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The People vs. Larry Flynt

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Year:1996
Director:Miloš Forman
Written by:Scott Alexander (Screenplay), Larry Karaszewski (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
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A Midwinter’s Tale

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Year:1995
Director:Kenneth Branagh
Written by:Kenneth Branagh (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
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Transamerica

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Year:2005
Director:Duncan Tucker
Written by:Duncan Tucker (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Bree is about to get a sex change operation that will finally allow her to actually be what she’s already been in her mind for a long time: a transitioned woman. Yet before this happens she suddenly runs into her son who ends up coming for the trip across the United States.
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J. Edgar

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Year:2011
Director:Clint Eastwood
Written by:Dustin Lance Black (Writer)

Script Synopsis:As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
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Ararat

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Year:2002
Director:Atom Egoyan
Written by:Atom Egoyan (Scenario Writer)

Script Synopsis:A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
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Milk

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Year:2008
Director:Gus Van Sant

Script Synopsis:The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.
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Pieces of April

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Year:2003
Director:Peter Hedges
Written by:Peter Hedges (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.
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Margot at the Wedding

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Year:2007
Director:Noah Baumbach
Written by:Noah Baumbach (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets.
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The Ice Storm

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Year:1997
Director:Ang Lee
Written by:Rick Moody (Writer), James Schamus (Writer)

Script Synopsis:In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
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Stranger Than Fiction

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Year:2006
Director:Marc Forster
Written by:Zach Helm (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
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