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A horror/thriller about a team of Child Protective Services workers who investigate a series of bizarre child abuse cases in the small town of Daylight, IN. As the mystery unfolds, they discover the cases may actually be linked by demonic possession.
The true story of a Texas track star whose short life inspired a community
They are the crème de la crème. They can lock a target from 500m away.
The Loneliness of the Long-Range Shooter
Prize: Top Shooter of the Hong Kong Police's Sniper Team. Quality: Aplomb, endurance, one-upmanship, precision. Routine: Hiding, advancing, killing, retreating. Signature: A shot at the dead center of the forehead.
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Love, Loneliness, and Lucidity come under the microscope in this existential fairy-tale. SENT is a voyeuristic character study of a socially handicapped postal worker named Edward. Escorted by his colorful co-workers, Edward walks the thin line between mental stability and acceptance of the extraordinary. Daydreaming his way through a mundane existence, he struggles to experience true feelings in an isolating and contemporary world.
...once while walking on my man-made clouds, my sanity began to doubt its doubts...
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Lenny and Amanda have an adopted son Max who turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding Max's real parents because he believes that they too must be brilliant. When he finds that Linda Ash is Max' real mother, Lenny is disappointed. Linda is a prostitute and porn star. On top of that, she is quite possibly the dumbest person Lenny has ever met. Interwoven is a Greek chorus linking the story with the story of Oedipus.
Keywords: adopted-son, adoption, adultery, biological-mother, boxing, deus-ex-machina, directed-by-star, greek-chorus, greek-mythology, helicopter
The new comedy from Woody Allen
Chorus: Children grow up, they move out! Sometimes to ridiculous places like Cincinnati, or Boise, Idaho! Then you never see them again!::Chorus Leader: You'd think they'd at least pick up a phone!::Laius: But is there a growing void in the Weinrib marriage?::Chorus: We didn't say there was! We're all just speculating on possible motives! Children are serious stuff!
Greek Chorus Leader: Don't go any further. I know what you're thinking, Lenny, and forget it!::Lenny Weinrib: I can't forget it; the thought's been put in my head.::Chorus: Oh, cursed fate; certain thoughts are better left unthunk.
Lenny Weinrib: Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.
Greek Chorus: Of all human weaknesses, obsession is the most dangerous, and the silliest!
[showing Lenny a novelty watch]::Linda Ash: See, as the mainspring goes back and forth, the bishop keeps fucking her in the ass. It's a genuine antique and it keeps perfect time.
Linda Ash: I feel like I owe you a great fuck.
Linda Ash: You didn't want a blowjob so the least I could do is get you a tie.
Linda Ash: And so there I am on the first day, on the set, and there's this guy fucking me from behind, right, and there's these two huge guys dressed like cops in my mouth at the same time and I remember thinking to myself, "I like acting. I wanna study."
Kevin: I've had 16 fights and I won all of them but 12.
Chorus: [referring to Oedipus] Look, here's a man who killed his father and slept with his mother.::Jocasta: [(Oedipus' mother)] I hate to tell you what they call my son in Harlem.
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In 1935 Toronto, Jane Stuart's mother has taken ill, and the two of them have temporarily moved in with her rich, snobbish grandmother, where Jane is verbally abused and her mother bullied. Jane is forced into a private academy, in which the other girls tell her that her father, whom Jane believes to be dead, is actually alive. Soon after, Andrew Stuart sends word that he would like to meet his long-lost daughter, so Jane is sent by train to Bright River to stay with him, where she encounters an old mystery that she must help her father overcome, new friends, and the chance to bring her father and mother back together again.
Keywords: 12-year-old, 1930s, absent-father, apparition, aunt-niece-relationship, based-on-novel, bedroom, bicycle, bicycling, bloomers
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A young policeman's partner gets killed while investigating strange phenomena in a ramshackle house. As the surviving policeman sets out to unravel the mystery he attracts the attention of an evil witch that, with the help of a special doll, tries to take possession of his daughters soul.
Keywords: abduction, daughter, death, family-relationships, jack-in-the-box, murder, murder-of-a-police-officer, possession, witchcraft
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1984 was not a leap into the future-but a look at the dangers already present-in Orwell's lifetime. The Road to 1984 intertwines vision and reality. It displays the passion and chronicles the career of Orwell--who warned us of what could happen if we stayed on that road--his road to 1948 and ours to 1984.
Keywords: george-orwell