Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
Casts Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden, Donald Sutherland, Lisa Long, Chris Warren, Amanda Seyfried, Nikki Reed, Tony Goldwyn, Rex Linn, Davenia McFadden
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Wedding Banquet
Age 13
Refuge
Can't Shine Without You My Brother
Spice It Up
Paris, Texas
Almost Famous
Barren Lives
Lisbon Story
The Wages of Fear
The Wizard
Secrets of a Soul
Beast!
The Day of the Purple Sun: Part I
Human Nature
Once Were Warriors
Transamerica
Sandbar
Take The Bridge
Red Dawn
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Wedding Banquet
IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 1993
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.Age 13
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1955
Tells the story of Andrew, a 13-year-old whose mother dies and leaves him with an indifferent step-father. Andrew, receiving only hostility from his classmates and step-father, begins to steal. An understanding counselor at school helps Andrew reform and readjust.Refuge
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2017
Refugees are captured by border patrol officers as one woman escapes to find herself surviving on her own in a foreign land.Can't Shine Without You My Brother
IMDB 4 | Jan , 2019
In the course of a year, Yahya loses three brothers. To survive the sorrow he has built a hut in the forest. There he can live out his fantasies and meet them again. Yahya gets one last chance to talk to them, touch them, capture them, carry them and be carried by them.Spice It Up
IMDB 6 | Aug , 2019
A film student at Ryerson University struggles to complete her thesis project.Paris, Texas
IMDB 8.1 | Jul , 1984
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.Almost Famous
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 2000
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.Barren Lives
IMDB 7.3 | Aug , 1963
In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.Lisbon Story
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 1994
Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.The Wages of Fear
IMDB 8 | Apr , 1953
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.The Wizard
IMDB 6.1 | Dec , 1989
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.Secrets of a Soul
IMDB 9.1 | Jan , 2012
Secrets of a Soul: Margarethe, Creator of bizarre sculptures! Night club dancer? Mad woman? Victim of an occult conspiracy?! Dark menaces steal her soul and organs. Though dead they keep her alive...Beast!
IMDB 10 | Jan , 2013
The Day of the Purple Sun: Part I
IMDB 10 | Apr , 2017
The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe. Her journey through the mysteries of the Egyptian underworld. Will she be coming forth by day? Film in two parts by Carsten Frank.Human Nature
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2001
Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the civilized ways of the world, Lila fights to preserve the man’s natural state. In the power struggle that ensues, an unusual love triangle emerges.Once Were Warriors
IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 1994
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.Transamerica
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2005
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.Sandbar
IMDB 5.3 | Oct , 2012
In this freewheeling dark comedy, a haunted Marine spends one crazy day with his estranged son.Take The Bridge
IMDB 10 | Jan , 2007
Take The Bridge is a 2007 independent film from Sergio M. Castilla about four young adults who all try to commit suicide on the same day and how they meet up and become friends. The film Premiering at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.Red Dawn
IMDB 6.3 | Aug , 1984
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.