2nd Serve
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| 419| Three American friends journey to Cape Town, South Africa in an attempt to recover money one of them lost in an email scam. Things don't go according to plan. |
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Any Day Now| They made him a promise. He made them a family. |
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Arcadia| Greta’s dad is moving the family cross-country, promising a California paradise
and packing half the household into a dented station wagon. All that’s missing is
Mom. |
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| Archaeology of a Woman| A mother's dementia reignites a past of crime and lust forcing her daughter to make difficult decisions. |
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Art Machine| For child prodigy art star Declan Truss, success in an adult world came naturally, but growing up is another story. |
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| Between Us| Two couples reunite and discover their lives are tainted by money, success, sex and children. |
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Dead Dad| The perfect goodbye doesn't exist. |
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Exit Elena
| A darkly comedic home movie about a live-in aide and a family in crisis. |
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| Faces in the Mirror| A film by Boyd Tinsley that is scored to music. It's a film that dances with the music and takes you on an emotional roller-coaster ride that never lets you go. |
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First Winter| A blackout of apocalyptic proportions strands a group of Brooklynites in a remote country farmhouse during the coldest winter in memory, forcing them to confront their mortality. |
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| Francine| Note: Please purchase tickets for the October 10th screening at the Downing Film Center at Downingfilmcenter.com
Academy Award® winner Melissa Leo gives a fierce and restrained performance as Francine. |
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Gayby| Gayby is an irreverent comedy about friendship, growing older, sex, loneliness, and the family you chose. |
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| I Am Not a Hipster| I Am Not A Hipster is a journey exploring themes of love, loss, and what it means to be creative in the face of tragedy. |
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In Our Nature| A scheduling mistake leads to an estranged father and son sharing a vacation home with their respective girlfriends. |
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Mariachi Gringo| A stifled, small-town man stuck in a dead end life, runs away to Mexico to try his hand as a mariachi singer. |
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| Nor'easter| A young priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world. |
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Putzel| Sometimes you have to leave home to find yourself and to find true love. |
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| Quartet| Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut...three retired opera singers stage a concert celebrating Verdi's birthday, but tensions arise when their diva refuses to sing. |
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Refuge| A young woman, who has been taking care of her two younger siblings after having been abandoned by their parents, begins to fall in love with a man she met casually in a bar but struggles with issues of abandonment. |
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| Rhymes with Banana| A satirical comedy about two struggling actresses who escape into a fantasy world to cope with rejection and hone their craft. Convinced their mysterious new neighbor is a talent agent, they take him hostage and demand acting careers as ransom. |
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Sessions, The| The Sessions tells the true story of Mark O'Brien, a man confined to an iron lung who is determined - at age 38 - to lose his virginity. |
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| Sparrows Dance| An agoraphobic former actress finds herself falling in love with the saxophone-playing plumber who fixes her broken toilet. |
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Starlet| An unlikely friendship forms between 21 year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale. |
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| Strutter| An aspiring L.A. rocker loses both his band and his girl, but gains the friendship of his own local rock hero in this sweet and humanistic comedy. |
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| Vamps| Two female vampires in modern-day New York City are faced with daunting romantic possibilities. |
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