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Puck is a good-looking honor student: All-American type. He is also a self-professed anarchist. Not the violent kind of anarchist, but from the fun-seeking Abbie Hoffman, Marx Brothers branch of anarchy. Living in a commune, Puck and his friends are out to change the world-of course, this is assuming they can stay focused long enough to figure out how to do it. Enter Johnny Black, a self-described nihilist.
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Heroes come from unlikely places. You could look to political figures, except these days it's probably better not to. Professional athletes get arrested daily and squabble over million-dollar salaries. Maybe a titan of industry would do-if you can find one that's not on trial. These heroes come from Rolla, Missouri; the plains of the Texas Panhandle; upscale Connecticut suburbs; and even the mansions of Yorba Linda.
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One tumultuous and unforgettable night in the life of a fearless, impulsive young woman makes up Sophiiiie!, German director Michael Hoffman's follow-up to his acclaimed film debut, Trouville Beach. Sophie finds her notions of life and stability shaken by the sudden news of her pregnancy. Despite assurance from her poet boyfriend, she jumps straight into the pitiless night, trying to sort out her feelings in a series of encounters with barroom bullies, sensitive theater ushers, and philosophical taxicab drivers.
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April, 1968-the latest batch of enlisted young men have just arrived at the Xuan Mai training camp to join the ongoing Vietnamese-American war. Five young men begin a journey both physical and psychological that will change their lives forever. Manh lied about his age to enlist in the army without realizing what he has gotten into. May is a more carefree type and dreams of marriage, kids, and living on a farm. Van is a romantic, recording the horrors of war through poetry and letters to his wife. Lam is a spy who proves that even the hardest of soldiers have their frailties.
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Lies-deception-sex-depravation-betrayal Hilary and Soledad are on their way to Flagstaff, but their truck is not going to get them all the way. Solution: Stop in Phoenix at the home of Hilary's brother, Louis and borrow his car. Sounds simple, right? Wrong. Louis isn't in a particularly good mood. In fact, he's "vein-slicingly" distraught. As a 10-minute visit turns into an evening of emotional and sexual turmoil, each of these three people is forced to face not only his/her greatest demons, but also the unbearable reality of his/her lives.
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"Doubts are the writer's raw material." At least that is Lawrence's claim as he embarks on a journey to discover his own inspiration amidst his solitary, fearful existence. Lawrence's long time friend, Elias, introduces him to a mysterious house on the outskirts of town where aging men are allowed to spend their nights in the beds of beautiful, yet sedated, women. The more entrenched Lawrence becomes in his quest for what makes an ever-sleeping girl cause him to recall his youth and his past loves, the more he fails to determine what is real and what is a dream.
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Winner of the 2002 Spanish Academy Awards (Goyas) for Best Adapted Screenplay and nominated for Best New Actress and Best New Director, Carlos Molinero powerfully examines passion, patriotism, and racial violence in his vivid and intelligent debut feature. Berta, a middle-aged nurse, lives alone with her late sister's three rebellious kids but continues to nurture hope of romance. More jaded and prone to heavy boozing, but equally open to a relationship, Eduardo is a detective who starts dating Berta after meeting her at the hospital.
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A whimsical quartet of short stories, alternately humorous and moving, featuring a standout cast that includes Tamlyn Tomita (Joy Luck Club) and Sab Shimono (Suture). A successful marketing executive has her life turned upside down when she learns to take care of a mechanical infant as a dry run for adopting a real baby in "My Robot Baby." In "The Robot Fixer" the grieving mother of a teenage coma victim is determined to put together the perfect action figure collection in hopes that it will help her son's recovery.
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Inako is a young woman, leading a lonely life in a contemporary Japanese town, who finds work checking natural water sources for her uncle's company, the local government representative. She is often visited by her widowed mother, who frets over the upcoming ceremony to honor her father's death, and by her other insistent, matchmaking relatives. In the midst of this, Inako finds solace hiking through the countryside, creating her own experiments. That's where she meets Tamamiza, someone who shares her interests and who may provide an escape from her dreary isolation.
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Everyone in Reeseville knows a bit too much about everyone else's business, and there are things that should just not be public knowledge-deep dark secrets that should have been buried long agoÉwell, someone has tried to bury them, butÉ Haunted by his mother's death, David returns to Reeseville only to be confronted with the suicide of his father. Emotions soar into overdrive when Jason, the town sheriff, arrives. Not a big fan of the prodigal David, Jason succeeds in only escalating David's struggles with his own demons.