukhjinder Alfaaz with lyrics by Dilbag Brar and Sukhjinder Alfaaz and voice rendered by Alka Yagnik , Arsh Avtar , Sukhjinder Alfaaz , Dilbag Brar , and Urdu poetry by Harpreet Sandhu . [ 7 ]", "The soundtrack features ten songs composed by Harpreet Sandhu , Dilbag Brar and Sukhjinder Alfaaz with lyrics by Dilbag Brar and Sukhjinder Alfaaz and voice rendered by Alka Yagnik , Arsh Avtar , Sukhjinder Alfaaz , Dilbag Brar , and Urdu poetry by Harpreet Sandhu . [ 7 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Work_It_film_poster.png", "Directed by": "Laura Terruso", "Written by": "Alison Peck", "Produced by": "Alicia Keys Leslie Morgenstein Elysa Koplovitz Dutton", "Starring": "Sabrina Carpenter Liza Koshy Keiynan Lonsdale Michelle Buteau Jordan Fisher", "Cinematography": "Rogier Stoffers", "Edited by": "Andrew Marcus", "Music by": "Germaine Franco", "Production companies": "A.K. Worldwide Productions Alloy Entertainment STXfilms", "Distributed by": "Netflix", "Release date": "August 7, 2020 ( 2020-08-07 )", "Running time": "93 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["Work It is a 2020 American dance comedy film directed by Laura Terruso and written by Alison Peck. Produced by Alicia Keys , Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton, the film stars Sabrina Carpenter , Liza Koshy , Keiynan Lonsdale , Michelle Buteau and Jordan Fisher .", "About a group of high school students of different backgrounds, the film follows their journey to win the titular Work It dance competition. [ 1 ]", "The film was released on Netflix on August 7, 2020. [ 2 ]", "Quinn Ackerman, a quirky and intelligent high school senior, works as a technical director for the Thunderbirds, her high school's elite dance team, which is well known around the state as the reigning champions of the Work It dance competition. When Quinn sets something on fire by accident, the ruthless leader of the Thunderbirds, Julliard Pembroke, fires her from the position.", "Quinn's dream to attend Duke University , her late father's alma mater, is soured when the admissions counselor, Veronica Ramirez, informs that her chances of standing out to the admission's team are not good. Quinn misleads Ramirez into thinking that she is a dancer on the Thunderbirds, even though she only worked the lighting. Ramirez is instantly impressed, and vows to see her perform live at the Work It dance competition.", "Though she considers confessing, Quinn instead decides to commit to it. She enlists her best friend Jasmine Hale's help, who is a dancer for the Thunderbirds herself, to teach her how to dance for the team's open auditions in two weeks. Quinn's dancing skills improve substantially, but Julliard still rejects her.", "After Jasmine stands up to him and defends Quinn, Julliard sarcastically suggests that the two start their own dance team, which Quinn does. Jasmine reluctantly agrees to quit the Thunderbirds in favor of Quinn's new team.", "Quinn and Jasmine research a former champion of the Work It competition, Jake Taylor, who stopped competing and vanished after a knee injury two years prior. Quinn tracks him down and approaches him at the dance studio where he now works. She asks him to be a choreographer for the team, but Jake rejects her, insisting that dance is done with passion, not learned by thinking.", "Meanwhile, the girls round up a group of unknown dancers at their school who all differ in style. After seeing the team's potential during an informal dance meetup, Jake agrees to choreograph for the team, but only if they can win entry through the upcoming qualifying competition by themselves. Under the name \"TBD\", they cut qualifiers but on a technicality issue with an opposing team.", "Jake and Quinn spend more time together, and one night, Jake takes her aside and decides to experiment with freestyle dancing with her. As they practice, Quinn's talent surfaces, and they kiss. With newfound confidence, Quinn takes it easier on herself and puts more effort into her dancing and teamwork.", "Quinn emails Veronica Ramirez and informs her that she has started her own team and that they will be competing at Work It. However, when Julliard discovers that Jake is choreographing for Quinn's team, he turns them in for using the studio to practice without paying, and Jake loses his job.", "Quinn's grades drop due to her dedication to the team, and she receives an email from the Duke admissions team informing her that Veronica no longer works there. Quinn confesses everything to her mom, and they \nagree that she should quit the dance team and bring her grades up before turning in her final transcript.", "The team feels betrayed by Quinn's departure, especially Jasmine, who rejoins the Thunderbirds, and Quinn ends her romance with Jake. She later rediscovers her own passion for dance and reconciles with him, and they both decide to bring the team back together. Quinn reconciles with Jasmine, who quits the Thunderbirds and rejoins the TBDs.", "The group begins to learn each other's unique dance styles, and Jake incorporates them into the choreography. On competition day, Quinn's mother discovers that she is still into dance, so she tries to stop her from leaving and even grounds her. Quinn points out that going to Duke and becoming a doctor is her parents' dream and not hers, then takes the car keys and leaves.", "When Quinn arrives, the TBDs are already on stage, and she enters halfway through the act. The TBDs narrowly win the competition over the Thunderbirds, and both Jasmine and Julliard are approached by a scout from the New York Dance Academy. Quinn runs into Veronica, who is now working at NYU , and she invites her to apply for the fall semester.", "On April 2, 2019, Adam Fogelson of STX announced the film along with Alicia Keys producing it. [ 3 ] On May 2, 2019, it was announced that Sabrina Carpenter , Liza Koshy and Keiynan Lonsdale would star in the film. [ 4 ] Laura Terruso was announced as the director, and that Terruso would rewrite the film from an original script from Alison Peck, with Elysa Koplovitz Dutton and Leslie Morgenstein from Alloy Entertainment producing the film alongside Keys. [ 5 ] On July 2, 2019, Drew Ray Tanner , Michelle Buteau and Jordan Fisher all joined the cast and it was announced that Netflix would distribute the film. [ 6 ] It was also announced that day that Carpenter would also serve as an executive producer. [ 1 ]", "Filming took place from June 2019 to August 2019 at the University of Toronto (St. George Campus), Humber college Lakeshore Campus, Toronto, York University Keele campus in Toronto, Canada [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and on the campus of California State University, Northridge in Los Angeles in December 2019. [ citation needed ]", "Work It was released by Netflix on August 7, 2020. [ 10 ] It was the top-watched film in its debut weekend, before falling to fifth place in its second weekend. [ 11 ] [ 12 ]", "On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 85% based on 26 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. [ 13 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 58 out of 100, based on nine critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". [ 14 ]"]
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["Work at Oil Derricks ( Azerbaijani : Neft buruqlarında iş ) is a 1907 Azerbaijani film directed by Vasili Amaşukeli .", "The film was shot on 35 mm and captures oil production at a works in the Azeri capital of Baku ."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Work_and_the_Glory_official_poster.jpg/250px-Work_and_the_Glory_official_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Russell Holt", "Written by": "Gerald N. Lund Russell Holt", "Produced by": "Jeff T. Miller Larry H. Miller Scott Swofford", "Starring": "Sam Hennings Brenda Strong Eric Johnson Alexander Carroll Tiffany Dupont Jonathan Scarfe", "Cinematography": "T. C. Christensen", "Music by": "Sam Cardon", "Distributed by": "Excel Entertainment Group", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$7,500,000", "Box office": "$3,347,647 [ 1 ] [ 2 ]"}
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["The Work and the Glory (also known as The Work and the Glory: Pillar of Light ) [ 3 ] is a 2004 historical fiction drama film directed by Russell Holt, from a script co-written by Gerald N. Lund and Russell Holt. Based on Lund's novel titled The Work and the Glory: Pillar of Light , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] the movie stars Sam Hennings , Brenda Strong , Eric Johnson , Alexander Carroll, Tiffany Dupont , and Jonathan Scarfe . It tells the story of the fictional Steed family in the 1820s and their struggles trying to adopt the new Mormon religion , and it explores their relationship with their community, with its founder, Joseph Smith and the rest of the Smith family. [ citation needed ]", "The movie successfully launched the titular film series , which consisted of a trilogy.", "On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 17% based on reviews from 12 critics and an audience approval rating of 84% (5000+ ratings). [ 6 ]", "The film was followed by two sequels, The Work and the Glory: American Zion released in 2005, and The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided released in 2006. [ 7 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/91/WorkIsAFourLetterWord.jpg/250px-WorkIsAFourLetterWord.jpg", "Directed by": "Peter Hall", "Written by": "Jeremy Brooks", "Based on": "Eh? by Henry Livings", "Produced by": "Thomas Clyde", "Starring": "David Warner Cilla Black Zia Mohyeddin David Waller Elizabeth Spriggs", "Cinematography": "Gilbert Taylor", "Edited by": "Jack Harris", "Music by": "Guy Woolfenden Delia Derbyshire [ 1 ]", "Production company": "Cavalcade Films", "Distributed by": "Rank Film Distributors Universal Pictures (United States)", "Release dates": "June 7, 1968 ( 1968-06-07 ) (London) September 25, 1968 ( 1968-09-25 ) (United States)", "Running time": "93 minutes", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$800,000 [ 2 ]"}
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["Work Is a Four-Letter Word (also known as Work Is a 4-Letter Word ) is a 1968 British satirical comedy film directed by Peter Hall and starring David Warner and Cilla Black . [ 3 ] It was written by Jeremy Brooks based on the 1966 award-winning play Eh? by Henry Livings .", "Everyone is employed by the ultra-modern DICE Corporation but Valentine Brose would rather stay at home to tend his psychedelic mushrooms . However, his bedroom is too small and his fiancée Betty Dorrick wants him to settle down. Accordingly, Brose seeks a job in DICE's boiler-room, a suitable environment to grow his mushrooms.", "The plot describes his attempts to get the job, and the conflicts with middle-management, including the personnel manager, Mrs Murray. Having obtained it, Brose is more interested in his mushrooms than tending the boiler, with unforeseen results including a major power cut. The boiler room contains a computer, which towards the end of the film is also breaking down.", "Brose eventually marries Betty, but is more interested in having her sweep up the boiler room so he can concentrate on his first love, the mushrooms. Eventually he goes haywire and the film ends with Brose and Betty loading up a pram with mushrooms and escaping.", "David Warner had established a reputation for playing off-beat roles, including the title role in Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment (1966) and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company , of which Peter Hall was artistic director until the year of the film's release. Most of the remainder of the cast were also members of the RSC.", "Cilla Black had not previously had a starring role; she had appeared briefly as herself in Ferry Cross The Mersey (1965). [ 4 ] She recorded the title song for the film, which was released as the B side of \"Where Is Tomorrow?\" in 1968; [ 5 ] the single reached number 39 in the UK Charts. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] This would be Black's only starring role in film. [ 8 ] [ 9 ]", "The film was shot at an office building at Birminghan 5 Ways, seen in the opening credits, and at Belvedere Power Station (demolished 1993–1994). Interiors were completed at Shepperton Studios near London.", "The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: \"Somewhere in the shift from stage to film, Henry Livings' play has lost its delicate and primarily verbal anarchy. Its fantasy factory, here endowed with a solid and convincing presence, no longer belongs to the world of surrealism so much as to that of social satire (and pre-credits shots of industrial slum streets suggest that the change of emphasis is deliberate). With the factory reduced to a symbol of automated society, Val Brose can no longer remain an individual: he becomes the incarnation of all individualism, differentiated from other people not by what he says (his flashes of articulateness are rare and therefore incongruous) but by what he does; and he does it in the tradition of the most external and commercial film comedies. The principal character is thus annihilated on all levels except the slapstick. The gigantic equipment manages (despite the film's implicit moral) to dwarf even David Warner's engaging and gangling presence, just as the noise and protracted sight gags submerge a number of pleasant details, like David Waller's performance as the harassed executive with a passion for miniature trains, or the transvestite lovers constantly exchanging clothes. Of course, Val's lonely war against push-button gadgetry evokes comparisons with René Clair and Jacques Tati ; but they are comparisons that Peter Hall's first film, with its tedious comic routines and flashy mixture of styles, is unable to sustain.\" [ 10 ]", "Variety compared the film thematically with Charlie Chaplin 's Modern Times but was critical of its \"irritating air of improvisation\" and described the storyline as \"thin\", albeit praising some of the off-beat situations as \"very funny\". [ 11 ]", "Leslie Halliwell , in his Film Guide , described it as a \"weakly futuristic industrial fantasy which the author would probably claim to be about lack of communication. Bored audiences might have a similar view\". [ 12 ]", "English indie rock band the Smiths covered the film's title song for the B-side of their 1987 single \" Girlfriend in a Coma \". [ 13 ] Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has stated in interviews that one of the main impetuses for his leaving the band was singer Morrissey 's insistence on covering the song. In a 1992 issue of Record Collector , Marr stated, \"'Work Is a Four Letter Word' I hated. That was the last straw, really. I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs. That was it, really. I made a decision that I was going to get away on holiday. The only place I could think of was L.A. L.A. was the only place I knew where there'd be sunshine, so off I went. I never saw Morrissey again.\" [ 14 ]", "The film has never been released on home media."]
