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Underclassmen: Lee Roy Soames and the Drama Boy (2013)

Actors: Vince Clarke (actor), Jared Rice (miscellaneous crew), Bill Weatherford (writer), Bill Weatherford (director), Bill Weatherford (producer), Rolando Monge (actor), Chrysanthe Pappas (actress), Ger Lee (editor), Carol Swain (actress), Constantine Pappas (actor), Giovanni Navarro (actor), Vicki Lugue (actress), Eric Acree (actor), Ermaline Ogbodo (actress), Elana Labanderia (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Underclassmen is a coming of age film of 2 poor boys in California''s Central Valley: one, shot in black and white, takes place in a small town in the 60s. The second is in color and its main character lives in the barrio of Central Fresno. It brackets five years around 9/11. The two stories are told together and parallel each other in many ways: both boys have limited assets, only have a single parent and they try hard to make a plan that will give each of them the promise of a better life.The stories are both complete within themselves and the audience never knows why they are told together.........until the final scene.

Genres: Drama, Family, War,

Head in the Sand (2009)

Actors: Torrence Hall (miscellaneous crew), Sean-Michael Smith (producer), Karl Preusser (composer), Heather Fielding (miscellaneous crew), Miles Fisher (actor), Edward Osei-Gyimah (editor), Mike C. Nelson (actor), David Gore (actor), Ed Spangler (actor), Anselm Clinard (actor), Andrew James Jones (actor), Susan Spano (actress), Javier Solis (producer), Mark Fenlason (actor), Chris Cloyd (producer),

Plot: Henry Burch is a seven-year old with a sweet tooth for combat-themed comic books. Henry's imagination takes him into the world of his comics, where he is always the hero and no one dies. Fast-forward fifteen years to the present, and 22 year-old SPC Henry Burch is an infantry soldier on a c-130 transport headed to the mountains of Northeastern Afghanistan. Henry soon finds that the war he is fighting has little in common with the make-believe heroics of his childhood.

Keywords: afghanistan, childhood
Genres: Short, War,

The Beautiful Country (2004)

Actors: Chapman To (actor), Kim Davis (producer), Aslaug Konradsdottir (miscellaneous crew), Michael Barnes (miscellaneous crew), Zbigniew Preisner (composer), Edward R. Pressman (producer), Arthur J. Nascarella (actor), Michael Douglas (actor), Nick Nolte (actor), Bai Ling (actress), Tim Roth (actor), Temuera Morrison (actor), Terrence Malick (miscellaneous crew), Petter J. Borgli (producer), Terrence Malick (producer),

Plot: One of the consequences of America's involvement in the Vietnam war, was the children of GI's by their Vietnamese wives and lovers. For years those women who were involved with Americans were social outcasts, treated as collaborators while their children, even when living with grandparents, endured taunts and abuse. This is the story of one such love child, Binh, being forced from his village at 17, going to Saigon to find his mother, then trying to escape to America with his much younger half brother, Tam, in 1990. The film lingers on the rigors of the voyage: the sampan, the Malaysian detention camps, the illegal refugee ship, and the underground economy with near slavery in New York City. It finally opens up when Binh leaves New York for Houston to find his father.

Keywords: 38th-parallel, american-culture, american-dollar, amputee, beach, bicycle, biracial, biracial-child, blind-man, blindness
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: An epic story of hope.

Quotes:

Binh: How long you blind?::Steve: A long time. I worked in a storage facility in Saigon. I thought it was a crate of beer. Turned out to be explosives.::Binh: You're still alive...::Steve: Yeah, that's what they said. One minute I'm in Saigon, the next I'm in a hospital in Maryland, and six months had passed. Woke up, couldn't see, didn't know where I was. Some assholes tell me I'm lucky.

Steve: [about his long lost wife] I never saw someone so beautiful before - in all that ugliness.

Steve: We had a boy. He was just a baby. He had the eyes of an old man, even at 2 months. Maybe they all do, we didn't know.::Binh: Why you no go back?::Steve: Go back? See the old sights? No, I left her to take care of the child alone. I didn't think she needed a blind man to look after.

Binh: My mother is very beautiful. Like cranes flying at sunset.::Steve: Binh, why are you here?::Binh: This place?::Steve: No, America.::Binh: America beautiful.::Steve: How's that?::Binh: [no response]::Steve: Did you come by boat?::Binh: Yes.::Steve: Hard?::Binh: Not so hard.::Steve: Like cranes flying at sunset.

Steve: [last lines - as Binh is cutting his hair] Now just a trim, Binh.::Binh: Yes.::Steve: What do they call those sticky sweet cakes?::Binh: There a lot of sticky sweet cakes...::Steve: Well I think they're made out of rice.::Binh: [chuckling] They all made of rice.::Steve: Oh. Can you make 'em?::Binh: Yes.::Steve: I'll cut your hair next time.::Binh: [belly chuckle now] Yes...

Captain Oh: [to Binh] I offer you a new life; you choose an old dream.

Blind gudinne (1997)

Actors: Madeleine Fant (miscellaneous crew), Bjørn Sundquist (actor), Gard B. Eidsvold (actor), Petter J. Borgli (producer), Roy Bjørnstad (actor), Inge-Lise Langfeldt (editor), Ole-Jørgen Nilsen (actor), Kim Haugen (actor), Per Theodor Haugen (actor), Andrine Sæther (actress), Kåre Conradi (actor), Svein Erik Brodal (actor), Finn Schau (actor), Tomas Backström (producer), Svein Scharffenberg (actor),

Genres: Crime, Thriller,