Brian Davila Movies
- 2011
A handful of twenty-somethings attempt to build a new society but don't know how to get the right equipment in this satiric comedy from director Matthew Lessner. Civilization is poised to go off the rails at any moment, and as the grid is about to come crashing down, idealistic Daniel (Toby David) leads a group of like-minded friends deep into the woods of Oregon to start new lives away from the chaos. However, no one seems to know just how to go about creating a new civilization, particularly without electricity, running water or a wi-fi signal. As the hipsters dig themselves deeper into a primitive morass where their computers, video game systems and washing machines don't work, Daniel struggles to maintain order but everyone's worst instincts soon take over. Largely improvised by its cast, The Woods received its world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
This comedy chronicles the romantic exploits of a rather stodgy young man with a traffic fetish. Even as a child Charlie Dunlap was totally fixated by freeway traffic. Charlie's biggest idol is Alan Davenport, a radio traffic reporter. As a young man, Charlie falls in love with the lively, free-spirited Amy and they become lovers the night before she leaves for college. Their relationship disintegrates during her absence and Charlie ends up moving to LA to be near the great freeways. Even his rundown apartment overlooks the freeway. Single-minded Charlie is determined to get a job working for Alan Davenport, but his efforts to get hired at Metro Traffic are thwarted by an officious employee. He goes to a neighboring cafe and there discovers Amy working as a waitress. When not working, she performs with an experimental dance troupe that stages its productions at toxic-waste dump sites. Though he wants to start up their relationship again, she tells him she has found another. Charlie ends up having a passionate affair with his landlady. Later he meets Davenport and manages to achieve his dream and become his assistant. Through it all he still longs for Amy and in the end the two do indeed come together. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Josh Charles, Anne Heche, (more)
- 1994
It's the old switcheroo in this action comedy that follows the exploits of desperate extortionists. Gloria is a fluffhead with a Chinese dragon tattooed upon her chest. She wears lovely holograph earrings that just happen to contain classified detail of the U.S. space program. She is taken hostage by the bumbling extortionists and their leader Carl, former head of a freezer treat company. Unfortunately for them, Gloria accidently drowns in their pool when she tangles with a beach ball. Now the crooks must find a look-a-like for Gloria. They find her in Teresa, a college girl with a talent for mathematics. She is captured and tattooed. She soon escapes leading the crooks on a merry chase. Joining in the hunt for Teresa is an FBI agent and her new boyfriend. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Adrienne Shelly, C. Thomas Howell, (more)
- 1994
- R
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This sexy farce stars Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell as Fred Lavery and Sheila Kingston, a pair of cynical detectives investigating the disappearance of a key witness in a diamond-smuggling case. The case leads them to a Club Med-styled S&M resort where dog collars and cat o' nine tails abound; further complicating matters, the smugglers end up on the island as well. The missing witness, photographer Elliot Slater (Paul Mercurio), takes a job as a bondage boy, and he falls in love with the resort manager, Mistress Lisa (Dana Delany. Adapted from Anne Rice's novel of the same name. ~ Jeremy Beday, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, (more)
