Category Archives: Only in speech

Title: Club Dread
Year: 2004
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Actors: Elena Lyons, Dan Montgomery Jr., Tanja Reichert, Nat Faxon, Michael Weaver, Kevin Heffernan, Michael Yurchak, Jordan Ladd, Brittany Daniel, Richard Perello, Steve Lemme
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

Why in Database: One of the characters has amazing acupuncture abilities, he can do everything only by touch. In one scene, he presents a trick known as “Leaking Turtle”, because the the touched person, urinate.

– Not to be confused with Linou Gano… the Leaking Turtle.

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Title: The Addams Family
Year: 1991
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Actors: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya, Elizabeth Wilson, Judith Malina, Carel Struycken, Dana Ivey, Paul Benedict, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Workman
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA

Why in Database: Turtle only in dialogue, Morticia mentions the story of tortoise and the hare (which the other family members comment with typical Addams charm.)

– Who recalls the fable of The Tortoise and the Hare? The swift yet lazy little cottontail and his slow but determined companion? What does this story teach us?
– Kill the hare! Skin it. Boil it.
– Put the tortoise on the highway.
– During rush hour.

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Title: The Lion King 1½
Year: 2004
Director: Bradley Raymond
Actors: Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Julie Kavner, Jerry Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Robert Guillaume, Moira Kelly, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Australia, USA

Why in Database: Turtles only only mentioned in dialogue.

Yeah. Got to be right up there with bobbing for snapping turtles.

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Title: Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead
Year: 1995
Director: Gary Fleder
Actors: Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams, Jack Warden, Steve Buscemi, Fairuza Balk, Gabrielle Anwar, Christopher Walken
Genre: Criminal, Drama
Country: USA

Why in Database: One of the characters in the film, Mister Shhh, who is a paid killer, is called a turtle three times in the story told by another character.

– He’s a turtle. Yeah, I would’ve called him that: a turtle.
– Ow ! Gee ! Pay attention, will you ?
– Yeah, he’s a turtle.

Author: XYuriTT

Title: Wild at Heart
Year: 1990
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, J.E. Freeman, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Calvin Lockhart, Isabella Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton, Grace Zabriskie
Genre: Comedy, Criminal, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Why in Database: Turtles are only mentioned in the radio, the protagonist, who is driving the car, jumps at various stations and finds a piece about the release of 500 turtles into the Ganges, as part of the fight against pollution.

State authorities, last October released 500 turtles ino the Ganges, to try and reduce human pollution

Author: XYuriTT

Title: Dead Calm
Year: 1989
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar, Joshua Tilden, George Shevtsov, Michael Long, Lisa Collins
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia

Why in Database: Turtle is only mentioned in dialogue.

– I thought I saw something between here and the boat.
– What is it? A turtle?
– No. It’s bigger.

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Title: Cannery Row
Year: 1982
Director: David S. Ward
Actors: Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley, Frank McRae, M. Emmet Walsh, Tom Mahoney, John Malloy, James Keane
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Why in Database: Turtles are mentioned only in dialogue.

They didn’t have 12 bucks, so Hazel asked Doc if he needed any animals collected.
Once Doc gave them 25 cents for every live turtle.
– Doc, do you need any turtles?
– No. I don’t have any orders.

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Title: Eulogy
Year: 2004
Director: Michael Clancy
Actors: Hank Azaria, Jesse Sourcerd, Zooey Deschanel, Glenne Headly, Famke Janssen, Piper Laurie, Kelly Preston, Ray Romano
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, UK, USA

Why in Database: The turtle is only mentioned, in one dialogue.

– Where’s my little tubby turtle?
– I’m not a turtle. I’m Katie.

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Title: Dorian Blues
Year: 2004
Director: Tennyson Bardwell
Actors: Michael McMillian, Lea Coco, Steve Fletcher, Mo Quigley, Austin Basis, Ryan Kelly Berkowitz, Chris Dallman, Leslie Elliard, Jeff Paul
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Why in Database: The turtle is only mentioned in the ending (the beginning is told “off the frame”) of the anecdote told by the father of the main character.

I dive down and I set that bow anchor down there and I check it… and I set the stern anchor and I come back… and I see it’s a turtle.

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Title: Australia
Year: 2008
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Robert Jago, John Jarratt, Eugene Kang, Nicole Kidman, Jacek Koman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo, Ray Barrett, Tony Barry
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA

Why in Database: Turtles appears here only in two dialogues. In first, main hero says (to the children) that they must be silent as turtles. Later, someone says that the main character carried some of the children on his back, like a turtle.

– All right. Boys, we’re gonna have to swim. We have to be quiet, like a turtle. Okay?

-Some of them little fellas from the desert can’t swim’em. But the Drover take ’em on his back like a turtle.

Author: XYuriTT