Big Flicks

Movie Plot Summary: Determined to follow in the footsteps of his late father, eleven-year-old Peter is obsessed with becoming a policeman and he’s not willing to allow the fact he’s just a little boy to stand in his way! Peter’s usual cases involve petty crimes but things go awry when the boy and his fellow child partner Lisa find themselves on the trail of two thieves after the mayor’s office is robbed. With his mother and the town chief determined to put an end to Peter’s crimefighting, can he find the robbers before they make off with the loot?

Movie Plot Summary: It’s 1940, in the northern Indiana town of Hohman. 9-year-old Ralph Ralphie Parker wants only one thing for Christmas — an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model BB rifle with a compass in the stock. Between his younger brother Randy and having to handle school bully Scut Farkus, Ralphie doesn’t know how he’ll ever survive long enough to get the BB gun for Christmas. When Ralph asks his mother for a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas, she says, No, you’ll shoot your eye out. When Mrs. Shields, Ralph’s teacher at Harding Elementary School, assigns the class to write a theme about what they want for Christmas, Ralph sees a golden opportunity to express his desire to have a Red Ryder BB gun. Ralph gets a C+ on the theme, and Mrs. Shields has written You’ll shoot your eye out on the theme. Ralph’s next plan is to ask Santa Claus for a Red Ryder BB gun, and how does Santa respond? By saying You’ll shoot your eye out, kid. By this time, Ralph has had enough of that. When Scut Farkus and his sidekick Grover Dill start in on Ralph while he’s on his way home from school that day, Ralph knocks Grover Dill to the ground, beats Scut’s face bloody, and then pounds Scut’s head on the snow-covered ground several times. Ralph thinks he’ll never get the BB gun for Christmas now. And all of the other kids are going to be getting what they want for Christmas. But someone may have planned a surprise for Ralph.

Movie Plot Summary: Small-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.