Actor Jon Hamm (1971)

Over thirty years after graduating from TOPGUN, United States Navy Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is a test pilot. While he has won many honors, repeated insubordination has kept him from flag rank. His friend and former TOPGUN rival Admiral Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, often protects Maverick from being grounded. Rear Admiral Chester “Hammer” Cain cancels Maverick’s “Darkstar” scramjet program in favor of funding drones. Before Cain can officially do so, Maverick sets a new flight plan to push into high-hypersonic speed, accomplishing the program’s goal. The prototype is destroyed, however, ...

In 1986, Richard Jewell works as an office supply clerk in a small public law firm, where he builds a rapport with attorney Watson Bryant. Eventually, Jewell leaves the firm to pursue a law enforcement career. At one point, Jewell is hired as a sheriff’s deputy, but ends up discharged. In early 1996, he works as a security guard at Piedmont College, but is fired after multiple complaints of acting beyond his jurisdiction. Jewell later moves in with his mother Bobi in Atlanta. In the summer of 1996, he works as a security guard at the Olympic Games, monitoring Centennial Park. In the early morning of July 27, 1996, after chasing off drunken ...

The El Royale, once popular with the wealthy until losing its gambling license, is a hotel that straddles the California–Nevada border. In 1959, Felix O’Kelly hides a money bag under the floorboards of his room. A man he recognizes arrives and shoots him dead. Ten years later, Catholic priest Daniel Flynn, singer Darlene Sweet, salesman Laramie Seymour Sullivan, and hippie Emily Summerspring arrive at the hotel, now run solely by heroin addict Miles Miller, and book separate rooms. Upon checking into the honeymoon suite, Laramie begins removing wiretaps but unexpectedly finds a second set as well. After stealing the hotel’s master key, ...

Baby is a getaway driver in Atlanta. As a child he survived a car crash, which killed his parents and left him with tinnitus, and he finds catharsis in music. He ferries crews of robbers assembled by Doc, a criminal mastermind, to pay off a debt he incurred when he unknowingly stole a car containing Doc’s stolen goods. Between jobs, he remixes snippets of recorded conversations and cares for his deaf foster father Joseph. At Bo’s Diner, he meets a waitress named Debora, and they start dating. Baby’s next robbery goes awry after an armed bystander chases them down, but Baby evades him and the police. Having paid his debt, Baby quits ...

Jeff Gaffney works as a Human Resources professional at a Defense contractor company called MBI, based in Atlanta. He and his wife Karen live in a nice cul-de-sac with their two children, who are away at summer camp. They make the acquaintance of their new neighbors, Tim and Natalie Jones. Tim is a travel writer whose hobbies include glassblowing, and Natalie is a social media consultant, cooking blogger and philanthropist. They are both impossibly good-looking, accomplished and stylish, yet overly friendly with the Gaffneys. Karen starts having suspicions about the Joneses when she catches Tim poking around Jeff’s den during a neighborhood ...

Minions are small, yellow creatures who have existed since the beginning of time, evolving from yellow single-celled organisms into beings which exist only to serve history’s most evil masters, but they accidentally end up killing all their masters —including a Tyrannosaurus, a caveman, a Pharaoh, and Count Dracula.— They are driven into isolation after firing a cannon at Napoleon while in Russia and start a new life inside a cave, but after many years, the Minions become sad and unmotivated without a master to serve. To regain their dignity and sense of purpose, a minion named Kevin recruits two Minions called Stuart and Bob, setting out to look for a new master.

In 2003, bearded, long-haired Nathan Flomm is an opinionated, obnoxious business associate of Will Haney, whose company in San Jose, California is about to introduce a new electric car. Flomm objects to the car being named “the Howard” after Haney’s son, who is himself named after Howard Roark, hero of The Fountainhead. After Flomm accepts a severance package to cut ties with the company, he becomes a ridiculed public figure when the Howard is a huge success, costing Flomm what would have been his share — a billion dollars. Ten years later, a balding, clean-shaven Flomm has changed his name to Rolly DaVore and moved to Martha’s Vineyard, beginning a new life and ...

Black Mirror is a British anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker. Individual episodes explore a diversity of genres, but most are near-future dystopias utilising a science fiction technology—a type of speculative fiction. The series is based on The Twilight Zone and uses technology to comment on contemporary social issues. Most episodes are written by Brooker, with heavy involvement by the executive producer Annabel Jones. There are 22 episodes across five series and one special, in addition to the interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch ...

In the 1960s, a young woman nicknamed Babydoll is institutionalized by her abusive widowed stepfather at the fictional Lennox House for the Mentally Insane in Brattleboro, Vermont, after he murders her younger sister and frames her for the crime. He bribes asylum orderly Blue Jones to forge the signature of the asylum’s psychiatrist, Vera Gorski, to have Babydoll lobotomized so she cannot inform authorities of the truth. During her admission to the institution, Babydoll takes note of four items that she would need to attempt an escape. Babydoll slips into a fantasy world in which she has newly arrived in a brothel owned by Blue, whom she ...

Shrek has grown steadily weary of being a family man and celebrity, leading him to long for the days when he was feared and had privacy. While celebrating his children’s first birthday at a restaurant in Far Far Away, an escalating series of mishaps further injure his ego, causing him to walk out in anger and lash out at his wife, Princess Fiona. Having observed the outburst, Rumpelstiltskin (“Rumpel”) follows Shrek and stages a scene of being in distress, prompting Shrek to help. Inside Rumpel’s carriage, Shrek laments that he is no longer a “real ogre”. Following through on his scheme, Rumpel pretends to thank Shrek for his good deed earlier and ...

Four lifelong friends from the neighborhood of Charlestown, Boston, Douglas “Doug” MacRay, James “Jem” Coughlin, Albert “Gloansy” MacGloan, and Desmond “Dez” Elden, rob a bank. Assistant manager, Claire Keesey, is a hostage who is released unharmed. Finding out Claire lives in their neighborhood, Doug follows her to find out how much she has told the police, and to ensure that hot-headed Jem does not eliminate her as a witness. Soon a romance grows between them, which Doug hides from the gang. As they grow closer, he tells Claire of his search for his long-lost mother, who he believes went to live with ...

In 1928, a solitary mountaineer exploring the Karakoram mountains in India encounters a glowing sphere. He loses consciousness and when he wakes, the sphere has gone and there is a scar on his hand where a sample of his DNA has been taken. In the present day, a rapidly moving object is detected beyond Jupiter’s orbit and forecast to impact Manhattan. It is moving at 30,000 kilometers per second, fast enough that its impact would destroy all life on Earth. The United States government hastily assembles a group of scientists, including Helen Benson and her friend Michael Granier, to develop a survival plan. The scientists travel to New York City ...