The Squid and the Whale 2005

The Squid and the Whale 2005

The Squid and the Whale 2005
R | 1h 21min | Comedy, Drama | 16 December 2005 (USA)

Storyline:

In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept “philistines” – people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with “philistines”. Their sons, the teenager Walt and the boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors. Frank drinks booze and smears with sperm the books in the library and a locker in the dress room of his school. The messed-up and insecure Walt uses Roger Water’s song “Hey You” in a festival as if it was of his own, and breaks up with his girlfriend Sophie. Meanwhile Joan has an affair with Frank’s tennis teacher Ivan and Bernard with his student Lili.

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Waterberry Tears 2010

Waterberry Tears 2010

Waterberry Tears 2010
1h 34min | Drama | 2010 (USA)

Storyline:

This is a coming of age story about a gay boy in a Mexican family, taking place in the grape fields and trailer homes in the Coachella Valley. Goyo has a hard time hiding his sexual preferences from his father, while secretly hoping for he’s acceptance. His father Ramon, a hard core Mexican immigrant, is against homosexuality and will not accept that his only son is gay. Matters get worst when Goyo and his sister Rosa fall in love with the same guy.

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Swiss Family Robinson 1960

Swiss Family Robinson 1960

Swiss Family Robinson 1960
Approved | 2h 6min | Adventure, Family | 10 December 1960 (Usa)

Storyline:

A family in route to New Guinea is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. They are forced to remain on the island because of the damage to the ship and the pirates that are roaming the islands. They create a home on the island (centering around a huge tree house) and explore the island and its wildlife. Plenty of adventure ensues as the family deals with issues of survival and pirates, and the brothers must learn how to live on the island with an uncertain future.

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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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