Strike: The Greatest Bowling Story Ever Told (2014)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 13分
演出 : Joey Daoud
シノプシス
Bill Fong is passionate about bowling. When he's not working at the bowling shop he's studying YouTube videos, playing 20 games a week as a member of four active leagues, and memorizing the characteristics of each of the 48 lanes at his regular bowling alley. Yet despite all of Bill's determination, he has yet to achieve his dream of going pro. One seeming ordinary night all may change for this underdog as Fong begins to get strike after strike, nearing the ever elusive 'perfect series,' a feat only achieved 21 times since 1895. The achievement would be historical, the first for Texas and the first by an Asian-American. A perfect series could be just the thing to launch Bill into the pros but will he be able to make it or buckle under the pressure?
5年の刑期を経て出所してきたビリー。仕事で家を離れ、両親に結婚したと偽っていた彼は、実家に戻るため通りすがりの女・レイラを拉致する……。＜ヴィンセント・ギャロを一躍スターダムに押し上げたラブ・ストーリー。愛を知らないアナーキーな男と、彼に惹かれる女の寡黙な愛を描く。グレーを基調にしたビジュアルや独特のスロー描写など、他に類を見ないアーティスティックな作風が見もの。共演にクリスティーナ・リッチ。＞
無職で気ままに暮らす“デュード”こと、ジャフ・リボウスキ。彼の家に突然、２人のチンピラがやって来る。女房の借金を返せと怒鳴るチンピラに、全く身に覚えがなく呆然とするリボウスキ。その後彼は、同姓同名の大金持ちと間違えられたと気づく。
架空の未来都市チャンピオン・シティ。ここに暮らす3人のダメ人間、ミスター・フューリアス、ブルー王子、シャベラーは、スーパーヒーロー・キャプテン・アメージングに憧れ、彼のようになることを夢みて活動していた。しかし、そのキャプテン・アメージングの実体は、商業主義にどっぷり漬かった最低の俗物だった。そんなある日、キャプテン・アメージングが世紀の大悪党カサノバに拉致されてしまう。それを知った3人はカサノバの魔の手から街を守るべく立ちあがる。
A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget.
Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!
When three college guys get caught spying on a sorority ritual, they're forced to accompany the pledges on their next assignment: stealing a trophy from a bowling alley. But the token they pinch has a devilish imp who makes their lives a living hell.
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
When Jeff discovers that the bowling alley he manages is being sold, he must do everything he can to save the place he's come to call home.
The story takes place in Carhaix, in the heart of Brittany. A small hospital, with a calm maternity clinic, where few births take place. Mathilde, a mid-wife, Firmine, a pediatric nurse, and Louise, the owner of the Carhaix bowling alley, are all friends and lead a happy existence. Catherine, director of the establishment's Human Resources, is sent to restructure the hospital and, most importantly, to eventually shut down the maternity clinic, which is losing money. Four women whose age, personalities, and origins are different, but who will form a quartet overflowing with humanity and humor as they join forces to save the clinic. Life, love, friendship, Brittany and... bowling.
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
Tom and Jerry are in a bowling alley. Both spend a lot of time sliding on the well-polished lanes. Eventually, Jerry takes up residence among the pins and Tom tries to bowl him down.
As her 30th birthday looms, an over-achieving woman with a thing for bowlers decides to marry the man of her dreams in just under a month.
It takes BALLS to win. At least that's what the local bowling clubs in idyllic Warroad, Minnesota used to say, before Emily came along. Now that she has returned to resurrect her name on the champion's board, Gunnar and the boys in town are polishing up their equipment for another shot at the title. This screwball ensemble mockumentary captures Emily's return from retirement, to avenge her loss to Gunnar, and bring justice to her family name. It's gutter-ball madness where split happens.
Polish your balls and head to the lanes. Rabbit has escaped the Evil Bong’s World of Weed, and has opened a topless bowling alley. It’s the Grand Opening and the balls are rolling, the boobs are bouncing and the weed is plentiful. When his old friends, Larnell and Sarah Leigh stop by to help him celebrate his wacky new business venture, things are finally looking up for Rabbit, right? Wrong! Evil Bong is hot on Rabbit’s trail. With the help of the murderous Gingerdead Man, they crash the most balls out party of the century. But Gingerdead Man has plans of his own when he learns that the secret to becoming a real man is getting his cookies off.
An aspiring actor whose career is in the dumps, exploits his amazing bowling skills to take the PBA by storm and becomes rich and famous, only to lose his best girl and best friend...
Max and Marguerite are just a regular suburban couple with perfectly standard and adequate lives. Suddenly, this is all thrown into jeopardy due to the unfortunate unravelling of a complex web of misunderstandings, coincidences and deceit.
This short features professional bowler Andy Varipapa. He first shows the correct way to grip a bowling ball and the proper form for delivering the ball down the alley. He then performs several trick shots.
夫と死別してひとりで慎ましく暮らす、角谷ミチ（倍賞千恵子）は78歳。ある日、高齢を理由にホテルの客室清掃の仕事を突然解雇される。住む場所をも失いそうになった彼女は＜プラン75＞の申請を検討し始める。一方、市役所の＜プラン７５＞の申請窓口で働くヒロム、死を選んだお年寄りに“その日”が来る直前までサポートするコールセンタースタッフの瑶子（河合優実）は、このシステムの存在に強い疑問を抱いていく。また、フィリピンから単身来日した介護職のマリア（ステファニー・アリアン）は幼い娘の手術費用を稼ぐため、より高給の＜プラン75＞関連施設に転職。利用者の遺品処理など、複雑な思いを抱えて作業に勤しむ日々を送る。 果たして、＜プラン75＞に翻弄される人々が最後に見出した答えとは―――。
A community of bowlers outside of Cleveland cope with fundamental change when new owners take over at a landmark alley and a longtime league member comes out as a trans woman.
The dream began 20 years ago, when a young pinsetter watched a star bowler win a championship. Now, Harold (Dreamer) Nuttingham has a chance to attain his dream — to win the Tournament of Champions and buy his own lanes. But what price will he pay? The woman he loves sees only that his dream re-locates her to second place in his life; Harry White, his friend and mentor pushes him to become the champion Harry wanted to be — and never was. Torn between ambition and love, Dreamer fights to have both.
