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comedy film, family film
A high school history teacher takes a group of students with academic and behavioral issues on a two-week trip recreating the Oregon Trail in attempt to help them graduate. The film follows the students and teachers as they grapple with personality issues and forces of nature.
Komödie, comedy film
Ted Higgins and Tommy Hinchcliffe work for the Speedy Service Window Washing Company. They run into a bookie named Nick Craig, who, after mistaking them for employees of the Speedy Messenger Service, sends them to Mr. Stewart's office to collect $50,000 owed to him.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
Inspired by true events, Loggerheads tells the story of an adoption "triad" — birth mother, child, and adoptive parents — each in three interwoven stories in the days leading up to Mother's Day over the course of three years, and each in one of the three distinctive geographical regions of North Carolina: Appalachian Mountains, Piedmont (a broad, gently hilly plateau) and Atlantic Coastal Plain. In mountainous Asheville, Grace (Bonnie Hunt), an airport car-rental agent living with her mother (Michael Learned), quits her job and embarks on a long-delayed quest: facing the legal barriers that keep her from finding the son she gave up for…
children's film, comedy film, fantasy film
Stella Blackstone (Elliot Page) and her best friend Albert (Michael Kanev) are twelve-year-olds with ambitious intentions of creating an extremely spooky Halloween house. While checking for hints online they open up a web link that opens a doorway through which an annoying ghost (Carlos Alazraqui) leaves his world and enters theirs. They find they must help this ghost resolve his problems or put up with him forever.
drama film
Beatrice May "Beatie" Bow, a young Victorian-era girl, is summoned from the past to contemporary 1986 Sydney by children chanting her name in a game of Beatie Bow. Fourteen-year-old Abigail Kirk, whose mother Kathy was looking at rekindling her relationship with her estranged husband, accidentally follows Beatie back to September 1873, in Sydney-Town in the colony of New South Wales. Beatie's family, including Granny and Dovey, believe Abigail is the promised "Stranger" who will arrive to save "The Gift" for future generations of Bows.
Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, fantasy film
Cassie Nightingale has settled comfortably in Middleton with a successful boutique and is now engaged to Police Chief Russell . But with only two short weeks till Christmas, Jake is desperate to find the perfect gift. With no wedding date set, Jake wants to give Cassie a family for Christmas this year and suggests they get married on Christmas Eve.
Drama, Melodrama, drama film
Alan Miller, a recovering alcoholic, arrives at a Times Square hotel, and is alerted to help Jenny Carey, an actress with an increasing dependence on alcohol. He arrives at her hotel room, and offers for her to join Alcoholics Anonymous, though she turns down his help. He interests her in a cocktail, and the two have dinner together.
Drama, drama film
A man has a film crew documenting the last two days of his life before his planned suicide. During this time, friends, former girlfriends, and his parents try to convince him to stay alive; most of them think he is merely joking or making a plea for attention.
Komödie, dance film
Froggy has a crush on a young girl named Marilyn, who is too preoccupied with her budding career as a dancer to pay Froggy attention. When the gang attends one of Marilyn's recitals, Froggy finds himself insanely jealous of Marilyn's dancing partner Gerald, whom he sees as a rival for Marilyn's affections. A few days later, Froggy holds a dance recital of his own, hoping to impress Marilyn.
children's film
In 1944, a woman had a boyfriend and was going to get engaged. But her father thought he was poor and tried to use a gun. 63 Years later, moving to a spooky, old house in the country, Roxy Hunter, an irrepressible nine-year old, stumbles into a weird world of unsolved mysteries and the unknown.
Drama, drama film, family film
Christmas film, Family Comedy, comedy television program, family film, fantasy film, romantic comedy, speculative fiction film
A single mother whose faith in love died with her former husband learns that Christmas miracles can still happen in director Harvey Frost's warmhearted tale of winter magic. Beth Sawtelle (Crystal Bernard) is a devoted single mother and advertising executive whose current campaign could put her on the fast track to the big time. The holiday season is here, and in order to sell the latest in video game technology, Beth's campaign needs the perfect Santa Claus.
comedy television program, fantasy film
The death of millionaire Oscar Kohlmeyer leaves an inheritance to a talking cat called Leo Kohlmeyer. Leo's inheritance is worth five million dollars while Oscar's nephew (Mr. Rigsby) gets twenty-five thousand dollars on the condition he doesn't contest the will.
fantasy film
A 12-year-old Kansas orphan turns to the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman for help during a difficult time. She imagines that things have not gone well in Oz since the Wizard left and that the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman must travel to Kansas to find Dorothy. On the way, they mistake school children for munchkins and must navigate a New York City train terminal, to arrive in Kansas.
Christmas film
In the rural town of Canaan, Texas, a clash between two classmates – one, a tough farm boy, and the other, a bright bookish black boy – evolves into an unlikely friendship. The boys' families devise a plan to teach them a lesson after they fight, but it is a wounded puppy that eventually brings them together. It is amidst the magic of Christmas that the boys learn about family, hope, and love despite living under the shadow of racism.
Horror comedy, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, slasher film
Regina is a lonely young college student. The rest of the students are leaving for spring break, but Regina has no money and no plans. As she is opening her mail, she notices that she has received a mysterious letter telling her that she has won a free vacation at a seaside bed and breakfast, called the Red Wolf Inn.
comedy film, documentary film, family film
After an overview of people who have a passion for raising poultry, the film focuses on three main characters — Brian Caraker, a musical theater performer from Branson, Missouri; Brian Knox, an engineer of high performance race engines from New Hampshire; and Shari McCollough, a homemaker from Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Komödie, comedy film, musical film
Eddie Harrington and Albert Mansfield are plumbers who receive a call about a leak in the private bathroom of Mr. Van Cleve, a wealthy businessman. The grumpy man, though his costume is ready, does not attend the ball but goes to bed instead.
Komödie, comedy film
Dickie, Dorothy and Spanky's Uncle George is in town. Uncle George manages a show called "Wild Man from Borneo", featuring a tribal-attired man with the mentality of a seven-year-old child. The children's father refuses to let Uncle George visit, so their mother has the kids visit him at the show's location.
children's film, musical film
The film follows the adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesáreo Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the powerful and cruel Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin). The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Big Bad Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and The Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed the Queen of Badness in the English dub and resembling the Wicked Queen from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), who orders them to be executed. Their…
Professor John Gellar (who is the narrator) recalls a celebration of the jungle spirit Deva, held by Rajah Singh in what is supposedly India (even though the area is still ruled by a king). A human boy named Suresh disappears into the forest. His mother Prema wants to search for him, but is told it is too dangerous.
comedy television program
John Scaduto, a troublesome high school senior, makes a deal with his parents that he will not get into any more trouble until he graduates to receive a $10,000 gift from his grandma. However, when his principal Frank Hockenberry is involved in an accident in a prank that he planned, he finds a homeless man named Franklin Fitz to act as the acting principal to keep his parents and every one else none the wiser. While acting as principal, Franklin falls for Celia Shine, a fellow teacher.
Horror, Slasher Horror, Thriller
Biographical picture, Family Drama
The film chronicles the early life and career of 1930s child actress Shirley Temple, from her birth and first dance lessons at The Meglin Dance Studio to her rise to stardom in a series of musical comedies for Fox Film and subsequent transition as a teen actress, and the impact she made on American society during the height of the Great Depression, with her friendship with famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart and Franklin Roosevelt complimenting her during his fireside chats on the radio.