dramatized reallife
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THE KING OF DEVIL'S ISLAND
My, those Norwegians can be a dour and scary lot! This movie based on a true story is set in Bastoy a reform school set on a remote island, which is like Alcatraz, but for kids. The place is where ‘maladjusted’ boys aged 11 to 18 are ‘sensible and forcibly turned into useful Christian boys’…
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THE TIME THAT REMAINS
The movie starts with the invasion of Palestine by the Israeli Army in 1948 and what follows is a very highly personalized account by an Arab Israeli of how life has continued there since then. Most of the story is about filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s parents, and tell how his father’s resistance to the occupying forces…
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WE BOUGHT A ZOO
Benjamin Mee a 40 yr. old journalist dealing with the recent death of his wife and struggling to bring up his two young children in the city, decides that his teenage son’s expulsion from school is a wake up call to re-think how they should move forward as a family. He goes house hunting and after…
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THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
There is a scene at the start of this fictionalized account of recent US/Anglo history when President Clinton is visiting newly elected Prime Minister Tony Blair and dismays the PM by claiming that the UK cannot really claim ‘special relationship’ status with the US as that is the preserve of more important & crucial allies. …
