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Hip clothing designer, Amer Atrash, is perpetually on the brink of success. Now, with time running out, he is undergoing a crisis in his business and in his marriage. Soul searching, he attributes his misfortune to bad karma from a wrongdoing committed fifteen years ago and sets out to right this wrong, experiencing a spiritual awakening in the process.
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Marcus is a passive black family man in Bolalusa, Lousiana, who refuses to get involved in the civil rights movement. All that changes when he is arrested for trying to defend his daughter during a protest, triggering a desire to finally take a stand-aggressively and armed.
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When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture, as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served no fewer than eight presidents, from Harry...
6) The paperboy
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Kevin O'Donnell may be poor right now, but he's not going to stay that way for long-not if he has anything to do with it. With his father unable to work and a little sister to support, Kevin needs to find work, any work. But jobs aren't easy to come by in New York during 1881, especially for a twelve-year-old immigrant boy. So Kevin finds himself scrambling, desperately seeking ways to make a few dollars here and there. And he begins cutting a...
8) Zulu
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Based on the novel by Caryl Ferey. Set against the backdrop of post-apartheid South Africa, two South African police officers on opposing sides of the apartheid divide work together to fight crime.
9) Food Chains
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From Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser, producer of Food Inc and Fast Food Nation, comes a powerful and shocking expose about what feeds our country. This powerful true story of one small group of workers overcoming corporate greed to end slavery and abuse in America's fields will inspire you to demand your food be fair!
10) Powder Blue
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A top-notch cast fuels this powerful thriller which links the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption on the gritty streets of LA.
11) Catch .44
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When three friends (Malin Akerman of THE WATCHMEN, THE BANG BANG CLUB, Deborah Ann Woll of TV's TRUE BLOOD, RUBY SPARKS, and Nikki Reed of THIRTEEN, TWILIGHT FRANCHISE) are sent by their boss to intercept a drug deal at a remote diner, they think nothing of it. But when they find themselves in a standoff involving a psychopathic hitman (Forest Whitaker of LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND), a grizzled truck driver, a delusional line...
12) Bloodsport
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Ninjitsu master Frank Dux journeys to Hong Kong to enter the Kumite, the Olympics of martial arts, and meets a beautiful American reporter. Before long, he must face Chong-Li, a vicious Korean master of Tae Kwan Do, in a climactic fight to the finish. Superb action sequences.
14) The Crying Game
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The unpredictable, unconventional, multi-Oscar®-nominated masterpiece. Starring Stephen Rea and Miranda Richardson as Irish terrorists, Forest Whitaker as their hostage, and Jaye Davidson as Whitaker's exotic girlfriend, the film is a haunting, humorous a
15) Platoon
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The film probes the psyche of the young soldiers who fought in Vietnam. Their camaraderie, their struggle for survival amid terrifying violence and madness of combat. Dealing with the day-to-day existence of an infantry rifle platoon of thirty guys from all walks of life, PLATOON examines the fight between good and evil in the outfit and what it was really like to be a foot soldier (grunt) in Vietnam.
16) Smoke
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A group of people's lives intertwine when a New York cigar store manager, Auggie, befriends them. Among them is a writer, a reluctant father, a streetwise teen, and Auggie's long-lost ex-girlfriend...who returns with some surprising news!
18) Pret-A-Porter
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At the world's hottest fashion show, there's been a murder. Now, everybody's a suspect – including two guests who end up sharing much more than a hotel room and a hilariously inept TV reporter on the trail of her most shocking interview yet!