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It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with his debts. Jderescu, the owner of a local television po …st, seems not to be so interested in the upcoming holidays. For him, the time to face history has come. Along with Manescu and Piscoci, he is trying to answer for himself a question which for 16 years has not had an answer: "Was it or wasn't it a revolution in their town?" (Read More)
| Themes: | revolutiontheftdrunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | security guardprofessorthiefstudentteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | burning moneyreference to tom and jerrytimisoara romaniatextile factorytelevision camerareference to laurel and hardysanta costumeclarinetiststreetlightpost communismsentrybucharestpaper airplanefictional talk showretiree …merry christmasdictionaryclarinetfirecrackereastern europetoy gunaccountantanniversaryrevolutionaryvodkasnowingquestion mark in titleguardretirementtv showteddy bearcommunistclassdeath of sonchristmas treeflowersdebtliarmicrophonequestion in titleold manbandjournalistclassroomliedrinkwatching tvfoodsongcell phonetelephone callsingingphotograph (See All) |
Jon and Wendy Savage are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from the abuse of their abusive father, Lenny Savage. Suddenly, a call comes in that his girlfriend has died, he cannot care for himself with his dementia and her family is dumping him on his children. Despite t …he fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel obliged to take care of him. Now together, brother and sister must come to terms with the new and painful responsibilities with their father now affecting their lives even as they struggle with their own personal demons Lenny helped create. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | professorstudentteachersingerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | reference to laurel and hardysnowingretirementclasschristmas treeflowersliarold manclassroomliedrinkwatching tvfoodsongcell phone …telephone callsinging (See All) |
Down and out rock star Dewey Finn gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar pr …odigy, who could help Dewey win a "battle of the bands" competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | studentteachersinger |
| Story: | clarinetclassliarbandclassroomliedrinkfoodsongtelephone callsinging |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Characters: | studentteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | retirementclassdeath of sonliarold manclassroomliedrinkfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin …d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | professorstudentteachersinger |
| Story: | communistclasschristmas treeliarclassroomliedrinkwatching tvfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
Four members of a high school band called Mystery do everything they can to attend a KISS concert in Detroit. In order to make it to the show they must steal, cheat, strip, deal with an anti-rock mom and generally do whatever it takes to see the band that has inspired them to be musicians.
| Themes: | theftdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | thiefstudentteachersingermother son relationship |
| Story: | classliarmicrophonebandclassroomliedrinksongtelephone callsinging |
In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Francois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to …respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrinking |
| Characters: | thiefstudentteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | accountantsnowingcommunistclassliarclassroomliedrinkfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both for …ever. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | security guardhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | snowingdeath of sonchristmas treeliarold manbandliedrinkwatching tvcell phonetelephone callphotograph |
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 "phil …istines" - 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. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Characters: | professorstudentteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | classliarmicrophoneclassroomliedrinkwatching tvfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its ang …er and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | thiefsingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | classdeath of sondebtbandliedrinkfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York …and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinking |
| Characters: | singermother son relationship |
| Story: | clarinetclassflowersliarmicrophonebandliedrinkfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had … no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Characters: | singerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | teddy bearclasschristmas treeliarclassroomliedrinkwatching tvfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken … behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | professorthiefteacherhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | retireeliarold manliedrinkwatching tvfoodcell phonetelephone callphotograph |
After being rejected from every college he applied, Bartleby Gaines decided to create a fictitious university, South Harmon Institute of Technology, with his friends, to fool their parents. But when their deception works too well and every other college rejects starts to apply to his school, B. must … find a way to give the education and future his students and friends deserves, including his own, while trying to win the heart of the girl next door. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrinkingmoney |
| Characters: | thiefstudentteachersingermother son relationship |
| Story: | classbandclassroomdrinkfoodsongcell phonetelephone callsinging |
Cat and mouse. Jonathan McQuarry is an auditor in Manhattan, moving from office to office checking their books. While working late, a smooth and well-dressed man named Wyatt Bose chats Jonathan up, offers him a joint, and soon they're pals. When their cell phones are accidentally swapped, Jonathan a …nswers Wyatt's phone to a series of women asking if he's free tonight. Jonathan discovers it's a sex club: busy powerful people meet each other anonymously in hotels. Jonathan falls for one of the club members, whom he knows only as "S," whom he's also seen on a subway. When she goes missing, patterns emerge and Jonathan faces demands involving violence and lots of money. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | thiefsinger |
| Story: | accountantsnowingliarliedrinkwatching tvfoodsongcell phonetelephone callsingingphotograph |
Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Co …llins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With all of the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma. Tracy then decides that it's not fair that the black kids can only dance on the Corny Collins Show once a month, and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father and Edna, she's going to integrate the show.....without denting her 'do! (Read More)
| Themes: | drinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | studentteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | tv showcommunistclassmicrophoneclassroomdrinkwatching tvfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) have the perfect life together living the American dream... until Emily asks for a divorce. Now Cal, Mr Husband, has to navigate the single scene with a little help from his professional bachelor friend Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). Make that a lot of hel …p... (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | teacherhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | accountantclassflowersclassroomliedrinkwatching tvcell phonetelephone callphotograph |
In late 1951, Eilis Lacey, a young Irish girl, emigrates to Brooklyn. Sponsored by Father Flood, a priest from her native town Enniscorthy, she is assured to find a full-time job there. But the early days are tough, seasickness being soon replaced by loneliness and homesickness, two feelings all the … more acutely felt by Eilis for having had to leave behind her widowed mother and her dear sister Rose. She nevertheless little by little manages to find her footing by adapting to her job as a salesgirl, by studying bookkeeping at Brooklyn College as well as with a little help from both Father Flood and Mrs. Kehoe, the owner of the boarding school she now lives in. And not only does graduation follow but love shows its face in Tony, an Italian-American plumber, full of adoration and respect for her. They end up marrying, although keeping the thing secret. It is at that point that tragedy strikes inciting Eilis to return to Enniscorthy to support her mother morally. And there a strange thing happens : she gradually gets lured by the charms of her native place, going far as to let herself be wooed by Jim Farrell, a young local. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | studentteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | accountantsnowingclasschristmas treeflowersold manbandclassroomdrinkfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as "the last city to surrender after the Civil War," is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coaches the debate team to a nearly-undefeated s …eason that sees the first debate between U.S. students from white and Negro colleges and ends with an invitation to face Harvard University's national champions. The team of four, which includes a female student and a very young James Farmer, is tested in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch mob, an arrest and near riot, a love affair, jealousy, and a national radio audience. (Read More)
| Themes: | revolutiondrinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | professorstudentteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | communistclassbandclassroomdrinksongtelephone callsinging |
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry (and forcing her to say the same).
| Themes: | money |
| Characters: | studentsingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | snowingflowersdebtliewatching tvfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.
| Themes: | drinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | professorsingerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | snowingliarmicrophoneliedrinkfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set u …p the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | teachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | communistliarbandliedrinkwatching tvfoodsongsinging |
Charles is worn down by his home life where he and his wife struggle to cope with the demands of their daughter's illness and his job. When he meets Lucinda on the train to work in Chicago, there is an immediate spark between them. Soon they are doing lunch; dinner and drinks follow. This leads to a …n adulterous rendezvous in a hotel. However, no sooner have they torn each other's clothes off than their room is invaded by a thief who beats Charles and rapes Lucinda. Because of the illicit nature of their relationship, Charles agrees with Lucinda who is reluctant to go to the police and soon finds he is powerless to resist the demands of the thief. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | security guardthiefteacherhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | liarliedrinkwatching tvfoodcell phonetelephone call |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
| Themes: | drinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | merry christmasclasschristmas treeliarclassroomliedrinkwatching tvfoodcell phonetelephone callphotograph |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o …f The Beatles. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Characters: | thiefstudentteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | microphonebandliedrinkfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
Vincent is an old Vietnam vet whose stubbornly hedonistic ways have left him without money or a future. Things change when his new next-door neighbor's son, Oliver, needs a babysitter and Vince is willing enough for a fee. From that self-serving act, an unexpected friendship forms as Vincent and Oli …ver find so much of each other's needs through each other. As Vincent mentors Oliver in street survival and other worldly ways, Oliver begins to see more in the old man than just his foibles. When life takes a turn for the worse for Vincent, both them find the best in each other than no one around them suspects. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | teacherhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | retireeretirementclassold manclassroomdrinkwatching tvfoodtelephone callphotograph |
A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting Solomon, and the beautiful Maddy, Archer's life cha …nges forever as he is given a chance to make peace with the war around him. (Read More)
| Themes: | revolutiondrunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | studentteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | revolutionaryguardmicrophonejournalistdrinkwatching tvfoodsongcell phonetelephone callsingingphotograph |
Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the a …rtist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinking |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | thiefsingerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | tv showflowersmicrophonebandjournalistdrinkwatching tvfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the …concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | studentteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | snowingclassclassroomliedrinksongcell phonetelephone callsinging |
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician …. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | singermother son relationship |
| Story: | microphonebandjournalistdrinkwatching tvfoodsongtelephone callsinging |
Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a pa …st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | security guardprofessorthiefsingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | guarddrinkfoodsongcell phonetelephone callsingingphotograph |
59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terr …aced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrinkingmoney |
| Characters: | teacherhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | eastern europesnowingretirementflowersold manjournalistliedrinkfoodtelephone callphotograph |
Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer damaged from a past relationship encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment whose awkwardness is perplexing. Beth and Adam's ultimate connection leads to a tricky relationship that exemplifies something universal: … truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinking |
| Characters: | studentteacherhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | accountantsnowingclassflowersclassroomliedrinkwatching tvfoodcell phonetelephone callphotograph |
William Miller is a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming-of-age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | teachersingermother son relationship |
| Story: | microphonebandjournalistdrinkwatching tvfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
Poppy Cross is happy-go-lucky. At 30, she lives in Camden: cheeky, playful, frank while funny, and talkative to strangers. She's a conscientious and exuberant primary-school teacher, flatmates with Zoe, her long-time friend; she's close to one sister, and not so close to another. In this slice of li …fe story, we watch her take driving lessons from Scott, a dour and tightly-wound instructor, take classes in flamenco dance from a fiery Spaniard, encounter a tramp in the night, and sort out a student's aggressive behavior with a social worker's help. Along the way, we wonder if her open attitude puts her at risk of misunderstanding or worse. What is the root of happiness? (Read More)
| Themes: | drinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | teachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | classflowersclassroomliedrinkfoodsongcell phonetelephone callsinging |
Willie T. Stokes is a convicted con man who's led a miserable life. He drinks heavily and constantly embarrasses himself publicly. He only works once a year dressed as Santa. But then come Christmas Eve, he and his pint-sized helper dwarf Marcus stage elaborate robberies and take their department st …ores for everything they got. This year, they hit a mall in suburban Phoenix, Arizona. This time around, Willie gets distracted by having sex with large women, a bartender who is attracted to Santas, and a kid who's convinced he's the real deal. However, this time around Marcus must once again put up with Willie's heavy drinking and a series of incidents that constantly shoot themselves in the foot. Not to mention a nosy department store security guard who's onto them and wants his cut of the loot. Will Willie and Marcus make it to next Christmas? Or will this be the year the dynamic duo finally face justice? (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | security guardthiefmother son relationship |
| Story: | santa costumemerry christmasguardchristmas treedrinkwatching tvphotograph |
After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school - until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
| Themes: | drinking |
| Mood: | satire |
| Characters: | studentteachersingerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | classliarmicrophoneclassroomliedrinkwatching tvsongcell phonetelephone callsingingphotograph |
In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working …but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | thiefstudentteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | dictionarysnowingclassflowersold manclassroomliedrinksongsinging |
Young Caucasian Dan Dunne teaches history and coaches the girls basketball team at a Brooklyn high school populated primarily by black and Hispanic students. To the chagrin of his superiors, Dan bucks the outlined curriculum of historical facts in favor of the philosophy of historical events, genera …lly discussing the concept of dialectics. As such, he captures the imagination of his students, at least in the classroom. Outside of the classroom, Dan's life is in shambles. He has a distant but cordial relationship with his family. He uses illicit drugs rampantly. Although his former girlfriend Rachel was able to clean up her drug habit, Dan believes that rehab will not work for him. Due to a combination of these issues, he treats women poorly. Thirteen year old Drey is a student in his class and a player on his basketball team. Drey has her own problems. Her parents are divorced, with her father a virtually non-existent figure in her life and her EMT mother generally absent as she is always working to provide for Drey. Her older brother Mike is incarcerated for selling drugs for a local dealer named Frank. Mike took the fall for Frank, who in turn protects Drey whether she wants to be associated with him or not. Dan and Drey's relationship changes when Drey catches Dan, believing he is alone, smoking crack in the girl's locker room bathroom. He is totally stoned. Their resulting friendship, which is seen as inappropriate by the few who know, is based on each being unable to dea… (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | thiefstudentteachersingermother son relationship |
| Story: | communistclassdebtclassroomdrinksongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, h …e goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. "60 Minutes" and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand is hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Will the truth come out? (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | security guardthiefteacherhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | tv showliarjournalistclassroomliedrinkcell phonetelephone call |
