James Patterson

ALONG CAME A SPIDER – He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids it was headline news. Then one of them was found – dead. For such a high-profile case, they needed Alex Cross, a psychologist and Jezzie Flanagan, a Secret Service agent – yet even they were no match for the killer. Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph. D in Psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He’s a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities. Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she’s got an outer shell that’s as tough as it is beautiful. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. What is she running from? What is her secret? Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair- at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the crime of the century, is playing at the top of his game. Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service and the police. Who will be his next victim? Gary Soneji is every parents’ worst nightmare. He has become Alex Cross’s nightmare. And now, reader, he’s about to become yours. When nine-year-old Maggie Rose and her best friend, Michael Goldberg, are kidnapped from their exclusive school in Washington D.C., it is clear this is not an ordinary case. Maggie’s mother is a superstar actress, and Michael’s father is Secretary of the Treasury. Together Alex Cross, Deputy Chief of detectives, and Jezzie Flanagan, Supervisor in the Secret Service, must race to save the children. New Jersey, near Princeton, March 1932: The Charles Lindbergh farmhouse glowed with bright, orangish lights. It looked like a fiery castle, especially in that gloomy, fir-wooded region of Jersey. Shreds of misty fog touched the boy as he moved closer and closer to his first moment of real glory, his first kill. It was pitch-dark and the grounds were soggy and muddy and thick with puddles. He had anticipated as much. He’d planned for everything, including the weather. He wore a size nine man’s work boot. The toe and heel of the boots were stuffed with torn cloth and strips of the Philadelphia Inquirer. He wanted to leave footprints, plenty of footprints. A man’s footprints. Not the prints of a twelve-year-old boy. They would lead from the county highway called the Stoutsburg-Wertsville Road, up to, then back from, the farmhouse. He began to shiver as he reached a stand of pines, not thirty yards from the sprawling house. The mansion was just as grand as he’d imagined: Seven bedrooms and four baths on the second floor alone. Lucky Lindy and Anne Morrow’s place in the country. Cool beans, he thought. The boy inched closer and closer toward the dining-room window. He was fascinated by this condition know as fame. He thought a lot about it. Almost all the time.  What was fame really like? How did it smell? How did it taste? What did fame look like close up? “The most popular and glamorous man in the world” was right there, sitting at the table. Charles Lindbergh was tall, elegant, and fabulously golden haired, with a fair complexion. “Lucky Lindy” truly seemed above everyone else. So did his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Anne had short hair. It was curly and black, and it made her skin look chalky white. The light from the candles on the table appeared to be dancing around her. Both of them very straight in their chairs. Yes, they certainly looked superior, as if they were God’s special gifts to the world. They kept their heads high, delicately eating their food. He strained to see what was on the table. It looked like lamb chops on their perfect China. “I’ll be more famous than either of you pitiful stiffs,” the boy finally whispered. He promised that to himself. Every detail had been thought through a thousand times, at least that often. He very methodically went to work. The boy retrieved a wooden ladder left near the garage by workingmen. Holding the ladder tightly against his side, he moved toward a spot just beyond the library window. He climbed silently up to the nursery. His pulse was racing, and his heart was pounding so loud he could hear it. Light cast from a hallway lamp illuminated the baby’s room. He could see the crib and the snoozing little prince in it. Charles Jr. “the most famous child on earth.” On one side, to keep away drafts, was a colorful screen with illustrations of barnyard animals. He felt shy and cunning. “Here comes Mr. Fox,” the boy whispered as he quietly slid open the window. Then he took another step up the ladder and was inside the nursery at last.  Standing over the crib, he stared at the princeling. Curls of golden hair like his father’s but, fat. Charles Jr. was gone, to fat at only twenty months. The boy could no longer control himself. Hot tears streamed from his eyes. His whole body began to shake, from frustration and rage – only mixed with the most incredible joy of his life. “Well, daddy’s little man. It’s our time now,” he muttered to himself. He took a tiny rubber ball with an attached elastic band from his pocket. He quickly slipped the odd-looking looped device over Charles Jr.’s head, just as the small blue eyes opened. As the baby started to cry, the boy plopped the rubber ball right into the little drooly mouth. He reached down into the crib and took Baby Lindberg into his arms and went swiftly back down the ladder. All according to plan. The boy ran across the muddy fields with the precious struggling bundle in his arms and disappeared into the darkness. Less than two miles from the farmhouse, he buried the spoiled-rotten Lindbergh baby – buried him alive.

That was only the start of things to come. After all, he was only a boy himself. He, not Bruno Richard Hauptmann, was the Lindbergh baby kidnapper. He had done it all by himself. Cool beans.

