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Speaker/Context
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Characters
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100 Girls
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College freshman Matthew
(Jonathan Tucker) has found his true love, the woman of his dreams, his
dream girl. Now all he has to do is find her again. And if he doesn't find
her, he'll die (eventually, as we all do).
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1 Young Man
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A Few Good Men |
While being questioned on the stand, Colonel
Jessup vents his contempt for the disrespect he sees toward the Marine
Corps. |
1 Man |
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A Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy
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The Babel fish, by
effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races
and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the
history of creation.
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Gender Non-Specific |
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Agnes of God
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Hallucinating after being
under hypnosis, disturbed mysterious Agnes (Meg Tilly) remembers things from
her past. (a play originally) |
1 Young Woman
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Aladdin
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He's a Genie (voice of
Robin Williams) in a bottle, you've got to rub him the right way. Or,
rather, he's in a lamp. Or was.
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1 Man
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Amadeus |
Mozart is in a circle of
respected composers explaining why he should be able to perform a vulgar
opera. (A play originally) |
1 Man
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American History X
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His eyes no longer
covered by a thick veil of hate, Danny (Edward Furlong) concludes his
history paper as the sun rises on a brand new day.
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1 Young Man
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Apocalypse Now
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Driven psychotic by the
war, Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) tells about the "horror" in this Francis
Ford Coppola masterpiece.
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1 Man
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Austin Powers
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The notorious Dr.Evil
(Mike Myers) relates the story of his typical childhood to a father-son
group therapy session.
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1 Man
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Babylon 5
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G'Kar (Andreas Katsulas) speaks of the language of hope, the language of
trust, the language of strength and the language of compassion.
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Gender Non-Specific
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The Beach
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In front of an audience,
free-spirit Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), a man constantly looking for
adventure, unfolds the tale of him against a shark.
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1 Young Man
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Beetlejuice
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The ghost with the most,
baby. Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton) advertises his trade: scaring the hell out
of the living for desperate lost souls (in this case, Geena Davis & Alec
Baldwin).
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1 Ghost
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Before Sunrise
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Jesse (Ethan Hawke)
convinces a beautiful stranger on a train Celine (Julie Delpy) to hang out
in Vienna with him for the day.
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1 Young Man
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Best In Show
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Writer-director-star
Christopher Guest (as hound-dog fan Harlan Pepper) espouses the joys of nuts
in all senses of the word.
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1 Man
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The Blair Witch Project
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From the Sundance Film
Festival version of the film, the famous extreme-close-up confession from
hysterically scared and crying Heather (Heather Donahue).
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1 Young Woman
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Blazing Saddles
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The drunk
former-gunslinger Jim, The Waco Kid (Gene Wilder) tells his sad (yeah right)
story.
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1 Man
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Blues Brothers 2000
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Original Blues Brother
Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) tries to talk the band out of mutiny by
explaining the power of the blues.
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1 Man
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The Breakfast Club
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High school jock Andrew
(Emilio Estevez) explains how he landed himself in Saturday detention--with
a very surprising result.
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1 Teen Boy
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Can't Hardly Wait
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Fed up with his facade of
a personality and his refusal to show any true colors, Denise (Lauren
Ambrose) tells off her former best friend.
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1 Teen Girl
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Center Stage
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Jody, our hero, explains
to the director Jonathan Reeves and her teacher Juliette why she doesn't
want to be in the American Ballet Company anymore.
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1 Young Woman
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Chicago
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Ambitious murderess Roxie
Hart (Renée Zellweger) stars in her one-woman show, performing and confiding
in her imaginary audience. (Originally a musical) |
1 Young Woman
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Chorus Line |
A young woman from a small town talks about her dream to be on stage.
