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ABOUT SCHMIDT (15) |
| As ageing retiree Warren Schmidt, Nicholson reins in the Jackisms. He trades the slickback hair for a comb-over and transforms from legendary lothario into fragile old man. It's a magnificent performance. And Schmidt is a magnificent character. We join him clockwatching in an empty office, as the se... |
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AMERICAN SPLENDOR (15) |
| The true and extraordinary story of Harvey Pekar by combining comic book adaptation, biopic, animation and documentary elements. Harvey (Paul Giamatti) relieves the monotony of his mundane job as a filing clerk in a Cleveland hospital by discussing with his fellow employees everything from jazz, roc... |
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HOAX, THE (15) |
| Based on an autobiographical book by Clifford Irving, about the man who wrote a bogus biography of Howard Hughes which launched a bidding war only to be manipulated by the reclusive genius and was entirely fabricated. Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Richard Gere (in top form). Directed by Lasse ... |
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MATADOR (15) |
| A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both for... |
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NINES, THE (15) |
| A complex, three-part Rubik's Cube of a film set in an existential universe where everything does indeed seem out of sync. A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways in a tale of three parts. Starrin... |
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PROOF (12) |
| Based on the Pulitzer Prize Winning play. The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her e... |
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SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS, THE (15) |
| Highly acclaimed adaptation of Jane Smiley’s novel ‘the Age Of Grief’… a married couple who are both dentists live in suburban bliss until an episode changes everything. A wonderful examination of a marriage in trouble that echoes ‘American Beauty’ in it’s darkly humorous approach. Starring Campbell... |
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WEATHERMAN, THE (15) |
| A Chicago Weatherman’s life is in tatters after a divorce, a bunch of problem kids and a successful but ill Father who’s hard to please. A study of life’s pressures and how the adult mind copes and compromises. Starring Nicholas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis. |
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