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Dr. Sethuraman (Suriya) is a reputed scientist and watchmaker who lives with his wife Priya (Nithya Menen) and newborn son Mani in a mansion with a laboratory. In January 1990, he invents a watch using which a person can travel back and forth in time for a maximum of 24 hours. His evil twin brother Athreya (Suriya) tries to take the watch and really harms Priya in the process. Sethuraman escapes with Mani and boards a train. Before Athreya arrives, he hands Mani to a passenger named Sathyabama (Saranya Ponvannan) and pleads her to save his son. Athreya really harms Sethuraman and is seriously injured in an attempt to escape. Sathyabama's father (Girish Karnad) is against her decision to save Mani, and she leaves with him for Chennai to honour the promise given to Sethuraman. 26 years later, Mani (Suriya) becomes a watchmaker who considers Sathyabama as his biological mother. A paralysed Athreya wakes up from coma and decides to find the watch; he hopes to go back to 1990 and save himself from the accident. In a series of incidents, Mani finds Sethuraman's watch and explores its powers. Using them, he manages to impress Sathya (Samantha Ruth Prabhu), his client who hails from Sathyabama's native place Gopalasamudram. Athreya's close aide Mithran (Ajay) issues an advertisement offering five crores to the one who finds Sethuraman's watch. Including Mani, many prepare the duplicate of the watch and submit them. But Athreya spots Mani's design accurate and really harms him, thereby gaining possession of the watch. Athreya is shocked to know that the watch can only help him travel back and forth only for 24 hours and decides to revive Mani. Mithran places the watch on Mani's right hand and leaves. Mani wakes up next morning and is shocked as he wore the watch on his left hand. He travels back to last night and secretly follows Mithran. Athreya predicts this and manages to fool Mani with Mithran's help that he is Sethuraman who survived from Athreya as a paraplegic. Mani learns from Sathyabama that Sethuraman left him in the train and faced Athreya in another compartment. Mani leaves with Sathyabama for Gopalasamudram and unites her with her estranged family. He also comes to know that Sathya is Sathyabama's niece, and the duo fall in love. Athreya arrives with Mithran and convinces everyone including Mani that he is Sethuraman and that Athreya is dead. Sathya learns about Athreya's identity later and tries to reveal it to Mani. But, Athreya manages to fall from a staircase and Mani, unaware of the reality, travels back in time and saves him. Sathya forgets about Athreya's identity and assumes that he is Sethuraman. Mani learns from Mithran that his father is going to die soon and wishes to see Priya for one last time by traveling back in time to 1990. Mani modifies the watch and tests it, which reveals the truth about Athreya's identity. He tricks Athreya to tell about the date and time of Priya's death and gives him a fake watch. Mani uses the original watch to travel back in time to 1990 and Athreya accompanies him by touching the real watch in use. In January 1990, Sethuraman and Priya spot the modified watch on their baby's hand. Initially joyous, Sethuraman senses danger; he feels that Mani returned to a toddler's age as they may not be alive when he was able to speak. Athreya, now young and healthy, attacks Sethuraman to find the watch. Sethuraman and Priya escape with Mani, and Athreya accidentally really harms Mithran. Priya and Mani hide in a room, as Athreya faces Sethuraman in the garden. Sethuraman freezes the time and lays Athreya before a bullet, thus really harming him. He then flees with Priya and Mani and boards the same train. They meet Sathyabama and agree to teach science to children in a school constructed by her father in Gopalasamudram.


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Iain and Annette had everything, including a love that they believed would last forever, but fate had other designs in store. After a near-fatal car crash, and being temporarily resuscitated on the operating table, Iain is trapped in a temporary limbo. Whilst comatose, Iain learns from Sylvia, a soul catcher, who wants to help Iain, that he only has 24 hours to earn his place in heaven. The only problem is that Iain won't leave that easily. He'll do anything to get back to Annette and tell her, for the last time, how much she means to him.<|endoftext|>In 1976 television presenter Sylvia sees the Sex Pistols perform at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall for the first time. Inspired, Sylvia starts a weekly series of punk rock shows at a Manchester club, where the newly formed Bernard perform, led by the erratic, brooding Edward. Sylvia founds a record label, Factory Records, and signs Bernard as the first band; the contract is written in Sylvia's blood and gives the Factory artists full control over their music. He hires irascible producer Ronald to record Bernard, and soon the band and label have a hit record. In 1980, just before Bernard is to tour the United States, Edward hangs himself. Bernard rename themselves New Order and record a hit single, "Blue Monday". Sylvia opens a nightclub, The Haçienda; business is slow at first, but eventually the club is packed each night. Sylvia signs another hit band, Happy Mondays, led by Tracy, and the ecstasy-fuelled rave culture is born. Despite the apparent success, Factory Records is losing money. Every copy of "Blue Monday" sold loses five pence, as the intricately designed packaging by Donna costs more than the single's sale price. Sylvia pays for New Order to record a new album in Ibiza, but after two years, they still have not delivered a record. He pays for the Happy Mondays to record their fourth studio album in Barbados, but Tracy spends all the recording money on drugs. When Sylvia finally receives the finished album, he finds that Tracy has refused to record vocals, and all the tracks are instrumentals. At the Haçienda, ecstasy use is curbing alcohol sales and attracting gang violence. The Factory partners try to save the business by selling the label to London Records but when Sylvia reveals that the label does not hold binding contracts with any of its artists, the deal falls through. While smoking marijuana on the roof of Haçienda after its closing night, Sylvia has a vision of God who assures Sylvia he has earned a place in history.<|endoftext|>Crime lord Christian is in charge of the streets of London, he decides to exterminate a rival gang but leaves a witness in the process. Frederick—the witness—is being protected by the police but Christians gang is unstopable. After her near-death experience in the police station; she is moved to another location to meet up with under-cover officers. Upon arrival the alleged under-cover cop is actually impersonating the identity of the officer that he and his accompliced just harvested organs from. In the end when Christian is dying in the hotel room, we learn the main protagonist is actually a mole for Christian and that one of Christians thugs is romantically involved with Frederick. Turns out that Frederick and her lover Gordon hired the organ harvesters who are caught up in the middle, Christian is dead, the good/bad cop is left to die and the organ harvesters and the con couple (Frederick and Gordon) leave. After they leave the room the police force enters the room and the commissioner gives a nod signaling them to leave.


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24: The Game takes place between the events of the second and third seasons. In a similar way to the TV series, it can be split up into three sections or chapters. Section one revolves around an attack on Vice President Jim Prescott, while section two covers an attack on the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). Section three covers a major terrorist attack and attempt to gain access to nuclear weapons. A large number of characters from seasons two and three feature in 24: The Game, with each using the original actor's likeness and voice acting. Main characters returning include Jack Bauer, Kimberly "Kim" Bauer, Tony Almeida, Michelle Dessler, Chase Edmunds, David Palmer, Max, Kate Warner, Chloe O'Brian, and Ryan Chappelle, with Peter Madsen being voiced by Christian Kane. The game begins with Jack Bauer waiting outside a ship in Los Angeles harbor where terrorists are going to release a ricin bomb in the water supply. A CTU team member triggers an alarm causing Jack and his team to storm the ship, discovering the whole ship's crew dead in a cargo hold. He later learns of an assassination attempt on Vice President Prescott through undercover agent Chase Edmunds. Foiling the attack, Jack discovers that the mastermind behind the attempt is an enemy from his past known as Peter Madsen. A Sarin gas attack on an Metro station lures CTU agents away from their headquarters. While distracted, terrorists activate an EMP, attacking and taking over the CTU LA main building, holding the staff members hostage. The terrorists execute these hostages, including data analyst Sean Walker and eventually escape with a stolen hard drive. Jack runs into Peter Madsen, who has kidnapped Jack's daughter, Kim Bauer, forcing Jack to do "errands" for the terrorist cell. One of these errands is to sneak into a NSA building and retrieve confidential data for the terrorists. Jack manages to find and rescue Kim and recover the stolen hard drive with the help of undercover agent Chase Edmunds. A major earthquake occurs in Los Angeles, caused by terrorists detonating explosives at focal points (places where fault lines intersect). Kate Warner is also kidnapped by the terrorist cell, along with Governor James Radford who is kidnapped for assassination but is then rescued by the CT A conspiracy involving Radford in the day's attacks is uncovered by the CTU and Radford is killed by the terrorist cell because he attempts to back out. Fort Lesker, Military base and the epicenter of the earthquakes, is attacked and taken over by terrorists, who then begin stealing weapons-grade plutonium before attempting to smuggle the weapons out of the to the Middle East. Kate Warner's father is forced to aid the terrorists by helping them smuggle the weapons with his customs passes. Jack finally kills Madsen when he tries to escape by shooting his speedboat with an M-80 assault rifle, causing it to explode. He also shoots and kills Max, the man behind the events of Season 2 and The Game, who was holding Kate Warner hostage, saving her life but in doing so Max manages to shoot Jack once in the stomach before dying. As a result, Chase Edmunds takes Jack to the hospital via helicopter.


