Actor Mark Wahlberg (1971)

Stuart Long, a foul-mouthed amateur boxer from Helena, Montana has a troubled relationship with his mother and alcoholic father. His brother Stephen died at age six, leading to a rift in the family and causing his parents to be hostile towards religion. He moves to Southern California to try to make it as an actor, and gets a job in a grocery store, hoping to get connected in the entertainment industry. He is arrested for a DUI and attempts to steal his father’s truck to make it to an audition. While working in the store he meets a woman named Carmen, whom he tracks to a local Catholic parish, where she is a volunteer Sunday school teacher. Carmen resists his advances, telling ...

Nathan and Sam Drake are arrested trying to steal the first map made after the Magellan expedition. Sam escapes while Nathan is returned to their orphanage; Sam gives Nathan a ring belonging to their ancestor, Sir Francis Drake, and promises to return for him. Fifteen years later, Nathan works as a bartender and pickpockets wealthy patrons. Victor “Sully” Sullivan, a fortune hunter who worked with Sam tracking treasure hidden by the Magellan crew, explains to Nathan that Sam vanished after helping him steal Juan Sebastian Elcano’s diary. Nathan, who has several postcards Sam sent him over the years, agrees to help Sully to find his brother. Sully and Nathan go to an ...

A young, lonely Shaggy Rogers befriends and adopts a young talking stray Great Dane, who he names Scooby-Doo. On Halloween night, Scooby and Shaggy meet three young detectives—Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, and Velma Dinkley—before venturing in a haunted house, where they capture a thief disguised as a ghost, which inspires them to form Mystery Inc. and solve mysteries together. After years of solving mysteries, Mystery Inc. goes into business. During an investor meeting with Simon Cowell, he refuses to do business with Scooby and Shaggy involved. The pair storm out to the Takamoto bowling alley, where they are terrorized by shapeshifting robots called Rottens that belong to Dick ...

After finally becoming friends, Brad Whitaker and Dusty Mayron have a co-dad system where Dusty’s two children, Megan and Dylan, take turns at each father’s house. Dusty has also remarried, this time to Karen, a doctor/writer, and is stepfather to Adrianna, Karen’s daughter. Brad and Dusty decide to do away with having two separate Christmases (after Megan had embarrassed the two by admitting during a school recital, through a letter she wrote, that she did not like Christmas anymore due to the dual arrangement) and instead do one “together Christmas”. Dusty’s tough fighter pilot/astronaut father Kurt and Brad’s overbearing and over-cheerful ...

In 484 AD, King Arthur and his knights fight a losing battle against the Saxons. Merlin finds the Knights of Iacon, a group of Transformers hiding on Earth. They hand him an alien staff and transform into Dragonstorm to turn the tide of the battle, but warn Merlin to hide the staff, for a great evil will come for it someday. In the present, One year ago, following the Hong Kong incident, Optimus Prime arrives on what remains of Cybertron and meets Quintessa. Blaming Optimus for Cybertron’s destruction, she brainwashes him, renaming him Nemesis Prime, and sends him to Earth to retrieve Merlin’s staff, which can absorb Earth’s energy and restore Cybertron. On Earth, ...

In 1973, 16-year-old John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, who is at that time the world’s richest private citizen, is kidnapped in Rome by the ‘Ndrangheta, a Mafia-like organized crime group and secret society based in Calabria; a ransom of $17 million is demanded. His mother, Gail Harris, is unable to pay the ransom, as she rejected any alimony in exchange for full custody of her children when she divorced her husband, John Paul Getty Jr., in 1971 over his drug addiction. She travels to Getty’s estate to beseech him to pay the ransom but, stating that it would encourage further kidnappings on his family members, he instead asks Fletcher Chace, ...

On April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon, an oil drilling rig operated by private contractor Transocean, is set to complete drilling off the southern coast of Louisiana on behalf of BP. Chief Electronics Technician Michael “Mike” Williams and Offshore Installation Manager James “Mr. Jimmy” Harrell are surprised to learn that the workers assigned to test the integrity of recently completed cement work are being sent home early, without conducting a cement bond log (CBL), at the insistence of BP managers Donald Vidrine and Robert Kaluza. While Mike prepares the drilling team, including Caleb Holloway, Harrell meets with Vidrine and persuades him to conduct a negative ...

