Comedy Drama Movies of 2001
Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this intelligent murder mystery set in the early '30s. Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) ...
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Director Wes Anderson and his longtime friend and writing partner Owen Wilson follow up Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) with this similarly offbeat comedy about a dysfunctional ...
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Oliver Stone served as executive producer for this made-for-cable drama that looks back at the events of March 30, 1981, when John Hinckley, Jr. attempted to assassinate then-president Ronald Reagan. Richard Crenna ...
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A spoiled city kid learns the importance of family when his ailing grandfather arrives in Minneapolis for medical treatment in director Leszek Burzynski's affecting and affectionate comedy. Young Charles ...
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Originally filmed in 2001 under the title "My Beautiful Son," the made-for-cable Strange Relations stars comedian Paul Reiser in the largely noncomic role of 39-year-old Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Jerry Lipman. Diagnosed with leukemia, ...
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In this darkly comic film noir from writer/director David Atkins, Steve Martin revisits dentistry -- an occupation he'd explored ...
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Set amidst the controversy of the handover of the Panama Canal from America to Panama in late 1999, this espionage thriller follows seductive British spy Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan), who has found himself ...
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Set in a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Joel Coen and ...
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Australian director Gregor Jordan makes his sophomore effort with this tale about crooked U.S. soldiers based in Germany ...
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A man who's been confronted with new responsibilities must decide what to do with his career ...
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Two singles in their early fifties who are convinced love has passed them by find each other -- and then try to figure out what to do next -- in this romantic comedy. Grace Minor (Jill ...
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Peter Bogdanovich turns his sights on the 1920s for a fictitious look at the possible reasons for the death of silent movie producer Thomas Ince (played here by Cary Elwes) after spending a ...
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This offbeat made-for-cable comedy/drama concerns Walter and Henry, a father-and-son team of street entertainers who ...
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Stockard Channing stars in this made-for-cable comedy-drama as Dr. Beth Noonan, a female psychiatrist trying to hold her life together as she guides four of her patients through personal turmoil. Lauren Travis (Elle ...
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A first feature from acclaimed actress Christine Lahti (who won an ...
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Video director Michel Gondry and scriptwriter Charles Kaufman -- who shot to fame after penning Being John Malkovich -- collaborate on this bizarre fable about human ...
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A group of bohemian intellectuals struggle to have an intelligent discussion of ...
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Television actor-turned-director Brian Robbins follows up ...
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In this made-for-cable comedy-drama, a ten-year-old boy (Rory Culkin), who is still coming to terms with the death of his ...
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Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed, and starred in this serio-comic look at the trials ...
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Beauty meets the Beast, and neither is sure just what to make of the other, in a modern-dress comic variation on the ancient folk tale, written and directed by the eternally offbeat Hal ...
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Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, who enjoyed breakthrough success ...
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This holiday-themed children's film offers a unique take on the legend of Santa Claus and his tiny ...
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Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a bright and charming high-school student who also has a ...
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Penny Marshall directed this serio-comic story, based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, about a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly (Drew ...
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Wildly popular TV talk show host Bobby Bishop (Vincent Gallo) has a nervous breakdown during an on-camera interview with a pop starlet, with whom he makes a rather crude observation and offer. This lapse of taste sets off ...
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A man looking for love gets more than he bargained ...
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Dogma 95-inspired first feature for acclaimed performers Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming, the two star as Joe and ...
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Herman Melville's short story Bartleby the Scrivener gets a ...
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Based on the play Dearly Departed by David Dean Bottrell and Jessie Jones (who also penned this screenplay), this new ...
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Armistead Maupin's colorful saga of life in San Francisco in ...
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Based on a novel by Bruce Craven, this road picture follows a dope fiend named Rick (Jake Busey), who ...
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The second British TV miniseries based on the ...
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Comic Chris Rock co-scripted and stars in this remake of 1941's Here Comes Mr. Jordan, which was also remade with Warren Beatty in 1978 as Heaven Can Wait. Comedian Lance Barton (Rock) is struggling to get his career off the ground ...
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Director and screenwriter James Toback used his own experiences ...
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Nicole Holofcener, writer/director of the critically acclaimed Walking and Talking, shifts her focus from New York to Los Angeles for her second feature, Lovely ...
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This blend of sports and youthful romantic comedy is from director Michael Tollin, who previously produced the sports drama Varsity Blues (1999). Freddie ...
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Mexican-born, New York-based filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón directed this Mexican box-office smash hit about a pair of randy upper-class buddies that ...
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The first season of HBO's critically acclaimed series Six Feet Under starts out with a bang; or, perhaps more appropriately, a crash, as the patriarch of the Fisher family (Richard ...
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A fanciful retelling of the story of Napoleon Bonaparte (played by heralded actor Ian Holm, this British costume comedy suggests that it was ...