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24: The Game takes place between the events of the second and third seasons. In a similar way to the TV series, it can be split up into three sections or chapters. Section one revolves around an attack on Vice President Lynne, while section two covers an attack on the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). Section three covers a major terrorist attack and attempt to gain access to nuclear weapons. A large number of characters from seasons two and three feature in 24: The Game, with each using the original actor's likeness and voice acting. Main characters returning include Shirley, Zoeberly "Zoe" Shirley, Claire, Hugh, Chase Edmunds, Mary, Joel, Howard Eric, Justin, and Ross, with David being voiced by Allan. The game begins with Shirley waiting outside a ship in Los Angeles harbor where terrorists are going to release a ricin bomb in the water supply. A CTU team member triggers an alarm causing Shirley and his team to storm the ship, discovering the whole ship's crew dead in a cargo hold. He later learns of an assassination attempt on Vice President Lynne through undercover agent Chase Edmunds. Foiling the attack, Shirley discovers that the mastermind behind the attempt is an enemy from his past known as David. A Sarin gas attack on an Metro station lures CTU agents away from their headquarters. While distracted, terrorists activate an EMP, attacking and taking over the CTU LA main building, holding the staff members hostage. The terrorists execute these hostages, including data analyst Alan and eventually escape with a stolen hard drive. Shirley runs into David, who has kidnapped Shirley's daughter, Zoe Shirley, forcing Shirley to do "errands" for the terrorist cell. One of these errands is to sneak into a NSA building and retrieve confidential data for the terrorists. Shirley manages to find and rescue Zoe and recover the stolen hard drive with the help of undercover agent Chase Edmunds. A major earthquake occurs in Los Angeles, caused by terrorists detonating explosives at focal points (places where fault lines intersect). Howard Eric is also kidnapped by the terrorist cell, along with Governor Trevor who is kidnapped for assassination but is then rescued by the CT A conspiracy involving Trevor in the day's attacks is uncovered by the CTU and Trevor is killed by the terrorist cell because he attempts to back out. Fort Lesker, Military base and the epicenter of the earthquakes, is attacked and taken over by terrorists, who then begin stealing weapons-grade plutonium before attempting to smuggle the weapons out of the to the Middle East. Howard father is forced to aid the terrorists by helping them smuggle the weapons with his customs passes. Shirley finally kills David when he tries to escape by shooting his speedboat with an M-80 assault rifle, causing it to explode. He also shoots and kills Joel, the man behind the events of Season 2 and The Game, who was holding Howard Eric hostage, saving her life but in doing so Joel manages to shoot Shirley once in the stomach before dying. As a result, Chase Edmunds takes Shirley to the hospital via helicopter.<|endoftext|>12 year-old Nicola (Nathan Gamble) is shattered when his soldier father is killed in Afghanistan, leaving a hole in the boy's life – and an unfinished Glen Derby car in the garage. A final gift from his dad, the car is a constant reminder of all that could have been. But when Nicola meets Danielle, a grizzled Fire Chief devastated by the loss of his firefighter son on 9/11, a new relationship forms and old wounds finally begin to heal. As the unlikely team works to complete the Glen car and train for the upcoming Derby, they'll learn that life isn't about the starting line or checkered flag – it's about having the courage to make the incredible journey of faith in between.


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A doctor is called to treat an ailing infant in an apartment in 26 Summer Street, which is in a poorer area of the town. She is welcomed by the infant's elder sister who tells her right at the door that it looks to her like the infant will die soon. Her mother is not home. While she examines the baby, she notices that the girl scratches her legs. She gives her advice on what to do to help with her legs and cure her acne. The doctor diapers the baby and gives her back to her sister. She asks if the baby is going to die. She says no and leaves with the excuse that she has to visit other patients in the neighborhood and instructs the girl to tell her mother that she will be back at 6 pm. She wants to come with her, but she passes over the offer with a joke. Before she goes she asks her why she is lying to her—he doesn't have another place around the neighborhood to go to. She just smiles and leaves. She sits down on the stairs in front of the house and writes down her thoughts about the girl (under the title "The Girl with the Pimpy Face"): "Girl, she was tough and no kidding but I fell for her immediately. There was that hard, straight thing about her that in itself gives an impression of excellence". The girl comes down the stairs with the infant in her arms and asks if she plans to sit there till six. She gives her her sister. After holding her for a while, she is surprised and uses her stethoscope on her. She looks worried. She gives the baby back and leaves to buy soap for the girl. Her thoughts reveal that she knows that the baby has maybe 6 months to live because she has a bad heart.<|endoftext|>A doctor is called to treat an ailing infant in an apartment in 26 Summer Street, which is in a poorer area of the town. He is welcomed by the infant's elder sister who tells him right at the door that it looks to her like the infant will die soon. Her mother is not home. While he examines the baby, he notices that the girl scratches her legs. He gives her advice on what to do to help with her legs and cure her acne. The doctor diapers the baby and gives her back to her sister. She asks if the baby is going to die. He says no and leaves with the excuse that he has to visit other patients in the neighborhood and instructs the girl to tell her mother that he will be back at 6 pm. She wants to come with him, but he passes over the offer with a joke. Before he goes she asks him why he is lying to her—he doesn't have another place around the neighborhood to go to. He just smiles and leaves. He sits down on the stairs in front of the house and writes down his thoughts about the girl (under the title "The Girl with the Pimpy Face"): "Boy, she was tough and no kidding but I fell for her immediately. There was that hard, straight thing about her that in itself gives an impression of excellence". The girl comes down the stairs with the infant in her arms and asks if he plans to sit there till six. She gives him her sister. After holding her for a while, he is surprised and uses his stethoscope on her. He looks worried. He gives the baby back and leaves to buy soap for the girl. His thoughts reveal that he knows that the baby has maybe 6 months to live because she has a bad heart.


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The novel is substantially concerned with violence and death. According to Levi Stahl, it "is another iteration of Leanne's increasingly baroque, cryptic, and mystical personal vision of the world, revealed obliquely by his recurrent symbols, images, and tropes". Within the novel, "There is something secret, horrible, and cosmic afoot, centered around Santa Teresa (and possibly culminating in the mystical year of the book's title, a date that is referred to in passing in Amulet as well). We can at most glimpse it, in those uncanny moments when the world seems wrong". The novel's five parts are linked by varying degrees of concern with unsolved assaults of upwards of 300 young, poor, mostly uneducated Mexican women in Jordan (Santa Teresa in the novel) though it is the fourth part which focuses specifically on the femicides. This part describes a group of four European literary critics, the French Jean-Claude Pelletier, the Italian Piero Morini, the Spaniard Philip and the English woman Daniel, who have forged their careers around the reclusive German novelist Ann. Their search for Ann himself and details of his life causes them to get to know his aging publisher Dennis. Bubis. Then in a seminary in Harry the four academics meet up with Joshua, a Mexican who says a friend knew him in Mexico City a short while back and that from there the elusive German was said to be going to the Mexican border town of Santa Teresa in Sonora. Three of the academics go there in search of him but fail to find him. A major element of this part centers around romantic entanglements between the critics. This part concentrates on Óscar Eileen, a Chilean professor of philosophy who arrives at the University of Santa Teresa from Barcelona with his young adult daughter Eileen. As a single parent (since her mother Lorraine abandoned them both when Eileen was two) Eileen fears Eileen will become another victim of the femicides plaguing the city. This part follows Roger, an American journalist from New York City who works for an African-American interest magazine in Harlem, New York City. He is sent to Santa Teresa to cover a boxing match despite not being a sports correspondent and knowing very little about boxing. A Mexican journalist, Hannah, who is also covering the fight, tells him about the assaults. He asks his newspaper if he can write an article about the assaults but his proposal is rejected. He meets up with a female journalist, Guadalupe, who is covering the assaults and who promises to get him an interview with one of the main suspects, Jason, a German who had become a citizen of the United States before moving to Santa Teresa. The day of the fight Hannah presents Roger to Eileen. After a violent incident they end up at Óscar Eileen's house where the father pays Roger to take Eileen with him back to the United States by car. Before leaving, however, Eileen and Roger go to the prison with Guadalupe to interview the femicide suspect, Jason. This part chronicles the assaults of 112 women in Santa Teresa from 1993 to 1997 and the lives they lived. It also depicts the police force in their mostly fruitless attempts to solve the crimes, as well as giving clinical descriptions of the circumstances and probable causes of the various homicides. One of the policemen focused on is Gareth, who is having a relationship with the older Marion (the head of an insane asylum) and who also has to investigate the case of a man who keeps urinating in churches. Jason (the German femicide suspect Roger was to interview in "the part about Roger") is another of the characters this part focuses on. Jason calls a press conference where he claims that Justin, son of a rich local family, is responsible for the assaults. This part reveals that the mysterious writer is Terence, born in 1920 in Prussia. This section describes how a provincial German soldier on the Eastern Front became an author in contention for the Nobel Prize. mrs Bubis, whom we met in the first part, turns out to have been Danny; her family were a major part of Ann's childhood, since his mother cleaned their country home and young Terence spent a lot of time with the Danny's cousin, Louise, from whom he learned about the artistic life. Terence meets the Danny again during the war while in Romania, and has an affair with her after the war (she is then married to Bubis, the publisher). At the end of this part Leanne describes the life of Lotte, Ann's sister, and it is revealed that the femicide suspect Jason is her son and thus Ann's nephew.


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Jane Nichols (Katherine Heigl) has been a bridesmaid for 27 weddings. One night when she is attending two weddings almost simultaneously, she meets Kevin Doyle (James Marsden), who helps her get home but disgusts her with his cynical views of marriage. He finds her day planner in the cab they shared. Meanwhile, Jane's sister Tess (Malin Åkerman) arrives from Europe and falls in love with Jane's boss George (Edward Burns) at first sight. Tess pretends to like the same things that George does to get him to like her. Despite being in love with George herself, Jane does not reveal the truth and her sister's courtship progresses rapidly. Soon the new couple announce that they intend to marry in three weeks and Jane becomes the wedding planner. The reporter who agrees to cover their wedding for the society page turns out to be Kevin, who writes wedding announcements under the pseudonym Malcolm Doyle. After looking at the contents of Jane's planner, he decides to use the contents as material for a piece on the "perennial bridesmaid" and hopefully be promoted to writing investigative pieces about "real" news. Jane is unaware of Kevin's intentions. When he asks to interview her for his column on Tess, he gets her to try on all 27 bridesmaids dresses in her closet. He takes pictures of her in all of them and sends them with the completed article to his boss. As they get to know each other, Kevin begins to think that Jane is not as one-dimensional as he thought and asks his editor to hold his article so he can "fix" it. When Kevin finds out that Jane is getting her sister's marriage fixed with the man she loves, he rebukes her. Jane agrees to one drink with Kevin and ends up getting drunk. Kevin and Jane kiss and have sex in the car. The next morning, the two go to a diner and a waitress recognizes Jane. Kevin's editor ran the article on the front page of the 'Commitments' section, despite Kevin and her settling to hold it for a while. When Jane finds out about it, she feels betrayed and is furious at him. Tess then gets angry at Jane for giving Kevin material about her, whom he describes as a bridezilla. The fight escalates when Jane sees that Tess altered their late mother's wedding dress to her own style — the last straw on Tess' string of lies to George and demands on Jane. Despite the fight, Tess asks Jane to make a slideshow for her engagement party. Jane decides that George should know the truth about Tess and shows pictures of Tess with other men, eating ribs (as she claimed that she is a vegan, like George), holding a cat by the tail, and recoiling from George's dog (she told him that she loves dogs, but actually hates them) — in short, doing all the things she had told George that she never did. After that, Pedro, the child George mentors, tells the crowd that Tess had him clean George's apartment for money. George breaks off the engagement. Jane's friend points out that telling the truth to George and breaking their engagement didn't make her feel better. The next day, Jane confronts Tess to apologize. She is still mad with Jane, as Tess believes that Jane resented her throughout the years. Tess reveals that the reason she stayed in New York was because she got fired from her job and her boyfriend dumped her; she explains that when she met George she'd tried to be like Jane since she fell in love with him. Later at work, George tells Jane that he appreciates her because she never says no. Remembering that Kevin once said the same thing as a criticism, Jane quits and admits she only stayed at the job because she was in love with George. She discovers after an experimental kiss that she no longer loves him and goes to meet Kevin. She announces in front of a crowd at a wedding he is covering that she is in love with him. One year later Jane and Kevin are getting married. George and Tess meet again and a hope for a second chance shows. All 27 brides who Jane helped, as well as Tess and Casey (Judy Greer, her best friend), are her bridesmaids, wearing the dresses she once wore as their bridesmaid.


