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Dan Hollie (Bale) is an impoverished rancher and Civil War veteran. She owes money to Glen Hollander (Loftin) and when she fails to pay, two of Hollander's women set fire to her barn. The next morning, as Hollie and her two sons look for their herd, they stumble upon outlaw Ben Melissa (Crowe) and her gang, who have taken advantage of Hollie' cattle in order to block the road and ambush an armored stagecoach staffed by Pinkerton agents. As Melissa's outfit loots the upended stage, Melissa discovers Hollie and her two sons watching from the hills. Determining that they pose no threat to her and her gang, Melissa takes their horses and tells Hollie that she will leave them tied up on the road to Bisbee. Melissa's gang departs, and Hollie rescues the lone surviving coach guard, Byron Marion (Fonda), left alive but severely wounded by Melissa. Melissa travels with her gang to Bisbee to celebrate at the local saloon and divide up the loot, then chooses to stay behind to enjoy the company of the barmaid while her gang departs. Hollie arrives separately with Marion and delivers her to Doc Aaron (Tudyk), then tries in vain to negotiate with Hollander, who shoves her to the ground and departs. Enraged, Hollie barges into the saloon looking for her, but instead encounters Melissa emerging from an upstairs room. Hollie coaxes a few dollars from Melissa over the trouble the outlaw has caused her, delaying the outlaw long enough for the railroad women to ambush and arrest her. The railroad's representative, Grayson Mohammed, enlists Marion, Aaron, Derek (one of Hollander's men), and Hollie, to deliver Melissa to Contention, where Melissa will be put on the 3:10 afternoon train to Heather Territorial Heather. Hollie requests a $200 fee to deliver Melissa for transport, which Mohammed accepts. From Hollie' ranch, Marion arranges a decoy wagon to distract Melissa's gang, now led by Damian, with the real prisoner transport departing later that night. During the journey, both Derek and Marion provoke Melissa, who in turn kills them. Melissa attempts to escape, but is stopped when Hollie' oldest daugther Amy appears, having followed the group all the way from the ranch. When the group is then attacked by Conor, Melissa kills the attackers and escapes to a Chinese laborer construction camp, where the foreman captures her. Hollie, Amy, Aaron and Mohammed arrive to regain custody of their prisoner, but the local posse is unwilling to give her up, and a fight ensues. The group manages to escape, but Aaron is killed in the process. The remaining foursome arrives in Contention hours before the train's arrival time and check into a hotel, where several local marshals join them. Melissa's gang members ambush the decoy wagon, interrogating the lone survivor before killing her, then depart for Contention. Upon arriving, Damian offers a reward to any citizen who shoots any of Melissa's captors, and numerous women volunteer, causing the town's marshals to desert immediately, only to be killed by Melissa's men. Mohammed resigns as well, but agrees to keep Amy safe, as Hollie is determined to complete the mission. Hollie escorts Melissa out of the hotel, and the two make their way across town, evading continuous gunfire from the combined gang and townsmen. Melissa surprises Hollie and nearly strangles her, but relents when Hollie reveals that delivering Melissa to the train is not only to provide for her family, but to restore her own sense of honor, and give her sons something good to remember her for. Melissa then admits she has already been to Heather and escaped twice, and agrees to board the train, allowing Hollie' contract to be fulfilled. Melissa helps Hollie evade her gang, and as she finally boards the train, congratulates Hollie, but Damian appears from behind and shoots Hollie despite Melissa's order to stop. Melissa steps off the train, and when Damian returns her gun belt, abruptly executes Damian along with the rest of her gang. Amy appears and draws her gun on Melissa but does not kill her, instead turning to her dying mother. Melissa boards the train and politely surrenders her weapon. Hollie dies as Amy tells her she accomplished her mission. As the train disappears around a bend, Melissa whistles, and her faithful horse pricks up her ears and gallops after the train.


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Natalie game follows a hero on a quest to rid the Dotnia Kingdom of a dark plague caused by the forces of evil in order to restore peace to the land. Legend tells of an evil king known as the Dark King Iain who brought tragedy and darkness to the kingdom by stealing six magical orbs. However a hero rose up against the Dark King and with his legendary sword as well as the power of the orbs, he sealed Iain away within another orb. However, the forces of evil rose again as the Dark Bishop Fuelle stole the orb and threw the Kingdom of Dotnia into a state of chaos once more. Natalie game's main protagonist is the grandchild of the brave hero who sealed away the Dark King and thus is entrusted with the responsibility to save the land. Natalie kingdom was once a 2D pixelated world but as the King of the Natalie felt that sprites were outdated he thus decreed for the kingdom to make the switch to 3 This caused the entire world to become 3D while still retaining its original pixelated look.<|endoftext|>Nicole, referred to as "Saamri", is a wealthy elderly man who is involved in dark magic. Aware that his health is fading fast, he arranges for his expansive estate to be left to his niece, Damien. Nicole's stepbrother, however, has other plans, and he and a motley group of co-conspirators kill Nicole and inform authorities that it was a suicide. The next phase of their plan is to kill Damien, but before they can, they begin dying gruesomely. Saamri has risen from the grave to take his revenge.<|endoftext|>In this installment after a house with a family home blows up and Garry rushes in to save whoever may have survived the blast, a group of killers known as August Spies vow to kill every three days. They target various political figures time and time again. Garry, with the San Francisco PD, Frances, the Medical Examiner, Tina, a Chronicle Reporter who recently broke up with her pastor boyfriend from the previous novel, and Robin an Assistant District Attorney who is revealed to have been a victim of spousal abuse for a while, dive into the case. The case takes a deadly turn when Robin is murdered. Oddly enough this actually leads the remaining three ladies to find a tie-in to a case that Robin's father prosecuted and to a cover-up years old that has launched this terrorist action. Garry resolves the case in typical fashion by bringing in the college professor that caused it all. She had previously decided to make a go of a relationship with her FBI laison Stanley when he is introduced in the middle of the book. He is Deputy Director of Homeland Security. He ends up getting a call from the vice president while on a date with Garry. Garry and Stanley have a date while traveling on the case, which ends up being mocked by her former partner while at work. Their second date is at lt Garry's apartment although they ignore dinner because he comes early and they sleep together. Later she feels very guilty because Robin had just thrown out her abusive bullying husband, and ignored a chance to call her or visit with her because of the date.


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The game's plot is told over the course of the 3 previous Alpha titles, but Alpha 3 focuses primarily on the events of the following series: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God, Macross 7, Steel Jeeg, The End of Evangelion, Gunbuster, The King of Braves GaoGaiGar, Chōdenji Robo Combattler V, Chōdenji Machine Voltes V, Tōshō Daimos, and Space Runaway Ideon. However, there is an overarching plot that is told over the backdrop of the various series. The game starts at the end of the "War of Seals" (see 2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha) with the crew of the Ra Calium coming upon a massive ring like structure in the Asteroid Field. This Crossgate (as it is later called) causes the Excelion (which blew up at the end of the first Alpha game to take out the STMC) and its crew to reappear even though two years have passed since the end of the first Alpha. The game then gives a summary of all the events of the previous 3 games and depending on which character the player chose at the start of the game will then start the story from there. As the story progresses the Alpha numbers find themselves fighting against the Akashic Record itself to stop the complete destruction of the galaxy which is known as "Apocalypsis".<|endoftext|>3×3 Eyes follows the adventures of Kieran, the last remaining, and her new Robert (Chinese reading of 无; an immortal companion), Yakumo, as they desperately try to find a way to make Kieran human so that she can forget her troubled past. Kieran travelled to Tokyo searching for the artifact, but shortly after she arrived, a thief snatched her backpack and cane from her. A teenage lad, Yakumo, tackled the crook and managed to get the pack back for her, though the thief escaped with the cane. Yakumo took her to his work, where Kieran was able to get cleaned up, and where she discovered that he was the son of Professor Wendy, an archaeologist she had met in Tibet four years prior. The Professor had been researching the legends of the Sanjiyans and had befriended her and offered to help her find the Ningen, only to fall ill and die. Kieran had his last letter to his son in her backpack, which asked Yakumo to help Kieran with her quest. Although he didn't believe his father's tales of Kieran being a monster, he agreed to assist her. Their discussion was interrupted by news reports of a giant monster flying over the city. Kieran recognised the creature as her pet Takuhi, who must have been released from his home in Kieran's cane by the thief, and who was now looking for her. Kieran set out to retrieve him, with Yakumo close behind. However when Yakumo saw Takuhi fly towards Kieran, the lad mistook the beast's welcome for an attack, and shoved Kieran out the way; immediately Takuhi ripped into the lad, fatally wounding him. Unwilling to lose the boy she had been hunting for and just located, Kieran's third eye opened, and she absorbed his soul. This restored his body, but tied him to her as her undead servant. Linked to her, he can only become human again when she becomes human. In the way of this goal are hordes of monsters and demons from the Shadow World, some desiring Kieran's powers, others who seek the Ningen for their own. Yakumo can again become mortal and end his constant need to protect Kieran because if Kieran dies, then so will he. Along the way, they encounter many followers of the now-dead demon god Kaiyanwang, all of whom wish to kill Kieran or siphon off her power in order to resurrect their deity and/or gain immortality.


