Anna Paquin
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Set against the backdrop of the Woodstock festival and the Moon landing in the summer of 1969, this romantic drama follows Pearl Kantrowitz (Diane Lane), a frustrated Brooklyn housewife who spends her summer in the Catskills with her family. Her world is turned upside down when she meets Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortensen), a free-spirited traveling salesman. As Pearl embarks on an affair, she explores her desires and the changing social landscape.
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In 1952 Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) returns to her Scottish hometown to take over her late father's medical practice. She soon becomes ostracized by the community when she begins a passionate romance with a young mother named Lydia (Holliday Grainger). Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*Race, sexuality and masculinity are all touched on in a successful attempt to reflect the bigger picture of an era in which the...
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Set on an American Army base in 1989, as the Berlin Wall is about to fall, this black comedy follows Specialist Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix), who gets caught up in a web of illicit activities, including black market dealings and drug trafficking. Elwood easily dupes his superior, Colonel Berman (Ed Harris), and has an affair with Berman’s wife. However, the arrival of the new sergeant, Robert Lee (Scott Glenn), threatens to upend Elwood’s schemes,...
8) Hurlyburly
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The personal lives of Hollywood players and wannabes intersect as catastrophe threatens to veer its ugly head, becoming more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios.
9) The piano
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"The Piano weaves the passionate tale of Ada, a young mute woman desired by two men. Sold into marriage to a husband who doesn't understand her, Ada finds herself drawn to her darkly intense neighbor, stirring up vengeful jealousies and violent emotions. But in the end, only one man truly understands how to win Ada's heart, through her beloved piano."--Container.
10) Furlough
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In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with accompanying a hell-raising inmate on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But things soon spiral out of control, sending the pair on a hilarious, surprising, and ultimately touching road trip.
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As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi...
12) Jane Eyre
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A young governess falls in love with her aloof employer. Based on the famed novel by Charlotte Brontë.
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What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of.
17) Fly away home
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A 13-year old girl and her estranged father learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them how to fly.
18) Furlough
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When an inmate is granted one weekend out of prison to see her dying mother, a rookie correction officer struggles to keep her under control.
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In his third feature, director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) scores a triumph with an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager (Jesse Eisenberg) whose parents are divorcing. The father (Jeff Daniels) and mother (Laura Linney) duke it out in half-civilized, half-savage fashion, while their two sons adapt in different ways, shifting allegiances between parents. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for...