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Running with Scissors

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“Running with Scissors” is the hilarious and poignant feature film based on the personal memoirs of Augusten Burroughs. Growing up in the 1970’s, young Augusten (Joseph Cross) was living a middle-class existence with an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin) and a bipolar mother (Annette Bening), an unpublished poet with delusions of becoming famous. When his parents […]

Requiem

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A small town in the 1970s in southern Germany. Michaela, 21, has grown up in a deeply religious family, with a kind but weak father and a cold-hearted, distant mother. Despite her years-long battle with epilepsy, Michaela burns to leave home and study at the university. There, her first taste of freedom, her budding love […]

The Prestige

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From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (”Memento,” “Batman Begins”), comes a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred […]

One Night with the King

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An epic motion picture set in an imaginative world of adventure, intrigue and romance, “One Night with the King” follows a young girl who rises from peasant to princess by going against the culture and seeking the King’s heart rather than the riches of the kingdom.
By ‘chance’ she is born with exceeding beauty to a […]

Nearing Grace

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The Nearing family seems to be dealing with the death of their mother by making every bad choice possible. Henry (Gregory Smith) busies himself with the lapses in judgment available to an intelligent high school boy: falling hard for the school vixen (Jordana Brewster), failing to notice the attractions of the girl next door (Ashley […]

The Marine

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WWE wrestling champion John Cena makes his motion picture debut in this rugged action thriller. Cena is John Triton, a heroic Marine who returns home after being discharged- against his will- from the Iraq War. Stateside, he finds himself back in action, when his wife (Kelly Carlson) is kidnapped by a murderous gang led by […]

Little Children

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Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson and Jennifer Connelly star in “Little Children,” the latest work from Oscar-nominated writer/director Todd Field. Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, “Little Children” centers on a handful of individuals whose lives intersect on the playgrounds, town pools and streets of their small community in surprising and potentially dangerous ways.
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Employee of the Month

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For customers of Super Club, the largest high-volume, bulk-discount retailer in the country, membership has its privileges. For workers at the cavernous store, the most coveted honor is the “Employee of the Month” award, and having one’s photo immortalized on the wall of fame in the staff lounge.
Enter Zack Bradley (Dane Cook) and Vince Downey […]

El Cortez

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“El Cortez” is the story of an autistic man who attempts to start a new life after his incarceration. After five years in a prison for the criminally insane, Manny (Lou Diamond Phillips) returns to Reno. He moves into a motel and takes a job as a clerk at the Hotel El Cortez. He is […]

loudQUIETloud: A Film About The Pixies

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A documentary about the seminal alternative rock band from Boston who reunited in 2004 for a world tour after splitting 12 years prior, including footage of their first lives shows in over a decade and interviews.
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