8m; Canada
Director: Kim Hutchinson
Synopsis: Retraining for the Global Economy is a comedy that documents the economic woes of Windsor, Ontario, and dares to ask the question: Where do we go from here?
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100m; U.S.
Director: Curtiss Clayton
Cast: Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford and Agnes Bruckner
Synopsis (IMDB): “Rigoletto” retold at Christmas time in Manhattan’s corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evening, he’s out for drinks with his much younger boss, Duke, and the same women is their waitress. Rick’s continued rudeness leads to her getting fired. She puts a curse on him. A potential rift with Duke quickly surfaces; Rick is approached by the hail-fellow Buck, who runs His Own Company, offering to rid Rick of Duke. At dinner later that night, Rick and Duke’s paths cross again; this time Rick is with his stunning and beloved daughter, Eve, a student who has a secret relationship with Duke. All paths lead to the office holiday party.
44m; France
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Cast: Dieye Ma Dieye, Aminata Fall and Demba Bâ
Synopsis (IMDB): A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. The ticket wins, and our hero begins a harrowing odyssey throughout his shanty town, carrying the door on his shoulder all the time
92m; U.S.
Director: Stacy Title
Cast: Courtney B. Vance, Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard and Annabeth Gish
Synopsis (IMDB): A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.
83m; France
Director: Rene Clair
Synopsis: An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.
80m; U.S.
Director: Tony Buba
Synopsis: Tony Buba, a film maker from Braddock, Pennsylvania, tells the story of his hometown’s decline (along with the rest of the steel mill towns along the Monongahela River) while he dreams of making higher budget films. The picture documents, in a lighthearted way, the community anxiety and activism that accompanied the failure of the steel industry around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Sweet Sal the street hustler tries to make it big in Tony’s movies
94m; France
Director: Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Delépine
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners and Benoît Poelvoorde
Synopsis: Black comedy about an unemployed French plant worker’s decision to hire a hitman to exact working-class vengeance on the rich and powerful.
106m; Italy
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni and Sandra Milo
Synopsis: Neorealist comedy about four rebellious prostitutes who open a restaurant.
79m; Yugoslavia
Director: Dusan Majavejev
Synopsis: Spoof on sexual politics, science, and the lowest of jobs – rat catcher – in a Socialist economy.
104m; U.S.
Director: Callie Khouri
Cast: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes
Synopsis: Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.
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