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1) Ironweed
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Based on the William Kennedy novel of the same name, IRONWEED is set in the waning years of the Depression. Jack Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, a washed-up baseball player who deserted his family back in the 1910s when he accidentally killed his infant son by dropping him. Since that time, Phelan has been a shabby barfly, living from drink to drink; spending his days palling around with Rudy (Tom Waits). Wandering into his hometown of Albany, New...
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Criterion collection volume 764
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Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's #1 shock deejay, whose off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy which ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors-Parry. And so the amazing story of the Fisher King unfolds a modern quest for redemption and the...
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Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing, schooling him in the male-centric laws of his alcoholic clubhouse.
6) C.H.U.D
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John Heard and Daniel Stern accidently learn of the government's covert subterranean dumping site of radioactive waste that is mutating the underground vagrants, turning them into C.H.U.D.s -- cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers.
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A homeless couple, Keisha and Pookie, find themselves down and out hooked on cracked cocaine and living on the street. Choir music from the church across the street reminds Keisha of her younger years as a singer and she looks to the church for inspiration. With the help of the church's prayer group and the pastor, she is healed and begins to get clean. Meanwhile, her proud man Pookie, spirals further down into street poverty and crack addiction....
8) C.H.U.D
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John Heard and Daniel Stern accidently learn of the government's covert subterranean dumping site of radioactive waste that is mutating the underground vagrants, turning them into C.H.U.D.s -- cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers.
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In this documentary, Che Smith (a.k.a. Rhymefest, the Grammy-winning rapper) reunites with his father, an alcoholic living on the streets of Chicago, and struggles to deliver him to safety and an existence that is productive and meaningful, in essence, taking responsibility for the man who had abandoned him as a young child.
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