Pushing Daisies


            In pre-Revolution Paris, the Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) plots revenge against her ex-lover, the Comte de Gercourt, who has recently ended their relationship. An amoral, sexually ravenous schemer, Merteuil amuses herself by manipulating men out of boredom, and her resentment of the subservient status of women in 18th-century French aristocratic society. To soothe her wounded pride and embarrass Gercourt, she seeks to arrange the seduction and disgrace of his young 18-year-old virgin fiancée, Cécile de Volanges (Uma Thurman), who has only recently been presented to society after spending her formative years in the shelter of a convent.Merteuil calls on her old friend, the rakish and similarly unprincipled Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich) to do the deed, offering him her own sexual favors as the reward for a successful conquest. Valmont declines, claiming that it is too easy, plus he has a seduction of his own in progress: Madame de Tourvel (Michelle Pfeiffer), the virtuous wife of a member of Parliament. Merteuil is amused and incredulous at Valmont's hubris. She asks him how can he ever hope to bed a chaste, devoutly religious woman like Madame Tourvel. Never one to refuse a challenge, Valmont modifies the proposal: If he succeeds in sleeping with Tourvel, Merteuil must sleep with him as well. Merteuil accepts, on the condition that he furnish written proof of the liaison.At the estate of Valmont's aunt in the countryside, Madame de Rosemonde (Mildred Natwick), where Tourvel is living as a guest while her husband is away on state business, Valmont employs every trick in his considerable repertoire in a vain attempt to attract Tourvel's attention. His first attempt to proposition to Tourvel fails when she refuses his advances. She reveals that she knows all about him and his reputation; that he seduces and corrupts young women for his own twisted enjoyment. Tourvel claims that a friend has been writing her letters which explains all about Valmont's seduction tactics.Searching for leverage, Valmont instructs his page Azolan (Peter Capaldi) to seduce Tourvel's maid Julie (Valerie Gogan) so that Valmont can intimidate her to gain access to Tourvel's private correspondence. Later, Julie gives one of the letters and it is from Madame de Volanges (Swoosie Kurtz), Cécile's mother and Merteuil's cousin, warning Tourvel that Valmont is a cad, and a generally nefarious and untrustworthy individual. On reading this, Valmont returns to Paris and resolves to do Merteuil's dirty work after all, seducing Cécile as revenge for her mother's only-too-accurate denunciation of him.Meanwhile, Cécile meets the charming Chevalier Raphael Danceny (Keanu Reeves) at a local opera house where she frequents. Danceny becomes Cécile's music teacher and slowly, with a little coaxing from Merteuil (who knows that Danceny, a poor commoner, can never qualify as a bona fide suitor), they fall in love.Valmont's connived seduction of Cécile is rapid and unsubtle. After gaining access to her bedchamber on a false pretense, he forces himself upon her as she pleads with him to leave. The following night he attempts to enter her room again, but she has barred her door. On the pretext of illness she remains locked in her chambers, refusing all visitors. A concerned Madame de Volanges calls upon Merteuil to speak to her. Cécile, naively assuming that Merteuil has her best interests at heart, confides in her. Merteuil advises Cécile to welcome Valmont's advances; young women should take advantage of all the lovers they can acquire, she says, in a society so repressive and contemptuous of women. The result is a perverse "student-teacher" relationship between Cécile and Valmont; by day she is courted by Danceny, and each night she receives a sexual "lesson" from Valmont. In the meantime, Merteuil seduces Danceny and begins an affair with him.Ever mindful of Merteuil's challenge, Valmont's principal target remains Madame de Tourvel, and during his time as Cécile's "teacher" he somehow manages to win Tourvel's heart..... but at a cost: Valmont, the lifelong bachelor playboy, falls in love, after spending his first night with Tourvel. In a fit of jealousy, Merteuil mocks Valmont for having succumbed to Tourvel's charms. She also refuses to honor her end of their agreement, since Valmont has no written proof that the relationship has been consummated. Valmont, faced with Merteuil's threat to trash his reputation by revealing himself as a carefree gigolo, abruptly dismisses Tourvel with a terse excuse: "It is beyond my control". Cécile, meanwhile, after a particularly rough night in Valmont's bed, miscarries his child.Tourvel, overwhelmed with grief and shame, retires to a convent where her health deteriorates inexorably, and she eventually dies from cholora. The Valmont-Merteuil toxicity/war escalates. Valmont learns of Merteuil's seduction of Danceny and warns him of her perfidy. Merteuil retaliates by informing Danceny that Valmont has been sleeping with Cécile. Danceny challenges Valmont to a duel, and mortally wounds him. On his deathbed, Valmont asks Danceny to communicate to Tourvel.... by now also at death's door.... his genuine love for her. He then gives Danceny his collection of intimate letters from MerteuilA few days later, all of Paris learns the entire, grisly range of her schemes and depredations. Booed and humiliated at the opéra by her former friends and sycophants, Merteuil flees the city in disgrace for places unknown. Cécile, guilt-ridden, returns to the convent whence she came to become a nun.
    

