American Graffiti


            
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The Burning Bed

The Night They Saved Christmas


            This is an interesting look at the Life and Times of car customizer/cartoonist Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Through the use of many graphically enhanced photographs and "talking" cars, it is a loving look at the car culture in Southern California from the Early 50's to Ed's Passing in 2001.
    

Tales of the Rat Fink

Citizens Band


            In the distant future, humans have died out, and animals have mutated into creatures with human characteristics. In this future world, an aging rock star named Mok has been toying with dark powers, and has found a possible way to unlock a doorway to Hell. To do so, he has to find a special voice.In Ohm-Town, Mok finds that voice in a girl named Angel. Mok requests that she meet him at his palatial estate, though Angel brings along her bandmates, included her hot-headed boyfriend Omar, and their bandmates Dizzy and Stretch. Omar has his assistants 'The Schlepper Brothers' (Toad, Sleazy and Zip) occupy the Angel's bandmates while he attempts to get her to assist him. Angel refuses to leave her bandmates, and Mok ends up drugging her, before placing her, himself, and the Schlepper Brothers in his personal dirigible, that takes off for Nuke York.Omar assumes that Angel has abandoned the band, but the others convince him to go after her. Taking Police Car, the three journey to Nuke York, where they visit Dizzy's Aunt Edith. Asking for information about Mok and the Schlepper Brothers, Edith recommends they seek out the Brother's sister, Cindy.It just so happens that Cindy is also in the same building where Angel is being held, and upon finding Angel, simply assumes she's one of 'Mok's girls.' Cindy is planning to sneak out to a local club, and Angel convinces her to take her along. While crawling through the building's duct system, Angel overhears Mok talking with his computer. The computer explains that the voice to open the portal must sing a certain progression of notes. However, there is a way that the portal can be closed. When Mok demands to know how or who can do this, the computer simply responds through the power of 'one heart, one voice, one song.'Angel and Cindy eventually make it to the club, where Omar and the others have also come. However, before they can find Cindy, the Schlepper Brothers find their truant sister and take her away. Omar sees Angel leaving out a side door, and then finds her in the arms of Mok. However, it is revealed to the audience that this was a decoy wearing a mask that resembled Angel's face.Mok returns the real Angel to his place, and shows her that he has captured her bandmates, and is willing to torture them unless she sings for him at his next performance, where he plans to open the portal. Angel agrees, and Mok sends the others back to Ohm-town on a bus, though the shock treatment he has administered has left them in a lucid state.Angel performs in Nuke York, but the portal fails to materialize, with the aftermath resulting in the destruction of the concert hall. Mok checks the computer for what went wrong, and it explains that there was not enough power to allow the portal to materialize. The computer then explains that a suitable power source can be found back in Ohm-Town.Mok returns to Ohm Town to complete his task. When Angel refuses to sing, she is drugged, and chained on stage at the Ohm Town Power Plant. Mok sucks up all the power from the town that he can, and a hole in the floor soon opens up, revealing a pulsating hellbeast that begins to decimate the audience, as well as ends up killing one of the Schlepper Brothers named Zip.Suddenly, a scream rings out, and Omar appears, freeing Angel from her chains. Angel has regained her consciousness, and then attempts to 'sing the creature back.' Singing a song titled 'Send Love Through,' Omar joins her in a duet, fulfilling the conditions of "one heart, one voice, one song" to banish the demon, causing the creature to shrink back into the hole from whence it came.Moke desperately tries to stop them, but is thrown into the hole by another of the Schlepper Brothers, upset by the death of Zip. Mok attempts to climb out of the pit, but ends up falling into the abyss as the pit disappears, and the sun rises on a new day outside of the Power Plant.
    

