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Double Dare chronicles the lives of two professional stuntwomen; Jeannie Epper, the other Wonder Woman, and Zoë Bell, Xena?s tougher half.
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Director Josh Apter (Kaaterskill Falls, Cinequest 2002) tells an unlikely love story of two people trying to find themselves, first as friends, then partners and finally lovers.
Gus enjoys his carefree life, bicycling around Manhattan delivering special packages to a steady group of regulars. But after a cataclysmic occurrence, Gus realizes that it's time to go straight.
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Winner of numerous festival audience awards around the world, Morten Tyldum's Buddy is a heartwarming debut about friendship, love and fame and reminds us that it is always important to be honest and true to yourself.
Twenty-four and carefree, Kristoffer works as a billboard hanger, is madly in love with his girlfriend, Elisabeth, and spends his time making a video diary about the many antics with his friends, Geir and Stig Inge. When Elisabeth gives him her apartment keys, the commitment scares Kristoffer, and he returns them.
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Call them dwarfs, although they prefer "little people" or "people of short stature." But you might as well call them what they are: homeowners, parents, students, friends, lovers, working professionals and contributing members of society.
Jan Krawitz' Big Enough is an intimate and refreshing portrait of what it is like growing up as a Little Person. Reminiscent of Michael Apted's acclaimed 7-Up series, Big Enough explores what a group of little people achieve and learn during their lives - and the emotional and physical challenges they have faced in an "average-sized" world.
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Celesta Davis has been on both Oprah and Primetime Live to talk about Awful Normal
Celesta and Karen Davis grew up in a loving family. They shared many wonderful childhood moments and, at the time, thought it all was normal. But when Karen and Celesta were molested in 1978, little was being done about sexual abuse. Their parents' lack of action was neither questioned nor challenged, including years of continued social contact with the perpetrator, his wife and their two young children. This made for some not-so-normal memories.
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Roger Weisberg and Vanessa Roth's Aging Out is the emotionally stirring and poignant saga of three teenagers in New York and Los Angeles who, for most of their lives, have been shuffled from one foster care home to another. Now, they find their teen years in foster care coming to an end and are "aging out" of their ability to continue as wards-literally being forced to fend for themselves in a harsh world.
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Where does acting stop and being start?
That's the question following a group of aspiring young actors as they embark on one last weekend getaway before going out into the real world. It will turn out to be a weekend they never forget.
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In the early 70s, you could get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant. But at Marv's, you get whatever's on the plate. Like chewing gum stuck under a Formica countertop, Marv's has been a less-than-appetizing side of Cleveland's Coventry Rd. neighborhood for as long as anyone can remember. Avuncular but seedy owner-operator Marv congenially presides over a motley, faithful after-hours crowd, maintaining an extramarital affair with head waitress Grace and slipping bribes to keep health inspectors out of the kitchen.
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Jonny, Tuva and Magnus have known each other since they were kids. Now in their thirties, much has changed in their relationship, or, as Jonny puts it, "Many people believe that life in small towns is less complicated than in the big city. But it's not true. Life isn't complicated - it's complex."
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Director Anita McGee (Seven Brides for Uncle Sam, Cinequest 1998; Little Dickie, Cinequest 2003) returns with her feature debut, an offbeat, romantic tale about love, passion, fantasy and self-discovery.
Honey Reddigan works in quality control at a bread factory - the Sweet Bea Bakery. Sounds sweet, but much to the dismay of Honey, she spends day in and day out watching the bread dough plop into pans. To relieve the monotony, she dreams of love and comes up with plotlines for her real vocation, writing.