Q: Build a movie plot around this: What is the problem with Helen? fatal pancreatic infection
A: The opening narrative is given by a man in a high ranking military uniform. He tells us the film is set 50 years into the future, when an overcrowded Earth will begin looking for other Earths. Flights will be made taking 25 to 50 years. This film is the story of one such flight IC 1 (Interstellar Colony ship One) It is a Noahs Ark of space, 8 couples with their children will travel to Earth 2 well beyond our Solar SystemWe are then introduced to the couples who make up the crew. First is the Captain, Mead Ralston, (Bill Williams) his wife and educator Jan Ralston (Norma West) The medical team are doctors Steven Thomas (John Cairney) and his wife Helen Thomas (Linda Marlowe) Aside from the health of the crew, the doctors are involved in an experiment in suspended animation. Two men and two women to be revived when they reach Earth 2The next couple is engineer John Saunders (Jeremy Longhurst) and his wife biologist Kate Saunders (Kathleen Breck) The crews computer experts are Karl Walcott (Donald Churchill) and his wife Joyce Walcott (Margo McLennan) The final member of the crew is the most unusual. A synthetic man called Doctor Garth (John Lee) is the operations commander. His body replicates every action of a normal human body.The film begins on the first anniversary of the ship's departure from Earth. Captain Ralston is speaking to reporters back home as news of the flight is released. It is a joint mission of Great Britain, Canada and the United States. All seems to be going well, the crew's morale is high and the children are growing normally.Ralston reports the ship is operating better than expected. Garth interrupts the interview to ask if he can speak to Captain Ralston explains that is against regulations, Garth acts with a little annoyance at the reply.After the contact is broken, Ralston speaks to his wife (much younger than he) about their inability to conceive children. She assures him no one, especially her, is concerned about the issue. She argues they have only been married a year, there is...
Question: Build a movie plot around this: Steve Lopez works for whom? A Newspaper
Answer: The film opens up in the early morning. A man is cycling by as a paper boy is driving around delivering newspapers. A newspaper hits a door and the main articles title is Life Has A Mind by Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.). Steve Lopez is cycling around town and goes in the opposite direction of a bunch of cyclists. Lopez gives an internal monologue chronicling a biking accident which occurred near a construction site. His bike hits a bump and he hits his head badly on the pavement. In the next scene hes in an ambulance being driven to a busy hospital. While in the emergency room, Lopez writes down his thoughts as if writing an article. He is given an MRI and after being cleared, takes a taxi home. He checks his messages (there are none), continues to narrate into a tape recorder.The next morning, he goes into work at the L.A. Times. He continues to talk to himself as he walks through the halls about how much he hates hospitals and health care under the governor. The Editor of the L.A. Times, Mary (Catherine Keener), walks down the cubicles past Steve as he is greeted by the people in the neighboring cubicles. Steve and Mary banter about an article Steve was supposed to write before his accident but he tells her that he wont write it as she goes off to her office.Steve is then sitting outside on the boardwalk drinking a soda. He hears a violin playing and starts to walk around the plaza until he finds the sources. He finds Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), playing a two string violin under a statue. Steve immediately realizes that Ayers is a schizophrenic and tries to walk away but Ayers follows him for a bit until Steve introduces himself. Ayers tells Steve that he once went to Julliard.Steve is in his office making a call to the Registrars office at Julliard when Mary sits down next to him. She tells him that the LA times stock situation is looking pretty dire before switching the conversation over to their son. Mary tells Steve to call him but Steve says that whenever he calls their son wont call him back. He...
[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: What does Boss use to knock Poole out? chloroform
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[A]: The film is set in Montana in 1882. "Boss" Spearman (Duvall) is an open range cattleman, who, with hired hands Charley (Costner), Mose (Benrubi) and Button (Luna), is driving a herd cross country. Charley is a former soldier who fought in the Civil War and feels guilty over his past as a killer.Boss sends Mose to the nearby town of Harmonville for supplies. The town is controlled by a ruthless Irish immigrant land baron, Denton Baxter (Gambon), who hates open-rangers. Mose is badly beaten and jailed by the marshal, Poole (Russo). The only friendly inhabitant is Percy (Jeter), a livery stable owner.Boss and Charley become concerned when Mose does not return. They retrieve him from the jail but not before getting a warning from Baxter about free-grazing on his land. Mose's injuries are so severe that Boss and Charley take him to Doc Barlow (McDermott). There they meet Sue Barlow (Bening). Charley is attracted immediately, but assumes that Sue is the doctor's wife.After catching masked riders scouting their cattle, Boss and Charley sneak up on their campfire in the night, and disarm them. At the same time, another attack results in Mose's death. Button is badly injured and left for dead. Charley and Boss vow to avenge this injustice. They leave Button at the doctor's house and go into town, where they lock Poole in his own jail. Boss knocks him out with chloroform he has stolen from the doctor's office. The deputies are locked up as well.Charley learns that Sue is the doctor's sister, not his wife. He declares his feelings for her, and she gives him a locket for luck. Charley leaves a note with Percy, in which he states that if he should die, money from the sale of his saddle and gear are to be used to buy Sue a new tea set, having accidentally destroyed her previous one during a "flashback" episode.Boss and Charley are pitted against Baxter and his men. In an unusual plot twist for Westerns, Charley begins the gun battle by first shooting at point blank range, and killing, Butler (Coates), the hired gunman...
Question: Build a movie plot around this: Who finds Lowry and forces him at gunpoint? Jerry
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Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson), an obsessivecompulsive New York City taxi driver, visits his friend Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts), who works for the U.S. Attorney, at the Justice Department. She is trying to solve her father's murder. Jerry tells her that NASA is trying to kill the President using a secret weapon on the Space Shuttle that can trigger earthquakes.Jerry identifies some men on the street as CIA, follows them into a building, and is captured by them. He wakes up in a mental hospital bound to a wheelchair. A doctor (Patrick Stewart) tapes his eyes open, injects him with LSD, and interrogates him using torture. As the LSD kicks in Jerry remembers many previous sessions, which he sees as terrifying cartoons. In a fit of panic, Jerry manages to bite the doctor's nose and sufficiently incapacitate him long enough to escape, still bound to the wheelchair. He manages to shut himself in a laundry truck, escaping the premises. Jerry goes to Alice's office again and grabs a guard's gun, collapsing in Alice's arms.Alice visits Jerry in the hospital. Handcuffed to the bed and forced to enter a drug-induced sleep, he pleads with her to switch his chart with that of a criminal in the next bed or he will be dead by morning. In the morning, when Alice visits again, the criminal is dead, as he has suffered a mysterious heart attack during the night. The CIA, FBI and other agencies are there. She meets a mysterious CIA psychiatrist, Dr. Jonas. Meanwhile Jerry fakes a heart attack and escapes again, dropping himself down a linen chute. Jerry dresses up as a doctor and escapes the building.Jonas quizzes Alice over lunch; she explains that Jerry saved her from muggers once, so she tolerates him. In Jerry's hospital room she finds a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. As she discusses it with an FBI officer named Lowry, the CIA come and confiscate all of Jerry's personal items. Lowry offers to share information with her but she declines.The CIA cannot find Jerry. Alice goes to her car, and finds Jerry hiding in it. She stops...