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May. 14, 2023

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The film is based on two different accounts of a true story. It is described as a darkly comic tale of murder and survival, set among a group of diverse characters who choose to leave civilization behind and venture to the Galapagos. Their primary motivation is to find the meaning of life, a pressing question that affects us all.

Thriller

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Covering the Vietnam War for UPI, Kate Webb survives fierce battles and 23 days of captivity in the jungles of Cambodia after she is taken hostage by Communist Forces/Viet Cong in 1971. She is believed to be dead — her obituary even runs in the New York Times — before she is released.

Drama War

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Focused on Onassis's antipathic relationship with Robert Kennedy. As attorney general, Bobby had investigated Aristotle Onassis’s sketchy international business practices and banned him from trading with the U.S. Their rivalry over control of and access to Jackie culminated in Onassis’s alleged financing of the assassination of the presidential hopeful.

Drama Crime

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The "Godfather of the Kremlin," Boris Berezovsky, a former mathematician's first entrepreneurial venture is an automobile reselling business. Roman Abramovich, his young protege, builds a multibillion-dollar empire on oil and aluminum.

Drama True Story

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True story of a rag-tag team of Air Force personnel that pushed the boundaries of science and common sense to travel into outer-space long before the NASA program was created.

Comedy

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Set in 1971 in a staid Illinois small town living through a drought and the Vietnam War, a hippie English teacher reluctantly takes on coaching duties for the Macon Ironmen, a high school baseball team. Bucking conventions, the team, sporting long-hair and warming up to "Jesus Christ Superstar," ends up making the state finals and squares off against an established Chicago team.

Drama Comedy

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Elliot Castro, a working-class teenager in Scotland, figures out how to use the credit card system to his advantage.

Drama Crime

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Dame Daphne Sheldrick, the leading animal conservationist in Kenya, devotes her life to preventing elephant extinction by endeavoring to save baby elephants left orphaned by war, poaching and culling.

Drama

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A man comes from nowhere to best seasoned card players, winning back-to-back World Series of Poker crowns by his mid-20s. He cashes an estimated $30 million in chips over his short career. His self-destructive personality leads him to run through the entire fortune, and he is penniless by the time he dies of a drug overdose in Las Vegas in 1998.

Drama Biography

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