(Originally a
musical) |
1 Young Woman
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Chasing Amy |
Alyssa gives her definition of a love story. |
Gender Non-Specific Young Adult |
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Clerks |
A customer comments on the behavior of another man
in the convenience store who has been systematically going through every
single egg carton in the case. |
Gender Non-Specific Young Adult |
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Clueless
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Popular, intelligent, but
somewhat-oblivious Cher (Alicia Silverstone) reflects on her Beverly Hills
misadventures and high school schemes.
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1 Teen Girl
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Cool Hand Luke |
Luke has just entered an abandoned church as he
attempts to escape from a chain gang so he can have a conversation with God.
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1 Adult Male |
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Dawson's Creek |
Jen talking about her
"popular" enemy. |
1 Teen Girls
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Dead Poets Society
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Mr. Keating, (Robin
Williams), an unconventional English teacher, is telling his students what
they can expect to learn this semester in his class on poetry- what he hopes
to teach them.
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1 Person- Gender
Non-Specific
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Dead Poets Society
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Mr. Keating tries to give his students a bit
of inspiration, reflecting on the photographs of classes gone by. Carpe
Diem- seize the day |
1 Person- Gender
Non-Specific
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Dirty Dancing
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An 1980's icon movie:
Baby (Jennifer Grey) admits her guilt while simultaneously accusing her
father of betraying her.
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1 Teen Girl
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Don Juan DeMarco
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Mental patient "Don Juan"
(Johnny Depp) remembers what led to his transformation into the greatest
lover who ever lived.
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1 Young Man
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Instead of feeling
depressed at work, Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) calls in sick on Valentines Day
and feels depressed while walking on a beach in upstate NY.
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1 Young Man
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Fast Times At Ridgemont High
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Ultimate ladies-man (just
ask him) Mike Damone (Robert Romanus) gives his protege a few tips on women
in this very good teen-sex comedy.
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1 Teen Boy
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Here is the opening
smug, confident, outlandish Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick).
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1 Teen Boy
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Fight Club
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The rules and regulations
of Fight Club, as delivered by Tyler (Brad Pitt).
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1 Young Man
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Field of Dreams |
Terry
reminds Ray (Kevin Costner) that once was good, and that could be again.
"If you build it, they will come." |
Gender Non-Specific |
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The Fisher King |
Parry confesses his love for Lydia after their
first date. |
1 Man
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The Fisher King |
Parry tells the story of the Fisher King and the
Holy Grail.
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Gender Non-Specific |
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Forrest Gump
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Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)
mourns the death of his beloved Jenny at her grave at the conclusion of the
1995 Best Picture.
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1 Man
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Fried Green Tomatoes
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Repressed housewife
Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) discovers the joy of getting angry and mad and
furious (at men specifically). Towanda!
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1 Woman
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Funny Girl
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Ambitious comedienne
Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand), a bagel among onion rolls (to use her
metaphor), won't let anyone rain on her parade.
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1 Young Woman
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Gladiator
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Weak and his mind
corrupted, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) attempts to get close his Emperor
father -- before a committing a terrible and cowardly betrayal.
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1 Young Man
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Good Will Hunting
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Young (and troubled)
prodigy Will Hunting (Matt Damon) explains the problems he has with working
for the government to a potential future employer (the NSA to be exact).
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1 Young Man
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The Goonies
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Legendry 1980's cinematic
icon Chunk (Jeff Cohen) spills his guts on "everything" after being captured
by the Fratellis, under threat of torture.
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1 Teen Boy
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Gypsy
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Louise (aka famous exotic
dancer Gypsy Rose Lee (Natalie Wood)) argues with her mother about her
identity in her backstage dressing room. (originally a musical) |
1 Young Woman
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Happy Gilmore
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Washed-up short-fused
hockey player Happy (Adam Sandler) believes with his heart and his soul that
he was put on the earth for one thing: hockey...rather than a sport like
golf, for example.
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1 Man
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Irreconcilable Differences
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Casey (a very young Drew
Barrymore) beats her constantly-fighting parents to the punch and sues to
divorce herself from both of them.
