The Cheap Detective - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[ronnie]

Metropolitan 1990

A sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young mans romantic misadventures among New York Citys debutante society. Stillmans deft literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this debut film an Academy Award ...

Metropolitan features talky, intellectual, witty, clever and realistic style.

[Timothyfap]

For Love or Money 1993

New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island N.Y. but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian ...

For Love or Money features feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious and entertaining style.

[ahmedsfriend]

Irreconcilable Differences 1984

Alternating between the past and the present a precocious little girl sues her selfish career-driven parents for emancipation surprising them both.

Irreconcilable Differences features realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching and humorous style.

[kyle]

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2015

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel features feel good, sentimental, humorous, touching and semi serious style.

[riley]

Playing by Heart 1998

Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannahs TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trents charm but he persists. The trendy prolix Joan tries to ...

Playing by Heart features sincere, touching, sentimental, talky and realistic style.

[Brianval]

Minnie and Moskowitz 1971

Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend aging beauty Minnie Moore Gena Rowlands wonders if shell ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz Seymour Cassel comes to her defense from ...

Minnie and Moskowitz features semi serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good and humorous style.

[camila]

Sweet Liberty 1986

Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters directors want to re-stage battles and he becomes very ...

Sweet Liberty features humorous, witty, feel good, semi serious and realistic style.

[kristina]

R.I.P.D. 2013

A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov.

R.I.P.D. features not serious, buddy comedy, stylized, exciting and entertaining style.

[edgar]

A Beautiful Mind 2001

At Princeton University John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...

A Beautiful Mind features psychological, captivating, cerebral, dramatic and touching style.

[Covavaft]

La Vie en Rose 2007

A swirling impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing writer-director Olivier Dahans La Vie en Rose stars Marion Cotillard in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the ...

La Vie en Rose features touching, atmospheric, gloomy, disturbing and based on true events style.

[chris]

Frida 2002

quotFridaquot chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...

Frida features colourful, stylized, sincere, serious and emotional style.

[Mixmew]

Radio Days 1987

The Narrator Woody Allen tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Years Eve 1944 this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrators experiences with contemporary ...

Radio Days features humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious and feel good style.

[MatthewOvala]

Slums of Beverly Hills 1998

In 1976 a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

Slums of Beverly Hills features humorous, semi serious, sincere, disturbing and clever style.

[brent]

Antarctica 2008

Set in Tel Aviv focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer about to turn 30 who still hasnt found himself and his free-spirited best friend Miki who both end ...

Antarctica features touching, sentimental, sexy, serious and realistic style.

[lena]

Deleted Scenes 2010

When 30 something Sean meets Eastern European immigrant Wolf sparks fly. They return to Seans apartment and begin a high energy and hugely sexual affair. What starts as a mere chance meeting slowly evolves into something more. Wolf is easy ...

Deleted Scenes features male prostitute, cell phone, gay hustler, pier, male nudity, beach, prostitute, hustler, prostitution, drugs, gay sex and nightclub style.

[willard]

A Son 2003

Selim a young man adrift is a transvestite and a prostitute who desperately longs for his fathers love. Omar his father lives a secluded life of grief and has never recovered from the loss of his wife. Like two lonely ships they pass ...

A Son features gay, gay subtext, bathroom, kitchen, father son relationship, kiss, cross dressing, train, gay kiss, male prostitution, gay relationship and sex style.

[eli]

Greek Pete 2009

Just as doctors lawyers and others strive to reach the top of their professions Greek Pete Peter Pittaros longs to reach the pinnacle of his. The only difference is that hes a rent boy and the recognition he seeks is a nod from the World ...

Greek Pete features rent boy, male prostitute, escort, gay, lgbt, gay interest, telephone call, gay kiss, internet, christmas lights, gay club and nightclub style.

[beth]

Struggle 2010

Struggle is the story of Darren a young gay man who arrives in Toronto seeking a new life. Running out of money and with nowhere to live he quickly falls in with a group of gay rent boys. Complicating matters for himself he falls in love with ...

Struggle features rent boy, prostitute, hustler, kiss, crush, grief, hugging, nightmare, prostitution, gay slur, cuddling and gay style.

[tornob]

R.I.P.D. 2013

A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov.

R.I.P.D. features not serious, buddy comedy, stylized, exciting and entertaining style.

[mathew]

The Odd Couple 1968

Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondent he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him at least for a while. The only problem is that Felix is ...

The Odd Couple features earnest, witty, clever, humorous and realistic style.