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A teenager hits the road for a crash course in the ways of the world in this amiable comedy-drama. Daniel (Tomas Fonzi) is a 17-year-old orphan growing up in a sleepy village in rural Argentina. Daniel ...
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Experience the origins of playwright/actor Tyler Perry's number-one box-office smash in this filmed performance of the original stage hit. Featuring ...
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Adapted from the hit off-Broadway musical of the same name is this tale of an "internationally ignored" rock & roll singer who hails from Communist Berlin and who dreams of becoming an American sensation. Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell), born a ...
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A woman edging into middle age finally finds the love ...
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A few good men are sent on a secret mission as a few good women in this comic tale of wartime espionage, loosely based upon a true story. Steven O'Rourke (Matt LeBlanc) is an American intelligence agent who, ...
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A man with little passion for either his job or his wife gets a wake-up call in this independently produced romantic comedy. Frank Whaley plays Alan, an L.A.-based advertising executive ...
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A man faces death and finds love at the same time and place in this emotional comedy-drama. Taylor Darcy ...
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Two people with little in common enter into a ...
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Three strangers find their lives reflected by proverbs they find in fortune cookies at the same Chinese restaurant in this episodic comedy-drama. Chuck (Pierre Brault) is a ...
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A remake of Ang Lee's family comedy Eat Drink Man Woman, Maria Ripoli's Hispanic-American ensemble feature set in Southern California about a veteran ...
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The romance, intrigue, and industry politics of the world's biggest film festival -- which is also the world's biggest film ...
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A woman searching for the perfect man instead discovers the perfect woman in this romantic comedy. Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) is a woman with a ...
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Can a thirtysomething gal from the city find happiness with a goat farm and its aging overseer? Sandrine (Mathilde ...
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As a number of luminaries on the international fashion scene converge for a major show, their personal and professional crises come to a ...
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Four successful men find themselves easing into long-term relationships, but they're not all that comfortable about it, in this intelligent comedy-drama. Terry (Shemar Moore), Jackson (Morris Chestnut), ...
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What can help one woman overcome the fears, anxieties, and traumas of a lifetime? Perhaps the music of Stevie Nicks? Gypsy (Sara Rue) is a ...
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A family wedding brings out the best and the worst in the various parties involved in this warm but pointed comedy-drama. Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darin) makes his ...
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A man thinks he's found the woman of his dreams until he discovers someone else already had the same idea in this romantic comedy-drama with a primarily Hispanic cast. Mike (Jaime P. Gomez) is employed at a psychiatric ...
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From the controversial director of Happiness comes another dark look at New Jersey, this time broken into two separate stories. The first is a 26-minute segment entitled "Fiction," which ...
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An actor long thought to be dead re-emerges under another identity, just as a filmmaker prepares to start shooting his life story. Scott Bakula, Kathryn Morris, and director Anthony Alda -- Alan Alda's brother -- star. ~ Michael Hastings, All ...
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A woman in need of a miracle finds one in an unexpected manner in this inspirational comedy-drama. Amanda (Julie Condra) works as a ...
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Parenthood stirs up a wealth of mixed emotions in this drama from Italy. Carlo (Stefano Accorsi) and Giulia ...
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This second feature from Boyfriends' directors Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger explores intertwined relationships in a sleepy seaside resort in the U.K., broken up into three segments. The film centers around the funeral of Stuart ...
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British filmmaker Danny Boyle offers a darkly comic glimpse of life in Britain in this short feature (shot on digital video equipment) produced for the BBC. Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise concerns Tommy Rag ...
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In this satirical comedy drama from France, white-collar workaholic Paul (Vincent ...
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It's not uncommon to invite your friends to help you paint your house or move your home, but one twenty-something ...
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Professional football player-turned-actor Rick Johnson makes his directorial debut ...
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A woman finds love when all she wanted was a quick and painless death in this dark ...
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A romantic comedy from acclaimed French director Jacques Rivette (La Belle Noiseuse), this film centers on three men and three women ...
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Danish theater director Hella Joof segues into feature directing with her 2002 debut Shake It All About. Madly in love, Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen) and Jorgen (Troels Lyby) hope to make it official and wed ...
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A twenty-something student finds himself caught between contemporary American culture and the long-standing traditions of his family in this independent drama. Sureel (Aalok Mehta) is a college student in his last year of studies, and things ...
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The Dogma 95 movement has seen some searing looks into the ...
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A lovelorn matchmaker tries to set up two people about to be married -- but not to each other -- in this independent romantic comedy. George (Tunde Adebimpe) is a Nigerian expatriate ...
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It's hard to be hip and a mother at the same time, as one ...
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A man in his early twenties starts thinking about his future and where the woman he loves will figure into it in this romantic comedy-drama from Brazil. It's a cool and rainy night, and Carlos (Murilo ...
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Ben Mercado (Dante Basco) is an 18-year-old from a Filipino-American family who is soon to graduate from high school and plans to go to art ...