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1 Young Girl
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The Jerk
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Back in his wild n'crazy
days, Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) carries on a "conversation" with an
asleep Marie (Bernadette Peters).
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1 Man
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Jerry Maguire
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Struck by the lightning
bolt of inspiration, Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) needs to write down some
revolutionary views on his often-twofaced profession.
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1 Man
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Joe Versus the Volcano
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It's amazing what a terminal disease diagnosis will do for your self-esteem.
Just ask the once mild-mannered office goon Joe Banks (Tom Hanks).
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1 Man
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
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A monologue from Bill
(David Carradine): his take on Clark Kent / Superman.
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1 Man
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Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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Mysterious queen
Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) tells the story so far.
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1 Fairy Queen
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Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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Everything is on the
brink of destruction. Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) advises Elrond as to the
Elves' role in the fate of the threatened Middle Earth.
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1 Fairy Queen
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Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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Gollum (Andy Serkis)
taunts and torments Smeagol, his subservient former self - until Smeagol
decides to fight back.
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1 Multiple Personality
Man
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Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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The quest has taken a
heavy toll on Frodo's (Elijah Wood's) mind and spirit, but the faithful and
innocent Sam (Sean Astin) revigorates his friend. There is still hope.
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1 Young Man
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Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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Smeagol (voice of Andy
Serkis) -- and his resurfaced alter-ego Gollum -- plot against the
Hobbitsessss Samwise and Frodo.
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1 Multiple Personality
Man
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Men in Black
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Upon the recruiting of a new agent, Zed (Rip Torn) recites the rules
and regulations of being in the top-secret galaxy defender league. |
1 Man
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Men with Brooms
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There are some strange athletic activities out there. Curling is one of
them. But heck, the Beatles participated in curling in "Help!" Cutter
(Paul Gross) attempts to explain the mystique behind his favorite
broom-related activity.
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1 Man
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Those wacky Pythons
succeed in finding a solution to destroying the fierce rabbit--the Holy Hand
Grenade of Antioch.
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1 Man
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Moulin Rouge
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Defying his father, young
poet Christian (Ewan McGregor) joins the dark, fantastical underworld of
Moulin Rouge, falling into an ultimately tragic love affair with the club's
highest paid star, Satine.
(Originally a musical) |
1 Young Man
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Nuts
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Facing commitment,
Claudia Draper (Barbra Streisand) is on trial for manslaughter. She has been
put on the stand, and has just been asked the question "Do you love your
mother?" (Originally a play) |
1 Young Woman
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The Opposite of Sex |
Cynical and definitely
not politically-correct, 16-year-old Dedee Truitt (Christina Ricci) abandons
her unique pseudo-family. |
1 Teen Girl
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The Outsiders
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Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio) writes his last words to his best friend
Ponyboy as he lies, mortally wounded, in the hospital: a truly moving
cinematic moment.
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1 Young Man
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Philadelphia
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Lawyer Jim Miller (Denzel
Washington) gives his opening statement to a jury; his client Andrew Beckett
(Tom Hanks) is suing because he was allegedly fired because he has AIDS.
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1 Young Man
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The Princess Bride
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This
Buttercup (Robin Wright) speech does not appear in the movie as is.
Pieces of it, yes. Maybe it is from the book and/or the original screenplay?
I just couldn't resist it, truth be told.
Very Funny. |
1 Young Woman
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The Princess Bride
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Count Rugen explains his fascination with pain to
Westley.
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1 Man
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The Princess Bride
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Vizzini tries to decide which glass contains the
poison in his battle of wits with Westley. (brilliant monologue) |
Gender Non-Specific |
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The Princess Bride
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Westley threatens to fight Prince Humperdinck, not
to the death, to the pain. |
1 Man |
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Pump Up the Volume
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Mark Hunter (Christian
Slater) tosses off the Hard-Harry persona and speaks to his fans (and
enemies) as himself, an angsty pained teenager trying to get through the
hell that is everyone's teenage years, in the movie's climactic moment.
