Tag – US Box Office: USD$54,730,625

Famous quotes:

Randy: [to Jerry] “Yeah, you’re really good at tag.”

Hoagie: “Yes, but you’ve kind of missed the point. I mean, it’s not about trying to get away from each other. It’s actually about having a reason to be around each other. You know?”

Jerry: [Quietly] “Yeah.”

Hoagie: “I mean, Ben Franklin said it best. Am I right? “We don’t stop playing because we grow old.”

Hoagie, Randy, Callahan, Anna Malloy: “We grow old because we stop playing.”

Sequel: Tag 2015

Fun Fact about Tag:

• The chase through Chilli’s apartment building is a nod to Political Subdivision (1990).
• The film reconnected Ed Helms and Rashida Jones. They appeared in The Office (2005) and were introduced to the program in the same episode.
• They agree not to play the game during marriage activities in exchange for invitations to the wedding.

Red Dawn – US Box Office: USD$50,950,296

Famous quotes:

British Male News Pundit 14: “North Korea is like a spoiled child!”

News Anchor: “North Korea is a danger to the world.”

Female News Anchor 15: “What would North Korea possibly hope to gain?”

Korean Man: “What is it that they want?

Female News Anchor 16: What are they preparing for?”

Sequel: Red Dawn 1984

Fun Fact about Red Dawn:

• Radio Free America’s encoded messages are identical to those in the original Red Dawn (1984).
• The film was shot and completed in 2009, with an initial release date of November 24, 2010. Due to MGM’s financial difficulties, it was put on hold for over two years.
• The force that invaded was initially Chinese. It was altered to North Korean in post-production to keep access to China’s box office.

Benny & Joon – US Box Office: USD$23,261,580

Famous quotes:

Sam: “Oh my God! “I’ve just been looking for my boyfriend. Have you seen him? He’s a cute guy with a little mole on his right cheek.”

Local: “Hey, Ruthie. One of your ghosts comes back to haunt ya?”

Sam: “AH! Oh, Brad! Oh, Brad. Brad, please don’t be dead. Brad, I never had a chance to tell you what you meant to me. Oh, Brad, please!” It’s you! You’re you! Ruthie Melony, co-star of the Prom Queen Mutilator with Dick Bebe!”

Ruthie: “You saw that?”

Sam: “He was mine! He was mine!” “No, Cindy. You’re sick. Cindy, you need help. No, Cindy! No, no!”

Fun Fact about Benny & Joon Filming:

• Ruthie works at the Milk Bottle Café in Spokane, Washington. The interior was shot in a completely different restaurant, Ferguson’s Café. The two restaurants are just close to each other. It’s not the only structure in Spokane shaped like a milk bottle.
• Benny’s persona was initially intended to be a New York psychiatrist.
• When the production crew discovered Ruthie’s apartment, everything was in disarray. They had to refurbish the entire flat.

Vision Quest – US Box Office: USD$12,993,175

Famous quotes:

Tanneran: “Well, what do you think? Does anybody understand a word of it? Huh? Louden? This poem mean anything to you at all?”

Louden Swain: “Yeah, kind of. I figure the girl in the poem’s about my age. She’s feeling sad about the leaves falling from the trees, and the poet tells her that what she’s really sad about is that she’s beginning to realize she’s going to die someday, too. The thing is, she’s already dying.”

Tanneran: “Is that a good thing to realize, or do you think maybe we’d be better off not thinking about it?”

Louden Swain: “I don’t know. Nobody likes to think about it. I don’t like to think about it. But if you don’t, you might go through life thinking you’ve got plenty of time. You put off the really important stuff until later, and pretty soon, before you know it, there’s no more time left, you’ve blown it.”

Tanneran: “That’s not bad, Louden. Not bad at all.”

Fun Fact about Vision Quest:

• This was mainly shot on-site within and around Spokane, Washington, USA. And cast numerous locals in minor roles and as extras.
• Madonna makes her first cameo in a major motion picture as a singer at a neighborhood bar, where she sings the tracks “Crazy for You” and “Gambler.” The film’s title was modified in some countries to capitalize on Madonna’s rising star and the success of the single “Crazy for You.”
• The training scenario with Shute occurs at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane. It hosted high school football for over seventy years, in addition to the Washington State Cougar Crimson the Grey game, before being demolished in 2021.

Knockaround Guys –  US Box Office: USD$12,806,614

Famous quotes:

Store Owner: “I got nothing for you my friend.”

Taylor: “I checked the meter on my machines. Now they’ve had plenty of play. I gave you that key so you could borrow a little, float yourself for a few days. But half of that money is mine, and I want it.”

Store Owner: “What can I tell you, Taylor? I run a business here. I have expenses. If I’m not paying fast enough for you, turn ’em off. Take them out of the store.”

Store owner: “[Taylor leaves and comes back with a crowbar] What the fuck are you doing? Are you crazy? They’re your own fucking machines! Don’t do this to me, por favor.”

