Gorman Bechard — Director (8)

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The Pretty Girl (2002)
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In a reverie, a young woman (the pretty girl) puzzles out why no one is smiling at her the way they did, except for some women, and those smiles seem different. A male voice narrates. She thinks back to Saturday night. She wore her red dress, a dress smaller than a dress anyone else in town can wear. She went out dancing; she danced and drank and smoke and flirted. She was the last to leave, walking home alone, as usual, by way of the beach. That's the nicest part of the evening, and the nicest part of the nicest part is removing the dress, swimming, and putting the dress on again while still dripping wet. She walks the rest of the way home. What changes things?

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Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements (2011)
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other title: Color Me Obsessed
For some aging music fans and kids with a passion for musical history, The Replacements are rock and roll defined. Gorman Bechard's remarkable history of the 'Mats takes us from their first show as the Impediments to their 1991 onstage breakup in Chicago, and everywhere in between. Bechard bravely eschews including the band's music, photos, and live footage, instead relying solely on the fans: their well-kept memories, hilarious anecdotes, and differing points of views about the foursome's wildly varied discography and infamous antics.

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Old Friends, A Dogumentary (2022)
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other title: 老友狗狗 / Old Friends: A Dogumentary
The paw-inspiring story of the most beloved animal sanctuary in the world, the Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. From their humble beginnings as a small backyard sanctuary, we follow founders Zina and Michael Goodin, their amazing staff, and the gang of one hundred plus senior pooches, as they grow and settle into a brand new 20,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility. You’ll meet the dogs, and the people who fostered them and gave them a reason to wag their tails. It’s a tale of compassion and commitment, where love knows no bounds and as Zina likes to say, “The sky is the limit.” Old Friends: A Dogumentary, a film about a place where love never grows old.

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Friends (With Benefits) (2010)
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Meet Chloe and Owen: best buds since their sandbox days. Now, in med school as they attempt to balance the weight of their studies, his job, her band, their parents, their friends (their sanity), they find little time for relationships...but lots of time for the desire. One fateful day, a brave Owen proposes the "perfect" solution: Friends (read: no messy relationship stuff)...with benefits (read: insanely messy sex stuff). "Perfect," that is...if the two hadn't always been secretly in love with one another So what DOES happen when two close friends decide to secretly blur the lines dividing friendship and relationship...and the rest of their tight knit group of friends finds out? The answer: complications arise. A LOT of complications. In fact, to quote their therapist, "It's brought down empires; imagine what it can do to a group of friends".

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Disconnected (1984)
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other title: 切断
Lovely young Alicia starts receiving bizarre and disturbing phone calls after breaking up with her boyfriend Mike who she suspects is cheating on her with her twin sister Barbara Ann. Alicia meets and befriends amiable, but awkward film nerd Franklin, who alas turns out to be a total psycho with a penchant for carving up nubile ladies. But is Franklin the nutter responsible for those distressing phone calls?

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Psychos in Love (1987)
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★ 7.3 7 ratings
other title: 杀人狂恋爱中 / 爱人不要杀我 …
This horror comedy is at least as funny as "Scary Movie," and just as lacking in plot. Joe, a bar owner and part time psychotic killer, meets Kate, a manicurist and part time psychotic killer. They bond over their hatred of grapes (I am not making this up), and decide to marry, and keep their relationship from interfering with their respective murdering. The female lead, Kate, looks a lot like Molly Ringwald. Joe looks like me with a beard. There is a subplot involving a plumber who eats his victims who has a run in with Kate and Joe, but that really does not go anywhere. What can I write about a movie with that kind of plot? There are quite a few bloody murders and even more nude women, which is weird for a low budget film like this. There are too many scenes of rape, and the acting is less than stellar. The film quickly makes its point about love and marriage being hard, even when you are murderers, and then beats it to death for 88 minutes. The actors do have fun with the genre, however. There is a funny wedding scene that rips off "who's on first?" One scene has the actors talking when a boom mike bonks them in the head, they sweep it aside without a second glance. The writers play with tons of film making conventions to the point that you realize this is not going to be a Shakespearean, or even Adam Sandlerian, smart comedy. I just cannot believe how much I laughed through this. Joe and Kate would argue about where their relationship is going while disposing of bodies. The plumber/killer/cannibal is very good. The gore is cheap but good. I recommend this like I recommended "Scary Movie," with some reservations and a stern warning that this will probably not enrich your life in any way. Bon appetit! This is unrated but contains strong physical violence, gun violence, sexual violence, strong gore, profanity, strong female nudity, and strong sexual references.