2003

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Alexander Becker is an ambitious lawyer preparing for the case of his lifetime until he gets a call from the clinic where he placed Fabian, his mentally handicapped brother years ago, at the time of the death of their mother. The clinic is undergoing renovations, and it will be necessary for Alexander to take Fabian home with him for a month. There is just one small problem-Alexander has never told his wife and kids that Fabian exists. When Fabian arrives, unannounced to the rest of the family, big changes are in store.

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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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Barry Alexander Brown's Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control is a stylish, laugh-filled drama about two road-weary lounge musicians who get the opportunity to revive their act when one of them begins to display psychic abilities. Stuck together in Holiday Inn hell, womanizing drummer Samuel Menendez and uptight loner/keyboard player Devon Sharpe are opposites that do not attract.

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Games are for children; relationships, for adults-not that you could tell from the participants in Welcome to the Neighborhood, a cast of LA dwellers who are brought together by their misguided definitions of love, trust, happiness, and faith. Four quirky tales are skillfully intertwined as examples of what being a couple is all about, including dealing with the houseguest from hell, some self-absorbed sexual politics, a slight lack of communication, and finding out that your trivial secret may uncover someone else's more personal indiscretion.

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Silicon Valley, 1999. As the millennium nears its end, a new fever sweeps through the country, preying on the universal desire of being your own boss. Start-up businesses pop up everywhere as a generation looks to the Internet as the pathway towards their dreams. Trey Segal, a programmer who inhabits a surreal world of psychotic branding, marketing droids, and his own Internet sex addiction, is one such dreamerÉor at least he was. Tired of hopping from one small-time job to the next, Trey resolves to start his own web company.

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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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It gets lonely eating the ones you love. Sure, they taste great and all, but making new friends is a bitch. Paul Popowich stars as Vic Weller, a big-city guy whoÕs moonlighting as a vampire. In an attempt to control his after-dark cravings, Vic joins Vampires Anonymous and embarks on his new life as a 12-Stepper. His first task? Big city Vic must relocate to rural North Carolina, where his diet is restricted to sheep, no people.

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Science fiction fans will find a unique treat in Gary Boulton-Brown's directorial debut, Trinity, a one-of-a-kind genre bender that throws a triumvirate of desperate individuals into a pressure cooker situation in a snowbound "Gene Camp" hidden deep in a frozen wasteland. Set in an unspecified future, the film follows Schiller and Brach, two military officers sent to an isolated arctic station to investigate a distress signal. The sender turns out to be Dr. Clerval, a scientist whose crimes against humanity have made him the number one target for bounty hunters.

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Albania: A land still all but unknown, even to its nearest neighbors in Europe. Yet, from a land where the everyday verges on the surreal, a land with no international train service, a land that has seen its population dwindle with over 600,000 of its best and brightest emigrated-comes this wild and wooly film, brimming with energy, chaos, and, amidst the detritus of change run amok, hope and love. Niku and Klara, each living with their parents in Albania's capital city, Tirana, are very much in love.