Druid Heights (2015)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 20M
Director : Marcy Mendelson
Sinopse
Druid Heights is a short documentary film by Marcy Mendelson about a wild & wooly place. California’s hidden bohemia. Where sex, drugs and philosophy thrived among the eucalyptus just a few miles north of the Golden Gate.
Richard, um jovem turista americano, está prestes a arriscar sua vida em busca de uma coisa: aquela sensação de êxtase que só pode ser encontrada numa super aventura. Mas em uma praia secreta, ilusóriamente perfeita, ele logo irá descobrir que conforme o nível de intensidade sobe e os riscos aumentam, os desejos ficam mais fortes... e o perigo aumenta.
George (Paul Rudd) e Linda (Jennifer Aniston) é um casal estressado de Manhattan. Quando George perde o emprego, sua única opção é mudar para a casa do terrível irmão de George em Atlanta. A caminho de Atlanta, eles deparam com Elysium, uma idílica comunidade que tem um estilo de vida bem diferente. Será que esse é o recomeço que eles precisam, ou Elysium vai causar mais problemas que soluções?
Bruce Banner é um cientista e trabalha ao lado de sua grande paixão, a bela Betty Ross, em um projeto que envolve a reconstituição de tecidos com a utilização da radiação gama. O problema todo começa quando, após ter seus genes alterados por um acidente envolvendo a radiação gama, Bruce Banner passa a se transformar em um ser gigantesco e verde que expressa no corpo todos os seus demônios mais íntimos e pessoais.
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Herbie, um Fusca com personalidade própria, é desprezado por um mau caráter que é dono de uma agência de automóveis de luxo e piloto de corridas, mas o Fusca é acolhido por um piloto boa praça e, em gratidão, o pequeno carro lhe dá diversas vitórias, acabando com a maré de azar do piloto, que inicialmente não entende que foi o fusquinha quem ganhou as corridas. Porém, ele aos poucos entende que o carrinho é o principal responsável pelas vitórias e decide correr sempre com ele. Mas ambos terão que lutar contra um rico rival, que usa toda a espécie de golpes sujos para derrotá-los.
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