“Bogart, in search of a Big Mac, instead discovers gold while searching for jewelry. His love entanglements with two women result in his becoming a semi-recluse, living with two other men and a donkey.”
“Two Scandinavian wannabe actors, with manequin looks and plastic enhancements foil an ad-exec promoting public transportation while falling in love with a character played by the (former?) wife of the most unpleasant action actor in the world while Martha Reeves sings her signature songs backed up by De Niro, Pacino, Kilmer and Sizemore.”
“A tightly-knit family from a small coal-mining town falls prey to the lure of Hollywood, drugs and ambition.”
“After her husband and child are killed in a car crash, a French composer is mistaken for a hero by the naive inhabitants of a Mexican villiage.”
OK, the “active” clues once again seem to be stumping us, so here’s an easy one…
A series of surreal sketches outline the life - from “Conception” and “Birth” through “Death” and beyond with various detours in-between, inlcuding irreverent musical numbers - of a man born on the same day as Jesus.
Nicholas Cage plays an angel who gives up his immortality in order to help the California Angels win the pennant so a little boy can have a family of his own, but soon finds himself trapped in a city with no sun where dark beings steal the souls of humans. A mysterious voice then tells him to build a baseball diamond behind his house, which he does.
Bluegrass music highlights this Coen brothers tale of three dimwitted prison escapees who trek across the Southern US in search of treasure, only to find themselves surrounded by the Mexican army in a crumbling Spanish mission building.
While on as trip to London, a typical suburban American family accidently runs over a supposedly mythical British boy wizard. Feeling guilty. they take him back home and nurse him back to health. Hilarity ensues.