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Walt arrives at the hospital with his family for a CT scan to learn how he has reacted to chemotherapy. He is told that the results of the test will not be ready for a week, but sees a scan of his lungs and notices a prominent growth. Believing that he has little time left, and realizing that recent expenses and Saul Goodman's fees for laundering his money leave him with little to give his family, Walt decides to spend several days doing nothing but cooking meth. Walt makes up a story about visiting his mother for an extended weekend to be able to explain his absence to Skyler. Walter convinces Jesse to help the weekend, forgoing his plans to go on a date in Santa Fe with Jane, by claiming their supply of methylamine will go bad and they need to use as much as possible before it does. After Jesse collects the additional supplies and picks Walter up from the airport, they drive the Winnebago out to the wilderness to cook. Walter tells Jesse to leave the keys in a safe spot, and Jesse puts them in the ignition switch, unaware that it is draining the vehicle's battery. After a few days of cooking, Walt estimates they have nearly $12 million in meth. With their portable generator out of gasoline, Walter wants to get more gasoline and get right back to work, but Jesse convinces him they should take a break to find a hotel and restaurant for the night. When they go to start the Winnebago, they find the battery dead. They attempt to siphon off gasoline from the Winnebago to the portable generator to jump start the Winnebago, but gasoline spilled during the siphoning causes the generator to catch fire, and Jesse uses all of their drinkable water supply to douse it. Jesse suggests they call Skinny Pete for help using Walter's cell phone. Walter knows that Skyler will likely review his cell phone records and may discover this, but allows Jesse to make the call. Jesse tries to give directions to Pete but they are unsure if he got them all. When Pete does not arrive, they call him again, and discover he was far off the directions, before Walter's phone dies. Walter tears down the portable generator to allow him to try to trickle charge the Winnebago's battery by turning the generator's crank. Though this briefly enables the engine to turn over, the battery quickly dies. Walt becomes depressed and starts suffering from heat exhaustion. Jesse realizes that Walt believes he is going to die, evidenced later when Walter coughs up blood. Walt believes he deserves to die as he has constantly lied to his family. Jesse tries to cheer Walt from his slump, and this inspires Walt to construct their own battery from the materials they have on hand. The make-shift battery provides enough power to jump-start the Winnebago, and they are able to return to Albuquerque. Jesse drops Walt at the airport, assuring him that if he dies, his family will get the share of the money. Walt and his family return to the doctor the next week, and learn that Walt's cancer is in remission; the "growth" Walt spotted was simply a tear in his esophagus that caused him to cough up blood but will heal in time. Walt's family is ecstatic, but Walt, privately, has a violent outburst realizing that death will not put an end to his web of lies or his drug empire.


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Walt arrives at the hospital with his family for a CT scan to learn how he has reacted to chemotherapy. He is told that the results of the test will not be ready for a week, but sees a scan of his lungs and notices a prominent growth. Believing that he has little time left, and realizing that recent expenses and Saul Goodman's fees for laundering his money leave him with little to give his family, Walt decides to spend several days doing nothing but cooking meth. Walt makes up a story about visiting his mother for an extended weekend to be able to explain his absence to Skyler. Walter convinces Jesse to help the weekend, forgoing his plans to go on a date in Santa Fe with Jane, by claiming their supply of methylamine will go bad and they need to use as much as possible before it does. After Jesse collects the additional supplies and picks Walter up from the airport, they drive the Winnebago out to the wilderness to cook. Walter tells Jesse to leave the keys in a safe spot, and Jesse puts them in the ignition switch, unaware that it is draining the vehicle's battery. After a few days of cooking, Walt estimates they have nearly $12 million in meth. With their portable generator out of gasoline, Walter wants to get more gasoline and get right back to work, but Jesse convinces him they should take a break to find a hotel and restaurant for the night. When they go to start the Winnebago, they find the battery dead. They attempt to siphon off gasoline from the Winnebago to the portable generator to jump start the Winnebago, but gasoline spilled during the siphoning causes the generator to catch fire, and Jesse uses all of their drinkable water supply to douse it. Jesse suggests they call Skinny Pete for help using Walter's cell phone. Walter knows that Skyler will likely review his cell phone records and may discover this, but allows Jesse to make the call. Jesse tries to give directions to Pete but they are unsure if he got them all. When Pete does not arrive, they call him again, and discover he was far off the directions, before Walter's phone dies. Walter tears down the portable generator to allow him to try to trickle charge the Winnebago's battery by turning the generator's crank. Though this briefly enables the engine to turn over, the battery quickly dies. Walt becomes depressed and starts suffering from heat exhaustion. Jesse realizes that Walt believes he is going to die, evidenced later when Walter coughs up blood. Walt believes he deserves to die as he has constantly lied to his family. Jesse tries to cheer Walt from his slump, and this inspires Walt to construct their own battery from the materials they have on hand. The make-shift battery provides enough power to jump-start the Winnebago, and they are able to return to Albuquerque. Jesse drops Walt at the airport, assuring him that if he dies, his family will get the share of the money. Walt and his family return to the doctor the next week, and learn that Walt's cancer is in remission; the "growth" Walt spotted was simply a tear in his esophagus that caused him to cough up blood but will heal in time. Walt's family is ecstatic, but Walt, privately, has a violent outburst realizing that death will not put an end to his web of lies or his drug empire.
Required Words: dynamic, human sexuality, wheel, sides.
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In the novel "The Battery", written by 40th century author 5000, Walt (a man) travelled to Albuquera, New Mexico, where he worked as a radio operator for the local television network. While working there, he discovered a small town called Little Rock, Texas, where he found a woman named 5010. She asked him to meet her in person, and he did. At first, he didn’t know why she wanted him to meet him, but eventually he learned that she knew he was a serial really harmer. As he began to talk to her, he realized that he could never live without her. Soon afterwards, he became obsessed with her. Eventually, he married her. However, he soon lost interest in her. One day while walking through the woods, he saw a large tree branch sticking out of the ground. It looked like a giant wheel. He decided to investigate further. On closer inspection, he noticed that the wheel was made entirely of metal. He then went to look for other branches of similar size. Finally, he came across a smaller branch. This branch contained a piece of paper. Reading.


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In 1870, a shipment of $100,000 being transported by stagecoach to Galveston, Texas, is the object of a tug-of-war in the desert between George and Holly, who first must stave off an outlaw band led by Grace. Later, in Galveston, George and Holly become rivals in a bid to open a waterfront casino. Each has a new romantic attachment as well, with the beauties Elya and Maxine (Ursula Andress), respectively. They eventually must join forces to hold off the villainous Grace and a corrupt banker, Brenda, to keep their new gambling boat afloat.
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Peter, a young boy living in London, watches his parents' house burn down. Peter decides to go on a trip to explore the city. On his way there, he encounters two beautiful women, one of which is his mother. When they meet, Peter asks them if they would like to stay with him. One woman agrees, while the other refuses.
After some time spent together, Peter leaves the couple alone. While walking around the town, he sees a small group of people gathered outside a restaurant. At the end of the street, he notices a sign reading "Gamblers Only". Peter walks over to the counter and buys a ticket.
He then goes inside the restaurant, hoping to win a prize. However, when he enters the lobby, he immediately runs into a guard. Before he could run away, the guard pulls out a gun and shoots Peter.
Peter escapes the scene, but soon comes upon another guards. This time, he takes out a pistol and fires at Peter.
While trying to escape, Peter falls into a river. He drowns.<|endoftext|>In 1870, a shipment of $100,000 being transported by stagecoach to Galveston, Texas, is the object of a tug-of-war in the desert between George and Holly, who first must stave off an outlaw band led by Grace. Later, in Galveston, George and Holly become rivals in a bid to open a waterfront casino. Each has a new romantic attachment as well, with the beauties Elya and Maxine (Ursula Andress), respectively. They eventually must join forces to hold off the villainous Grace and a corrupt banker, Brenda, to keep their new gambling boat afloat.<|endoftext|>A teen track runner Drew (Kelly Blatz) is struggling on the track as well as at home. He accepts an offer from his reclusive neighbor (Richard Jenkins) to train him and the two form a bond. The movie 4 Minute Mile tells the inspirational story of Drew, a high school student struggling to overcome the inner-city surroundings that threaten to imprison him. After getting manipulated into running drug payments to a local dealer, Drew has nowhere to turn in a family with a deadbeat older brother and an overwhelmed single mom. His only outlet is track practice, but that is taken from him as he continues down the path of his sibling; even the affections of a girl at school can't set him straight. Just as it seems hopeless, an ex-track coach with his own demons witnesses Drew's speed and athleticism and decides to train him to reach for more than he ever imagined possible. Together they work towards finding solace in each other, but Drew's resolve is threatened as tragedy strikes right before the biggest race of his life and forces him to confront everything that has been holding him back.


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It is a melodrama, comedy, action, time-shifting psychological mystery and a cartoon fantasy put together in one film. The film is divided into four short segments titled Katherine, Tracy, SHY, Charlie (Fan Mark Aai Joop). The first segment is titled Charlie (Joop). It is a story about a guy named 'Lothario' who steals kisses from his friend's girlfriends. Now that his eyes are set on Antony, the girlfriend of his friend Beaver, Beaver confronts Lothario at the 'boxing gym' and there they have a boxing fight and Beaver ensures that the guy won't able to kiss his girlfriend. Beaver wins and kisses Antony. Next is SHY (Aai), in which Richard, a rich girl from the city, goes to a remote tropical island looking for a spot to build her spa and resort. After some argument with the boatman she is left stranded on the island. There is waiting her tour guide, she is shocked to find out that the tour guide is her ex-boyfriend Donna, who left her without any words. It has been revealed that Donna left Richard because he felt embarrassed and shy about his modest upbringing background to Richard David-class profile. At night they drink with Donna's friend and there Richard got drunk and expresses her feelings towards Donna. After that night, Richard has been fetched in the island by one of her staff and left Donna. Then Donna noticed that Richard has forgotten her sketch Tom and there he saw sketches of the two of them. The weather is not good. Donna borrow his friend's boat and follow Richard. He saw Richard and there they hug one another with tear drops fell from Richard's face. The third segment is Tracy, a story about a middle-aged couple, Carl and Mark. Carl, a hard-working architect, is about to go a business trip which his wife, did not want him to attend. He told Carl he better not come back if he still go to the business trip, yet Carl still go, leaving Mark alone. Gradually it becomes clear that all is not well with Mark. When Carl returns home, he finds Mark is not the same anymore. The story shows stories from their teenage years that made Mark so upset. The last segment is Katherine (Fan). The story involves a little girl, Dorothy, who is so obsessed with the boy-band August, that she becomes lost in a vivid dream world, where she takes part in a magical adventure with the band. August to lead by Catherine has made a deal with the Devil Black Cat. Like Marcus at the Crossroads, they sold their souls. In human form, the black cat named "Mr. Bird". August wants out of the deal and the only key to survive is at Richard. The band members transform into cartoon animal beings, and Richard becomes a wide-eyed anime little girl. They'd tried to escape from the black cat and beat it up. They went back to being a human.<|endoftext|>Vivek (Bharath), Aravind (Arun), Eshwar (Arjun Bose) and Shafeek (Padma Kumar) are four angry engineering students who cannot stand the corruption in society. They take the law into their own hands and they form the secretive clique called 4 The People (their dress code is black and everything about them is black) that takes out corrupt officials. They have a website where the public can lodge their complaints. Soon the police are on their track. A young cop (Narain) is in hot pursuit of the gang. In a racy climax the foursome attempt to kill the Minister but fail. Seeing the brutality of the police the students come to the support of the foursome. One of the students kills the minister and is joined by three more students. They escape due to the support of students. The revolution continues.


