This documentary recounts the history of the Better Boys Foundation, founded in 1961 by Chicago philanthropist Joe Kellman and comedian Buddy Hackett to provide tutoring and mentoring for teens.
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Werner Herzog's 1972 film plays like a structural inversion of his Every Man for Himself and God Against All, with a party of Spanish conquistadores gradually succumbing to Herzog's animistic vision of nature as they plow through the Brazilian jungles in search of El Dorado.
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Coming on the heels of Spellbound and Bee Season, this small gem (2006) about a South Central LA girl with a gift for spelling restores luster to the family genre.
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Glenn Close finally succeeds in mounting a screen version of the cross-dressing play she starred in on Broadway in 1982, about a meek, impoverished woman in Edwardian Ireland who poses as a man in order to support herself as a butler at a Dublin hotel.
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