Me and You and Everyone We Know 2005

Me and You and Everyone We Know 2005

Me and You and Everyone We Know 2005

Me and You and Everyone We Know 2005
R | 1h 31min | Comedy, Drama | 5 August 2005 (USA)

Storyline:

‘Me and You and Everyone We Know’ is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and “Eldercab” driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey, a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when he meets the captivating Christine, he panics. Life is not so oblique for Richard’s six-year-old Robby, who is having a risqué Internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen-year-old brother Peter who becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls — practicing for their future of romance and marriage.

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Real Boy 2016

Real Boy 2016

Real Boy 2016

Real Boy 2016
1h 12min | Documentary, Family, Music | 2016 (USA)

Storyline:

REAL BOY is an intimate story of a family in transition. As 19-year-old Bennett Wallace navigates early sobriety, late adolescence, and the evolution of his gender identity, his mother makes her own transformation from resistance to acceptance of her trans son. Along the way, both mother and son find support in their communities, reminding us that families are not only given, but chosen.

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Eden Lake 2008

Eden Lake 2008

Eden Lake 2008
R | 1h 31min | Horror | 12 September 2008 (UK)

Storyline:

Nursery teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve, escape for a romantic weekend away. Steve, planning to propose, has found an idyllic setting: a remote lake enclosed by woodlands and seemingly deserted. The couple’s peace is shattered when a gang of obnoxious kids encircles their campsite. Reveling in provoking the adults, the gang steals the couple’s belongings and vandalizes their car leaving them completely stranded. When Steve confronts them, tempers flare and he suffers a shocking and violent attack. Fleeing for help, Jenny is subject to a brutal and relentless game of cat-and-mouse as she desperately tries to evade her young pursuers and find her way out of the woods.

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Afterschool 2008

Afterschool 2008

Afterschool 2008
1h 47min | Drama, Mystery | 1 October 2008 (France)

Storyline:

Having joined a recently created video club, a lowly prep-school sophomore – desensitized from reality by frequently viewed Internet imagery – accidentally captures on video the final moments of admired twin senior classmates dying from poisoned drugs. Rather than galvanize the school or this lad’s life in any profound or meaningful way, the tragedy causes barely a ripple in the already emotionally diminished and out-of-touch lives of everyone around.

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Flight of the Navigator 1986

Flight of the Navigator 1986

Flight of the Navigator 1986
1h 30min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | 1 August 1986 (USA)

Storyline:

A 12-year-old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, he hasn’t aged. It is no coincidence that at the time he “comes back”, a flying saucer is found, entangled in power lines.

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I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive 2009

I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive 2009

I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive 2009
Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante (original title)
1h 31min | Drama | 30 September 2009 (France)

Storyline:

Given up for adoption as a toddler, troubled teenager Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother. After years of searching, Thomas finds her single, with a small child, living in a nearby suburb and begins a relationship with her which slowly drives him to an act of madness.

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Like Grains of Sand 1995

Like Grains of Sand 1995

Like Grains of Sand 1995
Nagisa no Shindobaddo (original title)
2h 9min | Drama, Romance | 16 December 1995 (Japan)

Storyline:

The movie is built around the very complex relationships between Yoshida, leaving Shimizu for Aihara (or at least he tries to), and his friend Ito, whose love for Yoshida seems to have little chance for success. In the end we have a coalition of Ito and Aihara – who may or may not be in love with Ito – teaching Yoshida a lesson.

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