As we discussed yesterday, the deadCENTER Film Festival takes place this week. In general, the festival is pretty cool and fun, but we noticed that there seems to be a lack of Oklahoma star power.
In effort to get movies with more of a local collection of A-list talent, Tony and I came up with a list of Oklahoma-themed movies (starring Oklahomans) that we'd like to see at next year's deadCENTER. Who knows, maybe some aspiring young filmmaker will use our ideas and get a movie submitted. That would be cool because then we could sue them.
Anyway, the first few ideas are below, the rest are after the jump:
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1. When Mary Met Sally
Starring: Mary Fallin, Sally Kern
Plot: Mary Fallin and Sally Kern have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the relationship. Because homosexuality is destroying America.
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2. Boomers
Starring: Berry Tramel
Plot: They told him no one wanted the local sports franchise to have a new nickname. He set out to prove them wrong, newspaper column after newspaper column.
Starring: Steve Lackmeyer
Plot: How one man's life spirals out of control when he realizes the buildings he loves don't love him back.
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4. A Nightmare On Jenkins Avenue
Starring: Lon Kruger, Sherri Coale, the OU Twirler Girl (for the standard B-movie nude scene).
Plot: The University of Oklahoma doesn't know what it's getting into when it hires Freddy Krueger's long-lost brother, Lon, to coach their basketball team. Chaos ensues when the mild-mannered man thought to be a coach turns out to in reality be a murderer who kills those who dream of OU basketball success.
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4. Weekend At Jim's II
Starring: Rick From Duncan, Driver, Running Girl, Cardboard Jim
Plot: Jim Traber won't hang out with them, but when Rick From Duncan and Driver discover a cardboard cutout of their hero, they pretend he's real and party all night long.
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5. Rush Springs of Desire
Starring: Joleen Chaney
Plot: The erotic journey of an innocent small town girl who does whatever it takes to make it as a news reporter in Oklahoma City.
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6. Tall Paul was Here
Starring: Blake Shelton and Greyson Chance
Plot: A lonely, soft-spoken child (Chance) wishes to life a crooning cartoon cowboy pitchman (voiced by Blake Shelton) as a singing buddy.
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7. Grinders 187
Starring: Val Caster and David Payne
Plot: Two rival storm chasers turned homicide unit partners are forced to bring a killer tornado to justice.
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8. Mr. Drozd's Opus
Starring: Steve Drozd, Wayne Coyne and this kid
Plot: Frustrated by his second fiddle status in a popular rock band, a local musician finds satisfaction by conducting the Classen School of Advanced Studies orchestra.
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9. Searching for Clark Matthews
Starring: Kelly Ogle, Gan Matthews, Clark Pup
Plot: A prepubescent checkers prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Clark Matthews.
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10. Hero Behind Bars: The Jerome Ersland Story or In Cold Bold III: The Jerome Ersland Story
Plot: Still not so sure about the plot in this one.
