Glasgow Film Festival 2013

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An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Terence Nance; Writer: Terence Nance; Stars: Terence Nance, Namik Minter, Chanelle Pearson)
A quixotic young man humorously courses live action and various animated landscapes as he tries to understand himself after a mystery girl stands him up.
Bernie (Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Richard Linklater; Writer: Richard Linklater, Skip Hollandsworth; Stars: Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine)
Based on a true story. Jack Black stars in Richard Linklater's playful treatment of the strange story of a Texan funeral director.
Breakfast With Curtis (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Laura Colella; Writer: Laura Colella; Stars: Jonah Parker, Theo Green, David Parker, Aaron Jungels, Yvonne Parker)
A bookseller with a Bohemian lifestyle befriends the teenage son of the neighbours who hate him.
Caroline And Jackie (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Adam Christian Clark; Writer: Adam Christian Clark; Stars: Marguerite Moreau, Bitsie Tulloch, David Giuntoli, Valerie Azlynn, Jason Gray-Stanford, David Fuit, Jonny Weston, Mary Newman, Charlotte Branham-Kamp, Flannery Branham-Kamp, Kathleen Asselin, Tony Alfieri)
When Caroline throws a surprise birthday party for her sister Jackie, what starts as an evening with friends devolves into a night that will change everything, as their bond is tested by the emotional mayhem only sisters can wring.
Compliance (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Craig Zobel; Writer: Craig Zobel; Stars: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger, James McCaffrey, Matt Servitto, Ashlie Atkinson, Nikiya Mathis, Ralph Rodriguez, Stephen Payne, Amelia Fowler, John Merolla, Desmin Borges, Matt Skibiak)
A drama based on the real life case of fast food restaurant employees who abused vulnerable young people on the orders of a stranger on the phone who claimed to be investigating shoplifting.
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John Dies At The End (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Don Coscarelli; Writer: Don Coscarelli, based on the novel by David Wong; Stars: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Doug Jones, Daniel Roebuck, Fabianne Therese, Jonny Weston, Jimmy Wong, Tai Bennett, Allison Weissman, Angus Scrimm, Riley Rose Critchlow, Jerry Droz)
Two friends use a drug that enables them to warp space time in an attempt to save the world.
Now, Forager (Love & Fungi) (Country: US, Poland; Year: 2012; Director: Jason Cortlund, Julia Halperin; Writer: Jason Cortlund; Stars: Jason Cortlund, Tiffany Esteb, Almex Lee, Gabrielle Maisels)
A foraging couple's relationship unravels under differing expectations.
The Paperboy (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Lee Daniels; Writer: Lee Daniels, Peter Dexter, Peter Dexter; Stars: Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Scott Glenn, Nikolette Noel, David Oyelowo, Macy Gray, Ned Bellamy, Beau Brasseaux, Lorrie Chilcoat, Peter Murnik, Katarzyna Wolejnio, Camille Balsamo, Chip Carriere)
A reporter heads back to his Florida hometown to investigate a possible miscarriage of justice.
Starlet (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Sean Baker; Writer: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch; Stars: Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve)
A young misfit befriends a cantankerous woman four times her age.
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