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{"Directed by": "James Hendrie", "Written by": "James Hendrie", "Produced by": "Mary Bell", "Starring": "Lenny Henry Kathy Burke", "Cinematography": "Robin Vidgeon", "Edited by": "Annabel Ware", "Music by": "Simon Brint", "Production company": "North Inch Production", "Distributed by": "Channel Four Films", "Release date": "1989 ( 1989 )", "Running time": "11 minutes", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English"}
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["Work Experience is a 1989 British short comedy film directed by James Hendrie and starring Lenny Henry and Kathy Burke . It won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 62nd Academy Awards . [ 1 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Chaplin_and_Purviance_in_Work.jpg/250px-Chaplin_and_Purviance_in_Work.jpg", "Directed by": "Charlie Chaplin", "Written by": "Charlie Chaplin", "Produced by": "Jess Robbins", "Starring": "Charlie Chaplin Charles Inslee Billy Armstrong Edna Purviance Leo White", "Cinematography": "Harry Ensign", "Edited by": "Charlie Chaplin", "Music by": "Robert Israel (Kino video release)", "Distributed by": "Essanay Studios General Film Company", "Release date": "June 21, 1915 ( 1915-06-21 )", "Running time": "33 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Languages": "Silent film English (original intertitles)"}
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["Work is a 1915 American silent film starring Charlie Chaplin (his eighth film for Essanay Films ), and co-starring Edna Purviance , Marta Golden and Charles Inslee . It was filmed at the Majestic Studio in Los Angeles .", "It is one of the first movies to appreciate the slapstick potential of a painting and decorating scenario.", "Charlie is an assistant to Izzy A. Wake, a painter and wallpaper hanger. The two men are on their way to a job carrying their ladders and materials on a cart. The boss rides in the cart, leisurely sitting in front of all their paraphernalia, while Charlie is hitched to the cart like a mule. The boss also treats Charlie like a mule, beating him with a stick to get him to move faster.", "When the boss opts to take a shortcut up a steep hill, the out-of-control cart descends and is nearly hit by an oncoming streetcar. A second attempt to scale the enormous hill is successful. A further delay is caused by Charlie falling down a manhole. At the destination house, Charlie carries all the material on the cart into the house in one move. They have been commissioned to hang wallpaper, but Charlie becomes distracted by the pretty maid. The boss has a misadventure and falls, his head ending up in a bucket of paste. Meanwhile, the short-tempered homeowner is contending with the threat of an exploding stove and an amorous French visitor who is making passes at his wife. Shots are fired—and the target turns out to be Charlie who has been enjoying the maid's company. An enraged Charlie gives the Frenchman, his boss, and the homeowner each a face full of paste. As the fight moves into the kitchen, the troublesome stove finally explodes. When the dust dies down, Charlie is nowhere to be seen. Slowly the oven door opens. Charlie looks out and retreats back into the stove.", "A reviewer from Bioscope praised Work, noting, \"The humor is designed to rise in a long crescendo of screams to a climax of roars. Positively, the thing is irresistible."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Words_and_Pictures_%28film%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Fred Schepisi", "Written by": "Gerald Di Pego", "Produced by": "Curtis Burch Gerald Di Pego", "Starring": "Clive Owen Juliette Binoche Bruce Davison Navid Negahban Amy Brenneman", "Cinematography": "Ian Baker", "Edited by": "Peter Honess", "Music by": "Paul Grabowsky", "Distributed by": "Roadside Attractions", "Release dates": "September 7, 2013 ( 2013-09-07 ) ( TIFF ) May 23, 2014 ( 2014-05-23 ) (US)", "Running time": "111 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$3.3 million [ 1 ]"}
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["Words and Pictures is a 2013 American drama film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Clive Owen , Juliette Binoche , and Keegan Connor Tracy . It was screened in the Gala Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "Croyden is an upscale college preparatory school in Maine that hires teachers for their advanced courses who are accomplished professionals.", "Jack Marcus is a writer and poet who teaches the advanced writing class. He is a good teacher who inspires his students. He demonstrates how some carefully chosen words and phrases can stimulate the listener's imagination to produce vivid mental imagery . One particular grievance of his involves the way in which young developing minds have been hijacked by the tedious distractions of modern technical gadgetry. He seems to be afflicted with writer's block and hasn't come out with any original work in several years. He publishes the school's literary magazine, which the school administration is planning to shut down for budgetary reasons. He is a high-functioning alcoholic who chronically arrives late to work and is on the verge of being fired. He is divorced and has an adult son from his first marriage, but they have become estranged because of Jack's drinking and general irresponsibility.", "Dina Delsanto is an artist who has just been hired to teach the advanced art class, which has the same students as Jack's writing class. Dina was a successful painter in New York City , but she now has difficulty painting or even walking and engaging in daily activities because of severe rheumatoid arthritis . She can no longer fasten buttons, open medicine bottles or hold paint brushes. She moved to Maine, where her sister and her mother live, so that they can help her during the spells when her arthritis worsens. As a teacher, she is a perfectionist with no interest in her students' personal lives. She simply wants them to concentrate on creating the best works of art that they can. She shows them the difference between paintings that merely demonstrate craft and paintings that evoke feeling as well. She struggles to paint again by overcoming her physical limitations as well as her own artistic difficulties. She finally creates a good work of art and sets it aside to dry. She has, incidentally, professed a complete disdain for the spoken and printed word. She insists that artistically rendered images are the only worthwhile media for expressing \"truth\".", "Jack's colleagues and friends perceive him as attention-getting, obnoxious and charming. Once he gets wind of Dina's personal philosophy, he provokes an argument with her over which is more important, words or pictures. Their students are drawn into the conflict with class assignments demonstrating the superiority of words over pictures or pictures over words. Dina agrees to have her students contribute their own works of art to Jack's literary magazine. They decide to have an assembly in which each side will put on a presentation arguing the case for words and for pictures. The school administration becomes impressed enough with all of this activity to retain his services as an instructor.", "Jack pursues Dina romantically and ultimately succeeds. But, during his first night over, he gets drunk on her vodka and crashes headlong into her newest painting. He further confesses to plagiarizing a poem from his own son, a moral failing for which Dina is even more unforgiving. She throws him out and tells him she doesn't want to have anything more to do with him.", "He confesses the plagiarism to the school board and hands in his resignation. He asks only to continue for the rest of the year and put on the War on Words and Pictures assembly program. The board grants him his request, and the movie concludes with a satisfying resolution at the aforementioned assembly.", "Words and Pictures grossed $2,171,257 in the United States and $1,175,000 in other territories, for a worldwide gross of $3,346,257. [ 1 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 43% based on 95 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads: \"While both talented performers in their own right, Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen are decidedly mismatched in Words and Pictures , and they aren't done many favors by the movie's awkwardly constructed screenplay.\" [ 4 ] On Metacritic , the film has a score of 49 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". [ 5 ]", "Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com gave the film only one and a half stars and wrote: \"Unfortunately, Words and Pictures fails at portraying both titular nouns. The screenplay by Gerald Di Pego ( Phenomenon ) is full of subpar dialogue, one-dimensional characters, scenes that belong in a different movie, other scenes that belong in the trash, multiple rom-com sins of cliché and a warped, stalkerish notion of what constitutes romance. When the hero's idea of a term of endearment to the heroine is 'you cold-hearted ice bitch', one wonders what he'd say if he were pissed at her.\" [ 6 ] Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: \"Schepisi, whose last film was his adaptation The Eye of the Storm , based on an Australian classic , is a general who marshals actors to bring emotional depth to almost any kind of screenplay. Here the human elements take the foreground, and romance comes trailing along forlornly behind. Not that the chemistry isn't there between Owen and Binoche, who has rarely looked so beautiful onscreen, even playing a woman with physical handicaps. But the strange reticence of the scene when the two finally hit the hay feels like a throwback to the 1930s, including a huge cutaway that ends with the protags in bed with the sheets pulled up to their necks, saying how great it all was.\" [ 7 ]", "Claudia Puig of USA Today gave Words and Pictures three and half stars and stated: \"A thoughtful film about ideas—creativity, the power of language and the eloquence of visuals—it features two impeccable performances full of vitality. Clive Owen plays Jack Marcus, a voluble prep school English teacher who laments the reductive nature of social media. Juliette Binoche is Dina Delsanto, an Italian-born expressionist painter and art instructor at the same elite New England school. Both are disillusioned with life and education, and neither suffers fools. They are tart-tongued and cantankerous, but engaging.\" [ 8 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Words_with_Gods.jpg", "Directed by": "Guillermo Arriaga Emir Kusturica Amos Gitai Mira Nair Warwick Thornton Héctor Babenco Bahman Ghobadi Hideo Nakata Álex de la Iglesia", "Screenplay by": "Álex de la Iglesia Jorge Guerricaechevarría", "Produced by": "Alex Garcia Guillermo Arriaga Lukas Akoskin", "Music by": "Lorne Balfe Peter Gabriel", "Release dates": "30 August 2014 ( 2014-08-30 ) ( Venice ) 20 November 2014 ( 2014-11-20 ) (Mexico)", "Running time": "133 minutes", "Countries": "Mexico United States"}
