Movies

The movie “The Mule” is based on real events. Leonard Sharp, a veteran of the Second World War, a pensioner, a famous gardener and florist from Michigan City, contracted to transport large quantities of drugs from the Mexican border to Detroit, which he did for more than 10 years. In October 2011, Sharpe, 87, was finally arrested and brought to justice. The trial lasted a long time, as a result he received only 3 years due to his age and the “dementia” declared by lawyers. However, they did not serve as well, they were released a year later. He died in 2016 at the venerable age of 92 years from natural causes.
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The main heroine of the “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” teenager Klara is fond of physics and is able to fix a bizarre mechanism. Journey to the mysterious magical world was for Clara a kind of Christmas gift from her mother. Arranged the journey already her godfather Drosselmeyer. The fourth kingdom, which was headed by Helen Mirren in the form of a porcelain doll with a crack in hук cheek. She lives in a traveling circus and commands clowns.
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A thousand years have passed since the destructive war, humanity, at least the remnants of its European part, travels around huge transforming cities that literally devour each other. The entire action of the movie “Mortal Engines” takes place among the picturesque green plains and mountains, and not against the background of a scorched radioactive wasteland. The biggest and scariest predator is London. The girl Esther wants to get on board London to get revenge on his chief engineer Valentine. The engineer himself, meanwhile, is making secret plans. A simple London archivist Tom has no idea about all these intrigues – but is about to get into their ears.
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Early 1960s, New York. Tony Vallelongi, who worked as a bouncer in the club, remained without work for a while. You have to pay for the apartment, and you will not leave the children hungry, so the hero cannot afford to sit idle. Here the phone call is very opportunely: a certain doctor Shirley really needs a driver, will not Tony come for an interview? And so he in a suit declares to the apartment above Carnegie Hall, where it turns out that Dr. Shirley is no doctor, but a virtuoso pianist with a couple of degrees, and, most importantly, he is black. Don Shirley needs not just a driver, but a man who can protect him under any circumstances and get him out of any problems, since he is going to go on a tour to the southern states for two months.
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“Boy Erased” is an autobiographical book of the journalist Garrard Conley, transferred to the screen. He was born to a religious family, his father was a Baptist pastor, so when the student realized that in his romantic dreams he was dreaming about boys and not girls, the pastors’ council and parents decided to send him for conversion therapy. Just at the period from the life when Conley was undergoing therapy, this film fixes its attention. This movie touches on another equally painful topic, the theme of parents and children, the first attempts to do the best, ignoring the desires and needs of the second.
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Far from the city, far from the crowd, there lived Grinch – a gloomy, eternally disgruntled green gentleman. He did not like everything, everything irritated him – especially Christmas and human joy. Angry to the whole world, especially to the Christmas songs and the festive mood of the inhabitants of Whoville, the Grinch decided to steal Christmas … “The Grinch” is the story of an evil green man who tried to take away all celebration. It is the new, “drawn” design.
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The events of the story start when the head of the Chicago teachers union, loses her husband. He dies in the course of a failed robbery. The fact is that her faithful is a criminal with experience. Having become depressed, the woman does not know how to live on. However, fate itself throws a solution to the problem. To pay off her husband’s debts, a woman intends to carry out her operation. But for this she needs accomplices. Starting their recruitment, Mrs. Rawlings, it seems, will not stop. “Widows” talk about the place of women in the harsh world of men, friendship and trust.
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The student physicist Stillman and his girlfriend Debbie are happy together: at least the first moments of the “Time Freak” convince the viewer – dozens of joint photos flash in front of us, showing a young and beautiful couple. Reality painfully clicks on the nose almost instantly: the very action of the movie begins with the fact that Debbie calls Stillman to talk, during which the young lad will again be left alone. Desperate to change something in the present, the physicist makes an impressive graph of their relationship (all his failures are highlighted on the timeline) and invents a time machine, of course, to fix everything and return the girl of your dreams back.
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Otto Bathhurst, though sometimes too timid, only offers to have some fun, watching the quintessence of the 21st century “Robin Hood”, and laugh at himself, recalling that everything is relatively new – it is only successfully repressed from old memory. There are attempts to enter the field of political satire, presenting crusades suspiciously similar to the modern war in the middle East and putting into the mouth of Sheriff Nottingham and cardinal reasoning that fear-the best weapon of God, and that is why the Church came up with hell.
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The nosy Teddy Walker dropped out of school back in 2001 – since then his life seems to have gone uphill. He meets with a rich and sexy Liza, works in a grill shop – and it’s so good that even the owner of an institution offers Teddy to become his successor, but this does not suit an ambitious guy who is tired of living from paycheck to paycheck. Teddy impersonating who he is not – of course, to charm Lisa, but an unsuccessfully made proposal ruins his plans. To get an attractive job for his friend, the main character goes to school – it is vital for him to complete it and finally receive a certificate.
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