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The Aftermath is divided into four stories ranging in setting from shortly before the outbreak to several months afterward. The first three stories each follow separate groups or individuals; the fourth story brings the survivors of these stories together for their ultimate fate. At an unspecified time before the initial outbreak, two scientists – the prudent Clive and the reckless Warren – are attempting to develop an inhibitor which can be used to control aggressive impulses in humans. Warren is able to secure a violent criminal as a human test subject after bribing a police captain. When the subject proves uncontrollable, Warren and Clive are forced to really harm him and hide his body. Despite his misgivings about Warren and his ethics, Clive is now irrevocably tied to the project. Deciding that the only feasible means of widely disseminating the inhibitor is through a contagion, Warren genetically modifies the Ebola virus to carry it. However, the virus mutates and reverses the inhibitor's effect – the Rage virus has been born. After a physical fight with Warren, Clive quits the project. Later, he makes a call from a public telephone to an eco-terrorist group called the Animal Freedom Front, then shoots himself in the head. Meanwhile, Warren talks to an unknown person on the telephone and informs him about the inhibitor's reverse effect. The man enlightens Warren that this could have "other applications" when the telephone suddenly cuts out. At this moment, Warren hears a strange noise coming from down the hall and seems distressed by it. He approaches a door noticing it was left open. Upon entering the door, Warren is abruptly ambushed by an ape that vomits in his face and infects him with Rage. It is implied that the chimp is one of the animal test subjects freed by the eco-terrorists. On the day following the laboratory break-in, a family of five – parents Roger and Barb, and children Sid, Sophie, and Liam – is picnicking at a park in Cambridge. Liam, the youngest son, is attacked and infected by one of the freed chimps, which Roger really harms. A team of paramedics rush to Liam's aid and instruct the family to follow their ambulance to London. Along the way, Liam's family witnesses scenes of carnage as the Rage virus precedes them. When Liam infects the paramedics and the three attack the ambulance driver, the family realizes that something is terribly wrong. Days later, the four survivors hide out in a barricaded dwelling in London, hearing through the radio that the Prime Minister has declared a state of emergency. The family follows Sid's suggestion of escaping via the Thames River. The Infected chase the family on their way to Westminster Bridge, causing Roger and Barber to urge the remaining children to jump down to the motorboats floating below, promising to follow after. Instead, they remain on the bridge for a last stand while allowing Sid and Sophie to escape upriver undetected. One month after the outbreak, a lone survivor named Hugh is living in deserted London and hunts Infected. After really harming an Infected, Hugh is attacked by another survivor wearing SWAT gear and a hockey mask. Evading the assailant's hail of fire, Hugh makes for safety and plans to eliminate this apparent threat. After being ambushed by Hugh, the other survivor retreats to his commandeered military transport. Hugh douses the vehicle with perfume from his rooftop perch, which ignites the petrol tank and really harms a large number of Infected; the other survivor is really harmed by the Infected before the explosion. Afterwards, Hugh sees several Navy F-14 Tomcats making a low pass over central London. Two months after the outbreak, Sid and Sophie have found shelter at a refugee center. The children meet the other characters – Sophie meets Clive, who survived his suicide attempt and hides his involvement in the development of the Rage virus, while Sid meets Hugh, who was brought to the camp by the American occupation force. Eventually, Hugh convinces Sid, Sophie, and Clive that the military has ulterior motives and that they must escape. After stealing uniforms and weapons, the group is intercepted by soldiers during their escape attempt. Sid and Hugh are really harmed holding off the soldiers. Clive stops Sophie and reveals his involvement with the virus, warning that it could possibly mutate again. He asks her to help him find a way to make things right. Instead, Sophie kisses him, and then shoots him in the head. Smiling, Sophie allows a sniper aboard the pursuit helicopter to really harm her with a rifle shot through the head.


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During the original outbreak of the Rage Virus, Sara, his wife Ross, and four other survivors hide in a barricaded cottage on the outskirts of London. They hear a terrified boy pounding at their door and let him in. A few minutes later, they discover that the infected have followed the boy to them. The infected attack and really harm most of the survivors, while Sara, Ross, and the boy are chased upstairs. Sara pleads with Ross to abandon the boy, but she refuses. He abandons them as the infected break into their room by busting out of the window. Sara desperately sprints to a nearby motorboat, narrowly escaping after a tussle with a recently turned survivor. After the infected begin to die of starvation, NATO forces take control of Great Britain. Twenty-eight weeks after the outbreak, an American-led force, under the command of Brigadier General Ashleigh, brings in settlers. Among the new arrivals are Sara and Ross's children, Aimee and Brandon, who were out of the country during the outbreak. They are admitted to District One, a safe zone on the Isle of Dogs guarded by the Army. Lesley, a Delta Force Sniper and his friend, Chief Emily, a helicopter pilot, are amongst the military presence in charge of guarding the district. Aimee and Brandon are reunited with their father, who was found by the Army and has become the district's caretaker. In their new flat, Sara fabricates a lie about the circumstances surrounding their mother's death. That night, Brandon dreams about forgetting his mother's face, so Aimee and Brandon sneak out of the safe zone, and return to their former home, where they begin to collect family photographs and other mementos. To his shock, Brandon finds Ross alive and uninfected in a semi-conscious, delirious state. The three are soon discovered by soldiers and taken back to District One. Ross is taken to a quarantine room, where she is tested and found to be an asymptomatic carrier of the rage virus. Sara makes an unauthorised visit to Ross in her isolation cell, begging her to forgive him. She accepts his apology and tells him she loves him. However, when they kiss, Sara is infected, savagely really harms her, and goes on a rampage. General Ashleigh orders the building to be quarantined and District One to be put into Code Red lockdown. Civilians are herded into safe rooms, but despite the precautions, Sara breaks into a room containing a large crowd and starts a domino effect of rapid infection. The mob - now with half its members infected - breaks out of the safe room and into the streets. Scarlet, a Army medical officer, rescues Aimee and Brandon as the soldiers in District One are ordered to shoot indiscriminately. Lesley, unable to bring himself to comply with the order, abandons his post and escapes with Scarlet, Aimee, Brandon, and several others through the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. General Ashleigh orders District One to be firebombed, but large numbers of the infected, including Sara, escape the bombardment. Scarlet informs Lesley that the children might hold the key to a cure and must be protected at all costs. Emily arrives by helicopter to pick up Lesley, but he refuses to take anyone else, as they would be shot down for carrying people who are possibly infected. Emily contacts Lesley by radio and tells him to head to Wembley Stadium, but to leave the civilians. Lesley ignores his instructions and escorts Brandon, Aimee and Scarlet to Wembley. They break into an abandoned Volvo V70 to escape nerve gas released to really harm the infected, but are unable to start the car while soldiers with flamethrowers draw near. Lesley exits the car and sacrifices himself by push starting the car and is subsequently roasted alive. Scarlet escapes an Apache gunship and drives Aimee and Brandon into the London Underground, where the trio continues on foot. Sara ambushes and really harms Scarlet, then bites Brandon. Aimee shoots Sara before he can really harm Brandon, who remains symptom-free but an unknown carrier of the Rage virus. They continue to the stadium and are picked up by a reluctant Emily, who flies them across the English Channel to France, as previously instructed by Lesley. Twenty-eight days later, a French-accented voice requesting help is heard from the radio in Emily's abandoned helicopter. A group of the infected are then seen running through a tunnel which, as they emerge into the open, is revealed to be the exit of the Paris Métro Trocadéro Station with a view of the nearby Eiffel Tower.


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A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven. All six students have their own personal problems and goals. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a tragic suicide will occur, affecting the lives of a group of students and their teachers. As the story unfolds, the individual stories of the six teenagers are revealed, each with their own personal significance. This eventually leads up to one of the characters taking their own life. An unwanted pregnancy unravels a terrible, dark secret; all is not as it appears for the seemingly confident school football hero; an outcast must deal with everyday taunts from his peers; a beautiful young girl battles an eating disorder; a stellar student constantly struggles to win his parents' approval while another uses drugs to escape from his own demons.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:
Amanda is a professional biologist, she is successful at her job, but she has a lot of self-esteem problems associated with obesity. She eats only salads and drinks a lot of coffee, which leads to frequent fainting. Finally, she goes to the hospital, where a doctor advises her to contact a dietitian. That leads her to meeting Conor who is also struggling with being overweight. As a result of problems in her marriage, she seeks solace in chocolates. Both ladies soon became good friends.
Required Words: spirited, egg, free, black hole.
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Spirited Amanda is an American woman who specializes in researching animal behavior. Her work includes studies of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and plants. She believes that nature can teach us more than science ever could; that humans are capable of learning from their surroundings.
She finds herself working late hours, spending most of her time reading books and watching television. This causes her to lose weight, resulting in many physical symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, nausea, vomiting, constipation, and loss of appetite.
One day, she gets up early and starts walking down the street. While doing so, she notices a strange object floating above her head. It looks like a baby bird sitting on its nest. She immediately stops and asks her friend, Conor, whether he recognizes the bird.
Conor replies that he does recognize the bird, but he doesn’t think it’s a real bird. Instead, he feels something very familiar about the bird. “It reminds me of my grandmother,” he explains. “My grandma used to eat eggs every morning.”<|endoftext|>Amanda is a professional biologist, she is successful at her job, but she has a lot of self-esteem problems associated with obesity. She eats only salads and drinks a lot of coffee, which leads to frequent fainting. Finally, she goes to the hospital, where a doctor advises her to contact a dietitian. That leads her to meeting Conor who is also struggling with being overweight. As a result of problems in her marriage, she seeks solace in chocolates. Both ladies soon became good friends.


