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Entries from November 2007

Cisco Pike (1972)

November 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments

 
Synopsis
Cisco Pike (Kris Kristofferson) ventures down the canals of Venice, California with a guitar case. He visits a music store, where he reports to an old friend (Roscoe Lee Browne) that he “ain’t dealing no more”. Cisco is trying [...]

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Tags: Bathtub scene · Crooked officer · Cult favorite · Music

Come Early Morning (2006)

November 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments

 
Synopsis
Lucy Fowler (Ashley Judd) wakes up in a Little Rock motel room next to a stranger. She insists the motel manager let her pay the bill, catches a cab back to the bar and climbing into her F-150 pickup truck, begins her [...]

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Tags: Drunk scene · Father/daughter relationship · Small town

The Dead Girl (2006)

November 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments

 
Synopsis
In the first of five interconnected stories, Arden (Toni Collette) finds the body of a dead girl in the abandoned orchard near her California home. Arden lives with her verbally abusive mother (Piper Laurie) who criticizes her daughter for bringing the police in. A grocery store [...]

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Tags: 24 hour time frame · Forensic evidence · Mother/daughter relationship · Murder mystery · Prostitute · Psycho killer

Out of Sight (1998)

November 22nd, 2007 · 9 Comments

Synopsis
Jack Foley (George Clooney) storms out of an office building in Miami. He enters a bank across the street, and using the right words (”Is this your first time being robbed? You’re doing great”), gets the teller to hand over all her cash. He doesn’t get far. [...]

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Tags: Based on novel · Bathtub scene · Cult favorite · Father/daughter relationship · Gangsters and hoodlums · Heist · Unconventional romance