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A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to re...
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 7...
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Du...
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken ...
Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and se...
Tomka is a boy who likes playing football with his friends. When the German army captures his town, ...
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skep...
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student R...
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the ...
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make...