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Cold Comfort Farm
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| When Flora loses her parents and her financial security, the only place she can think to go is to live with her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. The farm is filled with oddball and eccentric characters, but Flora is unfazed. She transforms them, and the dilapidated farmhouse, into elegant sophisticates. Kate Beckinsdale stars as Flora in this funny English film. |
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Eve's Bayou
Rated R
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| This directorial debut by Kasi Lemmons, tells the story of an African American family living on an old slave-owning plantation in rural Louisiana. It's told through the eyes of a clairvoyant, ten-year-old girl named Eve. Lemmons draws you into Eve's world as you experience with her the trials and tribulations of her life and her family. |
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Directed by Kasi Lemmons
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Rated PG
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| Based on the autobiography of Maya Agelou, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the story of a girl growing up in a racist Arkansas in the Depression. Maya is shuttled back and forth between her grandmother's and mother's house. Then, something terrible happens to Maya and causes her to retreat into silence. As valedictorian of her graduating class, she finally shares her deepest thoughts and feelings in her address to the school. |
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The Monkey Kid
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| This is another directorial debut, this time by Chinese Xiao-Yen Wang. Xiao-Yen tells the story of her own childhood in China during the Cultural Revolution in 1970. The girl heroine is named Shi-wei, and she is gutsy and daring and lucky enough to have a mother who encourages her to make the most out of her life. |
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Directed by Xiao-Yen Wang
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The Spitfire Grill
Rated PG-13
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| When Percy Talbot arrives by bus one day in tiny Gilead, Maine, the townspeople camore movies...her. Percy's job as a waitress at the Spitfire-owner Hannah won't put up with any of their nonsense. Hannah's trust in Percy deepens as she relies on her more and more. Percy is thoughtful and gentle, and she has been through a lot in life and definitely deserves a break, but the question is, can the townspeople see beyond who they think she is? |
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