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Herb is sure of one thing: He's the smartest person who ever lived. Gloria, Herb's wife of twenty years, is dubious. Over coffee, the two trade barbs and spin stories about hookers, Descartes, and the virgin protector of Nepal.
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As a man records an inspirational video message for his best friend's funeral, he is rudely interrupted by a misguided word-of-warning.
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Glen (Ed Helms of The Daily Show) likes to read, do crosswords, and play basketball. He's on the lookout for a girlfriend. Oh, and one other thing - Glen is a Zombie-American.
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Complete with mindless humanoids and talking cats, 'Robots Are Blue' is an absurd comedy about life in the future. In 2021, robots live and work among humans. Tensions rise at the workplace when John (a robot) writes Tom a poem for his birthday. Tom tries to silence his 'worker' before he is found out and reprogrammed. When upper management gets wind of the situation, Tom must decide whether to expose himself as a sympathizer or live in an opressive work environment under the cloak of secrecy.
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Obscura opens the hidden life of Benoit - a man trapped by extreme photosensitivity...a hermit, plunged indoors near total darkness. How can such a being share in the richness of life? The answer is the traces of light flowing through several self-made pinhole cameras (camera obscuras), used to project images of his beloved Cecil, the woman across the street.
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Lanie sings in a grubby bar in Queens, but tonight she shows up five hours late. It?s after closing and she has a proposition for Ross, who runs the joint. She wants him to take topless pictures of her to send in to Playboy?this will be the ticket out of her troubled, dead-end life. Scar-faced Ross is older, gruff, and has a shadowy past. He doesn't seem to think much of her naive plan. Gradually, she starts to come on to him, confident that he might easily be seduced.
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18-year-old Hiroko is driven by her passion for the blues, a passion incomprehensible to her protective single mother or her oblivious convenience store co-workers in Osaka. Desperate for the intensity of feeling the music promises, Hiroko sets out alone in the night for Chicago, hell-bent on becoming a blues singer.