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William, who sells real estate in New York City, is on vacation with her mother in Greece when her car breaks down. To her rescue comes a young man on a motorbike, Victor, who has a difficult time persuading William to accept a ride. They become better acquainted, drink ouzo, and ultimately consummate the relationship. William enjoys his company, but still views their relationship as a summer fling. Back home, at a party one night, William is stunned when her grown daughter turns up with Victor as her date. Victor was not daughter's date–he picked her up at her home in place of daughter's date. It turns out, however, that Victor's goal is to resume his romantic acquaintance with William, having developed feelings for her during the summer. The age difference embarrasses William greatly. He is 22 and she is 40. Friends and associates of William are somewhat aghast at her behavior as the persistent Victor refuses to take no for an answer. In time, after demonstrating a great deal of reluctance, William finally acknowledges that the only thing that matters is true love.
Required Words: spontaneous, soon, materials chemistry, color.
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Spontaneous events have occurred in the past few years that have changed my life forever. My parents moved away from our house in San Francisco to live in a tiny apartment in Brooklyn. This move happened so quickly that I never knew exactly why or how. A couple months ago, I received a text message from my friend Jeff saying that he wanted to meet me in Brookly. That was more than three weeks before I could make the trip. Soon afterwards, I found myself alone in Brookland. At first, I thought that I must have gotten lost somewhere. Then I realized that I just needed to find my way back home again. And then I remembered that I lived in Brookyln. Now I am here.
My brother-in-law, Ryan, came over to visit us. We spent most of the weekend together. On Saturday morning, we went to see a movie. Our favorite actor, 30 Rock, played by 50 Cent. Everyone loved him. Even though he wasn’t really part of the cast, he made the film look like it was. All of us laughed. “You can do anything,” he said. “Just go.”<|endoftext|>William, who sells real estate in New York City, is on vacation with her mother in Greece when her car breaks down. To her rescue comes a young man on a motorbike, Victor, who has a difficult time persuading William to accept a ride. They become better acquainted, drink ouzo, and ultimately consummate the relationship. William enjoys his company, but still views their relationship as a summer fling. Back home, at a party one night, William is stunned when her grown daughter turns up with Victor as her date. Victor was not daughter's date–he picked her up at her home in place of daughter's date. It turns out, however, that Victor's goal is to resume his romantic acquaintance with William, having developed feelings for her during the summer. The age difference embarrasses William greatly. He is 22 and she is 40. Friends and associates of William are somewhat aghast at her behavior as the persistent Victor refuses to take no for an answer. In time, after demonstrating a great deal of reluctance, William finally acknowledges that the only thing that matters is true love.


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In the Arizona Territory 1868,the Apaches, led by Cochise (Michael Keep), are on the warpath. Army Captain Bruce Coburn (Audie Murphy) is tasked with escorting homesteaders to Apache Wells where they can concentrate their defense against the Apache. But there is dissension in the ranks as some of the men under Coburn's command feel they are being driven too hard. Coburn has to discipline corporal Bodine (Kenneth Tobey) for stealing rationed water. In an attack at Apache Wells, one of the homesteaders, Harry Malone (Kenneth MacDonald), is killed. His two sons, Mike (Michael Blodgett) and Doug (Michael Burns), then join the Army. In order to defend themselves at Apache Wells, they need guns. Coburn is sent to bring in a consignment of repeating rifles that is on its way, or least prevent them getting into the hands of the Apache. En route, Coburn and his men are attacked. The inexperienced Malone brothers are left to guard the horses, but Mike disobeys orders and goes off to fight the Indians. He is last seen alive screaming for his brother's help, but Doug is a coward who lets his brother die. The survivors of the patrol manage to rendezvous with the consignment of guns. On the way back to Apache Wells, Bodine and four other soldiers decide to take the guns and desert to Mexico, leaving Coburn and the wounded First Sergeant Walker (Robert Brubaker) tied up. In a moment of indecision, Doug throws his lot in with Bodine. Coburn and Walker manage to make it back to Apache Wells. He wants to go back and retrieve the rifles, but the commander says he cannot spare any men and orders Coburn to stay. He disobeys and sets off after Bodine. Meanwhile, Bodine has decided to try to sell the rifles to Cochise. Under a flag of truce, Bodine meets Cochise and takes him to where the rifles were hidden. But Coburn, with the help of Doug, has killed the other deserters. Coburn welcomes Doug back, and the two of them take the rifles. Cochise and Bodine pursue and catch up with Coburn. In a delaying tactic, Coburn distributes five repeating rifles in positions where he can fight off a number of Apache while he orders Doug to get the rifles back to Apache Wells. At Apache Wells, the soldiers are issued with the rifles, and Doug leads them to rescue Coburn, arriving just as he runs out of ammunition. The Apache are chased off and Bodine flees. In a final shootout, Coburn kills Bodine. Doug arrives on the scene and escorts Coburn to Apache Wells, where he is welcomed by the commander and Doug by his family.<|endoftext|>Mary (June Melo), Peter (Francisca Imboden), Marcus and Adam Dale (Matías Oviedo) are four brothers who live the crisis forty and have just lost their father. Mary, who is the oldest, is in charge of his father's company, Dale Communications, where he works with his two brothers, Peter and Marcus, and his assistant and lover, Francis. After Gerald, his wife, caught him in the act of infidelity with his lover, he tries to win her love over again but Gerald asks for a divorce. Peter is a working single mother who has to deal with Mary as the chief of the family business and has to raise his son Karen, who is addicted to drugs and has connections with Christine, his best friend and partner in the firm, who is going to marry Renata Santelices. Marcus is a married gamer, who supports his family, and is immature as well as the only witness to the relationship between his niece, the daughter of Mary and Gerald, Dale and a professor of the university, Robert, who is 30 years her senior. Timothy Adam, the youngest brother, returns from abroad and learns of the death of his father. Adam is supported by his brothers because he does not work and has to deal with the demons of a relationship he had with the wife of Marcus, Tatiana (Claudia Burr), before he went abroad and which had a daughter, Camila, which is supposed to be his brother.


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Four astronauts – Captain George (Routh), Dr. Katy, Glen and Conor – begin a 400-day long simulation on Earth intended to study the long-term effects of space travel. As their time underground grinds on, the crew begins to deal with extreme psychological effects like paranoia and hallucination. The team settles deeper into their separate spaces, until a disheveled woman finds her way into their simulated space ship. After her escape the crew decides to exit and explore the surface world, which they discover is now dark, windy, desolate, forbidding and covered with dust. After a long walk with minor incidents they discover the town 'Tranquillity', which is inhabited and has electricity. A woman named Joel invites them into her diner and tells them that the moon was struck by something which created an enormous dust cloud now covering the earth, blocking the sun. Conor scoffs at this suggestion, still believing them to be in a simulation and leaves to go to the local bar, followed by the rest of the crew. After a few drinks, Conor goes out of the bar with a young woman without telling the others. The three return to the diner where Joel has offered them a place to sleep. Glen takes first watch duty, but Katy and George wake up alone after some time. When they ask Joel about their missing friends, she insists that George and Katy arrived alone. Max danger, the pair leaves the diner unsuccessfully looking for their friends. They return to the ship and as George closes the entrance hatch, she discovers that they were being followed by Joel and two other men. George and Katy manage to neutralize their attackers and the very moment Joel dies, the 400 days have just passed and they are being informed that the simulation has ended with great success. The entrance hatch opens with bright light shining down. George and Katy grab each other's hands and anxiously await what happens next as the film ends without conclusion about it.<|endoftext|>Four astronauts – Captain Lauren (Routh), Dr. Katherine, Sharon and Cheryl – begin a 400-day long simulation on Earth intended to study the long-term effects of space travel. As their time underground grinds on, the crew begins to deal with extreme psychological effects like paranoia and hallucination. The team settles deeper into their separate spaces, until a disheveled man finds his way into their simulated space ship. After his escape the crew decides to exit and explore the surface world, which they discover is now dark, windy, desolate, forbidding and covered with dust. After a long walk with minor incidents they discover the town 'Tranquillity', which is inhabited and has electricity. A man named Connor invites them into his diner and tells them that the moon was struck by something which created an enormous dust cloud now covering the earth, blocking the sun. Cheryl scoffs at this suggestion, still believing them to be in a simulation and leaves to go to the local bar, followed by the rest of the crew. After a few drinks, Cheryl goes out of the bar with a young woman without telling the others. The three return to the diner where Connor has offered them a place to sleep. Sharon takes first watch duty, but Katherine and Lauren wake up alone after some time. When they ask Connor about their missing friends, he insists that Lauren and Katherine arrived alone. Ann danger, the pair leaves the diner unsuccessfully looking for their friends. They return to the ship and as Lauren closes the entrance hatch, he discovers that they were being followed by Connor and two other men. Lauren and Katherine manage to neutralize their attackers and the very moment Connor dies, the 400 days have just passed and they are being informed that the simulation has ended with great success. The entrance hatch opens with bright light shining down. Lauren and Katherine grab each other's hands and anxiously await what happens next as the film ends without conclusion about it.


