Let me list some titles for you . . . perhaps a few of them will sound familiar: Agent Zero, Blame it on the Rain (seen by Elaine with Todd Gack), Blimp: The Hindenburg Story (“That’s gotta hurt!”), Brown-Eyed Girl, CheckMate (“Your next move could be your last”), Chow Fun, Chunnel (“Why don’t you just tell me the name of the movie you’ve selected?”), Cold Fusion, Cry, Cry Again ( “Yeah, so you cry . . . and when you see the dancer, you cry again”), Cupid’s Rifle, Death Blow (“When someone tries to blow you up, not because of who you are, but for different reasons altogether”), Firestorm, Flaming Globes of Sigmund (“It’s just as you prophesized! The planets of our solar system, incinerating. Like flaming globes, Sigmund. Like flaming globes. Ah, ha, ha, ha . . .”), Means to an End, Mountain High (“AHHHHHHHHHH! There is no place higher than . . . Mountain High. Rated R.”), Ponce de Leon, Prognosis Negative, Rochelle, Rochelle (“A young girl’s strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk”), Sack Lunch (“Oh, c’mon Blaine. I mean, look at the poster for ‘Sack Lunch.’ Don’t you want to know how they got in there?”), The Helsinki Formula, The Muted Heart, and The Other Side of Darkness.
Ringing a bell? That’s right. The above is a list of many of the fake movies referred to in the television show Seinfeld (1989-1998 — co-created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David). Seinfeld does, however, also refer to a number of actual films and TV shows, one of which is now newly available to you, as a WPL cardholder in good standing, via hoopla digital: Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)! (The hoopla digital app is available in the Apple store or as an Android app.) Plan 9 from Outer Space is the movie Jerry, Elaine, and George plan to see after they’re done waiting (not eating) in the Chinese restaurant. As Jerry says, “Just a movie?! You don’t understand. This isn’t Plans 1 through 8 from Outer Space, this is Plan 9, this is the one that worked…!” And this is the one now available via hoopla digital!
Why not also check out many of the other titles available via hoopla digital, just of few of which include Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow (2004 – Angelina Jolie, Jude Law, fabulous visuals), Death Wish (1974 — Charles Bronson), Angela’s Ashes (1999 — based on Pulitzer-Prize-winning memoir by Frank McCourt), Alfie old (1966) and new (2004), The African Queen (1952 — Hepburn and Bogart, adaptation of novel by C.S. Forester), Sherlock Holmes and The Secret Weapon (1943 — Nigel Bruce and Basil Rathbone, adaptation of characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), Perfume (2006 — Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, adaptation of best-selling novel by Patrick Suskind), Hud (1963 — Paul Newman, based on Larry McMurtry’s 1961 novel Horseman, Pass By), Hell is for Heroes (1962 — Steve McQueen), King Kong (1976 — Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange), Play it Again, Sam (1972 — Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, based on Allen’s own Broadway play of the same name and his first film with Diane Keaton), The Elephant Man (1980 — Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt and directed by David Lynch), Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972 — Alan Arkin, based on a play by Neil Simon), and Animal Farm (1956 — adaptation of George Orwell’s novel)
And, of course, for Jerry Seinfeld: Superman Doomsday (2007). (As most Seinfeld fans know, the comic is a huge fan of Superman. His son Julian’s middle name, Kal, is the first name of both Seinfeld’s father and Superman.)