dramedy
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Other People
Trying to make light of cancer in movies is never easy and attempts at doing so do not usually make for good box office as last year’s Sundance big hit Me, Earl & the Dying Girl sadly found out when it failed to find an audience. This new movie, which is the directorial debut of writer Chris Kelly, and…
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Wedding Doll
Hajit, is a very pretty 24 year girl, who is obsessed with getting married. She doesn’t actually have a boyfriend, but she does have a potential groom in mind in the shape of her boss’s son who is totally unaware of her intentions. Hajit has a mild mental disability and works as a packer at the…
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Restless Love
This rather enchanting Brazilian dramedy is about three smart urban professionals who are not only best friends, but also neighbors in a trendy São Paulo apartment building. As they are also very self-absorbed, it is no-wonder that all three of them are having relationship issues with their partners. Julia (Maria Laura Nogueira) hates confrontations and so has chosen to ignore…
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Eddie The Eagle
Michael Edwards better known as Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards was a charismatic British folk-hero that most Americans will never have heard of. This plasterer from a blue-collar family ignited the U.K. public’s imagination when, in this real shaggy-dog story and without any real experience, in 1988 he finagled his way into the British Olympic Team…
