Writing matters: a handbook for writing and research

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poster X's & O's
X's & O's
93mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance
Relationship issues arise between a researcher with a theory to explain away all his failed dating experiments, a player who wants out of the game, a deejay whose head spins with thoughts of God, a hoodra…
poster Everyman's War
Everyman's War
(2.6/5)
104mn - Drama, War
No one in high command believed that German forces would attack in the sub zero temperatures and near blizzard conditions. As the pre-dawn attack comes, with communications down Sgt. Smith is left with no…
poster Dismissed
Dismissed
(2.9/5)
87mn - Thriller, Horror
A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.
poster Wiretapper
Wiretapper
(2.9/5)
80mn -
A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.
poster Hemingway
Hemingway
(3.3/5)
90mn - Comedy
When the patriarch of the Hemingway publishing empire dies, his fractured family discovers they have just eight hours to resolve their bitter feuds and repair decades of damage, or watch their entire inhe…
poster Study Hell
Study Hell
80mn - Horror
What starts as routine after-school detention becomes a nightmare when their supervising teacher, a troubled war veteran with PTSD, finally snaps under pressure. Drawing on his deadly military training, t…
poster Finding Happiness
Finding Happiness
(3.0/5)
95mn - Documentary
A skeptical investigative journalist receives an unusual assignment to visit a spiritual community in northern California, but what begins as a professional exposé transforms into a personal journey of di…
poster For Their Own Good
For Their Own Good
(3.1/5)
118mn - Drama, Short
When a factory worker faces an impossible ultimatum—submit to sterilization or lose her job—she rallies her fellow workers to fight back against their employer's shocking demands, challenging a system tha…
poster Teacher's Pest
Teacher's Pest
(3.1/5)
7mn - Animation
This Noveltoon (Paramount production number P9-5) finds young-and-little Junior Owl on his way to school, and trying hard to live up to the reputation of his elders for being wise. But, despite his best e…
poster Mary White
Mary White
(3.3/5)
102mn - Drama, Short, Family
The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughter Mary, who died in a horseback-riding accident at age 16, and the powerful effect the tragedy had on th…
poster Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
2mn - Drama
A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.
poster Space MOMs
Space MOMs
(4.2/5)
105mn - Drama
Based on an inspiring true story, brilliant working mothers who happen to be rocket scientists help India achieve the impossible in their historic Mars Orbiter Mission, proving that with determination and…
poster Exposure
Exposure
(2.7/5)
71mn - Drama
A washed-up alcoholic reporter gets a second chance when he's hired to save a failing newspaper owned by a determined young woman who inherited her father's struggling business. As he uses sensationalisti…
poster Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
(3.5/5)
52mn - Documentary, History, War
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of com…
poster The Young Lady and the Hooligan
The Young Lady and the Hooligan
(3.2/5)
44mn - Drama, Romance
A young woman arrives in her school where she must teach for the first time. Her task consists in teaching a class of adults to read and write. All her students are male, ranging from boys to old men, and…
poster Incident at Crestridge
Incident at Crestridge
(2.9/5)
92mn - Crime, Drama, Short
A woman campaigns for and wins election as sheriff in a crusade against the ineptitude and outright corruption of the local law enforcement in a small town in the West.
poster Conspiracy
Conspiracy
(2.6/5)
69mn - Mystery
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the tru…
poster The Average Woman
The Average Woman
(2.9/5)
48mn - Drama, Romance
Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, and …
poster Beauty's Worth
Beauty's Worth
(3.2/5)
76mn - Drama
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir fa…
poster The Green Sea
The Green Sea
(2.7/5)
105mn - Drama, Mystery
A solitary writer on a downward spiral life changes when the lead character of her novel comes to life in a physical from unrecognizable to her and will force her to face her dark past.
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