fiction films

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fiction films

The fat boy chronicles

Overweight outsider Jimmy Winterpock is subjected to cruel bullying from his high school classmates. Despite the constant teasing and torment, Jimmy's strength to never give up helps him focus on his goals to lose weight and win over the girl of his dreams.

Flipped

When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. Bryce isn't so sure. Beginning that day, and for the next six years, young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length, which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other.

Chicka chicka 1, 2, 3

and more counting fun!
Collects stories that depict the variety of ways numbers are used in life, with songs and animations that cover basic number and math concepts from one to a trillion.

Happiness is a warm blanket, Charlie Brown

Linus tries to detach himself from his security blanket with the help of his friends and family.

Macbeth

Each step in Macbeth's bloody ascent to the throne of Scotland brings him closer to his doom.

Unbroken

Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

I'm brave!

"Come visit the firehouse and discover all the tools that fire trucks need to do their jobs and what it takes to be brave."--DVD container.

Preacher's kid

Angie is the daughter of a stern but loving bishop. She becomes attracted to the hunky star of a traveling gospel show. They decide to hit the road, and head straight into romance. But life on the road isn't what it seems and the actor's ongoing lies and abuse eventually trigger an epiphany for her, sending the prodigal daughter home to the father and the keyboardist that love her.

The sun is also a star

College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet, and fall for each other, over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love?.

The orphanage

Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unraveling the mystery that has taken over the place.
Cover image of The orphanage

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