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Professor Lawrence ‘Larry’ Gopnik is a serious man, a Jew living in Minnesota, an everyman who lives his life from day to day, never catching a break in life. The story, reminiscent of the Book of Job, follows the professor as everything he touches in life suddenly turns to crap. Larry does the best he [...]

16-year-old Claireece “Precious” Jones is an overweight, illiterate teenager pregnant with her second child. Precious lives in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem, where she faces harassment from other students because she is overweight, makes adjustment as she changes to an alternative school, and lives in a horrific home environment with her abusive mother. [...]

Mark Whitacre appears to be an unassuming, regular type guy who works his way slowly up the ladder of lysine developing company ADM. When the FBI targets Whitacre as a possible spy for undercover work in order to catch the illegal price-fixing activities of the company, Whitacre agrees to inform on them. Having seen the [...]

Up In The Air is a study in job loss, relationships and loneliness. George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a workaholic who compartmentalizes his life by flying on business most of the days of the year. The thirty days he has at his apartment he describes as agony for him until he can go back into [...]