Synopsis
In Los Angeles – overcrowded and choked in pollution - of the year 2019, the Tyrell Corporation leads the field of robot design with the “Replicant,” a being virtually identical to a human, but superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence. After a mutiny in an off-world colony, Replicants have [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ambiguous ending'
Blade Runner (1982)
November 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Alternate universe · Ambiguous ending · Based on novel · Cult favorite · Dreams and visions · End of the world · Famous line · Femme fatale · Forensic evidence · Interrogation · Man vs. machine
Straight Time (1978)
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Synopsis
Emerging from Folsom State Prison after six years, Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) returns to Los Angeles. He spends his first night of freedom eating a hot dog and wandering the city streets. Checking in the next day with his parole officer, Earl Frank (M. Emmet Walsh), Max is verbally reprimanded for failing to show [...]
Tags: Ambiguous ending · Based on novel · Cult favorite · Gangsters and hoodlums · Heist · Interrogation · Unconventional romance
The Shining (1980)
September 3rd, 2008 · 7 Comments
Synopsis
Mild mannered Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) arrives for an interview at the luxurious Overlook Hotel in Colorado. General manager Mr. Ullman (Barry Nelson) explains his duties as caretaker will be to maintain the hotel when it shuts down for six months during the winter. Jack maintains that the isolation will give him [...]
Tags: Ambiguous ending · Based on novel · Dreams and visions · Famous line · Father/son relationship · Midlife crisis · Mother/son relationship · Psycho killer · Woman in jeopardy
The Descent (2005)
June 20th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Synopsis
Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) wraps up a rafting trip in Scotland with her friends – daredevil Juno (Natalie Mendoza) and schoolteacher Beth (Alex Reid) – and rejoins her husband and daughter for the drive home. Their car collides with another [...]
Tags: Ambiguous ending · Beasts and monsters · Woman in jeopardy









