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Snow Falling On Cedars

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Year:1999
Director:Scott Hicks
Written by:David Guterson (Novel), Scott Hicks (Screenplay), Ronald Bass (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea—and race is a factor in the trial. So is reporter, Ishmael.
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Romance and Cigarettes

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Year:2005
Director:John Turturro
Written by:John Turturro (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty, a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula. Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by his urges.
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Swept from the Sea

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Year:1998
Director:Beeban Kidron
Written by:Joseph Conrad (Novel), Tim Willocks (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
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Sylvia

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Year:2003
Director:Christine Jeffs
Written by:John Brownlow (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
*5490

In Good Company

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Year:2004
Director:Paul Weitz
Written by:Paul Weitz (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.
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The Emperor’s Club

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Year:2002
Director:Michael Hoffman
Written by:Ethan Canin (Writer), Neil Tolkin (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
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United 93

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Year:2006
Director:Paul Greengrass
Written by:Paul Greengrass (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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Taking Woodstock

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Year:2009
Director:Ang Lee
Written by:Elliot Tiber (Novel), Tom Monte (Novel), James Schamus (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.
*5486

Man on the Moon

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Year:1999
Director:Miloš Forman
Written by:Scott Alexander (Screenplay), Larry Karaszewski (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
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Nurse Betty

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Year:2000
Director:Neil LaBute
Written by:John C. Richards (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.
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