Taylor: “The milk guy’s getting paid… the potato chip guy’s getting paid… the beer guy’s getting paid… every-fucking-body’s getting paid, and you look through me? You fuck!”

Fun Fact about Knockaround Guys:

• The show’s first release date was set for October of 2000. It was pushed back because New Product Entertainment didn’t know how to sell it with then-unknown performers in the lead roles.
• A second date was intended for 2001 to capitalize on the breakthrough of The Fast and the Furious (2001), starring Vin Diesel. The release date in 2002 was set following Vin Diesel’s debut triple X feature for New Line Cinema to have a more prominent name to sell this film.
• Tom Noonan improvised the ” why are you in such a hurry? ” statement. In a sense, Seth Green’s expression and delivery of his information are genuine.

The Leisure Seeker  – US Box Office: USD$10,472,180

Famous quotes:

John Spencer: “Is that really you, Ella?”

Ella Spencer: “Of course it’s me! Who are you?

John Spencer: “I’m me! John.”

Ella Spencer: “No, you’re not. My John is a young teacher. He’s charming. Very handsome. Educated. I want him back. You stole him from me and I want you to give him back.”

John Spencer: “Oh boy, if I could I would. He was stolen from me, and was stolen from you too.”

Fun Fact about The Leisure Seeker: 

• Paolo Virzi is the first full-length English-language film.
• The 74th Venice Festival of Films featured this film in the most significant competition division.
• The Trump Rally sequence was shot in Marietta, Georgia, at Marietta Square, directly in front of the famous Strand Theater.

Smoke Signals –  US Box Office: USD$6,745,362

Famous quotes:

Thomas Builds-the-Fire: “Your father saved my life”

Victor Joseph: “Thomas you don’t even know my father. Did you know that my father was the one that set your parent’s house on fire? Did you know that my father beat my mother? Did you know that my father beat me too?”

Thomas Builds-the-Fire: “All I know is that when your father left your mother lost you too.”

Victor Joseph: “Thomas I wish that fire had killed you.”

Thomas Builds-the-Fire: “Victor LOOK OUT!”

Fun Fact about Smoke Signals:

• Elaine Miles (Lucy) learned to drive backward during filming the scene in which Lucy and Velma are riding back. In the end, a stunt driver was not required.
• Smoke Signals was chosen for conservation in the National Film Registry by the US Library of Congress in 2018.
• In a prologue, Victor’s dad asks him who his most fantastic Indian is, and Victor replies, “Nobody.” Gary Farmer, who portrays Victor’s father, played an Indian called Nobody in the film Dead Man Walking (1995).

The Joneses –  US Box Office: USD$1,475,746

Famous quotes:

Steve Jones: “Man, this thing rides smooth!”

Kate Jones: “It’s very nice.”

Steve Jones: “Yes, it’s like riding on the ass of an angel. I mean, I wish I could have sold a crossover like this, I wouldn’t have been able to keep them in stock.”

Steve Jones: “I want you to come join me in the real world.”

Kate Jones: “This is my real world”

Fun Fact about The Joneses:

• Most of the students in the vicinity at Carlton J. Kell Academy were junior and senior Kell students.
• Real Housewife Kim Zolciak-Biermann is present at the Joneses’ party.
• David Duchovny with Amber Heard previously collaborated on the 2007 film Californication.

Why Would I Lie? – US Box Office: USD$1,175,855

Famous quotes:

David Mitchell: ‘Well, stranger things have happened, but I think only about six ever.”

Lee Mack: “We’d like to thank the creators of “Call My Bluff”, for not suing us…”

Jack Dee: “The problem we have here is that not all of you are telling the truth.”

Fun Fact about Why Would I Lie?:

• Gabriel Macht’s first feature film.
• Unfortunately, the fantastic theme song by B. J. Thomas has never been available on vinyl or Cds.

The Basket – US Box Office:  USD$367,098

Famous quotes:

Brigitta: “Everything I loved was taken away from me right before my eyes, and there was nothing I could do about it. [Ben forces Brigitta to look at his leg, amputated due to WWII injuries]”

Ben Emery: “Look at it. Look at it! Germans like you did this to me.”

Brigitta: “No, soldiers like you did that.”

Tom Emery: ‘Ben told me all about the war.”

Brigitta: “And where is Ben now?”

Fun Fact about The Basket:

• Scott McQuilken, the Athletic Director of Whitworth College, is Spokane basketball player number two. 
• Producer Rich Cowan and photography director Dan Heigh note (DVD commentaries) that the locomotive did not work, so the railway could not move. 
• In the teaser trailer “Behind the Basket: Designing,” production designer Vincent DeFelice mentions that some horses were supposed to squeeze.

Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me – US Box Office: USD$365,422

Famous quotes:

Glen Campbell: “You’ve got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see.”

Glen Campbell: “There’s been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I’m gonna be where the lights are shining on me.”

Glen Campbell: “There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation’s most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”

Glen Campbell: “I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.”

Glen Campbell: “I don’t remember not singing. I started when I was, I don’t know how – what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.”