KISS THE GIRLS – In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In the sequel to Along Came a Spider, Washington D.C.’s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Tow clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating and they are working coast to coast. The second novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series. Detective Alex Cross is caught between two murderous masterminds – and so is his family… When his niece Naomi goes missing, Alex Cross follows the trail – and discovers links to a string of recent abductions and murders, with one horrifying complication. There are two killers at work on opposite sides of the country, collaborating and competing to commit the worst crimes the country has ever seen. With his family at risk, Cross knows that his investigation is putting him directly in the line of fire… Adapted as a major Hollywood movie, starring Morgan Freeman. This time it’s personal for Cross. The most elusive of killers has abducted Cross’s niece, Naomi, a talented law student. Only such a devastating blow could bring the detective back – this time to the Deep South, where old slave prisons are buried in the forests, and houses of horror can disappear as in your worst nightmare. Naomi’s kidnapping rips Alex Cross away from his kids and his jazz piano and sends him south with several questions burning in his mind? Why did the police wait seventy-two hours before beginning their search? And what is the head of the FBI doing at the scene of a small-town crime? Meanwhile, somewhere out there Casanova is living a secret fantasy. In his private hideaway, the world’s greatest lover has assembled seven of the South’s most extraordinary young women for his personal use. It’s an accomplishment he can share with only one other soulmate – and that’s definitely not his wife back in suburbia. But Casanova doesn’t count on the exceptional abilities of one of his harem – or having Alex Cross as a nemesis. CASANOVA – Boca Raton, Florida, June 1975: For three weeks, the young killer lived inside the walls of an extraordinary fifteen-room beach house. He could hear the whispery Atlantic surf outside, but he was never tempted to look out at the ocean or the private white-sand beach that stretched to three hundred feet or more along the shore. There was too much to explore, to study, to accomplish, from his hiding place inside the dazzling Mediterranean-revival-style house in Boca. His pulse hadn’t stopped hammering for days. Four people lived in the huge house.: Michael and Hannah Pierce and their two daughters. The killer spied on the family in the most intimate ways, and at their most intimate moments. He loved all the little things about the Pierces, especially Hannah’s delicate seashell collection and the full fleet of teak sailboats that hung from the ceiling in one of the guest rooms. He watched the elder daughter, Cory, day and night. She attended St. Andrews High School with him. She was stunning. No girl in school was as beautiful or as smart as Cory. He was also keeping his eye on Karrie Pierce. She was only thirteen, but already a budding fox. Although he was more than six feet tall, he easily fit into the air-conditioning ducts of the house. He was wire thin and hadn’t started to fill out yet. The killer was handsome in an Eastern preppy way. Stashed in his hiding place were a handful of dirty novels, highly erotic books he had found during fevered shopping trips to Miami. He had become addicted to The Story of O, School Girls in Paris and Voluptuous Initiations. He also kept a Smith and Wesson revolver in the walls with him. He went in and out of the house through a casement window in the cellar that had a broken latch. Sometimes he even slept down there, behind an old, gently purring Westinghouse refrigerator, where the Pierces kept extra beer and soda pop for their gala parties, which often ended with a bonfire on the beach. Truth be told, he was feeling a little extra weird that night in June, but nothing to worry about. No problema. Earlier in the evening, he had hand painted his body in bright streaks and splashes of cherry red, orange, and cadmium yellow. He was a warrior; a hunter. He huddled with his chrome-plated .22-caliber revolver, flashlight and grope-books in the ceiling over Cory’s bedroom. Right on top of her, so to speak. Tonight was the night of nights. The beginning of everything that really mattered in his life. He settled in and began to reread favorite passages from School Girls in Paris. His pocket flashlight cast a dim light on the pages. The book was definitely a major turn-on, but also a big yuk. It was about a “respectable” French lawyer who paid a buxom headmistress to let him spend nights inside a hotsy-totsy boarding school for girls. The story was filled with the hokiest language: “his silver-tipped ferrule.,” “his faithless truncheon,” “he gamahuched the ever-willing schoolgirls.” After a while, he got tired of reading, and peeked at his wristwatch. It was time now, almost 3:00 A.M. His hands were shaking as he put the book aside and peered through the cross-hatching of the grill. He could barely catch his breath as he watched Cory in bed. The very real adventure was now before him. Just as he had imagined it. He savored a thought: My real life is about to begin. Am I really going to do this? Yes, I am!... He was definitely living in the walls of the Pierce beach house. Soon that nightmarish, eerie fact would dominate the front page of every major newspaper throughout the United States. He could hardly wait to read the Boca Raton News. THE BOY IN THE WALLS! THE KILLER WHO ACTUALLY LIVED IN THE WALLS OF A FAMILY’S HOUSE! A STARK-RAVING HOMICIDAL MANIAC COULD BE LIVINIG IN YOUR HOUSE! Coty Pierce was sleeping like the most beautiful little girl. She had on an oversized University of Miami Hurricanes T-shirt, but it had moved up and he could see the pink silk bikini panties underneath. She slept on her back, one sun browned leg crossed over the other. Her pouty mouth was just slightly open, forming the tiniest o, and she looked all innocence, and light from his vantage point. She was almost a full-grown woman now. He’d watched her preen in front of the wall mirror just a few hours before. Watched her take off her pink lacy push-up bra. Watched her as she stared at her perfect breasts. Coty was unbearably haughty and untouchable. Tonight he was going to change all that. He was going to take her. Carefully, silently, he removed the metal grill in the ceiling. Then he crawled out of the wall and down into Coty’s sky-blue-and-pink bedroom. His chest felt constricted, and his breathing was quick and labored. One minute he felt hot, the next he was shivering and cold. Two small plastic trash bags covered his feet and were secured around his ankles, and he wore the light blue rubber gloves that the Pierces’ maid used for housekeeping. He felt like a sleek Ninja warrior and looked like Terror itself with his naked hand painted body. The perfect crime. He loved the feeling. Could this be a dream? No, he knew it wasn’t a dream. This was the real deal. He was actually going to do this! He took a deep breath and felt a burning inside his lungs,. For a brief moment, he studied the peaceful young girl he’d admired so many times at S.t Andrews. Then he quietly slipped into bed with the one-and-only Coty Pierce. He took off his rubber glove and gently caressed her perfect sun-bronzed skin. He pretended that he was smoothing coconut-scented suntan oil all over Coty. He was rock-hard already. Her long blond hair was sun bleached and felt as soft as rabbit’s fur. It was thick and beautiful and smelled forest-clean, like balsam. Yes, dreams do come true. Coty suddenly popped open her eyes. They were shiny emerald green gems, and they looked like priceless jewels from Harry Winston’s in Roca. She breathlessly said his name – the name she knew by at school. But he had given himself a new name; he’d named himself, re-created himself. “What are you doing here?” she gasped. “How did you get in?” “Surprise, surprise. I’m Casanova,” he whispered against her ear. His pulse was racing off the charts. “I chose you from all the beautiful girls in Boca Raton, in all of Florida. Aren’t your pleased?” Coty started to scream. “Shush now,” he said, and smothered her small lovely mouth with his own. With a loving kiss. He also kissed Hannah Pierce on that unforgettable evening of mayhem and murder in Boca Raton. Shortly after, he kissed thirteen-year-old Karrie. Before he was finished for the night, he knew he really was Casanova – the world’s greatest lover. THE GENTLEMAN CALLER: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, May 1981 – He was the perfect Gentleman. Always a Gentleman. Always unobtrusive and polite. He thought about that as he listened to the two lovers talking in sibilant whispers as they strolled near University Lake. It was all so dreamily romantic. It was so right for him.. ”Is this a good idea, or is this too dumb for words?” he heard Tom Hutchinson ask Roe Tierney. They were maneuvering into a teal blue rowboat that was gently rocking alongside a long dock on the lake. Tom and Roe were going to “borrow” the boat for a few hours. Sneaky college mischief. “My great-granddaddy says drifting downstream in a rowboat doesn’t count against your life span,” Roe said. “It’s a great idea, Tommy. Let’s go for it.” Tom Hutchinson started to laugh. “What if you do other things in said boat?” he asked. “Well, if that includes aerobics of any sort, it might actually extend your life span.” Roe’s skirt rustled against her smooth thighs as she crossed her legs. 

Laguna Beach Season #1 Episode 1 and 2

Laguna Beach

Season #1

J Episode #1: A Black & White Affair – Their senior year is winding down and the kids from Laguna Beach are just getting started for their summer fun… and drama. Lo, LC, Morgan and Christina are the most popular senior girls in school. At the Black and White themed party, the fun starts together with the drama and rivalry. Especially when Kristin starts to go her own way, despite the negative response she gets from others. Welcome to Laguna Beach and the life of eight high school friends who were born and raised in this beautiful seaside town. As the senior girls prepare for one of their infamous hotel parties, Stephen is in torn by his attraction to two girls, Kristin and LC. After Kristin confronts him about his night with LC, sparks fly as they all attend the Black & White party. The first episode of the show begins with Lauren/LC as the narrator introducing the cast members and giving some details about them. The first scene opens with LO, LC, Morgan and Christina sitting around a table eating some chips and planning a party. They’re trying to decide on a theme, and of course, the all-important guest list. They finally decide to call it “A Black and White Affair”, and decide to have it in a swank hotel. When Lo asks if they should invite Kristin, LC makes a face, but agrees. And speaking of Kristin, the pretty blonde is relaxing in her Jacuzzi on a water bed. Her cell phone rings and she gets out of the Jacuzzi and answers it. It’s Alex. The two friends make plans for the night and Alex asks how her relationship with Stephen is going. Kristin answers that it’s pretty good. With her man on her mind, she visits the dark-haired cutie at work. Stephen tells her he’s planning to go Trey’s BBQ and asks her if she’s going. She flat out tells him that she’s not going anywhere that Lauren/LC is going to be. Stephen answers the phone while Kristin teases him, then she says she has to pick up Alex and leaves the store. We cut to Trey’s house where LC is on her cell phone leaving a message for Lo, complaining that she is the only senior girl there. Trey is cooking some hamburgers. Dieter is doing his work as Stephen’s wing man and tells LC that he will get there in a while. Then Polster approaches them with a strange hat and Dieter says that it was going to be his hat for the night, but Polster argues that Trey gave him the hat. Dieter invites LC to go bubble bathing with them and Polster explains that they are going to pour bubble bath in the Jacuzzi so that it creates a massive mount of bubbles. LC wants to know they they’d do that, but Polster responds puzzled, “Why wouldn’t we do that?” Dieter explains that they’re going to a hotel to pull the prank. LC tells them that’s mean! And they joke about Polster’s intelligence… or lack thereof.

Stephen enters and hugs LC asking if she’s there alone. Meanwhile, it’s girls’ night in at Kristin’s house. She and her best friend Alex are busing painting their nails, talking about boys, and laughing about how Kristin and Stephen’s babies would look like. Back at Trey’s house, LC, Stephen, Morgan, Trey, Christina and some others are sitting around a table. The girls are giving details of their upcoming party and instructions on what they have to wear. LC and Stephen share some flirty looks and afterwards the two head off alone to Stephen’s house. The next morning Stephen goes to see LC’s new house, which is still being built. She shows him her bedroom, bragging that it’s the best room in the house, and that she has two closets: One for her clothes and the other one for her shoes and purses. They go outside to the pool and the Jacuzzi, still under construction. Stephen sits on the Jacuzzi and imitates the sound of the Jacuzzi when it is turned on. LC shows him Kristin’s house from where they’re standing. J

Meanwhile, Talan and Kristin are sitting outside some kind of cafeteria and drinking a coke, talking about Stephen Lauren’s rendezvous the night before and questioning if they hooked up or not. Kristin says that Stephen told her that they didn’t, but she still thinks they spend too much time together. The scene cuts to the hotel where the party will take place. Lo and LC are talking to the hotel manager about the party and he warns that it can’t be a dance party, just a get together. Lo assures him that they’re trustworthy. And now we’re at a store where Trey, Polster and Stephen are talking about whether they’d date Kristin or LC and imagining the two fighting over Stephen. Stephen says that Kristin is just a girl to have fun with, but Lauren is more girlfriend material. Wonder how Kristin would take that? Won’t have to wonder long… later that night Kristin and Stephen meet at her house for a date. They go to a restaurant to have dinner and fight about him lying to Kristin and being at LC’s house. She makes it clear that she doesn’t like LC and doesn’t trust her with him. J

