When you're the city attorney you don't need the kinds of problems that her father was giving her. After her mother died, her father began doing his "Santa Schtick," as she called it, much more intensely... which meant that he turned his home into a kind of year-round Santa Claus castle where children of all ages could come to see the wonderful presents and no child ever left without a gift.
Tommy Gates
Fran
When you're the city attorney you don't need the kinds of problems that her father was giving her. After her mother died, her father began doing his "Santa Schtick," as she called it, much more intensely... which meant that he turned his home into a kind of year-round Santa Claus castle where children of all ages could come to see the wonderful presents and no child ever left without a gift.
1996-12-09
4.5
Precocious young Harriet and her older sister Gwen live at their mother's motel in small-town New Hampshire. Harriet dreams of a life beyond her inattentive family and the stultifying town. A mentally disabled man named Ricky comes to stay at the motel, and Harriet finds him kinder and more interesting than anyone she has ever met. After tragedy strikes, Harriet and Ricky cling to each other ever more tightly.
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An animated road-movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.
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A solo concert held by Girls' Generation. It was held on December 9, 2014 at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. This is the group's first concert without member Jessica, who was dismissed from the group on September 30, 2014.
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A filmed manifesto about our trans bodies, their beauty, their glory and their ability to evolve with us along the way.
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A romantic comedy that brings together three interrelated tales of gay men seeking family, love and sex during the holiday season.
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