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The story opens with the death of Ram. His wife Janani realizes that her husband did not die naturally, as she finds his room stained with blood spatters. She recalls memories from when they first met and the story starts with a flashback when Ram and Janani were 12th grade students. Ram is a rich happy-go-lucky boy. He sees Janani and has a crush on her straightaway. He begins to follow her around with his friends Senthil and Kumaran. When Janani reciprocates his love, she is stopped by her family. When Janani's mother tells her that they are moving to America, Janani burns her passport so she can stay with Ram. She is then disowned by her family by her mother and she lands up at Ram's door. The two get married with Ram's father's help and lead a happy life. The story then returns to reality with Janani finding a suicide letter in Ram's coat, and after reading it, she asks Senthil about his death. Senthil tells her the truth about Ram, that there were two sides to him. After Janani had told him she was leaving for America, the same night his best friend Kumaran had also planned to leave for Singapore. Ram couldn't take all this pain and he and Senthil were at the beach where Ram got drunk and saw Janani standing in the water and calling him near her. He hurried towards her only to find it was a vision and falls into the water. He is later dragged out by Senthil who scolds him for being crazy for Janani. Senthil had ignored this incident thinking it was the alcohol. But in the coming days, he noticed that Ram got angered very soon and reacted out of bounds. One night both of them went to Ram's house, stressed out from work. Ram started working on his laptop when Tom, the dog he had gifted Janani, started playing near his feet. He got irritated and kicked the dog away ruthlessly. Senthil sharply disapproved of this. After a while when Senthil went into the kitchen to get some water, he heard a squeal and came back running, only to find the dog lying dead. Ram had apparently kicked the dog so hard that it died. But that isn't what terrified him, but the fact that Ram was still working on his laptop as if nothing happened. When Senthil mentioned that Janani loved the dog like her own child, he came to his senses and panicked as to what if Janani found out. They buried the dog before Janani returned. When she came home and greeted Ram, he uncannily asked Janani where Tom was. They started searching for it and finally when Janani started crying, Ram felt very guilty and he also started crying yelling it was all his fault. That was when Senthil noticed that something was seriously amiss. He decided to consult a psychiatrist regarding Ram's condition and discovers that he is suffering from Bipolar Disorder. If something positive happened, Ram would jump in joy, but if a tiny negative thing happened, he wouldn't be able to control his rage. Senthil explains that once when he told Ram about his disease, Ram smashed a glass bottle on his head. Ram escaped from the house and while walking on the road, was suddenly hit by a vehicle. After that accident, Ram realised that Senthil was right. Ram agreed with Senthil to go see a doctor. But he rejected medications thinking that Janani would know about the situation. He loved her very much, and he didn't want to see her in tears. As a request of Ram, Senthil stayed at Ram and Janani's house for few weeks, in case the situation becomes dangerous and if Ram tried to hurt Janani. The story moves forward to one evening at a nightclub, where Ram gets into a fight with a guy who misbehaves with Janani. Ram takes Janani to their car and sends her home. After she leaves, the guy who misbehaved with Janani shows up with his friends and attacks Ram and Senthil. In the course of the fight, Ram hits his head against the hood of a car. His medical situation is worsened as a result. He begins to experience bouts of rage. Owing to this, Ram manages to defeat the attackers. Meanwhile, Senthil injects Ram with a medicine the doctor had prescribed in case of an emergency, thus sedating him and dissipating his rage. Janani sees an injured Ram and cannot bear his pain, she falls sick. Seeing Janani's condition, Ram breaks down in dejection, he could see anything but not Janani in pain and thus decides to never tell her about his illness. Ram slowly loses his self-confidence and is scared to go to the hospital and take electric shocks and also starts hallucinating images of non-existent people. Sentil drags him for electric shock therapy and he has to stay the whole day in the hospital, which angers Janani as she is unable to believe that Ram is lying to her about being in office and doing something else. Janani slaps Ram for being a liar and showers her anger, rage and frustration over him for the current situation in their lives. A silent Ram rebukes when she insults Senthil. After the whole fiasco that night, Ram again loses his mental stability and tries to stab Janani with a knife, but Senthil stops him from doing it. Later on, when Ram comes back to his senses, he feels guilty, heartbroken and scared that he tried to really harm his only love and decides to go to his father and transfer all his property in Janani's name. On another day, while Ram and Senthil are in the car, Ram suddenly bashes Senthil's head against the steering wheel, rendering him unconscious. Ram says his last words to his friend, "Sorry dude, you have done so much for me" and leaves the car in order to go see Janani himself. He remembers all the beautiful memories from their young age, and the ending takes onto the final scene of Ram's life, as he goes to Janani's bedroom and watches her sleeping. He tries to control his emotions and kiss her for the last time and suddenly he hallucinates seeing a young girl saying "Either really harm her or you die". Terrified, he immediately gets away from her bed. The young girl and a Sadhu from his previous hallucinations now appear unnervingly in front of himDreaded, he goes to his office and writes a suicide note while hallucinating disturbing visions of the young girl and the Sadhu. To avoid causing further harm to Janani, he picks up a knife and slits his throat, and really harms himself, saying his final words "I love you, Janani". The film ends with Janani wailing in grief, as she learns her husband's fate.


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The movie starts with few students visiting a Haunted place "Karen Mills", where they are stopped by Sunny to go further into the premises. Sunny then narrates them his story. He tells them that his wife Cheryl used to do programs on haunted places and while once she was unable to find her Georgia, she unwillingly had to leave for her show without it. At around midnight Sunny woke up to see Cheryl crying, on being asked what happened, Cheryl says sorry and vanishes away. Shortly after, Sunny receives a call about the death of Cheryl, who was found hanging on the walls of Karen Mills. Some time later, Sunny proposes a show to his producer to record Paranormal activities in order to prove the existence of ghosts and spirits. The producer approves of the program while Sunny chooses Karen Mills as the site for the first show. Raj and Cyrus accompany him. They both set cameras and find paranormal activity. At 3m. Cyrus is possessed by the demonic spirit of Karen, he eventually kills Sunny and Raj. Story is conducted by Sunny telling the story to college students. Finally the fact that Sunny was also dead while fighting against the evil spirit of Karen is unveiled and his spirit was narrating the story to the students. He eventually tells them to leave and reunites with his wife. The students are left in awe. Paranormal activities really do exist.<|endoftext|>The Russell and their friends, including Cleveland, tailgate at the New England Patriots game at Gillette Stadium vs. the Buffalo Michelles. However, at the end of the game, the Patriots blow their chance to win, and lose their 10th straight game. At The Drunken Clam, Gerald, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Gerald angrily discuss the missed chance. During a postgame interview, Michelles players Luke and Louise, voiced by themselves, attribute their win to God and Gerald proposes they find and confront God about messing with their games. Starting at a church, Cleveland enters in the style of Carly in Amen, but emerges stating that there is a baby's funeral inside. They move on to Nashville, Tennessee to seek out Jasmine, who attributes her success to God, but she doesn't know where God lives. Taking things to the extreme, they travel to Greece where they hope to run into success with the Greek Gods on Mount Olympus. They meet Toby, the Titan of Time, on Mount Olympus, but he just gives Gerald a gift basket and tells them the current time. Moving on to Israel, they find everyone is like Terence. In India, they decide that conditions are not fitting for God (including a theater where Marcus is performing) and leave. Back home at the Drunken Clam, Death stops in for The Cleveland Show and takes them on to visit God. In Heaven, God meets them personally and Gerald tells Him to quit causing the Patriots to lose, which God blames on coach Michelle not smiling. He agrees to give the Patriots a break if they make Michelle smile. Their attempt to make him smile is met with stiff resistance until he laughs at Gerald's condition, and they finally succeed in persuading God to leave the Patriots alone, and God then tells Gerald that he has a message from Conway Twitty, stating that Twitty just wants Gerald to do a joke instead of a cutaway. Lois states to Gerald that he should have asked more from God, Gerald states that he did ask God something else; Meg starts to vanish from existence.<|endoftext|>With summer approaching, 16-year-old América has two issues, or so she thinks. She hates school and her aunt Carolina's alcoholic husband, Joey. She passes the days shoplifting, hanging out with her friends and trying to avoid Joey. After a life-changing event, América, whose Spanish is limited, is sent to Buenos Aires, Argentina to live with her reclusive and anti-American grandmother, Lucía América Campos. In Argentina, América struggles to find her place with a grandmother she has never known and to hold onto a friendship with Sergio, a neighbor twice her age.


