Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 5:11 amh.
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Two brilliant teenagers head a team of young geniuses developing a laser for what they believe is a class project. When they find out that their professor intends to turn their work over to the government for use as a weapon, they decide to ruin his plans.
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1985, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, USA
airforce, beautician, betrayal, cia, college, computer-cracker, cult-favorite, dormitory, eccentric, ego, experiment, exploding-house, general, genius, human-relationship, ice, independent-film, laser, major, mentor, military, party, penis-enlarger, popcorn, prank, professor, research, revenge, science, scientist, smart-kids, student, teacher-student-relationship, teen, teleprompter, top-secret, us-air-force, usaf, weapon, whiz-kid
Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 5:09 amh.
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The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, [...]
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1981, Drama, History, Sport, UK
1910s, 1920s, actress, anti-semitism, athlete, autograph, backstage, based-on-true-story, beach, blockbuster, boys-choir, brother-sister-relationship, cafe, cambridge-england, church-of-england, church-of-scotland, clock, coach, college, conscience, correspondence, country-estate, cricket-game, date, ethics, ethnic-slur, face-slap, faith, famous-score, flashback-sequence, formal-dance, friendship, funeral, gilbert-and-sullivan, hat, headmaster, hotel, hurdles, jewish, law-student, locker-room, london-england, male-nudity, massage, missionary, movie-theater, newsreel-footage, nonlinear-timeline, olympic-athlete, olympic-hopeful, olympics, operetta, paris-france, piano, pier, presbyterian, pride, prince-of-wales, pub, racing, railway-station, rainstorm, religion, reporter, restaurant, rugby, running, scotland, slide-show, slow-motion, steamship, steeplechase, student-athlete, title-from-bible, train, underdog, what-happened-to-epilogue
Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 5:06 amh.
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He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a [...]
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1998, Drama, Sci-Fi, USA
acting, adoption, alternative-reality, artifice, bar, basement, bathroom, bathtub-scene, beach, betrayal, bicycle, blockbuster, boat-accident, bravery, bridge, bus, character-name-in-title, christmas, collage, college, controlled-environment, creator-creation-relationship, cult-favorite, dancing, deceit, deja-vu, drowning, ego, elevator, escape, father-son-relationship, fear-of-water, film-making, finger-crossing, flashback-sequence, florida, friendship, futuristic, god-complex, golf, hidden-camera, hollywood-sign, hospital, identity, improvisation, infiltration, insurance-agent, island, lawn-mower, library, loss-of-father, marital-separation, marketing, marriage, media-hype, mirror, moon, morality, mother-son-relationship, newsstand, no-opening-credits, nuclear-accident, nurse, object-falling-from-sky, paranoia, philosophical, product-placement, profanity, radio-broadcast, rainstorm, reality-tv, revolving-door, sadness, sailboat, satire, school, search-party, searchlight, simple-man, simulated-reality, small-town, spatial-loop, storm-at-sea, supermarket, surgery, suspicion, talk-show, television, television-producer, title-spoken-by-character, traffic-jam, travel-agency, tv-show-in-film, twins, vending-machine, video-surveillance, voyeurism, wall-of-fire, weather-manipulation
Posted in April 18, 2009 ¬ 3:55 pmh.
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Phillip Brainard, who is a professor at a college and a small time worker in his own basement, is trying to create a great invention. Unfortunately he always failed to invent something, but he is so obsessed about it that he even puts off his own wedding to his fianc?e, Sara. One day, he [...]
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1997, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, USA
absent-minded, bankruptcy, baseball-glove, based-on-adaptation, basketball, bet, blackmail, bowling-ball, break-in, breakfast-machine, bribery, broken-glass, canceled-wedding, car, cat, chemistry, college, computer, cream, death-of-friend, dog, drawing, duck, engine, experiment-gone-wrong, explosion, fall-from-height, fall-through-window, fear, flying-car, former-best-friends, formula, garbage-bag, golf-ball, gravity, humor, ink, invention, inventor, irreverent, kids-and-family, loss-of-friend, loyalty, mascots, medfield-college, misunderstanding, photograph, professor, pun, referee, remake, remote-control, robot, romantic-rivalry, secret, shoe, slapstick, spying, squirt-gun, theft, threat, title-spoken-by-character, unlikely-hero, watching-tv, wedding
Posted in April 18, 2009 ¬ 3:35 pmh.