Mild-mannered radio executive Brad Whitaker struggles to be a good stepfather to his wife Sara’s two children, Megan and Dylan, and is seemingly sterile after an accident to his testicles some years ago. The children begin to grow closer to Brad, with Dylan confiding in him that he is being picked on at school and Megan asking him to take her to a father/daughter dance at her school. One night, Dusty Mayron, Sara’s ex-husband and the kids’ biological father, calls and discovers Sara’s marriage with Brad. He suddenly announces he will be visiting the next day. Sara hesitates to let her ex-husband into their home, but Brad convinces her that it is important for ...

Sixty-five million years ago, an alien race known as the “Creators” used devices called Seeds to cover Earth with an alloy that will one day be called “Transformium”, wiping out the dinosaurs in the process. In the present day, geologist Darcy Tirrel excavates the Transformium for K.S.I. Industries, who use it to build Transformers drones. Five years after the Invasion of Chicago, the people have started to view the Transformers as public enemies of the state. Though the public believes that the Autobots were granted sanctuary, they are in fact hunted down by a rogue CIA black ops division, Cemetery Wind, led by opportunistic, corrupt intelligence operative ...

In October 1994, Daniel Lugo, an ex-con and bodybuilder, is hired by Sun Gym owner John Mese as a manager. Under Lugo, gym membership is increased by 300% within six weeks. Lugo befriends trainer and bodybuilder Adrian Doorbal, rendered impotent from steroids. Lugo envies the earnings and lifestyle of Victor Kershaw, a member he begins to train. Motivational speaker Jonny Wu inspires him to be a “do-er,” and Lugo plans to extort Kershaw for his assets through kidnapping and torture. Lugo recruits Doorbal and Paul Doyle, another ex-con and born again-Christian struggling with drug use. Doyle eventually joins the team, after being kicked out of his halfway house.

Robert “Bobby” Trench and Michael “Stig” Stigman are questioned by the US Border Patrol after meeting with drug lord Manny “Papi” Greco in Mexico. Unknown to Stig, Bobby is undercover DEA agent Trench who reports to his superior, Jessup, that he didn’t get the cocaine from Papi they need to convict him. Against orders, Bobby remains undercover to assist Stig in robbing $3 million – in a bank vault in Tres Cruces, Texas – to prosecute Papi for money laundering. Bobby then meets with fellow DEA agent and ex, Deb Rees, while Stig, an undercover Navy SEAL with ONI, meets with his commanding officer, LCDR Harold Quince, and is told to ...

Micky Ward is an American welterweight boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts. Managed by his mother, Alice Ward, and trained by his older half-brother, Dicky Eklund, Micky became a “stepping stone” for other boxers to defeat on their way up. Dicky, a former boxer whose peak of success was going the distance with Sugar Ray Leonard in 1978, has become addicted to crack cocaine. He is being filmed for an HBO documentary he believes to be about his “comeback”. On the night of an undercard fight in Atlantic City, Micky’s scheduled opponent Saoul Mamby is ill, and a substitute is found in Mike Mungin who is 20 pounds heavier than Micky, a huge difference in ...

Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz are both detectives of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Allen is a mild-mannered forensic accountant while Terry is a hot-tempered detective who has been partnered with Allen ever since he mistakenly shot Derek Jeter during the World Series, earning him the nickname “Yankee Clipper”. They receive no respect from the other officers, particularly detectives Martin and Fosse. All but Terry idolize cocky detectives Chris Danson and P. K. Highsmith, who are considered New York City’s best policemen even though they frequently cause millions of dollars in property damage catching petty criminals. During a pursuit, Danson and ...

