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2) Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement from Some Who've Done It and Some Who Never Will
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Steve Lopez is 67 years old. He's the lead metropolitan columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He's been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize so often that they should create an award solely for him. Steve loves his job and the jolt of energy he gets from writing a column that serves as a catalyst for conversation. But he wonders what it might be like to live without ever-present deadlines hanging over his head. If his knees hold out, he'd like to play...
3) Night swim
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Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player is forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, he moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve, teenage daughter Izzy, and young son Elliot. Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home's shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home's past will unleash...
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Cal Hooper volume 2
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
5) Humor Me
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With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community. But a chance encounter with the local community theatre group may help turn his life around … or signal the end of his once promising career for good.
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Rachel Bailey and Janet Scott are now both in line for promotion but with only one sergeant's role up for grabs, they must compete against each other. Rachel's mum is back on the scene with a new boyfriend who Rachel discovers has a violent past. Janet has personal issues to deal with when her daughter decides to leave home. Rachel starts a new relationship with a senior police officer, so decides she must keep it secret. And Janet unintentionally...
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Summer, 2004: Across America, grassroots both for and against comprehensive immigration reform are spoiling for a fight at the ballot box. In Arizona, no one can ignore it—voters' frustration is at a boiling point. Citizens launch a wildly popular ballot initiative, PROTECT ARIZONA NOW. Alfredo Gutierrez, radio host and ex-politician, is galvanized out of retirement to try to beat it. National groups get it late: if things go badly in Arizona, they...
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After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn't done with him. On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he's ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing...
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A Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) performs on Paris streets. At a retirement home show, he falls for a beautiful Marilyn Monroe look-alike (Samantha Morton) who suggests he move to a commune of impersonators. There he finds everyone prepping for the commune's first-ever gala: Abe Lincoln, Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Stooges, the Queen, the Pope, Madonna, Buckwheat, Sammy Davis Jr...and also Marilyn's daughter Shirley Temple and her...
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