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A university professor is paid to find the last undiscovered tribe of New Guinea. When he fails to find the tribe, he comes home, and rather than admitting that he’s failed, he gives a lecture about the Shelmikedmu tribe (named after his children: Shelly, Mike, and Edmund) and then has his family dress like “Shelmikedmus,” [...]
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1998, Comedy, Family, USA
anthropology, based-on-book, circumcision, circumcision-ritual, college, expedition, faked-footage, family, hoax, jungle, kids-and-family, lecture, lost-tribe, monkey, new-guinea, professor, single-parent
Posted in April 18, 2009 ¬ 3:28 pmh.
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Taylor Brooks is a young, overachieving coed at a posh New England college whom decides to pledge the secret society The Skulls whom her father and many of the faculty are members and whom her older brother died years earlier during an initiation practice. But Taylor’s willingness to break the all-male Skulls taboo of pledging [...]
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Posted in April 18, 2009 ¬ 12:00 pmh.
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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 [...]
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1963, Comedy, Sci-Fi, USA
absent-minded, actor-playing-multiple-roles, aphrodisiac, attraction, beautiful-woman, bird, black-humor, breaking-the-fourth-wall, cat, charlatan, chemistry, classroom, clumsiness, clumsy, college, college-professor, college-student, college-students, cult-favorite, disappointment, embarrassment, experiment, fall-in-love, family, genius, girl, glasses, hangover, humor, irony, jekyll-and-hyde, kiss, lounge-singer, love, love-interest, man, marine-hymn, nerd, piano, pretty-girl, professor, sarcasm, scientist, smiling, subjective-camera, swinger, teacher, transformation, university, university-professor, university-student, wink, woman
Posted in April 17, 2009 ¬ 10:28 pmh.
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Luke and Roger are just another couple of college guys trying to lose their virginity. But when Luke sees something unusual, he begins to suspect that the girls on campus aren’t exactly…human.
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2004, Canada, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
alien, alien-dna, alien-invasion, beautiful-woman, body-snatcher, breasts, broken-nose, Canada, casual-sex, cleavage, college, college-campus, death, dna, dumb-blonde, female-killer, female-nudity, first-time-sex, fish-out-of-water, flame-thrower, frozen-body, hidden-camera, ice-cream, mating-instinct, morphing, murder, part-computer-animation, sex, sex-in-cemetery, sorority-house, talent-show, teen-sex-comedy, twist-in-the-end, virginity, vomit-scene
Posted in April 17, 2009 ¬ 10:10 pmh.
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Bartleby (B.) Gaines is a fun loving slacker who, unfortunately, gets turned down for every college he applied for, much to the charign of his overly expectant parents. So, with a little cutting and pasting, he creates the South Harmon Institute of Technology, and lo and behold, he is accepted (along with his friends Rory, [...]
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2006, Comedy, USA
anxiety, brother-sister-relationship, college, college-attendance, college-campus, college-entrance, college-kid, college-life, college-student, dean, education, explosion, family, fraternity, fraud, graduation, hearing, high-school, love, parents, party, pool, rejection, renovation, skateboard, student, swimming-pool, teen, university, urban-legend, website
Posted in April 17, 2009 ¬ 10:10 pmh.
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Bartleby (B.) Gaines is a fun loving slacker who, unfortunately, gets turned down for every college he applied for, much to the charign of his overly expectant parents. So, with a little cutting and pasting, he creates the South Harmon Institute of Technology, and lo and behold, he is accepted (along with his friends Rory, [...]
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2006, Comedy, USA
anxiety, brother-sister-relationship, college, college-attendance, college-campus, college-entrance, college-kid, college-life, college-student, dean, education, explosion, family, fraternity, fraud, graduation, hearing, high-school, love, parents, party, pool, rejection, renovation, skateboard, student, swimming-pool, teen, university, urban-legend, website
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