After growing up on a racetrack and learning all she can about the details of horse racing, 11-year-old Danny wants to find the perfect racing horse for her uncle, Eddie. When she buys Tom Thumb, a purebred horse, she knows that he’s a champion that can launch her uncle’s racing career. But even as Danny and Eddie profit from Tom Thumb’s races, corrupt horse trainers attempt to ruin their chances by any means necessary.
Tag: 1990s
MR. HEADMISTRESS is the story of Tucker, a small-time con man who has just been released from jail when he is accosted by two thugs who are intent on collecting a bad debt. The henchmen chase Tucker onto a departing train where he literally bumps into Naomi Bascombe, a renowned educator, initiating the con of his life by assuming her identity. Once at the school, Tucker soon realizes that he is onto the scam of his career when he learns that the school is set to receive a half million dollar donation… if the students’ grades improve.
A feature-length documentary on smoking, drinking and drugging in the 20th century. Through interviews with historians and professionals in the drug treatment field interspersed with film clips, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis delves into the history of America’s relationship with mind-altering substances over the past 100 years.
This film tries to solve the classic brain-teaser “How can you get a wolf, a sheep and a cabbage across a river one at a time, without them eating each other.” The rational solution seems fine in theory, but does not work when applied to conflicts in real life.
Canary Season follows Lily, a young woman in 1960s Bulgaria whose life unravels after a brief affair leaves her pregnant and abandoned. Struggling to raise her son alone, she’s further shattered when the authoritarian state sends her to a labor camp and later a psychiatric institution. Years later, her grown son discovers the truth about her suffering, forcing him to confront his own identity and the cost of her silence. The film traces a family marked by love, stigma, and the lasting wounds of political repression.
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Jakub Luukas, who had gone to Africa as a christian missionary shortly after World War II, returns to the small Estonian island where he was born more than 70 years ago. Since it is now being used as a testing-ground for bombs, it is completely deserted. With a horse and three beehives, Jakub lives here in complete isolation, dreaming of translating Vergil’s pastorale “Georgica” into Swahili. His life changes when a young, mute boy comes onto the island: even though they both live in completely different internal worlds.
A young boy goes to spend the summer with his aunts in the South. He finds himself drawn to Jessica, who the other aunts describe as “slow,” and he eventually discovers there’s more to Jessica and his other aunts than meets the eye.
In 1951, scientists removed cancerous cells from American Henrietta Lacks just before she died in the hope that they held the secret of how to conquer cancer. The cells have been growing ever since and there are now billions in laboratories all over the world. This film tells how many believe they hold the key to conquering cancer.