Meanwhile, LC, Lo, Morgan and Christina are getting ready for the Black and White party in a room at the hotel and talking about what they will wear. LC makes fun of the dress she wore to the freshman year dance, and they all say that Lo’s dress was cute. They wonder how Kristin and the freshman girls will act. Then Lo says that she wanted to wear a white dress but that she never found a cute one. Kristin is in her room, wearing a white dress and picking the right shoes. At Trey’s house the boys are ready to leave and Stephen is backing up his car and accidentally runs over Dieter’s cologne. Instead of apologizing he tells Dieter that it’s his fault that he ran over his cologne. The scene cuts to the Surf and Sand Hotel where the Black and White party is taking place. Lo and LC are talking on the balcony and Lo is trying to find Kristin’s phone number to call her because she’s with all the guys. LC tells her that she called Dieter, and he said they were just going to stop by briefly and then head over to Polster’s place. Lo is shocked by that news. J

Dieter, Jessica, Trey, Alex, Stephen and Kristin arrive at the hotel and while they’re walking inside Kristin is complaining about not wanting to be there. An annoyed Stephen tells her to stop complaining. They get to the room and knock. LC runs to open the door. They all say hello to LC, except for Kristin who passes her and goes directly to have a seat. LC notices that Stephen is not wearing black like he’s supposed to. Christina invites everybody to start dancing and Kristin sitting on the bed refuses. The rest start dancing and make plans to go to the beach after that. LC points out that everyone work black, except for Kristin who was the only one to wear white. During the night, Kristin and LC exchange uncomfortable glances. Kristin is sick of being there and spends the entire night whining. Tired of listening to Kristin saying that she doesn’t want to be there, LC tells Morgan that if she hears Kristin saying that she wants to leave one more time, she will personally escort her out of the hotel. Finally, Kristin manages to get everyone to leave and she, Stephen, Alex, Dieter and Jessica leave the party. Over the closing credits, we focus on a morose LC, bummed over Stephen leaving the party, standing on the balcony alone. J

J Episode #2: The Bonfire – A double-date dinner turns from bad to worse when Stephen gets jealous about phone calls Kristin is receiving from another guy. LC and Lo drop in on Treys AKA (Active Young America) Open Mic Night, and the whole gang gathers for a bonfire on the beach where things heat up between LC, Stephen and Kristin. Stephen thinks he has to teach Kristin how to surf, something she doesn’t really like. Kristin plays to cook with Jessica for Dieter and Stephen – a difficult project, when nobody knows how to cook! Stephen is getting jealous and he wants to talk with her at the bonfire –what will she say? J

In this episode of Laguna Beach, things really start to heat up Southern Cali style. The love triangle between Stephen, Kristin and LC is becoming more obvious, and each of them is really starting to feel the pressure. This episode opens with LC and Lo making a trip to their favorite sanctuary – the mall—to take their minds off boy problems. They end up in the M.A.C. store, where they have their makeup professionally done for the many festivities they have planned for the evening. Christina calls her best friend Morgan from the road to announce her acceptance into SMU for the fall. Morgan congratulates Christina and tells her she has yet to open her own letter from BYU – the only college she applied to. The two meet on the beach, so they can read the letter together. Morgan talks about how much she longs to go to SMU and leave her life in “the bubble” behind her. She talks about how she cannot wait to get away from “the party scene” as well as all the “stupid kids screwing up on their parents’ money”. As Morgan finally opens the letter and begins to read from the page, we find out she has been declined admission to the only college she applied to. What will she do now? Like a true best friend, Christina tries to comfort Morgan convince her everything will be alright – contrary to Morgan’s belief that this “totally sucks.” J

Kristin and her friend Jessica go the grocery store to pick up everything they need for the dinner they will be cooking for Stephen and Jessica’s boyfriend Dieter at Dieter’s house later that evening. As they walk up the steps to the house, Kristin wonders if Stephen will be in a jealous mood. (According to Kristin, whenever she isn’t “all over” Stephen, he tends to freak out, and that really pisses her off.) Back at Dieter’s house, the verdict is on Kristin and Jessica’s dinner: Not good! Stephen honestly admits he does not like the food and Dieter shamelessly trips and asks why it “tastes so bad”. As if the unsatisfactory food wasn’t enough, things start to get tense as Kristin’s cell phone begins ringing nonstop. Looking quite perturbed, Stephen asks Kristin why she just does not turn off her phone. Kristin shrugs it off. When the phone continues to ring, she finally leaves the table to answer it. Now, Stephen is the one who looks pissed. Unfortunately, the group’s cozy little dinner for four didn’t quite turn out the way everyone had planned. J’

The evening culminates in a bonfire, and everyone from the clique is present. Of course, this poses a small problem, considering the awkward relations between Stephen, Kristin and LC. With relations between them still tense from last night’s dinner, Stephen and Kristin discreetly have a quasi-argument. Kristin gets frustrated and says she doesn’t want to talk about it. While Kristin has stepped away, Stephen and LC have a little talk. Stephen tells her how he can’t wait to “get the hell out” of Laguna Beach. He also tells LC how doesn’t regret how they once hooked up because he feels they have become better friends because of it. LC says it was fun while it lasted, but she said she could have done without all the drama that ensued because of it. The entire time of their conversation, Kristin looks on from afar. Trouble in paradise…

RL Stine: The Wrong Number

RL Stine

♡ The Wrong Number – It began as a prank… And ended in murder! It began as an innocent prank. Call someone on the phone, shake them up a little with some sexy whispers and then hang up. But when one of the numbers is on Fear Street, readers can be sure there is more than “innocence” in store! An innocent joke turns perilous when a prank caller specializing in heavy breathing and sexy whispers dials the number of a house on Fear Street. Welcome to Fear Street. Don’t listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn’t you rather explore it yourself… and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You’re not afraid, are you? “Please come quickly… you’re my own hope!” It began as an innocent prank, when Deena Martinson and her best friend Jade Smith make sexy phone calls to the boys from school. But Deena’s half-brother Chuck catches them in the act and threatens to tell their parents, unless they girls let him in on the fun. Chuck begins making random calls, threatening anyone who answers. It’s dangerous and exciting. They’re even enjoying the publicity, and they uproar they’ve caused. Until Chuck calls a number on Fear Street. To his horror, Chuck realizes he has called THE WRONG NUMBER. The jokes are over when murder is one the line. The murderer knows who they are and where they live – and they have nowhere to call for help.

Deena just got a new phone thanks to her dad who works at the phone company. Her friend Jade thinks it would be fun to make some prank calls. After calling a few people, Deena pranks this guy from school, Rob, telling him in a sexy voice that she has the hots for him. Things are about to change though because her half-brother Chuck is moving to town after getting tossed out of his last school. Deena thinks everything will be sunshine and lollipops, but it is pretty far from that. On the way home from picking Chuck up, they get into a car accident. Their dad tells them to get out of the car because people are crashing in front of and behind them. Chuck manages to save a dog from one of the wrecked cars right before it bursts into flames. He follows that up by getting into a fight with a kid at school and pulling a knife on him which gets him suspended.

Jade thinks Chuck is super hot even when he’s being a dick. She comes over and convinces Deena to make some more prank calls. Deena calls Rob yet again and Chuck overhears. He decides to make a prank call of his own and tells the bowling alley that there’s a bomb inside. The pranking gets out of control after he starts calling people, claiming that he is the Phantom of Fear Street. One night, they are hanging out and having fun when the girls get scared by a bat flying around outside. When they run into the house, Chuck makes a few jokes about Fear Street, and they start telling him the stories about it. Chuck picks a number from the phone book of someone who lives on the street, and when he calls, he hears a woman begging for her life and screaming for help. They rush over to the house, walk through the broken back door, and find the woman laying dead on the floor. When a man in a mask walks out, they jump in the car and take off. He follows them, but turns around and leaves. Later that night, the cops arrive on their doorstep. Mr. Farberson came home, found his wife dead, and claims that the teens broke into his house and killed his wife in a botched robbery attempt. He managed to get their license plate number before they left. They let Deena go, but arrest Chuck.

