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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 145 min.
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Plot: The experiences of Frankie and his family during pre-war Limerick.
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Cast: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Peter Halpin. Directed by Alan Parker.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A group of childhood friends growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto and the divergent paths they take to have a better life in the future.
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Cast: Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne. Directed by John Singleton.
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Categories: Family ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer. In Portuguese with English subtitles.
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Cast: Matheus Nachtergaele, Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Johnathan Haagensen, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Daniel Zettel, Seu Jorge. Directed by Fernando Meirelles.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Drama ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Four friends get more than they bargained for on a canoe trip in the backwoods of Georgia.
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Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Directed by John Boorman.
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Categories: Land Use ∙ Poverty ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: Dispossessed farmers migrate to California to escape the dustbowl of Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
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Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin. Directed by John Ford.
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Categories: Poverty ∙ Discrimination ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: An impoverished Irish family searches for a better life amidst the dangers of New York City's Hell's Kitchen.
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Cast: Samantha Morton, Paddy Constantine, Djimon Hounsou. Directed by Jim Sheridan.
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Categories: Immigration ∙ Poverty ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: An abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family. In Russian, subtitled in English.
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Cast: Kolya Spiridonov, Maria Kuznetsova, Nikolai Reutov, Yuri Itskov. Directed by Andrei Kravchuk.
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Categories: Children ∙ International ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 81 min. B&W
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Plot: A slaughterhouse employee finds solace in simple beauties of life to prevent his work from leaving him numb.
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Cast: Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore. Directed by Charles Burnett.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A young Colombian girl enters the ruthless world of drug trafficking to escape her country for the United States. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Jhon Alexander Toro. Directed by Joshua Marston.
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Categories: Immigration ∙ Poverty ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 113 min.
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Plot: A na�ve male prostitute and his streetwise friend struggle to survive in New York City.
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver. Directed by John Schlesinger.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Health ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: A man plans to build a major new resort in Milagro, which will displace the local farmers. When a farmer illegally diverts water to irrigate his bean field, he receives local support in opposition to water use laws that favor the rich.
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Cast: Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga, Julie Carmen. Directed by Robert Redford.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A young couple who got married for the wrong reasons, head to a small village in China to combat a cholera outbreak and possibly save their marriage.
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Cast: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones, Diana Rigg. Directed by John Curran.
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Categories: Health ∙ Marital Relations ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor.
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Cast: Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith. Directed by Gabriele Muccino.
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Categories: Family ∙ Biography ∙ Poverty |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
You can view a list of all law library movies in the
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