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Stolen money, broken lives, half-truths, love and friendship make up director Federico Hidalgo?s dramatic comedy about an alluring Mexican woman who has come to Montreal in search of the husband who cut her life in two when he abandoned her in Mexico.
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Two men meet in a seedy train station. One believes he is Hitler. The other believes he is Christ. When the personification of good meets the personification of evil, there are plenty of debates, controversies, and some surprising understandings.
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When you?re all alone and your only sister?s about to get married, the whole world seems like it?s going to the dogs. Patrick is a reclusive and somewhat strange nerd who has always driven his younger sibling Marilyn a little crazy. When she shows up for a visit at his house in the woods with a small surprise in tow, namely her fiancé Ryan, Patrick freaks out and tries everything to undermine the relationship. When his snide remarks and bad behavior fail to quash the romance, he sets out, ineptly and hilariously, to murder Ryan--but fate has something else in store.
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One night in St. John's, a mother tells a story to her daughter of how she once fell through the ice while skating and had her life flash before her eyes. From this terrifying accident and in the panic of attempted escape from the cold water, Lewis mixes various styles of animation, dramatic reconstructions and visual puns.
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From the courageous and provocative filmmaker Deepa Mehta comes Water, the profoundly moving and compellingly vibrant story of India?s ?widow houses,? where women of all ages are taken to live (even today) apart from society following the deaths of their husbands.
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Whole New Thing is the delightfully unconventional story of one rather exceptional thirteen-year-old boy. Nothing is simple for Emerson is anymore. Unlike most boys his age, he is clever, well-adjusted and can hold his own in conversation with most adults.
Home schooled by his eco-hippie parents, he has been raised in a household of casual nudity and openness about sex. But when his poor math skills force him into the local school, the change for Emerson?as well as those around him?proves to be seismic.
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Joel Rothman does not sleep. His wife has left him, and he can?t help himself from playing her farewell message on his answering machine over and over. His daughter is starting to demonstrate severe psychological distress due to the absence of her mother. Compounding his problems are his three new Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome patients?one who is suicidal, one who has profound anger management issues and another who is attaching emotionally to Joel in a manner which is not healthy.
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Phillipe, who daydreams about traveling in space, is stuck in a dead-end job as a telemarketer. He keeps delaying the defense of his doctoral dissertation, in which he asserts that man?s desire to explore space stems from his own narcissicism. When Phillipe?s mother dies, he realizes that he is alone in the world, and seeks to reconcile with his younger brother, a successful TV weatherman. But for an alienated man who believes that people are only interested in themselves, it is easier to search the mysteries of the universe than to relate to others on this planet.
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Heaven?s loneliest bureaucrat embarks on a purgatorial odyssey for a missing boy in the afterlife.
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Life goes on and nothing much happens in snowy Woodland Cree, where the Fox family lives as part of the wintry community. Things change, however, when 75-year-old Martin suddenly decides to travel to Nashville in search of evidence that Hank Williams, his longtime hero, has really died.