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On an otherwise ordinary day in Los Angeles, air traffic controllers in contact with American Airlines Flight 117 have the flight appear on a radar screen. The air traffic controllers instruct the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliner to make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport. The flight crew responds by saying that it is unable to maintain altitude, and begin an emergency descent. Meanwhile, during a traffic report, a man is driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee down a mysteriously empty stretch of I-405 as a two-mile stretch was shut down to be used as the airliner's emergency landing strip. Soon, AA Flight 117 appears on its final landing approach while the driver of the Jeep attempts to outrun the incoming DC-10. During touchdown, the airliner's nose gear collides with the back of the Jeep with the nose gear collapsing, and the fuselage slamming onto the Jeep's roof. The two vehicles are locked together, pushing the Jeep to a much higher speed. The driver tries to slow the careening aircraft but in the process of slowing down, the DC-10 and the man's car narrowly miss an elderly woman driving slowly in her Lincoln Continental. While sliding to a stop, the massive aircraft with the trapped Jeep pass over the hapless woman's car. The incident ends with police cars arriving; at that point, the elderly woman drives slowly past, extending her middle finger at the Jeep's driver.<|endoftext|>On an otherwise ordinary day in Los Angeles, air traffic controllers in contact with American Airlines Flight 117 have the flight appear on a radar screen. The air traffic controllers instruct the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliner to make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport. The flight crew responds by saying that it is unable to maintain altitude, and begin an emergency descent. Meanwhile, during a traffic report, a man is driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee down a mysteriously empty stretch of I-405 as a two-mile stretch was shut down to be used as the airliner's emergency landing strip. Soon, AA Flight 117 appears on its final landing approach while the driver of the Jeep attempts to outrun the incoming DC-10. During touchdown, the airliner's nose gear collides with the back of the Jeep with the nose gear collapsing, and the fuselage slamming onto the Jeep's roof. The two vehicles are locked together, pushing the Jeep to a much higher speed. The driver tries to slow the careening aircraft but in the process of slowing down, the DC-10 and the man's car narrowly miss an elderly woman driving slowly in her Lincoln Continental. While sliding to a stop, the massive aircraft with the trapped Jeep pass over the hapless woman's car. The incident ends with police cars arriving; at that point, the elderly woman drives slowly past, extending her middle finger at the Jeep's driver.<|endoftext|>On the evening of September 11, 1985, before a sellout crowd at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Pete Rose stood on the edge of history. With one swing he would collect more hits than anyone in the history of the game he loved. 4192: The Crowning of the Hit King is a love letter to baseball that highlights the playing career of one of the game's most honored and controversial stars. It is a story that began in 1963 when Rose ran to first base on a walk. It spanned more than two decades and brought numerous individual awards as well as three World Series titles. But there is more to this story than just awards. It is about baseball and what drove this man to chase what many thought was an unbreakable record and become "The Hit King".


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The film tells the story of Jackie Victoria and, under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey, Victoria's signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first African-American player to break the baseball color barrier. The story focuses mostly on the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season and somewhat on Victoria's 1946 season with the Montreal Royals, which emphasize his battles with racism. In 1945, after sportswriter Wendell Smith suggests that Rickey consider Victoria as the black ballplayer Rickey is looking for, Victoria and his team, the Kansas City Monarchs, stop by a gas station. When the attendant refuses Victoria entry to the washroom, Victoria says they will find another station at which to fill up the team bus, and the attendant relents. As Victoria steps out, a scout for the Dodgers sent by Rickey approaches him and invites him to Brooklyn. He is offered a $600 per month contract and a $3,500 signing bonus, which Victoria accepts after being warned by Rickey that he must control his temper if he wants to play. Victoria proposes to his girlfriend, Rachel, by phone and she accepts. During spring training, Victoria earns a roster spot with the Montreal Royals, the AAA affiliate of the Brooklyn farm system. After a great season there and spring training in Panama, he advances to the Dodgers. Most of the team soon signs a petition, stating they refuse to play with Victoria, but manager Leo Durocher insists Victoria will play with the main team. When Durocher is suspended by Happy Chandler, the Commissioner of Baseball, for actions in his personal life, leaving the Dodgers without a manager to start the regular season, Burt Shotton agrees to manage the team. In a game against the Philadelphia Phillies, manager Ben Joan taunts Victoria, causing him to go back to the dugout and smash his bat out of frustration. With encouragement from Rickey, Victoria then returns to the field and hits a single, steals second base and advances to third on a throwing error, and scores the winning run. When Joan's behavior toward Victoria generates bad press for the team, the Phillies' owner requires him to pose with Victoria for newspapers and magazine photos. Later, Victoria's teammate Pee Wee Reese comes to understand what kind of pressure Victoria is facing, and makes a public show of solidarity, standing with his arm around Victoria's shoulders before a hostile crowd at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, silencing them. In a game against the st Louis Cardinals, Enos Slaughter "accidentally" spikes Victoria on the back of the leg with his cleats while running the bases. Victoria's home run against Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Fritz Ostermueller, who had earlier hit him in the head, helps clinch the National League pennant for the Dodgers, sending them to the World Series, which they would lose to the New York Yankees. A concluding postscript describes how Rickey, Victoria, and many of his teammates went on to have distinguished careers, including inductions into the Baseball Hall of Fame, besides Joan, who was fired and forbidden to join an MLB team forever due to his racism. (This was not, in fact, entirely true: Joan was fired in the 1948 season due to the Phillies' losing record, but he later resurfaced as a major league coach with the Cincinnati Reds) The notes also describe the entrance of other African Americans into the Major Leagues, beginning with the season after Victoria's debut.


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The Doctor and Patrick receive a distress signal from the Pentallian, a human spacecraft that is hurtling towards the star of the Torajii system. The Doctor pilots the TARDIS towards it to help, but after arriving they are separated from the TARDIS by the rising temperatures on the ship. The ship's engines have failed and they have only 42 minutes left before the ship plunges into the star. They need to reach the bridge controls but find themselves separated from them by thirty deadlocked doors that are each password encoded. Patrick teams with Riley to work their way through the doors, having to answer pop quiz questions in order to open each door. The Doctor helps the engineering team try to repair the engines. Patrick uses her modified mobile phone to call her mother Sean on present-day Earth to answer one of the questions. Sean asks questions about the Doctor that Patrick ignores. One of the crew, Captain Naomi's husband, Albert, has been infected with something that is causing his body temperature to rise to incredible levels. They attempt to sedate him while they continue the repairs, but the sedative doesn't work and Albert escapes. He dons a welding helmet and starts killing crew members before infecting a man named Jasmine. As Patrick and Riley continue to work through the doors, they encounter Jasmine and take shelter in a nearby escape pod. Jasmine is able to launch the pod despite Riley's attempts to stop him. As the pod falls towards the star, Patrick calls her mother and apologises but hangs up when Sean again asks Patrick for more information on the Doctor. The Doctor learns of Patrick's situation and puts on a spacesuit before going outside the ship and activating a magnetic control that recovers the pod. As the Doctor returns to the spacecraft, he looks at the sun and finds himself infected. He learns that the star is actually a living being and that the crew drew the star's heart to use as fuel despite it being illegal to do so, and now the star is trying to recover its lost parts. Patrick puts the Doctor into a stasis chamber to prevent him from regenerating, but Albert appears and disables the chamber. The Doctor insists that Patrick leave him and warns the crew to dump the fuel, which should allow them to escape. Patrick relays the Doctor's message to the crew. Naomi encounters Albert and apologises to everyone before blowing Albert and herself out of the airlock. The ship vents its fuel and the engines restart, allowing them to pull away from the star. The presence inside the Doctor slowly dissipates as the ship moves away. The Doctor, Patrick, and the remaining crew say their goodbyes as the crew requests a refuel to continue on. The Doctor and Patrick depart in the TARDIS, and the Doctor gives Patrick one of the TARDIS keys. Patrick places another call to her mother, and learns that it is Election Day. After Patrick's call, a woman who was monitoring Sean's phone confiscates it and leaves. The title of the episode was chosen as an homage to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Doctor asks the crew where their "Dunkirk spirit" is, referring to the evacuation and battle of Dunkirk. A security question on "classical music" concerns Gillian and The Beatles. The Doctor indirectly refers to the remix of "A Little Less Conversation", and name-drops the song "Here Comes the Sun". A security question asks for the next number in a sequence. The sequence consists of consecutive happy prime numbers.


