Money Buys Happiness 1999  R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregg Lachow
Cast: Megan Murphy, Jeff Weatherford, John Holyoke, Cynthia Whalen, Catherine Sutherland, Michael Chick, Caveh Zahedi
Money (Jeff Weatherford) and wife Georgia (Megan Murphy) look for new beginnings and happiness as the new millennium approaches. He would get rid of material worth and seek a re-awakening while she thinks of renewing a relationship with an old lover. When a friend dies and leaves the couple with a piano, Money must lug it home–50 blocks away–while Georgia watches over home and works at her job. These events reveal the couple's relationship. Deep.
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Treasure Island 1999  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Scott King
Cast: Lance Baker, Nick Offerman, Jonah Blechman, Pat Healy, Suzy Nakamura, Rachel Singer, Stephanie Ittleson, Daisy Hall, Caveh Zahedi, Becket Cook, Victor Raider-Wexler, Scot Thomas Robinson, Dolph Scott, George Hirschmann, Bob Byington
Treasure Island Naval Base, San Francisco Bay Area, during World War II is the setting for this film about two Naval officers (Lance Baker and Nick Offerman) assigned to the encryption center. Their mission is to send messages aimed at confusing Japanese intelligence. The current operation involves a corpse to whom they assign their own sexual deviances. This film reflects the sexual and social mores of the earlier era.
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Waking Life 2001 R, 99 min.
Genre: Animation / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Wiley Wiggins, Trevor Jack Brooks, Robert C. Solomon, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Charles Gunning, David Sosa, Alex Jones, Nicky Katt, Carol Dawson, Bill Wise, Caveh Zahedi
Superb computer-animation (filmed as live action then digitally transferred to computers) is used to project philosophical musings of the film's young hero (Wiley Wiggins) who can't seem to figure out if he is awake, dreaming, or even dead. Fascinating.
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| 1. Money Buys Happiness (1999)
2. Treasure Island (1999)
3. Waking Life (2001)
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