dramatized reallife
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DIFRET @ Sundance
Hirut, a 14 year old Ethiopian girl, is walking home through the fields from the village school when she is suddenly surrounded by a group of horsemen who snatch her up and take her off. Tadele their leader intends to marry her, but first he imprisons the frightened young schoolgirl in his hut,, and beats…
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THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Martin Scorsese’s take on a big time financial crook who swindled money out of a legion of small time people to finance his life of excess and debauchery is a piece of faction. Based on the real life of convicted stockbroker Jordan Belfort whose Firm fraudulently sold billions of worthless penny shares, it does however…
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SAVING MR BANKS
Based very loosely on a true story, this is the tale about all the shenanigans behind the making of the multi-Oscar winner smash hit movie ‘Mary Poppins’ in 1964. Walt Disney had been pursuing the book’s author P.L. Travers (Pamela) for the past 20 years to get the film rights and now in a last ditch…
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PHILOMENA
It’s Anthony’s 50th birthday, a fact that Jane discovers when she finds her mother Philomena crying over an old photograph. Anthony is the son that she had out of wedlock as a teenager in Ireland and who was forcibly taken by Nuns and given away for adoption. It’s a tale that she has kept to…
