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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
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.
The Spanish Prisoner (PG) 110 m
Sat 1/8, 7 & 10pm in 26-100
Sun 1/9, 10pm in 26-100
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.
Perfect Blue (R) 75 m
Mon 1/10, 6 in 10-250
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.
DTS Girl Interrupted (R) 127 m -- FREE Sneak Preview
Thu 1/13, 8pm in 26-100
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.
Gods and Monsters (R) 105 m
Fri 1/14, 7 & 10pm in 26-100
Sun 1/16, 7pm in 26-100
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.
DTS October Sky (PG) 108 m
Sat 1/15, 7 & 10pm in 26-100
Sun 1/16, 10pm in 26-100
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.
Macross II (PG-13) 150m
Mon 1/17, 7 in 10-250
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.
LSC's Annual SciFi Marathon () 12 hours
Sat 1/22, 6pm - 6am in 26-100
Sun 1/23, 7pm in 26-100
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!


Wings of Honneamise (NR) 124m
Mon 1/24, 7 in 10-250
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.
DTS Analyze This (R) 103 m
Sat 1/28, 7 & 10pm in 26-100
Sun 1/30, 10pm in 26-100
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).
The Rock (R) 135 m
Sat 1/29, 7 & 10pm in 26-100
Sun 1/30, 7pm in 26-100
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.
DTS Fight Club (R) 139 m
Mon 1/31, 7 & 10:30pm in 26-100
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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