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Jim Burnstein
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D3: The Mighty Ducks · 1996D3: The Mighty Ducks
★ 6.01996
MovieComedyAction
The Ducks are offered scholarships at Eden Hall Academy but struggle with their new coach's methods and come under pressure from the board to retain their scholarships before their big game against the Varsity team.
Renaissance Man · 1994Renaissance Man
★ 6.11994
MovieComedyDrama
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.
Life Stuff · 2025Life Stuff
★ 10.02025
MovieDrama
Based on a true story, a woman enters rehab expecting solitude but is forced to share her space with a volatile teen. As their uneasy connection grows, she begins to confront the patterns that led her there and what healing might actually require.
Love and Honor · 2013Love and Honor
★ 6.02013
MovieDramaRomance
When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.
Cohousing · 2025Cohousing
★ 10.02025
MovieComedy
When a headstrong teen with dreams of the big city finds out that a developer wants to buy her neighborhood, she must convince her wacky cohousing community to sell, in order to get the cash to finance her goals.
Nerd AssociationNerd Association
MovieComedyRomance
After her popular ex-boyfriend dumps her, a striving social climber tries to get back at him by joining the Dungeons and Dragons club...and dating his twin brother.
Ruffian · 2007Ruffian
★ 8.02007
MovieDramaTV Movie
Ruffian is an American made-for-television movie that tells the story of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Champion thoroughbred filly Ruffian who went undefeated until her death after breaking down in a nationally televised match race at Belmont Park on July 6, 1975 against the Kentucky Derby winner, Foolish Pleasure. Made by ESPN Original Entertainment, the film is directed by Yves Simoneau and stars Sam Shepard as Ruffian's trainer, Frank Whiteley. The producers used four different geldings in the role of Ruffian. Locations for the 2007 film included Louisiana Downs in Shreveport, Louisiana and Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.
Ocean of Pearls · 2008Ocean of Pearls
★ 4.92008
MovieDrama
As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a tradition he's maintained his whole life and cuts his hair. Hiding this decision from his girlfriend and family in Toronto is only the start of a series of compromises Amrit finds himself making as he deals with hospital politics and health care injustices. When his compromises result in the death of a patient, Amrit begins to reexamine the value of the religious traditions he'd turned his back on.
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