Squeeze 1997

Squeeze 1997

Squeeze 1997

Squeeze 1997
R | 1h 42min | Crime, Drama | 6 June 1997 (USA)

Storyline:

Ty, Hector, and Bao are close friends in a tough section of Boston, where they’re called “the PG-13 crew.” They’re 14, decent kids with few skills who’ve bailed out of school. A small gang of older tough guys, led by Marcus and Tommy, menace them, and when the PG-13s fight back and rob one of the gang, Marcus and Tommy vow to kill them. They seek protection from Derick, a drug dealer, who agrees to help if they’ll sell drugs. Meanwhile, Ty is recruited to work at a community center by J.J., its quiet leader. Ty and his friends are in a squeeze: surrounded by violence, drugs, and no opportunities, is there any way out?

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Huck and the King of Hearts 1994

Huck and the King of Hearts 1994

Huck and the King of Hearts 1994

Huck and the King of Hearts 1994
PG | 1h 38min | Adventure | 2 February 1994 (USA)

Storyline:

Taking place in the 1990’s, Huck and his card shark friend, Jim, travel from California to Nevada searching for Huck’s long-lost grandpa. Along the way, a deceived card player chases the two across the states with his two, less intelligent, sidekicks.

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Billy Elliot 2000

Billy Elliot 2000

Billy Elliot 2000

Billy Elliot 2000
R | 1h 50min | Drama, Music | 10 November 2000 (USA)

Storyline:

County Durham, during the endless, violent 1984 strike against the Margaret Thatcher closure of British coal mines. Widower Jackie Elliot (Gary Lewis) and his firstborn, fellow miner Tony (Jamie Draven), take a dim view of eleven-year-old second son Billy’s (Jamie Bell’s) poor record in boxing class, which worsens when they discover he sneakily transferred to the neighboring, otherwise girls-only-attended ballet class. Only one schoolmate, closet-gay Michael Caffrey (Stuart Wells), encourages Billy’s desire, aroused by the teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson (Dame Julie Walters), who judged him talented enough for private lessons, to train and try out for the world-renowned Royal Ballet audition. Only the prospect of a fancy career unimagined in the pauper quarter may twist pa and big brother’s opposition to indispensable support.

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Klynham Summer 1982

Klynham Summer 1982

Klynham Summer 1982

Klynham Summer 1982
The Scarecrow (original title)
PG | 1h 28min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 9 February 1985 (Denmark)

Storyline:

The same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam and Les are robbed of all of their hard earned hens. In the quest for their hens they cross the murderer’s path.

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True Friends 1998

True Friends 1998

True Friends 1998

True Friends 1998
R | 1h 43min | Drama | 30 January 1998 (USA)

Storyline:

The films tells the story of three friends living in the Bronx in New York – Juan Jose a.k.a. J.J., Joey and Louie. The first half of the film tells of them when they were children, and second is set 15 years later, when they have much more serious problems.

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Hey, Happy! (2001)

Hey, Happy! (2001)

Hey, Happy! (2001)

Hey, Happy! (2001)
Unrated | 1h 15min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 1 May 2001 (Canada)

Storyline:

DJ Sabu’s overactive libido leads him into teenaged pregnancy. His mythic quest for two thousand boys ends with Happy, a paranoid UFO-ologist to whom aliens promise to appear (as his love child). Spanky is an evil hairdresser trying to foil Sabu’s mission, he is the self-proclaimed ‘biggest bitch in the world.’ The action unfolds at a series of raves on old garbage hill in an industrial Antonioni landscape peopled with characters right out of vintage John Waters.

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