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Democracy with a Smile
Democracy with a Smile
Comedy, Drama - 2012
5.3
52%
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Grant Cogswell, a liberal music critic decides to run for city council against a popular black incumbent and is assisted by a reporter who recently lost his job. Initially given no chance, things turn dark when Cogswell makes it into the general election. Based on a true story.
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Losing Isaiah
(1995)
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady ...
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Homegrown
(1998)
Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up with go-between Lucy in the next town, they plot their next move.
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Waterland
(1992)
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
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Talking to Heaven
(2002)
A man begins to have disturbing visions of dead people, among whom are his mother and victims of a local serial killer. All telling their story of how they died, and how their murderer is still out there. The detective investigating the murders looks to him for help in solving the case.
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An Amish Murder
(2013)
In "An Amish Murder", the peaceful Amish farming community of Painter’s Mill, Ohio, is shattered when a series of brutal murders leaves the town with a sense of frailty and loss of innocence. Among the most affected by the tragedy was Kate Burkholder (Campbell), a young girl who survived the terror and, as a result, left the Amish life...

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Rated:
R
Runtime:
98 min
Release date:
22 Jun 2012
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
This is one film as misguided as the business-as-usual subject it aims to critique.
– Andrew Schenker,
Time Out New York,
10 Jul 2012
fresh:
Although it only glosses the mechanics of local politics, it exudes an endearingly scruffy charm.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
12 Jul 2012
rotten:
At first glance, "Grassroots" doesn't seem like much of an idea for a movie. Nor at second, third or fourth glance.
– Kyle Smith,
New York Post,
13 Jul 2012
rotten:
Grassroots is a movie where bad ideas, because they're the ones championed by the "correct" side, are king. It never acknowledges that sometimes idealism is just another kind of manipulation.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
NPR,
19 Jul 2012
fresh:
An enjoyable, fitfully engaging but ever-so-slightly forgettable minor-key political comedy.
– Tom Huddleston,
Time Out,
6 Nov 2012
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