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Amy Renner Amy Renner

Oct. 28, 2012

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The small working-class town of Angels Crest is a tight-knit community resting quietly in one of the vast and stunningly beautiful valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Ethan (Thomas Dekker), one of the town's residents, is a young father but not much more than a kid himself. He has no choice but to look after his three-year-old son Nate, since mom Cindy (Lynn Collins) is an alcoholic. But one snowy day, Ethan's good intentions are thwarted by a moment of thoughtlessness, resulting in tragedy. A local prosecutor (Jeremy Piven) haunted by his past goes after Ethan, and the ensuing confusion and casting of blame begins to tear the town apart.

R Drama 1 hr, 32 mins

  • 4

64%

36%
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A writer of teen literature returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart. When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either.

R Drama Comedy

  • 3.8

76%

24%

The year is 1998, and Manhattan is abuzz with anticipation about the upcoming auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. But the auction is far more than a diversion for Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), a transplanted Southerner trapped in an unhappy and abusive marriage. Transfixed by the exquisite artifacts of the Windsors' lives, Wally becomes obsessed with the love story of Wallis Simspon (Andrea Riseborough), the chic, charismatic American who captured the heart of King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy). As she learns more about the sacrifices Wallis made in choosing to be with Edward, Wally finds the courage to follow her own heart and create her own happiness.

R Drama Biography

  • 4.5

43%

57%

Lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they don’t always see.

R Drama

  • 3

80%

20%
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A haunting erotic fairy tale about a student who drifts into prostitution and finds her niche as a woman who sleeps, drugged, in a ‘Sleeping Beauty chamber’ while men do to her what she can‘t remember the next morning.

Drama Thriller

  • 3.6

72%

28%

A single dad decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, the family works to return the dilapidated zoo to its former wonder and glory.

PG Drama Comedy

  • 4.5

88%

12%
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Tells the story of three friends, Tes, Dawn and Kara who work for an enigmatic, reclusive crime boss, Mel. When Mel sends the girls to intercept a drug deal at a desolate diner, the girls think nothing of it...until a sociopathic killer, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook appear and thrust the situation into chaos. A standoff ensues as the mystery of what brought them together slowly starts to unravel - and it quickly becomes apparent that things are not as they seem.

R Drama Thriller

  • 2.9

79%

21%

Michael Fassbender will play Brandon, a 30-something man living in New York, who is unable to manage his sex life.

NC-17 Drama Comedy

  • 4

81%

19%

An intense character drama about four men who look within themselves and find emptiness.

R Drama

  • 1

64%

36%

In shock and denial over his Marine father's death in combat, high school lacrosse star Conor Sullivan (Kellan Lutz) starts acting out in self destructive ways until he's kicked off the team and sent to a wilderness lacrosse camp run by his dad's combat buddy (Adam Beach). Strengthened by the support and understanding of his new found love (Ashley Greene) and though a deep understanding of the game and its Native American roots, he opens his eyes to the true meaning of sportsmanship, love and life.

PG Drama Action 1 hr, 26 mins

  • 2.7

81%

19%

A love story about a man and a woman meeting on the brink of the Bosnian war in 1992.

R Drama Romance 2 hrs, 7 mins

  • 3.6

69%

31%
Limited Netflix DVD VOD / Digital

Buzzy and Katie are a newly married couple when Buzzy's impulsive half-sister Linda arrives at their doorstep expecting to stay for an indefinite period in their Tribeca loft.

Drama

  • 2

36%

64%

A junior reporter follow stories to the ends of the earth, even though he often finds his own life in jeopardy. His able assistants include a white dog named Snowy, the lunatic Captain Haddock, the muddled genius Professor Calculus and the Thompson Twins.

PG Drama Action

  • 3.8

85%

15%
Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles

An absentee father returns home to a small town in East Texas and discovers a household of crystal meth addicts.

Drama

  • 3.7

72%

28%

A journalist-investigator and a precocious computer hacker become embroiled in life-threatening mysteries as they attempt to expose institutions that pull the strings behind the scenes.

R Drama Crime

  • 4.3

79%

21%

Set in a luxury hotel in Dublin, "Albert Nobbs" is a Gosford Park-style “below stairs” drama featuring Glenn Close as a woman in Nineteenth Century Ireland who disguises herself as a man in order to survive.

R Drama

  • 4.4

90%

10%

The movie, based on Lionel Shriver's novel, tells the story of a smart, educated New York mother who does her best to raise a son she never wanted in the first place. He turns out to be extremely difficult and is at the center of the woman's marital breakdown before going on a killing spree at his high school with a crossbow.

R Drama

  • 3.5

72%

28%

Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets--British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter--before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse--an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure.

PG-13 Drama Adventure

  • 4.3

63%

37%
Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Set in Contemporary Iran, Nader And Simin, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin goes back to her parents’, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader…

PG-13 Drama 2 hrs, 3 mins

  • 4

54%

46%

Two sets of parents meet after their sons are involved in a schoolyard fight. The meeting goes disastrously wrong when each pair attacks the other’s parenting skills before turning on each other about problems in their own marriages.

R Drama

  • 3.7

62%

38%

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