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Nursing assistant Ruth returns home from a bad day at work to find she has been burgled. She reports to the police that the thief has stolen her medication, her grandmother’s silverware and a laptop computer. When she asks Detective William Bendix for advice, he merely chastises her for leaving her door unlocked. Ruth asks …
This 95-minute feature documentary is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and is inspired by James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, a collection of notes and letters written by Baldwin in the mid-1970s.The memoir recounts the lives of his close friends and civil rights leaders Malcolm X (murdered in 1965), Martin Luther King Jr. (murdered …
Living in a gang ridden part of London, teenage boy Tom Harvey struggles to get by with the help of his best friend Danny who gets him a new phone and encourages him to go after his longtime friend Lucy who lives nearby. Lucy asks Tom to help her study for exams to which he …
A Baker and his wife wish for a child but suffer under a curse laid upon the Baker’s family by a Witch. The witch had previously found the baker’s father robbing her garden when the baker’s mother was pregnant, demanding their daughter in return. Because the Baker’s father also stole some magic beans, the Witch’s …
Dave Skylark is the host of the talk show Skylark Tonight, where he interviews various celebrities about personal topics and gossip. After Skylark and his crew celebrate their producer Aaron Rapaport’s 1,000th episode, Rapaport is upset by a producer peer who criticizes the show as not being a real news program. Rapaport reveals his concern …
In 1970, Shasta Fay Hepworth visits the beach house of her ex-boyfriend, Larry “Doc” Sportello, a private investigator and hippie in Gordita Beach, Los Angeles County. She tells him about her new lover, Michael Z. “Mickey” Wolfmann, a wealthy real estate developer, and asks him to help prevent Mickey’s wife and her lover from abducting …
In 2067, crop blights and dust storms threaten humanity’s survival. Joseph Cooper, a widowed engineer and former NASA pilot turned farmer, lives with his father-in-law, Donald; his 15-year-old son, Tom Cooper, and 10-year-old daughter, Murphy “Murph” Cooper. After a dust storm, strange dust patterns inexplicably appear on Murphy’s bedroom floor; she attributes the anomaly to …
Mia Hall and her family are getting ready to go on with their normal day activities when it is announced on the radio that school has been canceled. Mia’s father, Denny, is a teacher and as a result of the snow day does not have to go to work. Mia’s mother, Kat, a travel agent, …
In the town of Silverton, Oklahoma, the local high school senior class is preparing for graduation. The high school’s vice-principal, Gary Fuller, has asked his two sons, Trey and Donnie, to record messages from the seniors 1 and 2 for a time capsule to be opened in 25 years. Elsewhere, Pete, a veteran storm chaser, …
A Ph.D. student, Ian Gray, is researching the evolution of human eyes with Karen, his first-year lab assistant, and Kenny. He has a particular hostility to superstition, religion and “intelligent design”, which he hopes to discredit by filling in the steps of the evolution of the eye. At a Halloween party he has an encounter …
In 2002, Ava, a 14-year-old girl from Bridgeport, Connecticut, is woken up in the middle of the night and sees her drug lord father murdered by two masked intruders, before grabbing a shotgun and gunning down the two assailants. Twelve years later, after a rough life and recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, Ava marries …