[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: Who tears the basement apart? Kid
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[A]: "The Kid" is the talented but troubled frontman of his Minneapolis-based band The Revolution. To escape his difficult home life his father is verbally and physically abusive, and his mother is emotionally abusive he spends his days rehearsing and his nights performing at the First Avenue nightclub. First Avenue's three house band slots are held by The Revolution, the flashy Morris Day and his group The Time, and Dez Dickerson and his group The Modernaires. Morris, aware that The Revolution's guitarist Wendy and keyboardist Lisa are frustrated by the Kid's unwillingness to play their compositions, lobbies Billy Sparks, the nightclub's owner, to replace The Revolution with a girl group which Morris is already forming. He targets the Kid's girlfriend Apollonia an aspiring singer and new arrival in Minneapolis to lead his group, and tries to persuade her that the Kid won't help her because he's too focused on himself. She eventually joins Morris's group, which Morris names Apollonia 6. When she reveals her partnership to the Kid, he becomes furious and slaps her, as his father had struck him earlier.At the club, the Kid responds to the internal band strife, the pressure to draw more crowds, and his strained private life with the uncomfortably personal "Darling Nikki". His performance publicly humiliates Apollonia, who runs off in tears, and angers both Morris and Billy, worsening his situation. Billy confronts the Kid, castigating him for bringing his personal life onto the stage and warning him that he's wasting his musical talent like his father did. The debut of Apollonia 6 is a success, and Billy warns the Kid that his First Avenue slot is at risk. The Kid seizes Apollonia from a drunken Morris and the two argue; Apollonia then abandons him. Returning home, he finds the house in tatters, with his mother nowhere to be found. When he turns on the basement light, his father who had been lurking in the basement with a loaded handgun shoots himself in the head. In a frenzy after a night of...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: What is Eckland's personality? slovenly and uncouth
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[A]: While the Royal Australian Navy evacuates Salamaua in February 1942[3] ahead of a Japanese invasion, Commander Frank Houghton (Trevor Howard) coerces old friend, American beachcomber Walter Eckland (Cary Grant), into becoming a coast-watcher for the Allies. Houghton escorts Eckland to deserted Matalava Island to watch for Japanese airplanes. To ensure Eckland stays put, Houghton steers his ship so that it "accidentally" knocks a hole in Ecklund's launch. Houghton rewards Eckland's sightings with directions to one of the whisky bottles hidden around the island, once they are confirmed.Houghton finds a replacement watcher, but Eckland has to retrieve him from nearby Bundy Island. He unexpectedly finds Frenchwoman Catherine Freneau (Leslie Caron) and seven young schoolgirls under her care stranded there. She informs him that the man he came for was killed in an air raid. Eckland reluctantly takes them back to Matalava with him.There is no way to evacuate them safely. At first, Houghton promises them a parachute drop with more supplies, but there is too much enemy activity in the area to accomplish it safely. The fastidious Freneau and the slovenly and uncouth Eckland's personalities clash; they call each other "Miss Goody Two Shoes" and "a rude, foul-mouthed, drunken, filthy beast". He adjusts to her and her girls, however, and cares for her through what they mistakenly believe is a deadly snakebite. Freneau learns that Eckland had been a history professor before he fled civilization to the South Pacific.The couple fall in love and arrange to be married by a military chaplain over the radio. Strafing by a Japanese airplane interrupts the ceremony. Since they have been detected, Houghton sends an American submarine to pick them up, but an enemy patrol boat shows up first. While leaving Catherine and the schoolgirls with his motoryacht's dinghy to make their way to the submarine, Eckland takes his boat out to lure the Japanese vessel out beyond a reef so the submarine can torpedo it. The Japanese sink his boat,...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: What is the name of the dog who accompanies Roy and Cass in the last scene? Beast
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[A]: The film begins with Bobby Carter and his psychiatrist discussing the events of the first film, which took place eight years ago. Bobby is still traumatized by the events, but he and Rachel (formerly known as Ruby) who now owns a biker team and have also invented a super fuel that can power bikes. The team is due to race in the same desert where the original massacre took place and Bobby's psychiatrist tries to convince him to go, but he declines and Rachel takes his place. The team, consisting of the blind Cass, her boyfriend Roy, Harry, Hulk, Foster, Jane and Sue, meets up at a bus and sets off. Along the way, they pick up Beast from a dog pound, the dog was previously owned by the Carters, who now belongs to Rachel.While going through the desert, they get lost and Harry suggests a shortcut through the bombing range. As they drive, the bus begins leaking fuel and they stop at an old mining ranch. As they explore the mine, Pluto, who has apparently survived the earlier attack from Beast, attacks Rachel. She fights him off and he retreats. No one believes her at first, until Pluto returns and steals one of their bikes. Roy and Harry chases him down, but Harry falls behind, gets caught in a trap and is flattened by a massive rock. Roy catches Pluto but is ambushed by a 7-foot cannibal called the Reaper who knocks him unconscious. The Reaper is later revealed to be Papa Jupiter's older brother.Meanwhile, the rest of the group stays at the mine until nightfall. They begin to worry about Roy and Harry. Rachel and Hulk depart to look for them while the others stay behind. The Reaper then begins to stalk the remaining teens. As Hulk and Rachel tries to escape on the motorcycle, he shoots Hulk through the chest with a spear bolt as he dies, leaving Rachel to run away in fear.The Reaper then returns to the mine, where he pulls Foster under the bus and kills him with a hatchet. Jane finds Foster's body but the Reaper catches her and crushes her in a bearhug. Sue returns to the camp only to be thrown through a window...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: What does Clare finally figure out? What sort of creature Miranda really is
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With his wife uninterested in fishing, Dr. Paul Martin goes on a holiday on the Cornwall coast alone. There he snags Miranda, a mermaid, and is pulled into the water. She keeps him prisoner in her underwater cavern and only lets him go after he agrees to show her London. He disguises her as an invalid patient in a wheelchair and takes her to his home for a month-long stay.Martin's wife Clare reluctantly agrees to the arrangement, but gets him to hire someone to look after their guest. He selects Nurse Carey for her eccentric nature and takes her into his confidence. To Paul's relief, Carey is delighted to be working for a mermaid as she always believed they exist.Miranda's seductive nature earns her the admiration of not only Paul, but also his chauffeur Charles, as well as Nigel, the fiance of Clare's friend and neighbour Isobel, arousing the jealousy of the women in their lives. Nigel breaks off his engagement, but when he and Charles discover that Miranda has been flirting with both of them, they come to their senses.Clare finally figures out what sort of creature Miranda really is. Miranda overhears her telling Paul that the public must be told. She wheels herself down to the river and makes her escape.In the final scene, Miranda is shown on a rock, holding a merbaby on her lap.