SLEEPERS

GENRE:  Crime/ Drama/ Thriller
MADE:  1996
CAST:  Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric
DIRECTOR:  Barry Levinson
WRITER:  Lorenzo Carcaterra, Barry Levinson

PLOT:  A group of young boys end up in a harsh detention center when a prank goes wrong killing an innocent man.  Their stay at the detention center leads to them being brutalized and abused, and 10 years later they seek their revenge.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Shawshank Redemption, American History X, Liberty Heights, The Count Of Monte Cristo

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BABEL

GENRE:  Drama
MADE:  2006
CAST:  Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal
DIRECTOR:  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
WRITER:  Guillermo Arriaga, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

PLOT:  Four different families with their own difficulties and tragedies converge to complete one story.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Mammoth, 21 Grams, Amores Perros, Magnolia

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THESPIAN OF THE WEEK: Brad Pitt

Name:  William Bradley Pitt

AKA:  Brad Pitt

Date of birth:  December 18, 1963

From:  Oklahoma

Specialty:  Acting

Brad Pitt Films You Can't Miss:

Inglourious Basterds

Adventure/ Drama/ War

Fight Club

Drama/ Mystery/ Thriller

Interview With The Vampire

Drama/ Fantasy

SNATCH

GENRE:  Crime/ Thriller
MADE:  2000
CAST:  Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro
DIRECTOR:  Guy Ritchie
WRITER:  Guy Ritchie

PLOT:  A boxing promoter, a bookie, Jewish thieves and a jeweler fight each other for a stolen diamond.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Lucky Number Slevin, Pulp Fiction

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MR. & MRS. SMITH

GENRE:  Action/ Comedy/ Romance
MADE:  2005
CAST:  Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Adam Brody
DIRECTOR:  Doug Liman
WRITER:  Simon Kinberg

PLOT:  Unknowingly, two assassins from opposite sides get married, when this is found out the two must kill each other which proves very hard to do.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Knight and Day, Get Smart, Date Night

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THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

GENRE:  Drama/ Fantasy/ Mystery
MADE:  2008
CAST:  Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton
DIRECTOR:  David Fincher
WRITER:  Eric Roth, Robin Swicord, F. Scott Fitzgerald

PLOT:  The life of a man who is born old and dies young.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Forest Gump, Jack, What's Eating Gilbert Grape

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TWELVE MONKEYS

GENRE:  Mystery/ Sci-Fi/ Thriller
MADE:  1995
CAST:  Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt
DIRECTOR:  Terry Gilliam
WRITER:  Chris Marker, David Webb Peoples, Janet Peoples

PLOT:  In the future James Cole, a convict is chosen to be sent back in time to get information regarding a man-made virus that has wiped out most of the earth's population.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Blade Runner, Dark City, Children Of Men

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TRUE ROMANCE

GENRE:  Crime/ Romance
MADE:  1993
CAST:  Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper
DIRECTOR:  Tony Scott
WRITER:  Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary

PLOT:  Things can only go south when a young man marries a hooker and steals her pimp's stash of cocaine.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Training Day, Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

GENRE:  Drama/ Fantasy
MADE:  1994
CAST:  Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Kirsten Dunst
DIRECTOR:  Neil Jordan
WRITER:  Anne Rice

PLOT:  An ambitious journalist gets the chance for a personal interview with a vampire, where the vampire tells the story of his life, how he was turned to present.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Bram Stoker's Dracula, Underworld, Queen Of The Damned

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FIGHT CLUB

GENRE:  Drama/ Mystery/ Thriller
MADE:  1999
CAST:  Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter
DIRECTOR:  David Fincher
WRITER:  Chuck Palahnuik, Jim Uhls

PLOT:  When an insurance agent's apartment gets blown up he calls one person, a man he just met on a plane, a traveling soap salesman.  The two build a friendship and begin an organization called the Fight Club where men gather to vent.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:   Memento, Inglourious Basterds, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Primal Fear

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INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

GENRE:  Adventure/ Drama/ War
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth
DIRECTOR:  Quentin Tarantino
WRITER:  Quentin Tarantino

PLOT:  Set during WWII in Nazi-occupied France a group of American soldiers, the "Basterds" spread fear in the Third Reich as they hunt down and brutally kill Nazis.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Sin City, Snatch, Fight Club

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SE7EN

GENRE:  Crime/ Mystery
MADE:  1995
CAST:  Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey
DIRECTOR:  David Fincher
WRITER:  Andrew Kevin Walker

PLOT:  Two detectives team up to hunt down a lunatic killer of a series of murders that occur in New York City.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Copycat, The Bone Collector, Taking Lives

 

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