Skills Like This
Everybody Wants to be Somebody
Genres
Overview
Max Solomon faces the awful truth that he will never be a writer. So, in a desperate attempt to find his true calling, he turns to crime. In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that larceny might be his best skill.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
86 min
Release Date
2007-03-10
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
11
Vote Average
5.3
Spencer Berger
Max
Brian D. Phelan
Tommy
Gabriel Tigerman
Dave
Kerry Knuppe
Lucy
Jennifer Batter
Lauren
Ned Bellamy
Uncle Morris
Marta Martin
Rosa
Zach Cumer
Cousin Jeramiah
Danielle Arnold
Onion Dance Player
Donna Dewey
TV Reporter
Charles Thomas Doyle
Italian Restaurant patron
Tupper Cullum
Englehard
5.8
Friends and Family
Gay New York couple Stephen Torcelli and Danny Russo have something to hide from Stephen's parents -- their jobs as Mafia enforcers. When the Torcelli family plans to visit, Stephen and Danny panic because Stephen's father works for the FBI. Despite efforts to keep family and Mafia separate, a birthday party gets mixed up with a mobster's daughter's engagement party. Trouble arises when the mobsters concoct a political scheme at the party.
2001-06-17 | en
4.1
The Deviants
A comedy about a matchmaker for people with hilarious dating problems.
2004-05-29 | en
6.0
The Art of Travel
High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
2008-01-08 | en
5.7
Assassination of a High School President
After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article fingering Class President Paul Moore as the thief, shredding the youth's reputation. But as Bobby gets to know Paul's girlfriend, Francesca, he comes to realize he was wrong about Paul, so he sets out to unmask the true culprit.
2008-01-17 | en
4.5
Brutal Massacre: A Comedy
Harry Penderecki, a once heralded horror auteur, finds himself on the outside looking in at Hollywood. He hasn't had a hit film in years, and most in the industry, including his close friends, think he's washed up. Harry is given one last chance to redeem himself with what could be his best or last picture. Brutal Massacre becomes just that, as the cast and crew find themselves battling one mishap after another as Harry struggles to keep his sanity against overwhelming resistance to finish the picture and find himself at the top once again.
2008-07-22 | en
6.3
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife, which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways.
1972-07-01 | en
2.0
Conventioneers
At the 2004 Republican Nation Convention, love blooms between a Republican delegate and a Democrat protesting the event.
2005-04-25 | en
6.1
Love & Sex
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.
2000-02-23 | en
4.8
The Great New Wonderful
The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.
2005-04-22 | en
5.5
The Couch Trip
The escaped mental patient and delinquent John W. Burns Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
1988-01-15 | en
5.5
The Big Bad Swim
An adult swim class sets the stage for this sexually charged comedy-drama about love, loss, and second chances. Three strangers -- inextricably connected through personal heartbreak -- find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn't always about diving right in -- it's about getting your feet wet once in awhile.
2006-04-26 | en
5.2
Gardener of Eden
When a young deli-counter clerk and general slacker in New Jersey accidentally saves a young woman from a serial rapist, he becomes convinced that his new role in life is to become a vigilante.
2007-04-26 | en
6.7
True Stories
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
1986-10-10 | en
5.0
Disorderlies
As not-quite-orderlies who're downright Disorderlies, rap-music favorites The Fat Boys rule. Playing the freewheeling caretakers of the frail Dennison, they stir up a comedic culture clash in Palm Beach society that only proves laughter is the best medicine this side of a tax refund.
1987-08-14 | en
6.1
Frownland
Keith is a disturbingly maladjusted social outcast and self-described “troll” whose neuroses plunge him into an unstoppable spiral of self-obliteration as his crummy coupon-selling job, pitiful living situation and last remaining human relationships disintegrate around him.
2008-03-07 | en
5.7
Two Days
Paul Miller has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. But not just of show business-of life. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood style, he's hired a film crew to chronicle his last moments and the events leading up to them; it's the role of a lifetime. Often ironic and darkly comical, this is the story of a man searching for meaning and hope. This is the story of two days in the life of Paul Miller. The only question is, will they be his last?
2003-05-01 | en
6.0
Splinterheads
SPLINTERHEADS introduces Thomas Middleditch as Justin Frost, a twenty-something slacker whose “thing” is that he has no “thing” at all. When a small-time carnival rolls into town, he meets Galaxy (Rachael Taylor), a gorgeous con artist, or “splinterhead,” who has more “things” going for her than anyone he has ever met.
2009-11-06 | en
4.5
Kiss Me Again
A married couple decides to test the boundaries of their relationship with a seductive Spanish woman. When an unlikely relationship ensues, all three are forced to rethink their definition of love.
2006-04-28 | en
5.4
Who Loves the Sun
A man (Lukas Haas) encounters a childhood friend (Adam Scott) who had an affair with his wife (Molly Parker) five years earlier.
2006-01-04 | en
4.3
Pretty Ugly People
Lucy has always used food to escape life's problems, but when this self-titled "fat friend" lures her group of old college buddies to the Montana wilderness, she reveals a new self - skinny, beautiful and still flawed.
2008-11-14 | en