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Frank Darbo is a social loner who can’t understand why his beautiful wife is pulling away from him. When his drug addicted wife becomes involved with a sketchy con artist Frank is determined to protect the one good thing in his life no matter what the cost. Frank goes beyond his everyday dull life. taking [...]

Life is predictable for the Flaherty family. Mike Flaherty works at a thankless job as a lawyer and volunteers as a coach of a high school wrestling team that never wins. One of Mike’s client requires care due to his ongoing dementia and Mike sets him up in a board and care facility. Mike finds [...]

John is a divorced guy who spends too much time hanging with his ex-wife and her fiance, he hasn’t moved on from his divorce and is too withdrawn and depressed to get out and meet someone new. John’s ex insists he go to a party with them, where John meets a woman who appears to [...]

Mark Furness watches as his life falls apart around him. Mark’s marriage to his wife Stevie is ending, his depression from the separation is affecting his architect job, and he finds it difficult to function from day to day. Mark faces immense challenges as he discovers he has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette’s Syndrome. When [...]

Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) are a couple in love waiting on the birth of their first child. When their plans to move close to Burt’s parents changes, the young couple start a country wide journey to visit friends and family in order to decide where they will live and raise their child. [...]

Venus is a black comedy of ribald humor and uncomfortable relationships. Venus follows the life of Maurice, a famous elderly actor, who spends his retirement years supporting his sickly elderly friend Ian, visiting his disabled ex-wife and hanging out with friends at local eateries. Maurice’s life changes when his friend Ian hires Jessie, a young [...]

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 [...]

I was looking forward to The Invention Of Lying, greatly enjoying Ricky Gervais as both performer and writer. The movie lived up to my hopes with quirky characters, laugh out loud funny moments and scathing social commentary. This is a thinking person’s comedy, as is the case with most Gervais ventures. Who else but Gervais [...]

Cold Souls will at first remind movie goers a bit of Being John Malkovich in that this is an abstract idea for a film, but this movie lacks the brilliant screenplay of Being John Malkovich. Paul Giamatti plays himself (or his version of himself), cast in the title role of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”. Actor Giamatti [...]