5 min movie guide
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Life, Animated
Roger Ross Williams’ documentary prompted by the best selling book by Ron Suskind about Owen his autistic son, is probably one of the most inspirational documentaries we will get to see this year. It tells the tale of how Suskind, a Pulitzer Award winning writer with The Wall Street Journal, and his wife Cornelia dealt with…
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Ovation
Veteran indie filmmaker Henry Jaglom‘s latest movie is a decidedly old-fashioned backstage the-show-must-go-on drama. It is also very much a family affair with his considerably younger wife Tanna Frederick as the star, and his two children Simon Jaglom and Sabrina Jaglom in the supporting cast too. The story is based on the week of a life of two plays that are been…
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Nuts
This is the mostly true story of the larger-than-life J.R. Brinkley who turned out to be one of the country’s biggest and most successful medical charlatans of the last century. Documentarian filmmaker Penny Lane= chose to tell this totally bizarre tale by mainly blending animated visuals with archival footage and using narration by different actors. She starts by…
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Little Men
When Jake’s grandfather Max dies, his parents Brian (Greg Kinnear) and Kathy (Jennifer Ehle) inherit his home in Brooklyn, and as the family are struggling financially, they chose to leave their apartment in Manhattan and move in. At the funeral 13 year old Jake (Theo Taplitz) encounters Tony (Michael Barbieri) who is the same age, and who is there…
