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Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, Jack notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes...
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The Lovely Bones
Film · 2009 · also dramaAfter being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must...
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Losing Isaiah
Film · 1995 · also dramaKhaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reali...
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Oliver Twist
Film · 2005 · also crime and dramaAn orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually fi...
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The Boys of St. Vincent
Film · 1994 · also crime and dramaThe true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
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The Glass Castle
Film · 2017 · also dramaA young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who dist...
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Short Term 12
Film · 2013 · also dramaGrace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough...
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The Outsiders
Film · 1983 · also crime and dramaIn 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy...
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Song for a Raggy Boy
Film · 2003 · also dramaWilliam Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his jo...
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Rebel Without a Cause
Film · 1955 · also dramaAfter moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching fo...
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Boyhood
Film · 2014 · also dramaThe film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at a...
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