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Danya Taymor
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7.1When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.
Across the Universe
2007
When a flood of memories force a woman to revisit the defining relationships of her life, she must confront the truth behind the stories she’s long told herself.
Jonah
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NRRural Georgia teens explore feminism and power dynamics through a school study of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," leading them to confront uncomfortable truths about gender relations in their small town.
John Proctor Is the Villain
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NRA live, one-night-only filmed production of Will Arbery's Pulitzer-finalist play. It’s nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They’ve returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, it becomes less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood.
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
2020
5.8Moses and Kitch, two young black men, chat their way through a long, aimless day on a Chicago street corner. Periodically ducking bullets and managing visits from a genial but ominous stranger and an overtly hostile police officer, Moses and Kitch rely on their poetic, funny, at times profane banter to get them through a day that is a hopeless retread of every other day, even as they continue to dream of their deliverance.
Pass Over
2018
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When a flood of memories force a woman to revisit the defining relationships of her life, she must confront the truth behind the stories she’s long told herself.
Jonah
—
NRRural Georgia teens explore feminism and power dynamics through a school study of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," leading them to confront uncomfortable truths about gender relations in their small town.
John Proctor Is the Villain
—
NRA live, one-night-only filmed production of Will Arbery's Pulitzer-finalist play. It’s nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They’ve returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, it becomes less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood.
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
2020
5.8Moses and Kitch, two young black men, chat their way through a long, aimless day on a Chicago street corner. Periodically ducking bullets and managing visits from a genial but ominous stranger and an overtly hostile police officer, Moses and Kitch rely on their poetic, funny, at times profane banter to get them through a day that is a hopeless retread of every other day, even as they continue to dream of their deliverance.
Pass Over
2018
