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2010
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"Chad and Eric, both twenty years and best friends in college, are putting on a school play. Eric's the director and Chad's the lead. The part of Chad's mother, however, goes to a gorgeous and mysterious woman named Kira, a woman who's fresh out of a nasty break up and back in college to a find herself.a She quickly finds herself the object of attention of two college friends. As rehearsals progress and hearts are captured, Chad and Eric unwittingly...
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Lady Windermere misinterprets her husband's interest in an older woman, Mrs. Erlynne, causing a rift that could lead to both marital and societal ruin. Lady Windermere's Fan Is an intriguing tale that examines intention versus outcome in a world driven by perception.
Lady Windermere is a young wife who's concerned by her husband's connection to the mysterious, Mrs. Erlynne. She believes the woman is a threat to her marriage and livelihood. Despite...
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To test a person's character, give that person power. Then wait. These screenplays examine the moral depths and horror that extreme income inequality and deprivation would drive people to explore. Horror fills the lives of those forced into a corner by systematic, destructive greed. These are the people who have to decide which child can eat dinner tonight and which child has to wait until breakfast tomorrow. They sell everything they own until there...
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From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster's novels have earned him a reputation as "one of American's most spectacularly inventive writers." Here, published together for the first time, are the screenplays of the three films he made in the 1990s.
Smoke (starring Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, and Stockard Channing) tells the story of a novelist, a cigar store manager, and a black teenager who unexpectedly cross...
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The book consists of a collection of 3 plays. The first play features a gathering of Chinese deities at the court of the Heavenly Emperor on Chinese New Year day. The gods got themselves into a "serious" discussion to try to solve some of the problems that plagued humans on earth. The second play makes a revisitation of the "Red Hill story" and tells a tale involving Merlions and how the "Red Hill boy" comes back in the modern setting. The last play...
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Squire: What's this? Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver? Francis: Gulliver's Travels, my lord. Squire: Ah, the Reverend Swift! Splendid story. Big people and little people. Steward: Very well-known, sir. Francis: My lord, to be frank, it s not only a matter of big and little. There are things about it, sir, words are spoken, certain actions performed that... Squire: Perform it now. For our pleasure. Or Henry here will...
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Immigrants of diverse cultures from around the world, desperate to escape persecution and hard times, are drawn to the golden city of opportunity, New York City, 1907. They arrive only to find a new kind of nightmarish terror awaiting them in the infamous Bowery. The few demeaning and arduous jobs they can find pay a slave's wage. The streets are dirty and dangerous. Their families are starving. The prettiest of the young women are courted by con...
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This story begins in Charleston, South Carolina. Ron and Sarah Boggs have the sorrowful task of finalizing Sarah's mother's estate. While meeting with the attorney, Mr. Lyndsay, they learn her mother has left her an old church in Hopetown, Virginia. Sarah seems troubled by this inheritance and Ron becomes very curious about the real estate prospect. After much encouragement, Ron convinces Sarah to travel to Hopetown. Ron feels there could be a financial...
9) Spray Em' Up
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After leading a successful mission to take out Iraqi warlord Samhal Hussein, Sgt John Williams is hailed as a Hero by the U.S Army. However, when he returns to the South Bronx he finds his neighborhood being oppressed by a neighborhood drug kingpin.With the NYPD scared, and residents feeling powerless, John realizes that he has to declare his own war on terror to save his neighborhood and protect his community.
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Little Abigail Buffington was dangerously ill from eating a whole box of chocolates that her parents had hidden away for Christmas. Her feverish dreams transported her to the fabulous Land of Chocolate. But, her dreams gradually deteriorated, and she descended into a perilous and demonic domain. She was saved by her unassailable, innocence and escaped to enjoy Christmas with her greatly, relieved parents and visiting grandmother.
11) Parade's End
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This was the first time I felt as involved in film as in working in theatre. My immersion in Parade's End from the writing to the finishing touches took up the time I might have given to writing my own play but, perhaps to an unwarranted degree, I think of this Parade's End as mine, such was the illusion of proprietorship over Ford's characters and story.Tom Stoppard, from the IntroductionTom Stoppard's BBC / HBO dramatization of Ford Madox Ford's...
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Captain John Harrison is the leader of the elite squad of soldiers hunting for rogues. The 'rogues' are parasites that are infecting and killing humans. The government says the 'bugs' have almost been eradicated leaving only rogues behind. John's wife is contacted by a stranger with news that the 'tapeworms' are more active now than ever. And...this certain stranger has info about who is responsible for the parasites' outbreak. John locates the stranger...
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Like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras, Susan Sontag has come to filmmaking in the course of a career as a novelist and essayist. In 1968 she accepted a Swedish studio's invitation to write and direct a move in Stockholm. Duet for Cannibals is the result.
Frederic Tuten, in Vogue magazine, wrote: "Duet for Cannibals is a witty, bone-dry serio-comedy that fascinates and disturbs in turn...Dr. Arthur Bauer, attractive in...
14) Lost and Found
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Relationships are malleable. One day, you can be inseparable from a friend while the next, you're a complete stranger. Someone, who you could have never met, can change your life with a few simple words. What does it mean to be, connected to others? To these characters, it means everything.
Jacob, a comic enthusiast and Peter, a self-conscious narcissist make the unlikeliest of friends. They meet Quinton, a nerd with similar interests to Peter at...
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In a rich Nigerian house, Jane, her husband William and her son Jason are in a hostage situation. Jane and Jason hide in a safe room and witness the intruders beat her husband to death. They want to kill Jane and her son too, but all they find and take is a photo of the family.
In reality, Nigeria is no longer a safe place for them. With help from her late husband's foreign friends, she escapes Nigeria with her son. In Australia, life is challenging...
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Sixteen-year-old Nikki Desmond is the product of too many, too much, and too little. Too many boarding schools, too much money, and too little discipline. After being expelled from a fourth prestigious New York boarding school, her mother sends her to Los Angeles to live with her father.In the screenplays for the fabulous first season of this teen sitcom, Nikki adjusts to life on the west coast while her father works towards correcting her surly,...
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Dr. Paul Miller is a brilliant psychotherapist who has developed a new form of therapy which he calls Cinematherapy®. As part of his patient's therapy he prescribes movies for them to watch that address their therapeutic issues. Dr. Miller suggested that Mr. and Mrs. Thorton to watch the movie Under the Influence to better understand their daughters drug use. It was suggested that Phil watch Steel Magnolias after his wife died. And he had Daniel...
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Mirror-me tech: Take new heart, while self-publishing your book will be a technical process, you don't need to be an academic or a HTML programmer. I've done the hard work, so you don't have to. By the time you turn the final page of this manual, you'll be able to say, "I did it. You can too!" In eBook and paperback now, Includes 300 plus color pictures
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