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["Words with Gods is a 2014 Mexican-U.S. anthology film . It is the first of a planned series of such films, collectively titled Heartbeat of the World . Words with Gods consists of segments directed by nine directors. It was screened out of competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival . Words with Gods follows the theme of religion, specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods. The order of the film segments was curated by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Words_and_Music_%281929%29_poster.jpg/250px-Words_and_Music_%281929%29_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "James Tinling", "Written by": "Frederick Hazlitt Brennan (story) Jack McEdwards (story) Andrew Bennison", "Produced by": "William Fox", "Starring": "Lois Moran David Percy Helen Twelvetrees Frank Albertson Duke Morrison", "Cinematography": "Don Anderson Charles G. Clarke Charles Van Enger", "Edited by": "Ralph Dixon", "Music by": "Con Conrad Archie Gottler Sidney D. Mitchell Dave Stamper", "Distributed by": "Fox Film Corporation", "Release date": "August 18, 1929 ( 1929-08-18 )", "Running time": "72 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["Words and Music is a 1929 American sound ( All-Talking ) pre-Code musical comedy film directed by James Tinling and starring Lois Moran , Helen Twelvetrees and Frank Albertson . It was written by Andrew Bennison , with the story by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Jack Edwards.", "Released by Fox Film Corporation , the film is notable as the first in which John Wayne is credited as \"Duke Morrison\". Wayne was also credited as \"Duke Morrison\" as a property assistant in the Art Department. Ward Bond , Wayne's lifelong good friend, also had a bit part in the movie. Words and Music , which was also released as a silent film , is now considered lost . [ 1 ]", "Two young college students, Phil and Pete, compete for the love of a pretty girl named Mary, and also to win the $1500 prize in a song-writing contest to write the best show tune for the annual college revue. The two men each ask Mary to sing for them, but eventually, she chooses Phil as her beau, and it is he who also has the winning song.", "Although the film was largely devoid of much of a plot line, as was typical of musical revue pictures of the period, there is a great deal of singing and dancing. Many of Lois Moran's numbers were footage that was cut from the film, Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 , to make that film shorter. This film was created to make use of the deleted scenes, so it was fashioned around Moran's singing talent. Songs include, \"Too Wonderful for Words\" (William Kernell, Dave Stamper , Paul Gerard Smith , Edmund Joseph), \"Stepping Along\" (Kernell), \"Shadows\" ( Con Conrad , Sidney D. Mitchell , Archie Gottler )."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Words_of_Witness.png", "Directed by": "Mai Iskander", "Produced by": "Mai Iskander", "Cinematography": "Mai Iskander", "Release dates": "April 3, 2012 ( 2012-04-03 ) ( Germany ) February 12, 2012 ( 2012-02-12 ) (Germany)", "Running time": "70 min", "Country": "United States", "Languages": "English Arabic"}
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["Words of Witness is a 2012 feature-length documentary film produced and directed by Mai Iskander. follows 22-year-old journalist Heba Afify as she navigates Egypt's revolution and the rigid boundaries of her concerned mother to examine the struggles, hopes and fears of a people on the brink of democracy.", "Words of Witness\" world premiere was with the Berlin International Film Festival , Germany on February 12, 2012. [ 1 ] The documentary had its North American premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival, June 17, 2012. The film was also part of the 2012 Human Rights Watch Film Festival. [ 1 ]", "Every time 22-year-old journalist Heba Afify heads out to cover the historical events shaping her country's future, her mother is compelled to remind her, \"I know you are a journalist, but you're still a girl!\" Defying cultural norms and family expectations, Heba takes to the streets to report on an Egypt in turmoil, using tweets, texts and Facebook posts. Her coming of age, political awakening and the disillusionment that follows, mirrors that of a nation seeking the freedom to shape its own destiny, dignity and democracy. [ 2 ] ", "In his review in The Los Angeles Times , Gary Goldstein said \"\"'Arab Spring' blooms in Words of Witness crucial story of modern revolution... The concise documentary 'Words of Witness' proves a vivid snapshot of the hectic, yet hopeful weeks in early 2011 following the end of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-dictatorship, the start of the military's interim rule and the nation's rocky road toward democracy... Iskander captures loaded events with hand-held, you-are-there vitality.\"\n [ 3 ]", "In a review in The Wall Street Journal , A.J. Goldman said \"Raw and fascinating...\n‘Words of Witness’ captures the hope, yearning, anxiety and fear of people in a country undergoing extreme political and social turmoil.\" [ 4 ]", "In her review in Huffington Post , E. Nina Rothe said \"Beautiful inspiring story...Egypt's government announced that an Islamist has won Egypt's first competitive presidential election. The superb new documentary 'Words of Witness' sheds much needed light on how Egyptians got to this point.\" [ 5 ]", "In her review in Film Journal International , Maria Garcia said \"Riveting documentary...\" [ 6 ]", "In her review in Slant Magazine , Ela Bittencort said \"Stirring...\" [ 7 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a1/Les_Mots_bleus.jpg/250px-Les_Mots_bleus.jpg", "Directed by": "Alain Corneau", "Screenplay by": "Alain Corneau", "Based on": "Leur histoire by Dominique Mainard", "Produced by": "Laurent Pétin Michèle Pétin", "Starring": "Sylvie Testud Sergi López", "Cinematography": "Yves Angelo", "Edited by": "Thierry Derocles", "Music by": "Christophe", "Distributed by": "ARP Sélection", "Release dates": "16 February 2005 ( 2005-02-16 ) ( Berlinale ) 23 March 2005 ( 2005-03-23 ) (France)", "Running time": "115 minutes", "Country": "France", "Languages": "French French Sign Language Catalan", "Budget": "€5 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$661,951 [ 2 ]"}
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["Words in Blue (original title: Les Mots bleus ) is a 2005 French drama film adapted from the novel Leur histoire by French author Dominique Mainard . The film was adapted and directed by Alain Corneau .", "Clara, ( Sylvie Testud ), works in a birdshop. She is concerned about her deaf-mute daughter Anna, (Camille Gauthier), whom she is bringing up on her own. She has never spoken a single word. Clara herself is illiterate. Ever since her grandmother Baba, whom she adored, had been the victim of an attack when she was reading her a story, she has always refused to learn to read and write. Now that the silence of her daughter Anna is causing her to be bullied by her peers, Clara feels obliged to withdraw her from her school, and to enrol her in a school for the deaf-mute, run by Vincent, ( Sergi López ). Vincent, the principal, suggests giving his new pupil particular classes to teach her Sign Language , and so facilitate Anna's integration."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Words_and_Music.png/250px-Words_and_Music.png", "Directed by": "Norman Taurog", "Screenplay by": "Fred F. Finklehoffe Ben Feiner Jr. (adaptation)", "Story by": "Guy Bolton Jean Holloway", "Produced by": "Arthur Freed", "Starring": "Tom Drake Mickey Rooney", "Cinematography": "Charles Rosher Harry Stradling", "Edited by": "Albert Akst Ferris Webster", "Music by": "Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart", "Production company": "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer", "Distributed by": "Loew's Inc.", "Release date": "December 9, 1948 ( 1948-12-09 )", "Running time": "120 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$3,048,000 [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$4,552,000 [ 1 ]"}
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["Words and Music is a 1948 American biographical musical film loosely based on the creative partnership of the composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart . The film stars Mickey Rooney as Hart and Tom Drake as Rodgers, along with Janet Leigh , Betty Garrett , Ann Sothern , and numerous musical stars. The film is best remembered as the final screen pairing of Rooney and Judy Garland , and for the lavish showcasing of the Rodgers and Hart catalogue of songs. As in many similar biopics of the era (such as Cole Porter 's depiction in Night and Day ), the story was heavily fictionalized. The script sanitized Hart's complex psychological problems, alcoholism, and self-destructive behavior, which all contributed to the break-up of the writing partnership and Hart's early death, as well as changed his sexual orientation. (Hart was gay.) [ 2 ]", "The introduction to the film is staged as if composer Richard Rodgers was actually playing himself. Actor Tom Drake appears alone in character, identifies himself as Rodgers and tells the audience it is about to see the story of his collaboration with Lorenz Hart. (Contemporary posters from the film featured the faces of most major cast members, including Rooney, but did not show the face of Drake, and his name was in smaller type than those of the other main stars.)", "The film was the second in a series of MGM biopics about Broadway composers; it was preceded by Till the Clouds Roll By ( Jerome Kern , 1946) and followed by Three Little Words ( Kalmar and Ruby , 1950) and Deep in My Heart ( Sigmund Romberg , 1954).", "Though the film performed very well at the box office, it proved to be quite an expensive production and, as a result, failed to recoup its cost in its first release. [ 3 ] The film was issued on DVD in 2007 by Warner Bros. and extras included video and audio outtakes. [ 4 ] Among these were two songs deleted from the film sung by Perry Como : \" Lover \" and \" You're Nearer \". [ 5 ]", "Aspiring lyricist Lorenz \"Larry\" Hart needs a composer for his music, so Herb Fields introduces him to Richard \"Dick\" Rodgers and a partnership is born in 1919. They struggle to achieve success, however, and Dick considers leaving the business to sell children's underwear.", "Larry becomes impressed with singer Peggy Lorgan McNeil, personally and professionally. But when a show by him and Dick is finally bound for Broadway , his promise to Peggy to play the starring role is ruined because the producer already has his protégé Joyce Harmon lined up for the part. Dick is attracted to Joyce, but she rejects him as too young to be involved with her. Next he is too old for young Dorothy Feiner . Larry makes a marriage proposal to Peggy, who turns him down, and he falls into a depression. A string of hit songs and shows follow, but Larry seems unable to enjoy the success. Conflict within his partnership with Dick arises from Larry’s unreliability and frequent absences.", "After seeming to overcome his depression, things begin looking up for Larry as soon as Judy Garland agrees to do a movie with Rodgers and Hart music in it. Larry buys a home in California but falls back into melancholia, even after Dorothy marries Dick and invites Larry to share their home back East. Larry is hospitalized after collapsing at a party, but surreptitiously leaves his hospital bed one night to attend a revival of their show A Connecticut Yankee on Broadway; he stands at the back and watches for a moment, then abruptly exits the theater in distress and collapses on the sidewalk. He is hospitalized, but dies. Afterwards, at a memorial benefit concert to honor Larry, Gene Kelly introduces Perry Como who then sings “ With a Song in My Heart ”.", "The film was originally budgeted at $2,659,065. [ 6 ]", "The film earned $3,453,000 in the US and Canada and $1,099,000 overseas but because of its high cost recorded a loss of $371,000. [ 1 ] [ 7 ]", "The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/Screen_shot_Words_for_Battle.png/250px-Screen_shot_Words_for_Battle.png", "Directed by": "Humphrey Jennings", "Written by": "Humphrey Jennings", "Produced by": "Ian Dalrymple", "Narrated by": "Laurence Olivier", "Edited by": "Stewart McAllister", "Production company": "Crown Film Unit", "Release date": "28 April 1941 ( 1941-04-28 ) (UK)", "Running time": "8 minutes", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English"}