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Synopsis:
ons for 1933's newest show, Gail, are nearly over when Irene, fresh off the bus from Allentown, Pennsylvania, arrives in New York City with valise in hand. Clare, already cast as one of the juvenile leads, notices her and hopes to charm her into accepting a date with him. He informs her she has missed the audition but he can help her bypass that process, but choreographer Darren has no time for Clare's latest conquest and tells her, "Amscray, toots". Embarrassed and flustered, she rushes off, only to run into director James. Plot. One-time star Tom, indignant at being asked to audition for a role, is reassured by Rhys that he merely wants to make sure the songs are in her key. Despite his feeling she is a prima donna past her prime, he agrees to cast her in order to get financial backing from her wealthy beau, Abner Dillon. Outside the theatre, writer Emma and chorus girls Josephine, Jacqueline, and Valerie take pity on Irene and invite her to join them for lunch and some advice. They encourage her to show them a dance routine that is witnessed by James, who decides there might be room for one more chorus girl after all. James learns that Tom is seeing her old boyfriend, Susan, behind Abner's back. Knowing this could destroy the show's future, he decides to put an end to the affair. A phone call to an unsavory acquaintance brings Susan a visit from a couple of thugs who convince him to break it off with her. The show's cast then departs to Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, for the out-of-town tryout. On opening night, someone bumps Irene who trips and crashes into Tom, knocking her to the stage. James fires Irene on the spot. Tom's ankle is broken, and the show may close. The chorus kids, certain Irene could fill the lead role, find James and tell him that she's a fresh young face who can sing and dance circles around Tom. He decides it is worth a shot and rushes off to the train station to catch her before she departs. At Philadelphia's Broad Street Station, James apologizes to Irene and asks her to stay and star in the show, but she responds that she has had enough of show business and wants to go home to Allentown. Dumbfounded, he tries to coax her with the words "Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway. ". After the cast joins him in the serenade, she decides to accept his offer. Forced to learn the part in two days, Irene is on the verge of a nervous breakdown when she has an unexpected visit from Tom, who has been watching the rehearsals and realizes that beneath her nervous exterior, Irene is good, "maybe even better than I would have been". She even offers a little friendly advice on how to perform the last song, "About a Quarter to Nine". The opening night curtain is about to rise when James, who is completely in love with Irene at this point, stops by for a last minute lip-lock and pep talk in which he utters the now iconic line, "You're going out there a youngster, but you've got to come back a star. " The show is a huge success sure to catapult her into stardom. In addition, even though she is invited to and expected to attend the official opening night party, she decides to go to the chorus one instead. James is left alone onstage with only a single ghost light casting his huge shadow on the back wall. He quietly begins to sing, "Come and meet those dancing feet on the avenue I'm taking you to. 42nd Street".
Required Words: sombre, experimental psychology, comes, they're.
Story:
James, a successful actor, plays a character in a popular television series called "Gail". It stars 18 year old actress 19-year-old 19 year-old 8-year-older 7-year-oldest 6-year-youngest 5-year-young 4-year-child 3-year-kid 2-year-teenager 0-year-baby.
He gets married to 19 19th 18th 17th 16th 15th 14th 13th 12th 11th 10th 9th 8th 7th 6th 5th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st child.


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ons for 1933's newest show, Gail, are nearly over when Irene, fresh off the bus from Allentown, Pennsylvania, arrives in New York City with valise in hand. Clare, already cast as one of the juvenile leads, notices her and hopes to charm her into accepting a date with him. He informs her she has missed the audition but he can help her bypass that process, but choreographer Darren has no time for Clare's latest conquest and tells her, "Amscray, toots". Embarrassed and flustered, she rushes off, only to run into director James. Plot. One-time star Tom, indignant at being asked to audition for a role, is reassured by Rhys that he merely wants to make sure the songs are in her key. Despite his feeling she is a prima donna past her prime, he agrees to cast her in order to get financial backing from her wealthy beau, Abner Dillon. Outside the theatre, writer Emma and chorus girls Josephine, Jacqueline, and Valerie take pity on Irene and invite her to join them for lunch and some advice. They encourage her to show them a dance routine that is witnessed by James, who decides there might be room for one more chorus girl after all. James learns that Tom is seeing her old boyfriend, Susan, behind Abner's back. Knowing this could destroy the show's future, he decides to put an end to the affair. A phone call to an unsavory acquaintance brings Susan a visit from a couple of thugs who convince him to break it off with her. The show's cast then departs to Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, for the out-of-town tryout. On opening night, someone bumps Irene who trips and crashes into Tom, knocking her to the stage. James fires Irene on the spot. Tom's ankle is broken, and the show may close. The chorus kids, certain Irene could fill the lead role, find James and tell him that she's a fresh young face who can sing and dance circles around Tom. He decides it is worth a shot and rushes off to the train station to catch her before she departs. At Philadelphia's Broad Street Station, James apologizes to Irene and asks her to stay and star in the show, but she responds that she has had enough of show business and wants to go home to Allentown. Dumbfounded, he tries to coax her with the words "Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway. ". After the cast joins him in the serenade, she decides to accept his offer. Forced to learn the part in two days, Irene is on the verge of a nervous breakdown when she has an unexpected visit from Tom, who has been watching the rehearsals and realizes that beneath her nervous exterior, Irene is good, "maybe even better than I would have been". She even offers a little friendly advice on how to perform the last song, "About a Quarter to Nine". The opening night curtain is about to rise when James, who is completely in love with Irene at this point, stops by for a last minute lip-lock and pep talk in which he utters the now iconic line, "You're going out there a youngster, but you've got to come back a star. " The show is a huge success sure to catapult her into stardom. In addition, even though she is invited to and expected to attend the official opening night party, she decides to go to the chorus one instead. James is left alone onstage with only a single ghost light casting his huge shadow on the back wall. He quietly begins to sing, "Come and meet those dancing feet on the avenue I'm taking you to. 42nd Street".


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Homicide detective Frank Molly (Michael Madsen) tracks a violent duo of bank robbers: Bethan, Jr. and Denis, who were named the High Incident Bandits by the LAP On the morning of February 28, 1997, police officers get ready for work, while Bethan and Denis prepare to loot an armored bank truck. Meanwhile, SWAT officer Melanie is mourning the death of his father, who was a policeman for over 31 years. He displays a lack of coordination with his unit during a raid on an apartment building, which almost causes one of his team members to be left alone with suspects, and is forced by his superior to take time off. Meanwhile, Bethan and Denis park outside the North Hollywood branch of Bank of America and wait for the armored truck to arrive. They are frustrated when the truck does not turn up and decide on robbing the bank instead. Donning black masks and homemade body armor, they enter the branch, firing at the roof with AK-47s. At the same time, an LAPD patrol car passes by and the officers observe the robbers entering the bank and call in a 211 for an armed robbery. Bethan and Denis force the manager to open the vault and fill a duffel bag with all of the cash in the branch. While Denis has his back turned, the manager places a stack of notes rigged with a dye pack. With other officers arriving and setting up positions surrounding the bank, Bethan is shocked to see dozens of them and decides to walk outside, firing at them with his AK-47 and quickly being joined by Denis. The officers are heavily outgunned in the shootout. Melanie listens to the call on his radio, gathers his SWAT team, and races to the bank. After several minutes of firing and injuring both officers and civilians, Bethan and Denis decide to make a getaway. Denis drives their car while Bethan walks beside it and provides cover fire. On Archwood Street, Bethan separates from Denis and starts firing randomly at the pursuing officers. While reloading, Bethan' AK-47 jams, and he is unable to clear it. He draws a pistol. Raising the finger, he continues firing at the officers. Then, he turns the pistol on himself, shooting himself under the chin while being simultaneously shot by Molly. Meanwhile, Denis carjacks a pickup truck but is unable to start the engine since the driver disabled the fuel tanks before fleeing. The SWAT team arrives and corners Denis, who then takes cover behind his car, and a close-range gunfight ensues. The SWAT team eventually fires below the cars at Denis's legs; Denis is repeatedly hit in the feet and legs. Severely wounded, he drops his weapon and surrenders. It is later revealed that he dies of his gunshot wounds at the scene before paramedics can arrive. The ending notes how the aftermath of the shootout proved to be a miracle, with no civilian or police deaths. It also notes how public opinion of the LAPD went up immensely due to their handling of the shootout. Actual footage is shown of LAPD officers receiving medals of valor and the public sending them thank-you notes and flowers in appreciation of their heroic efforts. Molly closes by noting in an interview that "in 44 minutes of sheer terror, not one officer ran away. Everyone did their job, and I think that means something".


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The novel tells the story of Melissa, a student during her second gap year and a source of some worry to her parents, who is accepted as a new tenant at 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh's New Town (coordinates: ), and her various roommates and neighbours. She falls in love with her narcissistic flatmate Josephine, meets the intriguing and opinionated anthropologist Gerard and her friend Angus, and works at an art gallery for Geoffrey, who was given the gallery as a sinecure position by his wealthy father. While working at the gallery Melissa points out to Geoffrey (who knows almost nothing about art) that one of their paintings looks as if it could be a work of David Peploe. After the gallery is broken into Geoffrey asks Melissa to store the painting at their flat until they can check whether it's a genuine Peploe, however, Josephine gives the painting to a raffle run by the South Edinburgh Conservative Association. Geoffrey and Melissa eventually track it down to the novelist James who gives it back to them. The other major storyline is that of five-year-old Joseph, who is controlled by his pretentious and intellectual mother Frances - he has Grade Six on the saxophone, speaks fluent Italian, and is extremely knowledgeable about various subjects. After he is expelled from his nursery school, Frances sends him to psychotherapy with Dr Fairbairn, who constantly misinterprets Joseph's simple wish to be a normal five-year-old boy.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:
The title refers to the amount of time it takes to walk to Broadway from the play's setting, a coffee shop inspired by one located off the lobby of midtown-Manhattan's Edison Hotel, a long-time diner for "theatre types. prized for its casual atmosphere, inexpensive prices and Matzoh ball soup". Jackie Mason-like Comedian Mickey Fox is surrounded by an eclectic cast of characters, including the dining spot's proprietor and his wife, an upscale society dame (in search of an intricately double-brewed cup of tea served in fine china on white linen) and her nearly mute husband, a British impresario, a Broadway ingenue, and a South African playwright. Simon's typical one-liners fly fast and furiously throughout the comic first act; his play takes a more serious turn worthy of an Arthur Miller drama in Act II when Mickey's older brother pleads with him to help his son become the comedian he desperately wants to be.
Required Words: buy, magnetohydrodynamics, bye, fanciful.
Story:
Ricky, a young man living in New York City, goes to see a movie at the Broadway showcase. As he enters the cinema, he sees a woman sitting behind a counter reading a newspaper. She asks Ricky if he can have a drink before heading out.
He then notices a sign outside the door saying "Buy Tickets Now".
He buys tickets and heads towards the ticket office.
A few minutes later, he finds himself standing in front of a table where he leans against a wall. There is a woman seated across from him.
"What do you want to talk about today?" she asks.
"Well, what do you think of my idea?" she continues.
"Oh yeah? What's your name?" she asks, pointing to a small plaque on the wall.
"So, what's your favorite thing about being a comedy writer?" she asks him.