Dangerous Liaisons


            An unintelligent, drug-addicted, recently impregnated woman finds herself in the middle of an abortion debate when both parties attempt to sway her to their side.
    

Citizen Ruth


            
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My Own Country

A Shock to the System


            ME & MY HUSBAND WERE JUST WATCHIN THIS SHOW CALLED "MIKE & MOLLY" ... NOW WHO THE HECK DO YOU COMPLAIN TOO OR WRITE TOO ... THERE IS A SCENE WHERE THE MOTHER IN LAW MAKES A COMMENT "HAVE YOU'VE BEEN EVER IN ARIZONA ... IT'S A FURNACE OF DRUKEN INDIANS" ... NOW TELL ME IF THAT IS A BIGOTRY AT ITS FINEST? ... SHARE & COMMENT PLEASE ... NOT TOO PLEASE WITH CBS .... NOT TO PLEASED WITH THIS AWEFUL COMMENT ... WE ARE FIRST NATION PEOPLE ... WE ARE VERY DISAPPOINTED ... WE THINK THE WRITERS OF THIS SHOW NEED TO APOLOGIZE TO MY PEOPLE FOR THEIR IGNORANCE
    

Mike & Molly


            Iris King (Jane Fonda), still grieving eight months after the death of her husband, works at a commercial bakery in Connecticut and lives in a high-crime area. She lives from paycheck from paycheck as she raises her two children, Kelly (Martha Plimpton) and Richard (Harley Cross). To make ends meet, she rents out space to her sister Sharon (Swoosie Kurtz) and brother-in-law Joe (Jamey Sheridan) who have financial and marital problems as well. With money already tight in the family, Kelly seeks escape through the company of boys resulting in an out of wedlock pregnancy, which makes matters worse.Iris makes the acquaintance in Stanley Cox (Robert De Niro), a cook in the bakery's lunchroom cafeteria, when he comes to her help after she has her purse stolen on the bus and gives chase to the thief who eventually gets away. But as their friendship develops, she begins noticing peculiarities about Stanley - he doesn't own a car (he instead bicycles wherever he needs to go), he lives with and supports his elderly father (Feodor Chaliapin), becomes frustrated when asked to sign his name, doesn't believe in opening Chinese fortune cookies, and cannot pick out a specific item from a shelf. Iris soon realizes that Stanley can neither read or write, and when she innocently mentions this to the bakery owner, Stanley is fired the next day over food safety and legal concerns, despite being a good cook and model employee.Afterwards, Stanley is unable to obtain any steady work forcing him to move in a garage and put his father in a shabby retirement home. His father dies in the home several weeks after admission, upsetting Stanley over the fact that his illiteracy preventing him from caring his father properly. Stanley seeks out Iris and asks her to teach him to read, explaining that his traveling-salesman father moved him all over the country when Stanley was a child, bouncing him to nearly 50 different schools in total, resulting in Stanley developing no reading or writing skills from this lack of educational stability. Iris begins giving Stanley basic reading lessons and he gradually grows close to her and her family. It is during one of these reading exercises that he tells her that he has wanted to be intimate with her since they first met, but Iris is hesitant.Iris tests Stanley's developing reading skills by making him a map and having her meet at a certain street corner in 15 minutes, but Stanley gets hopelessly lost. Hours later, he reaches the corner where Iris is frantic and still waiting. Frustrated, Stanley marches off without saying a word, his interest in learning to read gone. Iris visits him at his garage home and attempts to persuade him to continue learning to read. Looking around, she sees a large mechanical project that Stanley is working on, as he invent things as a hobby. He has a designed a cake-cooling machine that can outperform anything in the commercial marketplace. Iris is immensely impressed and Stanley reveals that a local company has shown interest in his invention and even offered him a job. Stanley agrees to begin reading again with Iris, and eventually learns to write short sentences. Stanley surprises Iris by cooking a massive dinner for her and her family, and the two of them begin to grow close again.After Kelly has her baby, Iris is displeased when she drops out of school to work at the bakery, as she doesn't want her daughter wasting her life in the kind of dead-end job she herself is in. Stanley and Iris decided to make love, but Iris is still clinging to her late husband's memory. This threatens their budding relationship further and they don't see each other for some time. Not prepared to give up on Iris the way she didn't give up on him, Stanley finally goes to see her. Iris hands him an unmailed letter she wrote to him, and Stanley surprises her by reading this aloud nearly perfect. Now ready to begin letting go of the past, Iris accompanies Stanley to a fancy hotel where they order room service and spend the night together.Stanley soon moves to Detroit for a new, well-paying job he has been offered, his inventing ability finally having paid off. Several months later, back in Connecticut, Iris is walking home carrying groceries when an expensive car pulls up next to her and she is surprised to see Stanley behind the wheel. Stanley tells her that he has been given a raise and is looking to buy a large six-bedroom house in Detroit - and that he wants her to move there with him as his wife. Iris accepts. As they walk into her house, Iris asks if they could remove a wall for another bathroom, Stanley replies "Anything is possible".
    