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["Words for Battle (also known by its original title In England Now ) is a British propaganda film produced by the Ministry of Information 's Crown Film Unit in 1941. [ 1 ] It was written and directed by Humphrey Jennings , and features seven sequences, each containing images of rural and urban Britain at war overlaid with audio commentary by Laurence Olivier , reciting passages from different English literary works and speeches. [ 2 ] .mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}", "In 1941 England is an idyllic and bountiful place as depicted by Philemon Holland 's translation of William Camden 's Britannia . A recitation of part of John Milton 's tract Areopagitica , accompanies images of Westminster Abbey , Royal Air Force recruits in flight training and Adolf Hitler speaking with Nazi officers. The words from William Blake 's poem Jerusalem punctuates a scene of children being evacuated from London. Images of Royal Navy destroyers at sea are backed by Robert Browning 's Home-thoughts, from the Sea .", "Firemen and police officers searching through the remains of damaged houses during the Blitz are accompanied by a recitation of Rudyard Kipling 's ' The Beginnings . Winston Churchill inspecting a parade of soldiers has his 1940 speech, We shall fight on the beaches in the background. Post-Blitz, as Churchill's speech continues, rebuilding of homes and businesses is taking place. An extract from Abraham Lincoln 's Gettysburg Address coincides with footage of tanks passing the statue of Lincoln in Parliament Square with the chimes of Big Ben punctuating civilians travelling to work.", "Words for Battle was produced with the purpose of raising morale and is an example of compilation documentary , in which various film extracts are assembled into a coherent whole, accompanied by a commentary to explain the intended message and powerfully associates these passages with music by Handel and Beethoven. [ 1 ] This form of documentary was used for other British wartime propaganda films, such as Britain at Bay (1940). [ 2 ]", "The director Humphrey Jennings described Words for Battle as being about \"the Lincoln statue in Parliament Square\". [ 2 ] On this basis, film historian Michael Bartlett has emphasised the final sequence, stating that it \"underlines Jennings' belief in the ordinary man and woman as both the nation's driving force and the rightful beneficiaries of victory in war\", as underlined by the words of the address about \"the government of the people, by the people, and for the people\". [ 2 ] Historians Anthony Aldgate and Jeffrey Richards in Britain Can Take It: British Cinema in the Second World War , have pointed to the importance of the image of St Paul's Cathedral during the Blitz, juxtaposed with Churchill's words \"we shall never surrender\", as one of many examples of the use of the undamaged landmark as an artistic symbol for British defiance. [ 3 ]", "Words for Battle was heavily criticised by the Documentary News Letter , a publication produced by documentary film-makers who favoured realism over poetry. [ 3 ] It was described as:", "Words for Battle is available in the BFI DVD boxset, Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 (2008) and the Complete Humphrey Jennings: Volume 2, Fires were Started (2012). [ 2 ] The Imperial War Museum has also released it on DVD as part of a collection of nine propaganda films, under the title: Words for Battle ."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/77/Words_on_Bathroom_Walls.jpeg/250px-Words_on_Bathroom_Walls.jpeg", "Directed by": "Thor Freudenthal", "Screenplay by": "Nick Naveda", "Based on": "Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton", "Produced by": "Pete Shilaimon Mickey Liddell Thor Freudenthal", "Starring": "Charlie Plummer Andy García Taylor Russell AnnaSophia Robb Beth Grant Molly Parker Walton Goggins", "Cinematography": "Michael Goi", "Edited by": "Peter McNulty", "Music by": "Alex Pall and Drew Taggart Andrew Hollander", "Production companies": "LD Entertainment Kick the Habit Productions", "Distributed by": "Roadside Attractions", "Release date": "August 21, 2020 ( 2020-08-21 ) (United States)", "Running time": "111 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$9.3 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$3.1 million [ 2 ]"}
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["Words on Bathroom Walls is a 2020 American coming-of-age [ 3 ] romantic drama film directed by Thor Freudenthal and written by Nick Naveda, based on the novel of the same name by Julia Walton. The film stars Charlie Plummer , Andy García , Taylor Russell , AnnaSophia Robb , Beth Grant , Molly Parker and Walton Goggins .", "Words on Bathroom Walls was released on August 21, 2020, by Roadside Attractions . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It received generally positive reviews from critics.", "After a psychotic break causes him to accidentally burn a classmate’s arm, high school senior Adam Petrazelli is then diagnosed with schizophrenia . He first self-treats by intensely focusing on cooking, which calms him. His symptoms – chiefly hallucinations of three people – worsen until he is put on a drug trial . At stressful times, his three regular \"visitors\" are Rebecca, a New Age hippie; Joaquin, the smutty best friend; and the overprotective and often violent \"The Bodyguards\"; as well as a \"dark\" threatening voice that represents Adam's fears of the unknown.", "Adam transfers to St. Agatha's Catholic School. There, he meets Maya Arnaz, a feisty, intelligent girl and class valedictorian. Adam gets Maya to tutor him and finds she helps him feel better, so he takes his new medication regularly. This reduces his hallucinations, with only the side effect being muscle twitching. He takes a romantic interest in Maya and the two become close, but he does not disclose his condition to her out of fear of stigmatization . Adam also starts to regularly confide in Rev. Patrick, the sympathetic school priest, about his fears and anxieties.", "When Maya doesn't show up to a tutoring session, Adam visits her home. He discovers that her family is struggling financially, and she is embarrassed and angry about his unannounced visit. Once Maya realizes he doesn't care about her background, she continues tutoring him. She invites him to her restaurant job where she has him cook for her, but a taste test leads Adam to the realization his medication is negatively affecting his taste buds.", "Adam decides to stop taking his medications, unbeknownst to his mother Beth and stepfather Paul. His moods become imbalanced and his delusions return. The news that Beth is expecting a new baby with Paul also gives rise to Adam's insecurities about being unwanted and feeling like a burden. Nevertheless, Adam's grades improve and his essay is selected to be read at graduation. He asks Maya to the prom and she accepts.", "Beth finds out Adam has stopped his medication and confronts him. Sister Catherine, the school's headmistress, is informed about the incident and about what happened at his last school. He is temporarily suspended, with the reasoning that it is for the students' safety. Adam lashes out at Paul, believing that an email Paul wrote to Sister Catherine the previous night is behind the suspension.", "The suspension bars Adam from attending the prom, but he goes anyway. Before he leaves, he takes an overdose of his medication, believing it will help the night go smoothly. He meets Maya there, but as they dance, the dark voice plagues him and he begins to act erratically. Sister Catherine tries to kick him out, but his delusions cause him to push her to the ground, run to the catwalk, and fall over the edge.", "Adam wakes in the hospital to see Beth and Paul. Maya shows up to visit, but he breaks down when hallucinations overwhelm him. He yells at her and tells her to leave. He is expelled from St. Agatha's and placed in a psych ward. Rev. Patrick visits and tells Adam he wasn't aware of Adam's struggles, saying he will pray for him. Beth brings Adam a printed copy of the email Paul sent to St. Agatha's. Contrary to what Adam thought, Paul supported his stepson and wrote that suspending him would be cruel. Realizing how much he cares, Adam runs to catch up with him and Beth, hugging Paul for the first time and accepting him as a fatherly figure.", "Beth and Paul take Adam to St. Agatha's graduation ceremony, where, despite Sister Catherine's attempt to stop him, he gathers the courage to address the student body calmly, with the support of Rev. Patrick. He quotes his essay in which he discusses both his condition and battle with schizophrenia, saying he wished he hadn't hidden his illness. After he leaves the auditorium, Maya runs after him. Adam apologizes for not telling her about his illness, at which point they express their mutual love and share a kiss.", "Adam is able to receive his high school diploma and realizes his dream of attending culinary school . As he celebrates the birth of his baby sister with his parents and Maya, it is shown that the voices are still present, but he has learned to live alongside them.", "In February 2018, Thor Freudenthal was announced as the film's director, from a screenplay by Nick Naveda, based on the novel of the same name by Julia Walton, with LD Entertainment producing. [ 6 ] Freudenthal read and enjoyed the novel, and felt that a film adaptation would allow the \"opportunity for a very different kind of representation of mental illness with schizophrenia. We could create a person onscreen that was neither a mad genius nor a violent criminal, [but] who a lot of people could even see themselves in the way I did when I read the book. I loved that there was a sort of tender, compassionate, funny tone where Adam gets at some of the really tough issues with self-deprecating humor which really functions as a weapon of sorts against his pain.\" [ 7 ]", "In March 2018, Charlie Plummer and Taylor Russell were set to star in the film. [ 8 ] In April 2018, Andy García , Molly Parker , Walton Goggins , AnnaSophia Robb , and Devon Bostick also joined the cast. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Andrew Hollander and The Chainsmokers composed the film's score, [ 11 ] the first time the band has scored a film. [ 12 ] The trailer features The Chainsmokers' 2019 single \" Push My Luck \". [ 13 ]", "Principal photography began in May 2018. [ 14 ] The film was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina . [ 15 ]", "In June 2020, Roadside Attractions acquired distribution rights to the film and set it for an August 7, 2020, release. [ 16 ] The release date was later pushed forward a week, with the film newly scheduled for July 31, 2020. The film's official website later removed the release date, with \"in theaters this summer\" in its place. [ 17 ] The trailer premiered on July 15, 2020, [ 18 ] and the film was released to theaters on August 21, 2020. [ 4 ]", "Opening as one of the first new films in wide release during the COVID-19 pandemic , on August 21, 2020, the film made $462,050 from 925 theaters in its first weekend (an average of $499 per venue), finishing third at the box office. 54% of the audience was female, with 62% being between the ages 18–34. [ 19 ] The film expanded to 1,395 theaters in its second weekend, and grossed $453,000, then made $282,000 from 1,168 theaters in its third. [ 20 ] [ 21 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 89 reviews, with an average of 7.2/10. The site's critics consensus reads, \"Sensitive, well-acted, and solidly directed, Words on Bathroom Walls is an admirable addition to a genre that too rarely does justice to its worthy themes.