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Poster for Talking With

1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Adapted from the group of stage monologues by the pseudononymous "Jane Martin," this is a series of characters snake handler, daughter, baton twirler, washed-up rodeo cowgirl, tattoed woman, and older woman in the twilight of her years talking with us about their experiences, in the poetic language that Jane Martin is known for bringing to all her stage characters. Kathy Bates does a wonderful job of translating these dead-on characters (talking directly to camera) from stage to screen. "Jane Martin" first came to prominence at the prestigious Louisville-based Humana Theatre Festival it was recently revealed that "she" is none other than the Festival's artistic director, Jon Jory.

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Poster for An Audience of Chairs

2018 · ★ 5.8 (9)

Maura Mackenzie believes the world is hers to conquer. With her career as a concert pianist gaining momentum, it seems her beauty and talent will be strong enough to mask the demons that threaten to engulf her. But with an absent husband and two young daughters at home, her precarious sanity begins to unravel until one summer day, burning with manic energy, she makes a terrible mistake — a mistake that will change her life forever. The consequences for Maura are catastrophic: her ambitious husband runs for his life, taking the children with him, leaving Maura to lapse into a full-scale breakdown. Life as she knew it is now over. With the help of her father, Ian, Maura works to reclaim her life and waits for a miracle to bring her daughters home. But when the fates align, can the past be forgiven?

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Poster for Tayong Dalawa

1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Carol is a career woman determined to prove herself in a male-dominated corporate world. Her life suddenly changes when she falls in love with a carefree repairman Tonchi.

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Poster for The Extraordinary Story of a Lion

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Switch Up

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

One of the nation’s top talk show hosts finds himself stranded at a homeless shelter where he meets a young widow. He falls in love and realizes the path to happiness lies in helping others.

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Poster for Marc Maron: End Times Fun

2020 · ★ 6.9 (42)

Marc Maron wades through a swamp of vitamin hustlers, evangelicals and grown male nerd children, culminating in a gleefully filthy end-times fantasy.

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Poster for Elevation Change

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When 24-year-old athlete Sam Fox launches a highly publicized campaign to break the speed record on the Pacific Crest Trail and raise $250,000 for Parkinson's disease, he quickly learns what it means to struggle in the spotlight.

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Poster for Sarah Prefers to Run

2013 · ★ 5.9 (29)

When Sarah has a chance to go to a first class university and to join its premiere athletic club, her suburban mother is fearful of the change and refuses to help financially. But Sarah's roommate knows that they will get a grant if they marry. Sarah agrees but only to discover that her true heart lies elsewhere. Sarah prefers to run.

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Poster for Puccini: Turandot at the Forbidden City of Beijing

1999 · ★ 8.0 (2)

Turandot at the Forbidden City is a 1998 live production of Puccini's opera Turandot directed by Zhang Yimou. The opera was performed by Giovanna Casolla, Audrey Stottler, and Sharon Sweet alternating as Princess Turandot; Kristján Jóhannsson, Sergej Larin and Lando Bartolini as Calàf; and Barbara Frittoli, Angela-Maria Blasi and Barbara Hendricks as Liù, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

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Poster for Unfinished Spaces

2011 · ★ 6.5 (4)

Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.

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Poster for Spawn of the Living Dead

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

The 1968 zombie plague is ending. The living dead, eaters of human flesh who are lurking in the Evans City Cemetery, are being gunned down and burned by an armed posse led by Sheriff Ken Johnson and Deputy Jeff Sanders. Dr. Harold Ormsby is also on the scene with a team of white-coated laboratory assistants, collecting zombie specimens by shooting them with immobilizing darts, the same way wild animals are captured for zoos. Their mission is to carry out experiments on the undead in hopes of finding out what caused the plague and how it can be cured.

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Poster for For Rent

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

In her new home, Donna unravels a sinister truth—her landlord is a demon with a dark appetite. As her family mysteriously vanishes, Donna confronts the demonic landlord, only to plunge into a shadowy game where the house hungers for more than just occupants. An ominous cycle begins, shrouded in mystery.

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Poster for Crazy Girl

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Teetering on the brink of 25, compulsive, pill-popping Crazy Girl attempts to sum up a day in her life for a writing grant application. Probably best to avoid mentioning she just got out of outpatient treatment, is emotionally cheating on her influencer girlfriend, and will do anything to distract herself from the fact that she's waiting tables for a living instead of pursuing her creative dreams.

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Poster for Songs of Love from Hawaii

2024 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Embark on a mesmerizing musical journey through the multi-faceted history of Korean American immigrants in Hawaiʻi with SONGS OF LOVE, a captivating reverie of song and history.

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2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Strange things are happening in the Tiger’s garden. Someone has stolen his carrots and some of the carrots are growing ”up and down”.

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Poster for De Facto

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

How can cinema engage with complicity in crimes against humanity, extreme violence and state terror without conniving in it? De Facto finds answers to this question via two actors, a precisely compiled collage of texts and a deliberately reduced setting.

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Poster for Don't Tell Her

2017 · ★ 5.4 (118)

Laura, Eve, Anouch and Yaël are four cousins, very different and very endearing, who have one thing in common: they lie, but always for love! When the first three discover a few weeks before their little cousin's wedding that her perfect fiancé is cheating on her, they vote in unison "Don't tell him"!

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Poster for 温哥华酱油乐队

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Living the Silent Spring

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring warned of the danger of widespread use of pesticides, helping to launch the environmental movement in the US. Around the same time, the US military began to spray defoliants in Vietnam to deny cover to guerrilla forces. The defoliants, including Agent Orange, were contaminated with the deadly toxin, dioxin. Agent Orange continues to affect the children and grandchildren of those exposed in Vietnam and America to this day.

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Poster for The Woods Are Real

2024 · ★ 3.2 (8)

Joba and Quincy are a wealthy Brooklyn couple who value charity above all. But when a friend returns from a country pilgrimage to challenge their bleeding hearts, they accept an invitation that will change their lives forever.

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