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Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

Determined to avoid another night of driving aimlessly around Torrance in the Blue Torpedo, Joe and Hubbs set out on a quest for fine chicks. Their paths soon cross with Tack, from whom they learn about a pair of foreign radical chicks hanging out near the Frankie Avalon place. Over Joe’s objections, Hubbs worms Tack out of the deal, and the pair take a slow ride toward their destiny.

Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract, Dan gets a surprise: a woman he married on a drunken impulse nearly nine years before (annulled the next day) shows up to tell him he’s the father of her twins, now seven, and she’ll be in jail for 14 days for a political protest. Dan volunteers to keep the tykes, although he’s up tight and clueless. With Charlie’s help is there any way they can be dad and uncle, meet the kids’ expectations, and still land the account?

When her not exciting job takes her to Ibiza for business reasons, a woman finds love amidst the partying.

Beverly Hills banker/workaholic Jennifer comes home to her small Northern California town just before Christmas when her dad, Ted, takes a bad fall while putting up decorations. While home, Jenny begins getting romantic Christmas cards from an unknown admirer, who turns out to be her old neighbor and the unrealized love of her life, Jack. There’s just one problem – Jack died in a car accident three years ago.

A seventeen-year-old boy blackmails his father after discovering his secret second family

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other… or can be made to have seemed to do so!

A runaway boy befriends a pack of homeless puppies. Together, they stop a bank robbery and find a family to adopt them all.

At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.

What happens when a costumed universal space hero is put out to pasture? Or, rather, the actor portraying him is?

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.