Tag Archives: film within a film

The Signal

IMDB Rating: 6.70
1511 votes

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Storyline
A horror film told in three parts from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission which invades every cell phone, radio and TV, turning people into killers.
Actors
AnnaCheri Christian
Jim ParsonsChad McKnight
ClarkScott Poythress

For Your Consideration

IMDB Rating: 6.20
4320 votes

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Storyline
Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors' lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood!
Actors
Marilyn HackCatherine O'Hara
Studio Gate GuardStephen Rannazzisi
Sandy LaneEd Begley Jr.

Factory Girl

IMDB Rating: 6.10
3189 votes

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Storyline
A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality...
Actors
Edie SedgwickSienna Miller
Andy WarholGuy Pearce
MusicianHayden Christensen

Scream 3

IMDB Rating: 5.30
25679 votes

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Storyline
STAB 3: RETURN TO WOODSBORO is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose cutting corners cast wise. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy...anything can happen.
Actors
Dwight 'Dewey' RileyDavid Arquette
Sidney PrescottNeve Campbell
Gale WeathersCourteney Cox

Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story

IMDB Rating: 7.90
14318 votes

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Storyline
The major sub-plot circles around the youngest Griffin, Stewie, who has a near-death experience at a pool when a lifeguard chair falls on him, but he survives. After having a vision of being in Hell, he decides to change his ways, but this doesn't last long. While watching television, he and Brian spot a man that looks like Stewie. Brian is convinced that he is Stewie's real father, until Stewie learns that the man is actually himself as an adult, taking a vacation from his own time period. Baby Stewie visits thirty years later to discover that his adult self, going by the name Stu, is a single blue-collar middle-aged virgin working at a Circuit City-type store. Meanwhile, Peter and Lois are trying to teach their two older kids, Meg and Chris, to date. In the future, Chris, who hasn't changed much, is working as a cop and is married to a foul-mouthed hustler named Vanessa. Meg is now called Ron, since she had a sex-change after college.
Actors
Stewie Griffin/Peter Griffin/Brian Griffin/Glen Quagmire/Tom Tucker/Stuart 'Stu' Griffin/Additional VoicesSeth MacFarlane
Lois Griffin/Tricia Takanawa/Vanessa/Condoleezza Rice/Additional VoicesAlex Borstein
Chris Griffin/Additional VoicesSeth Green

Havoc

IMDB Rating: 5.30
4087 votes

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Storyline
In Los Angeles, Allison Lang is a bored girl from an upper class dysfunctional family that acts and dresses like a slut. Her wealthy boyfriend and friends are totally influenced by the hip-hop culture, behaving like rappers, dressing and imitating their lifestyle. When they decide to drive to East L.A. for fun, they meet a Latin gang of drug-dealers and Allison and her best friend Emily become fascinated with their "gangsta" lifestyle. Later they return to the ghetto to visit and excite Hector and his friends, expecting to join their 16th Street gang. When the guys propose them to have sex as a form of initiation, they change their mind, leading to a tragic consequence.
Actors
Allison LangAnne Hathaway
EmilyBijou Phillips
AmandaShiri Appleby

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

IMDB Rating: 6.80
1843 votes

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Storyline
This film tells the tale of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.
Actors
Mary LaneKristen Bell
Jimmy HarperChristian Campbell
Miss PoppyNeve Campbell

Quicksand

IMDB Rating: 5.10
608 votes

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Storyline
The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a down-on-his-luck international film star who has become embroiled in criminal activities.
Actors
Martin RaikesMichael Keaton
Jake MellowsMichael Caine
Lela ForinJudith Godrèche

Bowfinger

IMDB Rating: 6.30
21376 votes

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Storyline
Hollywood, today: Bobby Bowfinger, a run-down actor-producer-director, is reading a script which a friend has written. Completely convinced of its quality, he decides to take a last shot at fame and fortune. But the script is not that easy to sell, and a famous producer promises him to do it, but there is one condition: Kit Ramsey, Hollywood's number one star, has to be in it. So, Bobby tries his luck with Kit - who says no - and then decides to shoot the film himself. Together with the cheapest team available in Southern California, an aspiring beauty from Ohio, a diva who is just a little over the hill, a key-holding gofer from a major studio and a goon hired away from burger-flipping, Bobby sets out to shoot the science-fiction-film starring Kit Ramsey - who does not even know he's being filmed.
Actors
Bobby BowfingerSteve Martin
Kit Ramsey/Jiffernson 'Jiff' RamseyEddie Murphy
DaisyHeather Graham