Other People (2016), Lady Bird (2017), The Ugly Truth (2009), Full of Life (1956), Trekkies 2 (2004), The Hatchet Man (1932), The Reformer and the Redhead (1950), All About Steve (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Sacramento, Calif. movies.
Storyline: A struggling comedy writer, fresh from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and younger sisters, David feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother worsens, he tries to convince everyone -- including himself -- he's doing okay.
Plot Keywords: writer, mother, father, sister, grandfather, grandmother, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christine "Lady Bird" MacPherson is a high school senior from the "wrong side of the tracks." She longs for adventure, sophistication, and opportunity, but finds none of that in her Sacramento Catholic high school. LADY BIRD follows the title character's senior year in high school, including her first romance, her participation in the school play, and most importantly, her applying for college.
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, teenager, high-school student, best friend, teacher, father ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.
Plot Keywords: television producer, chauvinist, doctor, tv personality, friend, weather forecaster, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Writer Nick and his wife Emily are expecting their first child. When a necessary home repair proves too costly to afford, Nick must swallow his pride and visit his father, a proud immigrant stonemason with whom he has a difficult relationship, and ask him to do the work. Confronting the issues of religion and family tradition which have separated father and son causes Nick and Emily to reevaluate their lives and the things they value most.—scgary66
Plot Keywords: writer, wife, father, immigrant, mother, construction worker, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this follow-up to the popular 1997 documentary, Denise Crosby returns for another look at fans of the "Star Trek" franchise. This time there are interviews with fans from other countries, updates on fans featured in the original movie, and performances by "Star Trek"-themed "filk" bands. The filmmakers visited fans all over the world, including an Englishman who transformed his flat into a starship and listed this on the Internet for $2 million, and the first convention ever held in Serbia. The movie also checks in on some of the original profilees like wunderkind Gabriel Koerner and alternate Whitewater juror Barbara Adams.—Eric Sorensen
Plot Keywords: fan, englishman, filmmaker, nerd, quirky, engaging, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: San Francisco Tong hatchet man Wong must execute his boyhood friend Sun. Sun knew his time was up and wrote out his will just prior to Wong showing up at his door. When Sun realizes Wong is there to kill me he tries to set his friend's mind at ease by telling him he is the beneficiary of all Sun's worldly possessions and convinces Wong to promise to take care of Sun's young daughter, Toya San who Sun has bequeathed to become his wife. Years later, when she becomes of age, she marries Wong, now a powerful figure, though she loves evil Harry. When Wong learns Toya will be happier with Harry he allows them to leave. Still later Wong learns that Harry has been deported and since Toya could not prove she was married to someone else she too was deported to China. When Wong learns of this, he goes after them.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: assassin, childhood friend, daughter, gangster, guard, fortuneteller, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. In the midst of uncovering local political corruption and dealing with a lion that's escaped from the zoo, the two manage to fall in love.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: attorney, zookeeper, daughter, commodore, niece, reporter, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mary Horowitz writes crossword puzzles for the Sacramento Herald. She's loquacious to a fault. When kids at a career day make fun of her for being single, she accepts a blind date with Steve, the cameraman for a CNN-like news network. Within minutes she decides he's the man for her. He's quickly put off by her constant verbiage and over-the-top advances; he makes an off-hand remark about going on the road with her, and splits. She's moonstruck, writes a sappy crossword puzzle, loses her job, and decides to follow him as the news team crisscrosses the Southwest; Steve's team eggs her on. Then she falls in a mine shaft, and she and Steve become a story; is it a love story?
Plot Keywords: cameraman, friend, misfit, love interest, child, amusing, quirky ...
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