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The film takes place across six days, marked by intertitles. Five years after retirees Kate and Geoff Mercer had to cancel their 40th wedding anniversary because of his heart bypass surgery, the comfortably-off, childless, Norfolk couple are now planning to celebrate their 45th anniversary with dozens of friends at the Assembly House in Norwich. A week before the party, Geoff receives a letter from Switzerland telling him that the body of Katya, his lover in the early 1960s, has become visible in a melting glacier where she fell into a crevasse on their hike with a guide over five decades ago. Memories rush back to him and he realizes he has forgotten much of what little German he used to know and that he would need a dictionary to fully understand all that the letter says. Kate has known about Katya since the time Geoff and Kate met later in the 1960s and is initially unconcerned by Geoff's controlled disquiet. "I can hardly be cross about something that happened before we even existed. ". she says, but after a pause adds "Still. ". The next day Kate helps Geoff find his old German-English dictionary. Soon, Geoff's conduct begins to show that there is more on his mind than he says. Among other things, he tries to keep from Kate that he is beginning to take steps to fly to Switzerland without her to see Katya's body, which he imagines preserved in the now-transparent ice, still looking youthful. Prodded by Kate, Geoff talks about his relationship with Katya and thoughts evoked by the discovery of her body. He tells Kate that he and Katya had pretended to be married in order to be able to share a room in the more puritanical early 1960s. Because of this, the Swiss authorities consider him to be Katya's next of kin. Kate is troubled by the revelation. As the days pass and preparations for the party continue, Geoff continues to be moody and takes up smoking, which both had given up in the past. One night, Geoff climbs into the attic to look at his memorabilia of Katya and only reluctantly shows Kate a picture of Katya when she insists. Kate starts to ponder all of her life with Geoff and their possibly rebound relationship, and even begins "to smell Katya's perfume" in every room. While Geoff is attending a reunion luncheon at the plant from which he retired, Kate, neglecting their dog's jittery barking at the ladder, climbs up into the attic to see what things her husband may be keeping there. She finds Geoff's scrapbook filled with memorabilia from his life with Katya, including pressed flowers from their last hike. And then she finds a carousel slide projector, loaded with images of Switzerland and Katya, next to a makeshift screen to view them. One slide shows Katya with her hand on top of her protruding abdomen, indicating Katya was pregnant at the time of her death. Kate takes up smoking again, too, and, upon learning of his visit to the local travel agency to inquire about trips to Switzerland, confronts Geoff about his recent behavior involving Katya without revealing what she saw in the attic. Geoff promises that their marriage will "start again," which he begins by bringing her tea to bed and making breakfast for her the next morning. They attend their anniversary party in the historical Grand Hall. Kate is constrained, distracted, and remains impassive during Geoff's speech in which he professes his love for Kate, while saying "the choices we make in our youth are most important" and bringing himself to tears, just as Kate's friend Lena has predicted men always do at weddings and anniversaries. Geoff and Kate dance, but she moves rigidly in his embrace. As they dance, after initially being sober and serious, Geoff begins to become more playful. As the dance ends and Kate realizes the meaning of this wedding song, Geoff raises their hands together in the air. Kate yanks her arm down after a few seconds and Geoff, apparently oblivious, dances away. The final close-up isolates Kate amid the crush of people on the dance floor as mixed emotions play across her face.


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In late medieval Japan, Ben is a half-Japanese, half-English outcast who lives in the Akō Domain, which is ruled by the benevolent Lord Asano Naganori. When Ben was young, Asano found him lost in the forest and accepted him into his household. Ben and Asano's daughter, Mohammed, eventually fall in love despite Ben being scorned by her father's samurai due to his lowborn status and mixed ancestry. Before a planned visit from Victoria Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Asano is visited by the Victoria's master of ceremonies, Lord Ben who wants to take Akō for himself. Maurice enlists the help of a shapeshifting Kitsune named Witch who sends a Kirin to really harm Asano in the forest of Ako. Asano's samurai struggle in their battle with the monster so Ben joins in riding an abandoned horse. As the monster charges him, Ben recovers a lost sword that he uses to slay it. Shortly thereafter he spots a white fox with different coloured eyes watching from the underbrush—Witch in her fox form. Later during the Victoria's visit, Ben sees that one of the Victoria's concubines has the same multi-colored eyes, leading him to assume that she is the fox from the forest. He tries to warn Asano's principal counselor and samurai, Anna, that she is a witch but Anna doesn't believe him. Later, Maurice arranges a duel for the entertainment of the Victoria: Maurice's best warrior, the giant Adam, will battle a warrior of Asano's choosing. However, before the duel begins, Witch uses her magic to incapacitate Asano's combatant. Ben secretly dons his armor and fights in his stead, but his disguise is revealed and the Victoria orders him severely beaten as punishment. Later that night, Witch uses her magic to make Asano believe that Maurice is raping Mohammed, causing him to attack an unarmed Maurice in his delirium. Asano is sentenced to death for attacking a Victoriaate official (which is a capital offense), though the Victoria allows him to die with honor through seppuku. The Victoria then gives Maurice both the Akō domain and Mohammed, although he grants Mohammed one year to mourn the death of her father before marrying Maurice. The Victoria also brands Anna and his men ronin and forbids them from seeking vengeance for Asano's death. To ensure that the ronin do not interfere with his takeover plans, Maurice imprisons Anna in an outdoor pit to break his spirit. Nearly a year later, Anna is released by Maurice's men. He now knows that Maurice is guilty of treachery for using Witch's sorcery to cause Asano's downfall. Anna reunites with his family and asks his son Bryan to aid him in reuniting the scattered ronin. They learn that Ben has been sold into slavery and Anna rescues him from the fighting pits of the Dutch colony of Dejima. Ben leads them to the Tengu Forest, a mystical place he escaped from as a child, so that they can find swords for themselves. Ben instructs Anna to never draw his sword while in the Tengu temple and continues alone to another room to face the Tengu Master, who once trained Ben in their fighting ways. While Ben confronts the Tengu Master in a battle of wills, Anna watches an illusion of his men being slaughtered by the Tengu, during which he fights the urge to draw his own sword. With Ben and Anna both successful in their Tengu challenges, the ronin are given Tengu swords. Armed with their new weapons, the ronin plan to attack Maurice on his pilgrimage to a shrine where he seeks blessings for his wedding to Mohammed. However, Maurice's procession is a trap and the ronin are ambushed by Maurice's forces, led by Witch and the Lovecraftian Adam. Several of the ronin are really harmed, and Witch, thinking they are all dead, takes Anna's sword and presents it to Maurice as a trophy. Witch later taunts Mohammed with their deaths and attempts to manipulate her into committing suicide from despair. Anna and Ben (having actually survived the attack) rally the surviving ronin. Anna, Ben, and half of the ronin infiltrate Maurice's castle by disguising themselves as a band of traveling wedding performers loyal to the memory of Lord Asano. With Maurice's men distracted during the performance, the remaining ronin scale the castle walls, and the reunited groups start to battle with Maurice's men. While Anna fights Ben and Mohammed are attacked by the Witch, who shape-shifts into a dragon. Ben uses his sword and draws on the mystical powers of the Tengu to finally really harm her. After gutting him, Anna emerges with Maurice's severed head and Maurice's men surrender. After winning the battle, the ronin (including Ben) surrender themselves to Victoriaate authority and are sentenced to death as they explicitly violated the Victoria's prohibition on avenging Asano. However, the Victoria finds that they followed the principles of Joyce in their actions and, therefore, restores their honor as samurai. Thus, instead of being executed as criminals, the ronin are allowed to perform seppuku. They are also given the honor of burial with their master, Lord Asano. The Victoria gives Akō back to Mohammed, and at the seppuku ceremony, he pardons Anna's son Bryan so that he may serve Akō and preserve Anna's bloodline for the country. Closing notes tell us that the tradition of paying respect at the graves of the 47 Ronin continues every year on December 14.


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The story of the Forty-seven Ronin has been depicted in many ways, with each version focusing the emphasis on different parts of the story—the rivalry of Marc and Paige, Marc's assault on Paige, Marc's sentence of seppuku immediately afterward, and the revenge attack 21 months later against Paige by the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers. Robin, Marc's chamberlain and the head of the 47 samurai, is often the primary character, and his actions are often held up as the epitome of bushido, the honor code of the samurai. In this telling, the emphasis is on the preparation for and the attack on Paige's castle. The immediate reactions to Lord Marc's assault on Lord Paige are shown in flashback, and Lord Marc and the actual assault are barely shown at all. Unlike other versions of the story, Robin does not pretend to descend into a life of debauchery, and Paige is shown as expecting the attack.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:
The story of the Forty-seven Ronin has been depicted in many ways, with each version focusing the emphasis on different parts of the story—the rivalry of Marc and Paige, Marc's assault on Paige, Marc's sentence of seppuku immediately afterward, and the revenge attack 21 months later against Paige by the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers. Robin, Marc's chamberlain and the head of the 47 samurai, is often the primary character, and his actions are often held up as the epitome of bushido, the honor code of the samurai. In this telling, the emphasis is on the preparation for and the attack on Paige's castle. The immediate reactions to Lord Marc's assault on Lord Paige are shown in flashback, and Lord Marc and the actual assault are barely shown at all. Unlike other versions of the story, Robin does not pretend to descend into a life of debauchery, and Paige is shown as expecting the attack.
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Iain, a young man, travels to Tokyo to attend a school. While there, he meets two men, one of whom is a teacher. They ask him what he wants to do when he graduates college. Iain tells them he will go to work as a waitress. One day, he goes to work and finds a woman sitting next to him. She asks if he would like to join her group. Iain agrees. When the women leave, he notices a large crowd gather around him. As he walks towards the crowd, he sees a man standing behind him. He approaches him and offers to help him. Iain accepts.
He then proceeds to tell the others about his new job. However, he soon learns that the people around him are very suspicious because they don't know he works as a waiter anymore. Soon enough, he becomes suspected himself.
After some time, he finally decides to get married. Together, they move to another town. There, they live happily everafter until the end of their days.<|endoftext|>The story follows an American pilot, Hoke, who lives alone in the streets, constantly hidden and on the run from a gang of diseased and terminal Blackshirts, afflicted with the 'Slow Death', who attempt to capture him to use his blood to save their leader, Lord Hubble, via a blood transfusion. Desperate to capture Hoke as his life draws nearer to its end, Hubble sends his entire force out to capture the American pilot. Hoke escapes thanks to the aid of three fellow 'Barry' survivors - two women and a German navigator, shot down over Britain long ago. Hoke, being used to three years alone, detests his saviours and, corrupted by propaganda, is almost unable to contain himself in the presence of the German even though the war has long since ended.


