Saturday Night Life

Jun 22, 2006

0h 12m

★ 1.0

Overview

Writer-director Ava DuVernay's short drama concerns a poor, struggling single mother whose trip with her three children to a 99-cent store in Los Angeles becomes an unexpectedly uplifting family experience. Melissa DeSousa ("The Best Man") stars.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

The DuVernay Agency

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Cast

Madeline Lacy

Donielle Artese

The Admirer

James Black

Darlene Maye

Melissa De Sousa

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7.1

Alice: Crack of Season

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7.3

The Room

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A man explains how he was obsessed when he was younger by a mysterious room and an extraordinary rarefied piano music that drifted through its open window during the night. Forty years later, returning to his home town after having spent most of his life abroad, in "a bunch of different places", he asks one of his friends to rent a room for him. As chance would have it, it turns out to be the same room which attracted him when he was a young man. What drew him again to this room?

4.0

Red Star

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Adel is a 57-year-old man. He dedicates all his time to his local soccer club, and gets by doing temporary work. Then he learns that he is no longer eligible for the government’s low income benefit.

0.0

Flips

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At the wake of his late wife Aaron would like a word with the man upstairs. Releasing his rage he is interrupted by his foster brother, Danny. The two brothers play a childhood game of "flips" that changes both of their lives forever.

0.0

Sunnyside

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Lola's dream of escaping her father's Sunnyside motel seems closer to reality when a young stranger checks in.

0.0

Amen

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0.0

Hiatus

Jan 1, 2018

In his classroom a philosophy teacher opens the discussion on the place of religion in society. Out of his course he faces the realities of the street.

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10.0

Danju

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Danju sets out to save his muse from an evil power determined to break his spirit once and for all. This film was created as an entry for Bricks In Motion's annual animation competition (BRAWL), and won 5th place out of 150+ entries.

0.0

Stardust

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When his father brings his new girlfriend to the seaside, a withdrawn boy is forced to share his grief with someone he doesn't want to know.

0.0

Perhaps

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Our story follows the tumultuous relationship between Mike, a mechanic, and Nancy, an escort his friends got him for his birthday

9.0

Greek Gossip

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0.0

Girls Who Talk to Flowers

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Sometimes, people are unable to confront with their true selves. Girls Who Talk To Flowers is an intense love story between a female racer and a florist. What sparks would they produce?

6.0

Canine

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Karin and Peter have been married for almost 15 years. From the outside, they seem happy, but behind the closed doors of the house there is a repression. Then the dog Orion steps into their lives ...

4.3

The First Emperor of China

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This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declared himself emperor in 221 B.C. During his reign, he introduced sweeping reforms, built a vast network of roads and connected the Great Wall of China. From the grandiose inner sanctum of Emperor Qin's royal palace, to fierce battles with feudal kings, this film re-creates the glory and the terror of the Qin Dynasty, including footage of Qin's life-sized terra cotta army, constructed 2,200 years ago for his tomb.

5.6

Wonderkid

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Wonderkid follows the inner turmoil of an unnamed football prodigy as he comes to terms with his own identity, struggling to reconcile his sexuality with his issues with alcohol and OCD.

6.5

A Curtain Raiser

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Bruno, a young Frenchman, is frustrated by his girlfriend's constant lack of punctuality. He decides to end their relationship the next time she is late again.

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