Rock & Rule

Aloha Bobby and Rose

The Hanoi Hilton

Big Bad Love

Firehouse

In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion

P.I. Private Investigations

Strange Invaders


            In this sequal to American Graffiti, set over the four consecutive New Year's Eve's from 1964 to 1967 depicts scenes from each of these years, intertwined concurrently with one another as though events happen simultaneously. The audience is protected from confusion by the conceit of a distinct cinematic style for each section.Northern California, New Years Eve, 1964. John Milner (Paul LeMat) is now a drag racer. He and his fellow competitors are racing each other for the right to race against the car made by a national racing team known as "The Factory". He gets to meet his old school friends Steve Bolander (Ron Howard) and Laurie Henderson (Cindy Williams) whom are now married and Laurie is nine months pregnant and expecting twins. Terry 'The Toad' Fields (Charles Martin Smith) also turns up having joined the U.S. Marines and whom is with his fiancee Debbie Dunham (Candy Clark). John also meets Carol (Mackenzie Phillips) whom has dropped out of high school and is now a hippie drifting around the country in defiance of her parental rules. While John deals with his manager wanting him to win the upcoming championship after he loses his latest match. But John has other complications when Teensa (Mary Kate Place) a former high school girlfriend, leaves behind a non-English speaking foreign exchange student named Eva (Anna Bjorn) whom is from Iceland and John attempts to woo her despite the language barrier.South Vietnam, New Years Eve, 1965. (Note: all of these sequences are shot hand-held on grainy super 16 mm film designed to resemble war reporters' footage.) Terry Fields is serving his tour of duty and sets out trying to wound himself so he can get sent home and be reunited with Debbie, but had a lot of bad luck wanting to do so. After an attempt to shoot himself causes an all-out artillery and airstrike against his location, he deals with his commanding officer, the pompous Major Creech, whom is trying to impress a visiting U.S. Senator both of whom appear indifferent to the troop's living conditions and low morale caused by frequent enemy ambushes and harassing attacks. Terry is partnered with Little Joe Young (Bo Hopkins) the former gang leader of the Pharaohs back home whom deal with a naive and newbie helicopter pilot who seems eager for action, but soon realizes the brutality of the war.San Francisco, California. New Years Eve, 1966. (Note: these sequences echo the movie of Woodstock using split screens and multiple angles of the same event simultaneously on screen.) Free-spirited Debbie "Deb" Dunham has turned from drinking Old Harper whisky to smoking marijuana and has given up her platinum blonde persona for a hippie/groupie persona and is now living in a commune with several other hippies including Carol, who has renamed herself 'Rainbow'. Deb and her boyfriend are pulled over in their car where he gets arrested for marijuana posession by a motorcycle cop whom is former drag racer Bob Falfa (Harrison Ford, in an uncredited cameo). As Deb sets about to get bail for her boyfriend, she embarks on a strange surreal acid-induced journey through the city from the strip club where she formerly worked, to the commune, and to a gun-tooting pimp to get the money. As soon as Deb posts her boyfriend's bail, she, Rainbow, and another hippie, named Moonflower, set out to get access to a strange country-western band whom Deb joins on her mystical journey of self discovery.Modesto, California, New Years Eve, 1967. Steve and Laurie Bolander deal with their crumbling mariage. They have money problems, and Laurie wants to help by getting a job, which the sexist and traditional-minded Steve is absolutely against. He says that a mother's place is in the home and won't talk about it anymore. An angry Laurie storms out and goes to her younger brother Andy's apartment. (Note: Laurie's twin brother Curt is said to be living in Canada as a draft dodger). Andy lures Laurie to an anti-war demonstration at a local college campus. Steve sets out to find Lauire and he too gets caught up in the protest which leads into a full-out riot. (Note: these sequences attempt to memorialize the late 1960s with the scenes that recreate the sense and style with references to Haight-Ashbury, the campus peace movement, the beginnings of the modern woman's liberation movement and the accompanying social revolt.) One character burned his draft card triggering the rioting... showing a younger audience what so many Americans had done on the television news ten years before the movie's release. More scenes afterwords show both Steve and Laurie's reactions to the police brutality on the campus demonstrations with billy clubs during the protest.In 1964, John beats everyone, but wrecks his car in the last race. With only a few minutes to make repairs, all of the other teams help John and his team make the repairs and get to the starting line before having to forfeit. He beats the Factory car, and is told by their owner that he has what it takes to go pro. Also, with the help of a groundskeeper acting as a translator for Eva, he managed to tell her how he feels towards her before she leaves. The segment ends with John driving his trademark yellow Deuce at night along a lonely highway toward another vehicle's headlights, and is never seen going further... hinting that the crash was in that vicinity.In 1965, when Terry and Joe's chopper is shot down behind enemy lines and Joe ends up dead from a sniper's bullet to his chest, Terry and the pilot Lance, are rescued, but Terry becomes alinated with Major Creech who downplays the events to please the visiting Senator. Later that night, the Creech is cutting a cake made for him and his officers that was presented by Terry. Terry runs to the latrine he is assigned to clean when the cake is cut. Instead of the cake blowing up (as the viewer is led to believe would happen), the latrine blows up.Terry fakes his death in a latrine explosion in which he is declared missing in action. In a gag sequence, the feecies from the latrine rain on top of both Major Creech and the Senator who angrily declares, "this is a filthy war!" In the final scene, Lance meets with Terry who gives him the supplies he needs as Terry sets off to hide out in Europe, free from his war duty, but thus never return to the USA (It is never revealed what happened to Terry's fate afterwards if he really did escape from Vietnam).In 1966, Deb goes to a local band to see if they will give her boyfriend a tryout. Newt (Scott Glenn), the leader of the group, is reluctant to do so, but Debbie, Rainbow, and Moonflower tag along to their next gig at a country bar in order to keep convincing Newt. He finally does, but he also begins falling for her. At the gig, Newt puts Debbie in the band as a tambourine player. While performing, she sees her boyfriend at the club dancing erotically with another woman. Debbie jumps off the stage and confronts him. The confrontation eventually leads to a huge bar fight. At the end of the night, Debbie has dumped her boyfriend and is asked to join the band permanently, which he does. She and Newt also begin a relationship.In 1967, Steve and Laurie and all their friends are arrested. When the police begin to abuse Laurie, Steve loses it and begins punching out the cops. He is quickly joined by all of the other arrested protesters and Steve, Laurie, Andy and his girlfriend escape custody. Back home, Steve tells Laurie that he has changed his mind and she can get a job.As with the first American Graffiti movie, the audience is given a last still images of the main cast and what became of them:-John Milner was killed by a drunk driver in December 1964.-Terry Fields was reported missing in action near An Loc in December 1965.-Steve Bolander is an insurance agent in Modesto, California.-Debbie Dunham is a country western singer living in Oklahoma.
    

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