The Next Three Days

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{5/5} “What if we choose to exist purely in a reality of our own making?” Lara has been convicted of murdering her boss, whom she fought with just before the murder. Her husband John doesn’t believe she did it and he’s done everything he can to try to get her out — but he’s run out […]

True Grit

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{4.5/5} “I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough.” Mattie Ross wants to find her father’s killer and see him hanged. Although only 14 years old, she has the wits and determination to get what she wants. She hires U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, whom she believes has true grit, to track down killer […]

Gone Baby Gone

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{4.5/5} “Where I come from, you die with your secrets.” Patrick and Angie are private detectives who have been hired to find a missing girl. The girl has been kidnapped and the police are doing everything they can to find her. But Patrick and Angie know everyone in the neighbourhood, and they might just be […]

Now Is Good

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{4.5/5} “One of you is this cancer obsessive and the other one can’t face showing up at the hospital. Which is fine, I get it. But neither of you are what I need. You’re just wasting my time.” Tessa is 17 years old and dying of leukemia. She’s understandably angry, and the people around her […]

Janie Jones

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{4.5/5} “I appreciate your initiative and can-do spirit but the driving thing has to end now.” Janie’s mom has to get herself clean of drugs so she leaves her with her dad. But Janie, 13 years old, has never met her dad before. Ethan is on tour with his band. He’s not sure Janie is […]

Mission: Impossible

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{4.5/5} “If we’re going to Virginia why don’t we drop by Fort Knox? I could fly a helicopter through the lobby and set it down right inside the vault.” Ethan Hunt is part of a team of covert operatives who are members of a top-secret organization called the IMF. On a mission in Prague, his […]

People Like Us

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{4.5/5} “I hope you never have to know what it’s like to love someone and then find out you’re not enough.” Sam works for a company that facilitates barters between companies who have leftover stock. He’s a great salesman but he made a mistake on one of his deals and now he has to bribe […]

Your Sister’s Sister

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{4.5/5} “I really think your face is going to annoy me right now.” Jack’s brother has died and he’s having a tough time. His friend Iris invites him to stay at her family’s cottage for some alone time. When Jack arrives he’s surprised to find that Iris’s sister Hannah is there — she’s just broken […]

Flight

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{4.5/5} “The FAA and the NTSB took 10 pilots, placed them in simulators, recreated the events that led to this plane falling out of the sky. Do you know how many of them were able to safely land the planes? Not one. Every pilot crashed the aircraft, killed everybody on board.” Whip is a highly experienced […]

Side Effects

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{4.5/5} “You don’t know what it’s like. OK, every afternoon it’s like… it’s like there’s this poisonous fog bank rolling in on my mind, and I’m paralyzed.” Emily’s husband Martin has just been released from prison, where he went for insider trading. She wants to resume her life with her husband. But she has battled […]