College and high school serve as the backdrop for two separate stories about cruelty, deception, storytelling, and other people’s suffering that are unrelated and have different actors, titled ‘Fiction’ and ‘Non-Fiction’.
Storytelling
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two separate stories about cruelty, deception, storytelling, and other people’s suffering that are unrelated and have different actors, titled ‘Fiction’ and ‘Non-Fiction’.
The film tells the story of Paulie, a talking parrot at an animal research lab, who recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a janitor (Tony Shalhoub) who tries to help him escape.
Single mother Josey Aimes is part of a group of the first women to work at a local iron mine, only to endure harassment from male co-workers, ranging from verbal taunts to pornographic graffiti and worse. She eventually filed suit in 1984 and won a landmark legal decision.
The film tells the story of Police Lieutenant Lon McQ who unearths departmental corruption when he learns his murdered partner was one of many crooked cops. Meanwhile, he becomes romantically involved with his friend’s widow, who is up to her neck in police corruption.
Jazz musicians, and heroin addicts: Spoon and Stretch decide to get clean after their friend and bandmate Cookie overdoses when she tries heroin for the first time. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
The film tells the story of a teenage girl named Alice, who follows a mysterious man through a rabbit hole and discovers Wonderland; a dark and curious world inhabited by characters from turn-of-the-century America and the Pacific Northwest.
The film follows a poor teen struggling to help his suffering mom and their sick dog and a beautiful runaway as they hatch schemes to profit from students at a private school.
When a reporter finds sealed cards from the past 12 Christmases in her late mother’s things, so she hires a mysterious detective to help her solve the puzzle and identify the suitor responsible for the letters. In the process, she’ll discover a family secret more dangerous than she could have ever imagined.
The movie tells the story of Juan Garcia, a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood, who finds that he might be able to get by in his neighborhood, but possibly never get out because he is affiliated with gang-related activities.
Life is good for Mac Radner and pregnant wife Kelly until the unruly sisters of Kappa Nu move in next door. Things now are even more debaucherous than the fraternity before it, and Mac and Kelly have to ask for help from their former enemy, Teddy.
During the Cold War, a female spy steals secrets from a politician after falling in love with him. And when he unwittingly closes the net around his own wife, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect him.
The movie tells the story of Joseph Hawthorne, a bi-polar man who loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. His subsequent exoneration creates a divided mystery among the town and moreover her bloodthirsty family.
The film follows two gangsters (Michael Madsen, Alec Baldwin) and a trainer (Danny Glover) as they help a young man (William DeMeo) realize his dream of becoming a professional boxer.
The movie follows the Von Trapp family’s incredible journey from the perspective of Agathe, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, as she overcomes obstacles to pursue a career in music in the United States.
The movie tells the story of Porter Wren, a scuttling tabloid columnist ensnared in an elaborate story of deception, blackmail, murder and sexual duplicity. But his job, his marriage, and his life are all threatened when he accepts to dig in a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail.