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The Life of Reilly : the story of the legendary actor Charles Nelson Reilly
The late great Charles Nelson Reilly had a tough start to life: a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a loud-mouth racist mother and he was the only gay kid on the block in the Bronx back in the 1940’s. Who would have guessed then that he would have ended up as Tony Winning Actor, acclaimed Broadway…
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
The question posed in the title of this Taiwanese light hearted Rom. Com. refers to two couples in their 30’s who have reached a crossroads in their relationships. Wei-chung and Feng have been happily married for nine years. They have a six year old son, live in a nice apartment, and he has just…
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The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
It’s 1991 and Charlie a nervous and melancholic teenager is praying to make it through his first year in High School in one piece. He’s a really bright kid but such a loner and when he encounters an eccentric live-wire Patrick, a Senior who has been sent down to re-take his junior year, he gravitates…
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It’s All So Quiet
From the 2013 Berlin Film Festival comes this overwhelmingly sad tale of a closeted gay Dutch farmer whose intensely private and repressed life seems to be heading towards either the point of no-return or a major turning point. Helmer is 55 years old and when he is not attending to the few cattle and sheep…
