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Modern Hollywood: 1980–2025
Los Angeles · 1980–2025 · exact time + place
Contemporary LA as the center of the film industry — known for stories about fame, glamour, and Hollywood's underbelly, from studio satires to streaming-era anxieties. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Los Angeles and 1980–2025 already set.
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Pulp Fiction
A burger-loving hit man his philosophical partner a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back…
Inception
Cobb a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception" the…
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son John the future leader of the resistance is the target for a newer more deadly terminator. Once again…
American History X
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother Danny Vineyard's narration we learn that before going to prison Derek was a skinhead and the leader of…
Blade Runner
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019 blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short…
La La Land
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…
Memento
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer however is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare untreatable form of short-term memory…
Reservoir Dogs
A botched robbery indicates a police informant and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White newcomer Mr. Orange psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde…
Creed III
After dominating the boxing world Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy Damien Anderson resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison…
The Substance
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger better version of herself.
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