The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
Sep 09, 2012 | IMDB 6.7
142 min Watch NowDrama, Romance
Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself and his senile grandmother — whose intersecting lives yield both sorrow and a fragile, yet enduring, hope for a brighter future. (TIFF)
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Beautiful Memories
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Definitely, Maybe
When Night Is Falling
Chigurida Kanasu
Süss, the Jew
Swallowtail Butterfly
Summer Things
Am I Beautiful?
The Countess
Blindness
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
The Story of Woo Viet
Zodiac Killers
My American Grandson
The Song of the Scarlet Flower
Shooter
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IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 1983
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IMDB 7 | Mar , 1992
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.Holes
IMDB 6.9 | Apr , 2003
After being wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley Yelnats is sent away to Camp Green Lake, a boys detention facility where inmates are forced to dig holes all day in the hot desert sun as a form of character building. But Stanley and the other boys start to unravel a mystery, linked with the camps tough-as-nails warden —and possibly Stanley’s family itself.Beautiful Memories
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 2001
Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary. In the clinic where she is being treated, Claire is attracted to Philippe, a man who is still traumatized after a car accident in which his wife and child were both killed. In spite of their personal tragedies, Claire and Philippe fall in love. When Philippe recovers, Claire moves into his home. Then Claire's condition takes a turn for the worse.Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 2008
The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first ever "American Girl" theatrical movie. In order to keep their home, Kit and her mother must take in boarders - paying house - guests who turn out to be full of fascinating stories. When mother's lockbox containing all their money is stolen, Kit's new hobo friend Will is the prime suspect. Kit refuses to believe that Will would steal, and her efforts to sniff out the real story get her and friends into big trouble. The police say the robbery was an inside job, committed by someone they know. So if it wasn't Will, then who did it.Definitely, Maybe
IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 2008
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.When Night Is Falling
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 1995
Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petra, Camille throws her whole conservative life into disarray.Chigurida Kanasu
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2003
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IMDB 4.3 | Sep , 1940
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IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 1996
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.Summer Things
IMDB 5.8 | Mar , 2002
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IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 1998
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IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 2009
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IMDB 6.5 | May , 2008
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IMDB 5.1 | Apr , 2004
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IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 1981
The Story of Woo Viet, seven years before they traded wistful looks in An Autumn's Tale. Chow, in one of his earliest and meatiest film roles, plays the title role of Woo Viet, a Vietnamese refugee who hopes to immigrate to the United States.Zodiac Killers
IMDB 4.2 | Jul , 1991
Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ming is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa's brother in-law.My American Grandson
IMDB 6 | Nov , 1991
A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai.The Song of the Scarlet Flower
IMDB 5.7 | Dec , 1938
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IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 2007
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