The Peanut Butter Falcon (
2019) | IMDb:
7.6
A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.
Starring:
Shia LaBeouf
,
Zack Gottsagen
,
Dakota Johnson
,
Thomas Haden Church
,
John Hawkes
,
Bruce Dern
Louder Than Bombs (
2015) | IMDb:
6.6
Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.
Nebraska (
2013) | IMDb:
7.7
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Ruby Sparks (
2012) | IMDb:
7.2
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
The Switch (
2010) | IMDb:
6.1
Kassie is a smart, fun-loving single woman who, despite her neurotic best friend Wally’s objections, decides it’s time to have a baby – even if it means doing it herself… with a little help from a charming sperm donor. But, unbeknownst to her, Kassie’s plans go awry because of a last-minute switch that isn’t discovered until seven years later… when Wally gets acquainted with Kassie’s cute, though slightly neurotic, son.
Starring:
Jennifer Aniston
,
Jason Bateman
,
Patrick Wilson
,
Thomas Robinson
,
Jeff Goldblum
,
Juliette Lewis
Hamlet 2 (
2008) | IMDb:
6.3
Failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz rallies his Tucson students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Starring:
Steve Coogan
,
Catherine Keener
,
J. J. Soria
,
Skylar Astin
,
Phoebe Strole
,
Melonie Diaz
Directed by:
Andrew Fleming
Little Children (
2006) | IMDb:
7.5
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Starring:
Kate Winslet
,
Patrick Wilson
,
Jennifer Connelly
,
Jackie Earle Haley
,
Noah Emmerich
,
Gregg Edelman
Little Miss Sunshine (
2006) | IMDb:
7.8
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Bee Season (
2005) | IMDb:
5.5
Wife and mother Miriam begins a downward emotional spiral as her husband avoids their collapsing marriage by immersing himself in his 11-year-old daughter's quest to become a spelling-bee champion.
Starring:
Richard Gere
,
Juliette Binoche
,
Flora Cross
,
Max Minghella
,
Kate Bosworth
,
Corey Fischer
The Wood (
1999) | IMDb:
7
In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.
Starring:
Omar Epps
,
Richard T. Jones
,
Taye Diggs
,
Sanaa Lathan
,
LisaRaye McCoy
,
De'Aundre Bonds
Directed by:
Rick Famuyiwa
Election (
1999) | IMDb:
7.3
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks football player Paul Metzler to run for president as well.
Starring:
Matthew Broderick
,
Reese Witherspoon
,
Chris Klein
,
Jessica Campbell
,
Mark Harelik
,
Phil Reeves
King of the Hill (
1993) | IMDb:
7.3
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
Starring:
Jesse Bradford
,
Jeroen Krabbé
,
Lisa Eichhorn
,
Karen Allen
,
Spalding Gray
,
Elizabeth McGovern