After talking to Jade, the girls decide to go back and talk to the cops. They tell them what happened that night, but the cops think they’re lying to protect Chuck. The whole story gets leaked to the paper, so everyone knows about their prank calls. Rob realizes that Deena was his sexy caller and asks her out, but she’s way too busy trying to save her brother. They realize that Farberson was the guy in the house when they hear him talk on TV, but the cops still don’t believe them. The two dress up in wigs and go to the restaurant that he owns. Jade pretends that she is there to apply for his job and they go through his files when he leaves for a few minutes. They find a receipt for an airline ticket but since it’s for two people, they assume he was going on vacation with his wife. They find out that his last assistant recently quit and Jade calls her and sets up an appointment to meet with her by claiming that she’s doing a survey.

Linda Morison lets them into her house, but leaves the room when someone calls. Jade listens as she calls Farberson “darling” and begs him to get something out of her house. They take off, but follow Farberson when he gets something from her house. It turns out that it’s a dead cat, which is disappointing because they thought it was the mask he wore during the robbery attempt. They decide to break into his house and look for evidence. Deena tells Chuck and he flips out, but he can’t do anything since he’s still in jail. They find a letter from his wife, saying that she is leaving him and won’t give him another dime of her money to waste on his pipe dream of a restaurant. When Farberson comes in, they hide in the closet. He finds them and grabs Jade but Deena gets away. He finds her and drags her upstairs, locking her in the room with Jade. They drag a dresser across to the door and climb out the window. They manage to get on one of the branches, but he runs downstairs and grabs a chainsaw. Just as he starts cutting through their branch, the cops show up. It turns out that they had always suspected him but they had no proof. Chuck actually agreed to stay in jail until they could gather some evidence.

The cops get the evidence from the girls and arrest Farberson. Jade and Chuck make up and I guess he gets to go back to school or something. Oh and Rob officially asks out Deena and she finally agrees to go on a date with him.

RL Stine Fear Street - Missing

RL Stine

Fear Street

♡ Missing – First their parents disappeared. Then the real terror began… What would happen if one day your parents did not come home? What if they disappeared without a trace, and what if something terrible had happened to them? This is what happens to Mark and Cara on one frightful night… when they take a wrong turn down the fateful block called Fear Street. Returning home one night to find that their parents have disappeared, Mark and Cara Burroughs are plunged into a nightmare as they try to locate the missing adults. Cara and Mark are throwing a last minute party when she takes the time to think about things. Their young, very young as she keeps saying, parents are computer specialists who always accept jobs in new cities and then join a bunch of clubs to meet new people instead of spending time with their kids. They had a fight that morning because they thought Mark spent too much time with his new girlfriend Gena. A random cop shows up on the doorstep in an unmarked car. He acts a little shifty when asking about her parents and says there was a robbery a few houses down. After giving her his card and asking her to call anytime, he gets in his car which barely make a sound and leaves. Cara figures that’s the perfect time to end the party. Both think it’s weird that their parents aren’t home and didn’t call until they find that the phone is out. They then hear footsteps upstairs and freak out until their cousin Roger walks out. Turns out that he moved in and they keep forgetting he’s there. That must be hard on his ego. Cara goes upstairs and flips out because their parents bed is unmade and they always make it, while Mark is just disappointed that he didn’t asks Gena to stay longer. Roger shows up long enough to scare them again with a black box in his hands. He claims it’s his Walkman and that he forgot his headphones before shoving it in his pocket and running back to his room in the attic. Right before they leave, Cara finds something on the bed. It’s a little tiny skull made from ivory. She thinks it’s weird because it feels cold in her hand, but Mark just laughs it off. Mark wakes up in the middle of the night, stubs his toe and sees the little skull staring at him, but he can’t remember taking it to his room. Later, he looks outside and sees a black van on the street, which he saw earlier in the night. He then sees Roger climb inside. After falling asleep and waking up again, he sees the van still there and the skull in a new spot.

The next morning, he tells Cara what he saw. Since Roger left for the day, they sneak up to his room and go through his stuff. They wind up finding a loaded gun hidden in a drawer and Cara finds that he hasn’t used any of his books and never wrote any notes despite supposedly being a college student. Cara then goes to their neighbor’s house. The woman is a smoker, which we never see in YA books anymore, and asks a bunch of probing questions about her parents before saying that the place where they work has a lot of government contracts. Cara calls the phone company to come out and check her line, and when she gets home, she finds her parents’ car, which they use to get to work, in the garage. Cara and Mark skip school to see where their parents work and to get some help. They see the same van sitting outside, but the guy driving it says that he doesn’t know a Roger. Mark doesn’t believe him for some reason. They get to the place where their parents work and meet a bunch of people never heard of them before. The CEO even comes down and tells them that no one by those names work there or ever had worked there. Mark stops to call Gena and talk to her, but she acts really weird. When Cara gets home, she finds Mark sitting in the dark. He says that Gena dumped him and that she said she had to break up with him. He went over to her house to talk to her, but her dad answered the door and she said she was so upset over something that she had to stay home school all day. Nice dad to let her stay home for no reason. Cara then calls the cop from the other night and he agrees to investigate her parent’s disappearance. When she hangs up though, she realizes that Roger was listening in on an upstairs extension. When Roger comes downstairs, Cara accuses him of spying on them. After she brings up him being suspicious and the gun he has, he accuses her of spying and says that the gun belonged to his dad, who was a cop. He died a few days after giving it to him. He also claims that he too saw the van but never ever got inside it. Cara doesn’t believe him and when he leaves, she decides to follow him. Mark stays home and gets a call from Gena. She cries and tries to tell him something, but when he presses her, the phone disconnects. Since he’s a hormonal teen, he goes right to her house and cuts through the Fear Street woods. Something starts following him, which turns out to be an enormous dog. Mark manages to break its neck realizing that the dog was specifically trained to sneak up on people without making a noise. The dog also had a collar with a skull on it that looks just like the one they found in their parents’ room. He then goes to Gena’s house, climbs up a trellis to her window, and slips and falls. This is one of those annoying books that bounces back and forth between two different characters using first-person, so we go back to Cara. After tracking Roger to a coffee house, she sees him sit down inside with the guy from the van. Roger sees her, accuses her of spying again, and then introduces him as his college advisor. Cara makes up an excuse to leave, sees them talking all secretive, and then starts heading home, only to find someone following her.

Turns out that it’s Captain Farrday, the cop from before. He tells her that he hasn’t found out anything new about her parents but that they’ll show up. She then tells him all about her weird cousin, and he agrees to look into both him and the professor. As an added bonus, when she brings up the skull charm, he asks if he can see it. Luckily for her, probably, she can’ find it. Right after he leaves, she hears another car pull up. It’s only a friend from school though. Mark manages to keep himself from falling off the trellis and gets into Gena’s room. It looks completely clean and like no one had been there all day. There’s a noise in the hall and her dad rushes in with a gun in his hand. He calms down when he sees that it’s just Mark. Gena’s dad tells him that she was so upset over their breakup that she took off to stay with her cousin, but Mark notices that she left behind her book bag.

Cut to the next day or a few days later, with the two talking about everything that happened lately. Cara suddenly remembers Wally, a friend of their parents who works with them. They look him up in the phonebook and head to his house. Through Wally, they find their parents listed in the work directory, call, and get their voicemail, so they know their parents really do work there. When they get home, they find Roger dead in his room as Captain Farraday bursts through the door. Farraday accuses Mark of killing his cousin and marches them upstairs. The guy from the van bursts in. Cara shouts out who he is, and Farraday shoots him three times point blank. He then grabs the phone calls the police station to report it. Since Mark just saw two dead bodies, he really needs a drink of water. When he heads into the kitchen though, he finds out that the phone is dead again and that Farraday called no one. He keeps trying to find a way to warn his sister and then just snaps and calls out the other man. Farraday knocks him down and waves his gun around while shouting about how he was a cap until their parents did something and how he hates them. Before he can do anything, Gena rushes in with a hunting rifle. She keeps threatening Farraday and fires a shot at the wall behind him. They lock him in the garage, and she runs into the woods, telling them to follow her as she babbles about having to get there before the meeting starts.
Turns out that her dad belongs to some weird cult named the Brotherhood and the CEO of the company is the leader. They all put on robes and sneak into the meeting, where they see their parents in the center. Though they think their parents are the leaders, the group actually wants to kill them. Mark distracts them, which lets his dad jump up and reveal himself as a member of the FBI. After arresting a few people, they take their kids home and explain what happened. They are apparently top secret FBI agents bringing down subservient groups, which is why they move all the time, and both Roger and the professor were agents. Farraday was a cop they busted in the past who came back for revenge. As an odd footnote, there’s literally no mention of what happened to him after they locked him in the garage. They come home, drink cocoa and talk. Their dad tells them that all their covers are blown and they have to move. Gena stops by to tell Mark that she’s moving to Detroit to live with her mom while her dad is in jail. They kiss goodbye, Mark says he’ll call, and she gives him a gift before leaving. It’s a copy of the skull with a note inside that says she loves him and has her phone number and address in Detroit. Ah, it’s a classic story of teenage love mattering more than the federal government.