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1 Teen Boy
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Red Dwarf |
Rimmer relates a
story about his parent's religion to Lister. (very funny) |
Gender Non-Specific |
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Red Dwarf |
Lister tells a story about his friend's "Smart
Shoes". (very funny also) |
Gender Non-Specific |
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Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
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Romy (Mira Sorvino) spins
a tale of success--they invented Post-It Notes--as they travel cross-country
to their high school reunion.
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1 Young Woman
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
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They're not sure where
they came from or where they're going. They have no backstory. And also,
they're not sure of who has which name. Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman)--or is it
Guildenstern?--ponders what dead must be like. (Originally a play) |
1 Young Man
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School of Rock
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The Man is bringing Dewey
Finn (Jack Black) down! HE can't do that to him, he who raises the goblet of
rock!
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1 Young Man
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SLC Punk
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What happens when you
take a punk named Stevo (Matthew Lillard) out of his natural environment
(New York) and put him in Salt Lake City.
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Gender
Non-Specific
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SLC Punk
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Mark (Til Schweiger)
relates a tragedy from his youth.
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1 Young Man
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SLC Punk
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A party thrown by Stevo
(Matthew Lillard) spirals downhill after some rednecks crash the place; he
realizes that his lifestyle is a contradiction in itself.
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1 Young Man
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SLC Punk
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Steveo talks to his
divorced parents about his views of them and their life-styles.
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1 Young Man
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Stand By Me
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The narrating Writer
(Richard Dreyfuss) concludes the story by telling the fate of each of his
best friends after the adventurous summer which marked the end of their
childhood.
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1 Man
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Star Trek: Nemesis
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On this happy day
(despite the presence of Wesley Crusher), best man Captain Jean-Luc Picard
(Patrick Stewart) offers a toast to the bride Counselor Deanna Troi and
groom Commander William T. Riker
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1 Man
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Star Trek: The Next
Generation
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"Ode to Spot" (the cat)
from Data (Brent Spinner)
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1
Droid
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Suicide Kings |
Lono explains how he helped his father get over
his drinking problem. |
1 Man
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
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As Mr. Tom Ripley (Matt
Damon) says, "I always thought it'd be better to be a fake somebody than a
real nobody" -- even if he has to erase himsel and kill and steal another
life to fully become a somebody.
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1 Man
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This is Spinal Tap |
Monologue from the beginning of the film. |
1 Man
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Time Bandits
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If Evil (David Warner)
had created the earth instead of that Supreme Being wussy, things would be
different. (From the creators of Monty Python) |
1 Man
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Twelve Monkeys
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Two monologues from our
favorite monkey, the insane, paranoid revolutionary rich-boy Jeffery Goines
(Brad Pitt). (Edit if Necessary)
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2 Men (1 does all the talking)
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Waiting for Guffman
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In this deleted scene,
Dairy Queen servant Libby (Posey Parker) auditions for Corky St. Claire's
musical with a monologue.
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1 Young Woman
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Wayne's World 2
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World's greatest stage
manager Del Preston (Ralph Brown), recruited by Wayne and Garth, has a never
ending supply of (most likely false) rock anecdotes.
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1 Man |
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When Harry Met Sally
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Sally (Meg Ryan) recently
broke up with her long-time boyfriend and is convinced she did the right
thing. Plus another monologue from
Harry: apartments and death.
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1 Man /1 Woman |
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White Oleander
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Two monologues: Astrid
(Alison Lohman) ponders her life at the beginning and at the end of her
especially painful teenage trials.
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1 Young Woman |
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The Witches of
Eastwick
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Alex, after having lunch with Daryl, lets him know
how she really feels. |
1 Young Woman |
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X-Files |
Cancer man compares life to a box of chocolates,
but it's nothing like Forrest Gump's box! |
Gender Non-Specific
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