Jimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan’s son and two other men after he found out that they murdered Jimmy’s parents for their land. Trying to get away from Logan’s vengeance, he goes to ground in the mountains and meets Winston Patrick Culler, an old trapper, who becomes his traveling companion and protector. Jimmy doesn’t understand though why Culler is helping him…
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Kim and her gang embark on a wild cruise from Cocoa Beach, Florida. The weekend ends in a horror trip when the boat crashes on a remote island and they are stalked by a psycho.
Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know nothing of the outside world, except that Glen has read about and seen pictures of a great city in some old comic books. He and Randa set out to find this city.
Parajanov: A Requiem charts the evolution of the controversial director’s artistry, which culminated in the creation of his brilliant, hallucinatory film fantasies of poetry and folk legends. Rare, extensive interviews with the outspoken director, along with film clips, drawings, photographs, and fragments of uncompleted films coalesce to make this a revealing account of an unforgettable artist.
The story focuses on an ambitious young executive, Amanda, who inherits a lovely B&B on a remote island in Maine when her grandmother dies. She arrives with every intent of selling it all off and going back to her busy career, but in going through her grandmother’s belongings, she discovers much about her family’s past which ultimately makes her re-evaluate her life and values. Amanda is faced with making right decisions amidst trying circumstances.
Oscar Nominee Sigourney Weaver and Emmy-winner Edward Herrmann portray an affluent suburban couple whose empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year-old daugther. Adapted by playwright Wendy Wasserstein from John Cheever’s short story, the tension and sadness behind the veneer of upper class life in Shady Hill are at the heart of this insightful drama.
For 30 years, Jane Elliot has committed herself to fighting against racism, prejudice and ignorance through an exercise separating blue-eyed persons from brown-eyed persons. This film witnesses one such experiment with a group of business people who find themselves experiencing discrimination and condemnation due to their eye color. Director Bertram Verhaag captures the emotional power of the experiment and forces the spectators to challenge themselves like the participants.
A macho Cossack immigrant to the U.S. goes West and joins a ring of rustlers. Later his son follows him to states and he too begins stealing cows. Not knowing his father very well, the youth is anxious to prove himself a manly man and a friendly rivalry develops until the father is captured and imprisoned. Meanwhile, his son joins the cavalry and secretly engineers a break out. He succeeds and then feels terrible guilt, for it is his unit that has been assigned to bring his father to justice.