Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money with Biasi, which infuriates his greedy wife, Muriel. Not content with the arrangement, Muriel begins scheming to take all the money.
Tag: diner
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Pleasantville
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called “Pleasantville,” and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer’s modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville’s peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
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Clay Pigeons
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man’s wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with the affair. Clay unknowingly befriends a serial killer named Lester Long who murders the widow in an attempt to “help” his “fishing buddy.”
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Nature of the Beast
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
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American Buffalo
Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.
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Whipped
Three to one may sound like fairly good odds, but it depends on the game. When the “one” is one very irresistible woman and the “three” are three hopelessly smitten guys, the deck is pretty stacked. In the battle of the sexes, the first rule is to never underestimate the power of a woman.
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Psycho Beach Party
Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who’s desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She’s the typical American girl – except for one little problem: her personality is split into more slices than a pepperoni pizza.
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Deterrence
The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm.