"If you will it, dude, it is no dream." - The Big Lebowski
Plot Summary:
When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him
into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his
wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy,
Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems
that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
Plot Summary:
A lonely, isolated thirty-something young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the
help of a devious soap salesman. They find their release from the prison of reality through underground
fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon
lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
Plot Summary:
David Aames takes all he has for granted; his wealth, his inherited publishing company, his good looks -
his relationships. Especially his relationships. It catches up to him when a friend/sometimes sex-partner
can't see their relationship the way he sees it. From that point, the movie takes a Lynchian twist that
ultimately and literally pulls us into Aames' tortured psyche.
Plot Summary:
McMurphy thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad. His plan backfires
when he is sent to a mental asylum. He tries to liven the place up a bit by playing card games and basketball
with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after him at every turn.
Plot Summary:
Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage
to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist,
who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally.
Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume.
Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room,
Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events.
Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.
Plot Summary:
Daniel Plainview is an oil man and spends his days harvesting the money from discovered oil. When Paul Sunday
asks Plainview to dig for the oil at his family home, he finds it too hard to resist. Soon, he is up in Little
Boston, California. Not everyone is pleased to see him as tension builds between Daniel and preacher, Eli
Sunday as well as the greed.