Charlie's Angels Season 3

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♡ Episode #24: Angels Remembered – Charlie calls the Angels to a meeting which is actually a birthday party celebrating the Angel’s third year together. Kris recalls her first case (from “Angels in Paradise”) in which Charlie is kidnapped and his identity is nearly exposed to the Angels. Another remembered caper is recalled in which Kelly was working undercover as a burlesque dancer and yet another was an incident of intrigue from “Angels On My Mind” in which a clairvoyant seeking Kris actually wanted to kill her. Sabrina remembers Doug O’Neal, a resourceful young man who was seeking large sums of money with the Angels’ help. Bosley remembers “Tinker Belle” from “Circus of Terror” and how she short circuited him. Charlie then brings up the number of odd disguises the Angels have used. Concluding their remembrances, they all toast their three years together and the future. Charlie calls the Angels to a meeting which is actually a birthday party celebrating the Angels’ third successful year together. The group recollects disguises, characters and their most unforgettable and dangerous assignments.
♡ Episode #23: Rosemary for Remembrance – Ex-mobster Jake Garfield is released from prison and wants revenge on the man he believes framed him, Lawrence Renaldi. When Renaldi is found dead, the Angels are shocked to learn who the killer is. Rosemary Garfield’s 1935 murder remains unsolved after 44 years. Her widower Jake was wrongly sent to prison for it but has been released. The Angels try to solve her murder and find out who is trying to kill him. Ex-mobster, Jake Garfield, has just been released from prison for the murder of his wife. He claims that he was framed by a racketeer named Renaldi, so his nephew hires the Angels to investigate when he is targeted for murder. When he meets Kris, he reconstructs the last night he spent with his wife with the intent of capturing her real killer. Ex mobster, Jake Garfield is released from prison and two attempts are made on his life. His nephew, Tim Stone, asks the Angels to investigate. Feeling he was framed, Jake wants to go after racketeer Lawrence Renaldi. His motive is revenge – revenge for the death of his wife. The official story is that Jake killed Rosemary out of jealousy. Kris is assigned to guard Jake and immediately realizes that she and the dead woman are similar in many ways. Jake also notices and the similarities cause him to reminisce constantly about his dead wife. The mourning widower recreates Rosemary’s birthday party the night of the murder – including giving Kris a diamond necklace. Suddenly, the gangster Rinaldi is found dead, Murder investigator, Gordon Sanders, encounters Kris and Tim Stone on the run from the delirious Jake. To their surprise, they all learn that Sanders murdered Rosemary for the diamond necklace (which has been missing all the while). They subdue the murderer who confesses to the crime.

♡ Episode #22: Angels In Waiting – Bosley dares the Angels to find him in a game of hide and seek and meets a woman named Ellen. Bosely is in danger when a man he sent to prison is released on parole, but the Angels uncover the plot.  After being called predictable, Bosley becomes annoyed and challenges the Angels to a game of hide and seek and to see if they can figure out the clues to his whereabouts. He meets an attractive woman but unknown to Bosley, he is actually a target for a dangerous ex-con. Bosley meets attractive Ellen Miles and takes time off from work to get to know her, unaware that Lawrence Wellman, whom Charlie and Bosley helped send to prison years earlier, has been released and is now following Bosley for revenge. Bosley, before going to work, meets a woman and wants to spend time with her. So, he goes to the office and makes a bet with the girls if they can find him he’ll do all the work. So, he leaves and says he’ll call them to give them a hint of where he is. After he leaves Charlie calls telling them to tell Bosley that a man whom they helped send to prison a few years ago for killing his wife has been released and to be weary of the press. But what they don’t know is that the man is following Bosley. Bosley is called “predictable” and becoming annoyed, challenges the Angels to find him in a game of hide and seek. He meets an attractive woman named Ellen and escorts her to the beach. Then he calls in with a clue to his whereabouts. Suddenly two shots are fired at Bosley and Ellen but when they turn out to be blanks, he quickly assumes they are an Angel prank. He calls in another clue but discovers the Angels haven’t left the office. The girls become worried when informed that Arnold Wellman, a prisoner on parole, went to jail in the first place on Bosley’s testimony. Sabrina deciphers the clues and the Angels head for the beach. Ellen spikes Bosley’s drink and takes him for a “ride” as the gunman follows. He escapes on foot but is chased. The Angels intercept Ellen and the gunman who are brother and sister to Wellman their revenge motive is nipped in the nick of time.

Swiss Family Robinson - Surviving the Wild

♡ Swiss Family Robinson (1960) – One of Disney’s biggest and most fondly remembered hits, the spectacular screen version of the literary classic Swiss Family Robinson is full of breathtaking South Seas scenery, hundreds of exotic animals and treacherous pirates. This heroic tale chronicles the courageous exploits of the Robinson family after they are shipwrecked on a deserted island. Using teamwork and ingenuity, they skillfully overcome the obstacles of nature and transform their new home into a “civilized” community. But the ultimate challenge lies ahead when a band of cutthroat pirates threaten to destroy the Robinson’s Makeshift paradise. Capture the thrills, romance, and fun of this unforgettable Disney film!

♡ Swing Parade (1946) – In this musical, a struggling young singer falls in love with a nightclub owner whose father mistakes her for someone else and tries to convince her to serve a summons at the club. Fortunately, the love between the youngsters prevails, Music and happiness ensues. The Three Stooges are at their bumbling, eye-poking, hair-pulling best! This time around “The Boys” must protect talented nightclub owner Danny Warren (Phil Regan) from the schemes of his powerful and overprotective father, who will go to any lengths to shut Danny down. But things get complicated when the senior Warren enlists the help of a beautiful chorus girl Carol Lawrence (Gale Storm of My Little Margie). Can Moe, Larry and Curly run the club, manage Danny’s budding love life, and avoid the wrath of Moose, their cantankerous boss? A warm, hilarious musical romp. The Stooges’ feature film Swing Parade has been beautifully restored and is presented in color!

♡ Swing Kids – It’s 1939 and Nazi Germany has declared war on freedom, demanding conformity from its youth. But a group calling themselves SWING KIDS rebel with their “swing” music from America and dare to stand up against the powerful forces around them. Robert Sean Leonard and Christian Bale deliver gripping performances as two friends who must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich. Also featuring Barbara Hershey, Swing Kids is an inspirational and powerful story about finding the courage to fight for what you believe in! In 1939 Hamburg, Germany, a group of teenagers express their rebellion against Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime through their affection for American swing music, British fashion, and Harlem slang. American and British big-band jazz records are among those banned by the Fuhrer, but the young men secretly get together with their friends to listen and dance to the music. As their escapades become increasingly bold, they each get into trouble with the authorities. Robert Sean Leonard stars as Peter, who ends up being forced by a prank into having to join the Hitler Youth with his friend Thomas (Christian Bale), They are both engineering students at the university, where Thomas’ father was taken away for defending Jewish colleagues. With Arvid (Frank Whaley), they pretend to be Nazi supporters by day while rebelling with the swing music by night. Kenneth Branagh, in in uncredited appearance, is a glib Nazi Gestapo Chief who makes matters more difficult. Each of the boys must choose among family safety, friendship, and freedom as politics impinges on their youthful exuberance and the Nazis set them against one another. The movie was shot in Prague, directed by Thomas Carter from a script by Jonathan Marc Fieldman, and released by Disney. Barbara Hershey appears as Peter’s mother.

♡ Swindle (2013) – Featuring an amazing all-star cast (Noah Crawford, Chris O’Neal, Ariana Grande, Jennette McCurdy), Noah Munck and Clara Bravo!), get set for Nickelodeon’s Swindle! When Ben and Griffin discover an old “Honus Wagner” baseball card, they may have also found the financial solution to save Ben from having to move. They quickly head to a collectibles’ shop owned by a man named Swindell who offers them $300 after Griffin negotiates the price up. Proud of their accomplishment, they head home, money in hand, but soon realize the baseball card is worth much more… roughly $1.2 million more! Griffin and Ben have been swindled! Now Griffin Bing wants to swindle the swindler, right a wrong, take back property unethically obtained by deceptive means (whatever sounds fancier) and sets off to recruit the ultimate crew. He is owed favors all over school and it’s them to call them in!

