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In The Family
Seven months after Chip Hines’s mother died in childbirth, Cody his father, to his complete surprise fell in love again. With a man. Joey Williams was a local Tennessean but he was also Chinese American, nevertheless Cody’s Southern parents and sibling welcomed this new addition to the family. and he soon became Chip’s second dad.…
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LEE DANIEL'S THE BUTLER
The epic domestic drama of how Cecil Gaines a young negro slave from a Southern cotton plantation evolved into a Butler to a string of US Presidents in The White House also serves as a backdrop for the birth and survival of the Civil Rights Movement through the last century. It’s a powerful tale that doesn’t…
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OLD CATS
Isadora and Enrique are an elderly couple living in a large comfortable apartment in Santiago with their two old cats. The bane in their life is their highly strung daughter Rosario and her butch girlfriend Beatrice (who insists on being called Hugo) who want them to bankroll their latest hare-brained money-making scheme. However Isadora who has…
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FRUITVALE STATION
In the opening sequences using grainy footage from onlookers cellphones we see how this story is going to end. Not long after 2009 has just been welcomed in by this happy boisterous New Year crowd travelling on the BART train in Oakland, California when Oscar Grant, a 22 year old African-American is shot in the…
