Jack McGee
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Robert is in love with his roommate Jenny, but lacks the courage to reveal his feelings to her. With a lame job and not enough income, he has no choice but to move back in with his parents on the east coast. Right when he's about to give up on love and his dream to become an artist, Robert meets Sarah, who over the course of his last day in the city, opens his mind to the world.
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Maya is an undocumented worker who has crossed the U.S. border from Mexico to search for her sister Rosa, and to begin a new life. After being reunited, Rosa gets Maya a job with a janitorial service in a large office building. While working, Maya happens upon Sam Shapiro, a muckraking lawyer and union agitator whom the service-workers' union has assigned to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Appalled at the work conditions...
3) Silver skies
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Chronicles a group of older working-class residents whose lives turn upside down when their apartment complex threatens to be sold out from under them. Director Rosemary Rodriguez has assembled a high-profile cast to play some very complicated roles. With humor and compassion, she brings these old-timers to a place of fear, a little romance and deep caring for each other's wellbeing. The story is easily relatable, as the aging population confronts...
4) Last call
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A real estate developer returns to his old Philly neighborhood and must decide to raze or resurrect the family bar.
5) 21
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack card counting. Intrigued by the desire to make money,...
6) Moneyball
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The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
10) Star Kid
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An unpopular boy comes across a fallen meteor containing an alien cybersuit that turns him into the kind of kid he's always wanted to be.
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Gun volume 1
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An overprotective airport security guard named Walter (James Gandolfini) picks up the night shift to earn more money for his family. He decides to give his bored and restless housewife, Lily (Rosanna Arquette), a gun for her safety, unaware that this gun can be used as evidence against a terrorist. Meanwhile, Lily begins a lustful affair with a struggling writer who uses her as his muse.