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06.03.2003
Leonard is a player on
a sports team. Although it seems unlikely with his ragtag band
of misfits, they make it to the big game. At a crucial moment
he blows a big play.
Leonard dresses as a woman
to gain the trust of a girl he wants to go out with. No one is
fooled.
Leonard heads down to
Tijuana for a crazy spring break party. He spends most of the
time in his hotel room reading. His roommates noisily fuck strangers
in the bathroom.
An epic space battle is
taking place. Leonard portrays a supply room clerk who steals
personal items.
Leonard becomes involved
in the world of organized crime. He starts out as a driver, and
fails to receive a promotion because he talks too much.
Leonard and a friend talk
late into the night about semiology.
Leonard responds to the
stultifying nature of his 9-to-5 office job with a series of
witty asides, wisecracks and wry irony, none of which is understood
by his co-workers.
Leonard overcomes a brutal
working-class childhood but fails anyway.
Leonard embarks on a quest
for revenge against the man who killed his family. Eventually
he gets bored and calls it off.
Leonard, as a sharklike
defense attorney, dazzles the jury and almost gets his innocent
client off, until it is revealed in the climactic final reel
that he dropped out of high school and does not have a license
to practice law. His client gets life.
Leonard's iconoclastic
rock band faces a number of travails, not the least of which
is that no one will give them a record contract because they
are terrible. However, they prevail in the end, at least in the
sense of not dying.
Leonard's car is towed.
He makes a fatuous comment about it.
Leonard stars as a porn
actor whose thirty-three-inch member is so grotesquely oversized
that no one will work with him.
Leonard portrays an innovative
doctor and medical researcher whose studies save lives; however,
since he is a urologist, he is not considered worth making a
movie about.
In a delightful pairing
with Janeane Garofalo, Leonard plays a man so sarcastic and unattractive
that he is cast as the best friend to her lead.
Leonard plays a game of
"King of the Mountain" with some foul-mouthed dwarves.
Leonard stars as a scrappy
boxer who makes it to the championship and loses.
Leonard stars as a scrappy
boxer who makes it to the championship and loses again.
Leonard stars as a scrappy
boxer who is soundly thrashed by a younger, hungrier fighter
in spite of never having won the championship.
Leonard stars as a scrappy
boxer who has never won a championship and is reduced to fighting
Swedish weightlifters gopped up on steroids.
Leonard stars as a no
longer scrappy boxer who gets beaten up in bars because he lies
about having once been a championship fighter.
Leonard is a rugged, rebellious
action hero who cockily defeats all his enemies until he runs
into someone tougher and more skilled than he is six minutes
into the film.
Leonard stars as a Viet
Nam veteran who, traumatized by his wartime experiences, decends
into a nightmarish spiral of drugs, alcohol and kinky sex in
a desperate attempt to forget that he did not actually serve
in the Viet Nam war at all.
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