Denizens of a Sydney, Australia apartment complex struggle to find meaning in their lives in this stop-motion animated drama from director Tatia Rosenthal (78 min.).
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Watchable but limited youth-market comedy makes predictable feel-good use of the story of a 37-year-old loser named Mike (Matthew Perry) who wakes up one day in his seventeen-year-old body (played by teen idol Zac Efron), and goes back to high school in 2009 as Mark. Efrons adolescent female fans may be perplexed by the scenes in which Mark/Mike fends off the sexual advances of his own daughter (Michelle Trachtenberg) and then puts the moves on his wife (Leslie Mann).
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Chris Rock and Julie Delpy make an energetic, discombobulated, thoroughly 21st-century screwball comedy couple, as a Manhattan talk-radio host and his artist girlfriend forced to endure her oafish relatives visiting from France.
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Just beneath the surface of the sex and dope jokes in this joyously lowbrow rehab of the late-Eighties/early-Nineties TV series about young undercover cops in a high school, there’s a tale of two actors and their careers.
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German director Veit Helmer (Tuvalu) pays tribute to Soviet-era fabulistic filmmaking with this antiqued comic village picture about a beautiful young maiden named Aya (Czech actor Kristyna Malérová), her frustrated fiancé Temelko (Maximilian Mauff, from Germany), and the wacky fictional community where they live (shot on location in dusty Azerbaijan).
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In director Steve Pink's amiable but undernourished campus comedy, industrious high school underachiever Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) gets rejected from every college under the sun.
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Some Oakland politicians and groups are pointing to research by UC Berkeley faculty as proof that the city needs to add hundreds of police officers, but other studies contradict that conclusion.
Some Oakland politicians and groups are pointing to research by UC Berkeley faculty as proof that the city needs to add hundreds of police officers, but other studies contradict that conclusion.