Posts Tagged ‘actor-playing-multiple-roles’

The Nutty Professor (1963)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Stella Stevens | Del Moore | Kathleen Freeman | Med Flory | Norman Alden | Howard Morris | Elvia Allman | Milton Frome | Buddy Lester | Marvin Kaplan | David Landfield | Skip Ward | Julie Parrish | Henry Gibson
Directors: Jerry Lewis
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Julius Kelp is an ugly chemistry teacher with no personal life. One day he creates something incredible! An elixir that transforms him into a totally different man, Buddy Love. He is very successful with women, and one of his students (Stella Purdy) falls in love with him. Of course nobody knows that this charming, cool guy is in fact Julius Kelp. Everyone is very excited with Buddy, but there is a problem. The elixir’s effect doesn’t last very long…

Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Romance
Countries: USA
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Maximillian is the only survivor from a race of vampires on a Caribbean Island, and as a vampire, he must find a mate to keep the line from ending. He knows that a child had been born to a woman who had a vampire father, and he searches for her in Brooklyn. Rita’s mother, who has died in an asylum, was that woman and Rita has nightmares that she does not understand. Not knowing that she is part vampire, Max woos her and attempts to bring her to her blood sucking destiny. Even though Rita has strange dreams and actions, Justice, her partner, has feelings for her and does not want her involved with this stranger Max. But it is Rita who must decide her destiny.

Adaptation. (2002)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Meryl Streep | Chris Cooper | Cara Seymour | Tilda Swinton | Bill Livingston | Brian Cox | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Judy Greer | Jim Beaver | Litefoot | Jim Tavaré | Doug Jones | Stephen Tobolowsky | Roger Willie
Directors: Spike Jonze
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Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean’s “The Orchid Thief” into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Marc McClure | Joe Flaherty | George Di Cenzo | Michael J. Fox | Christopher Lloyd | Lea Thompson | Thomas F. Wilson | Elisabeth Shue | James Tolkan | Jeffrey Weissman | Casey Siemaszko | Billy Zane | J.J. Cohen | Charles Fleischer | E. Casanova Evans | Jay Koch | Charles Gherardi | Ricky Dean Logan
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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This movie picks up where the last one left off; with Doc Brown and Marty going into the future to help Marty’s future offspring. After doing that they returned to their own time, only to discover that things have changed. They discovered that while in the future, Marty’s nemesis, Biff Tannen got the sports book that Marty bought so that he could know the results of sports events and make a killing, but Doc Brown nixed his plans, but Tannen who overheard their conversation, got the book and the time machine and went back into the past and gave the book to himself, who has not only amassed a fortune but also extremely powerful. So Doc and Marty have to go back to when Biff got the book and get it away from him. And it seems that it was in 1955 on the night of the dance that Biff got the book. So not only must they get the book but they must also avoid the other versions of themselves.

The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Varney | Diedrich Bader | Erika Eleniak | Cloris Leachman | Lily Tomlin | Lea Thompson | Rob Schneider | Dolly Parton | Dabney Coleman | Penny Fuller | Kevin Connolly | Linda Carlson | Lyman Ward | Leann Hunley | Ernie Lively
Directors: Penelope Spheeris
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Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck.

MirrorMask (2005)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jason Barry | Rob Brydon | Stephen Fry | Andy Hamilton | Simon Harvey | Lenny Henry | Robert Llewellyn | Nik Robson | Rick Allen | Simon Schofield | Mark Tate | Richard Thompson | Robin Thompson | Iain Ballamy | Chris Batchelor
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

The Ninth Gate (1999)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Frank Langella | Lena Olin | Emmanuelle Seigner | Barbara Jefford | Jack Taylor | José López Rodero | Tony Amoni | James Russo | Willy Holt | Allen Garfield | Jacques Dacqmine | Joe Sheridan | Rebecca Pauly | Catherine Benguigui
Directors: Roman Polanski
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Based on the book The Club Dumas, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dean Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its owner unimaginable power). The man hires Corso to track down the other two copies and compare them to his, but complications - both natural and supernatural - arise at every turn.

Life of Brian (1979)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle | Michael Palin | Terence Bayler | Carol Cleveland | Kenneth Colley | Neil Innes | Charles McKeown | John Young | Gwen Taylor | Sue Jones-Davies | Peter Brett
Directors: Terry Jones
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The Monty Pyton team tells the life, death and resurrection (?) of Brian from Nazareth, an unwilling prophet who wants to free his land from the oppression of Rome. When Brian covers a huge wall with the writing “ROMANI ITE DOMUM” (Romans go home), a local revolutionary group begins to take him seriously…

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Elizabeth Hurley | Michael York | Mimi Rogers | Robert Wagner | Seth Green | Fabiana Udenio | Mindy Sterling | Paul Dillon | Charles Napier | Will Ferrell | Joann Richter | Anastasia Sakelaris | Afifi Alaouie | Monet Mazur
Directors: Jay Roach
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Austin Powers (Myers) is a 60’s spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990’s. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortuantly for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington (Hurley) to stop the evil Dr. Evil (Myers), who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90’s) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil’s henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell!

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Cleavon Little | Gene Wilder | Slim Pickens | David Huddleston | Liam Dunn | Alex Karras | John Hillerman | George Furth | Jack Starrett | Harvey Korman | Madeline Kahn | Carol Arthur | Richard Collier | Charles McGregor
Directors: Mel Brooks
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The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.