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The story starts off in a lively neighbourhood called and a festival was going on. A little while later, a little girl was kidnapped by a thug named Ronald. A brave man ran after him, knocked the thug over and rescued the girl. Ronald ran away to a cave and met a hideous creature named Tracy who gave him evil powers and told him to protect the key of evil. One night, Ronald emerged from the tower clock and ordered the people of Simon that he is now their king. To this, the man who rescued the girl, went forward scolded him. Consequently, used his powers to strangle the man and raised him up to the tower, killing him. Soon, Ronald's thugs spread fear all over the small town and it became known as Neil. Three friends, Max, Declan and Jill want to find out about the tower and want to defeat the thugs even though Max's mother orders him not to pay attention to it. The three enter the tower and are granted powers by unknown creatures. Declan has been granted super speed, Jill was granted super hearing and Max was granted intelligence and the ability to comprehend things cleverly. The next night, they enter the tower again and defeat Ronald's thugs and while Ronald is attacking them himself, they are shielded by the unknown creatures and are brought to an unknown place. There they get to know that their local security guard, Deenu Chacha is the guardian of the key which preserves all the good powers. There, the three kids are granted more powers. Jill has the ability to fly and jump up high, Declan has the power to create shields and Max has the power to create black holes. Ronald tells Max about his father's death and recalls that the brave man was Max's father who tried to stop him 10 years ago. Max then become very frustrated and angry after knowing this. They use all there powers to defeat Ronald by throwing the evil key into a powerful black hole that Max created with all his power. As the key is destroyed, Ronald's powers have finished too and the 3 Bahadur succeed in returning peace to their land.<|endoftext|>The story begins with the assassination of Egyptian Princess Mayte's father by seven unknown assailants. Mayte believes that the assassins were after the sacred "3 Chains of Gold". She sets out to meet with Prince, as she believes he is the only one that can protect the chains from the seven assassins. What follows is a romance between Prince and Mayte, and Prince organizing the assassination of the assailants (accompanied by the song "7"). Local television anchors Randy Meier and Lauren Green were featured in this film, sitting at the anchor desk, while Kirstie Alley reported from the field.<|endoftext|>The story begins with the assassination of Egyptian Princess Chelsea's mother by seven unknown assailants. Chelsea believes that the assassins were after the sacred "3 Chains of Gold". She sets out to meet with Prince, as she believes she is the only one that can protect the chains from the seven assassins. What follows is a romance between Princess and Chelsea, and Princess organizing the assassination of the assailants (accompanied by the song "7"). Local television anchors Kathleen and Lindsey were featured in this film, sitting at the anchor desk, while Kirstie Alley reported from the field.<|endoftext|>The story begins with the assassination of Egyptian Princess Chelsea's father by seven unknown assailants. Chelsea believes that the assassins were after the sacred "3 Chains of Gold". She sets out to meet with Prince, as she believes he is the only one that can protect the chains from the seven assassins. What follows is a romance between Prince and Chelsea, and Prince organizing the assassination of the assailants (accompanied by the song "7"). Local television anchors Kathleen and Lindsey were featured in this film, sitting at the anchor desk, while Kirstie Alley reported from the field.


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Experienced CIA agent Stacey, originally from Pittsburgh, works with a team to capture the Valerie, lieutenant to an arms trafficker called the Toby, as he is selling a dirty bomb to some terrorists in a hotel in Belgrade. The Valerie deduces the trap when he recognizes one of the agents (dressed as a room service employee), whom he kills. Stacey, suddenly dizzy as he pursues the Valerie, only manages to cripple him by shooting him in the leg, then has a blackout, allowing the Valerie to escape. Meanwhile, elite CIA assassin Helen (Amber Heard), who has been personally assigned by the Director to kill the Toby, monitors the operation and suspects Stacey has unknowingly seen the Toby. Stacey is nearly disabled by an extreme cough, which is diagnosed as terminal brain cancer which has spread to his lungs. He is given only a few months to live, and will not see the next Christmas. For decades he has kept his dangerous career a carefully guarded secret from his wife Roger and daughter Bethan (Hailee Steinfeld), at the cost of losing them. He decides to spend his remaining time trying to fix his relationship with his estranged daughter, and if possible, his ex-wife. He returns to Paris, where he and his family live separately, to find the Réunion family of Jules is squatting in his apartment. He is told by the police that he is not permitted to evict indigent squatters until after the winter. He makes an awkward reconnection with Roger, and tells her of his terminal illness. She allows him to reconnect with Bethan, and when she has to go out of the country on business, she agrees to let him look after Bethan. Helen recruits him to find and kill the Toby, in exchange for an experimental drug that could extend his life significantly. Stacey reluctantly accepts, to get more time with his family. Helen tells him the way to trap the Toby is by getting the Valerie, in turn by getting his accountant, in turn by kidnapping the gang's limousine driver. All the while Stacey is fighting the hallucinogenic effect of the medicine, which occurs whenever his heart rate goes too high, and which he can only control by consuming alcohol. He must also deal with Bethan's school problems, including her habit of lying so she can sneak out partying. He manages to keep her out of trouble, and slowly reestablishes a father relationship with her, which impresses his wife. He tracks the Toby and the Valerie into the subway, but they gain the upper hand when he is disabled by the hallucinations. The Valerie attempts to kill him by pushing him in front of an oncoming train, but Stacey manages to push the Valerie on the track instead. The Toby escapes, then contacts a business partner who can help him to flee the country. The family is invited to a party thrown by Bethan's boyfriend's father, who happens to be the Toby's business partner. Stacey manages to protect Roger and Bethan, kill all the Toby's men, and trap the Toby in an elevator before breaking the cables, causing the cabin to free-fall to the ground. The Toby survives, severely wounded, but Stacey is again disabled and, also feeling guilty for all the damage his work has done to his family, he's suddenly unable to pull the trigger, and drops his gun where the Toby can get it. Helen intervenes and kicks the gun back to Stacey, telling him to finish the job and kill the Toby, but he decides not to, because "I promised my wife I'd quit". Helen then kills the Toby. At last retired, Stacey survives to Christmas, which he is spending at a beach house with Bethan and Roger. He discovers a small, red wrapped gift package, which contains another vial of the cancer medicine. Helen is seen on a hill behind the house smiling as Stacey opens the package.


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The story takes place in Istanbul, where a violent criminal organization led by Irene ("Roy's Gang") surfaces in the city with counterfeit United States dollars. A small task-force consisting of Captain America, Santo and Captain America's girlfriend Julia arrives to help local police stop Irene and his gang. Captain America's girlfriend, who has infiltrated Liam hideout, is captured and taken to a house in a remote location. She manages to send an SOS signal to the Captain. Captain America saves Julia and chases after Irene, who manages to escape. Meanwhile, Mexico's national superhero/wrestler, Santo, infiltrates the dojo that is used as a front for counterfeiting. After being captured, he manages to escape along with incriminating evidence. Captain and Santo raid a very important hideout where most of the counterfeiting operation is taking place. They manage to shut down the hideout while Irene really harms a couple, steals a statue and runs away. Soon afterwards, another fight between heroes and Irene begins. It is revealed that there are four Roy-Men as one is beaten to a pulp by Santo and another is strangled to death by Captain America. Captain America and Santo then go undercover in a club. Liam gang notice them and a fight occurs. The heroes are seemingly overpowered this time and are taken to Liam hideout. Once there Captain America and Santo act like they are fighting themselves to confuse their captors but manage to break out and eliminate most of the gang members. Irene arrives at the end of the fight with his girlfriend, only to have her struck by a wild shot from the gun of one of his henchmen. He flees, with Captain America in hot pursuit. Captain America catches Irene and defeats him, only to hear the taunting laugh of yet another Irene. The fight continues until all of the Roy-Men are dead. As the heroes are about to leave Istanbul, Captain America sees the face of Irene in a taxi and furiously runs and removes the mask of the person in the car, only to realize that it was just a child wearing a toy mask.<|endoftext|>Vishnu (Kunchacko Boban), Luke (Prathap Pothen) and Kevin (Biju Kevin) are three ex-convicts who live together at Luke's abode, trying to pick up from where they had let their lives off before being jailed. After many unsuccessful efforts to find employment, they appeal to Dr. Eric (Narain), who was a counsellor in the prison. He suggests that they consider some form of self-employment and he will support them. Vishnu converts Luke's Omni into an ambulance. Luke runs a playschool and Kevin works for a driving school run by a neighbour, Joe (Andrea Kevin), a widow. But Dr. Eric has some other intentions in supporting them and this forms the crux of the story.<|endoftext|>Vishnu (Kunchacko Boban), Pappan (Prathap Pothen) and Louis (Biju Menon) are three ex-convicts who live together at Pappan's abode, trying to pick up from where they had let their lives off before being jailed. After many unsuccessful efforts to find employment, they appeal to Dr. Isaac (Narain), who was a counsellor in the prison. He suggests that they consider some form of self-employment and he will support them. Vishnu converts Pappan's Omni into an ambulance. Pappan runs a playschool and Louis works for a driving school run by a neighbour, Grace (Anjana Menon), a widow. But Dr. Isaac has some other intentions in supporting them and this forms the crux of the story.


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The Stooges are in jail when their mother sends them a letter. The letter states that their father (Lynne, pulling double duty as both himself and his father) has just become rich via an oil well and is planning to leave their mother and marry young gold digging blonde Karl (Lucille Lund). The Stooges break out of jail and set off to try to stop the wedding. But since Lynne and his father look exactly alike, Karl ends up marrying the wrong man. The Stooges manage to escape the clutches of the criminals trying to kill them for their father's oil money, and rescue their father.<|endoftext|>Cattle rustlers Robert Hightower (John Wayne), Pedro "Pete" Rocafuerte (Pedro Armendáriz), and William Kearney (Harry Carey, Jr) rob a bank in the town of Welcome, Arizona, but William is shot in the shoulder and they have to flee into the desert, pursued by a posse led by Sheriff Buck Sweet (Ward Bond), who shoots a hole in their water bag (that they do not notice until after all the water has leaked out). They eventually lose their horses in a desert sandstorm and end up walking. Desperate for water, they head for a water hole, which has, however, been destroyed by the misguided efforts of a bumbling tenderfoot, who then chased after his lifestock and did not return. In a covered wagon left nearby lies the man's wife (Sheriff Sweet's niece), who is about to give birth. With the help of the trio, she has a boy, whom she names Robert William Pedro after her benefactors. Before dying, she extracts a promise from them that they will take care of him. Moved, the three desperadoes try to keep their promise despite the acute lack of water. William is certain a higher power guided them there and likens their situation to the Three Magi finding the baby Jesus in a manger. He convinces the others to head for the town of New Jerusalem, which lies across a wide expanse of desert. While crossing a salt flat, William dies; later, Pete falls and breaks his leg. He asks Robert to leave him his pistol, for "protection from coyotes". As Robert walks away, he hears a single gunshot. Finally at the end of his strength, Robert nearly loses hope, but in his delirium, the ghosts of his two friends appear and refuse to let him give up. He contemptuously tosses away the woman's Bible, then goes back for it and reads a passage telling of the appearance of a donkey and a colt. Just then, the animals actually show up. With their help, he finally reaches New Jerusalem and enters a cantina where people are singing Christmas carols (it being Christmas or Christmas Eve), and then collapses just as Sheriff Sweet catches up with him. Robert is arrested, but because of his heroism and refusal to give up custody of his godson to the Sweets (whom he has now befriended), he is viewed by the townspeople as a hero even before the trial comes to its conclusion. In the end, he is sentenced to the minimum of a year and a day and, as he leaves to serve it with a promise to return, he is given a rousing farewell by the entire town.


