GRACE IS GONE

GRACE IS GONE

The Story:

Stanley Phillips (John Cusack), finds out his wife has been killed in the line of duty serving in Iraq. Barely able to cope with the loss himself, he finds himself unable to break the news to his two daughters, 8-year-old Dawn (Gracie Bednarczyk) and 12-year-old Heidi (Shelan O'Keefe), instead proposing a road trip from Minnesota to Florida, to visit Enchanted Gardens, the girls' favourite theme park.

The farther they drive, the closer they become, yet Stanley knows he must face the inevitable task of changing their lives forever.

Starring:

John Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Alessandro Nivola, Penny Slusher, Shélan O'Keefe, Gracie Bednarczyk.

Directed By:

James C. Strouse

Release:

2007

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ÚLTIMA PARADA 174 (LAST STOP 174)

ÚLTIMA PARADA 174 (Last Stop 174) (Brazilian)

The Story:

Brazil. When Marisa (Chris Vianna) is unable to pay a debt, her baby, Alessandro, is taken away from her by a drug dealer. After cleaning up her act, she becomes determined to find her child.

On the outskirts of Rio, another boy, Sandro, finds his mother stabbed to death in her shop. He runs away, intent on reaching Copacabana, where his mother once promised to take him. Once there, Sandro befriends some street kids who sweep him up into a world of drug use and dealing.

After becoming a hardened survivor of the Candelaria massacre (an attempt by Rio police to clean up the city by murdering street kids as they slept), he eventually finds himself in a juvenile detention home.

It is there that Sandro (Michel Gomes) he meets Marisa's long-lost boy, Alessandro. Marisa meanwhile finds her way to the center, and mistakes Sandro for her own son. Despite her efforts to help him, Sandro cannot escape his hard reality, but Sandro's scars run deeper than Marisa could ever imagine, so deep that he believes his only hope for survival is taking a busload of hostages.

Starring:

Michel Gomes, Gabriela Luiz, Marcello Melo Jr., Chris Vianna.

Directed By:

Bruno Barreto.

Release:

2008

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THE MINISTERS

THE MINISTERS

The Story:
Thirteen years after her father was slain and the only evidence left at the crime scene was a pamphlet for a secret shrouded religious order known as The Ministers, a New York City homicide detective Celeste Santana (Florencia Lozano) sets out to discover the truth behind her father's gruesome death.

When she learns the group has begun to kill again after being dormant for over a decade, she is taken off the case by her chief, Captain Diaz (Wanda De Jesus) and ordered to stay away from the investigation. Unbeknown to her she is romantically involved with a member of "The Ministers," and her personal and professional lives are becoming murderously intertwined.

Starring:
John Leguizamo, Harvey Keitel, Florencia Lozano, Wanda De Jesus, Manny Perez, Luis Antonio Ramos

Directed By:
Franc. Reyes

Release:
2009

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BOOT CAMP

The Story:
Based on true events and follows a group of troubled teens sent to a boot camp facility on the tropical island of Fiji. Trapped on an island with no rules, no walls and no way out, the teens endure unimaginable physical and emotional abuse that leaves them brainwashed, isolated and close to death.

Sophie Bauer (Mila Kunis) is a rebellious young woman, her father has passed away and her mother has remarried, she's none too keen on her step-father (Serge Houde) at all. In fact, you could say that Sophie goes out of her way to make his life difficult, and once he decides that he's had enough of her attitude, she's shipped off to a correctional facility in Fiji.

Dubbed the ASAP - Advanced Serenity Achievement Program - this social rehabilitation curriculum for troubled teens is lead by Norman Hail (Peter Stormare), a supposed doctor with some rather serious stability issues of his own.

Things seem off from the moment Sophia arrives on the island to start her rehabilitation. While it's all well and good for the kids to undergo therapy and even some tough love scenarios, the program is run more like a prison camp than an actual psychiatric program.

They take away all of the kids' jewelry, and chain them to massive cement blocks on the beach where they leave them overnight to 'teach them how to be strong and follow the rules.' As Sophia and the other kids, lead by a her boyfriend Ben (Gregory Smith), who has snuck into the camp posing as a drug addict, resist and revolt Hail's tactics become increasingly more brazen and bizarre to the point where the kids are basically subjected to torture.

Sophia and Ben try to escape on their own but they're recaptured and Hail and his right hand man/thug Logan (Tygh Runyan) turn up the heat to teach them a lesson, and all the while some of the kids he's in charge of are turning up dead.

Starring:
Mila Kunis, Peter Stormare, Gregory Smith, Regine Nehy, Alejandro Rae, Tygh Runyan.

Directed By:
Christian Duguay

Release:
2007

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GODKILLER

The Story:
Set in a dark future after economic collapse and a nuclear holy war with Earth being colonized by alien races. Tommy (Justin Pierre) and his kid sister Lucy live in an orphanage in one of the few remaining city-states, but Lucy is critically ill and desperately in need of a new heart. Tommy's odyssey to find a new heart for his sister begins when he follows an organ-stealing prostitute named Halfpipe (Danielle Harris) out of the city-state and into the savage borderland known as Outer City. Godkiller mixes unforgiving brutality, quantum physics, conspiracy theory, and secret history for an iconoclastic hero's journey like none before it.

Starring Voices:
Danielle Harris, Lance Henriksen, Justin Pierre, Tiffany Shepis, Bill Moseley, Nicki Clyne, Katie Nisa, Lydia Lunch, Davey Havok

Directed By:
Matt Pizzolo

Release:
2009

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HOW TO SEDUCE DIFFICULT WOMEN

The Story:
A Frenchman Phillipe (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing), realizes that American men are afraid of women and that American women are not very tolerant of American men. He writes a book on the subject titled ''How to Seduce Difficult Women'' and subsequently teaches a course on seduction to 10 American men.

Through Philippes seduction course and How-To-manual, he drops the skills to help this eclectic group of guys to find out how to capture the womanor rather mateof their dreams. However throughout this school, we get to see if the master womanizer himself has the ability to keep his game tight or if he is the one that really needs schooling. Along the way we also get a taste of real-life NYC street interviews on romance, sex and seduction to see how it all stacks up in real life.

Starring:
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Stephanie Szostak, Jackie Hoffman, Adam LeFevre, Gregg Bello, Brian Avers, Paul Lazar, Bill Dawes, Aileen Quinn, Jeff Skowron, David Lee Russek, Rachel Roberts, Esau Pritchett, David Wilson Barnes, Natascia Diaz, Jonathan Hova

Directed By:
Richard Temtchine

Release:
2009

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CONFUCIUS

CONFUCIUS

The Story:
The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher Confucius, the legendary thinker born in 551 BC, whose teachings would influence Asian society for thousands of years.

Confucius' (Chow Yun-Fat) transformation from an ordinary book-keeper to a philosopher and a sage. It follows his long journey around small kingdoms in northern China preaching his beliefs, and his 72 disciples.

Starring:
Chow Yun-Fat, Xun Zhou, Yi Lu, Lu Yao

Directed By:
Mei Hu

Release:
2010

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