Mira Sorvino
61) Chloe & Theo
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Based on true events, a young woman looking for something to believe in meets an Inuit Eskimo who was sent by his elders to provide a message of change. With the help of a kind lawyer, they present his story to the United Nations.
63) Summer of Sam
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From Spike Lee, the legendary director of Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, comes his electrifying take on the murders in NYC during the summer of 1977. Centering on the residents of an Italian-American Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. The heat is soaring to record highs, blackouts are filling the streets with looters, and the murders of a man who calls himself the Son of Sam are gripping the 'city that never sleeps'...
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Natalia is a photojournalist whose powerful image of a young girl has just been printed in a magazine. Catherine is a concert cellist whose wife-abusing father has just been released from jail. Olivia is a housewife who has devoted her life to caring for her wheelchair-boung husband. Each of these women have visions of the same small girl at moments when they are each forced to confront their pain and each finds a way back to salvation through living...
66) Hero mode
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With her indie video game business on the brink of bankruptcy. Kate throws a Hail Mary and puts Troy, her teenage coding genius son, in charge of creating a video game to save the company. It's a dream come true for Troy. But quite the opposite for the company's disgruntled coders and their rival CEO.
67) Free money
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"When two small town losers court the Swede's beautiful twin daughters, they go head to head with a father-in-law (Marlon Brando) set on making them his guests in his prison. Dreaming of breaking out, Bud (Charlie Sheen) and Larry (Thomas Hayden Church) eye a 'money train' on it's way through town. The only thing standing in the way of a financial opportunity of a lifetime is The Swede."--Container.
68) Beautiful girls
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A 10-year high school reunion creates some surprises for a group of friends.
69) Butter
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It is a smart, funny high school junior who happens to be obese. He secretly befriends the prettiest girl in school via social media by pretending to be a jock from another school. As Butter struggles with bullying and self-esteem at school, he plans an incredible social media stunt that will risk his life but gain him attention and popularity. Can he go through with it?
72) Look away
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Maria, a rejected teenage girl finds solace in her own mysteriously autonomous mirror image from the torments of high-school and her alienating parents. Her reflection knows all her secret desires and darkest dreams. After all, they are one and the same. With the help of her secret "twin", Maria slowly gains confidence and finds her place as a young woman. When it all blows up in her face, the darker twin takes over and embarks on a quest for revenge...
73) At First Sight
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AT FIRST SIGHT is the story of a young woman architect who falls in love with a blind man. She encourages him to undergo a radical operation to restore his sight, but ultimately his truest vision comes from the love he finds in his heart.
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"A harsh TV personality needs a break from her own life, so she hops into a car and drives to a small town mountain retreat. On her way there, a blizzard veers her off the road and she crashes. When she comes to, she has complete amnesia and a friendly passerby takes her in"--Container.
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A princess sets out to return her throne to its rightful heir, who turns out to be a handsome young man, and ends up falling madly in love with him. Unfortunately, he's been trained by his mentor, an angry philosopher, to hate the princess. To set things right and win her heart's desire, the princess dresses herself as a man and begins wooing everyone in the philosopher's household, starting with his spinster sister.
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Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson,...
79) Chloe & Theo
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A homeless girl befriends an Inuit who has traveled to New York City from his tiny Arctic hometown with a message for world leaders.
80) Union Square
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After having rejected her tumultuous family and establishing a new and more ordered life for herself, Jenny finally seems ready to commit to her longtime fiance. When her estranged sister Lucy suddenly reappears in her life, everything Jenny hoped to escape from threatens to catch up with her. But Jenny and Lucy's combustible reunion might be just what they both needed, an opportunity to shatter and reconstruct the worlds they carefully constructed...