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IAP 2000 Movie Descriptions
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Most descriptions obtained from IMDB.
Lolita
(R) 137m
Fri 1/7, 7 & 10pm in 26-100
Sun 1/9, 7pm in 26-100
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Humbert Humbert, a British professor, coming to the
US to teach, rents a
room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her
12 year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita),
for whom he is immediately attracted. Though he
hates the mother, he marries her as the
only way to be close to the girl, who will prove
to be too mature for her age. They start a
journey together, trying to hide they're not just
(step)father and daughter, throughout the
country, being followed by someone, which Humbert
first thinks to be from the police.
The profound jealousy and maybe some guilt, from
the forbidden love, seem to slowly
drive the man emotionally unstable.
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The Spanish Prisoner
(PG) 110 m
Sat 1/8, 7 & 10pm in 26-100
Sun 1/9, 10pm in 26-100
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Joe Ross is a rising star. He's designed a process that will make his
company millions. He wants a bonus for this work, but fears his boss
will stiff him. He meets a wealthy stranger,
Jimmy Dell, and they strike up an off-kilter
friendship. When the boss seems to set Ross
up to get nothing, he seeks Dell's help. Then he
learns Dell is not what he seems, so he
contacts an FBI agent through his tightly-wound
assistant, Susan Ricci. The FBI asks him
to help entrap Dell. He accepts, a sting is
arranged, but suddenly it's he who's been
conned out of the process and framed for
murder. Bewildered and desperate, he enlists
Susan's aid to prove his innocence.
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Perfect Blue
(R) 75 m
Mon 1/10, 6 in 10-250
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Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an
actress. Mima climbs up the rocky road to success by performing
as rape victims and posing nude for
magazines, but is haunted by her reflections of
the past.
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Girl Interrupted
(R) 127 m -- FREE Sneak Preview
Thu 1/13, 8pm in 26-100
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Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month
stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.
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Gods and Monsters
(R) 105 m
Fri 1/14, 7 & 10pm in 26-100
Sun 1/16, 7pm in 26-100
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Set in 1957, Whale, the director of Show Boat, The Invisible Man,
Frankenstein and Bride Of, had long since stepped back from the
glamour and glitz of Hollywood. A stroke
triggers once buried flashes of memory of his life
in Dudley, his film career, and, most
influentially, the trenches during the Great
War. Haunted and lonely, he recounts many of
his experiences to his muscle bound gardener, Clay
Boone. Despite the divide that exists
between them, their friendship develops. Reliant
on his sternly disapproving housemaid,
Hannah, the flamboyant director whose time has
passed sees himself slipping away,
unable to stop the decline, and indulges his
fantasies by coaxing Boone to model for him.
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October Sky
(PG) 108 m
Sat 1/15, 7 & 10pm in 26-100
Sun 1/16, 10pm in 26-100
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In 1950's mining town called Coalwood, Homer Hickam is a kid with only one
future in
sight, to work in the local coalmine like his
father. However in October 1957, everything
changes when the first artificial satellite,
Sputnik goes into orbit. With that event, Homer
becomes inspired to learn how to build
rockets. With his friends and the local nerd,
Homer sets to do just that by trial and a lot of
error. Unfortunately, most of the town and
especially Homer's father thinks that they are
wasting their time. Only one teacher in the
high school understands their efforts and lets
them know that they could become
contenders in the national science fair with
college scholarships being the prize. Now the
gang must learn to perfect their craft and
overcome the many problems facing them as
they shoot for the stars.
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Macross II
(PG-13) 150m
Mon 1/17, 7 in 10-250
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A new splinter race of the Zentraedi show up: the Marduk. While the
Zentraedi were
defeated by Lynn Minmay's music, the Marduk have
their own singers (emulators), spur
their soldiers into battle. A reporter name Hibiki
Kanzaki captures a Marduk emulator,
Ishtar, while reporting on a battle, and proceeds
to teach her of the happy-happy fun-fun
nature of peace & love, which she shares with the
rest of her people.
