Struck by Lightning 2012

Struck by Lightning 2012

Struck by Lightning 2012

Struck by Lightning 2012
Not Rated | 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama | 11 January 2013 (USA)

Storyline:

A high school boy, desperate to escape the idiocy of the people in his hometown, tries to create a way in which he can move to New York, attend the college of his dreams and do something other than live in the footsteps of his drunken, divorced mother. Along the way he blackmails his fellow students into contributing to his literary magazine and discovers what it’s like to feel accomplished. Does he get accepted into the college of his dreams? Is he going to make a difference and follow his life goal?

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Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010

Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010

Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010

Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010
1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7 July 2010 (France)

Storyline:

When the mother they have never known dies, three half brothers aged 8, 15 and 17 respectively, who were all brought up in different ways, meet for the very first time. They spend the long summer holidays with Nonna, their grandmother, and start sharing secrets and rabbits, polenta and mean tricks, adventures and first time experiences, together. At last their once solitary lives take a new direction.

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Memories of a Teenager 2019

Memories of a Teenager 2019

Memories of a Teenager 2019

Memories of a Teenager 2019
Yo, adolescente (original title)
1h 37min | Drama | 18 November 2019 (Spain)

Storyline:

After the suicide of his best friend and the fire of a local dance called Cromañón, including recitals, illegal parties in an abandoned warehouse and high school, a year passes by in the life of Zabo who writes everything he feels and lives in his blog, “Memories of a teenager”.

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The Rocking Horsemen 1992

The Rocking Horsemen 1992

The Rocking Horsemen 1992

The Rocking Horsemen 1992
Seishun dendekedekedeke (original title)
2h 15min | Comedy | 31 October 1992 (Japan)

Storyline:

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara Yasufumi Hayashi) hears “Pipeline” by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called “The Rocking Horsemen.” A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60’s.

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The Yearling 1946

The Yearling 1946

The Yearling 1946

The Yearling 1946
Approved | 2h 8min | Drama, Family, Western | May 1947 (USA)

Storyline:

The family of Civil War veteran Penny Baxter, who lives and works on a farm in Florida with his wife, Orry, and their son, Jody. The only surviving child of the family, Jody longs for companionship and unexpectedly finds it in the form of an orphaned fawn. While Penny is supportive of his son’s four-legged friend, Orry is not, leading to heartbreaking conflict.

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Almost Angels 1962

Almost Angels 1962

Almost Angels 1962

Almost Angels 1962
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Comedy, Family, Music | 20 July 1963 (Japan)

Storyline:

Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented. The standard initiation ordeals which new boys must endure at the hands of their seniors are intensified in his case because he has aroused the jealousy of Peter, the head chorister, by singing a solo which Peter had long sung himself. The fact is that Peter’s voice is breaking, and with a broken voice often comes a broken heart. But, encouraged by the director and all the boys, Peter begins to develop in a new role as composer and conductor.

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Dream a Little Dream 1989

Dream a Little Dream 1989

Dream a Little Dream 1989

Dream a Little Dream 1989
PG-13 | 1h 54min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 3 March 1989 (USA)

Storyline:

The lives of a crusty old scientist and a bratty, teen Michael-Jackson-wannabe are about to intersect in a paranormal way. Coleman Ettinger seeks to break down the door of reality through studied dreaming; Bobby Keller wants Lainie Diamond, the girlfriend of his high school friend Joel, a handsome school jock. As Coleman persuades his wife Gena to join his experiments, an accident knocks their bodies out of existence, along with Bobby’s consciousness. Coleman’s consciousness winds up in Bobby’s body while Gena’s ends up buried and asleep inside Lainie’s. Only when sleeping can Coleman contact Bobby and elicit his help in putting things back, except that Bobby smugly prefers limbo over his aggravated life as a modern teenager.

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