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The Trestler - Story of a father in the late 19th century who was a bridge designer/builder. He was obsessed with the design and construction and he would always bury himself within the projects. Long hours in design or long times away from home for construction which ultimately led to tremendous strain on his family, a wife, two daughters, and a son. The further he got emotionally away from his family, the more depressed he began to grow, becoming a maelstrom of depression and alcohol addiction which tore his family apart.

Years later, managing to pull himself out of addiction to alcohol, the father attempts to reestablish a relationship with his eldest daughter, the only family member that still lived near him. At first she was very protective, however, he was able to gain her trust and he started becoming a part of her family. Until one day, a bridge washed out ten miles from home, and there was a rush to build a replacement bridge. The Father told himself this could be his redemption, and he buried himself in the project. He disappeared for months, losing the family ties he had rebuilt, and once the bridge was ready for construction, the rail company that used the bridge was bought by a larger railroad and the line was closed.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
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The Trestler - Story of a father in the late 19th century who was a bridge designer/builder. He was obsessed with the design and construction and he would always bury himself within the projects. Long hours in design or long times away from home for construction which ultimately led to tremendous strain on his family, a wife, two daughters, and a son. The further he got emotionally away from his family, the more depressed he began to grow, becoming a maelstrom of depression and alcohol addiction which tore his family apart.

Years later, managing to pull himself out of addiction to alcohol, the father attempts to reestablish a relationship with his eldest daughter, the only family member that still lived near him. At first she was very protective, however, he was able to gain her trust and he started becoming a part of her family. Until one day, a bridge washed out ten miles from home, and there was a rush to build a replacement bridge. The Father told himself this could be his redemption, and he buried himself in the project. He disappeared for months, losing the family ties he had rebuilt, and once the bridge was ready for construction, the rail company that used the bridge was bought by a larger railroad and the line was closed.
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Shiiiiiiit. This could be the subtext to The Dirges of Madison County....
 
Z

The Wizard of Ow

This one will really hurt you. Come along on a young woman's painful journey, and experience the sheer terror!
Murder monkeys, heartless, brainless and even metallic life forms are all bound up in this whirlwind adventure.
 
Z

Riding In Czars With Boys

Coming of age tale about being a royal in Russia back when only the very rich and influential had automobiles.
 
B

Wizard of Boz

"We're not in Kansas, anymore!!" Mr. Scaggs boasted as he introduced his jazz-punk fusion version of the Harry Potter theme to the Topeka audience.
Sadly, though, they were still in Kansas, and mighty few listeners felt leviosa-ed out of the mosh-wolf pit by his scoot-doodly-furnunculus chords.
 
E

Jury McGuire

A star salesman at a marketing firm is on the brink of winning an office sales contest when he gets a jury summons. Appointed to the jury and selected as foreman, he commits criminal acts of coercion in his haste to get a unanimous verdict so he could get back to work and win the contest.
 
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Platliners - A bunch of young survey students come up with a crazy idea to go out and determine boundaries of a plat, but the plat is an ancient burial, which means they used the wrong horizontal datum. This movie sucked!
 
P

Teenage Mutant Ninja Pturtles: New and Old

The 'new' is a batch of the Ooze is made by a company's attempt to recreate the crime-fighters. But under corporate control, without Splinter's distracting morality.
The 'old' is that the Ooze seems to seek out distinctly prehistoric traits in the DNA of the test subjects. The Turtles grown in the DynaCorp tank are 5 meters tall, with saber-toothed fangs.
 
Q - Questward Ho! - Everyone's favorite Grail is once again sought, but this time by a determined rancher (John Wayne) hell-bent on avenging the death of his parents by cattle rustlers. "I'ma gonna find that grail and bust every one of them's heads with it."
 
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Tar Trek

What if Lucille Ball had not sold Trek to Paramount, but desperately sought specific advertising support? And gotten it from Big Tobacco?

"Okay, so this season, Scotty smokes 3 packs a day. Spock smokes a pipe. A...a Vulcan pipe, yeah, that's it. Gerald, go take a couple shots of tequila and design me a space hookah. What? No, no blinking lights! Look at the harp! Think Tolkien elves! The read the Hobbit! Jeez!
"Okay, what else? Kelly! McCoy chews now. You'll love it. You get to punctuate your arguments with a shot into a spitoon. Oh, and at least 1 out of 3 treatments is going to be a simple, old-fashioned Earth-tobacco poultice.
"Shatner, you get a cigar. Instead of those pauses while you try to remember your line, fiddle with your cigar. Cutting it, lighting it, drawing tgge smoke, then blowing a smoke ring and deliver the line.
"Nichols, you get an elegant cigarette holder. Yeah, sure, it can have blinking lights. A holster? Where, on that uniform, would you put a holster for your...? Oh. Oh! Yeah, we can use another reason to flash your thighs on screen. Two holsters! One for cigarettes, one for the holder. And every time Scotty takes the conn, he bums a cig off you...
"Koenig, you take up smoking Klingon takkh'cho sticks. A running gag, you claim the Russians inventedvthem."
 
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The Perminator - A dystopian society set in the very near future are overly controlled by computer AI in most things in life suffers from artificial intelligence becoming obsessed with perms. The AI system put in robots designed to cut hairs refused to do anything but give people perms, men, women, children, pets... all got perms. Until one day, a flamboyant hero Jonafun Connor would strike out, defying computer AI leadership and began cutting people's hair. It became very popular as Jonafun would use old fashion magazines to provide a whole selection of cuts. Jonafun's support grew and he mentored more and more stylists.

Sensing the threat, the computer AI built a robot, The Perminator, to go back in time to find Jonafun Connor's mother and try to make certain she becomes obsessed with perms and to impart that knowledge to her son. Knowing of the AI's plan, Jonafun also managed to send someone back to find Jonafun's mother first and impart upon her flamboyance and radical hairstyles. The tension reaches a climax when the mother is about to get a perm and the traveler busts into the salon, whips out his clippers and miraculously creates a brilliant hair style in just ten snips! He then grabs her and makes a run for it with the Perminator following close behind.

Really, it is pretty good overall, much better than this description can get across. I would say the 15 minute long extremely graphic sex scene between Jonafun's mom and the traveler was a bit overdrawn and too graphic, especially in the 3D version of the film.

Regardless, the traveler wins overall as the mother is taught to embrace expensive salon quality haircuts which she would pass to her son. The film ends with her sitting in a living room going through a large stack of salon magazines.
 
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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Form

A Roman slave will be emancipated as a reward for years of service. But he has to acquire the freedman parchmentwork first. He attempts to cross Rome to the RMV (Registry of Men, #Five), with hilarious interruptions. Made from the original stage play, with much of the original cast, filmed in Rome.
 
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