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Still Alice Still Alice
Still Alice and Lars And The Real Girl
Amour (Country: France, Germany, Austria; Year: 2012; Director: Michael Haneke; Writer: Michael Haneke; Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert)
An elderly couple deal with the ravages of old age.
Full Review See: National Board of Review Awards Gala red carpet with Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redrgrave, Emmanuelle Riva and more
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Lars And The Real Girl (Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Craig Gillespie; Writer: Nancy Oliver; Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, Patricia Clarkson, Nancy Beatty, RD Reid, Joe Bostick, Liz Gordon, Nicky Guadagni, Doug Lennox, Karen Robinson, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Billy Parrott, Sally Cahill), Official Site
A quiet young man falls in love with a woman who is perfect in every way - except that she's inflatable.
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The List (Year: 2015; Director: Morag McKinno; Stars: Maureen Beattie)
A woman tries to cope with her new life by obsessively making lists, but remembering one item on her list could make the difference between life and death.
Little Miss Sunshine (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris; Writer: Michael Arndt; Stars: Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Marc Turtletaub, Beth Grant, Jill Talley, Brenda Canela)
A dysfunctional family's road trip to a beauty pageant.
Full Review See: 2006 Readers' poll
Mental (Country: US, Australia; Year: 2012; Director: PJ Hogan; Writer: PJ Hogan; Stars: Toni Collette, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber)
A raucous comedy about five sisters who become convinced they st be mentally ill after their mother has a nervous breakdown.
Amour Amour
Amour and Rocks In My Pockets
The Road Within (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Gren Wells; Writer: Gren Wells; Stars: Zoë Kravitz, Dev Patel, Robert Patrick, Robert Sheehan, Kyra Sedgwick, Ali Hillis, Matt Riedy, Cooper Roth, Eric Matheny, Ross Gallo, Louisa Kendrick, Jayce Dempsey)
A Tourette's sufferer goes ona road trip with his doctor and a couple of other troubled youngsters.
Full Review
Rocks In My Pockets (Country: US, Latvia; Year: 2014; Director: Signe Baumane; Writer: Signe Baumane; Stars: Signe Baumane)
An animated film exploring living with illness.
Full Review
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, Bom Yeoreum Gaeul Gyeoul Geurigo Bom) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2003; Director: Kim Ki-duk; Writer: Kim Ki-duk; Stars: Ki-duk Kim, Yeong-su Oh, Jong-ho Kim, Jae-kyeong Seo, Yeo-jin Ha)
A Buddhist monk patiently raises a boy, but as he grows up, the boy finds himself attracted to the pleasures of the material world.
Silver Linings Playbook (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: David O Russell; Writer: David O Russell, based on the novel by Matthew Quick; Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jackie Weaver, Chris Tucker, John Ortiz, Julia Stiles, Anupam Kher, Brea Bee)
A man trying to reconcile with his wife after a stint in a mental institution finds things get complicated when he meets a mystery girl.
Full Review See: National Board of Review Awards Gala red carpet with Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redrgrave, Emmanuelle Riva and more
Still Alice (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland; Writer: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, based on the novel by Lisa Genova; Stars: Julianne Moore, Kate Bosworth, Shane McRae, Hunter Parrish, Alec Baldwin, Seth Gilliam, Kristen Stewart, Stephen Kunken, Erin Darke, Daniel Gerroll, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Maxine Prescott, Orlagh Cassidy, Rosa Arredondo, Zillah Glory)
A woman and her family struggle to cope after she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Full Review See: Wash Westmoreland in conversation on Still Alice part 2
, Wash Westmoreland in conversation on Still Alice part 1
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