Fun Fact about Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me:

• This movie is the only 2015 nominee that, at the time of the nominations, did not have over 100 votes.

Lonely Hearts- US Box Office: USD$188,565

Famous quotes:

Martha Beck: “You just as soon see me burn, so you can go home to your little house, your little wife, your little life, and pound your chest little like a monkey. “

Det. Elmer Robinson: “Mrs. Beck…”

Martha Beck: “You can call me Martha, honey.”

Det. Elmer Robinson: “Martha. My life is a never ending sewer of maggots like you. You’re going to grow old and die in an ugly box with bars at one end and a shitter at the other.”

Martha Beck: “Has anybody ever loved you that much, detective? To kill or die… for you?”

Fun Fact about Lonely Hearts:

• Elmer C. Robinson, the detective who examined the Lonely Hearts killings, was the director’s grandpa. 
• The genuine Martha Beck was much taller than actress Salma Hayek and weighed well over 200 pounds at the time of her death. 
• To achieve the look of the actual Raymond, Jared Leto shaved the front of his skull and the bald patch.

Hangman’s Curse – US Box Office: USD$168,406

Famous quotes:

Nate Springfield: “Since when was bullying a part of the curriculum here?”

Coach Marquardt: “Since when was toilet cleaning a prerequisite for ethics?”

Nate Springfield: “Come on, don’t tell me you don’t see the strong ones pick on the weak.”

Coach Marquardt: “If it seems that at times the strong prey on the weak, well that’s part of their education. The weak toughen up or they fall behind. The strong prevail and we are all better off.”

Nate Springfield: “[twisting the coaches fingers in a painful position] We’re only as strong as our weakest link, wouldn’t you agree coach?”

Fun Fact about Hangman’s Curse:

• When Elisha first discovers spiders in the air vents, some of the spiders walking on the walls do not move their legs.
• Sarah is wearing white gloves when she picks up the disk for the digital recorder in the RV. But as Elijah removes the disk from her, the gloves are gone.

Knights of Badassdom- US Box Office: USD$123,854

Famous quotes:

Joe: “Where the fuck are the keys?”

Eric: “Come on Joe, you played d and d. Live action roleplay is the next level.”

Joe: “D and d was a long time ago.”

Eric: “Yeah, and you were a legend. These people here, they sing songs about the time that you gave Ronnie Kwok’s paladin demonic syphilis.”

Ronnie Kwok: “That looks terrible. My three-year-old nephew could make a better map. And he’s got learning disabilities. It’ll have to do. You, my friend, are on dragon duty. Take these and make sure that we are good to go. And dragon rider… just don’t fuck with my stereo.”

Fun Fact about At Knights of Badassdom:

• Playing sessions with Peter Dinklage was deemed the most successful of them.
• Five of the actors have appeared in critically acclaimed HBO shows. Game of Thrones (2011) starred Peter Dinklage, and Tom Hopper, True Blood (2008) starred Ryan Kwanten, and Westworld (2016) starred Jimmi Simpson. Earl Brown plays the title character in Deadwood. The film The White Lotus stars Steve Zahn (2021).

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers – US Box Office: USD$76,806

Famous quotes:

Mr. Shi: “[tries to explain] Communist no bad.

[sentence in Chinese]”
Mr. Shi: “Communist in bad hand”

Fun Fact about A Thousand Years of Good Prayers:

• It is often referred to as “Mil Years of Prayer.”

At Middleton – US Box Office: USD$53,837

Famous quotes:

George Hartman: “Feckless? Let me guess, you’re a high school English teacher.”

Edith Martin: “Wrong. How ’bout you? Wait, let me guess, let me guess. Are you a Brooks Brothers model?”

George Hartman: “I’m a cardiac surgeon. I was speaking with a patient.”

Edith Martin: “Hmm, so you can fix a heart over the phone?”

George Hartman: “Depends on the data plan.”

Fun Fact about At Middleton:

• Vera Farmiga and Taissa Farmiga are sisters in real life, even though they portray a mother and a daughter on screen.
• The band “Snatches of Pink,” mentioned in the library scene, is a well-known local band in the city where the movie was shot.
• In Edith’s words, “she’s just trying to reduce her suffering to 40 characters so that she can tweet her sadness to 140 characters is the maximum allowed on Twitter. ” While they make up stories about strangers they see.

Director: Irwin Winkler

Main Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, 50 Cent, Jessica Biel, and Brian Presley

Release Date: January 5, 2007

Main Plot: A physician who saw too much and a single mother teacher who lost a hand in the ambush. They were among a group of Spokane soldiers ambushed in an Iraqi city the day after they heard they would return home in two weeks. The four persons we follow when we get home include an infantryman. Whose best friend has killed that day and a soldier who keeps rehearsing the moment he killed a civilian woman. Each person returned home altered and feeling out of place. Group counseling, V.A. Regular flashbacks, memorial services, and hesitant gestures from relatives and coworkers keep the war fresh in their memories. They are volatile, irritable, and angry. Can a soldier find tranquility at home?