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Cars go in and out of the OK Garage, but why is it that Rachel, an inner-city schoolteacher, keeps bringing her car back every week? Maybe itÕs the fact that the OK Garage not only specializes in auto repair, but is also run by a crook who is ripping off his customers. In step best friends Sean and Johnny. One has a problem with intimacy, the other plays with lizards to scare off people. They are the perfect pair to help Rachel plot her revenge on the OK Garage. After all, they both lead aimless lives and need a spark like this to awaken something.
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Legendary actor Rod Steiger joins us for an afternoon for a tribute to his career with this highlighted screening of the classic comedy, No Way to Treat a Lady; one of the films Mr. Steiger wanted to share at this year's Cinequest. Based on the novel by William Goldman, director Jack Smight's black comedy is a delightful blend of romantic comedy and murder. The world's wackiest killer and master of disguise (Steiger) stalks the streets of New York, all the while phoning clues to the detective on the case to keep the chase interesting.
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Next Time has all the ingredients of a quirky love story. Matt is a naive 19-year-old, fresh off the bus from a small town in Ohio. Evelyn, 38, is a street-wise, big city gal. They meet in a downtown laundromat, where Matt pumps Evelyn for advice on detergent and women. With nothing better to do on Saturday nights than fold clothes and engage in soul-searching conversation, they look forward to the next time they meet. As director/writer L. Alan Fraser makes clear, that's all that should matter between these two lonely people. But Evelyn is black; Matt is white.
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Starring Hiep Le (Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth), a tale of the struggle to cope with death and the question of what is real and not.
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Unique among this year's films is Allan Holzman and Cynthia Gates Fujikawa's Old Man River, a remarkable look at a familiar face from TV and film: character actor Jerry Fujikawa (M*A*S*H's Whiplash WangÕ and the gardener in Chinatown). What makes this film so intriguing is its presentation - a one-woman performance where Ms. Fujikawa learns how much of a stranger her father really was to her. This is a story of her uncovering and discovering a father very different from the one she thought she knew; a man whose life was destroyed and re-made.
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Set during the Christmas season in 1999, Palmer's Pick-Up introduces us to Bruce (Robert Carradine) and Pearl (Richard Hillman), two down and outers in LA trying to make a go of their package delivery business. On Christmas Eve, they get a deal too good to be true: $12k to deliver a crate to Florida. The only stipulations are that they NOT open the crate, and it must be delivered before midnight on New Year's Eve.
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Jada Pinkett Smith stars in a beautiful story of discovery and love.
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In 1994, a quiet movie about two inner-city basketball players searching for the American dream stole the hearts of audiences around the world. That movie was Hoop Dreams, and it was named to more than 100 "10 Best Movies of the Year" lists, received the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and garnered director Steve James a Directors Guild Award for Best New Filmmaker. Steve JamesÕ newest feature gives us courtside seats again, this time as an idealistic, young black priest uses a basketball game to challenge the social conventions of a segregationist city.
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A single mother struggles to sustain the hope and life of her ailing daughter.