Wallace Shawn
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Criterion collection volume 1038
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English
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A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. [A] hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
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A powerful story that blends raw emotion with fiery passion to form an unforgettable cinematic masterpiece. After 25 years together, the members of a world-renowned string quartet learn that their beloved cellist may soon be forced to retire. But the news stirs up equally painful challenges when competing egos, harbored resentment, and irrepressible lust threaten to derail the group as they struggle to maintain harmony in their music, and their lives....
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Owen is an aspiring filmmaker with a dead-end job and a beautiful fiancee. Ray is a failing drummer with charm to spare and going nowhere fast. Can these lifetime best friends and diehard New Yorkers stumble their way into adult responsibility without totally wrecking each other's lives?
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"The people and the story are magnetic; the background is the city of dreams that almost came true. Atlantic City is revitalized as a resort when gambling is legalized. But the new industry also brings unsettling changes. For Lou, forty years a bodyguard-boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace, his number-running sideline escalates to mob involvement. A drug-related slaying leaves him a small fortune, a new car and a new girl, Sally, who is the perfect...
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Set in a Catholic school in Brooklyn in the 1960's, the film tells the story of 16-year-old Michael Dunn who arrives at St. Basil's school in 1965 and immediately befriends all of the misfits in his class. What unfolds is the hilarious and moving story of boys growing up during a tumultuous, important year in their lives.
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When his lover, who is also his boss' wife, witnesses an attempted murder from the bedroom window in his apartment, a young architect testifies in her place to protect her and himself. His perjury is revealed and the attacker is released. His life in danger, he must team up with the victim to fight the justice system, his lover, and the attacker in order to set things right.
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In 2008, the United States is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films. He is currently trying to secure financing for a new...