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Summary: A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
Release Date: October 20, 2000
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music
Runtime: 2 h 15 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,274,979
International: $ 188,671
Summary: After years of hiding, the notorious American leftist radical, Abbie Hoffman, discusses his life, his cause and the opposition he endured.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 76,424
International: $ 2,664
Summary: A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 35,000,000
Domestic: $ 18,337,722
International: $ 6,873,453
Summary: With hopes of becoming a doctor and not a product of her environment, a Brooklyn teenager is faced with numerous challenges that threaten her dreams.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 479,169
Summary: The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney S...
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 200,000
Summary: A social movie about life in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They pass away time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arab immigrants. Freddy i...
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Movie budget: $ 1,200,000
Summary: Frankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 100,492,203
International: $ 116,271,443
Summary: In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 47,566,524
International: $ 16,083,005
Summary: A young mother escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Summary: Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that...
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 208,588
International: $ 4,882,264
Summary: Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in ReykjavĂ­k? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: Icelandic
Domestic: $ 126,404
International: $ 420,055
Summary: A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
Runtime: 2 h 50 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 700,000
Domestic: $ 7,830,611
International: $ 4,000,000
Summary: To make money fast the Browns come up with a plan to win a contest for "Watermelon Juice Afro Sheen," awarding $10,000 to whoever can find the juiciest, sweetest watermelon in the country.
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 12,344,000
Summary: A perpetual state of welfare exists in the U.S., creating a form of modern slavery for a large percentage of African-Americans. Rev. C.L. Bryant presents an insightful and compelling look at how freedom can be restored.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: PG

Production: Ground Floor Video
Countries: United States, Israel
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 71,737
Summary: On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Runtime: 1 h 54 min
MPAA: R

Countries: United States, France
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,441,705
International: $ 2,799,951
Summary: In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,100,000
Summary: A welfare recipient marries his mother.
Runtime: 1 h 03 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000
Summary: A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the village...
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: Canada
Language: French
Domestic: $ 9,844,180
International: $ 3,899,136
Summary: Set in the fictional Dublin suburb of Barrytown, Bimbo is a baker who loses his job after being made redundant. Bimbo then acquires the help of his best friend, Larry, to set up a successful burger van.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: R

Domestic: $ 712,095
Summary: Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,790,801
International: $ 228