It is Friday and you know what that means! We’re a little movie crazy over here at MMP, most of us are currently recovering from Avengers at midnight (“I’m getting too old for this shit” – Danny Glover speaking for us), and on Fridays we like to show you what you might be watching if we made movies. This one is called Jimmy Klipse Meets the Devil, it’s pretty awful, and I’m fucking tired…
Rubbernecking is a white-knuckle thriller from the master of suspense, David Slade. Rubbernecker is a thrilling suspense film starring Paul Bettany, Michelle Monaghan and everyone’s favorite, Ryan Gosling.
A black screen appears with the statistics on all the motor related fatalities that occurs accidentally in LA.
Rubbernecker opens on Paul Bettany playing Milton Stuart waking up to go to work at his office. It looks like any other day from the outset. He leaves his wife, still sleeping and goes to work. The whole time he’s there he looks at either his watch or the nearby clock. As soon as 5 o’clock hits, he calls home and tells his wife he has to work late. He gets up, gets into his car and pulls out of the driveway. He pulls out of the driveway and over to the curb and waits. We see Bettany’s character Milton look at his watch and as he does that, a car drives past him. He immediately begins following the car.
*All character names are taken from “The Help”
*All Oscar Bait provided by ‘Glenn Close’s Oscar Bait & Tackle Shop’- “You’re not close to hooking ‘em, unless you’re Glenn close”
Celia is a rich 1950s housewife living in a bubble. Her world bursts when her husband dies. Part of his estate is a small struggling segregated summer camp not too far from their South Carolina home where her children go each year. As the bills pile up she worries that she’ll have to fire her African American housemaid Minny. Minny has been working for them for almost 18 years. She helped raise the two children, Stuart and Charlotte. In passing Celia learns that Minny’s children, Aibileen and Henry, have nowhere to go for the summer.
Celia decides to open the first integrated summer camp in the area.
Pete and Russ did stellar jobs with their fake movie treatments, so I think I’ll jump on board and try it out myself.
Juror #7
Devin, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt because he’s in fucking everything these days, is a extremely friendly, social and lovable criminal with a masters degree in Forensic Science. He never steals from the people he meets, but he will, with a swift and steady hand, remove hair and fabric samples from them without them ever noticing. He has made a living off of burglarizing peoples houses who live more than 20 miles from his residence and framing the “friends” he’s made in the world.
Charlie Falls
Charlie Falls is loosely based on a non-existent author’s latter teenage years growing up in 1970’s Westchester, NY with his parents. Josh Hutcherson plays Charlie. His name is Charlie because it makes for a great title (Charlie Bartlett, Charlie Wilson’s War, Charlie St. Cloud). This is the type of movie that comes out in the early fall just as college students are going back to school. The audience is clearly HS and college girls who think they are different and like dramas with cute boys. It will have a very indie-fonted posted, and be reminiscent of something someone would make if they have only ever seen Wes Anderson films and nothing else.
Every Friday here at Movie Movie we’ll be giving you a glimpse of what we do at our live improv show (Pig Pile, Every 3rd Thursday of the month, 930, Creek and The Cave, NYC). At Pig Pile, we receive a suggestion and produce, write, market, and review a movie. Here’s a fake movie that I just made up.
The Last Bouquet