GET SMART

GENRE:  Action/ Adventure/ Comedy
MADE:  2008
CAST:  Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin
DIRECTOR:  Peter Segal
WRITER:  Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember, Mel Brooks, Buck Henry

PLOT:  Maxwell Smart is an administrator in a government spy agency, this changes when the head office is attacked and he is then assigned to be agent number 86, paired up with beautiful agent number 99, who finds him to be a major slow-down in their special assignment.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Date Night, Johnny English, The A-Team, The Tuxedo

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WAIT UNTIL DARK

GENRE:  Crime/ Drama/ Thriller
MADE:  1967
CAST:  Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
DIRECTOR:  Terence Young
WRITER:  Frederick Knott, Robert Carrington, Jane-Howard Carrington

PLOT:  A single blind woman is robbed when she is believed to be unknowingly have in her possession a doll stuffed with heroine.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Vertigo, To Catch A Thief, Rear Window

 

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SUNSHINE CLEANING

GENRE:  Comedy/ Drama
MADE:  2008
CAST:  Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Steve Zahn, Clifton Collins Jr.
DIRECTOR:  Christine Jeffs
WRITER:  Megan Holley

PLOT:  For the welfare of herself and her son, a young woman goes in to business for herself as a crime scene clean-up service in order to make more money.  With her younger sister in tow she finds that this job isn't all that it is said to be.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Thank You For Smoking,  Julie & Julia,  Little Miss Sunshine

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LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

GENRE:  Comedy/Dark Comedy
MADE:  2006
CAST:  Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin 
DIRECTOR:  Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris 
WRITER:  Michael Arndt

PLOT:  A funny adventure full of ups and downs of a family keeping it real and trying to keep it together inspite of financial woes and personal problems as they travel from New Mexico to California to get their youngest to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Djarling Limited,  The Royal Tenenbaums, Transamerica

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