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Bret Packard is an American hero. He's rich, famous, and the best baseball player in the world. But Bret is bored. With nothing left in baseball to conquer, Bret has decided to play a new game in which only he will come out the winner. Bret's best friend on the team is Tod, who fears a young pitcher, Ricky, is being groomed to replace him. Bret offers Tod a deal-if Tod hits more batters than Ricky, Bret will insure that Ricky is traded.
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What does a filmmaker from L.A. do when she's invited to her mother's tenth year memorial service in Athens, Greece? With this question in mind, director Angeliki Giannakopoulos sets out, camera in hand, on a heartfelt, intensely moving quest to discover the history of her family and her homeland of Athens, where her mother's memorial ceremony was to take place.
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"I heard the news today, oh-boy..." Like recent films Almost Famous and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Noah Stern's 7 Songs is an ode to rock music. Micah (Chris Eigeman-Metropolitan, Barcelona), a gifted songwriter, is at the most pivotal day of his life struggling to finish his record while writer's block, an immoral record label, and crumbling relationships impede the process. Most of all, however, Micah struggles to find an excitement for life and music that he has lost.
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The Hunter. The Hunted. It's the story of brotherly love in a fast-paced urban thriller. Starring Sam Rockwell (The Green Mile, Charlie's Angels).
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San Francisco director David Schendel's Yank Tanks joins the Buena Vista Social Club as another effervescent commemoration of Cuban culture and life. In 1961, Castro declares Cuba a Communist nation. The U.S. reacts swiftly by cutting diplomatic relations and enforcing an embargo that inadvertently strands 150,000 American cars. Years later, the sleek shapes, vibrant colors, and polished chrome are still a major part of the city's landscape, and the Cuban love affair with old American cars has rendered Havana into a veritable classic car museum. Necessity truly is the mother of invention.
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Nicol?s was born into a modest Mexican family headed by two women, his exuberant mother, Gaviota, and his grandmother, Dolores. The family's harmony is shattered by the arrival of the mysterious boarder, Adela Hache, a young woman who will dance with you as a best friend one moment yet will jump down your throat the next with a wrong glance her way. For Nicol?s, Adela is heaven sent, and perhaps he is the only one who sees her true beauty. Gaviota questions her judgment about the new boarder, and tensions mount when Adela's shoplifting habits infringe upon the normal serenity of their home.
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An emotionally uptight psych grad student unwittingly falls in love with her younger, speech impaired student, but his mother has something to say about it. Directed by and starring Danica McKellar (Wonder Years).
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New York City is a symbol for many contrasting notions: from power, affluence, and togetherness to greed, crime, poverty, and loneliness. With the largest homeless population in the country, no trip is complete without seeing figures lying in doorways or mumbling to themselves. Regardless of the location, one statistic remains the same: the majority of homeless suffer from mental illness. Located in the Hell's Kitchen area of NYC, Fountain House is a mecca for people recovering from serious mental illness.
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"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Or is it "Do unto others before they do unto you"? Edward Barkin's Unforeseen poses this question in a modern-day film noir/psychological drama about a tangled love triangle filled with betrayal and painful obsession. It delivers a stark look into the eyes of despair through a badly injured young man, Derek, in a dark and lonely hospital room in New York City. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn Derek was rich, had a beautiful girlfriend, and believed himself to be happy.
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A hilarious dark comedy about a man's decision to take revenge on strangers who have taken advantage of his good nature.