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Jim Uhls is a Scriptwriter American born on 25 march 1957 at Missouri (USA)
Jim Uhls born as James Walter Uhls (born March 25, 1957) is an American screenwriter and producer who rose to fame with his script adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel Fight Club. He graduated from the UCLA Film School. Currently he is intended to write a screenplay for Trent Reznor's Year Zero-based HBO mini-series.
He runs the Writers and Actors lab, a workshop teaching people how to write original screenplays.
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He runs the Writers and Actors lab, a workshop teaching people how to write original screenplays.
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The Royal Bengal Tiger (2014)
Actors Jeet, Abir Chatterjee, Priyanka Sarkar, Shraddha Das, Kharaj Mukherjee, Rajesh Sharma
Roles Original Story
Rating67%
Abhi (Abir Chatterjee) is a typical meek & docile Bengali familyman and doesn't know how to protest. He lives in Kolkata with his wife Apu (Priyanka Sarkar) and his son. He has a tenant who doesn't pay his monthly rents past six months and everytime he is refused whenever he asks for the payment of dues.He simply walks away doing nothing, In his office Abhi is a hardworker but his own colleague Deepankar (Shantilal Mukherjee) is jealous of him and plans his downfall in every other way more when Abhi gets recommended for promotion,but his other colleague Nandini (Shraddha Das) is a very good friend and sympathiser of Abhi. Things goes past good one day during Abhi's birthday morning when he asks his tenant Mr. Pakrashi (Kharaj Mukherjee) to pay his dues, he gets slapped in the middle of the road by him. Shattered Abhi goes to his office only to learn that all his files have been messed up by someone and one important file of payment is missing.He sits whole night and works on them only to be tampered by Deepankar again. That night when Abhi was returning with Nandini she gets molested by some goons in metro station, she cries to Abhi for help but Abhi cannot protest.Nandini boards the metro crying leaving Abhi at the metro station. Depressed and dejected Abhi meets his friend Anjan (Jeet)) at metro entrance and narrates whole story and about his helplessness of not protesting to any one. Anjan assures him takes him to a coffee house and encourage him motivationally causing him to shrug his fear. They both raid his office for the missing file and when nothing is found they rampage the office and run away. While returning home he find out that his tenant Mr. Pakrashi is boozing with other friends, angrily he enters the house and beats Pakrashi to blue and black and forces him to pay all the dues. Parkrashi is stunned to see the change of character in Abhi. Next day when Nandini rejects Abhi's proposal for boarding a metro and taunts him, Abhi tells Anjan and they both run towards the metro station and Abhi start beating the molestors badly.Abhi drops his office bag accidentally in the road.Next day he meets Anjan once again and Anjan gives him his contact number.Once in office Abhi is shocked when he learns that Deepankar/Dipu has been promoted, unable to bear that Abhi suspect that he has been tricked and hunts him down that night and beats him so Dipu confesses it was he who stole the payment file and hid it in his home Anjan asks Abhi that since Dipu has disappeared his file he should in turn make Dipu disappear from this world. Abhi ties Dipu and throws him in main highway only to be get crushed under heavy vehicle. Meanwhile Priyanka and her dad,a prominent psychologist, reaches police station where they recover the bag and tells them he is still missing, here Priyanka's father discloses that Abhi is a psychiatric patient suffering from a depression disease called Schizophrenia or split personality disorder. As the discussion was going on Police officer receives the news of Abhi sitting with the dead corpse of Dipu. The police brings him down where it is revealed that actually Anjan is an alter ego of Abhi only as a result of the mental disease whom he fictionalized as a human being and shrugged all his fears.
Jumper (2008)
, 1h28Directed by Doug Liman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels, Superhero films, Children's films
Actors Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Diane Lane, Michael Rooker
Rating61%
In Ann Arbor, Michigan, 15-year-old David Rice gives his crush, Millie Harris, a snow globe. A bully, Mark Kobold, throws the globe onto the ice near a river. While trying to retrieve it, David falls through the ice and is pulled away by the current. He suddenly finds himself in the local library and discovers he can "jump" (teleport) from one place and instantly appear in another. Amazed with his new ability, he runs away and is believed dead by his alcoholic father.
The Messengers (2007)
, 1h30Directed by Doug Liman, Oxide Pang et Danny Pang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Brent Briscoe, William B. Davis
Rating53%
The film starts with a terrified mother and her young son. As she packs a suitcase, she hears something coming towards the door and makes her son hide under the bed. The door bursts open and a supernatural force throws the mother against the wall, killing her. The son flees and runs into his terrified sister. The boy hides under a table, but his sister is caught and pushed over the banister of the stairs, then dragged down to the cellar. The boy hides but is eventually found by the attacker.
Fight Club (1999)
, 2h19Directed by David Fincher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about anarchism, Medical-themed films, Films about terrorism, Films about psychiatry
Actors Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Jared Leto, Meat Loaf, Richmond Arquette
Roles Auteur
Rating84%
The unnamed narrator (Edward Norton) is a traveling automobile company employee who suffers from insomnia. One night he visits a support group for testicular cancer victims, where they assume that he too is a victim, and he spontaneously weeps into the nurturing arms of another man, finding a "freedom" that euphorically relieves his insomnia. He becomes addicted to participating in support groups of various kinds, always allowing the groups to assume that he suffers what they do. However, he begins to notice another impostor, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), whose presence disturbs his bliss, so he negotiates with her to avoid their attending the same groups.