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Tom Zuber makes his film debut with the low-budget ...
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A Latina eager to embrace America finds her tongue is a bit more ...
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Following up on his acclaimed Like Grains of Sand, Ryosuke Hashiguchi spins this ...
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In this offbeat drama, Carlos (Hermes Gaido) is a young man who plays drums in a punk rock band; Carlos ...
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A man stretching the truth for his own sake soon begins doing the same for someone else, with increasingly complicated results, in this gentle comedy from China. Zhao (Zhao Benshan) is a guy in his early fifties ...
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A couple sets out to find the perfect bride for their son, whether their son likes it or not, in this Israeli comedy. Zaza (Lior Louie Ashkenazi) is a ...
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Three small-time gamblers discover their stakes have been raised to a career high in this comedy-drama. Jack (Robbie Magasiva), Wayne (Scott Wills), and Thomas (Paolo ...
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Four young women are on the verge of becoming the new darlings of indie rock, if they don't kill each other first, in this independent comedy drama. Fauna (Zoe Poledouris) has been a minor fixture on the ...
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With her dyed-orange hair and manufactured tan, Naomi (Maho Ukai) is a normal teenager who loves clubbing with her pals as much as she hates ...
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One of the most expensive films ever to come out of Bollywood, Lagaan tells the tale ...
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Actors and egos are lampooned in this witty satire written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Joaquin Oristrell. Isabel (Veronica Forque) is a popular acting teacher ...
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Two women find love while trying to learn the fine art of bank robbery in this ...
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Following up on her controversial erotic drama Kama ...
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Four guys out for the time of their lives undergo ...
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Set in an Italian restaurant in Buenos Aires, Inheritance is the story of the cantankerous Olinda (Rita Cortese), a ...
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A cab driver down on his luck is lured into a life of crime in this dark comedy-drama. Ulises (Alejandro Trejo) is driving his taxi through a bad ...
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A thief discovers that crime runs in the family in this playfully dark comedy from Mexico. Inaki (Daniel Guzman) is a petty thief who makes his way pulling stickups with an elderly partner in crime (Francisco Rabal). ...
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Six people find themselves playing a romantic/sexual game of ...
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A new voice in Bombay's growing new wave, Rahul Bose spins this boisterous tale about love and secrets. Xen (Rehaan Engineer) is a ...
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Following up on his acclaimed debut Absolute Hangover, Petter Naess spins this feel-good drama about a pair of misfits trying to get along with each other ...
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A woman finds having a high profile career and a romance with a famous musician can have both ups and downs in this urban-themed comedy-drama. Mia Moore (Chrystale Wilson) is a young woman who is trying to get her career as an ...
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Written and directed by South American filmmaker Lisandro Duque Naranjo, Los Niños ...
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One of several British series to feature predominantly gay characters, the six-episode seriocomedy Metrosexuality was set in a Notting Hill neighborhood. The emphasis was on ...
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Takashi Miike spins this black comedy about the most dysfunctional family on the planet. The film opens with a father (Kenichi Endo) -- a gung-ho TV reporter -- not only paying to have ...
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An idealistic, thirty-five year old corporate writer struggles with feelings of inadequacy while pondering just how his successful brother is viewed as a ...
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Television director Paul Leaf made his feature debut with this independent comedy about the intertwining sex lives of several adults on vacation. God, Sex & Apple Pie finds a stockbroker, a TV reporter, a model, and their ...
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As Dil Chahta Hai opens, Siddarth, known as Sid (Akshaye Khanna) is racing to the hospital due to an unexplained emergency. There, he is reunited with his old friend, ...
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The debut feature from the filmmaking team of Delvin Molden and Michael Hoffman, this romantic comedy features four intersecting stories all tied together ...
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Writer/director/producer Pamela Corkey makes her feature debut with the romantic comedy Easy ...
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Moving from its Thursday-night slot to a more ratings-friendly Tuesday berth, the WB drama series Gilmore Girls began its second ...
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Can a caterer from Ohio find love in Los Angeles after spending a decade with the same man? Josh (Jason Stuart) ...
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A handful of kids buck the odds to make something of themselves in this comedy drama for the whole family. Mario (Chauncey Leopardi) is a boy in his early teens who has been looking forward to ...
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The almost impossibly optimistic high school student Tohru Honda has recently lost her mother in a car ...
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This 13-episode anime series is about the way that a single event can play a major role in the lives of drastically different people. Case in point: a rich girl, a runaway, and a ...
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This independent comedy is the first feature directorial effort from filmmaker Shaun Peterson. The film follows the ...
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Wataru is crushed when he fails his entrance exams for the high school he had his heart set on. He didn't even apply to any others, so it looks like he's completely out of luck until he finds that he was actually accepted to the ...
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The coming-of-age comedy drama Te Amo: Made in Chile concerns four friends who move into an abandoned house during their summer break from school. Each of them sets about discovering who they are and what ...
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