shot-in-the-leg movies

Ned Kelly (2003)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Western
Countries: Australia | France | UK
Actors: Ledger, Heath | Bloom, Orlando | Rush, Geoffrey | Watts, Naomi | Edgerton, Joel | Kinlan, Laurence | Barantini, Phil | Condon, Kerry | McQuade, Kris | Browning, Emily | Paramore, Kiri | Griffiths, Rachel | Morrell, Geoff | Tingwell, Charles 'Bud' | Burmeister, Saskia
Directors: Jordan, Gregor
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This film is based on “Our Sunshine” by Robert Drew, a novel based on the life of Australian bushranger and icon, Ned Kelly. It tells of his life as a bushranger in north-west Victoria, where he lived all his life. He, his brother Dan, and two other men, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne, formed a gang. These four robbed a bank and hijacked an entire town for 3 days. They killed three policemen who were hunting them. They then took over a pub in Glenrowan, where they basically held a party, waiting for a train full of police to derail at a part of the track that they tore up. However a school teacher warned the train, so the gang and all the others in the pub ended up in a shootout with scores of policemen.

Land of the Dead (2005)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | USA
Actors: Baker, Simon | Leguizamo, John | Hopper, Dennis | Argento, Asia | Joy, Robert | Clark, Eugene | Boland, Joanne | Nappo, Tony | Baxter, Jennifer | Banks, Boyd | Geljo, Jasmin | McCabe, Max | Munch, Tony | Roberts, Shawn | Arce, Pedro Miguel
Directors: Romero, George A.
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In this new tale a harrowing vision of a modern-day world where the walking dead roam an uninhabited wasteland and the living try to lead “normal” lives behind the walls of a fortified city. A new society has been built by a handful of enterprising, ruthless opportunists, who live in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the hard-scrabble existence on the streets below. But outside the city walls, an army of the dead is evolving. Inside, anarchy is on the rise. With the very survival of the city at stake, a group of hardened mercenaries is called into action to protect the living from an army of the dead.

Hoodlum (1997)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Fishburne, Laurence | Roth, Tim | Williams, Vanessa L. | Garcia, Andy | Tyson, Cicely | McBride, Chi | Williams III, Clarence | Bradford, Richard | Atherton, William | Devine, Loretta | Latifah, Queen | Starr, Mike | Starr, Beau | Benjamin, Paul | Guzaldo, Joe
Directors: Duke, Bill
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The film focuses on the war of two gangs in 1930s Harlem for the control of illegal gaming - one headed by black strategic godfather Bumpy Johnson and another by white ruthless hothead Dutch Schultz. Negotiations proposed by white syndicate boss Lucky Luciano never get under way, blood flows and Johnson gets jailed. When Johnson is paroled, he gets the work of enforcer for mighty Stephanie “The Queen” St. Clair. She is also jailed for racketeering and when she leaves she makes him promise “no violence”.

Suicide Kings (1997)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Watson, Mark | Walken, Christopher | Leary, Denis | Siemaszko, Nina | Fiondella, Jay | Thomas, Henry | Flanery, Sean Patrick | Aldrich, Nathan Dana | Mohr, Jay | Sisto, Jeremy | Medrano, Frank | Garrett, Brad | O'Fallon Jr., James Peter 'JP' | Huttloff, Nicholas | Bross, Trent
Directors: O'Fallon, Peter
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Ex-mob boss Christopher Walken is kidnapped by a group of four kids in a haphazard attempt at paying the ransom for another, separate kidnapping. Complexities arise as the group cannot seem to do anything right.

Crow: City of Angels, The (1996)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Perez, Vincent | Kirshner, Mia | Brooks, Richard | Pop, Iggy | Jane, Thomas | Castellanos, Vincent | Trang, Thuy | Acosta, Eric | Dury, Ian | Ellis, Tracey | Mitchell, Beverley | Smith, Aaron Thell | Gelfant, Alan | Desai, Shelly | Chant, Holley
Directors: Pope, Tim
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Some time ago, Ashe Corven and his son Danny were killed when they stumbled across a pack of drug dealers murdering a fellow dealer. The dealers work for Los Angeles drug kingpin Judah Earl. Local tattoo artist Sarah, who has great knowledge of the crow legend because of what happened with her late friend Eric Draven, has been having dreams about Ashe and Danny. One night when a crow leads her to the scene of the murders of Ashe and Danny, Ashe appears before her. The crow has resurrected Ashe, so Ashe can go after Judah and his right hand man Curve. With the guidance of the crow, Ashe starts killing off Judah’s men one by one, on his way to Judah.