\" [ 22 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 23 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A\" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported 81% of filmgoers gave it a positive score. [ 19 ]", "Words on Bathroom Walls received praise for its performances, writing, and direction. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Guy Lodge of Variety wrote, \"There are pockets of truth, grace and pain in this portrait of troubled adolescence, and its talented young stars know where to find them\". [ 24 ] Writing for AllMovie , Steven Yoder wrote, \"Freudenthal understands the workings of the adolescent mind better than any director since John Hughes , and it shows through the ease of the actors' portrayals.\" [ 26 ] He added, \"The script is tight, showing the progression of wellness, illness, hope, and setback without ever becoming preachy, instructional, or boring. It gives an accurate view of mental illness without being pushy about acceptance. Instead, it displays how not only someone with the illness must cope, but the varied ways that those around them react and cope as well. Nothing ever seems forced, and the action is fluid from the first moments to the closing credits.\" [ 26 ]", "Judith Lawrence of The Michigan Daily called the film \"refreshing in its empathetic representation of schizophrenia\", writing: \"Neither Adam nor schizophrenia is ever demonized, a rare find in the film industry. M. Night Shyamalan 's Split , for example, was heavily criticized for its portrayal of dissociative identity disorder . This is not a singular example — mental illnesses are often vilified and used as plot devices in horror films . Part of the goal in Words on Bathroom Walls , though, is to show schizophrenia (and mental illness in general) as something that real people are constantly living with and battling.\" [ 27 ]", "Nick Naveda received a nomination for the Best Adapted Screenplay Award from the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Films . [ 28 ]", "The Words on Bathroom Walls soundtrack album, including the soundtrack and score, was produced by Andrew Hollander featuring the Chainsmokers , and released on August 21, 2020. [ 12 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/The_Words_2012_Film_Poster.jpg/250px-The_Words_2012_Film_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Brian Klugman Lee Sternthal", "Written by": "Brian Klugman Lee Sternthal", "Produced by": "Michael Benaroya Cassian Elwes Tatiana Kelly Laura Rister Jim Young", "Starring": "Bradley Cooper Jeremy Irons Dennis Quaid Olivia Wilde Zoe Saldaña Ben Barnes Nora Arnezeder", "Cinematography": "Antonio Calvache", "Edited by": "Leslie Jones", "Music by": "Marcelo Zarvos", "Production companies": "Animus Films Benaroya Pictures Serena Films Waterfall Media", "Distributed by": "CBS Films", "Release dates": "January 27, 2012 ( 2012-01-27 ) (Sundance Film Festival) September 7, 2012 ( 2012-09-07 ) (United States)", "Running time": "97 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$6 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$16.4 million [ 1 ]"}
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["The Words is a 2012 American mystery romantic drama film , written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal in their directorial debut. It stars Bradley Cooper , Zoe Saldaña , Olivia Wilde , Jeremy Irons , Ben Barnes , Dennis Quaid , and Nora Arnezeder . Cooper, a childhood friend of Klugman and Sternthal from Philadelphia , was also the executive producer. [ 2 ]", "Clayton Hammond is doing a reading of his new book, The Words . He begins reading from the book, which is centered on the fictional character Rory Jansen, an aspiring writer who lives in NYC with his girlfriend, Dora. Rory borrows some money from his father, gets a job as a mail supervisor at a literary agency, and attempts to sell his first novel, which is repeatedly rejected by publishers.", "After living together for some time, Rory and Dora marry and, during their honeymoon in Paris , Dora buys Rory an old briefcase he was admiring in an antiques store. Returning to America and having his book rejected again, Rory finds an old but masterfully written manuscript in the briefcase with a central character named Jack.", "Rory types the manuscript into his laptop to know what it feels like to write something truly great, even if it's only pretend. Later, while using the laptop, Dora happens upon the novel, reading it. She mistakenly assumes that Rory wrote it and convinces him to give it to a publisher at work , Joseph Cutler. After a few months Cutler finally reads it and offers Rory a contract which he accepts. The book is a hit and Rory becomes famous.", "At this point, Hammond takes a break from the reading and goes backstage, where he is introduced by his agent to Daniella, a student and amateur writer who wants to interview him. She notes that he is separated from his wife, although he still wears a wedding ring. Hammond agrees to meet her after the ceremony and returns to the stage, where he continues the reading.", "The second part details Rory's encounter with an old man in Central Park , who reveals himself as the true author of the manuscript, based on his life in Paris.", "When he was a young man and stationed in France with the U.S. Army in the final days of World War II , he fell in love with Celia, a French waitress. They eventually married and had a daughter, who later died.", "Unable to cope with the loss, Celia left him and moved to her parents' home in the country. He then used his pain as inspiration to write the manuscript, which he took to Celia while visiting her. She found the story so moving she returned to him. However, she unintentionally left the manuscript in a briefcase on the train after her trip back to Paris, losing it. Because of this, their reconciliation was short-lived, and they divorced soon afterwards.", "The public reading ends and Hammond tells his fans they must buy the book to learn how it ends. Daniella then accompanies Hammond back to his apartment where she pressures him into telling her the ending. Hammond explains that Rory tells the truth about the creation of the story, first to his wife and then to Cutler. He also tells him he wants to credit the old man as the true author. Cutler angrily advises against this as it would severely damage both their reputations, and recommends giving the old man a share of the book's profits instead.", "Rory then seeks out the old man to pay him and finds him working in a plant nursery. He refuses the money, then tells about seeing Celia once more. While riding the train to work, years after his divorce, he spotted her with a new husband and a young son at a train station. The old man points out that people always move on from their mistakes, and Rory will too.", "Daniella continues to pressure Hammond for more details. He reveals that the old man died not long after Rory's second meeting with him along with the secret of the manuscript's true author. Daniella deduces that The Words is actually an autobiographical book, with Rory as Hammond's surrogate.", "She kisses him, reassuring him that people move on from their mistakes, but he pulls away, telling her that there is a fine line between life and fiction. The film flashes back to Rory and Dora in their tiny kitchen, as Rory whispers \"I'm sorry\" in her ear.", "The script includes several references to writer Ernest Hemingway . Rory and Dora view a commemorative plaque to Hemingway during their Paris honeymoon. [ 9 ] The plot device of Celia leaving her husband's manuscript in a leather satchel on a train is reminiscent of a similar episode in Hemingway's life, when his first wife Hadley left a briefcase containing all of his writings up to 1922 on a train; the manuscripts were never recovered. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Roger Ebert points out the similarity between the name of the character \"The Old Man\" and Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea , and the commonality of the name Dora among the wives of novelists. [ 11 ]", "According to some Swiss newspapers, the plot of The Words is similar to that of the 2004 novel Lila Lila by Martin Suter (made into the German film Lila, Lila released in 2009), which is also about a young unsuccessful author who discovers an old manuscript, is pushed by his girlfriend into publishing it, becomes enormously successful, is later confronted by an old man who is (or in that case, knows) the original author, and then publishes a second book about how this all happened.", "Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal say that they knew nothing of Suter, his work, or Lila Lila. They had the idea and began writing The Words in 1999, years before Lila Lila was published. Together they attended the 2000 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab with their original screenplay. [ 2 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ]", "Filming began in Montreal, Quebec , Canada, on June 7, 2011 [ 14 ] for a period of 25 days. [ 2 ] The Montreal location was used because it could pass as both Paris and New York. [ 15 ]", "The Words had its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival . [ 16 ] Prior to its official premiere and following a press and industry screening at Sundance, the film was purchased by CBS Films for $2 million with a $1.5 million print and advertising commitment. [ 16 ]", "The Words grossed nearly $11.5 million in North America and $1.7 million worldwide, against a production budget of $6 million. [ 17 ]", "The Words received mostly negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a 24% rating based on 127 reviews with an average rating of 4.6/10 and the consensus stating: \"Neither as clever nor as interesting as it appears to think it is, The Words maroons its talented stars in an overly complex, dramatically inert literary thriller that's ultimately a poor substitute for a good book\". [ 18 ] At Metacritic , the film received 37 out of 100 with \"generally unfavorable reviews\" from 30 critics. [ 19 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 20 ]", "Jen Chaney from The Washington Post gave the film 1.5 out of 5 stars, saying it \"is a well-acted but narratively limp indie that’s undermined by a failure to connect emotionally with its audience\". [ 21 ] Chris Pandolfi from At A Theater Near You praised the film, saying that while its \"ambiguity is unlikely to be appreciated by everyone,\" it \"deserves to be structurally, emotionally, and thematically analyzed\". [ 22 ] Stephen Holden of The New York Times also praised the film as \"a clever, entertaining yarn\". [ 10 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Burroughs1983_cropped.jpg/250px-Burroughs1983_cropped.jpg", "Directed by": "Lars Movin Steen Møller Rasmussen", "Starring": "William S. Burroughs James Grauerholz John Giorno Hal Willner Jennie Skerl Regina Weinreich Ann Douglas", "Cinematography": "Steen Møller Rasmussen", "Edited by": "Niels Plenge", "Music by": "Material Patti Smith Islamic Diggers", "Distributed by": "Plagiat Film", "Release date": "November 9, 2007 ( 2007-11-09 )", "Running time": "74 mins", "Country": "Denmark", "Language": "English"}
