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(0)Christine Lahti
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"This collection captures, in writing, the same array of emotions that Christine brings to the stage and screen with her acting. Funny with heart. Tears with a hint of hope. A fantastic mosaic that, when cobbled together, offers a stirring range of humanity." - Alan Zweibel, original SNL writer and Thurber Prize winning author of The Other Shulman
"Christine Lahti's autobiographical essays are a beautiful, painful, funny, fiercely honest walk through...
2) The Steps
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An uptight New Yorker and his party girl sister visit their Dad's lake house to meet his new wife, and her rough-around-the-edges kids. When the "step" parents announce they are also adopting a child to bring this family together, disaster looms in this hilarious new chemistry experiment.
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Charlotte Bain (Christine Lahti, The Doctor, Swing Shift) is the perfect high school principal for small-town Texas: quiet, strict, strait-laced. Single, but secretly dating the coach (William Russ, Pastime), she is as shocked as anyone when she agrees to go on a date with Ernesto (Ruben Blades, Predator 2, The Super), the school's new janitor. More shocking still, Charlotte and Ernesto find themselves suddenly, unbelievably happy-so on their date...
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A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit and a landmark in the literature of the Holocaust, this is the true story of Dr. Gisella Perl who, while imprisoned in a concentration camp, became an eyewitness to the experiments of Dr. Josef Mengele, the chief physician at Auschwitz.
5) 8
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George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Martin Sheen lead an all-star cast in this powerful portrait of an American civil rights struggle. In 2008, California's Proposition 8 stripped the freedom to marry away from gay and lesbian couples. Now, two of the nation's most renowned attorneys have joined forces to challenge Proposition 8 under the United States Constitution. “8” faithfully recreates the progression of the historic trial through court transcripts...
6) Three Hotels
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Masterfully written by one of America's most lauded playwrights, this deeply human story unfolds in three hotel rooms in Morocco, the Virgin Islands and Oaxaca, Mexico, as a married couple reflect on their lives as players in the game of international business. A devastating tour-de-force of humor, tragedy, and penetrating insight from one of America's premier playwrights.
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Most first-year med students at Chandler University's esteemed school of medicine approach gross anatomy the systematic dissection of the human body with fear, nervous stomachs, and the daunting knowledge that their futures depend on a passing grade. Joe Slovak isn't like his fellow freshmen. A cocky, bright, and outspoken rebel who doesn't believe in sacrificing his social life for long nights of studying, Joe follows his own lesson plan, a curriculum...
8) Yonkers Joe
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The reappearance of his estranged son complicates a dice hustler's plan to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas.
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With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's struggle to remember.
10) Operator
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An anxious programmer enlists the help of his empathetic wife when given the task to create the perfect call center program. However, their relationship spirals out of control when he begins replacing her with an ideal computerized replica.
11) Touchback
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In the tradition of FIELD OF DREAMS, TOUCHBACK is a story about sports, faith, and realizing that everything you need is already in front of you. Facing foreclosure on his home, former high school football star-turned-farmer-and-family-man, Scott Murphy (Brian Presley of BORDERLAND) has found rock bottom. But, after bumping his head, he finds himself with a unique opportunity to revisit his glory days before the Ohio State championship where he permanently...
12) Becks
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After a crushing breakup with her girlfriend, a Brooklyn musician moves back to her childhood home in St. Louis. While performing for tips at a local tavern and struggling to reconnect with her ultra-Catholic mother, she strikes up a unique friendship and begins to discover her musical voice. As she grows more confident as a musician, a new life in her hometown suddenly seems within her reach.
13) The Doctor
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Being a patient for the first time changes the life of a surgeon, as he experiences what it's like to be on the other side of a medical chart.
14) Funny About Love
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The once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between star Gene Wilder and director Leonard Nimoy resulted in the charmingly haphazard and anachronistic Funny About Love. Wilder plays political cartoonist Duffy Bergman, who falls in love with much-younger Meg (Christine Lahti) during a book-signing session. Once married, the old "clash of careers" bugaboo arises: Meg wants to continue working as a chef in a fancy New York restaurant, while Duffy would prefer...