NRF: I watched a couple of movies the last two nights. Quirky ones. Any others out there?

"Bubba Ho-Tep". I cannot recommend this one highly enough....(synopsis inside)....

Back in the 1970's, Elvis Presley got tired of
being "Elvis". He was tired of the pressure, the
drugs, the fans, etc. So he traded lives with an
Elvis impersonator...who promptly died. So now,
everybody thinks that Elvis is dead. Today, the
REAL Elvis is living in a run-down old folks
home in east Texas. With a bad hip.

Another one of the residents at this old folks
home is an old black man who claims to be the
real John F. Kennedy. According to him, the CIA
faked the assassination so that Lyndon Johnson
could become president. Then, they dyed Kennedy black,
did a little work on his brain, and tucked
him away.

So...now, today, the real Elvis Presley and the
"real" John F. Kennedy are living in this old
folks home in east Texas.

Well, there's a 4,0000-year-old Egyptian mummy
demon that is terrorizing this old folks home,
killing off the residents one by one.

And Elvis Presley...and John F. Kennedy...
are taking him on!!

The two leads in this film (Bruce Campbell and
Ossie Davis) are fabulous! Bruce Campbell gives
the best portrayal of Elvis that I've ever seen,
even better than Kurt Russell's (and that is
saying something).

If you want quirky, this is it.

 
synopsis for The Station Master... 1942 movie

Station Master (1942)

Usha lives a poor lifestyle with her widowed father, Parmanand, who is the Station Master of Rangpur Railway Station in India. She is smart, intelligent and educated, and is expected to marry someone of equal status. A railway employee, (Pointsman), Kalicharan, would like Usha to get married to Niranjan, who is the DTS of Indian Railways, and this will ensure that Kalicharan's son will also get employed with the Railway. Both Kalicharan and Parmanand approach Manikbabu, another Railway employee, who wants his semi-senile daughter, Shyama, to marry Arun, a Guard with the Railway. Soon Niranjan's sister comes to see Usha, approves of her, and goes home to make preparations for a marriage. But Usha has fallen in love with Arun, wants to marry him, and refuses to marry Niranjan, who is twice as old as her and a widower as well. Usha's decision has an adverse effect on all the local rail employees, and as a result no one is able to avert an accident that takes place between an express and a goods train. Watch what happens when the Government orders an Inquiry into this incident, and the effect this will have on the lives of all railway employees - some or all of whom may be found guilty and may face imprisonment.

 
and The Station Agent... 2003

Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage) is a man trying to live life on his own terms. Looking only to be left alone, he takes up residence in an rural town's old train depot. But much like the station agents that occupied small town depots before him, he finds himself reluctantly becoming enmeshed in the lives of his neighbors, especially Olivia (Patricia Clarkson), a forty-year-old artist struggling with the break up of her marriage, and Joe (Bobby Cannavale) a thirty-year-old with a talent for cooking and an insatiable hunger for conversation - whether anyone wants to talk to him or not.

The STATION AGENT is about three people with nothing in common, except their shared solitude, until chance circumstances bring their lives together. Before long, from this forgotten depot, this mismatched threesome forges an unlikely bond, which ultimately reveals that even isolation is better shared.

 
And while "The Women" with Meg Ryan is in theaters, check out the original 1939 version,

with Joan Crowford, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russel and Joan Fontain. Not an indie, but one of the funniest movies ever made.

 
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