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LSC's Annual SciFi Marathon
() 12 hours
Sat 1/22, 6pm - 6am in 26-100
Sun 1/23, 7pm in 26-100
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This is our traditional annual
SciFi marathon!
The roster looks like this:
- Stargate
- Metropolis (with live organ music)
- 12 Monkeys
- Sleeper (Woddy Allen)
- Time Bandits
- Bill & Ted
The marathon runs from 6:00pm Saturday evening all the way to 6:00am Sunday
morning. The refreshments stand will have food throughout the marathon,
including dinner pizza and breakfast (at our always low prices!).
The attendance cost, for all the movies, is just
$5.00, or $2.50 if you show up after 12 Monkeys.
Sunday night we will replay the two feature presentation of the SciFi
marathon. The cost will also be $5.00 for both feature movies (Stargate
and 12 Monkeys).
Check the 22nd SciFi Marathan page for full details!
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Wings of Honneamise
(NR) 124m
Mon 1/24, 7 in 10-250
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On a far-off planet, a Kingdom tries to launch the planet's first manned
spacecraft. This
ten year old project not only faces funding and
technical problem, but also is subject to
political conspiracy and the neighboring
Republic's aggression. It's all up to Shilo, the
first
spaceman to be, his friends and their faith to
make the space program a success.
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Analyze This
(R) 103 m
Sat 1/28, 7 & 10pm in 26-100
Sun 1/30, 10pm in 26-100
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Robert De Niro has a ball satirizing all the gangster roles he has ever
played, particularly
"The Godfather". The basic premise is what if one
of gangland's Dons suddenly started
having anxiety attacks because of past
problems. When he decides to see a shrink (Billy
Crystal), what can he tell him without giving away
the gang's secrets and reveal too much
about his own situations? Add to the fact that
this type of individual is used to everyone
catering to his whims and he expects the
psychiatrist to do the same, neglecting his
regular
practice and his attempts to get married (to Lisa
Kudrow).
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The Rock
(R) 135 m
Sat 1/29, 7 & 10pm in 26-100
Sun 1/30, 7pm in 26-100
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A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons
and
takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as
hostages. Their leader, a former highly-decorated
U. S. general, demands $100 million to be paid in
ransom, as restitution to families of
soldiers who died in covert operations and were
thereby denied compensation.
Otherwise, he is threatening to launch 15 rockets
carrying deadly VX nerve gas into the
San Francisco Bay area. An elite SEAL team, with
support from an FBI chemical warfare
expert (Stanley Goodspeed) and a former Alcatraz
escapee (John Mason), is assembled
to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on Alcatraz
and neutralize the rocket threat before
time runs out.
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Fight Club
(R) 139 m
Mon 1/31, 7 & 10:30pm in 26-100
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Based on the debut novel by recent University of Oregon graduate Chuck
Palanhiuk about a confused young man in the not
too distant future. With no
family or close friends, he frequents cancer and
disease support groups as a
way to bond with others, pretending to be
terminally ill or feigning various
other infirmities to fit in. Sick of his dead end,
white bread, white collar
corporate career and disgusted with the empty
consumer culture that his
generation has been doomed to inherit, he and a
very devious friend named
Tyler Durden create a new club where young men
come to relieve their
frustrations by beating each other to a pulp. The
popularity of this club grows
exponentially, and eventually some very profound
rules are created to govern
it. Because one of those rules is no more than 50
people to a fight club, soon
new fight clubs are popping up everywhere and
spread across the nation.
Tyler Durden, the fight club's founder, quickly
becomes a cult hero of epic
proportions, a new messiah for a dead
generation. While all this is
happening, the nameless, narrating main character
manages to get involved in
a love triangle with Tyler and a girl named Marla
who seems to have an
endless supply of ex-boyfriends just as screwed up
as he is.
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