Stanley & Iris

A Promise to Carolyn


            Hailed as a "rewarding gift" and "and unexpected pleasure, " One Christmas is a timeless holiday treasure based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known. It's a classic family story featuring acclaimed performances from an award-winning cast, including the legendary Katharine Hepburn, Henry Winkler, Swoosie Kurtz and Julie Harris.It's Christmas 1930, and eight-year-old Buddy (T.J. Lowther) finds himself in New Orleans spending the holidays with his estranged father (Winkler). Leaving behind his Aunt Sook (Harris) and the peaceful Alabama country life. Buddy now endures a conniving, deceitful con man of a dad who seems to care more about fast buck scams than earning his son's affection.Buddy dreams of finding Santa, a snow-covered New Orleans and a new relationship with his father. His dad is looking for something real in a life of lies. Finally, father and son realize the greatest thing they have is each other. It's a gift that comes just in time for one unforgettable Christmas.
    

One Christmas

Wildcats

Vice Versa

The Dangerous Book for Boys

Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes


            One year ago Jamie Conway married Amanda White, who was a famous model, until one day Amanda claimed she need to work in Paris and left Jamie without coming back. Jamie began to go into bars and sedate himself with drugs and alcohol. Jamie originally got a job but because that job required that he be fluent in French (and he lied on his resume about being fluent in French), every piece Jamie wrote was full of mistakes and therefore rejected.On Monday Jamie was late for work, Clara asked him to do a french piece and request that it must be 100% mistake-free and she needed that French piece on her desk before the end of business-day. He spent the whole day working on the article and turned it in Tuesday, 12.50am.On Tuesday, Jamie regretted that he called into work and pretended to be sick. When Clara realized he took sick leave, Jamie wish to revise Monday article, but Megan said Clara already asked for a photocopy and a copy was sent by Clara's home for her to check.On Wednesday, Clara was angry and Jamie was fired.Alright, speak up to here. You should find the rest of the day yourself. Thank you.
    

Bright Lights, Big City


            On his way to save his love from marrying the wrong man, BB (Bubble Boy) encounters adventures very rare for a young man in a bubble whose system could not tolerate even one germ:. A bus load of cult members who boot him out of their bus when he accuses them of being a cult.. A motorcyclist ex boy friend of his mother (who is in hot pursuit) who gives him a ride.. Joins a band of freaks on a train who he saves from a vicious dwarf.. An East Indian ice cream vendor who gives him a ride until an unfortunate encounter with a cow.. Mud wrestles scantily clad beauties in order to win $ 500.00 to pay Pappy, an older person, to take him to Niagra Falls in his jalopy.BB gets a lift in an air plane (piloted by Pappy's brother, Pippy) and bails out over Niagra Falls, goes over the falls, and races to the church just in time to stop the marriage ceremony and marry his one true love after finding out his mother deceived him about his condition.
    

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