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How thin is the line between politics and madness? The exuberant comedy, Vote For Me!, set in El Barrio, New York City, finds out in one of the funniest satires in years, a razor-sharp look at how quickly the world of elections and candidates escalates into inspired lunacy.
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Kelly is a beautiful, young 16-year-old who, like many teenagers, feels her life has become unbearably dark and depressed. Her father?s death, along with her workaholic mom, does not make life any easier, and a failed suicide attempt gives Kelly?s mom, Laura, a wake-up call. Hoping a change of scenery will help, mom and daughter rent a house for a long summer vacation.
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Set in Brooklyn?s Bedford Stuyvesant, Shelter is the tale of three inner-city adolescents: the reclusive 16-year-old Ray (Ray Santiago, of Girlfight and Pinero) who tends his bedridden mother; his brother, Spider; and the very pregnant Maria.
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Pat and Bill take their jobs as rent-a-cops at the chocolate factory very, very seriously. Perhaps a little too seriously at times. So, when the "prototypical chocolate" is stolen during the graveyard shift (Pat and Bill?s shift), nothing can stop them from solving this most heinous of crimes.
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When dumped by his girlfriend, a man must do what a man must do - in this case, get the hell out of town and move to New York City. That?s precisely where this story begins.
Immediately upon arrival in The Big Apple, our hero (or The Brit) learns that the small apartment his sister got him includes another occupant. Enter Panama, who doesn?t speak a word of English and is in hiding from the police. While attempting to communicate in different languages (often resulting in hilarious tête-à-têtes), a budding friendship forms between two people stuck in an outlandish situation.
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Quality of Life is a poignant tale of creative passion about the need to curb an obsession in order to conform to the demands of society. Director Benjamin Morgan journeys into a world typically seen only on buses and concrete, while inhabiting a subculture that is often thought to exist in the darkness of alleyways and rooftops.
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Julien?s intensely romantic relationship with the mysterious Sylvia unravels when she senses the instinct of a praying mantis growing inside her. Terrified and unwilling to harm the man she loves, Sylvia searches for another lover, and the result is an engaging exploration of the connection between eroticism and self-sacrifice.
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Obsession is generally considered a negative; something that consumes so much of the mind must only destroy the spirit that enraptured it in the first place. Sometimes, however, an obsession is merely another monotonous habit unless combined with the compulsion to change one?s world for the better.
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André is a 20-year-old high school dropout who operates the photocopy machine at a stationery-cum-bookstore and lives with his mother. He likes drawing. He really likes Silvia. And he desperately needs $38.
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Renata is the pampered eldest daughter of a wealthy bourgeois family, and Ulises is a native Mexican youth from the wrong side of the tracks. When the two meet in a shopping mall, it is love at first sight. They exchange a kiss and are soon organizing secret assignations and exchanging vows of eternal love.