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2) Rapture
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Using a single interlude-a brief encounter of old lovers, two bodies entwined on a bed at midday-Minot defines the distance that erupts at what seems to be the height of connection, as well as the extent to which the senses deceive, and the intensely private eroticism of fantasy and the imagination.
Minot's lovers are mesmerizing in their individual journeys-one moving toward a kind of holy consummation, the other toward abnegation and blank despair....
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From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a powerful mother-daughter drama that explores the fault lines between love and control, pairing the claustrophobic intensity of Room and My Year of Rest and Relaxation with the youthful angst of Freshwater.
Sixteen and pregnant, Karuna finds herself trapped in her mother's Melbourne public housing apartment for one hundred days awaiting the birth of her child-and her mother's next move in a shocking...
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In Mussolini's Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode--and murder--joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes back to a dance party for the blind; an insane asylum in a stadium; and wife Stefania Sandrelli and lover Dominique Sanda dancing the tango in a working class...
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Studio City volume 1
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Actor Sam Stevens and the cast of Hearts on Fire, America's #2 daytime drama, navigate the chaotic world of soap operas and their own messy lives.
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Studio City volume 8
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Difficult decisions are made as reflections come to light. Doc (Emmy winner Tristan Rogers) makes his wishes known in Violet's absence.
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Studio City volume 4
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The tension between Sam and Gloria grows as he looks for new opportunities but a conversation between Sam and his mother could derail it all.
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Studio City volume 5
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After weeks of unrest with Doc, Laurie asks Sam for help in hopes of changing his mind. Gloria keeps the cast and crew on edge.
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Studio City volume 2
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Sam's Hearts on Fire character gets a new storyline and a surprise guest star, but he gets a dose of reality when he goes to a meeting with Max.
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Studio City volume 6
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Tensions rise on the set of Hearts on Fire as Gloria and Sam clash over scripts. Bryan receives important news.
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Studio City volume 3
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Laurie decides to help Delilah and knows just the person to call. Doc gives Laurie some sobering news.
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Studio City volume 7
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Sam Stevens has a run-in while auditioning for a new film set up by his agent and reconsiders his career choices.
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We've surely arrived at an age where cashing in on people's innocence and naivety has been a source of livelihood for some people. Such that they're willing to consume a standup man, ripping him apart from all the hard-earned living he earned for his children. The story encapsulates the life of the author's foremost support; a determined man, who ventured along the ambition of living up only for his children. Her father, despite living a star-spangled...
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A gang led by banker Calvin Drake plans to drive off ranchers from their land to profit from a railroad. However, on one of these ranches, the Circle R, lives the Ryder family who resist the gang. After his father, Tom, is killed by One Eye Chapin, Red Ryder swears revenge and sets out to defeat the gang once and for all.
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Filmed during Cash's concert tour of the US in the late Sixties, this film offers a carefully airbrushed account of the star's life on and off stage. While attracting huge audiences wherever he goes, as well as winning awards, he remains eminently normal, the kind of man who willingly signs autographs, listens to pieces of doggerel composed by adoring fans, and poses for innumerable photos
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An alcoholic, falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together. The drama depicts the slow deterioration of a marriage due to alcoholism as ambitious ad man Joe Clay (Robertson) gets his wife Kristen to join him in drinking bouts that soon begin to destroy their lives...This is the highly acclaimed 1958 live TV version.
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Studio City volume 1
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Actor Sam Stevens struggles to strike a work-life balance filming his dream role. Doc hides his opiate addiction.
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Studio City volume 4
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Sam has an unexpected blast from the past. Nick uses Sam's absence from Hearts on Fire to his advantage.
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