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Coup! Coup!
Coup! and Lousy Carter
Bleeding Love (You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder) (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Emma Westenberg; Writer: Ruby Caster, based on a story by Clara McGregor, Vera Bulder, Ruby Caster; Stars: Clara McGregor, Ewan McGregor, Vera Bulder, Jake Weary, Kim Zimmer, Devyn McDowell, Sasha Alexander)
After overdosing on benzodiazepines and opioids, a young woman is picked up from the hospital by her father and the two embark on a road trip together. He was absent during most of her childhood due to addiction. In a last ditch effort to save her, he attempts to convince her to get sober.
Coup! (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Joseph Schuman, Austin Stark; Writer: Joseph Schuman, Austin Stark; Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, Skye P. Marshall, Faran Tahir, Kristine Nielsen, Fisher Stevens, Callum Vinson, John Posey, Julia Ford Collier, Willa Dunn, Mike Liscio, Robert John Gallagher, Ali Wills)
Sheltering from the 1918 Spanish Flu at their seaside estate, a progressive journalist and his socialite wife take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook... and soon find themselves facing mutiny.
Drift (Country: France, UK, Greece; Year: 2023; Director: Anthony Chen; Writer: Susanne Farrell, Alexander Maksik, based on the novel by Alexander Maksik; Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Alia Shawkat, Ibrahima Ba, Honor Swinton Byrne, Zainab Jah, Suzy Bemba)
Refugee Jacqueline, alone and penniless on a Greek island embarks on a friendship with a tour guide.
Lousy Carter (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Bob Byington; Writer: Bob Byington; Stars: David Krumholtz, Luxy Banner, Martin Starr, Olivia Thirlby, Jocelyn DeBoer)
Variously labeled as a deadbeat by his ex, a failure by his mother, and a shell of himself by his best friend, Lousy Carter is falling apart, debt-ridden and cast adrift. As he interprets The Great Gatsby for an antipathetic graduate class, one of the students offers Lousy Carter one last chance at living the dream.
Mother, Couch! (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Niclas Larsson; Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Ewan McGregor, Lake Bell, Taylor Russell, Lara Flynn Boyle, F. Murray Abraham, Rhys Ifans, Shelby Lee Parks, Erin Fritch, Michelle Marie Jacquot, Brent Moorer Gaskins, Madison Geiger, Jane Klecker, Kenna Blackburn, Gary Maniloff)
The story of three estranged children who are brought together when their mother refuses to move from a couch in a furniture store.
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