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Eve and the Fire Horse
2005 • 110 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media
Director: Julia Kwan
Cast: Vivian Wu, Lester Chit-Man Chan, Hollie Lo, Phoebe Kut, Jessica Amlee, Herb Beaverstone
Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where
Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for
Eve and her 11-year-old prim and authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion.
The Evening Star
1996 • 130 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Robert Harling
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis, Scott Wolf
The Indomitable Aurora Greenway’s Struggles with her family and her love life continue in this long awaited sequel to “Terms of
Endearment.”
The Events Leading Up To My Death
1992 • 89 minutes • Colour • Maple Pictures
Director: Bill Robertson
Cast: John Allore, Peter MacNeill, Rosemary Radcliff, Linda Kash, Karen Hines, Maria Del Mar and Mary Margret O’Hara.
Angus is celebrating his 21st birthday. It should be a happy occasion, right Wrong! Angus can’t dance, and his lack of rhythm is ruining
his relationship with his live-in girlfriend, Julia. But tonight, all that will change, thanks to the help of Rita, the dance instructor. In one wild,
bizarre evening, Angus, his girlfriend, his parents and sisters learn to cope with life, lack of rhythm, each other and the mysterious death of
the family dog.
Ever After
1998 • 121 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Andy Tennant
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott
Drew Barrymore takes on the title role in this enchanting film in which a spirited young woman, forced into servitude by her evil stepmother
(played by Academy Award®-winner Anjelica Huston), finds refuge in an unexpected, yet burgeoning, relationship with the Prince of
France. One “small” problem remains as she struggles to mask her true identity in a world in which royality doesn’t mix with “the help” and
the penalty for duplicity is death.
Everybody's Fine
2009 • 100 minutes • Colour • Maple Pictures
Director: Kirk Jones
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell
A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his
grown children.
Everyone Says I Love You
1997 • 107 minutes • Colour • Alliance Films Inc
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Tim Roth
This is Allen’s first musical comedy. Written and directed by him, Everyone Says I Love You was shot on location in New York, Venice and
Paris. The two children of a rich family from Manhattan encounter many sentimental problems which force their parents to face their own
matrimonial existence. During a trip to Paris for Christmas, everyone will succeed to untangle their feelings.
Everyone's Hero
2006 • 87 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Dan St. Pierre, Colin Brady
Cast: Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Brian Dennehy, William H. Macy, Mandy Patinkin, Dana Reeve, Robert Wagner, Richard Kind
In EVERYONE'S HERO, a young boy (Jake T. Austin) finds himself at an extraordinary crossroads: He has a chance to be a hero – and
make a difference against incredible odds – or he can play it safe. With faith in himself instilled by his family, he teams up with a sassy
young girl (Raven-Symone) and some off-the-wall sidekicks and embarks on a sometimes perilous, often funny, cross-country quest. In
the process, he restores his family's honor, befriends the world’s biggest sports superstar, and reveals the hero within.
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