Patrick Malakian Movies
- 2007
Dead End and Big Nothing writer/director Jean-Baptiste Andrea scripts this comedic horror film about an AC/DC-loving high school skater boy who acquires a most unusual cell phone in a bid to impress the beautiful new transfer student from New York City. Sid is your typical high school rebel: He likes is music loud, he rides his skateboard fast, and he's got a big crush on gorgeous new student Angie. Happening across a mysterious and curiously devilish cell phone at a Chinese bizarre, Sid becomes convinced that Angie will ditch high school playboy Virgile and give him a shot when she catches a glimpse of the cool new gadget. But it wasn't Sid who chose the phone; it was the phone that chose Sid. Now, as the phone that can grant any wish becomes the center of Sid's rapidly shrinking universe, the devoted rebel becomes less interested in romance, and dangerously wrapped up in fantasy. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Jennifer Decker, (more)
Produced in Canada, but first broadcast on French television in 2001, the weekly, 60-minute sci-fi series Starhunter top-billed Michael Paré as interplanetary bounty hunter Dante Montana. In addition to hopping from one planet to another in pursuit of his profession, Dante was also dedicated to finding his son, who'd been kidnapped a decade earlier. Along the way, the hero was alternately impressed and depressed by the way in which Humanity and the Universe were constantly changing and re-inventing themselves. Premiering in Canada over The Movie Network on May 8, 2002, Starhunter was syndicated to the United States on September 9 of that same year. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1998
Christophe Smith made his directorial debut with this media satire, set on December 14, 1999, about a TV news network in cahoots with Washington on Operation Crazy Guru -- a plan to get a U.S. president re-elected for a third term. Griffith (Mickey Rooney), head of the Miami-based international World News Company, decides inept Paris correspondent Michael Kael (Benoit Delapine) is gullible enough to report the staged events, so Kael is sent off to Africa to cover a two-day fest in Katango. International nets air nuke threats by a Japanese nutcase, made on tapes sent from Katango. Kael, of course, has been unwittingly set up as WNC's key reporter, but everything goes haywire once Kael deduces that it's all being faked. The screenplay, by Delapine, is an expansion of comedy sketches that originated on two popular French cable TV shows. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Benoit Delepine, Marine Delterme, (more)
- 1994
A boy, blaming himself for his parent's break-up, devises a scheme to bring them back together in this entertaining French film. Antoine is angry because he can't have a leather jacket so he steals one from a boutique. He couldn't have one because his parents couldn't afford it. His father is a teacher and makes a modest salary. His mother, to help out, takes a job as a telephone operator for an advertising agency. She quickly advances within the company and is soon out earning her husband, who resents it, has an affair, and leaves the house. Antoine, to ease his self-blame and restore harmony, begins hatching his elaborate plan. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Gerard Klein, Marie-France Pisier, (more)
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