Sundance
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Alive Inside
I cannot remember exactly how social worker Dan Cohen came across his amazing discovery but what we can see from this heart-warming documentary about him putting it in to practice is the undisguised joy from all the people who are reaping from his ‘invention’. Cohen established that elderly hospitalized patients numbed the cruel ravages of…
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LOVE CHLD
In 2010 a young South Korean couple were charged with manslaughter after their malnourished 3-month-old baby starved to death after they had abandoned her to go play online games at a cyber cafe for 12 hour stints. The Judge had been persuaded that their gaming addiction was technically an illness and made them not culpable…
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Kidnapped For Christ
This is a sadly very true tale about how American parents are willingly to shell out some $72000 per year (that’s $10000 more than Harvard’s fees) to have their children forcibly detained by fundamental Christian Evangelists at a ‘camp’ in a remote part of the Dominican Republic to undertake treatment euphemistically called behavior modification. The…
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LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM
In the same manner that movie theaters hand out glasses when you go to see a 3D movie, then you should be giving a box of Kleenex if you are ever fortunate to see this heartbreaking about one exceptionally wonderful and precocious teenager. The fact that Sam’s story is so remarkably moving is not so much…