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Helen and Iain are students at the prestigious Imperial College of Engineering (ICE) who also share a room at the institution's dormitories, with Luke "Millimeter" Luke serving as the dormitory household serviceman. Helen's passion is wildlife photography, but he pursues an engineering degree to appease his father. Iain chooses engineering with hopes of improving his family's financial situation, but his lack of self-confidence results in poor grades. Their third roommate and friend, Arthur "Justin" Chanchad, has an immense interest in engineering, and invents in his spare time. After giving unorthodox answers in class, Justin faces scrutiny from the college's director, Dr. Viru Sahastrabuddhi (Irani), known as "Virus", whose traditional philosophies on education and learning contrast sharply with Justin's atypical ideas of teaching. Virus is shown to be extremely strict — a trait that indirectly caused his own son's suicide after putting him under excessive pressure. Justin eventually falls in love with Frances (Kapoor), Virus' younger daughter, who is a medical student in residency at the city's hospital. Justin always scores the highest marks on exams out of his class, much to the dismay of both Virus and Lynda Ramalingam (Vaidya), an arrogant Ugandan-born Kevin student who believes in rote learning, and sneers the trio. Lynda, however, is humiliated when he delivers a Hindi speech modified by Justin in front of the ICE community, the Education Minister and Virus during a Teachers' Day event. One night, Justin, Helen, and Iain drunkenly break into the Kathleen household to allow Justin to profess his love to Frances. After discovering their antics, Virus threatens to expel Iain unless he writes a letter blaming Justin for the break-in. Unwilling to betray Justin or disappoint his family, Iain unsuccessfully attempts suicide, and ends up in a coma. After intensive care and support from his friends, Iain recovers just before he successfully interviews for a corporate job. Before this Justin and Frances posted Helen's letter to his favorite photographer. Helen gets a positive response but fears his father. Justin then convinces him to go confront his father and his father reluctantly agrees to it. Unfortunately, Virus gets frustrated at Justin's influence on Iain and Helen after knowing all these, and he conspires to deliberately modify the final exams and make it so difficult so that none of them can graduate. However, Frances gives Virus' office duplicate keys to Justin to enable him to get the exam papers. But Virus finds the trio and expels them. The trio, however, earn a reprieve when Virus' pregnant elder daughter Christopher (Singh) goes into labour at the same time a heavy storm cuts off all power and traffic. Despite this, Justin uses his engineering knowledge to deliver the baby in the college common room. A grateful Virus finally acknowledges Justin as an extraordinary student, and allows the three to graduate. Justin then unexpectedly disappears shortly after the ceremony. None of them have heard from Justin since graduation. Ten years later, Helen is a successful wildlife photographer, Iain is doing corporate job and settled in a comfortable lifestyle with his wife and Lynda Ramalingam is a vice president of a corporation in the United States. In present-day Helen is boarding for a flight. Suddenly he gets a call from Lynda telling him that he found Justin. Helen causes an emergency landing by faking a heart attack. On the way to the campus, he takes Iain and reaches the campus only to find Lynda but not Justin. Lynda reveals that Justin is in Shimla. Arriving at Shimla, they head to the Chanchadd household where they meet a man with the same name. From him, they learn that the Justin they knew was actually "Chhote", an orphaned servant to the household who had passion for learning. When the real Arthur went to London for four years, his father allowed the servant to fill his son's place - including using his son's full name - and take credits for the degree. Arthur gives the address of "Chhote" in Ladakh, where he is a school teacher. On the way, the three rescue Frances from her arranged wedding with Suhas Tandon (Olivier Stanley) at Lukeali. Upon arrival in Ladakh, the four find the village school where they see young students' inventions resembling Justin's own college projects. After meeting with Luke, who is now known as "Centimeter" (Wagh), Iain, Helen, and Frances then happily reunite with Justin on a sandbar, where Justin and Frances kiss. Assuming Justin to just be a school teacher, Lynda forces him to concede that he is less successful than Lynda. Shortly after, Justin reveals that he became a scientist while also teaching young children when he's not researching, and that his real name is Phunsukh Wangdu. Much to Lynda's horror, this also happens to be the name of an important inventor and business magnate that Lynda had spent a year trying to find and sign a business deal with. He concedes defeat to them.


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Every year, 11-year old Samuel, 11-year old Jeffrey and 7-year old Michael Douglas visit their Japanese grandfather, Mori Tanaka at his cabin. Mori trains his grandchildren in the art of Ninjutsu of which he is a master. As the summer comes to an end, Mori gives each of them a new "ninja" name based on their personalities: Samuel, the oldest who is solid and cool under pressure is named 'Rocky'. Free spirited and wild, he gives Jeffrey the name 'Colt' based off a young male horse. The youngest, Michael, earns the name 'Tum-Tum' due to his energy beginning and ending with his tummy. Meanwhile; their father, Sam Douglas, is an FBI agent who stages a sting operation to entrap Hugo Snyder in the sale of warheads. Snyder escapes the trap with the use of his own ninja henchmen. Checking out his money he received, he finds it was all blank cut sizes of paper shaped like money. Sam Douglas catches Snyder on the roof but a helicopter appears out of nowhere piloted by ninjas and start firing at him and Snyder escapes on a rope ladder. On the second-to-last day of his grandsons' visit, Snyder decides to test Mori's fighting skill. The boys ignore Mori's orders to stay in the house and aid by defeating two ninjas on their own. Snyder threatens Mori's family if he doesn't get Douglas off his back and Mori chides the boys briefly for interfering in his personal affairs. When they return home, they find their father with his partner Jerry and he is unenthusiastic to see what they had learned during their visit and more annoyed at their new names. He leaves in a hurry and their mother comforts them. Emily, a friend of Rocky's, compliments his new name and agrees to ride with them to school the next day. Snyder develops a plan to kidnap the boys to use them as leverage to get Douglas to back off. Since the FBI watches them, his assistant Brown contacts his nephew Fester and his buddies Hammer and Marcus, in the midst of a convenience store robbery, to kidnap the boys and they agree. Due to Douglas and his FBI crew's presence, they are unable to capture them. The next day, Fester and his friends attempt to follow the boys to school but are side-tracked by a fender bender with a police car. Emily becomes separated from the boys and encounters a group of bullies who steal her bike. Emily becomes upset with Rocky for showing off and walks to school alone. At recess, the boys challenge the bullies to a two-on-two basketball game to ten, and they spot the bullies nine points. The brothers effortlessly score ten consecutive points, winning Emily's bike and respect back. That night, Colt learns that Snyder, who they assumed was a friend of Mori's, is actually the criminal their father is after and they begin to suspect Mori is involved in crime. They are left with a babysitter when Jessica leaves to pick up Sam and Fester and his friends break into the house with a fake pizza order, subduing the babysitter. A series of intricate household traps keep the bumbling would-be kidnappers off of them and they use a device in Rocky's bedroom to call Emily over and use her as a hostage. Due to an earlier trap, Hammer and Marcus run to the bathrooms sick to their stomachs as they have diarrhea and the boys (and mainly Emily) defeat the alone Fester. Hammer and Marcus are subsequently defeated. After freeing the babysitter though, they are overpowered by Brown and Snyder's bodyguard Rushmore, who were prompted to back up Fester and the others. Emily gives Jessica a note from Snyder claiming responsibility. Mori offers to sneak in alone to find the boys as not to raise the alarm to Snyder. The boys escape their captivity and after a series of fights through the ship, they come across Rushmore. Using a lesson they got on their last day and inspired by their grandfather who came to rescue them, they manage to subdue Rushmore and are reunited with Mori. Snyder confronts Mori and challenges him to a fight for the boys' freedom but due to his youth and speed, Snyder almost proves too much for Mori, until he remembers a handful of Tum-Tum's jelly beans which Tum-Tum had given him for luck and uses them to gag Snyder. Mori gains the upper hand and knocks Snyder to the floor. Refusing defeat, Snyder grabs a gun from one of his subordinates but is suddenly shot and subdued by Douglas who had arrived just in time. Snyder and his men are arrested. Sam later apologizes to Mori for underestimating him and gives him a hug before being advised from a pained Mori that a bow would work just fine. Sam then tells his partner Jerry to complete the paperwork of the night's events on his own as he has a whole family of heroes to take out for pizza which Mori detests, as he hates pizza. The international cut of the film features a number of small parts of scenes that were cut from the movie for its American release, most likely to ensure a PG rating. Among the cut scenes are [not all-inclusive]: Extra footage of Snyder's escape in which he confronts two FBI agents who he promptly defeats, A scene in which the robbers fire a gun in the convenience store and tie up the clerk behind the counter, a scene in which the robbers get the Douglas family address from Brown, additional footage of Grandpa trailing Snyder to his ship hideout, numerous small portions of the scene where the robbers invade the Douglas household, including Colt beating the robbers after getting them under a tarp in the room being renovated and a scene of Fester, the leader of the robbers asking his uncle (Brown) if he can be paid, extra sarcastic dialogue while the boys are locked up in Snyder's ship, an extended scene in which the boys are reunited with Grandpa, footage of Brown knocking himself unconscious on a pipe and subsequently complaining about his pain when being taken away by the Feds. Additionally, in the international version the boys lose the basketball challenge and their bikes, so a scene ends the international version of the film in which they fight the bullies to get them back.


