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Film · 10 connectionsA pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.
Directed byLisa Krueger
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2000 · 97 min · Drama
A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities.
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2004 · 86 min · Comedy · Crime · Thriller
Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the story of murder and deceit.
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2001 · 131 min · Comedy · Drama
In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.
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1989 · 96 min · Comedy · Crime
On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.
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2002 · 97 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.
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2002 · 86 min · Comedy · Drama
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
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2002 · 109 min · Drama
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
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2000 · 97 min · Drama · Romance
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
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2000 · 119 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Thriller
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
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2001 · 93 min · Drama
A love story of a 17 year old punk-rocker and a 15 year old runaway girl.
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