Having just graduated from high school and very much looking forward to a well deserved summer holiday before college, James is distraught to discover that his parents no longer have the money to fund any of this. Suddenly just as desperate as everyone else in his small town, he takes the only summer job he can get: at an amusement park. Unbeknownst to James, this job will provide him with an exciting and invaluable education about life and love, and just about anything else you can't learn at s
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IS THERE ANYBODY THERE? (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
A cantankerous old man with an interest in magic moves into a seaside old peoples' home and bonds with the owners' nerdish 10-year-old son, who has an unhealthy preoccupation with death and the afterlife.
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MYSTIC PIZZA (1990)
Certification15 Our Rating
The surprise American box-office hit of 1989 revolves around three girls working in a pizza parlour in the town of Mystic. All are experiencing relationship difficulties and all share in each others' problems. A charming though slushy romance. The Americans really go for those happy endings.
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THE NAMESAKE (2006)
Certification12 Our Rating
Gogol is a very strange name and somewhat of an embarrassment, as are his parents with their strange sub-continental ways, to a first generation Bengali American, but it is a name that will have relevance to his struggle to forge a personal identity. This charming film spans over three decades from the first fumbles of a successful arranged middle-class Calcutta marriage, through pain and gain, to a slow integration into an American immigrant identity. Not quite an epic, but a heart-warming tale
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