Johns (1996)
This ain't no 90210
ジャンル : ドラマ, ロマンス
上映時間 : 1時間 36分
演出 : Scott Silver
シノプシス
It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza Hotel. Meanwhile, Donner, a lad new to the streets, wants John to leave the city with him. John spends the day trying to figure out how to deal with Donner's friendship.
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.
ジョーは、大統領の命を救った事もある元シークレット・サービスだったが、今はしがない探偵に落ちぶれていた。ダンサーのコリーの身辺警護を仕事仲間が持ち込んできたが、女房と密通していたそいつは、ジョーの家の前で車ごと爆死する。一方、コリーの情夫、元フットボーラーのジミーは、妻子を事故で失った傷も癒えぬまま、麻薬と賭博でリーグを追われ、人生に何の目標も持てない日々を送っていた。警護に就いたジョーを何者かが襲う。辛くも相手を倒し、駆けつけるが一歩遅く、ジョーとジミーの目前でコリーは何者かに殺されてしまう。
シカゴ郊外の高級住宅街で暮らす高校生ジョエルは、裕福な家庭のひとりっ子。卒業を控えて浮かれる彼は、両親が休暇で不在中、悪友にそそのかされて美人売春婦のラナを家に呼ぶ。そこで有頂天になったジョエルだが、はめを外しすぎて父のポルシェを壊してしまった。高額な修理費が払えない彼は、両親がいない自宅にラナの仲間の売春婦たちを集めてパーティーを開き、参加者から会費を集めてひともうけと皮算用するのだが…。
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After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
Four black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail. As the women add to the loot, their tastes and interests begin to change and their suspicions of each other increase on the way to a climactic robbery.
In a sleepy bedroom community of LA's San Fernando Valley, the murder of a professional athlete by two hit men sets into motion a chain of events that puts the mundane lives of a dozen residents on a collision course. This clever tale tells the story of two hit men, a mistress, a nurse, a vindictive ex-wife, a wealthy art dealer and his lovelorn assistant, a suicidal writer and his dog, and a bitter cop and his partner.
Grocery store clerk Simon occasionally sells drugs from his cash register at work, so when soap opera actors Adam and Zack come looking for Ecstasy on a quiet Christmas Eve, they are surprised to find Ronna covering his shift. Desperate for money, Ronna decides to become an impromptu drug dealer, unaware that Adam and Zack are secretly working for obsessed narcotics officer Burke.
1981年に製作され今なお根強い人気を誇るジョン・カーペンターの近未来SFアクション「ニューヨーク1997」の15年ぶりの続編。大地震によって島と化した2013年のロサンゼルス。狂信的な大統領以下、公安の罠にはまり、過激派グループによって盗まれたエネルギー兵器の奪還任務につくスネーク。だが単身乗り込んだLA島は狂気と暴力の渦巻く魔窟であった……。
70年代の米人気テレビシリーズ「特別狙撃隊S.W.A.T.」を下敷きに、警察の特殊部隊S.W.A.T.の活躍を描いたポリス・アクション。数ヶ月前、ロス市警のS.W.A.T.隊員ストリートと相棒ギャンブルは、作戦実行中のギャンブルの判断ミスによってS.W.A.T.を追放される。処分に納得できないギャンブルが警察を去る一方で、再帰を願い甘んじて左遷を受けるストリート。そして今、彼はホンド巡査部長率いる新チームのメンバーに選ばれ、過酷な訓練を乗り切り、晴れてS.W.A.T.に復帰した。やがてその新チームに麻薬王アレックス護送の命令が下るが…。
A player in a famous orchestra finds sexual experiences with a Russian opera singer, which he enjoys much because his wife has just left due to the fact that he has purchased a porno movie. The orchestra player gets known to his neighbour, a gay man having also relationship troubles, and together they are trying hard to find a way how to go on with their lifes.
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.
Two brothers who hate themselves are going to spend Christmas with their mother. She tries to get them together.
アメリカで、同性愛者であることをカミングアウトして公職に就いた初めての人物、ハーヴィー・ミルク。波乱万丈の短い人生を送った彼の、最後の8年間に何があったのかを、ガス・ヴァン・サント監督が描き出す。
A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.
アメリカを代表する作家ポール・オースターが書き下ろした原作を基に、男たちの中に隠された哀しいロマンティシズムを描いた都会の物語。14年間毎朝同じ時刻に店の前で写真を撮り続けている煙草屋の店長オーギー、彼の馴染みの客で突然の事故により出産まもない妻を失って以来ペンを持てずにいる作家のポール、彼が車に跳ねられそうになった所を助けた黒人少年ラシードの3人を軸に、ブルックリンのとある煙草屋に集まる男達女達の日常を、過去と現在を、嘘と本当を巧みに交差させながら進んでゆく。
Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.
Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that—like George—will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.
Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid is determined to maintain her innocence. On the other side of town Splendids' cousin has her own problems. Her man has been sleeping with Thais, the town hooker. She heads to the Tiger Cafe with gun in hand to get back her man.