dramedy
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August : Osage County
Violet Weston is one acid-tongue angry old lady who misses nothing that goes on in her family and she insures that none of her nearest and dearest escape her unbridled wrath. Well, her husband Beverley and alcoholic and rather melancholic poet does, but his method is quite extreme as he disappears out of the blue,…
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The Hairdresser aka Die Friseuse
A morbidly obese unemployed hairdresser in Eastern Berlin is sent by Social Services for a job interview in a Hair Salon in a Shopping Mall which she fails to get the job as she is not ‘asthetically pleasing’ ….. the Owners actually words were “what we sell is beauty, and you’re not beautiful, my dear”. Hard…
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A.C.O.D
Carter is a happy well-adjusted young man. He owns a successful restaurant, has a nice apartment and a live-in girlfriend that he loves. Life seemingly couldn’t get better until one day his younger brother announces that he is going to marry the girl he has been dating for just four months, and that is the…
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Bernie
Nearly every time I leave my comfort zone cinematically speaking and go see a movie that I instinctively know that I am not going to like/possibly loath even, I end up wishing I had stayed at home. I saw nothing in the trailer that I thought I would like about this one at all, but much to my…