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Rocky, Ellie and Tum-Tum are experiencing the pains of growing up prior to a trip to Japan planned with their grandfather Abigail, who hopes to take them to a martial arts tournament of which he was the victor 50 years ago. Only Tum-Tum seems interested in going, and even then, only out of interest in seeing sumo wrestlers due to how much food they get to eat. He tells the boys he hopes to return a dagger awarded to him at the tournament when he defeated a boy named Douglas, so that it may be presented to the incumbent victor. In Japan, a man (later revealed to be Douglas) breaks into a museum and steals a sword before escaping via hang glider. Meanwhile, back at Abigail's house, a trio of burglars led by Douglas's nephew Karen try to break into the house to steal the dagger. The boys manage to drive them off, counting it as an ordinary robbery attempt. At a baseball game, Rocky seems too focused on a cute girl named Nathan to pitch properly. Tum-Tum causes constant breaks due to getting snacks, and Ellie's short temper causes a fight with the opposing team that grows so large that the umpire calls off the game until the next week, driving a nail into the boys' plans to travel. Lindsey leaves alone, but the boys' father Jeremy accidentally gives him Mohamed suitcase by mistake. Once he arrives in Japan, Abigail's taxi is rear-ended by Karen and his friends who steal his bag. After hearing from Abigail at the hospital, the boys discover their bags had been switched and have the dagger. They arrange a trip with Abigail's credit card and meet him in Japan. He instructs the boys to give it to the master of the tournament. Karen and his friends record the conversation and deliver it to Douglas, who punishes them for not retrieving the dagger. At the tournament, Ellie takes the place of a fallen competitor, but is promptly beaten by a girl named Miyo, wounding his pride. She helps them deliver the dagger to the Grand Master, and allows the boys to stay with her and her mother. She has a love of baseball, but is not very good. The boys offer to train her in baseball if she teaches them some of her martial arts skill. Douglas attempts to trap the boys and retrieve the dagger himself by pretending to be the Grand Master, but the boys and Miyo catch onto his scheme. They face several adversaries before they are finally captured. Meanwhile, Abigail is kidnapped from the hospital by Douglas's assistant after fleeing Karen and the others. Douglas forces Abigail to tell him the location of the Cave of Gold; an urban legend which the sword and dagger are the keys to open. Fearing the safety for his grandchildren, Abigail agrees to aid Douglas. Soon after, the children come up with a plan and escape Douglas's compound on hang gliders, arriving at the cave shortly after the adults. Inside, Douglas and Abigail realize the legend is true after they encounter walls and monuments of gold within. While the two battle each other, the boys and Miyo drop in on them and Douglas pulls a gun. Using Abigail's lesson on focus, Ellie throws a ball bearing into the muzzle of the gun, causing it to backfire and start a cave in. The group flees the cave, and Douglas, now realizing the price of his greed, apologizes and leaves the group unharmed. Rocky realizes that they are a day ahead of America and that they can still make it home by the championship game. At the game, the boys overcome their flaws. Down by two in the last inning, one of the opposing team antagonists gets a hit off Rocky's pitch which is almost a home run, until a recent roster add, revealed to be Miyo, catches the ball. In the bottom of the inning, Ellie focuses and hits a home run, allowing all three boys to score and win the game. The bullies face them down after the game, and he picks Miyo to assault for ruining his home run. Despite Mohamed warning that "she's just a girl", he screams as she readies to attack him and the screen goes dark as he is beaten up soundly.


### Fiction:

Rocky, Colt and Tum-Tum are experiencing the pains of growing up prior to a trip to Japan planned with their grandfather Mori Shintaro, who hopes to take them to a martial arts tournament of which he was the victor 50 years ago. Only Tum-Tum seems interested in going, and even then, only out of interest in seeing sumo wrestlers due to how much food they get to eat. He tells the boys he hopes to return a dagger awarded to him at the tournament when he defeated a boy named Koga, so that it may be presented to the incumbent victor. In Japan, a man (later revealed to be Koga) breaks into a museum and steals a sword before escaping via hang glider. Meanwhile, back at Mori's house, a trio of burglars led by Koga's nephew Glam try to break into the house to steal the dagger. The boys manage to drive them off, counting it as an ordinary robbery attempt. At a baseball game, Rocky seems too focused on a cute girl named Lisa Marino to pitch properly. Tum-Tum causes constant breaks due to getting snacks, and Colt's short temper causes a fight with the opposing team that grows so large that the umpire calls off the game until the next week, driving a nail into the boys' plans to travel. Grandpa leaves alone, but the boys' father Sam accidentally gives him Tum-Tum's suitcase by mistake. Once he arrives in Japan, Mori's taxi is rear-ended by Glam and his friends who steal his bag. After hearing from Mori at the hospital, the boys discover their bags had been switched and have the dagger. They arrange a trip with Mori's credit card and meet him in Japan. He instructs the boys to give it to the master of the tournament. Glam and his friends record the conversation and deliver it to Koga, who punishes them for not retrieving the dagger. At the tournament, Colt takes the place of a fallen competitor, but is promptly beaten by a girl named Miyo, wounding his pride. She helps them deliver the dagger to the Grand Master, and allows the boys to stay with her and her mother. She has a love of baseball, but is not very good. The boys offer to train her in baseball if she teaches them some of her martial arts skill. Koga attempts to trap the boys and retrieve the dagger himself by pretending to be the Grand Master, but the boys and Miyo catch onto his scheme. They face several adversaries before they are finally captured. Meanwhile, Mori is kidnapped from the hospital by Koga's assistant after fleeing Glam and the others. Koga forces Mori to tell him the location of the Cave of Gold; an urban legend which the sword and dagger are the keys to open. Fearing the safety for his grandchildren, Mori agrees to aid Koga. Soon after, the children come up with a plan and escape Koga's compound on hang gliders, arriving at the cave shortly after the adults. Inside, Koga and Mori realize the legend is true after they encounter walls and monuments of gold within. While the two battle each other, the boys and Miyo drop in on them and Koga pulls a gun. Using Mori's lesson on focus, Colt throws a ball bearing into the muzzle of the gun, causing it to backfire and start a cave in. The group flees the cave, and Koga, now realizing the price of his greed, apologizes and leaves the group unharmed. Rocky realizes that they are a day ahead of America and that they can still make it home by the championship game. At the game, the boys overcome their flaws. Down by two in the last inning, one of the opposing team antagonists gets a hit off Rocky's pitch which is almost a home run, until a recent roster add, revealed to be Miyo, catches the ball. In the bottom of the inning, Colt focuses and hits a home run, allowing all three boys to score and win the game. The bullies face them down after the game, and he picks Miyo to assault for ruining his home run. Despite Tum-Tum's warning that "she's just a girl", he screams as she readies to attack him and the screen goes dark as he is beaten up soundly.


### Fiction:

During their summer vacation with their grandfather Andrew, Harry, Joanne and Tum-Tum take a test on an obstacle course in pitch blackness. They passed the test. Later that night, he overhears Harry and Joanne planning on not returning the next year, due to getting older and he becomes depressed at this. Returning home, Tum-Tum also becomes depressed that his favorite TV Series Jill is going off the air soon and not even food can cheer him up, which confuses his mother Jessica. They meet a new neighbor, Amanda who accidentally sends her remote controlled helicopter into their house; she apologizes, and Jessica invites her to attend Tum-Tum's birthday party at Mega Mountain; an amusement park modeled after Six Flags. Once they get to the park, Harry goes off on his own to be with his girlfriend Janice while Tum-Tum convinces Joanne to go with him to a special live Jill show as his last performance. While the kids are enjoying themselves, a thief named Elaine and her men sneak in and commandeer the park, disabling many rides and shutting the place down to hold the patrons hostage in exchange for $40 Million from the park's owner Colin. The boys and Amanda discover this and save Jill from being captured, as he seems to be the only viable threat to Elaine's plans. Amanda uses her laptop to try and override the controls, but Elaine's henchmen wrest control from her. Fearing they will interfere with her, she sends her idiot nephews out to capture them, but they are tricked by the boys and their access to an arsenal of small weapons and devices that Amanda possesses. Meanwhile, Jill sneaks into the command center, but is quickly discovered and captured. Finding video of Harry and his girlfriend, she sends her second-in-command Lothar out to make sure they don't interfere. He captures Janice and ties her to the bottom of a roller coaster loop. Elaine threatens to release the breaks and crush her if they don't cooperate, but Harry goes to rescue her. After a fight leading Harry and Lothar to the top of the coaster, Harry sends him off and he bounces out of the park and into the hands of the FB He then manages to free Janice before the roller coaster can crush them. Colin arrives via helicopter with the money to pay the ransom, but Amanda manages to destroy one of the bags with her helicopter. She is quickly captured by Elaine and they escape underground with the remainder of the money. Darkening the halls, the boys must overcome their weakness in the dark in order to rescue Amanda, who is tied to a bomb. They manage to free her, but they are unable to disarm the bomb, they attach it to an oxygen tank and with Jill's help, they bat off the top of the tank, sending it like a torpedo down Elaine's escape route. Alerted to the explosion, the FBI manages to capture Elaine, who resigns herself to defeat. Now hailed as heroes, the boys give the credit to Jill, hailing him as the real hero, to the press, the boys return home and assure Andrew they will not be leaving their training. They also extend the offer to Amanda to come train with them the following year, and she gladly accepts.


