Synopsis: Management candidate Nick Hendricks (Jason Bateman) has been logging 12-hour days and eating everything his twisted supervisor Dave Harken (Kevin Spacey) dishes out, toward the promise of a well-earned promotion. But now he knows that’s never going to happen. Meanwhile, dental assistant Dale Arbus (Charlie Day) has been struggling to maintain his self-respect against the […]
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Project Nim
Synopsis: James Marsh follows up on his award-winning Man on Wire with this mesmerizing and disturbing look at a scientific experiment gone awry. Could an animal be taught to communicate with humans using sign language? In the 1970s, a chimp named Nim was taken from his parents to be raised by a family of well-off counter-cultural […]
Page One: Inside the New York Times
Synopsis: Rossi and his cameras deftly gained unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, PAGE ONE chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil. […]
Larry Crowne
Synopsis: Until he was downsized, affable, amiable Larry Crowne (Hanks) was a superstar team leader at the big-box company where he’s worked since his time in the Navy. Underwater on his mortgage and unclear on what to do with his suddenly free days, Larry heads to his local college to start over. There he becomes part […]
The Names Of Love
Synopsis: Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan: âMake love, not warâ to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results â until she meets Arthur Martin, a Jewish middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist. Bound by common […]