♡ Sweet Old World (2012) – A father and son deal with their grief over the death of the son’s brother. When the deceased’s best friend reenters their lives, they forced to confront their true feelings. Filmed in the real world of the South Pasadena High School marching band, Sweet Old World is the story of a father’s grief and the son who frees him. The lives of Brian Hinkle and his teenage son Ethan were shattered eight years ago when Ethan’s ten-year-old brother Michael was tragically killed while playing with a friend, Jimmie, on railroad tracks. Brian, once a successful photographer, is still consumed by his own private grief and pain. Divorced from Ethan’s mother, he spends his time obsessively photographing trash by railroad tracks and on the edges of the city. And Ethan, now sixteen and a talented musician in the school marching band, is heading for Julliard. Their weekends together are an exercise in painful disconnect as their relationship has grown strained and cold over the years. Under a cloud of suspicion, Jimmie had disappeared with his family immediately after the accident. When he reappears at school eight years later and joins the marching band, Ethan and Brian’s carefully constructed protective shells begin to crumble. Jimmie is a wild and reckless kid. He befriends Ethan, drawing him into his dangerous world. Feeling like his lost brother has returned, Ethan relishes his new friendship while Brian is stunned by Jimmie’s return and begins following and secretly photographing the two of them. When Ethan finally confronts Jimmie to learn the truth about how his brother died, it sets off a string of events that bring father and son to the brink of disaster and the potential for a new life and friendship. With the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship, award winning documentary filmmaker David Zeiger drew from his own life to create this unique and riveting family drama.

♡ Sweet Home Carolina (2017) – Just as Diane, an overworked ad-exec from Los Angeles, burns out at work, she suddenly inherits a house in her rural South Carolina hometown. Hoping to start fresh, regain her bearings, and repair the fractured relationship with her older daughter, Diane moves cross-country with her two girls. But just as life is becoming more simple and her daughters are beginning to assimilate to the country lifestyle, Diane runs into her first love, Luke, and things get complicated.

♡ Sweet Cocoon (2015) – Two insects help a caterpillar in her metamorphosis.

♡ Swallows & Amazons (2017) – Swallows and Amazons follows four children who dream of escaping from the tedium of a summer holiday. When finally given permission to camp on their own on a remote island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But when they arrive, they discover they may not be alone and a desperate yet whimsical battle for ownership of the island ensues, where both skill and luck play a hand. Simultaneously, the dangers of an adult world, on the brink of war, encroach on their paradise and intertwine with their lives, in the form of a mysterious pair of Russian spies hot on the tail of the enigmatic Jim Turner. The children must ban together from both groups, learn skills of survival, responsibility, and the all-important value of friendship to save a family member. Steeped in the wonder of a child’s imagination and set against a breathtaking backdrop, this is an exhilarating adaptation of a treasured classic. Studio: Secret Harbor Films Limited/ British Broadcasting Corporation/ the British Film Institute

♡ Susannah of the Mounties (1939) – Rescued by kindly Mounted Police Officers after barely surviving an Indian attack on the Canadian frontier, cute orphan Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) befriend the Mounties, especially Inspector “Monty” Montague (Randolph Scott). Moreover, the adorable Susannah prove s a capable negotiator between the tribes and the Mounties. The sole survivor of an Indian attack, orphan girl Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) becomes the mascot of the Canadian Mountie outpost headed by Superintendent Standing (Moroni Olsen). Mountie Angus “Monty” Montague (Randolph Scott) and his sweetheart (and Standing’s daughter), Vicky (Margaret Lockwood) appoint themselves as Susannah’s unofficial parents, doing their best to help the girl overcome her terrible ordeal. Eventually, it is “little miss fix-it” Susannah who brings peace between the Mounties and the Blackfeet, but before Monty is nearly burned at the stake by the renegade Indian responsible for causing all the trouble. This is the film in which Shirley Temple not only teaches Randolph Scott how to tap dance, but also shares a peace pipe with a Blackfoot youngster (and gets good nauseated in the process). Based on a novel by Muriel Denison, Susannah of the Mounties was originally released in sepiatone. Studio: 1939 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Renewed 1966 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

♡ Surviving the Wild (2018) – Following the untimely death of his grandpa Gus (Jon Voight), thirteen-year-old Shaun (Aiden Cullen) disregards his parents wishes and embarks upon a great journey into the wild with his dog Riley, to spread his grandpa’s ashes from a remote mountaintop. Throughout the journey, Shaun is guided by the spirit of his grandfather. Together they overcome challenge after challenge, as Shaun traverses white water rapids and tries to evade two crazed hillbillies that are on this tail. Shaun must use all of the wits and tricks that his grandpa has taught him over the years as they share in this one final great adventure together! A young boy runs into the woods with his dog and the stolen ashes of his grandpa. Wanting to carry out his grandfather’s wishes of having his ashes scattered from a mountain, he embarks on his journey and has a final opportunity to say goodbye. Studio: Haunted Doll Company

But I'm a Cheerleader

But I’m a Cheerleader

Seventeen-year-old Megan (Natasha Lyonne) is a sunny high school senior who loves cheerleading and is dating a football player, Jared (Brandt Willie). She does not enjoy kissing Jared, however, and prefers looking at her fellow cheerleaders. Combined with Megan’s interest in vegetarianism and Melissa Etheridge, her family and friends suspect that she is in fact a lesbian. With the help of ex-gay Mike (RuPaul), they surprise her with an intervention. Following this confrontation, Megan is sent to True Directions, a reparative therapy camp which uses a five-step program (similar to Alcoholics Anonymous’ Twelve-Step Program) to convert its campers to heterosexuality.

At True Directions, Megan meets the Founder, strict disciplinarian Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty), Mary’s supposedly heterosexual son Rock (Eddie Cibrian) and a group of young people trying to “cure” themselves of their homosexuality. With the prompting of Mary and the other campers, Megan reluctantly agrees that she is a lesbian (Step 1 of the Five-Step program). This fact, at odds with her traditional, religious upbringing, distresses her and she puts every effort into becoming heterosexual. Early on in her stay at True Directions, Megan discovers two of the boys, Dolph and Clayton (Dante Basco and Kip Pardue), making out. She panics and screams, leading to their discovery by Mike. Dolph is made to leave and Clayton is punished by being forced into isolation. The True Directions program involves the campers admitting that homosexuality (Step 1), rediscovering their gender identity by performing stereotypically gender-associated tasks (Step 2), finding the roof of their homosexuality through family therapy (Step 3), demystifying the other sex (Step 4), and simulating heterosexual intercourse (Step 5). Over the course of the program, Megan becomes friends with another girl at the camp, Graham (Clea DuVall), who, though more comfortable being gay then Megan, was forced to the camp at the risk of otherwise being disowned by her family.

The True Directions kids are encouraged to rebel against Mary by two of her former students, ex-ex gays Larry and Lloyd (Richard Moll and Wesley Mann), who take the campers to a local gay bar where Graham and Megan’s relationship develops into a romance. When Mary discovers the trip, she makes them all picket Larry and Lloyd’s house, carrying placards and shouting homophobic abuse. Megan and Graham sneak away, one night to have sex and begin to fall in love. When Mary finds out, Megan, now at ease with her sexual identity, is unrepentant. She is made to leave True Directions and, now homeless, goes to stay with Larry and Lloyd. Graham, afraid to defy her father, remains at the camp. Megan and Dolph, who is also living with Larry and Lloyd, plan to win back Graham and Clayton.

Megan and Dolph infiltrate the True Directions graduation ceremony where Dolph easily coaxes Clayton away. Megan entreats Graham to join them as well, but Graham nervously declines. Megan then performs a cheer for Graham and tells her that she loves her, finally winning Graham over. They drive off with Dolph and Clayton. The final scene of the film shows Megan’s parents (Mink Stole and Bud Cort) attending a PFLAG Meeting to come to terms with their daughter’s homosexuality.

