Stories by @rwhite18

Raising Arizona (2017)

When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (1968)

Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy’s colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull’s whereabouts.

Megalopolis (1964)

If you can’t see a better future, build one

The Matrix Reloaded (2023)

The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (2002)

A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.

Weapons (1935)

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy’s class woke up, got out of bed, went downstairs, opened the front door, walked into the dark …and they never came back.

Hamnet (1955)

Keep your heart open

Send Help (1976)

Meet Linda Liddle… She’s from strategy and planning. She’s the boss now.

CW Green Lantern

What if there was a cw show for the character

The Wrong Man (2026)

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1926)

A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

Project Hail Mary (1966)

Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1965)

A rebellious convict is sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation in 1963 Oregon, and encourages his docile companions to take more control of their lives and defy the tyrannical head nurse.

Project Hail Mary (1986)

A science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing Earth's sun, and realizes that an unexpected friendship may be the key.

La La Land (1996)

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Project Hail Mary (1996)

The film follows Ryland Grace, a school teacher who awakens aboard an interstellar spacecraft with no memory of how he got there.

Send Help (2006)

about two coworkers stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash

What Actors Could've Played Ryland Grace in various decades?

a middle-school science teacher and former molecular biologist on a mission to save humanity

Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2016)

The film follows a family who is reunited with their long-missing, mummified daughter and realize something is wrong with her

The Mastermind (1995)

Set in 1970, the film follows a struggling family man who plots to steal art from a suburban museum while the US rages over the Vietnam War