When the movie was conceived and launched, intermarriage between African-Americans and Caucasians was still illegal in fourteen states. Towards the end of production, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Loving v. Virginia. The Loving decision was made on June 12, 1967, two days after the death of Spencer Tracy, who had played a "phony" white liberal who grudgingly accepts his daughter's marriage to a black man. In Loving, the High Court unanimously ruled that anti-miscegenation marriage laws were unconstitutional. In his opinion, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote, "Marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man', fundamental to our very existence and survival. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under the American Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State." Interestingly, Kramer kept in the line of the African-American father played by Roy Glenn, who tells his son played by Sidney Poitier, "In sixteen or seventeen states you'll be breaking the law. You'll be criminals." This was probably because Kramer realized that, despite the change in the law, the couple would still be facing a great deal of prejudice requiring a stalwart love for their marriage to survive, which was the message Tracy's character gives in an eight minute scene that is the climax of the movie. The scene summing up the theme of the movie was the last one the dying Tracy filmed for the movie, and it was the last time he would ever appear on film. It took a week to shoot the scene, and at the end, he was given a standing ovation by the crew. He died seventeen days after walking off of a soundstage for the last time.
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Scanners 1981
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power strong enough to control minds they can inflict enormous paindamage on their ...
Scanners features disturbing, intense, scary, tense and suspenseful style.
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Altered States 1980
A research scientist William Hurt explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory ...
Altered States features psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric and scary style.
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Possession 1981
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Possession features surreal, disturbing, mind bending, art house and scary style.
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Pi 1998
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Pi features surreal, cerebral, black and white, mind bending and atmospheric style.
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Humanoids from the Deep 1980
Theyre not human. But they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating.
Humanoids from the Deep features scary, grindhouse, intense, suspenseful and cult classic style.
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Eraserhead 1977
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment his angry girlfriend and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Eraserhead features surreal, avant garde, art house, psychological and experimental style.
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The Host 2006
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The Host features suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark and atmospheric style.
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Brainscan 1994
A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the ...
Brainscan features scary, disturbing, twist ending, slasher and suspenseful style.
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Rejuvenator 1988
A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum but its unforeseen side effects ...
Rejuvenator features cult classic, independent film and psychotronic
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Titane 2021
Following a series of unexplained crimes a former firefighter is reunited with his son who has been missing for 10 years.
Titane features disturbing, tense, surreal, cerebral and art house style.
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(at around 57 mins) Originally, Ultra Magnus was dismembered by the Sweeps (his arms and legs were ripped from his body). This was changed to a scene of him being blasted to death. However, the shot of the Sweeps firing at Magnus shows them using continuous beams (almost as if they were ropes of energy), instead of laser blasts they are seen using in the rest of the movie.
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Life 2017
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Life features suspense, scary, apocalyptic, tense and suspenseful style.
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Sputnik 2020
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Sputnik features suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense and political style.
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Moon 2009
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Moon features psychological, philosophical, suspense, futuristic and cerebral style.
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Creature 1985
A crew of scientists arrives on a far cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing they only find the Germans ...
Creature features space horror, independent film, cult horror, classic horror and serious style.
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Videodrome 1983
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Videodrome features surreal, psychedelic, cerebral, disturbing and psychological style.
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The Fly II 1989
Martin Brundle born of the humanfly is adopted by his fathers place of employment Bartok Inc. while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
The Fly II features scary, cult classic, bloody, slasher and tech noir style.
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The Void 2016
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The Void features dark, lovecraft, satanic, creepy and spooky style.
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Tetsuo, the Iron Man 1989
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Tetsuo, the Iron Man features psychedelic, psychotronic, surreal, experimental and disturbing style.
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The Dead Zone 1983
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but after leaving his fiancees home one night is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
The Dead Zone features suspense, neo noir, psychological, dark and suspenseful style.
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Transformers: The Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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