In this satire, parents who are worried that their children might not be walking the straight and narrow path discover a rehabilitation camp designed to curb alternative lifestyles. Megan (Natasha Lyonne), a high school student and member of the cheerleading squad, seems like an ordinary enough teenage girl, but her habit of honestly expressing herself and lack of romantic enthusiasm for her boyfriend convince her very repressed parents, Peter (Bud Cort and Nancy (Mink Stole), that Megan is becoming a lesbian. So Megan is shipped off to True Directions, a camp for gay and gay-leaning teens, where Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty) attempts to deprogram kids with homosexual tendencies. The first step in the process is to get each teen to admit to their homosexuality, which Megan is loathing to do, since she doesn’t believe she’s a lesbian – or at least she didn’t think so before she met her new friend Graham (Clea DuVall), who seems quite sure that she likes girls. Meanwhile, Mary’s son Rock (Eddie Cibrian), may be exempt from the camp’s activities, but he turns more than a few heads among True Directions’ male inmates. Noted female impersonator RuPaul appears as a camp guide, and Julie Delpy has a cameo as a “lipstick lesbian.”

Lost and Delirious

Lost and Delirious

Lost and Delirious is the story of three adolescent girls’ first love, their discovery of sexual passion, and their search for identities. Set in a posh, private boarding school surrounded by luxuriant, green forest, Los and Delirious moves swiftly from academic routine, homesickness and girlish silliness to the darker region of lover’s intrigue. A newcomer to a girl’s boarding school is befriended by her two roommates and later discovers they are lovers. When one of the lovers decides she doesn’t dare continue the relationship, the other becomes desperate in her attempts to win her back.

Mary Bedford is a shy, naïve, freshman newcomer to a fancy girls boarding school where she strikes up a friendship with her two senior roommates, the overachieving Tori Moller, and the voraciously poetry reading, unapologetic, closeted lesbian Paullie Oster. As Mary tries to adjust to her new surroundings, with some guidance from the local groundskeeper Joe Menzies, she soon learns that Paulie and Tori are lovers. When Tori, under pressure from her classmates, wants to break it off with Paulie, she resorts to extreme measures to win Tori back. When her father remarries after the death of her mother, Mary Bedford finds herself bundled off to a posh girls’ boarding school. She’s never been to boarding school before and it’s all quite daunting at first. Soon however she makes friends, including her two roommates, Tori and Paulie, whom she soon realizes are lovers. She also becomes quite friendly with the gardener, Joe Menzies, and helps him on the school grounds as it reminds her of working with her late mother in the family garden. When Tori decides to end her relationship with Paulie however, tragedy ensues. A newcomer to a posh girls’ boarding school discovers that her two senior roommates are lovers.

Mary (Mischa Barton) is a 14-year-old freshman and a new student at an all-girls boarding school located somewhere in rural Ontario and she is assigned to a dorm room with Paulie (Piper Perabo) and Victoria, nicknamed Tori, (Jessica Pare), two seniors. In an effort to get the shy Mary to break out of her shell, Paulie and Tori involve her in their activities, such as running in the morning. When they hear that Mary’s mother has recently died, Paulie nicknames her “Mary Brave”. On Mary’s first day at school, Pauline turns a quiet afternoon on the campus into a music-blasting dance party and spikes the punch with hard liquor. Another day later, Pauline defends Victoria from a frustrated Math teacher who humiliates her when she does not understand basic Math.

Mary observes the intimacy between the two roommates. Peering out a window at night, she sees them kissing on a roof. Pauline and Tori’s relationship is close and Pauline is full of life. Over time, Pauline and Tori become more comfortable showing affection in front of Mary. It progresses from a quick kiss on the lips in front of her to the two sharing a bed and having lesbian sex while Mary is sleeping.

When the three are not jogging one day, Pauline comes across a hurt falcon, which she befriends. After reading up on falcons, she trains the animal while keeping it in a makeshift birdhouse on the roof of their dorm building. While she is tending to the falcon, Mary and Tori meet some boys from the nearby boys’ school. One of them, named Jake, flirts with Tori, asking if she will be attending her brother’s 18^th birthday party and making it clear that he likes her. When Mary and Tori are alone, Tori expresses disgust at the boy’s interest in her, saying “He liked my tits.” While Mary asks if she’ll go to the party, Tory says, “And have all those gross guys groping me? No. Thanks. I’d rather stay home and do Math.”

Meanwhile, on the sides, Mary spends time with the local groundskeeper Joe Menzies (Graham Greene) whom she volunteers to help him work with landscaping around the campus. Mary confides in Joe about her troubled home life and her lack of parental attention by her father whom began neglecting her following her mother’s death and focuses his attention on her stepmother whom treats Mary badly. Joe encourages Mary to live out her frustration and unhappiness through work.

One morning, Victoria’s sister, Allison (Emily VanCamp), another freshman student and her friends rush into the room to wake up the older girls. Pauline is lying in Tori’s bed, both clearly topless. Horrified silence falls over everyone. Mary pushes Tori’s sister out of the room and closes the door. Tori angrily tells Pauline to get out of her bed. Pauline tries to downplay the situation and Tori tells her she doesn’t understand, explaining that her sister will tell her parents about it. When confronted by Allison, Tori tries to extinguish her sister’s suspicion by telling her that Pauline has an unrequited crush on her and crawled into her bed. Her sister promises to “fix” the rumors about Tori and not tell their parents anything. As she walks away from this conversation, Victoria collapses into tears.

In the school library, Victoria explains to Mary that her conservative family, her parents and her sister are strongly opposed to homosexuality and she must stop the relationship with Pauline to prevent their rejection. Mary sympathizes with both of her friends, as she too feels rejected by her father, who does not bother to show up to a father/daughter dance. In the forest at night, Victoria and Jake have sex against a tree. Both Mary and Pauline accidentally witness this scene and run back to their room before Victoria returns.

When Victoria returns to the room, Pauline asks her where she’s been and Victoria says she was with a friend. Pauline lashes out at her by telling her that she saw what Victoria and Jake were doing in the woods. In a very poignant moment, Victoria tells Pauline that the intimacy that they shared will never happen again but she (Victoria) will always lover, both as a friend and as a lover. At this point, Pauline rapidly degenerates into psychotic behavior over Victoria’s withdrawal from their relationship. She smashes a mirror and hurls a dish cart to the ground and begins to act out in belligerent ways in class and out of it. A rejection letter from the agency that handled Pauline’s adoption, which informs her that her birth mother denied a request from Pauline to get in touch, further sends her over the edge.

When Pauline is called into the Headmistress Fay Vaughn’s (Jackie Burroughs) office over mouthing off one too many times to a teacher, Pauline refuses to talk to Headmistress Vaughn about her recent behavior or what is bothering her. The Headmistress suggests that Pauline is going through a nervous breakdown, but Pauline says that it’s not the reason and storms out of the office. Later, when Headmistress Vaughn confronts Pauline on the school’s quad, Pauline finally confides in her about her romance with a female student who ended it out of shame (without naming Victoria’s name). The Headmistress is surprisingly very sympathetic with Pauline. She tells Pauline that when she was younger, she suffered a nervous breakdown too when her “girlfriend” abandoned her in a similar situation, but the Headmistress got over it and offers emotional support for Pauline. But Pauline refuses to talk anymore and walks off.

Meanwhile, Victoria, clearly ashamed of being a lesbian, creates a fabricated image of her heterosexuality to her friends and her sister by dating Jake Hollander (Luke Kirby) from a nearby all boys’ school and avoiding Pauline.

One day in the woods, Pauline declares a fencing duel to the death with Jake. Jake is not taking her seriously until he ends up on the ground after being slashed, with Pauline brandishing a sword above him. She demands that he give up Victoria. When he refuses, she stabs him in the leg. Mary rushes to stop her and Pauline runs off.

Mary runs to Victoria’s soccer match, where the Headmistress, Math teacher and fellow students are congregated. Upon reaching the group, Mary sees Pauline sobbing from the top of a nearby building while holding her falcon. Whispering “I rush into the secret house” (a reference to Shakespeare on suicide) Pauline jumps to her death, and as she falls, the injured falcon flies out of the doomed Pauline’s hands into the air. The final shot shows the recovered falcon flying away into the bright blue sky background.

The Clique

The Clique

A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes. Massie Block is the leader of a small group of privileged schoolgirls who arrogantly call themselves “The Pretty Committee”. These so-called preteen “mean girls” (cynical, egotistical, selfish and narcissistic females) and their clique are respected and feared in their middle school as their upper-class Rhode Island suburban neighborhood. But Massie’s life takes an unexpected turn when her parents friends, a lower middle-class family with a self-assured daughter named Claire move into the Block’s guest house and Claire threatens to undermine the superficial Massie’s position of the clique.

