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What happens when a ten-year-old little girl redirects the lives of her two kidnappers? From the creative minds of writers Steven Langa and Philip Angelotti, Jr. comes an urban comedy filled with characters reminiscent of an Elmor Leonard novel. You Got Nothin', recently being touted as the next My Big Fat Greek Wedding, cleverly combines the humor of Midnight Run with the heart of Paper Moon.
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Wu is unemployed and unfulfilled. While helping his mother sell newspapers on the streets of Shanghai, Wu finds a violin and feels that learning to play it will give some meaning to his empty life. Joining a class at the local children's center, he begins to scratch out sounds on his instrument, unfazed by the laughter of the young students. At first Wu's neighbors are pleasantly surprised by his ambition, but as the screeching sounds emanate from his apartment at all hours, they turn against him, demanding that he stop the awful noise. Wu's enthusiasm soon turns into obsession.
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There are a few shining people put on this earth that simply must have a film made about them. These people donÕt include celebrities, authority figures, or anyone else who has had greatness thrust upon him/her. They are people who have quietly achieved a greatness all their own, people for whom carpe diem is not a trite motivational phrase. Such a person is Stan Taub. One may look at him as the good-natured reconstructive surgeon, sculptor, inventor, ventriloquist, and filmmaker from Brooklyn, but he would tell you that thatÕs only what he does for work.
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Brad Gottfred's The Movie Hero is a heartwarming and hilarious paean to movies, setting the perfect tone to kick off Cinequest 2003. The Movie Hero tells the story of a slightly off-kilter guy named Blake, who really believes his life is a movie, complete with a love-interest, sidekick, bad guy and, naturally, an audience, who he continuously talks to throughout the film.
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A maverick in every sense of the word, Rudy Ray Moore is Dolemite, blaxploitation star, "off color" recording artist, and influence to two generations of rappers. After starting out as an early R&B singer, Moore began recording explicit language "party records," paving the way for the likes of Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, and Eddie Murphy. During the mid-70's, at a time when films were being produced for an African-American audience hungry for heroes of their own, Moore decided to produce films starring his Dolemite character, a man who fought lions and could kill women with a kiss.
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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.
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Being the "new hire" at a job is an all-too-familiar experience for anyone, but Gregg's first day is, in a word: strange. He quickly learns which bathroom stall leaks water on his head, organizes his Post-It-filled desk, and has awkwardly funny exchanges with his co-workers. To complicate matters, however, the mysterious remote control car zooming through the office and the vague horror stories about the man who used to have his job make the day seem a bit too out of the ordinary for a 9 to 5. Events take a drastic turn when Gregg accidentally gets locked in the office at night.
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Emily (Meredith Bishop) is a bored young temp, smoothly neurotic, who likes to spend her free time browsing through department stores. The problem is that she canÕt help sampling products like watches, CDs, and clothes without paying, just to see if she can get away with it. She meets her match in Nick (Jsu Garcia, Traffic, When We Were Soldiers), a surveillance expert with shady appetites of his own. Knee-deep in financial trouble with his ex-wife and under constant threat from a powerful drug kingpin, he hatches an audacious plan to rob his companyÕs safe.
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A man paces nervously around a police station. The rain pounds outside. Finally, he sits down, lights a cigarette, and talks to the officer. "This all started 15 years agoÉ when my brother, Simon, first learned to kill." And so Pete recalls the events leading up to the fateful night that brought together his volatile brother with his former pal, Omar, now a vicious loan shark. Brought up on rifles and hunting, Simon has developed a taste for guns to go along with his short temper.
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Brad Gottfred's The Movie Hero is a heartwarming and hilarious paean to movies, setting the perfect tone to kick off Cinequest 2003. The Movie Hero tells the story of a slightly off-kilter guy named Blake, who really believes his life is a movie, complete with a love-interest, sidekick, bad guy and, naturally, an audience, who he continuously talks to throughout the film.