Island, The (2005)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Johansson, Scarlett | Hounsou, Djimon | Bean, Sean | Buscemi, Steve | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Phillips, Ethan | Stepanek, Brian | Tishby, Noa | Flynn, Siobhan | Blendell, Troy | McBride, Jamie | McCorkle, Kevin | Nickens, Gary | Perkins, Kathleen Rose
Directors: Bay, Michael
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Lincoln Six-Echo (McGregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the “The Island” - reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones. Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson). Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the sinister institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives to literally meet their makers.

Cecil B. DeMented (2000)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Griffith, Melanie | Dorff, Stephen | Witt, Alicia | Grenier, Adrian | Gilliard Jr., Larry | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Noseworthy, Jack | Stole, Mink | Lake, Ricki | Hearst, Patricia | Shannon, Michael | Nealon, Kevin | Barry, Eric | Uzoma, Zenzele | Rupli, Erika Lynn
Directors: Waters, John
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In Baltimore, guerrilla filmmaker Cecil B. Demented leads a band of cinema revolutionaries who kidnap Honey Whitlock, a bitchy and aging movie star of big-budget froth. Cecil wants her in his movie, a screed against Hollywood they film during blitzkrieg attacks on a multiplex, a Maryland Film Commission press conference, and the set of a “Forrest Gump” sequel. He insists on celibacy; the cast and crew channel sexual energy into the production. With a family-values coalition, aggrieved Teamsters, and the police on their trail, Cecil needs help from porno, kung-fu, and drive-in audiences. What about Honey? Will she bolt or refuse to act? Or will she hit her marks and light up the screen?

Lucky Numbers (2000)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Kudrow, Lisa | Roth, Tim | Mitchell, Daryl | Rapaport, Michael | Travolta, John | Schiff, Richard | O'Neill, Ed | Pullman, Bill
Directors: Ephron, Nora
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Winter, 1988: Harrisburg PA’s celebrity weatherman, Russ Richards, is broke: he’s borrowed heavily to open a snowmobile dealership, and it’s still unseasonably warm. Gig, his seedy pal, advises him to run an insurance scam; when it goes awry, Russ is out another $10,000 and in trouble with Dale, a bat-wielding thug. Gig convinces Russ to rig the state lottery with the help of Crystal, a gold-digging ditz with a heart of tin. They have to find a beard to buy the ticket, and then they have to cash it. Soon, murder and various double-crosses add to Russ’s nightmare. A lazy cop zeroes in. Jail is closer than riches. Will Russ have to choose between his money and his life?

Battle Royale (2000)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Kitano, Takeshi | Fujiwara, Tatsuya | Maeda, Aki | Yamamoto, Taro | Ando, Masanobu | Shibasaki, Kou | Kuriyama, Chiaki | Tsukamoto, Takashi | Takaoka, Sousuke | Ishikawa, Eri
Directors: Fukasaku, Kinji
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Ninth grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food and various arms. They have to fight each other three days long until the last one remains and are forced to wear a special collar which will explode when they break a rule.

Insomnia (2002)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Donovan, Martin | Williams, Robin | Zemen, Oliver 'Ole' | Swank, Hilary | Dooley, Paul | Katt, Nicky | Holden, Larry | Brazeau, Jay | Cardinal, Lorne | Hutson, James | Campbell, Andrew | Shaw, Paula | Lowe, Crystal | Simms, Tasha
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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Sent from the city to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a small Alaska town, a police detective (Pacino) accidentally shoots his own partner while trying to apprehend a suspect. Instead of admitting his guilt, the detective is given an unexpected alibi, but this “solution” only multiplies the emotional complexity and guilt over his partner’s death. He’s also still got a murder to solve, in addition to the blackmail and framing of an innocent bystander being orchestrated by the man they were chasing. There’s also a local detective (Swank) who is conducting her own personal investigation… of his partner’s death. Will it all come crashing down on him?