Massie Block is a cynical 13-year-old “mean girl” who is first seen screaming in her bedroom at her parents. She was going to go to a party but Massie’s parents, Kendra and William, will not let her go because William’s friend, Jay and his family are moving to the small Rhode Island town of Westchester where they live from Orlando, Florida to stay in their guesthouse. Massie is angry with them so she calls her friends Dylan, Alicia, and Kristen, who form a local clique called “The Pretty Committee” to spread the word about the new people in town. Massie tells them that the host of the party, Shelby Wexler, has head lice, so that Dylan, Alicia, and Kristen will not want to attend.

Massie goes to the house’s indoor swimming pool and is reading a magazine when her mother comes out to make a deal with her. She says she can go to the end of the party if she will be nice to Jay’s daughter, Claire, a girl who is Massie’s age, and will be going to her school, Octavian Country Day. The next scene shows Claire and her family arriving at Massie’s house. When Massie first sees Claire, she hates her right away, judging her by her outfit which is a typical design not an expensive and imported item. Todd, Claire’s 10-year-old brother, is shown to have an obvious crush on Massie.

At dinner, Claire gives Massie a charm of a silver microphone for Massie’s charm bracelet which Massie makes a rude comment about. Massie then tries to leave for her party but is overheard by Claire, whom Kendra invites to go the party, but Massie, not wanting to bring her, fakes sick. Claire, envious of Massie’s colorful fashion and clothes, asks her mother to take her shopping for new clothes for school. After some begging, her mother agrees. At the mall, Claire meets one of the mean girls, Dylan, who is in a fight with her own mother because she refuses to buy Dylan pants as she is not a specific size. Claire tells Dylan to switch the tags, which Dylan delightfully replies saying, “You’re a brilliant!” Once seeing the rest of her friends, she leaves thanking Claire, who, turning away, smiles.

The next day, Massie decides to go riding with her horse, Brownie. On her trail she meets a boy named Chris Abeley who Massie instantly develops a crush on. After a short conversation, they make plans to go riding the following week, in which Chris says “It’s a date.” The following day, Claire hears she is going to school with Massie, much to her excitement. She gets into the car, soon to be accompanied by Massie, who requests that she sits in the back, as they have to “pick up a few more” (Dylan, Alicia and Kristen). Dylan and Claire recognize each other and Dylan immediately then stops liking Claire because of Massie’s disapproval. During the ride, Kristen asks Massie if they “like” Claire, which Massie coldly replies “No.” When Claire is walking to school, she runs in Chris Abeley, who is riding his skateboard and trips, falling onto Claire. Seeing him, Claire develops a crush on him. Massie sees this and storms into the school, furious. Claire comes by and asks Massie for a room location, which Massie replies to Claire to “go back to wherever the hell you came from”, then offers her friends lattes. When Claire insults Massie by calling her a “bitch” right to her face, Massie vows revenge for this.

Claire goes to Art class where the class is supposed to paint a still life of tomatoes. Alicia, who was next to her, deliberately spills red paint on Claire’s white jeans, then IMed her friends that she got her period. The Art teacher, Vincent, tells Claire to go to the nurse. Claire, not knowing why, asks Dylan for directions, in which Dylan gives Claire false directions to the class Massie is in. Claire then finds the real nurse’s office and gets new clothes because of her “period.” At lunch, Massie’s crew makes fun of her and laughs at her outfit, causing Claire to leave. Massie, Dylan, Alicia and Kristen have afterschool plans as well, to watch Chris Abeley at school, and Claire is not invited, so she walks home.

The next day, when Claire is at school, she decides to make a new friend and show Massie up. She befriends Layne Abeley, who is Chris’s little sister. Claire tells Layne she is friends with Massie, lying that she is jealous that she has a new friend can’t only hang out with her. Layne and Claire decide to hang out on Friday, but when Claire comes back home Kendra tells Claire that every Friday Massie has a sleepover with her friends and invites her as well. Claire accepts, but she does not know that Massie does not want her to come.

Claire tells Layne and lies that she has to babysit for Todd and goes to the sleepover. They are donating old clothes for the annual auction, and they all look at her like she doesn’t belong there. Massie and her mother talk, and Massie’s mother tells Massie that she has to be nice to Claire. Massie invites Claire to the place they go to sleep during the sleepovers, so Claire goes down. The girls were playing “What Would You Rather” Alicia asks if they would rather be A: Friendless B: Someone with a ton of friends who secretly hates them. Claire picks A: which Alicia says, “Congratulations, you got your wish.” Claire turns to go, but Massie says, “Have you ever played Truth or Dare?” So, they start to play. They then go to sleep, but Alicia makes a farting noise and asks Claire if it was her. Claire gets up to leave, Massie tells her she doesn’t have to go. Claire says she wants to.

The next day in the car, Kristen tells the girls she has to do a project, so the girls decide to make a makeup company which Claire named Glambition. When the girls go to make their Glambition lip gloss, Dylan, Alicia and Kristen are waiting for Massie, but Claire wants to go for a swim. Massie is out riding with Chris Abeley and finds out that Layne is Chris’s sister, therefore pretends to be friends with her. Claire convinces the three to swim with her, and they all have fun. Claire lies about the brand of her bathing suit, telling them it is an original Astrud but when Massie comes back from seeing Chris Abeley, she sees through Claire’s lie and calls her bathing suit a knock off.

Claire goes home in tears. Her mother sees that something is wrong, telling her to talk to Massie. Claire goes up to talk to Massie about what happened, but it turns out Massie is not there, so she sneaks over to her iMac computer and pretends to be Massie while Iming Alicia, telling her that she likes Claire now and that she is wearing shorts over tights the next day, which everyone but Massie wears. The next night, Claire goes up to Massie’s computer again, and insults Dylan’s legs, asking if she thinks her legs look good in a mini skirt, causing Dylan to be mad at Massie and it leads to Dylan wearing only long skirts the next day to hide her legs. The next night, Claire kidnaps Massie’s dog Bean to send Massie to go look for Bean. Claire sneaks into Massie’s room again and IMs Kristen, tricking her into telling that she’s poor. She escapes in time to get away from Massie.

The next day, Kristen, Dylan and Alicia befriend Claire and dethrown Massie, because they believe that she is friends with Layne instead of them now and make Claire their leader. Claire accepts and even hangs out with them after school. They go to a designer store, and Alicia offers to buy her a dress and gives Claire her old cell phone. They then go back to Dylan’s house and have fun trying things on and messing around. Claire goes home and starts talking back to her mother, being more like Massie was as her new status as the Queen Bee of the Pretty Committee is getting to her.

That night, the alone and bewildered Massie IMs all of her friends, but only Kristen replies because Massie tells her that she has the makeup lip gloss tubes and Kristen comes to pick them up, which the two of them get into a screaming argument and Massie figures out about Claire using her IM while she was out to bad mouth her to her minions of the clique. Massie calls Claire with her other friends on a five-way conversation and tells her that fun is over, exposing Claire as the one responsible for their internal feud, then hanging up on her.

Restored as the leader of the Pretty Committee, Massie now embarks on a hell-bent mission to destroy Claire’s life for her deception and attempts to take her on. The girls come over to Massie’s house the next day to mix the makeup recipe together to hand out at the school field trip. The girls gossip about Chris Abeley, and Massie asks her friends what to do for Chris Abeley’s birthday. They plan for Massie to jump out of a cake at the auction. Claire then comes down and asks to borrow an egg, which Massie agrees to, throwing it at Claire, who runs upstairs crying.

Claire confides in her mother about things she did and what’s going on, and the next day at the school field trip, Claire makes up with Layne. When the Pretty Committee starts selling their lip gloss, all the girls lips swell or burn from allergic reactions to the experimental solution, which Claire saves the day with oatmeal, to help the girls’ lips. While Dylan, Alicia and Kristen half-heartedly thank Claire for saving their reputation. Massie does not, fearing it will weaken her hold of power as Queen Bee.

The next day at the auction, Claire meets Chris Abeley’s girlfriend, Fawn and Claire saves Massie from an embarrassing situation by sitting on the cake and asking Fawn to come up and talk about Chris, Massie and Claire talk backstage from the stage, and Massie is nicer and gives Claire a flower.

In the final scene, Claire goes to bed and tells her mother that Massive gave her the flower and she wants Massie being nice to her as well as the flower to last for a long while. In Massie’s room, she makes a list of pros and cons of her life. Massie lists Claire’s name in both the pro and con list implying hope that Massie might let Claire become a member of the Pretty Committee that she continues to hold an iron grip over.