The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.
Pete et Ellie ont toujours remis à plus tard la décision d’avoir des enfants pour se concentrer sur leur entreprise de rénovation. Après avoir été interpellés sur le sujet, ils entreprennent des démarches pour devenir famille d’accueil. Le processus, ardu et surprenant, les amène à rencontrer Lizzy, une adolescente de 15 ans qui n’a pas la langue dans sa poche, ainsi que ses frère et soeur cadets Juan et Lita.
Le pilote de ligne Whip Whitaker se rend un jour à son poste pour un autre vol de routine. À plus de trente milles pieds d'altitude, l'appareil connaît toutefois des ennuis mécaniques et semble condamné à s'écraser. Dans la tourmente, Whip parvient à garder son sang-froid et redresse suffisamment l'engin pour éviter le pire et sauver la vie de la quasi-totalité des passagers et des membres de l'équipage. L'exploit sera malheureusement entaché lorsque l'on découvrira que le nouveau héros avait consommé de l'alcool et de la drogue avant et durant le vol. Des méfaits qui pourraient condamner Whip à passer le reste de sa vie derrière les barreaux.
Adapté du best‑seller de Joyce Carol Oates, cinq fois finaliste pour le prix Pulitzer, « Blonde » est une relecture audacieuse de l'histoire personnelle de Marilyn Monroe, sex‑symbol la plus célèbre au monde. Il s'agit du portrait imaginaire de l'actrice, chanteuse et mannequin des années 50-60 raconté à travers le prisme d'une société vouant un culte à la célébrité.
Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the mentorship of counselor Craig, Daryl accepts that he has a substance abuse problem. As he falls in love with fellow patient Charlie, Daryl begins committing to a newly sober life.
An ex-convict must undertake a perilous, violent journey in order to meet his daughter after ten years of imprisonment.
Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.
Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job.
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.
Na'ama is seventeen. She lives in a sleepy suburbia. She is bored. With detached parents and a rebellious older sister, her life at home is a mess. It all changes when a new girl appears at school. She's introduced to a world of drugs, lesbians and sex. She's thrilled. Her life, at last, becomes exciting. Is it going to last? "Barash" is a coming of age story, planted in the heart of Israeli society, about a young woman who struggles to find her self-identity in an environment that has different ideas about sex, drugs and love.
When a substance abuse counsellor gets arrested for a DUI and returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, she learns that her estranged father is dying of cancer and wants her to form a bond with her teenage half-sister that she's never met.
Amoureux depuis toujours, ils essaient d'échapper aux dangers d'un monde précaire. Mais leur relation et leurs vies vont changer face à la drogue et l'addiction.
On New Year's Day, two boys wind up in the apartment of Katerina, a teacher from their school, along with her friends, Stepan and David. As the older trio bickers, drinks and flirts, the boys gain eye-opening insight into the adult world.
Ralph Macchio, once a former teen idol, once on top the world in the 80s. Now he is a family man with a loving wife and the nicest man in Hollywood... that is the problem. Because he never once participated in a scandal he is not as popular as he used to be. Sick and tired of it, his wife stages an intervention with his former co stars and manager. They explain to him that in order to further his career he has to shed the nice guy routine and become the most hated man in America. With some inspiration by other scandalous celebrities such as Colin Farrell and Christian Bale; Macchio decides to partake in every scandal known to modern America. Will he succeed in his career or would he go too far?
The life of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor was turned upside down when he's implicated in the wrongful death trial of one-time Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith.
A soap opera parody along the lines of Young Doctors in Love (1982).
Two musical stars from the golden age of Hollywood get a second chance at rekindling their love in the modern world.
When fourteen-year-old Naomi reunites with her estranged cousin, innocent curiosities lead to a night of drinking, debauchery, and betrayal in the shadows of a small Ohio factory town.
With his parents away from home, teenager Harry agrees to let old friend Jason stay for the night in his suburban mansion, allowing buried demons from their past to inhabit the house.
Follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families.