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A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
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A Simple Twist of Fate
Film · 1994 · also comedy and dramaWhen Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Li...
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Summer Magic
Film · 1963 · also comedy and familyMother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not...
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Roll Bounce
Film · 2005 · also comedy and dramaIn the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.
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Because of Winn-Dixie
Film · 2005 · also comedy and dramaA girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond bet...
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Chang Can Dunk
Film · 2023 · also comedy and dramaChang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only...
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A.R.C.H.I.E.
Film · 2016 · also comedy and familyA recently orphaned 15-year-old who has moved to a small town to live with her uncle befriends a robotic canine with super strength, x-ray vision and the ability to talk...
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Shorts
Film · 2009 · also comedy and familyA young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get thei...
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
Film · 2015 · also comedy and dramaYoung and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.
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Housekeeping
Film · 1987 · also comedy and dramaIn the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conve...
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The Little Princess
Film · 1939 · also comedy and dramaA little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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