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Tag: career

  • Major League: Back to the Minors

    At the behest of Roger Dorn — the Minnesota Twins’ silver-tongued new owner — washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club’s hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has an ulterior motive to generate publicity with a grudge match between the big leaguers and their ragtag Triple A affiliate.

  • High Art

    When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to exploit each other for their respective careers while slowly falling in love with each other.

  • Perfect Blue

    Encouraged by her managers, rising pop star Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered.

  • The Discovery of Heaven

    Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.

  • Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

    With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick’s life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick’s brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like “Dr. Strangelove” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.

  • Friday Night Lights

    A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town’s dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members — and, by proxy, the town itself — a sense of self-respect and honor.

  • Kinky Boots

    Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father’s place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

  • Get Rich or Die Tryin’

    A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

  • Two for the Money

    A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

  • Hustle & Flow

    With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.