Motorama 1991

Motorama 1991

Motorama 1991
R | 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 13 January 1993 (USA)

Storyline:

A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America playing “Motorama,” a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of the game.

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It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2010

It's Kind of a Funny Story 2010

It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2010
PG-13 | 1h 41min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8 October 2010 (USA)

Storyline:

Craig is a high-school junior, in the gifted program, infatuated with his best friend’s girl. When he realizes he’s suicidal, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, thinking they’ll do an observation, help him, and send him home in time for school the next day. Once in, however, he must stay for a week; the juvenile ward is being renovated, so he’s in with adults as well as a few youths. Bobby, a man with a young daughter, shows him around; Craig notices Noelle, about his age. He tries to keep his friends from finding out where he is. Little things: he draws, goes to therapy, sings, helps Bobby rehearse an interview. Is this the stuff of insight?

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My Life So Far 1999

My Life So Far 1999

My Life So Far 1999

My Life So Far 1999
PG-13 | 1h 38min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 26 August 1999 (Singapore)

Storyline:

Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son, and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman’s son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.

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Swiss Army Man 2016

Swiss Army Man 2016

Swiss Army Man 2016
R | 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 1 July 2016 (USA)

Storyline:

Hank, stranded on a deserted island and about to kill himself, notices a corpse washed up on the beach. He befriends it, naming it Manny, only to discover that his new friend can talk and has a myriad of supernatural abilities…which may help him get home.

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Boogaloo and Graham 2014

Boogaloo and Graham 2014

Boogaloo and Graham 2014
14min | Short, Comedy, Drama | 1 August 2014 (UK)

Storyline:

Jamesy and Malachy are over the moon when their soft-hearted dad presents them with two baby chicks to care for. Raising their tiny charges, declaring themselves vegetarian and dreaming of running a chicken farm, the two boys are in for a shock when their parents announce that big changes are coming to the family.

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No Skin Off My Ass 1991

No Skin Off My Ass 1991

No Skin Off My Ass 1991
1h 13min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8 November 1991 (USA)

Storyline:

A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of “That Cold Day in the Park” then visits a local park to invite a down-and-out skinhead to his apartment. He draws the silent man a bath and talks to him as he soaks. He locks his guest in a bedroom. Next day, the skinhead leaves through the window and visits his sister, who’s making a film called “Sisters of the SLA.” He helps with a screen-test. The hairdresser has dreams and fantasies involving the skinhead, the skinhead returns to visit him, and then the filmmaker pays a call on the two men, exposing her brother as faking his silence and pretending a lack of sexual interest. Fantasies can come true.

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