On her 50th birthday after wrapping filming on her aerobics segment for the morning show, Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is called to a lunch with her boss, Harvey (Dennis Quaid), where he unceremoniously fires her. The distraught actress drives home, getting into a car accident along the way. A little bruised, but miraculously unharmed, a…
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The Long Game
In 1957, the San Felipe Mustangs made history when the team of young Mexican American golfers not only played at a white golf club but went on to become the Texas high school state champions; a far cry from the makeshift greens they cleared in an overgrown field. Led by their two coaches, JB Peña…
The Hill
Growing up, Ricky Hill (Jesse Berry) wanted only one thing: to play baseball. Playing, however, is strictly forbidden by his pastor father (Dennis Quaid), even after the boy no longer needs braces on his legs to walk. Eventually, Ricky convinces his father that he is honoring God by playing baseball, and when he grows up…
Strange World
Ethan Clade (Jaboukie Young-White) is the son of Searcher (Jake Gyllenhaal), a farmer famed for harvesting a strange plant, Pando, which has energy-generating properties that are used to bring electricity and all the luxuries that come with it to the mountain town of Avalonia. When the crops begin to fail, Searcher is brought on a…
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