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Frances

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Born in Seattle, Washington, Frances Farmer (Jessica Lange) was a rebel from a young age, winning a high school award by writing an essay called “God Dies” in 1931. Later that decade, she became controversial again when she won an all-expenses-paid trip to the USSR in 1935. Determined to become an actress, Frances was equally […]

Shine

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Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the traumatic early years through adulthood. Telling the story in flashback we see David as a child prodigy (Alex Rafalowicz) and as he grows up (Noah Taylor) while his patriarchal father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his […]

Philomena

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When former journalist Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) is dismissed from the Labour Party in disgrace, he is at a loss as to what do. That changes when a young Irish woman approaches him about a story of her mother, Philomena Lee (Judy Dench), who had her son taken away when she was a teenage inmate […]

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Revered filmmaker Martin Scorsese directs the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio). From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late 80s. Excess success and affluence in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton […]