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Machine is a 2006 American action movie written and directed by Michael Lazar, and starring Lazar, James Russo and Neal McDonough. The film had theatrical debut October 29, 2006. Plot Ex special forces mercenary and now hardened criminal Vic, (Michael Lazar) lives in a world of cons, double crosses, crooked cops, mob bosses and drug dealing crime lords. Playing by his own rules, Vic and his partner Frank (Paul Sloan) work both sides of the street, caring only about where they can score and take down the most cash. After a dangerous shootout during a drug deal gone bad, Vic finds himself working for ruthless crime boss Paul Santo (Nick Vallelonga). Santo's being indicted for murder, and he enlists Vic and Frank to kill the three witnesses that will testify against him. Watching Vic's every move is Santo's strongest soldier, Ray, (Michael Madsen) a stone-cold killer, who would like nothing better than to whack Vic and Frank the moment his boss gives him the okay. As the Asian proverb says, "In the shadow of every crime is a woman" and that holds true for Vic as his grifter girlfriend Thea (Lisa Arturo) and Frank's ex, the exotic, sultry, Layla (Michelle Lombardo) have their own agendas as they both try in their own way to use and manipulate their men. As Vic tries to juggle all this as well as kill the witnesses to pay off his debt to Santo, and at the same time avoid Ray's wrath, he is pursued by crooked vice cop Ford (Neal McDonough) who's relentless as he turns up the heat on Vic and Frank. On top of all this, it doesn't help that Asian crime lord, Cho (Garret Sato) and his henchman Butch (James Russo) are applying their own brand of pressure on Vic and Frank. They want to take out Santo and Ray, using Vic and Frank as pawns in their game of revenge and murder. In the end, Vic settles all scores as these competing factions come crashing together in the violent, action-packed climax. Cast Michael Lazar as Vic Michael Madsen as Ray Neal McDonough as Detective Ford James Russo as Butch Michelle Lombardo as Layla Terasa Livingstone as Vivian Paul Sloan as Frank Lisa Arturo as Thea Nick Vallelonga as Paul Santo Brian Hayes Currie as "Top" Garret Sato as Cho Robert Berson as Rich Jess King as Banes Robert Ciancimino as Kane Jimmy Labrie as Davis Hadi Armani as Raheed

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“If you believe that you are not a machine, but that I am (then) I do not know why you are reading this book".”
— Lewis White Beck, The Actor and the Spectator - book reviewed by Mary Midgley in The Philosophical Quarterly", Vol. 27, Issue 107, April 1977 p. 185-186 (1975), p. 29
“It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”
— T.S. Eliot, about radio; Cited in: Robert Andrews (1987) The Routledge dictionary of quotations. p. 262.
“Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.”
— Ellen Goodman (1978) "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987.
“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”
— John Stuart Mill (1848); As cited in: Colin Renfrew (1972) The Emergence of Civilisation. p. 499.
“I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.”
— E.F. Schumacher (1985) Good Work. p. 25.
“... the construction of machines, the functioning of which he can foresee, constitutes the most spectacular accomplishment of the physicist. In these machines, the physicist creates a situation in which all the relevant coordinates are known so that the behavior of the machine can be predicted. Radars and nuclear reactors are examples of such machines.”
— Eugene Wigner:

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Notable quotes

“If you believe that you are not a machine, but that I am (then) I do not know why you are reading this book".”
— Lewis White Beck, The Actor and the Spectator - book reviewed by Mary Midgley in The Philosophical Quarterly", Vol. 27, Issue 107, April 1977 p. 185-186 (1975), p. 29
“It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”
— T.S. Eliot, about radio; Cited in: Robert Andrews (1987) The Routledge dictionary of quotations. p. 262.
“Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.”
— Ellen Goodman (1978) "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987.
“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”
— John Stuart Mill (1848); As cited in: Colin Renfrew (1972) The Emergence of Civilisation. p. 499.
“I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.”
— E.F. Schumacher (1985) Good Work. p. 25.
“... the construction of machines, the functioning of which he can foresee, constitutes the most spectacular accomplishment of the physicist. In these machines, the physicist creates a situation in which all the relevant coordinates are known so that the behavior of the machine can be predicted. Radars and nuclear reactors are examples of such machines.”
— Eugene Wigner:

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