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3) Liberty kid
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Liberty kid captures with compassion and street-smart humor the spirit and pain of America transformed by 9-11. Two young friends struggle to survive after losing their jobs at the Statue of Liberty tourist site due to 9/11. Director Ulya Chaiken "makes us feel for her characters" (NY Post), and evokes simple and memorable human truths about life on society's margins.
4) Taxi blues
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Russian
Description
In a world filled with hustlers and black marketers, Shlykov, a hard-working, anti-semitic taxi driver, is pushed over the edge when Lyosha, a Jewish saxophonist who personifies everything he despises, stiffs him for a fare. Shlykov tracks the irresponsible musician down and the two form a bizarre love-hate relationship. At first, class and race division make friendship for these two nearly impossible, until they both learn they aren't so different...
5) The Goonies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A group of misfit children set out to find a missing treasure with the map they found in an attic.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Best friends forever is a post-apocalyptic Thelma and Louise, where the bond of two badass girlfriends can survive anything, even the end of the world. Harriet (writer/director Brea Grant) is a perpetually perky comic-book artist who has hit a dead-end in Los Angeles. She drags her party-girl BFF Reba (co-writer Vera Miao) along for a road trip to Austin, Texas. Just as they pull out of town, a series of atomic bombs explode across the U.S., and the...
12) Shrek the halls
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
Shrek, determined to make the first Christmas with his babies the best ever, must learn to compromise when Fiona and his friends have other ideas about how to celebrate this magical holiday.
13) Scent of a woman
Publisher
Universal Home Video, Inc
Language
English
Description
A bitter blind man and his caretaker for the Thanksgiving weekend have a short, wild fling in New York.
14) Turning red
Language
Old English
Description
"A 13-year-old girl named Meilin turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited"--www.imdb.com.
15) Mister Johnson
Publisher
Direct Source Special Productions Inc
Language
English
Description
In 1923, a local resident of British Colonial Nigeria tries to be equal with the colonial administration.
17) Trigger man
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
The Horrific Story inspired by true events ... Ti West's Trigger man leads the charge in a new wave of stripped-down, scary movies fueled by seat-of-the-pants filmmaking ingenuity. Reggie, Sean, and Ray leave Manhattan for a day trip of deer hunting in Delaware, expecting to drink a few beers in the woods free of the city-life responsibilities that are slowly forcing the childhood friends apart. But with one well-aimed shot, a walk in the sun is transformed...
18) Half Nelson
Publisher
Sony Picture Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
An unlikely friendship develops between a teacher with a drug addiction and one of his students.
20) Wreck-It Ralph
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Video game villain Wreck-It Ralph wants to be a hero, bringing havoc to all the other games in the arcade in his search of redemption.
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