Kevin Pollak
21) Ruby Bridges
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When bright six year old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time.
23) Picture this
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Mandy has been invited to the biggest party of the year by the most popular boy in school, but she's grounded. Her father allows her to go study with friends, but insists on checking in every half hour by video cell phone. Can she and her friends devise a way to attend the party under these conditions?
24) Columbus Circle
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An heiress who's been shut inside her Manhattan apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation.
25) Middle men
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"Businessman Jack Harris ... built the perfect life by solving other people's problems. Then he met Wayne ... and Buck, two moronic geniuses with a shocking plan to make millions on the Internet. When Jack helps launch their business scheme, the cash starts rolling in. Suddenly surrounded by money, organized crime and the FBI, Jack fools himself into believing that he's staying clean in a dirty business"--Container.
26) Grumpier old men
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English
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Max and John team up against Maria who has turned their favorite bait shop into an Italian restaurant.
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Former hitman Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski has retired and is living a quite life of cooking and housekeeping in Mexico. Jimmy has been able to convince the authorities he's dead thanks to falsified dental records by his former neighbor Oz, who now lives in Los Angeles. But apparently not everyone has been fooled when Oz's wife, Cynthia, is kidnapped by Lazuli Gigolo and his goons. Gigolo is a member of the Hungarian Mafia, and Jimmy previously murdered...
28) Injustice
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"When his world is shattered by tragic events set in motion by the diabolical Joker, Superman becomes hell-bent on enforcing peace at any cost. The Man of Steel begins a reign of tyranny that can only be stopped by on hero: Batman. The splintered Justice League divides its ranks as the two former allies wage a deadly battle for freedom. In this alternate world of chaos, loyalties are tested, and the line between friend and foe blurs."--Container.
29) Three Christs
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"In 1959, psychiatrist Dr. Alan Stone arrives at a mental hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan armed with the radical belief that schizophrenic patients should be treated not with confinement and electroshock therapy, but with empathy and understanding. As his first study, he takes on the particularly challenging case of three men -- Joseph, Leon, and Clyde -- each of whom believes he is Jesus Christ. Hoping that by getting them together in the same room...
30) Numb
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English
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Hudson Milbank is convinced that he's going insane. But he's just met the perfect girl and struggles to be his most charming self. Meanwhile, he frantically seeks a cure for his anxieties and goes through a string of therapists who turn out to be crazier than he is.
31) Avalon
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English
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Jewish immigrant Sam Krichinsky (based on Barry Levinson's grandfather) arrives in idyllic Avalon (a suburb of Baltimore) to join his four brothers who had come to America earlier. Levinson's semi-autobiographical film follows several generations of the Krichinskys-- a tight-knit group who work, raise their families, celebrate holidays-- and bicker together. Sam's son, Jules (Aidan Quinn), and his grandson Michael (Elijah Wood, in his first major...
32) The tiger hunter
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Shout select volume 38
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English
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It is the story of Sami Malik, a young Indian who travels to 1970s America to become an engineer in order to impress his childhood crush and live up to the legacy of his father, a legendary tiger hunter back home. When Sami's job falls through, he takes a low-end job and joins with a gang of oddball friends in hopes of convincing his childhood sweetheart that he's far more successful than he truly is, or perhaps ever could be.
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Grumpy old men: neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
Grumpier old men: grumpy old men become grumpier in this sequel as a newcomer (Sophia Loren) plans to change the town's bait shop into a ristorante.
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Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned Hungarian terrorist and Roger Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects in a truck highjacking, and ends with the possible...
37) Stolen summer
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English
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Pete is an eight-year-old Catholic boy, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of Lord, and not that of the Devil. Pete decides to help someone get into heaven and decides to convert a Jew to Catholicism. Pete begins visiting a nearby synagogue, where he gets to know Rabbi Jacobson and makes friends with the Rabbi's son, Danny. When he learns that Danny is seriously ill, he decides Danny would be an excellent...
38) The lost room
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English
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In the 1960s, an unknown event at the Sunshine Motel caused ordinary things in Room 10 to transform into items of wonder: indestructible objects with extraordinary powers that are sought by those who know their secrets.
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The plan was simple enough. Crash a big drug deal. Hold up the boss. Make off with the cash. Simple enough ... until an undercover cop takes a fatal bullet. Now four small-time crooks are on the run -- with a suitcase full of cocaine, two yuppie hostages, and too many secrets to keep.
40) Dr. Dolittle 2
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Now a world-famous lecturer and physician to both people and animals alike, Dr. Dolittle must act to save the forest home of some animal friends, but first he needs to teach a bumbling show biz bear survival techniques so that he may be reintroduced into the forest and meet the bear of his dreams.