When jealousy and envy lead Mary Vantyne to make a foolish decision and commit an impulsive act she sets off a series of events that nearly bring heartbreak to all those in her circle.
Social & External
The people behind it
Pearl White
Mary Vantyne
Charles Waldron
Andrew Vantyne
Wallace McCutcheon Jr.
Ralph Blake
Dorothy Cumming
Isabelle Lenwright
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An experimental, non-sensical comedy about bringing a stone age man back to our time, made with the app “Plotagon”.
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Dara and Sophie's once close friendship is now only sustained by likes, memes and ever-delayed meet-ups. When Sophie commits suicide, Dara is forced to look behind the surface of Sophie's last messages.
A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.
Dori finally achieved her dream - having dinner with her favorite actress.
A psychedelic, substance-infused party. There's a predator. And there's a victim.
Some battles are fought in silence. A man runs. Through concrete and the gathering darkness, he pushes his body to its limits. But every short breath, every dizzy spell, and every deafening echo of his past only fuels his run. A physical and mental odyssey to exorcise his own demons and find, at the summit, a new lease on life.
When a boy is too confused to speak with his non-communicative family, words eventually lose their meaning. He decides to communicate with his dandruff and a cup of cold coffee instead. His father ignores these eccentricities, assuming it is just a ploy to get attention. Meanwhile, the boy's sister likes exercising seductively in front of men and is better able to capture her father's attention than her brother. Their mother is oblivious, perpetually talking to people on her mobile phone and the space the family occupies grows narrower and narrower.
A father joins his son as he searches for Heaven in the night's sky, each hoping to catch a glimpse of his own grandmother.
A high school senior feels pressured to lose his virginity while at a party where he finds his crush very drunk.
When a scandal occurs between a high school teacher and one of his students, the school's principal decides to take matters into his own hands and investigate through the people involved.
A young recluse becomes fixated on a man he shares a commute with.
A fame obsessed young woman entertains her melancholic wiles.
A scrappy assistant reaches her breaking point when her charismatic, self-obsessed boss blows off her request for a promotion.
As a faithful child of God, Mary regularly repents for her sins. Over time, her faith drives her crazy as she pushes herself to the extremes.
A mother who is addicted to meth in New Mexico has a son who is left alone.
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.
Four tales unfold in Wes Anderson's anthology of short films adapted from Roald Dahl's beloved stories, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", "The Swan", "The Rat Catcher", and "Poison."
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.
An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.
When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.
