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Mr. Peach is a busybody. An interfering busybody, to be precise. He and his wife anxiously watch the window for who will move in next door--after the last neighbours left. The Chapmans, however, turn out to be far from the kind of couple one would want next door. They're rude, loud and aggressive, and Mr. Peach takes an instant dislike to both of them. Of course, Mr. Peach is no sweetheart himself. He's terrible at his job as a salesman, has gotten himself into so much debt and perceives just about anyone he comes in contact with as the enemy.
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Tony has been serving up his famous cholesterol-loaded all-day breakfasts since the late 60s without taking a single vacation. A workaholic to the end, Tony has some of the most loyal customers--each more than likely a true candidate for bypass surgery--who affectionately refer to him as "the God of Potatoes." Director Ezra Soiferman chronicles Tony's return to his birthplace on the mythical island of Crete, for the first time in 30 years.
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In a surreal, futuristic comedy that defies all expectations, a truffle hunter overcomes a bizarre diabolical plot.
In a Montreal neighborhood, truffles have mysteriously appeared underground for years. Charles, a truffle hunter with an exceptional sense of smell, supplies the Snack Shop he runs with Alice with an abundance of truffles for their customers to revel in and devour. As Charles? olfactory skills become legendary, he entertains an offer from a rather strange fur company which leads him on a path that even his well trained nose can?t sniff out.
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Rock crushes scissors. Paper covers rock. Scissors cuts paper. Can purity beat commerce?
The Walker brothers wanted to turn a child?s game into a good-natured competitive sport, but when the RPS fanatics converge on the world championships, they?re caught between big business, talk show pundits, Playmate mascots, and a battle of good versus evil.
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Veering from dark humor to whimsical surrealism, from laconic portrait to wild whodunit.
The Investigator is brimming with surprises and invention. Tibor, a great hulking lump of stolidity, is a human rock working in the morgue. The ultimate loner, completely satisfied with his lot, he is also a total pragmatist. When extra money is needed, he finds a way. "I had to do it. I did it." What starts off as a dourly surreal black comedy suddenly becomes a detective story with every convention turned on its head and perhaps, the most unlikely investigator ever.
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Home may be where the heart is, but when the heart?s been shattered, there?s no safe place to go.
The always engrossing Marcia Gay Harden (Miller?s Crossing, (Pollack, Mystic River) stars as poet and mother Inga. For Inga, life is a wobbly structure, built upon a tangled mess of love and hope, anger and despair. The one thing that matters is Indigo her young daughter, with whom she gazes up at the clouds and discovers wondrous creatures in the vaporous forms that sail away with the wind.
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From its premiere at the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema, where it won both Best Director and the Audience Award, thence to numerous festivals in Europe, and now at Cinequest ? Historias Extraordinarias has been astounding sold-out audiences wherever it goes.
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The Solntsevis are like no other family you?ve met.
Meet the extravagant Solntsevi family: Masha, Leopold, and Albert. Living in the middle of nowhere on the shore of a sea, escaping the bedlam they?ve created. The Solntsevis want change, and according to the old tradition, new happiness and a better life lie in Moscow. But the trip to the capital is not as easy as it seems and this family has a habit of finding themselves in incredible situations?usually resulting in unpredictable and comic ways.
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An edgy comedy about euthanasia and the confusions of the multicultural society.
Tom Naegels, a young and idealistic journalist, finds himself on the brink of commitment to his no-nonsense long-term girlfriend, when his world is suddenly turned upside down by the beautiful, free-spirited Nadia. She?s a Pakistani refugee who captures his heart and challenges him to face the deep-seated prejudices of society and his unsuspecting self.