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["Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs on the Road , is a 2007 documentary about William S. Burroughs directed by Lars Movin and Steen Møller Rasmussen and produced in Denmark. The documentary is based on never-before-seen footage from his visit to Denmark in October 1983, and from his later years in Lawrence, Kansas.", "Shortly thereafter he began touring and reading his work to new generations of readers and thus establishing himself as a cult figure . The film focuses on Burroughs' unique talent as a performer, and on his later work, especially what is known as The Last Trilogy . In addition to the historic footage there are new interviews with friends and colleagues such as James Grauerholz , John Giorno , Hal Willner , Jennie Skerl, Regina Weinreich , Ann Douglas . Music by Material, Patti Smith , and Islamic Diggers.", "The film premiered on 9 November 2007 at the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival in Copenhagen and the book and a Burroughs photo exhibition were launched the same night. The first international screening took place at the Paradiso in Amsterdam , as part of a Burroughs tribute event on 10 November 2007. [ 1 ] Rasmussen was awarded the Danish Film Institute 's Roos Award 2007, for \"outstanding efforts in documentary filmmaking\" on the basis of the film. [ 2 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Word-is-out-1977.jpg", "Directed by": "Mariposa Film Group Peter Adair Nancy Adair Andrew Brown Rob Epstein Lucy Massie Phenix Veronica Selver", "Produced by": "Peter Adair Andrew Brown Rob Epstein Lucy Massie Phenix Veronica Selver", "Cinematography": "Nancy Adair Peter Adair Andrew Brown Rob Epstein Lucy Massie Phenix Veronica Selver", "Edited by": "Nancy Adair Peter Adair Andrew Brown Rob Epstein Lucy Massie Phenix Veronica Selver", "Music by": "Trish Nugent Buena Vista Band", "Distributed by": "New Yorker Films", "Release date": "November 1977 ( 1977-11 )", "Running time": "124 minutes (original) 133 minutes (2008 restored version)", "Language": "English"}
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["Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives is a 1977 documentary film featuring interviews with 26 gay men and women. It was directed by six people collectively known as the Mariposa Film Group. Peter Adair conceived and produced the film, and was one of the directors. The film premiered in November 1977 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco and went into limited national release in 1978. It also aired on many PBS stations in 1978. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "The interviews from the film were transcribed into a book of the same title, which was published in October 1978.", "In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". [ 3 ]", "Word Is Out intercuts interviews with 26 people, who speak about their experiences as gay men and lesbians . The interviewees range in age from 18 to 77, in locations from San Francisco to New Mexico to Boston, in types from a bee-hived housewife to student to conservative businessman to sultry drag queen, and in race from Caucasian to Hispanic, African-American, and Asian. Writer Elsa Gidlow , professor Sally Gearhart , inventor John Burnside , civil rights leader Harry Hay , actress Pat Bond , and avant-garde filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky are among the people interviewed.", "The interviewees describe their experiences of coming out ; falling in and out of love; and struggling against prejudice, stereotypes, and discriminatory laws.", "Word Is Out took five years, over 200 interviews, and six co-directors to make. [ 4 ] Documentary filmmaker Peter Adair came up with the idea for the film. According to Adair: [ 5 ]", "The directors of the film, collectively known as the Mariposa Film Group, were Peter Adair, Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein , Lucy Massie Phenix, and Veronica Selver. An initial investment of $30,000 was raised from people who believed in the idea and wanted to see the film made, and assistants were hired and production began. The original number of interviewees was only eight people, but when the trial film was screened to test audiences, the response and interest generated indicated that a much larger and more diverse cross-section of interviewees was desirable. Several more years were then spent in filming the rest of the interviews, and intercutting them with each other to create the final product. [ 5 ]", "In 1978, Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives startled audiences across the country when it appeared in movie theaters and on PBS television. It was the first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identity made by gay filmmakers, and had a large and pioneering impact when it was released. The film became an icon of the emerging gay rights movement of the 1970s.\" [ 5 ] [ 6 ] \"The silence of gay people on the screen has been broken,\" Vito Russo declared in The Advocate , a national gay magazine. [ 4 ]", "When audiences saw the film, thousands wrote to the Mariposa Film Group's post office box number listed in the end credits to express how much the film meant to them — and many of them related how viewing the film saved their lives.\" \"People who were alone and hopeless in Idaho, Utah and Kansas for the first time saw realistic and positive images of gay people on screen,\" said production assistant Janet Cole. [ 5 ]", "In the New York Times , David Dunlop wrote in 1996: \"Understated though it was, Word Is Out had a remarkable impact, coming at a time when images of homosexuals as everyday people, as opposed to psychopaths or eccentrics, were rare.\" [ 4 ]", "In 2011, a book examining the film's impact was published, titled Word Is Out: A Queer Film Classic by Greg Youmans. [ 7 ]", "On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds a score of 100% based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. [ 8 ]", "In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". [ 3 ]", "In 1978, a book containing transcripts of the interviews was published, under the same title. [ 9 ] The book also details how the film and book were created by the successful collective.", "Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives was one of the first gay-focused nonfiction books sympathetic to gays published in the U.S. The book reached many people who were unable to view the film, and remained a popular gay nonfiction text for many years, helping many gays and lesbians realize that they were not alone.", "The book also helped members of the heterosexual community to relate to the normalcy of homosexual lives, and to also understand gay persons' struggles, pain, marginalization, ostracism, professional concerns, and frustrating need for secrecy when in a climate of homophobia and illegality .", "For the 30th anniversary, a restored and remastered 133-minute version of the film, which had no viable print remaining, was produced by Outfest and the UCLA Film and Television Archive , [ 10 ] and premiered on 26 June 2008, at the Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theater in San Francisco.", "The DVD edition of the documentary, featuring the restored and remastered digital print of the original film, was released in June 2010 by Milestone Films . [ 11 ] As special features, the DVD includes exclusive updates on the cast and the filmmakers plus an homage to Peter Adair , the originator and producer of Word Is Out , who died of AIDS in 1996.", "Both the restoration and the DVD release were funded by gay activist and philanthropist David Bohnett , via his David Bohnett Foundation . [ 12 ] On the DVD's special features, Bohnett speaks briefly about the film's impact. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/98/Wordplaymp.jpg/250px-Wordplaymp.jpg", "Directed by": "Patrick Creadon", "Written by": "Patrick Creadon Christine O'Malley", "Produced by": "Christine O'Malley Michael Creadon Patrick Walsh", "Edited by": "Doug Blush", "Music by": "Peter Golub", "Distributed by": "IFC Films", "Release date": "2006 ( 2006 )", "Country": "United States", "Budget": "$100,000", "Box office": "$3,121,270 [ 1 ]"}
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["Wordplay is a 2006 documentary film directed by Patrick Creadon . It features Will Shortz , the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle , crossword constructor Merl Reagle , and many other noted crossword solvers and constructors. The second half of the movie is set at the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT), where the top solvers compete for a prize of $4000. Wordplay was the best reviewed documentary film of 2006, according to Rotten Tomatoes. [ 2 ]", "Wordplay was acquired for distribution for $1,000,000 by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company after being nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2006. It was released theatrically on June 16, 2006. The film ran in over 500 theaters across the United States, including at least one theater in all fifty states. Wordplay went on to gross $3,100,000 in domestic box-office, then ranking it among the Top 25 highest grossing documentaries of all time. [ 3 ]", "A 2008 episode of The Simpsons , \" Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words \", is based on the film. James L. Brooks got the inspiration for the episode after watching Wordplay . \"We felt both Will and Merl were very compelling, off-the-beaten-track personalities [in Wordplay ], who would fit into our universe very well,\" Brooks said. The episode was written by Tim Long , and directed by Nancy Kruse , and guest starred crossword puzzle creators Merl Reagle and Will Shortz as themselves.", "Creadon and his wife, producer Christine O'Malley , borrowed $100,000 from family and friends to make Wordplay over the course of 2005–06.", "National Board of Review nomination \"Best Documentary 2006\" [1] \nCritics Choice Award nomination \"Best Documentary 2006\" [2] \nGrand Jury Prize nomination at Sundance \"Best American Documentary 2006\" [3] \nRottentomatoes.com – \"Golden Tomato Award For Best Reviewed Documentary of 2006\" [4]", "The movie focuses on the following crossword solvers:", "The film contains appearances by many celebrity fans of the Times puzzle, including Bill Clinton , Bob Dole , Jon Stewart , Ken Burns , Mike Mussina , Daniel Okrent , and the Indigo Girls .", "Wordplay features a theme song, \"Every Word\", written and performed by Gary Louris of The Jayhawks . The Wordplay DVD features a music video of \"Every Word\"."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Word_of_Honor_%282003_film%29.jpg", "Genre": "Drama", "Based on": "Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille", "Written by": "Jacob Epstein Leslie Greif Jean-Yves Pitoun Tom Topor", "Directed by": "Robert Markowitz", "Starring": "Don Johnson Jeanne Tripplehorn Sharon Lawrence John Heard Arliss Howard Peter MacNeill Peter Stebbings Jesse Johnson", "Music by": "Gary Chang", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original language": "English", "Executive producers": "Michael Jaffe Howard Braunstein Wendy Hill-Tout Lance Robbins Leslie Greif", "Producer": "Clara George", "Production location": "Calgary", "Cinematography": "Guy Dufaux", "Editor": "David Beatty", "Running time": "91 minutes", "Production companies": "Voice Pictures Jaffe Braunstein Films Greif Co. Robbins Entertainment Group", "Network": "TNT", "Release": "December 6, 2003 ( 2003-12-06 )"}
