Jorge is a young man whose plans for the future are put on hold when his father has a stroke. For seven years, he diligently nurses his father and works as a janitor while studying part time to get a business degree. When Natalia, his childhood crush, returns from a stint studying abroad, Jorge begins to yearn for something better. He is desperate to find a new and better job, but finds that no one will hire him because he has experience only as a janitor. Antonio, Jorge’s older brother, soon to be released from jail, is an opportunist who has never gotten along with their father. In prison, at a theater workshop, Antonio meets Paula, a beautiful young woman in jail on drug charges. Paula has a problem because she flirted with another inmate’s boyfriend.
Tag: parent child relationship
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Two Weeks
In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother’s house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped — together — for two weeks.
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Relative Strangers
An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.
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Re-cycle
Ting-yin, a young novelist, is struggling to come up with a followup to her best-selling trilogy of romance novels. After drafting her first chapter, she stops and deletes the file from her computer. She then starts seeing strange, unexplainable things and finds that she is experiencing the supernatural events that she described in her novel-to-be.
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Don’t Worry, I’m Fine
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.
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Kenny
From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Kenny tackles every septic challenge that comes his way, culminating in a visit to the International Pumper and Cleaner Expo in Nashville Tennessee – or as Kenny affectionately calls it, “Poo HQ”.
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After This Our Exile
After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.
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The Shaggy Dog
The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man’s best friend shows him the most important job – being a great dad.
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The Omen
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.