Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Jack & Diane (2012)

Jack & Diane (2012)


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Jack and Diane is a 2012 American film written and directed by Bradley Rust Gray, and starring Juno Temple and Riley Keough. Olivia Thirlby and Ellen Page were originally cast for the lead roles in 2008 before the project was postponed.

Diane (Juno Temple) experiences chronic nosebleeds. She checks herself in a mirror and she is transformed into a monster before falling unconscious. Earlier, she walks in the streets trying to borrow cellphone in order to call her twin sister Karen. As to no avail, she enters a clothing store and asks to use a phone. There, she meets a lesbian of her age, Jack (Riley Keough), who is clearly smitten by Diane. Diane nose starts bleeding again and Jack gives her a hand. Jack then takes Diane to a night club. When they get there, Diane seems nauseous and a lot of blood shed more from her nose and she goes to the restroom. This scene is parallel to as the beginning of the film. She gains unconsciousness and meets up with Jack and the girls ferociously kiss. By morning, the girls part ways and Jack is uncritically hit by a car.


Stolen (2012)

Stolen (2012)



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Stolen, formerly known as Medallion, is a film starring Nicolas Cage, Danny Huston, Malin Åkerman, M.C. Gainey, Sami Gayle, Mark Valley and Josh Lucas.

A former thief, Will Montgomery (Nicolas Cage), is released from prison for a bank robbery of $10 million. He decides to visit his estranged daughter, Alison, whom he hasn't seen in eight years. But then an old partner (Josh Lucas), who many believed to have died, kidnaps Alison and locks her in the trunk of his medallion taxi cab, and demands ransom: the $10 million he believes Will still has. Since he doesn't, Will has to rob another bank as the detective that put him away (Danny Huston) tracks him down again.