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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013

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Breathe In and About Time
About Time (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Richard Curtis; Writer: Richard Curtis; Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Richard Cordery, Joshua McGuire, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Will Merrick, Vanessa Kirby, Tom Hughes, Clemmie Dugdale, Harry Hadden-Paton, Mitchell Mullen)
A young man who discovers he can travel in time decides to use it to try and get a girlfriend.
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Surprise film
Breathe In (Country: USA; Year: 2013; Director: Drake Doremus; Writer: Drake Doremus, Ben York Jones; Stars: Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Kyle MacLachlan, Amy Ryan, Alexandra Wentworth, Ben Shenkman, Hugo Becker, Brendan Dooling, Elise Eberle, Lucy Davenport, Mackenzie Davis, Nicole Patrick, Brock Harris, Jenny Anne Hochberg, Naeem Uzimann)
The arrival of an exchange student reawakens a middle aged man's musical ambitions.
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Opening night gala
Monsters University (Country: USA; Year: 2013; Director: Dan Scanlon; Writer: Robert L Baird, Daniel Gerson, Dan Scanlon; Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Steve Buscemi, Nathan Fillion, Peter Sohn, Joel Murray)
Mike and Sulley get some scary life lessons.
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Family gala
Not Another Happy Ending (Year: 2013; Director: John McKay; Writer: David Solomons; Stars: Karen Gillan, Stanley Weber, Amy Manson, Iain De Caestecker, Kate Dickie, Freya Mavor, Gary Lewis, Henry Ian Cusick)
A publisher tries to improve an author's creativity by making her life less happy.
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Closing night gala
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