Thora Birch
2) The dot
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Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
3) The dot
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"Vashti doesn't think she can draw, but her teacher encourages her to "just make a mark and see where it takes you." Vashti at first ventures one small and unremarkable dot, but is soon making big dots and small dots, red dots, blue dots, and purple dots. At the school art show, her entire collection of dots turns heads and wins praise"--Container insert.
4) Ghost World
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While their classmates head for college, Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) focus their energies on tormenting those around them. From a goofy convenience store clerk (Brad Renfro) to an eccentric art teacher (Illeana Douglas), these two saboteurs wreak havoc on all who cross their paths. But when they zero in on an oddball loser (Steve Buscemi) looking for Miss Right, their seemingly innocent meddling threatens to shatter one of...
6) Deadline
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A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
7) Silver City
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Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," a satire that follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager, scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager, during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven, hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny...
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Based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboiler starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. When his mentor Admiral James Greer becomes ill, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Director of Intelligence. He now must investigate the murder of one of the President’s friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels.
10) Now and then
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A heartwarming comedy about the childhood mischief of four best friends who reunite after twenty years.
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Brian Cox (Golden Globe Winner for HBO's Succession) is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.
12) American Beauty
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An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
13) Ghost world
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Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.
15) Deadline
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A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
16) 13 Minutes
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Four families in a Heartland town are tested in a single day when a tornado hits, forcing paths to cross and redefining the meaning of survival.