Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) has been called the “godfather” of the human potential movement. In this film, Castaneda’s closest apprentices—in addition to contemporary practitioners of spiritually-oriented psychology—discuss his quest to become real.
Bud Wiggins
Um escritor que vive em Los Angeles passa por diversos acontecimentos estranhos em sua vida. Obcecado pelo sucesso, ele tenta dar algum sentido aos fatos que têm ocorrido.
Screenplay
A chegada de uma garota que encobre seu corpo para esconder suas queimaduras agita a vida da excêntrica família Weiss: o pai Stafford é analista e treinador, fez fortuna com seus manuais de autoajuda; A mãe Cristina se dedica a cuida da carreira de seu filho Benjie, de 13 anos, uma estrela infantil.
Self
Riffing on the topics covered in his brilliant "best selling, award winning" 1996 book My Dark Places, Ellroy takes us on a tour of his hometown both past and present in this short, entertaining film.
Writer
Three women in Hollywood talk to the camera one summer (with a coda six months later). Sara is a casting director; her soliloquies are addressed to Samson (her blind infant son) and to Holly Hunter. She talks about her husband's refusal to touch their son and her discovery of his affair. Gina is a masseuse - blithe, solipsistic, scheming to steal the energy of Hollywood players. She frequently refers to her dead sister Wanda, kidnaped by their father. Phyllis, sexually abused by her father when a teen, addresses her son Eric. She's a producer, working on remaking Pasolini's "Teorema." As the project falls apart, so does she. All three hum or sing, "You made me love you."
Novel
Three women in Hollywood talk to the camera one summer (with a coda six months later). Sara is a casting director; her soliloquies are addressed to Samson (her blind infant son) and to Holly Hunter. She talks about her husband's refusal to touch their son and her discovery of his affair. Gina is a masseuse - blithe, solipsistic, scheming to steal the energy of Hollywood players. She frequently refers to her dead sister Wanda, kidnaped by their father. Phyllis, sexually abused by her father when a teen, addresses her son Eric. She's a producer, working on remaking Pasolini's "Teorema." As the project falls apart, so does she. All three hum or sing, "You made me love you."
Director
Three women in Hollywood talk to the camera one summer (with a coda six months later). Sara is a casting director; her soliloquies are addressed to Samson (her blind infant son) and to Holly Hunter. She talks about her husband's refusal to touch their son and her discovery of his affair. Gina is a masseuse - blithe, solipsistic, scheming to steal the energy of Hollywood players. She frequently refers to her dead sister Wanda, kidnaped by their father. Phyllis, sexually abused by her father when a teen, addresses her son Eric. She's a producer, working on remaking Pasolini's "Teorema." As the project falls apart, so does she. All three hum or sing, "You made me love you."
Novel
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Writer
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Director
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Executive Producer
In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided into contrasting halves of eternal day vs. eternal night. One is a Victorian-styled colony, the other a medieval kingdom. Both leave Rampart in a state of constant wonder, as he finds his way among humans and aliens, strange dreams and even stranger reality, a dark keep and a red sea, and more universal matters of war and peace, good and bad, love and hate and sickness and health.
Writer
In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided into contrasting halves of eternal day vs. eternal night. One is a Victorian-styled colony, the other a medieval kingdom. Both leave Rampart in a state of constant wonder, as he finds his way among humans and aliens, strange dreams and even stranger reality, a dark keep and a red sea, and more universal matters of war and peace, good and bad, love and hate and sickness and health.
Executioner
Numa pequena cidade do interior americano o jovem universitário Jonathan Parer (Peter Berg) vê em um pesadelo sua família ser chacinada por Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi), um técnico de TV. O crime acaba realmente acontecendo e Jonathan convence seu pai adotivo, o policial Don Parker (Michael Murphy), a prender Pinker. Após cometer outros crimes Pinker é preso e condenado à cadeira elétrica. Ao ser executado, entretanto, o assassino consegue fazer com que seu espírito sobreviva como energia, sendo capaz de tomar corpos humanos e deslocar-se por meio das ondas de TV.
Associate Producer
The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.
Story
The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.
Screenplay
The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.
Dinner Guest
The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.
Pianist
Misterioso personagem adquire vida à medida em que uma jovem lê um livro contendo sua história. O personagem passa a assassinar diversas pessoas e roubar partes de suas faces para recompor a sua própria. Mesmo depois de perceber as ligações entre o texto e os crimes e interromper a leitura, a garota é ameaçada pelo personagem, que ganha liberdade e continua a matar.
Schuyler
"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most incompetent students possible are accepted, so that the academy will fail, and all sorts of wacky hijinks ensue.
Story
Os últimos dos garotos da Rua Elm agora estão num hospital psiquiátrico, onde Freddy assombra seus sonhos com horrores indescritíveis. Sua única esperança é a pesquisadora do sono e igualmente sobrevivente de Freddy, Nancy Thompson. É ela quem vai os ajudar a lutar contra o psicopata sobrenatural em seu próprio território infernal.
Screenplay
Os últimos dos garotos da Rua Elm agora estão num hospital psiquiátrico, onde Freddy assombra seus sonhos com horrores indescritíveis. Sua única esperança é a pesquisadora do sono e igualmente sobrevivente de Freddy, Nancy Thompson. É ela quem vai os ajudar a lutar contra o psicopata sobrenatural em seu próprio território infernal.
Uncle Frank
Hoops McCann (John Cusack) é o filho de um craque do basquete, mas após se formar no colegial só sonha ser um bom cartunista e em escrever e ilustrar uma história de amor. Além disto deseja entrar na escola de arte. Para ajudá-lo a encontrar seu objetivo George Calamari (Joel Murray), um amigo, o convida para passar o verão em na ilha de Nantucket. Na viagem eles se metem em confusões quando salvam Cassandra Eldrich (Demi Moore) de um bando de motoqueiros. Na ilha Hoops e George, juntamente com os amigos de George, tentam ajudar Cassandra, pois ela precisa pagar três mil dólares da hipoteca da casa do seu avô em uma semana, sendo que se não conseguir a casa irá para os Beckersted, uma gananciosa família que pretende despejar pessoas para construir no lugar um restaurante de luxo.
Al Kennedy
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.
Screenplay
A soap opera parody along the lines of Young Doctors in Love (1982).
Writer
"Mother Tongue" is the story of a high-profile relationship between an Academy Award-winning actress (Josie Ho) and her much-younger partner, who has yet to find his true career path. The actress had a baby when she was very young, a daughter whom she was forced to give away because she wasn't financially independent and wanted her little girl to have a better life. But now that she's older, she realizes that it's time to find her long-lost daughter, now in her twenties, and hires a detective to find her. The mystery of what happened to her provides the film's drama and tension; also, the actress' partner doesn't know about her search--and the urgency and distraction of the search begins to erode their relationship, until he suspects that she's having an affair. By the end, the actress reunites with her daughter and salvages her marriage.