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Pencils, pens, & brushes

a great girls' to Disney animation
2019
Looks at the women who worked at Disney Animation from the 1920s through the 1950s featuring story artists, animators, inkers, painters, and more.
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Waiting for Tom Hanks

Aspiring writer Annie Cassidy works on her screenplays while waiting for her movie-perfect encounter with her soul mate, preferably someone like Tom Hanks. Then a movie starts filming in Annie's neighborhood and she gets a job on the set where she meets lead actor Drew Danforth. Although he's the opposite of Hanks, the two have fun together. Annie wonders how Drew could be the one for her if he leaves town after the movie's filming ends.
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Postcards from the edge

An actress with a drug problem tries to keep her movie career alive with both help and hindrance from her movie star mother and a stay in a rehabilitation hospital.
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The Directors

Wolfgang Petersen

The Directors

Lawrence Kasdan

Singin' in the rain

A musical-comedy satirizing the early days of talking motion pictures.

Boy proof

Feeling alienated from everyone around her, high school senior and cinephile Victoria Denton hides behind the identity of a favorite movie character until an interesting new boy arrives at school and helps her realize that there is more to life than just the movies.

The artist

In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.

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