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3) Soul Surfer
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Teen surfer Bethany Hamilton loses her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcomes all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.
5) The Mustang
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Roman is a man serving a prison sentence of 12 years for committing a violent crime. His rehabilitation options include working at a facility that breaks and trains wild mustang horses. Within a short time, Roman's work with the horses propels him into an introspective period. He learns about the true origins of his own anger when he befriends a particularly troubled mustang. As his relationship with the mustang grows, Roman begins to deeply consider...
8) Marathon
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The poignant and inspiring true story of the relationship between Poet Laureate William Meredith and his lover, poet Richard Harteis, is tenderly brought to the screen, creating a joyful testament to the triumph of love and the reserve and resilience of the human spirit. When poet and teacher Meredith suffers a stroke, his longtime companion Harteis, a writer and marathon runner, begins a determined battle to nurse his lover back to health.
9) Brubaker
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Based on the true story of a reform warden who risks his life to replace brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm.
11) See no evil
Pub. Date
©2006
Description
Eight juvenile delinquents are sent to clean an abandoned hotel where recluse psychopath Jacob Goodnight has made his home. Gory revenge ensues, as it was the kids' accompanying officer who put a bullet in Jacob's head four years back.
13) Hope Ranch
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Tough ex-cop and Marine, J.T. Hope runs Circle of Hope Ranch, a rehabilitation site for juvenile delinquents. The ranch and its staff are put to the ultimate test when three highly troubled teens arrive.
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.
16) Relative evil
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
When J.J. returns home from rehab, he is greeted by a conniving family who is plotting to cash in on a life insurance policy before his 18th birthday. Caught in a web of self-destruction, J.J. struggles to stay clean in an environment overflowing with plenty of temptations and deceit.
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Powerful story of a drug addict who is trying to leave his poker-dealing past behind after he returns home from prison. He dreams of becoming a jazz drummer, but his wheelchair-bound wife forces him to continue his lucrative gambling. He does not know that she is faking her injury in order to control him. She kills McGavin when he discovers her secret, resulting in Sinatra being hunted by the police. A harrowing scene in the film takes place when...
18) Kes
Series
Pub. Date
1969.
Description
A troubled fifteen-year-old working-class boy in Northern England forms a close bond with a wild kestrel.
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 10
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Ivan is the minister at a remote, rural church. A bit of a Pollyanna, he's volunteered the rectory as a half-way house for recently paroled convicts. His current charges are a Saudi immigrant addicted to robbing gas stations and an alcoholic convicted of sexual assault. His newest "helper" is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously biding his time before he can return to hell-raising. Asked to set a goal for his stay, Adam sarcastically answers that he'd...