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Two men each search in their quiet solitude to begin a new life amidst an unspoken need for encouragement and support. Martin Bonner has just moved to Reno from the East Coast, leaving behind his two adult children and a life he spent more than two decades building. Having recently declared bankruptcy, he's working a new job as a volunteer helping prisoners transition to freedom.

Premiered to critical acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival and based on the celebrated novel by Richard Van Camp, "The Lesser Blessed" is an eye-opening depiction of what it is like to be a vulnerable teenager in today's modern world. Through the eyes of Larry Sole, a First Nation teenager filled with bravado and angst and seeking clarity and belonging, comes the story of three unlikely friends isolated in a small rural town. They discover...

William Sydney Porter in his colorful lifetime became a licensed pharmacist. He would also become a bank teller, a bookkeeper, a clerk, an illustrator, a draftsman in the General Land Office, a newspaperman, an editor, a reporter, a columnist, and a cartoonist. He also learned to break a stubborn bronco, lasso cattle, and shear sheep, and he could rope and ride and shoot a gun. "Will," as his family and neighbors called him, was also a writer. In...

Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? How does one reconcile a commitment to nonviolence when faced with violence? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East,...

A rare look at how a nation of men and women mobilized to convert the U.S. economy into a war machine, emerging as the most powerful country in the world. Volume 1: Changing the Face of America. Volume 2: A World in Flames. Volume 3: The Problems of Peace. G.I. Joe was home. An incredible industrial war machine had been assembled and had emerged victorious. The face of the world had been forever changed, and the face of America also. But the economy...

In an effort to escape her murky past and build a better future, Olive (Milla Jovovich), a European con-artist, and her 10-year-old American-born son, Bobby (Spencer List), find themselves living in Oklahoma in this charming comedy. Olive seeks to give Bobby the things she never had: she enrolls him in school, makes him do homework, and tries her hardest to be a good mother. With the help of old friend Walt (Rory Cochrane), Olive provides for Bobby...

Arrogant Hollywood talent agent Josh Ross (David Moscow) is sent to Guatemala to find Oscar-winning actor Jack Palladin (Ben Gazzara). Having never met, the search is emotionally complicated as the long-time retired star was once married to Josh's late mother. Josh's contempt for the "old" actor mirrors his comedic distaste for the local community whose help he desperately needs to find him. What he hopes will be a quick and lucrative deal turns into...

This film is a smart, rueful, and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in - and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen. Esther Blueburger's quest begins when she escapes from her Bat Mitzvah party and is befriended by Sunni, the effortlessly cool girl who is everything Esther thinks she wants to be. With the help of Sunni, Esther goes away from her ordinary life...

A brilliant biochemistry student who is also a notorious prostitute. A brutally bludgeoned body buried naked in the snow. Thus begins Winter of Frozen Dreams, a sordid love story set against a macabre web of blackmail, lust, and deceit. On a frigid Christmas morning, Barbara Hoffman's (Thora Birch's) distraught young fiancé, Jerry Davies (Brendan Sexton III), led police investigators to a corpse that only hours before he had buried in a snow bank....

A hip, new-age fashion designer, Amer Atrash (Philippe Caland) left Lebanon in pursuit of the America Dream. Living in the fast lane and always just on the brink of success, something unexpected always seems to get in the way. In the weeks before the launch of his cutting-edge clothing brand, and on the brink of major financial success, Amer finds himself in an all-too-familiar predicament when the rug is pulled from under his feet at the eleventh...