A woman who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day, an Irish tradition which occurs every time the date February 29 rolls around, faces a major setback when bad weather threatens to derail her planned trip to Dublin. With the help of an innkeeper, however, her cross-country …odyssey just might result in her getting engaged. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | thiefsingerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | microphonebanddrinkfoodsongcell phonetelephone callsinging |
Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots. Both women start a journey not only to find their family's tragic story, but to see who they really are an …d where they belong. They question what they used to believe in. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | singerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | vodkasnowingmicrophoneold manbanddrinkfoodsongsingingphotograph |
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, … even on a fishing trip. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | singerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | toy gundeath of sonbandliedrinkwatching tvtelephone callphotograph |
At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in sch …ool, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Characters: | thiefstudentteacherhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | classliarclassroomliedrinkcell phonetelephone call |
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In … the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | thiefteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | vodkasnowingflowersmicrophonedrinkfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
As children, Lorenzo Carcaterra - Shakes to his friends - Michael Sullivan, Tommy Marcano, and John Reilly were inseparable. They grew up in Hell's Kitchen, a far from perfect neighborhood, one filled as Shakes says with scams and shake downs, but one where the rules were known by its residents. The … one adult who they admired was Father Bobby Carelli, who understood them as kids more than most adults and more than he himself would like to admit. In 1967, their lives would change forever when a typical teenage prank went wrong which led to the four of them being sentenced to various terms at Wilkinson Home for Boys, a reformatory. There, they were physically, emotionally and sexually abused primarily by Sean Nokes, the head guard of their cell block, and fellow guards Ralph Ferguson, Henry Addison, and Adam Styler, although there were other caring figures of authority at the home including other guards. Their time at the home affected the four, not all who were able to emerge from the experience to regroup their lives. In their want to forget about the experience, they made a vow not to talk about it either between themselves or with others. Fast forward thirteen years, with Tommy and Johnny being career criminals, Michael an assistant district attorney and Shakes a newspaper writer, their friendship on the surface more loose than it was when they were children. When Tommy and John spot Nokes, it leads to Shakes and Michael banding together to exact revenge not only on Nokes b… (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | thiefteachersingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | guardclassliarclassroomliedrinkwatching tvfoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol …business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs. Nick's son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | studentteacherhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | classliarmicrophoneclassroomliedrinkwatching tvfoodcell phonetelephone callphotograph |
In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kiting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the … death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kiting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption. (Read More)
| Themes: | revolutiontheftdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | thiefsingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | snowingcommunistflowersliarold manbandliefoodsongtelephone callsingingphotograph |
In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna - Fuser to his friends and later better known as 'Ernesto Che Guevara' - one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend 'Alberto Granado' - Mia …l to his friends - on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books about the continent on which they live, and to finish that quest on Alberto's thirtieth birthday on the other side of the continent in the Guajira Peninsula in Venezuela. Not all on this trip goes according to their rough plan due to a broken down motorbike, a continual lack of money (they often stretching the truth to gain the favor of a variety of strangers to help them), arguments between the two in their frequent isolation solely with each other, their raging libidos which sometimes get them into trouble, and dealing with Fuser's chronic asthma. But a chance encounter with a couple of Communists in the Chilean desert and an extended visit to the San Pablo Leper Colony in the Peruvian Amazon Basin among other things profoundly affects what each will want to do with his life and the bond each has with the other. (Read More)
| Themes: | revolutiontheftdrunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Characters: | thiefstudentsingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | revolutionarycommunistliarbandliedrinkfoodsongsinging |
When her wealthy fiance breaks it off, gold digger Elizabeth Halsey returns to middle school: she's an awful teacher but wants to save for breast-implant surgery. She brightens when Scott, a new teacher, turns out to be rich, and she stops showing films and sleeping in class when told there's a bonu …s for the teacher whose class scores highest on the state exam. Her competition for Scott and the bonus is cheery and tightly wound Amy. Amy digs for dirt on Elizabeth who cheats her way toward Scott's bed and the money. Honesty with students seems to be her only skill. She ignores Russell, a droll gym teacher, who looks on. Will she succeed with Scott and get those new breasts? (Read More)
| Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | professorteacher |
| Story: | classchristmas treeliarbandclassroomdrinkwatching tvcell phonephotograph |
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