Our Very Own (1950), The Clay Pigeon (1949), The Muse (1999), The Muse (1999), Gone in 60 Seconds (1974), Battlefield America (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Long Beach, Calif. movies.
Storyline: Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: teen girl, adoptive mother, adoptive father, biological mother, sister, boyfriend, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear himself by enlisting the aid of Martha Gregory, widow of a service buddy he was accused of informing on. Helped also by Ted Niles, a surviving fellow prisoner, he gets closer to finding the answers he needs, and becomes ensnared in a grandiose scheme involving his Japanese ex-prison guard, $10,000,000 of US currency forged by the Japanese and a burgeoning crime network poised to wreak havoc throughout southern California.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: veteran, widow, friend, prison guard, naval officer, henchman, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: What happens when a screenwriter (Brooks) loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help... even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" (Stone). And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to satisfy this goddess, especially when her advice gets him going again on a sure-fire script. However, this is not the limit of her help, she also gets the writer's wife (MacDowell) going on her own bakery enterprise, much to the chagrin of Brooks, who has already had to make many personal sacrifices for his own help.
Plot Keywords: muse, screenwriter, wife, friend, amusing, quirky, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Screenwriter Steven Phillips (Albert Brooks) seemingly has it all, including an Academy Award for his latest script. But he's hit an artistic dry patch, so his writer friend Jack Warrick (Jeff Bridges) recommends the services of Sarah Little (Sharon Stone), a woman he swears is a veritable muse. Steven takes her on and is suddenly more inspired to create. Her services, however, come at a very steep price and Steven becomes suspicious about who Sarah really is and what she wants.
Plot Keywords: muse, screenwriter, wife, friend, amusing, quirky, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Maindrian Pace (H.B. Halicki) is an insurance investigator by day and a professional car thief by night. When a South American drug lord offers Pace $400,000 to steal 48 cars in five days, the assignment seems like an easy week's work for Pace and his gang -- until he's sold out. After he steals a car known as "Eleanor" in Long Beach, Calif., the police are suddenly on his tail. Pace ends up in a desperate car chase across Southern California, from Long Beach to Carson.
Plot Keywords: drug lord, car thief, cop, gangster, friend, brash, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young businessman who lands a community service sentence falls in with a group of misfit kids who need mentoring. With the help of a pro instructor, he works to get the kids ready for a big underground dance competition.
Plot Keywords: businessman, teen boy, dancer, dance instructor, love interest, inspiring, spirited ...
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