“A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed “Docent” who stole the priceless headpiece of Alexander the Great during an archaeological expedition. But after militia “inputs” Troshkin into the criminal environment he has nothing left to do but to carefully play out the part of his “evil twin”. Written by John Isaak {zardock@geocities.com}”

• Director: Aleksandr Seryj
• Release Date: 6 April 1973 (East Germany)
• Run Time: 88 min
• Country: Soviet Union
• Genre: Adventure , Comedy , Crime , Drama , Mystery

Trivia: “Dotsent” is a common Russian academic title, roughly corresponding to “The Professor” in the USA. The plot of a timid ordinary citizen being mistaken for a hardened criminal and becoming involved in catching the crooks goes back in US film history at least to John Ford’s The Whole Town's Talking (1935), a comedy-drama that starred Edward G. Robinson in a similar dual role.

Goofs: Plot holes: When they are playing in the snow in front of the dacha, the fake tattoos come off and smudges of ink are visible on the fake Docent’s torso. None of the criminals seem to notice.

“Ilija Cvorovic is called by the secret police to routinely answer questions about his neighbour, businessman who had returned from the West. After that talk, Cvorovic is convinced that his neighbour represents the greatest threat to national security and begins his own surveillance operation against the innocent man. Written by Dragan Antulov {dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr}”

• Run Time: 95 min
• Country: Yugoslavia
• Genre: Comedy

“Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director of the institution, wants to make Novoseltsev the head of the department but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other… Written by Denis Chebikin {chebikin@mit.edu}”

• Director: Eldar Ryazanov
• Release Date: 1977 (Soviet Union)
• Run Time: 159 min
• Country: Soviet Union
• Genre: Comedy , Romance

“U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the “precious bodily fluids” of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a “Doomsday Machine” which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Premier and the former Nazi genius Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that “such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious”. Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world ? Written by Colin Tinto {cst@imdb.com}”

• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Release Date: 29 January 1964 (USA)
• Run Time: 93 min
• Country: UK
• Genre: Comedy
• MPAA: Rated PG for thematic elements, some violent content, sexual humor and mild language. (2005 re-rating)

Tagline: the hot-line suspense comedy

Trivia: The only known public showing of the famous custard pie footage was at the 1999 screening of the film at London’s National Film Theatre following Stanley Kubrick’s death.

Goofs: Anachronisms: The big map on the Pentagon wall is badly out of date – Finland lost Karjala to the USSR during WWII.

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“In a distant, but not so unrealistic future, where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the powerful multi-national Buy N Large corporation, WALL-E, a garbage collecting robot has been left to clean up the mess. Mesmerized with trinkets of earth’s history and show tunes, WALL-E is alone on Earth except for a sprightly pet cockroach. One day, Eve, a sleek (and dangerous) reconnaissance robot, is sent to earth to find proof that life is once again sustainable. WALL-E falls in love with Eve. WALL-E rescues Eve from a dust storm and shows her a living plant he found amongst the rubble. Consistent with her “directive” Eve takes the plant and automatically enters a deactivated state except for a blinking green beacon. WALL-E, doesn’t understand what has happened to his new friend, but true to his love, he protects her from wind, rain, and lightening, even as she is unresponsive. One day a massive ship comes to reclaim Eve, but WALL-E, out of love or loneliness hitches a ride on the outside of the ship to rescue Eve. The ship arrives back at a large space cruise ship, which is carrying all of the humans who evacuated earth 700 years earlier. The people of earth ride around this space resort on hovering chairs which give them a constant feed of TV and video chatting. They drink all of their meals through a straw out of laziness and/or bone loss, and are all so fat that they can barely move. When the auto-pilot computer, acting on hastily given instructions sent many centuries before, tries to prevent the people of earth from returning, by stealing the plant, WALL-E, Eve, the portly captain, and a band of broken robots stage a mutiny. Written by Anonymous”

• Director: Andrew Stanton
• Release Date: 27 June 2008 (USA)
• Run Time: 98 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Animation , Adventure , Comedy , Family , Romance , Sci-Fi

Tagline: An Adventure Beyond the Ordinar-E

Trivia: All robots in WALL

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• Director: Nesli Colgecen
• Run Time: Turkey:101 min (TV version)
• Country: Turkey
• Genre: Comedy , Drama

“Forrest, Forrest Gump is a simple man with little brain activity but good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His ‘mama’ teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, write bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several times. However this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny. Who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone Written by aliw135″

• Director: Robert Zemeckis
• Release Date: 6 July 1994 (USA)
• Run Time: 142 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Drama , Romance
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for drug content, some sensuality and war violence.

Tagline: The story of a lifetime.

Trivia: Bill Murray was considered for the role of Forrest.

Goofs: Continuity: Forrest leaves the mower with grass in front of it when he goes to meet Jenny. When they cut back to him, the mower is sitting next to the cut grass, not in the middle of it.

“K.K. Khosla (Anupam Kher) is a middle class man living in New Delhi. He is a simple man with simple tastes. The plot starts with a scene where Khosla dreams about his death. The irony is that nobody cares about his death; instead his children & neighbours are more interested in their materialistic needs. One early morning in Delhi, Khosla wakes up and plans to go to the site where he has purchased a plot to build his house. He is accompanied by his wife, eldest son Bunty (Ranvir Shorey), second son Chironji Lal Khosla (Parvin Dabas), and his daughter. When they reach the spot they find that the site has been occupied by someone else and on further investigation find that it has been captured by a property usurping nexus headed by a man named Kishan Khurana (Boman Irani). Khurana demands Rs. 15 lakhs to vacate the plot, which Khosla refuses to give. Bunty gathers few local strongmen and forcefully destroys the walls and re-occupies the plot. But Khurana has the police on his side and he gets Khosla arrested. After a day in the lock-up, Khosla is released. After Cherry meets Asif Iqbal who at one time was Khurana’s partner. Khurana took away Asif’s ancestral land by cheating him. So Asif and the Khoslas turn the tables on Khurana and dupe him of Rs. 35 lakhs (by fraud). In the end, Khosla gives the required 15 lakh to Khurana and takes possession of his plot. Written by gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com”

• Director: Dibakar Banerjee
• Release Date: 22 September 2006 (India)
• Run Time: India:135 min
• Country: India
• Genre: Comedy

Trivia: The role of Mr.Khosla was first offered to Paresh Rawal, but he turned it down. The role later went to Anupam Kher.

Goofs: Continuity: When Kamal Kishore Khosla went to meet Kishan Khurana for the first time, the spinning dolphin on Kishan Khurana’s desk stops spinning for about one minute, but in the next scene it’s still spinning.

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