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A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world.
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A traveling circus accidentally leaves behind a baby zebra. The baby is then rescued by horse farmer Nolan Walsh, who takes him home to his young daughter Channing. "Stripes" is soon introduced to the farm's misfit troupe of barnyard residents. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds compete for the ultra-prestigious Kentucky Crown. From the first moment Stripes lays eyes on the track, he's hooked. He knows...
4) Man on fire
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Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy has given up on life. That is until his friend Rayburn gets him a job as a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos. Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, and ultimately presumed to be dead, Creasy unleashes a firestorm of apocalyptic vengeance against everyone responsible.
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Clients who come to us feeling lonely, isolated, and depressed, often struggle because they are walled off from both their own feelings and from others in their lives. The key to helping these clients is to pay close attention to their relationship with you, the clinician, in real time — the “here-and-now.” Using and then discussing video clips from his first session with Heather, a sad, lonely, and self-critical client who craves caring and...
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With multicultural psychology becoming increasingly prevalent in university programs, and a mandatory component of continuing education for many licensed professionals, author, educator and clinical psychologist, Travis Heath, PhD, invites us to consider that if everyone's doing multicultural awareness, then maybe nobody's doing multicultural awareness. What if, rather than focusing on presenting problems, symptoms, diagnoses and other traditional...
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Hailey is a conceited, professional woman and self-proclaimed serial dater with no interest in marriage. She believes no one man can possess all five of her most coveted qualities until she meets Christopher, a handsome businessman who has sworn off women. When Christopher shows no interest in Hailey she does everything she can to pursue him.
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Samuel's dream of becoming a famous hip-hop artist is in trouble. With the money gone and the record far from finished, he is desperate. When the man who loaned him the money threatens to confiscate everything, Samuel knows what he has to do. To make it all work, he is going to take it all off. But hiding his new life from his beautiful girlfriend and his father, a prominent preacher in the community, soon proves difficult.
9) Daruma
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Patrick, a bitter wheelchair user, must enlist the help of his cantankerous neighbor Robert, a double amputee, to transport the four-year-old daughter he never knew he had to live with her maternal grandparents on the other side of the country.
10) National Anthem
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Dylan lives an isolated life in rural New Mexico, working odd jobs to support his family. He accepts a gig at a ranch built by a group of queer rodeo performers, where he becomes entwined in the life of Sky, a talented barrel racer and free spirit. While working together in the breathtaking expanse of the Southwest, they contend with the undeniable forces of nature, family, and love.
11) Daylight
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The film features the drama of a small group of people trapped in the Holland Tunnel linking Manhattan and New Jersey.
15) Clean and Sober
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Michael Keaton and Morgan Freeman star in this gritty drama about a hustling Philadelphia real estate agent with a drug-abuse problem and a life that is quickly unraveling.Daryl Poynter (Keaton) is addicted to cocaine. He has embezzled and lost {dollar}100,000 from his company. And then he wakes up with a girl dead of a drug overdose in his bed. Daryl checks himself into a substance abuse program, intending only to hide for a while. But he meets a...
16) Rabbit Hole
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This is the extraordinary love story of Becca and Howie. Just 8 months ago, they had a picture-perfect life with their young son. Now, they are posing as normal in the wake of an enormous loss; blindly looking for footing in a sea of new emotions.
17) Oh, Canada
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Aging filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), still fiery despite his battle with illness, wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. As the director of acclaimed documentary exposés, he has much to be proud of, but his Vietnam War draft-dodging and his past relationships harbor thorny truths. Leonard sits for an extended interview with his former student Malcolm (Michael Imperioli), relating candid stories about his younger...
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This raucous 1980s comedy follows Harkin Banks (Patrick Houser), a hotshot skier from Idaho, as he heads to Squaw Valley for the ultimate Freestyle World Championship. On the road, he picks up free-spirited hitchhiker Sunny (Tracy N. Smith), and the two dive headfirst into the wild, party-fueled ski scene. With adrenaline pumping, Harkin faces off against the smug Austrian champ Rudi Garmisch (John Patrick Reger), blending outrageous antics, daring...
19) Babel
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From acclaimed Director Alejandro González Iñárritu comes the third film in his trilogy, BABEL, a critically celebrated and emotionally gripping film about the barriers that separate humankind. Nominated for seven **Academy Awards** including Best Picture. Winner of the Best Motion Picture - Drama at the **Golden Globes.** Winner of Best Director, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Technical Grand Prize Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.**...
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