In 1973, 14-year-old high school freshman Susie Salmon dreams of becoming a photographer. One day, Ray, a boy she has a crush on, asks her out. As Susie walks home through a cornfield, she runs into her neighbor, George Harvey, who coaxes her into an underground “kid’s hideout” he has built. Inside, Susie grows uncomfortable and attempts to leave; Harvey grabs her and the scene fades until she is seen rushing past her alarmed classmate Ruth Connors, seemingly fleeing Harvey’s den. The Salmons become worried when Susie fails to return home from school. Her father, Jack, searches for her, while her mother, Abigail waits for the ...

In New York City’s Central Park, people begin dying by mass suicide. Initially believed to be caused by a bio-terrorist attack using an airborne neurotoxin, the behavior quickly spreads across the northeastern United States. High school science teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma are convinced by Elliot’s mathematician colleague Julian to accompany him and his daughter Jess on a train out of Philadelphia. During the trip, the group learns that Boston and Philadelphia have also been affected. The train loses all radio contact and stops at a small town. When Julian learns that his wife has left Boston for Princeton, he decides to go look for her, and entrusts Jess to the ...

In South Boston in 1986, Colin Sullivan is introduced to Irish Mob boss Frank Costello. Twenty years later, Sullivan has been groomed as a mole inside the Massachusetts State Police and joins the Special Investigations Unit, led by Captain Ellerby. Another recruit, Billy Costigan Jr., is approached by Captain Queenan and Staff Sergeant Dignam to go undercover and infiltrate Costello’s crew. They set up a cover; he serves time in jail on a phony charge and eventually joins Costello’s crew. Ellerby informs Special Investigations that only Queenan and Dignam will know their operatives’ names and that Costello’s crew has stolen computer microprocessors to sell to a ...

John Bridger, a professional safecracker, has assembled a team to steal $35 million worth of gold bullion from a safe in Venice, held by Italian gangsters who had stolen it weeks earlier. The team includes Charlie Croker, a professional fixer; Lyle or “Napster”, a computer expert; Handsome Rob, their wheelman; Steve, their inside man; and Left Ear, their explosives expert. The heist is successful, but as they drive towards Austria with the bullion, they are stopped by men loyal to Steve, who had turned on them and takes the bullion for himself. Steve kills John when the latter admonishes him, and Rob drives the van over a bridge into the waters below to protect the others, ...

In 2029, aboard the United States Air Force space station Oberon, Leo Davidson works closely with primates who are trained for space missions. His favorite simian co-worker is a chimpanzee named Pericles. With a deadly electromagnetic storm approaching the station, a small space pod piloted by Pericles is used to probe the storm. Pericles’s pod heads into the storm and disappears. Leo takes a second pod and goes into a pursuit search for Pericles. Entering the storm, Leo loses contact with the Oberon and, in 5021 A.D., crashes on a planet called Ashlar. He discovers that the world is ruled by humanoid apes who speak English, use domesticated horses for transportation, and treat ...

Leo Handler rides the subway to his mother Val’s house in Queens, New York, where she throws a surprise party celebrating his parole. His cousin Erica Soltz is at the party with her boyfriend Willie, who takes Leo aside and thanks him for serving time in prison, implying that Leo had taken a fall for their gang of friends. Leo is eager to find a job to support his mother, as she has a heart condition. Willie suggests working for Erica’s stepfather, Frank Olchin. The next day, at the railway car repair company Frank owns, Leo is encouraged to enter a 2-year machinist program and Frank offers to help finance his studies. Needing work immediately, Leo asks about working with ...

In October 1991, the commercial fishing boat Andrea Gail returns to port in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a poor catch. Boat owner Bob Brown ridicules and taunts Captain Billy Tyne over his recent “cold streak”. Desperate to redeem himself, Captain Tyne convinces the Andrea Gail crew to join him for one more late-season fishing expedition. The crew heads out past their usual fishing grounds on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, leaving a developing tropical storm behind them. Initially unsuccessful, they head to the Flemish Cap, where their luck greatly improves. At the height of their fishing, the ice machine breaks down; the only way to sell their catch before it spoils ...