Short film for David Letterman’s Holiday Film Festival in 1985 produced by Andrea Martin and Catherine O’Hara.
Category: Comedy
Comedy
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The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
Based on ‘Il fu Mattia Pascal’, one of Pirandello’s many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles “truth” and “identity”. Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The “new” Pascal is treated with a dignity and respect that overwhelms him–and nearly kills him.
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Mr. Vampire
The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
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Working Class
Yam, Sunny and Ah Hing are buddies and all dismissed creating havoc in their jobs. The trio is employed by a noodle factory, which has a very poor labor relationship. The manager, supervisor and foreman are always picking on their subordinates. Finally the workers decide to take an united front to oppose their superiors.
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Blott on the Landscape
Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe’s comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife’s ancestral home.
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Hum Dono
When Raja discovers his face is identical to a wealthy and successful doctor he manages to take his place, but soon he discovers that success is no guard against problems.
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El día de los albañiles 2
Sequel to Day of the Laborer. Roberto and his wife Beatriz work on a construction site, him as a laborer and her selling food. Another laborer El Chalan, seduces neighborhood maids in order to rob the homes where they work. In the neighborhood there is also a serial killer on the loose who preys on prostitutes.
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My Science Project
His high school teacher issues an ultimatum: turn in a science project or flunk. So Mike Harlan scavenges a military base’s junk pile for a suitable gizmo. He finds one… and unwittingly unleashes the awesome power and energy of the unknown. Twisted dimensions. Time warps. A fantastic realm where the past, present, and future collide in a whirling vortex of startling adventure and superlative special effects.
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The Last Dragon
A young man searches for the “master” to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
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Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
Lupin squares off with two criminal families and Inspector Zenigata’s new female patrol to track down a hoard of biblical-era treasure.