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["Word of Honor is a 2003 American drama television film directed by Robert Markowitz , based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Nelson DeMille . The film stars Don Johnson , Jeanne Tripplehorn , Sharon Lawrence , John Heard and Arliss Howard . [ 1 ] It aired on TNT on December 6, 2003.", "30 years after serving in Vietnam, ex-Army First Lieutenant Ben Tyson is brought forward for war crimes. Now a business executive, Tyson witnessed a massacre during the war. While he kept silent about it for decades, another veteran speaks out in a magazine article that mentions Tyson's involvement. A military attorney gets involved in the case, and a media frenzy ensues, as Tyson's family and military bonds begin to fray.", "Executive producer and co-writer Leslie Greif said of Don Johnson , \"He can be the bad guy, he can be the good guy. He can walk that line.\" [ 2 ] Johnson called his role a throwback to classic Henry Fonda and James Stewart characters. [ 1 ] Filming took place in Calgary . [ 3 ]", "While the film came out at the start of the Iraq War amid conflicted opinions, and some writers drew those parallels, [ 1 ] Greif said that they did not want the film to get \"too political.\" The filmmakers, he said, instead wanted to explore broader questions of morality and the \"murkiness of war.\" [ 2 ]", "The film received several negative reviews. Ron Wertheimer of The New York Times wrote that it wasted its potential on \"platitudes and plot contrivances.\" [ 4 ] Brian Lowry of Variety called the film a disappointment, while praising the \"top-notch cast\". [ 3 ]"]
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{"Genre": "Drama", "Written by": "I.C. Rapoport", "Screenplay by": "David Ackles Douglas Graham", "Story by": "David Ackles Douglas Graham", "Directed by": "Mel Damski", "Starring": "Karl Malden Rue McClanahan Ron Silver", "Theme music composer": "Bruce Langhorne", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original language": "English", "Executive producers": "Susan Clark Alex Karras", "Producer": "John C. Dutton", "Production locations": "Daily Tribune - Royal Oak, Michigan Seminole Hills - Pontiac, Michigan Detroit , Michigan Penniman Market - 820 Penniman Avenue, Plymouth, Michigan", "Cinematography": "Jules Brenner", "Editor": "John Farrell", "Running time": "96 min.", "Production company": "Georgian Bay Productions", "Network": "CBS", "Release": "January 6, 1981 ( 1981-01-06 )"}
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["Word of Honor is a 1981 television film co-written by David Ackles and I.C. Rapoport. It first aired on 6 January 1981 starred Karl Malden and featured appearances by a young Ron Silver and the film debut of John Malkovich . It was directed by Mel Damski . This film was produced by Alex Karras and his wife Susan Clark . Karras often makes cameo appearances in films he produces; in this film he appeared as Penniman Butcher (uncredited). Much of this film was shot in Michigan in places such as Plymouth , where the opening beauty-pageant scene was shot. The newsroom shots were filmed at The Daily Tribune offices in Royal Oak and the real-life editors and reporters were used as extras. Residential shots, including the main characters' home, was shot in the Seminole Hills subdivision of Pontiac.", "A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of the murder of a young girl. As a result, he and his family are shunned by the residents of the small town in which they live. Virtually no one comes to his daughter's wedding, and at his office, the police search his desk, his boss threatens to fire him, the judge holds him in contempt and throws him in jail. At the last minute the source agrees to testify."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Word_of_God_%28film%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Henrik Ruben Genz", "Written by": "Henrik Ruben Genz", "Starring": "Søren Malling", "Release date": "21 September 2017 ( 2017-09-21 )", "Country": "Denmark", "Language": "Danish"}
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["Word of God ( Danish : Gud taler ud ) is a 2017 Danish drama film directed by Henrik Ruben Genz . [ 1 ] It was shortlisted as one of the three films to be selected as the potential Danish submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards . [ 2 ] However, You Disappear was selected as the Danish entry. [ 3 ]"]
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The Wooing of Eve
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{"German": "Die Fahrt ins Abenteuer", "Directed by": "Max Mack", "Written by": "Curt J. Braun Robert Liebmann", "Produced by": "Harry R. Sokal", "Starring": "Ossi Oswalda Willy Fritsch Agnes Esterhazy", "Cinematography": "Curt Courant", "Music by": "Werner R. Heymann", "Production company": "Sokal-Film", "Distributed by": "UFA", "Release date": "16 April 1926 ( 1926-04-16 )", "Country": "Germany", "Languages": "Silent German intertitles"}
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["The Wooing of Eve or Journey into Adventure ( German : Die Fahrt ins Abenteuer ) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Max Mack and starring Ossi Oswalda , Willy Fritsch and Agnes Esterhazy . [ 1 ]", "The film's sets were designed by the art director Rudi Feld . It was shot at the Weissensee Studios in Berlin ."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/TheWoolCap.jpg", "Genre": "Comedy-drama", "Based on": "Gigot by Jackie Gleason", "Written by": "William H. Macy Steven Schachter", "Directed by": "Steven Schachter", "Starring": "William H. Macy Don Rickles Ned Beatty Keke Palmer Catherine O'Hara", "Music by": "Jeff Beal", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original language": "English", "Executive producers": "Frances Croke Page Elaine Frontain Bryant David A. Rosemont", "Producers": "Irene Litinsky William H. Macy Steven Schachter", "Cinematography": "Guy Dufaux", "Editor": "Paul Dixon", "Running time": "103 minutes", "Production companies": "20th Century Fox Television Rosemont Productions Magna Global Entertainment Viacom Productions", "Network": "TNT", "Release": "November 21, 2004 ( 2004-11-21 )"}
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["The Wool Cap is a 2004 American television comedy-drama film directed by Steven Schachter , who wrote the teleplay with William H. Macy . It is an updated and Americanized version of the 1962 film Gigot starring Jackie Gleason , who wrote the original story. In the film, Charlie Gigot, a mute and alcoholic superintendent of a dilapidated New York City apartment building becomes the unwilling parent figure for Lou, a young girl temporarily left in his care by a woman who fails to return for her. The two and Gigot's pet monkey struggle to make it through the winter in his ramshackle basement apartment while he tries to find someone willing to take her in.", "The film, a co-production of Viacom Productions and 20th Century Fox Television , was shot in Atlanta, Georgia and Montréal, Québec , Canada . It stars Macy as Charlie and Keke Palmer as Lou, with Don Rickles , Ned Beatty , Cherise Boothe, Julito McCullum, and Catherine O'Hara in supporting roles. It premiered on TNT on November 21, 2004.", "Fox owns the international ancillary rights, while North American ancillary rights are now in the hands of CBS Television Studios . Paramount Pictures handles video distribution for the CBS library, though this particular program was released on DVD before the Viacom/CBS split.", "In New York City, Charles Gigot is an alcoholic, disgruntled hearing-mute and superintendent of an apartment building with eccentric tenants. One day, he meets Lou, a young girl who lives with her mother Arlene and her boyfriend, Bernard. When Gigot suspects that their apartment may have been broken into, he investigates, only to encounter two thugs looking for the couple. His presence creates a diversion that allows Lou, who had been in hiding, to escape to the basement with her mother. Despite Gigot's protestations, Arlene leaves Lou in Gigot's care for an indefinite time while she sorts things out with Bernard.", "Annoyed at having his solitude compromised, Gigot attempts to ignore Lou completely, but her brash and back-talking attitude makes her unbearable. Lou is equally uncomfortable with Gigot's spartan style of living – he has no food in the apartment, drinks frequently, and is emotionally distant. In fact, his only friends seem to be his pet monkey, Grace, and Gloria, a middle-aged prostitute. Wanting to find a relative with whom Lou can live, he learns from the apartment's lease that Lou has an aunt named Cheryl who lives in Philadelphia. They travel via bus to Cheryl's house, but Gigot is unsuccessful in convincing her to take Lou, learning that Arlene and Cheryl hate one another and that Cheryl does not consider Lou a relative. Realizing that finding Arlene is the only solution to the dilemma, Gigot and Lou research one of her contacts, who sends them to an apartment building in the city. Gigot goes in alone and discovers that the place is a crack house and that Arlene has become a drug addict. Seeing a dead-end, Gigot's only option is to return home with Lou. Things become even more complicated, however, when he is robbed at a diner and is forced to perform a sideshow featuring Grace and Lou to raise enough money for the bus tickets.", "During this course of events, Gigot and Lou bond and she comes to live with him permanently. Lou's influence causes Gigot to stop drinking and to help her with her education (he realizes that she is almost illiterate and two years older than the rest of her class). They develop a father-daughter relationship, with Lou helping Gigot grieve when local thugs poison Grace in an act of revenge for Gigot disposing of drugs belonging to one of their members. Eventually, policemen visit the apartment building and inform Gigot that Arlene died from an overdose. He attempts to shield Lou from the truth, but is forced to tell her while on a trip to a theme park. Her grief prompts Gigot to seek out a friend named Clarence who served with him in Vietnam and has since become a foster parent for multiple children without homes. Clarence and his wife, Bess, however, announce that they are retired, leaving Gigot with no other choice but to become a foster parent himself after Child Protective Services arrives to claim Lou. The process comes to a halt, however, when Gigot's jail-time prevents him from being a candidate and a proposal of marriage to Gloria is refused. At this point, Gigot's only chance is his parents, whom he hasn't seen in 28 years. Hoping that they will officially adopt Lou so that he may take care of her, Gigot pays them a visit and is shocked to learn that his mother died years ago and his father has since remarried. During an argument, it is revealed that Gigot's downward spiral into alcoholism and virtual isolation were a result of post-traumatic stress from his time in Vietnam. The titular wool cap, which he wears throughout the film, belonged to his younger sister who died in a car accident while Gigot was at the wheel, drunk and high. Hurt by Gigot's indifference throughout the years, his father rejects him and his request to adopt Lou.", "Meanwhile, being a foster child is hard on Lou, who falls into a life of waywardness. She is eventually arrested for shoplifting and put into juvenile hall where she refuses to see Gigot, having given up hope on ever finding a home. Depressed and utterly forlorn, Gigot attempts to start afresh on Christmas Day by letting go of the past (symbolized by throwing his sister's wool cap into a river) and visiting a church, where he breaks down crying. On coming home, he finds his stepmother and father waiting for him at the apartment building. After a brief hesitation, Gigot and his father embrace, a sign that they will begin to repair their relationship. Later that evening, Gigot visits Lou at juvenile hall and introduces her to his father. Using sign language, he tells her that he would like to adopt her. In a subtle imitation of Gigot, she becomes speechless and wordlessly accepts.", "The film jumps forward a year. It is winter again and Gigot has since become the manager of his father's business. He goes to pick up Lou from school where she has become an excellent student. The two are seen driving off together and laughing, happy to have found one another."]
