Sundance Grand Jury Prize Dramatic, a list by amything

7.1

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3.5

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90

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4.0

age 15+

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.

66

6.6

/22575/

74

/1944/

66

/558/

3.1

/14184/

72

/269/

71

/622/

69

/50/

2.0

age 17+

Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.

83

7.5

/90646/

75

/2883/

74

/1381/

4.0

/131591/

94

/212/

87

/1811/

85

/46/

4.0

age 17+

Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.

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7.3

/120264/

73

/2776/

73

/1719/

3.7

/141572/

92

/239/

76

/21/

78

/36/

4.0

age 17+

In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.

79

7.2

/86546/

70

/1999/

68

/1115/

3.8

/69266/

87

/206/

76

/2754/

86

/45/

4.0

age 14+

Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe—for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack—temperatures rise and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.

67

6.6

/64409/

67

/1662/

63

/1070/

3.3

/49316/

70

/152/

62

/1392/

68

/38/

3.0

age 15+

A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

83

7.5

/112608/

73

/2579/

72

/1562/

3.9

/184076/

94

/113/

88

/2191/

84

/33/

4.0

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

82

7.4

/54390/

71

/863/

71

/518/

3.8

/36630/

94

/185/

86

/2157/

90

/42/

4.0

age 15+

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

81

7.3

/39978/

71

/864/

71

/481/

3.6

/107272/

94

/51/

86

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83

/20/

4.0

age 17+

An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school.

82

7.5

/33097/

72

/500/

68

/333/

3.9

/27316/

95

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88

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85

/31/

4.0

age 16+

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

73

6.7

/11880/

70

/221/

65

/188/

3.4

/7589/

87

/133/

75

/389/

70

/34/

3.5

age 15+

Diana Guzman, a troubled Brooklyn teenager, decides to channel her aggression by training to become a boxer, all while keeping it a secret from her father.

67

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6.3

/5412/

64

/142/

59

/89/

3.5

/13023/

80

/25/

67

/100/

67

/18/

A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.

68

6.6

/9067/

64

/142/

60

/98/

3.2

/4107/

88

/40/

60

/167/

73

/20/

3.0

Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s.

75

59

7.2

/3555/

74

/141/

66

/82/

3.9

/25534/

93

/60/

71

/12/

A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.

72

64

7.1

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66

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64

/84/

3.7

/9883/

83

/12/

76

/80/

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

70

7.1

/2575/

70

/59/

66

/24/

3.6

/1113/

60

/20/

86

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73

/19/

2.5

Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although the confining prison walls do little to shield him from danger, it is within those walls that Raymond establishes his identity, strength, and voice and meets a prison gang leader and a prison writing teacher, Lauren Bell. Bell inspires Raymond to use the power of creative expression to free himself from the struggles and demise of the Black male as another victim of the judicial system.

75

7.2

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69

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72

/32/

3.6

/1160/

77

/31/

89

/100/

3.0

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.

70

6.6

/3787/

63

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62

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3.6

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94

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47

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74

/13/

3.5

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger.

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6.1

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58

/19/

56

/19/

3.4

/1019/

75

/8/

40

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3.0

Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears commitment. Donna has her doubts about Michael's immaturity. Both are getting cold feet.

73

6.9

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69

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65

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3.4

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89

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77

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75

/15/

3.0

age 17+

When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.

74

6.5

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67

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63

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3.5

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92

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65

/17/

77

/32/

4.0

age 17+

Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

75

6.9

/3423/

63

/55/

59

/36/

3.6

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85

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77

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77

/25/

4.0

Reeling from her mother's recent death, Ruby Lee Gissing relocates to Florida to start anew. After finding a job at a souvenir store, Ruby becomes friends with the shop's owner, Mildred Chambers, and slowly acclimates to her new surroundings. Before long, she's juggling the affections of Mildred's Lothario son, Ricky, and the good-natured Mike. As she wavers between Ricky and Mike, Ruby also tries to come to terms with her past.