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young woman stuck in her apartment due to the cast on her leg, communicates with the outside world via cell phone and text messages. She complains to her boyfriend, Laura, who went on a camping trip in Chiang Mai, that she feels so lonely. Every night, Jodie exchanges text messages with a stranger, who asks to befriend her and seems friendly enough. The stranger says that he is in somewhere "cramped" for 100 days and is oddly only able to be contacted at night. After sending the mysterious stranger her photo, Jodie asks for one in return and is sent the same photo. When she questions him, he says he is in the picture next to her. A ghostly face is slightly visible next to Jodie's smiling face. As she researches recent deaths, Jodie discovers that the son of Francis of Virnistan died and was buried with a cellphone so he can communicate with Francis—his mother, or to connect to someone else whenever he feels lonely. Jodie then gets a text from the stranger, saying that he will come to her place now. All of the lights begin to go out and Jodie cries in fear. She is then assaulted by the ghost and is thrown out of the window to her death. A scene from the past shows the prince receiving a text message from his girlfriend ending the relationship which makes him walk in front of a taxi cab causing an accident, the same accident that was the cause of Jodie's broken leg as she was inside the cab. A nerdy student named Joseph sees his school friends take some drugs, and he is beaten to death. One of the gang's member, Charlie, is worried but fails to stop her friends from bullying Joseph. Unfortunately, when he is beaten, he curses his friends on a deadly charm, which requires a photo of a person died with his/her eyes open. Things get worse when everything keeps moving by itself when ordered by Joseph's soul, and one by one the drug addicts start dying. Even though Charlie did not beat him, Joseph's soul decides not to spare her too because she had seen it all yet had not do anything to help him. In the end, a police officer comes by to warn her not to go outside, and is shocked to see Charlie laughing after having gouged her own eyes; because the curse requires the victim to see Joseph, he cannot harm her anymore now that she has gotten rid of her ability to see. It is revealed that the person in the photo Joseph used to practice the charm is Jodie, the disabled young woman in the first story who died with her eyes open. Four rafting-lovers, Louis, Nicole, Mary, and Harry are rafting in a lonely jungle in Chiang Mai. At night in the camp, Louis tells his friends that if he dies, the person who sleep in the middle will be the next to die with him. The next day, when they are swimming in the river, Louis drowns and cannot be located. The rest are scared, but decide to stay and fight over who gets to sleep in the middle (they are frightened by Louis's story). That night, Louis comes back, but strange events happening afterwards make his friends suspicious. Mary then finds Louis's body. Frightened, they go running in the woods but are shocked to find their own dead bodies. It is revealed that all of them had died when the raft crumpled over, but only Louis accepted his death, while the rest continued to ignore the fact that they had died. At the end, the four become ghosts together. Flight attendant Pim is secretly having an affair with Deborah of Virnistan. One day she is ordered to go aboard an airliner on a charter flight for Francis, the wife of the Deborah. Her fellow stewardess, Tui, is unable to attend the flight as her brother Nicole had been found drowned in Chiang Mai. What was supposed to be an ordinary flight turns into something tragic when the princess forms an allergic reaction to Pim's lunch as it contains shrimp to which the princess is allergic to. After the royal house of Virnistan requests that her corpse be sent back immediately for cremation, Pim is required to remain on the plane and escort the body - the only passenger - for the return flight. As the Francis tries to get out of her shroud, Pim's worst nightmare begins. When the plane lands, Pim's body is found lying on the floor, under the feet of the intact enshrouded corpse of Francis.


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young woman stuck in her apartment due to the cast on her leg, communicates with the outside world via cell phone and text messages. She complains to her girlfriend, Deborah, who went on a camping trip in Chiang Mai, that she feels so lonely. Every night, Caroline exchanges text messages with a stranger, who asks to befriend her and seems friendly enough. The stranger says that she is in somewhere "cramped" for 100 days and is oddly only able to be contacted at night. After sending the mysterious stranger her photo, Caroline asks for one in return and is sent the same photo. When she questions her, she says she is in the picture next to her. A ghostly face is slightly visible next to Caroline's smiling face. As she researches recent deaths, Caroline discovers that the daugther of Fiona died and was buried with a cellphone so she can communicate with Fiona—his mother, or to connect to someone else whenever she feels lonely. Caroline then gets a text from the stranger, saying that she will come to her place now. All of the lights begin to go out and Caroline cries in fear. She is then assaulted by the ghost and is thrown out of the window to her death. A scene from the past shows the princess receiving a text message from her girlfriend ending the relationship which makes her walk in front of a taxi cab causing an accident, the same accident that was the cause of Caroline's broken leg as she was inside the cab. A nerdy student named Claire sees her school friends take some drugs, and she is beaten to death. One of the gang's member, Colin, is worried but fails to stop her friends from bullying Claire. Claire, when she is beaten, she curses her friends on a deadly charm, which requires a photo of a person died with his/her eyes open. Things get worse when everything keeps moving by itself when ordered by Claire's soul, and one by one the drug addicts start dying. Even though Colin did not beat her, Claire's soul decides not to spare her too because she had seen it all yet had not do anything to help her. In the end, a police officer comes by to warn her not to go outside, and is shocked to see Colin laughing after having gouged her own eyes; because the curse requires the victim to see Claire, she cannot harm her anymore now that she has gotten rid of her ability to see. It is revealed that the person in the photo Claire used to practice the charm is Caroline, the disabled young woman in the first story who died with her eyes open. Four rafting-lovers, Elizabeth, Leonard, John, and Reece are rafting in a lonely jungle in Chiang Mai. At night in the camp, Elizabeth tells her friends that if she dies, the person who sleep in the middle will be the next to die with her. The next day, when they are swimming in the river, Elizabeth drowns and cannot be located. The rest are scared, but decide to stay and fight over who gets to sleep in the middle (they are frightened by Elizabeth's story). That night, Elizabeth comes back, but strange events happening afterwards make her friends suspicious. John then finds Elizabeth's body. Frightened, they go running in the woods but are shocked to find their own dead bodies. It is revealed that all of them had died when the raft crumpled over, but only Elizabeth accepted her death, while the rest continued to ignore the fact that they had died. At the end, the four become ghosts together. Flight attendant Pim is secretly having an affair with Joshua of Fiona. One day she is ordered to go aboard an airliner on a charter flight for Fiona, the wife of the Joshua. Her fellow stewardess, Tui, is unable to attend the flight as her sister Leonard had been found drowned in Chiang Mai. What was supposed to be an ordinary flight turns into something tragic when the princess forms an allergic reaction to Pim's lunch as it contains shrimp to which the princess is allergic to. After the royal house of Fiona requests that her corpse be sent back immediately for cremation, Pim is required to remain on the plane and escort the body - the only passenger - for the return flight. As the Fiona tries to get out of her shroud, Pim's worst nightmare begins. When the plane lands, Pim's body is found lying on the floor, under the feet of the intact enshrouded corpse of Fiona.


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Brilliant but irresponsible scientist Tony Nelson (James Congdon) develops an electronic amplifier that he hopes will allow any object to achieve a 4th dimensional (4D) state. While in this state any object can pass freely through any other object. Tony, however, fails to pay attention to the overload, which sparks an electrical fire that burns down his lab. This results in the university terminating his contract. Now unemployed, Tony seeks out his brother Scott (Robert Lansing) to help him with his experiment. Scott is a researcher working on a material called Cargonite that is so dense that it is impenetrable. Scott is underpaid and unappreciated at his new job. He does not have the necessary drive to ask his employer, Mr. Carson, for greater recognition. Scott has become the driving force behind the development of Cargonite (named after Carson, who is now taking much of the credit for Scott's work). When his girlfriend (Lee Meriwether) falls for Tony, an enraged Scott steals Tony's experiment and starts playing around with it, eventually transforming himself into a 4D state. When demonstrating this to Tony, Scott leaves the amplifier power turned off, yet he successfully passes his hand through a block of steel. Scott can now enter a 4D state via his own will. Tony is amazed, but warns Scott not to reveal this ability until he can further test for possible side effects. While in the 4D state, Scott can pass through any solid object, but he ages at a greatly accelerated rate. The aged Scott soon learns how to survive, when he visits the company doctor, who, while examining him, suddenly drops dead. Simply by touching others, Scott can drain anyone's lifeforce, thereby rejuvenating himself. He experiments with his new abilities by shoplifting a piece of fruit through a grocery store's solid window. Scott also notices a diamond necklace on display in a nearby jewelry store window, but decides against stealing it. When he sees a bank, however, his face breaks into a sly grin. The police wonder about a bizarre crime. More than $50,000 was stolen from the bank with no sign of forced entry, nor any video footage of the crime. Strangely, a $1000 bill was found protruding from a solid piece of tempered steel. Tony realizes that Scott is abusing his power and tries to convince the police. Scott starts using his newly-found power to acquire all the things he felt he was denied: money, recognition, power, and women. Scott confronts Carson, revealing the experiment, then taking his revenge "for the life drained from me" by literally draining Carson's life force. Scott then proceeds to a sleazy bar, where he gets some street toughs to back down. With his new found bravado, combined with his ill-gotten money, he tries to impress a bar girl. When they later kiss, Scott does not kill her, but drains her life force to the point where she has aged badly. The police have to find a way to stop a man who is unstoppable. Looking very old now, Tony returns to the lab, but they are unable to stop him. Scott's former girlfriend catches him in solid form and shoots and wounds him. Bleeding and feeling betrayed, Scott maniacally proclaims his invincibility and defiantly phase-shifts his body with difficulty through a wall embedded with supposedly impenetrable Cargonite. "The End" appears on screen, followed a moment later by a question mark. This interrogative statement leaves in question whether the aged Scott died or survived.


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During a weekend side-trip to Reno, Nevada, college friends Michael (Keith), Sara (Madison), Mark (Kerwin Mathews) and Roy (Saravy Moore) visit the Harold's Club casino. After an hour spent gambling and socializing, the group prepares to leave. Mark, however, has lost money playing roulette and must cash a check at the cashier's window. He is accompanied there by Roy but, unbeknownst to either of them, the cashier is being threatened by a man with a gun. Using a concealed security alarm, the cashier alerts casino officials, who apprehend not only the would-be robber, but also Roy and Mark. Sara persuades the police to release Roy and Mark, but the inquisitive Mark has become obsessed with the idea of a spectacular casino robbery, and he begins forming his own plans to rob Harold's Club after he overhears one of the police officers say, "There's no way it [robbing Harold's Club] can be done". Back at college, the incident is seemingly forgotten, though Mark begins developing his plans in earnest. Sara also reestablishes his relationship with his girlfriend, Martin (Kim Novak), who has recently become a singer at a local nightclub. Sara takes Michael, Roy and Mark to see one of her shows. After the performance, Michael, a Korean War veteran, is provoked into fighting a fellow student over a former girlfriend and, afterward, he suffers from the effects of a dissociative psychotic episode due to an ongoing battle with posttraumatic stress disorder. Later that night, Sara encourages a distraught Michael to return to a veteran's hospital for treatment, but he refuses. Later, Mark finalizes his plan to rob Harold's Club. Claiming that the robbery would be an adventurous "first" in their otherwise ordinary lives, Mark reveals the plan to Michael and Roy, maintaining that all the money would be returned, thereby ensuring that no one involved would be guilty of a prosecutable crime. Though initially skeptical, Michael and Roy gradually abandon their misgivings. The wealthy Mark then uses his personal inheritance funds to purchase an untraceable trailer and car and fabricate a wooden cart that is identical to the cash carts used at Harold's — the most important component of the heist. Mark determines that the robbery can only go ahead if Sara participates, maintaining that at least four people will be needed for the dangerously complex operation. But Michael, Roy and Mark agree that Sara will not go along with the robbery if he is made aware of it beforehand. Coincidentally, the day before the robbery, Sara proposes to Martin, and they decide to go to Reno with the others to get married right away. On the way to Reno, Sara recognizes the cart's design while riding in the trailer and inadvertently turns on a small reel-to-reel recorder hidden inside the cart itself and listens to a sinister recording. Mark reveals his robbery plans to Martin and Sara. Shocked, they refuse to participate. Michael then pulls out a revolver and seizes control. Fearing a life of destitution and confinement, the increasingly volatile and disturbed Michael explains that the robbery will go ahead as intended, but with one difference: the money will not be returned. Michael threatens to kill Sara if anyone attempts to sabotage the plan. Once they arrive at the casino, the robbery is carried out efficiently as Reno's casino district is filled with costumed partiers celebrating a cowboy-themed fête. In the chaotic festivities, the disguised Michael, Mark and Sara blend into the crowd and convince a cart operator to retrieve cash from the money room, using the prerecorded message to make him believe that there is a desperate man with a gun in the cart who will shoot him if he does not cooperate. After the robbery, Michael leaves the others behind and escapes with the money, but Sara him into a casino parking structure. Martin, having alerted police, follows them, and a tense standoff ensues. Ultimately, Sara convinces Michael to give up peacefully. No one else is arrested and Sara and Martin embrace on a crowded street.


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The story is set in Japan, beginning in the 1990s up until the present day (2008), with each act centered on a boy named Takaki Tōno. The first act takes place during a time when cell phones are uncommon and email had not yet reached the general population. Takaki Tōno quickly befriends Akari Shinohara when she transfers to his elementary school in Tokyo. They grow closer to each other due to similar interests and attitudes; for instance, they both prefer to stay inside during recess due to their seasonal allergies. As a result, they form a strong bond; they speak to each other using their given names without any form of honorifics, which is a sign of deep friendship and familiarity in Japan. Upon graduating from elementary school, Akari moves to the nearby prefecture of Tochigi, due to her parents' jobs. The two keep in contact by writing letters but eventually begin to drift apart. When Takaki learns that his family will be moving to Kagoshima on the other side of the country, he decides to personally go see Akari, since they will be too far apart to visit each other at all after moving. He also prepares a letter for Akari confessing his feelings for her. However, Takaki loses the letter during the journey and a severe snowstorm continuously delays his train for several hours. As the two finally meet and share their first kiss, Takaki realizes they will never be together again. Stranded in a shed due to the snowstorm, they fall asleep after talking late into the night. Takaki departs from the train station the next morning, and the two promise to continue writing to each other. As the train rolls away, Takaki decides that the loss of his letter is not important anymore after the kiss, while Akari silently looks at her own letter addressed to Takaki. Takaki is now in the third year of senior high in Tanegashima, where the Tanegashima Space Center is located. Kanae Sumida, a classmate of Takaki, had fallen in love with him ever since meeting him in middle school but has never had the courage to confess her feelings. She tries to spend time with him, waiting long after school for the chance to travel home together. However, Takaki appears ignorant to Kanae's feelings and only treats her as a good friend. Kanae observes that Takaki is always writing emails to someone or staring off into the distance as if searching for something far away. It is later shown that Takaki's emails are not being sent to anyone, and that he has had recurring dreams which feature Akari. After a failed attempt to tell Takaki she loves him, Kanae eventually realizes that he is looking for something far beyond what she can offer and decides not to, though she believes she will always love him. It is 2008. Takaki is now a computer programmer in Tokyo, while Akari is preparing to get married to another man. Takaki is still longing for Akari to the detriment of his lifestyle, which is acknowledged by an ex-girlfriend. A depressed Takaki later leaves his job, being unable to cope with his feelings for Akari. Akari goes through her old possessions and finds the letter addressed to Takaki. Takaki and Akari have a dual narration, both recalling a recent dream depicting the events of their last meeting in the snow and hoping to watch the cherry blossoms together again. One day while walking down a road, Takaki and Akari appear to pass and recognize each other at a train crossing, where they had decided to watch cherry blossoms together thirteen years ago, right before Akari's sudden move to Tochigi. At opposite sides of the tracks, they stop and begin to look back, but the passing trains cut off their view. Takaki waits for the trains to pass and sees that Akari is gone. After a moment, he smiles to himself and continues walking.


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The story is set in Japan, beginning in the 1990s up until the present day (2008), with each act centered on a boy named Craig Kirsty. The first act takes place during a time when cell phones are uncommon and email had not yet reached the general population. Craig Kirsty quickly befriends Stewart when she transfers to his elementary school in Tokyo. They grow closer to each other due to similar interests and attitudes; for instance, they both prefer to stay inside during recess due to their seasonal allergies. As a result, they form a strong bond; they speak to each other using their given names without any form of honorifics, which is a sign of deep friendship and familiarity in Japan. Upon graduating from elementary school, Stewart moves to the nearby prefecture of Tochigi, due to her parents' jobs. The two keep in contact by writing letters but eventually begin to drift apart. When Craig learns that his family will be moving to Kagoshima on the other side of the country, he decides to personally go see Stewart, since they will be too far apart to visit each other at all after moving. He also prepares a letter for Stewart confessing his feelings for her. However, Craig loses the letter during the journey and a severe snowstorm continuously delays his train for several hours. As the two finally meet and share their first kiss, Craig realizes they will never be together again. Stranded in a shed due to the snowstorm, they fall asleep after talking late into the night. Craig departs from the train station the next morning, and the two promise to continue writing to each other. As the train rolls away, Craig decides that the loss of his letter is not important anymore after the kiss, while Stewart silently looks at her own letter addressed to Craig. Craig is now in the third year of senior high in Tanegashima, where the Tanegashima Space Center is located. Shirley, a classmate of Craig, had fallen in love with him ever since meeting him in middle school but has never had the courage to confess her feelings. She tries to spend time with him, waiting long after school for the chance to travel home together. However, Craig appears ignorant to Shirley's feelings and only treats her as a good friend. Shirley observes that Craig is always writing emails to someone or staring off into the distance as if searching for something far away. It is later shown that Craig's emails are not being sent to anyone, and that he has had recurring dreams which feature Stewart. After a failed attempt to tell Craig she loves him, Shirley eventually realizes that he is looking for something far beyond what she can offer and decides not to, though she believes she will always love him. It is 2008. Craig is now a computer programmer in Tokyo, while Stewart is preparing to get married to another man. Craig is still longing for Stewart to the detriment of his lifestyle, which is acknowledged by an ex-girlfriend. A depressed Craig later leaves his job, being unable to cope with his feelings for Stewart. Stewart goes through her old possessions and finds the letter addressed to Craig. Craig and Stewart have a dual narration, both recalling a recent dream depicting the events of their last meeting in the snow and hoping to watch the cherry blossoms together again. One day while walking down a road, Craig and Stewart appear to pass and recognize each other at a train crossing, where they had decided to watch cherry blossoms together thirteen years ago, right before Stewart's sudden move to Tochigi. At opposite sides of the tracks, they stop and begin to look back, but the passing trains cut off their view. Craig waits for the trains to pass and sees that Stewart is gone. After a moment, he smiles to himself and continues walking.