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Wooly Boys
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/Wooly_Boys.jpg/250px-Wooly_Boys.jpg", "Directed by": "Leszek Burzynski", "Written by": "Max Enscoe Annie DeYoung George Buck Flower Ed Hansen Glen Stephens", "Produced by": "Robert Schwartz", "Starring": "Peter Fonda Kris Kristofferson Joseph Mazzello Keith Carradine Robin Dearden", "Cinematography": "William Wages", "Edited by": "Andrew S. Eisen Stephen Rivkin", "Music by": "Hummie Mann", "Release date": "2001 ( 2001 )", "Running time": "99 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$335,726"}
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["Wooly Boys is a 2001 American adventure comedy drama film directed by Leszek Burzynski and starring Peter Fonda , Kris Kristofferson , and Joseph Mazzello . The screenplay concerns sheep ranchers in the Badlands of North Dakota . [ 1 ] North Dakota's first full-length feature film, it was financed by the Bank of North Dakota, but did not do well at the box office. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "A.J. \"Stoney\" Stoneman, a grizzled sheep rancher from Medora, North Dakota , is tricked by Sheriff Hank Dawson into taking a trip to see his daughter Kate Harper in Minneapolis , Minnesota. While there, Stoney ends up bonding with his 16-year old grandson, Charles, whom he hadn't seen in nine years. Charles is also part of the plot to get Stoney help for a serious health issue. Charles tells Stoney his mother is in the hospital, so they leave for the hospital. Upon arriving at the hospital, Stoney finds out that Kate was only \"in\" the hospital to trick Stoney into having an examination. Stoney and Kate have a bout with words as Stoney is leaving and he collapses from an aneurysm, thereby causing him to be hospitalized. With the aid of his rancher pal, Shuck, Stoney escapes the hospital—with Charles in tow—for what becomes a life-changing adventure as Charles discovers his family roots and what it means to be a “wooly boy”.", "Filming was done in the North Dakota towns of Medora , Belfield , Fryburg , and Beach ; also in Minneapolis and Woodbury, Minnesota . [ citation needed ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/Woody_Woodpecker_U.S._DVD_cover.jpg/250px-Woody_Woodpecker_U.S._DVD_cover.jpg", "Directed by": "Alex Zamm", "Screenplay by": "William Robertson Alex Zamm", "Story by": "William Robertson Alex Zamm Daniel Altiere Steven Altiere", "Based on": "Woody Woodpecker by Universal Pictures & Walter Lantz", "Produced by": "Mike Elliott", "Starring": "Timothy Omundson Thaila Ayala Graham Verchere Jordana Largy Scott McNeil Adrian Glynn McMorran Eric Bauza (voice)", "Cinematography": "Barry Donlevy", "Edited by": "Heath Ryan", "Music by": "Chris Hajian", "Production companies": "Universal Animation Studios Universal 1440 Entertainment", "Distributed by": "Universal Pictures", "Release dates": "October 5, 2017 ( 2017-10-05 ) (Brazil) February 6, 2018 ( 2018-02-06 ) (United States)", "Running time": "85 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English [ 1 ]", "Budget": "$10 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$15.3 million [ 3 ]"}
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["Woody Woodpecker (also known as Woody Woodpecker: The Movie ) is a 2017 American live-action/animated slapstick comedy film directed by Alex Zamm , based on the cartoon character of the same name and produced by Universal 1440 Entertainment in co-production with Universal Animation Studios and distributed by Universal Pictures . The film stars Timothy Omundson , Graham Verchere , Jordana Largy and Thaila Ayala , and features Eric Bauza as the voice of Woody Woodpecker. The film's plot follows Woody protecting his forest from a real estate lawyer planning to build an investment house in his habitat.", "While Woody Woodpecker was filmed in English, it was only released theatrically in the Latin American market, which the film catered to and where the character is most popular. Elsewhere, it was released primarily as a direct-to-video feature. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $15.3 million. [ 4 ] A sequel, Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp , was released on Netflix on April 12, 2024, [ 5 ] while a third film is in development.", "In the Pine Grove forest in Washington , Woody Woodpecker detects brothers Nate and Otis Grimes, two taxidermist poachers who attempt to capture and sell him for money, and causes them to tranquilize each other. In Seattle , Lance Walters, a real estate lawyer , gets fired, after a video of him claiming wildlife conservation is unprofitable goes viral. He tells his glamorous girlfriend, Vanessa, that he intends to build an investment home on a large piece of property located near the Canadian border, left to him by his grandfather. Lance's ex-wife Linda leaves their son Tommy with him and Vanessa, since she needs to care for her hospitalized father in Philadelphia .", "At the Pine Grove forest, Lance, Tommy, and Vanessa meet park ranger Samantha Bartlett. As Lance and Vanessa unpack, Tommy goes into the forest for a walk. There, he discovers and befriends Woody, after he gives him peanut butter cookies. Woody visits the family at lunchtime, and eats almost all of the food. Lance tries to shoo Woody away, but he accidentally wrecks the table and hits Vanessa in the face with a broom. The next morning, construction on the investment home begins, prompting an angered Woody to constantly cause chaos at the site. Later, in a nearby town, Tommy befriends a young musician named Jill, who persuades him to join her band in the annual Firefly Festival. Tommy is then saved from two bullies by Woody.", "As days pass, Lance grows more frustrated, because of Woody's constant annoyance, mischief, chaos, and destruction of his project, and he goes to confront Samantha at the ranger station. She reveals Woody is an endangered species known as the pileated red-crowned woodpecker , which was thought to be extinct for 100 years and Native Americans saw as a god of mischief and chaos. Lance continues with his work, but Vanessa leaves him after Woody blows up their RV with her inside. Lance tries to get Nate and Ottis, who secretly still plan to sell Woody, to get rid of him, but he keeps outwitting them. Samantha advises Lance to make peace with Woody. Lance attempts to surrender to Woody, by giving him cookies, Woody agrees to let him and the workers continue with their construction, as long as he is given food every day. Eventually, the investment home is completed, despite excessive payment and extended scheduling.", "At the town's Firefly Festival, Tommy and Jill's drummer Lyle comes down with food poisoning , prompting Woody to take over using a homemade drum kit. The performance is a success, and Lance is delighted to hear that Woody gave Tommy support. Concluding that having humans around again isn't a bad thing, Woody heads back to the investment home and carves a mural above the fireplace. However, as he signs his name into the carving, he accidentally hits exposed wiring, which causes a house fire. Horrified by his mistake, he flies back to his tree. Angered, Lance calls Nate and Ottis, who cut down his tree and tase him unconscious. As they leave, Tommy castigates his father for his actions and runs away. He then forms a plan to rescue Woody and heads to the Grimes' brothers old barn with Jill and Lyle, as the brothers try to sell Woody at an online black market auction. Lance finds the mural that Woody had created. Realizing the fire was an accident, he enlists Samantha's help and they set out to find both Tommy and Woody, but the entire gang is captured by the brothers. As Nate aims a tranquilizer on Woody, Lance tilts his cage towards Woody's and frees him. After attacking the brothers, Woody chases them as they attempt to flee to the Canada border. He carves a hole in the middle of the bridge, and the brothers fall into the river below, where they later are stopped by the police, and having been fed up with Woody's antics, willfully turn themselves in with Woody saying that its their turn to live in a cage.", "Later, Lance apologizes to Woody for not knowing that the house fire was an accident and therefore replaces Woody's cut-down tree with a birdhouse. Woody accepts both the gift and the gang as his surrogate family.", "In November 2011, Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment planned an animated Woody Woodpecker feature film. John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky ( King of the Hill ) were in talks to develop a story, [ 6 ] but in July 2013, Illumination canceled the project. [ 7 ]", "In October 2013, Bill Kopp was hired by Universal and Illumination to direct an animated feature film with three interwoven stories. [ 8 ] The project was put on hold and then cancelled, as Chris Meledandri confirmed that its concept was too thin for an 85-minute film. [ 9 ]", "In 2016, Universal 1440 Entertainment was filming a live-action/CGI hybrid Woody Woodpecker film, following the success of Alvin and the Chipmunks . [ 10 ] Director and co-writer Alex Zamm was in discussions with Universal executives to direct a Woody Woodpecker film, with co-writer William Robertson following their previous project The Little Rascals Save the Day . [ 11 ] He has also watched all 200 Woody Woodpecker cartoons , as preparation for the film. [ 12 ] For cost-effective reasons, it was agreed upon for the film to have a more singular approach with Woody Woodpecker being the one surreal element as a photorealistic character in the real world. [ 13 ] Filming began that June and ended later in July. Filming was done in Squamish , British Columbia , Canada . [ 1 ] The primary audience in mind for the film was that of Brazil. [ 1 ] The cartoon has been broadcast in the country for, by 2017, 38 years, and the Brazilian newspaper Folha Vitória stated that the series was popular (\"com ótima audiência\"). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] \nThe audio track for Woody is of noticeably poor quality, has a high pass filter applied which makes it difficult for dialogue to be heard; this is particularly jarring when compared to the other actors on screen.", "The film was first released theatrically in Brazil (under the name of Pica-Pau: O Filme ) on October 5, 2017. [ 1 ]", "In the week of the premiere of the film, a person/people dressed in a costume of the character came to Brazil and visited several cities such as the capital Brasília , Manaus , Olinda , Curitiba , Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo . The highlight visit was when some scenes from the episode \"Niagara Fools\" were reproduced in the Iguaçu Falls . [ 16 ]", "Woody Woodpecker was released in the United States and Canada on DVD , Digital HD, and Netflix on February 6, 2018 and on Blu-ray on September 4 the same year. [ 17 ] The film was launched on direct-to-video format in the United States and around the world on that day. [ 18 ] In the United Kingdom, it was distributed through British home video distributor Dazzler Media, under license from Universal.", "As of March 2018, Woody Woodpecker has grossed $15.3 million. It debuted at $1.5 million, finishing second at the Brazilian box office behind Blade Runner 2049 . The film increased by +45.4% in its second weekend, moving to first place with $2.1 million. [ 19 ]", "Reviews for the film were generally negative. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film has a 13% approval rating based on 8 reviews. [ 4 ] Common Sense Media rated the film one out of five stars: \"Inanely cruel villains, an unoriginal story, ham-handed performances, and reliance on farts and burps are the low lights of this awkward effort to bring back a less-than-engaging cartoon bird\". [ 20 ] Jodi Smith of entertainment website Pajiba gave the film a negative review: \"If I was a super villain and I wanted to harm all of the children of the world, I would fund and release a movie like Woody Woodpecker\". [ 21 ] Conversely, Fernando Alvarez of the Argentine newspaper Clarín referred to the film as \"... effective entertainment for a young audience...\" in a positive review. [ 22 ]", "A sequel, titled Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp , was released on Netflix on April 12, 2024. [ 5 ] The film was in development since September 2021. Filmed in Victoria, Australia , the film was directed by Jon Rosenbaum and produced by Jon Kuyper. [ 23 ] [ 24 ]", "In an interview with Jon Rosenbaum, he stated that there might be a third film in the franchise."]
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["Woody Woodpecker is the first animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on July 7, 1941, [ 2 ] the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures . [ 3 ]", "This is the second appearance of Woody Woodpecker; his debut was in an Andy Panda cartoon, Knock Knock .", "The working title of this cartoon is 'Cracked Nut'.", "The inhabitants of the forest that Woody Woodpecker lives in have started spreading the word that Woody is crazy, due to all of his screwball antics. After telling him (and many others) this several times, Woody also begins to question his sanity. Woody Woodpecker spends his day singing loudly and pecking holes in trees. He infuriates the other woodland creatures, when he isn't baffling them with his bizarre behavior. Woody overhears a squirrel and a group of birds gossiping about him. Even though he just sang a song proclaiming his craziness, he denies their whispered accusations that he's nuts. After they trick him into knocking his head on a statue, the poor bird hears voices in his head and decides the animals might be right. He decides to see a doctor, but Woody chooses to see Dr. Horace N. Buggy, a Scottish-brogue-burring fox who is even crazier than he is. The story ends with Woody hurled into a movie theater audience, watching the doctor crack up on screen, and annoying the people beside him ( \"That doctor sure is a card, isn't he? But I don't think he's near as funny as the woodpecker! Do you think so, mister? Huh? DO you, mister? HUH? I like cartoons! Don't YOU like cartoons??\" ). One of the people then puts up Woody's seat, leaving him stuck. Then, he screams for help from his seat. As for the people beside him, they smile gladly as the cartoon ends.", "There is no director credit for the film. Lantz himself has claimed to have directed Woody Woodpecker ."]
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