Chopper Bernet Movies
- 2009
- NR
A struggling alcoholic is prompted on a cross-country quest for redemption after discovering a $20 bill with a mysterious handwritten message. Try as he might, Carty Fox (writer/director Chopper Burnet) just can't seem to get sober. When Carty becomes obsessed with a grim message hastily scrawled on a $20 bill, his friends and family begin to fear that he's losing the battle once and for all. By the time Carty emerges from his latest blackout, he's in a small Michigan hotel room. Over the course of the next few days, Carty scours the city for answers, questioning waitresses and anyone else he can corner while once again falling into his self-destructive cycle of alcoholism. Upon befriending a pretty waitress and a volatile young man, Carty begins to suspect that he's on the right trail. Now, in order to learn the truth, Carty must accept his disease and look inward for the courage to face a person accused of committing one of the most heinous crimes imaginable. Clancy Brown and Lorraine Newman co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Chopper Bernet, Clancy Brown, (more)
- 2003
- R
- Add Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines to QueueAdd Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines to top of Queue
The second sequel to the 1984 sci-fi action classic, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is the first film without the involvement of director James Cameron. Instead, Jonathan Mostow, the man behind Breakdown and U-571, has stepped in to fill the shoes left vacant by Cameron. In addition, the role of John Connor from the second film has been recast, with In the Bedroom's Nick Stahl taking over for Edward Furlong. Set ten years after the events of 1991's Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the film finds Connor living on the streets as a common laborer. Sarah Connor, his mother, has since died, and their efforts in the second film have not stopped the creation of SkyNet artificial intelligence network. As he will still become the leader of the human resistance, Connor is once again targeted by a Terminator sent from the future by SkyNet. This new Terminator, T-X (Kristanna Loken), is a female and is more powerful than any of her predecessors. To protect Connor, the human resistance sends a new T-101 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) back from the future. Also starring Claire Danes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines had its world premiere when it showed out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Starring:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, (more)
- 2002
- G
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Screenwriter John Fusco returns to the Western themes of his previous films Young Guns and Thunderheart with this animated children's adventure from Dreamworks. Matt Damon supplies the voice of Spirit, a wild Mustang stallion living free in the Old West of the late 19th century, where he's captured by human horse traders and sold to a cavalry regiment at a frontier outpost. There, a cruel colonel (voice of James Cromwell) nearly succeeds in breaking the willful horse, but not quite. Spirit escapes in the company of another captive, Little Creek (voice of Daniel Studi), a Native American youth that tries to possess the magnificent animal by more humane means, but Spirit refuses to bend to human will even when he makes the acquaintance of Little Creek's beautiful and fiercely loyal mare, Rain. After he saves Little Creek's life in an Army raid, Spirit believes that the gravely injured Rain has perished after a tumble over a waterfall. Despondent, the horse is captured again by humans, enslaved this time for work in a pack team on the transcontinental railroad. Undaunted by the tragedies that befall him, Spirit manages to escape for a reunion with Little Creek, Rain, and his long-lost brethren. Featuring songs by rock singer Bryan Adams, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron departs from other examples of its genre in that the horse protagonists do not speak or sing; only Spirit's voice is heard as voice-over narration. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
- Starring:
- Matt Damon, James Cromwell, (more)
- 2001
A variety of people share their thoughts, opinions, and ideas during an afternoon at a San Francisco coffee shop in this independent comedy-drama. An elderly man (Pat Everett) reads a novel and finds it sends his imagination on a trip through his past. Two African-Americans in their mid-forties (Fred Pitts and Charles Blackburn) try to read the paper while often stopping to argue about the nature of racism in America and in themselves. Two friends (Chris Pflueger and J.P. Allen) play chess while discussing literature, with one enjoying his intellectual lead on his buddy just a bit too much. And as a published novelist (Janis DeLucia Allen) tries to enjoy her coffee, she's confronted by an aspiring writer (Chopper Bernet) who works as a paramedic; he insists on sharing with her his opinions about her work and herself while trying to get her to listen to a short story he's written. Coffee and Language was the first feature from writer and director J.P. Allen, who also plays one of the chess players. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Chopper Bernet