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6.4

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61

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62

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3.4

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33

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The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite occupancies, like make-up, shoplifting, skipping school and lying to the parent about it, but confessing to the priest later. But Karen also learns some honesty from Lonnie. A film about social differences and growing up.

74

6.6

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69

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69

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3.5

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86

/185/

77

/107/

69

/36/

3.5

age 16+

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.

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7.4

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74

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73

/1776/

4.1

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98

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92

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89

/49/

3.5

age 13+

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

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5.3

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43

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58

/16/

3.1

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64

/11/

27

/11/

Brewster seems to be an almost too perfect example of idyllic small-town America, with everyone living in peace and harmony. So when newcomer Whiley Pritcher starts up his own local cable TV show with the question "what's wrong with Brewster?", there surely can't be any deep dark secrets in the town that are just waiting to come to the surface - or can there? And when the question becomes "who's wrong with Brewster?" things start getting seriously nasty.

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7.0

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63

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62

/36/

3.3

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86

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72

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72

/31/

2.5

age 16+

As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.

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7.0

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65

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66

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3.5

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87

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83

/81/

3.5

Graham Young is a teenage misfit living in suburban London in the 1960s. He hates his stepmother but loves chemistry, and the two impulses unite in a wicked plot to slowly poison her. After she dies, he's found guilty and sent to a psychiatric hospital, where an idealistic doctor thinks he can be cured.

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7.1

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68

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66

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3.6

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88

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74

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82

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4.0

age 16+

After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.

74

7.1

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70

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68

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3.5

/30588/

82

/95/

82

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75

/28/

3.0

A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.

66

6.8

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59

/20/

72

/17/

3.4

/275/

56

/12/

3.0

A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune.

74

7.3

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70

/42/

4.0

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91

/22/

77

/16/

71

/24/

2.5

Jackie and Michael are coworkers at a large law firm. They decide to meet at Jackie's for dinner one night.

72

6.7

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71

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67

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3.6

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72

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79

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68

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3.5

age 13+

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

66

6.4

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55

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58

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3.2

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69

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61

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70

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3.5

age 17+

In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.

59

6.1

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40

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3.2

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63

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44

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74

/16/

3.0

A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.

49

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6.0

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41

/7/

57

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38

/1/

A group of husbands with their wives participate in a reunion where everybody will find his hidden secret. The methods used are terrible, but usually work. Just usually.

76

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6.9

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69

/52/

66

/29/

3.8

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100

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80

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William Douglas Street is bored with his life. Working for his father is getting to him, his wife wants more money, and he's had enough. His solution is to re-invent himself. He becomes a chameleon, taking on whatever role suits the situation. From reporter to doctor to lawyer, he impersonates anyone he feels a need to be and he can earn money being.

42

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5.1

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34

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40

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43

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A man confronts jealously and rage as a love affair falters.

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8.0

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80

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78

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3.9

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94

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91

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72

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3.5

age 13+

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

67

6.7

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56

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48

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3.5

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81

/26/

74

/9/

3.0

Mistaking a homeless man for a famous director, a British actress seeks career help from him.

50

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5.2

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50

/6/

50

/6/

Dick Kendred (Tom Villard) is a frustrated writer whose latest book has been turned down by every publisher around. His work seems to be missing one key ingredient: half-nude chicks. In an effort to cure his writer's block (and get some much needed inspiration), Dick rents a room from a couple of women who waste no time hitting on him. Talk about invoking the muse! This lighthearted romp won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

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5.3

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56

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53

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3.1

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91

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67

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72

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2.5

age 15+

Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.

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6.9

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68

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66

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3.8

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97

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85

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81

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3.0

age 15+

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

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6.3

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30

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50

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Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.

75

6.6

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61

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68

/15/

3.5

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93

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78

/11/

83

/11/

3.5

On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

53

5.9

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60

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30

/2/

3.3

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42

/50/

53

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