Geena Davis
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"At three years old, Geena Davis announced she was going to be in movies. Now, with a slew of iconic roles and awards under her belt, she has surpassed her childhood dream—but the path to finding yourself never did run smoothly. In this simultaneously hilarious and candid memoir, Davis regales us with tales of a career playing everything from an amnesiac assassin to the parent of a rodent, her eccentric childhood, her relationships, and helping...
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Oscar nominee* Geena Davis stars as Gloria Conway, the sharp-tongued mom in this darkly comic story of a family strangely cursed with a streak of bad luck. But as life takes unexpected detours, Gloria manages to tear apart her pain to find the humor in even the toughest things that happen to her. When her teenage son Billy uncharacteristically lets off some steam in a series of scandalous pranks, the tragic results are something no one could have...
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Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
5) Quick Change
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Bill Murray, Academy Award winner Geena Davis and Randy Quaid star as a trio of first-time bank robbers who commit an audaciously perfect crime ... but then find the heist much easier than getting out of New York City with the loot in this hilarious crime caper.
6) Ava
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"Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong, she is forced to fight for her own survival." --container
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Melds the best of alien-invasion films and musicals to offer great fun. Three aliens (Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans and Jeff Goldblum) crash-land in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. A manicurist (Geena Davis) and her boss (the wacky Julie Brown) befriend the threesome, give them makeovers and show them the town.
10) The Fly
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An eccentric scientist working on matter teleportation accidentally combines his DNA with a fly's when he tests his teleportation machine on himself.
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When misfit Irene gets suspended, she is assigned two weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following her passion for cheerleading, she enlists the seniors to audition for a talent-search reality show. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Winner of the Comedy Vanguard award at the **Austin Film Festival**. Winner of Best Feature Film and Best Writing in a Feature at the **Canadian Comedy Awards**. *"There's...
13) Be Natural
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An energetic documentary about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché that is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation. Nominated for two awards at the **Cannes Film Festival.** "*By the end of "Be Natural," you won't only have a clear idea of who this remarkable woman was; you may well have acquired a new taste in old movies. Critic's Pick.*"...
14) Marjorie Prime
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in the near future where artificial intelligence has brought about holographic reconstructions of loved ones, 86-year old Marjorie gains a holographic companion in the form of her late husband, but will she take advantage of this opportunity to recreate their life as she wished to have lived it?
15) Quick change
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A frazzled urbanite and his two friends rob a bank and get millions of dollars, but their perfect escape is being ruined because they can't seem to get out of town.
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"Eli Roth hosts some of the incredible talent behind the horror films that have seared themselves into popular culture. Season 3 covers themes including sequels, infections, psychics, apocalyptic horror, holiday horror and mad scientists and features interviews with Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Geena Davis, Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie and many more.
17) Beetlejuice
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After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare the Deetz's away are unsuccessful. They decide to call to Beetlejuice, a people-exorcizing ghost, for help.
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Told first-hand by some of Hollywood's leading voices behind and in front of the camera, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING uncovers what is beneath one of the most confounding dilemmas in the entertainment industry - the under-representation and misrepresentation of women. It takes an incisive look at the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture. Most importantly,...
20) Thelma & Louise
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Thelma and Louise are accidental outlaws on a desperate flight across the Southwest after a tragic incident at a roadside bar. With a determined detective on their trail, a sweet-talking hitchhiker in their path, and a string of crimes in their wake, their journey alternates between hilarious, high-speed thrill ride and empowering personal odyssey even as the law closes in.