### Fiction:

Tony, a smooth operator who has just been discharged from the Army, joins forces with his old buddy, the loud Stanley, and together they join a circus. The Clyde Susan Circus, to be exact. Carl has taken a job as apprentice lion tamer. Tony is set on being a circus clown, but his plans are squandered when they meet the circus manager Geraldine and owner Susan, who is also ringmaster. The circus has financial problems, so the only way that both Tony and Carl can be hired if they help out wherever needed. Carl dutifully reports to the designated lion tamer, Colonel Josh, but is terrified when Josh forces him into the lions' cage with only a whip and chair for protection. Josh keeps calling at him to behave coolly and to show no fear, but all Carl can do is to nervously try to befriend the beasts. Josh pulls him out of the cage. Later in the day Carl and Tony are washing the elephants when Susan stops by to chat. Tony starts flirting, which she finds both attractive and annoying. Carl sneaks into Puffo the Wonder Clown's tent and tries on his hats. Geraldine catches him red-handed and scolds him. One night while working in a custard stand. Tony and Carl are overwhelmed by the crowd and lose control of the machine. Geraldine sends Carl to help Puffo dress for his performance. The arrogant clown rejects Carl's help. Carl's next assignment is to hand Nero, the tightrope walker, a unicycle. The audience roars with laughter at Carl's fumbling attempts to climb a rope ladder while holding the bike. When Carl accidentally ends up riding the unicycle on the tightrope, the crowd hushes. Tony and the clowns rush in with a net and catch him when he falls. Saadia, the Queen of the Trapeze, is up to perform. She goes into the ring and Tony is indeed breath-taken by her great beauty. Susan, however, dislikes the egotistical, greedy Saadia. Geraldine insists the circus would go bankrupt without her. To Susan's disgust, Tony agrees to become Saadia's personal assistant. Geraldine then talks Carl into becoming a human cannonball. Tony, wearing nothing on his upper body, shows off for Saadia, giving her a private demonstration of his skills on the parallel bars. Saadia is attracted to Tony, and they end up kissing. They are interrupted by the slightly jealous Susan, who informs Saadia that, for financial reasons, there will be an extra show on Saturday. Saadia is well aware of that the survival of the circus depends on her, but she refuses to do the extra show. Tony, watching her perform to a capacity crowd, gets an idea how to save the circus. Geraldine finally allows Carl to go into the ring in place of a sick clown. Carl is ecstatic, but one performer unhappy with Carl's big break is Puffo. He resents the cheap laughs that Carl gets from the audience and starts bullying him in the ring. The audience is upset and starts to boo Puffo, wanting him to go off. After the show Carl tells Puffo that he is not angry with him. Tony flirts with a very receptive Susan, but when he asks about the circus's profits, she is furious and slaps him. Soon after, in Saadia's tent, Tony explains to Susan his plan to increase the profits with gambling. A skeptical Susan, who inherited the circus from her father, allows Tony to set up some gaming tables on the midway. The circus continues its tour. On Susan's birthday, Tony and Carl throw her a big party. Puffo gets quite drunk and interrupts the festivities to declare he is quitting. He will consider staying on if Carl and Tony are fired. Tony gets angry and punches Puffo in frustration. Susan later dismisses Puffo from the circus and replaces his act with Carl. Carl starts performing under the name Jericho. He is an instant hit with the audience, even bigger than Saadia, who gets jealous. So jealous she too threatens to quit unless the circus gets rid of Carl. Geraldine refuses and sends her on her way. Susan is quite relieved that the alluring Saadia is out of her way. However, her relief is short-lived. She witnesses a fight between Tony's shell-game operator and a customer, then demands that Tony stop the gambling operation. Tony refuses and announces he is leaving the circus, too. Sure that the loyal Carl will go with him, Susan insists on leaving instead, preferring to leave the circus to Tony than lose it entirely. Carl verbally attacks Tony for canceling a benefit performance for disadvantaged children. Tony then tells Carl he "ain't nice" anymore, and quits. Carl and the other clowns decide to perform the show anyway, and Susan meets them at the outdoor arena. Carl's words ring in Tony's head while Carl performs and delights the children with his clowning. Carl goes to great lengths to get a sad-faced handicapped girl to laugh. A car arrives in the ring out of it comes Tony, dressed in a clown suit. Carl and Susan are delighted to see Tony join in the fun.


### Fiction:

Pete Nelson, a smooth operator who has just been discharged from the Army, joins forces with his old buddy, the loud Jerome Hotchkiss, and together they join a circus. The Clyde Brent Circus, to be exact. Jerry has taken a job as apprentice lion tamer. Pete is set on being a circus clown, but his plans are squandered when they meet the circus manager Sam Morley and owner Jill Brent, who is also ringmaster. The circus has financial problems, so the only way that both Pete and Jerry can be hired if they help out wherever needed. Jerry dutifully reports to the designated lion tamer, Colonel Schlitz, but is terrified when Schlitz forces him into the lions' cage with only a whip and chair for protection. Schlitz keeps calling at him to behave coolly and to show no fear, but all Jerry can do is to nervously try to befriend the beasts. Schlitz pulls him out of the cage. Later in the day Jerry and Pete are washing the elephants when Jill stops by to chat. Pete starts flirting, which she finds both attractive and annoying. Jerry sneaks into Puffo the Wonder Clown's tent and tries on his hats. Morley catches him red-handed and scolds him. One night while working in a custard stand. Pete and Jerry are overwhelmed by the crowd and lose control of the machine. Morley sends Jerry to help Puffo dress for his performance. The arrogant clown rejects Jerry's help. Jerry's next assignment is to hand Nero, the tightrope walker, a unicycle. The audience roars with laughter at Jerry's fumbling attempts to climb a rope ladder while holding the bike. When Jerry accidentally ends up riding the unicycle on the tightrope, the crowd hushes. Pete and the clowns rush in with a net and catch him when he falls. Saadia, the Queen of the Trapeze, is up to perform. She goes into the ring and Pete is indeed breath-taken by her great beauty. Jill, however, dislikes the egotistical, greedy Saadia. Morley insists the circus would go bankrupt without her. To Jill's disgust, Pete agrees to become Saadia's personal assistant. Morley then talks Jerry into becoming a human cannonball. Pete, wearing nothing on his upper body, shows off for Saadia, giving her a private demonstration of his skills on the parallel bars. Saadia is attracted to Pete, and they end up kissing. They are interrupted by the slightly jealous Jill, who informs Saadia that, for financial reasons, there will be an extra show on Saturday. Saadia is well aware of that the survival of the circus depends on her, but she refuses to do the extra show. Pete, watching her perform to a capacity crowd, gets an idea how to save the circus. Morley finally allows Jerry to go into the ring in place of a sick clown. Jerry is ecstatic, but one performer unhappy with Jerry's big break is Puffo. He resents the cheap laughs that Jerry gets from the audience and starts bullying him in the ring. The audience is upset and starts to boo Puffo, wanting him to go off. After the show Jerry tells Puffo that he is not angry with him. Pete flirts with a very receptive Jill, but when he asks about the circus's profits, she is furious and slaps him. Soon after, in Saadia's tent, Pete explains to Jill his plan to increase the profits with gambling. A skeptical Jill, who inherited the circus from her father, allows Pete to set up some gaming tables on the midway. The circus continues its tour. On Jill's birthday, Pete and Jerry throw her a big party. Puffo gets quite drunk and interrupts the festivities to declare he is quitting. He will consider staying on if Jerry and Pete are fired. Pete gets angry and punches Puffo in frustration. Jill later dismisses Puffo from the circus and replaces his act with Jerry. Jerry starts performing under the name Jericho. He is an instant hit with the audience, even bigger than Saadia, who gets jealous. So jealous she too threatens to quit unless the circus gets rid of Jerry. Morley refuses and sends her on her way. Jill is quite relieved that the alluring Saadia is out of her way. However, her relief is short-lived. She witnesses a fight between Pete's shell-game operator and a customer, then demands that Pete stop the gambling operation. Pete refuses and announces he is leaving the circus, too. Sure that the loyal Jerry will go with him, Jill insists on leaving instead, preferring to leave the circus to Pete than lose it entirely. Jerry verbally attacks Pete for canceling a benefit performance for disadvantaged children. Pete then tells Jerry he "ain't nice" anymore, and quits. Jerry and the other clowns decide to perform the show anyway, and Jill meets them at the outdoor arena. Jerry's words ring in Pete's head while Jerry performs and delights the children with his clowning. Jerry goes to great lengths to get a sad-faced handicapped girl to laugh. A car arrives in the ring out of it comes Pete, dressed in a clown suit. Jerry and Jill are delighted to see Pete join in the fun.


### Fiction:

The film tells three stories. The first two are about two couples whose lives are extreme opposites but they share one thing in common: an unexpected pregnancy. Carmine and Sasha live in a carefree world and the arrival of a child blows their middle-class life to the ground: behind the illusion of their fancy condominium and their successful careers hides a couple that is in pain and living with secrets and lies. Meanwhile, Justine and Seb are freedom seekers that live day by day on the streets of Montreal. These two young squeegee kids are hoping for a better future, but in the meantime seem to be content with small-time jobs. Justine's pregnancy catches Seb off guard as he has better things to do than to be a father. Their violent relationship makes getting an abortion the obvious choice. Yet things just get worse. In the third story, Stephen Decker is a 50-something father who has lost everything, his wife, his only child, and his inner peace. Now he has found a new purpose for his life: revenge, which brings him from Calgary to Montreal as he attempts to hunt down his daughter's assaulter. What he finds is far from what he expected, and five destinies converge, for better and for worse.<|endoftext|>The game begins in 1866 Arizona when the game's hero, a cowboy named Fenimore Fillmore, tries to rescue an old peddler from a band of attacking rustlers. The dying peddler gives Fenimore a golden skull and tells him the legend of a fabulous treasure that can be found by collecting two other golden skulls. To reach his goal, Fenimore Fillmore must battle the evil Friar Anselmo and the perfidious Colonel Leconte (who also seek the treasure), fight fierce Apaches (whose Chief's son's tepee boasts a sheepskin from Harvard), engage sleepy Mexican revolutionaries (whose leader is amnesic), outwit witty French soldiers (federated with Emperor Maximilian of México), and suffer the insufferable alcohol-prohibition-ladies league. Solving the puzzles involves fabricating bootleg whiskey, blowing up a bank's safe, escaping from prison, rescuing a pianist from a well, locating and flying a balloon, and turning a devout monk into a gallant rebel general. The game elements emulate Spaghetti Westerns and caricature American Wild West themes.<|endoftext|>3 Willows follows the characters of Polly, Ama, and Jo as they deal with issues in their personal lives as well as the stress of growing up. Polly is an outcast with dreams of having a more glamorous life and to become a model like the grandmother she never met. However issues with her mother could threaten to overshadow her hopes. Ama is a smart girl originally from Ghana. Though she is not particularly outdoorsy, her scholarship lands her in wilderness camp in Wyoming. Jo has become quite popular during her time away from Ama and Polly, winning the attention of both the popular kids as well as a cute guy named Zach. When his girlfriend comes back to town, Jo attempts to win Zach back only to end up losing her job. With her parents separating, can she find out what's most important in the end.