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On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to "date" their introverted nineteen-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing.

Alice & Jack explores perseverance, passion, and the true sense of partnership over the course of a profound fifteen-year relationship. Honest, intimate and surprisingly funny, it asks the seminal question of our time: are the bonds between us stronger than the forces that would tear us apart?

Aboard a train on holiday in France, a beautiful student, Lily Parker (Cheryle Ladd), meets a dashing young Englishman, Alex (Stuart Wilson), the son of a wealthy businessman (Sir John Gielgud). Alex and Lily have a passionate affair in the romantic setting of Southern France, but after seducing her, Alex suddenly walks out of Lily's life. Now ten years later, Lily, a cool, successful writer travelling aboard the Orient Express comes face to face...

Loser Ricky (Jon Cryer) has given up on love, until he meets mysterious Danita (Stephanie Szostak) through an online dating site. Charming, funny, and stunningly beautiful, there's only one catch. Ricky starts to wonder - can homicide lead to happily ever after? "An offbeat rom-com that ventures down the film-noir path, "Hit by Lightning" manages to make dark comedy fresh by combining two formulas."--Los Angeles Times.

From Oscar-nominated screenwriter Richard Curtis, comes Genie, a holiday fairytale comedy about a genie, a man, and landing one last chance to fix the mess you've made of your life. With his job, life and family unraveling around him, a despondent Bernard dusts off a jewelry box and unintentionally releases genie Flora who just might be able to help him. Maybe. It's a longshot, frankly. In the process, Flora and Bernard will discover that love, and...

Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young couple lives in a remote village in northern Senegal. For them, nothing else exists except each other. But for the rest of their tight-knit village, duty dictates that Adama soon accepts the role of chief. The two lovers have other plans-- until something in the air changes. The rains do not come; the cattle begin to die; the men leave.

Peter, a successful bachelor, feels no interest in a charming woman named Agnes, but longs for his childhood neighbor, Mary. When he is commissioned by British royalty to rebuild some stables, he is delighted to find that the spirited Duchess is actually his long-lost beloved. Her quick-tempered husband becomes violent when he discovers their past, but his jealousy is no match for their will to be together.

After James, a blind man, inexplicably regains his vision, he becomes possessed by a drive to make a better life for himself. However, his new improvements - a nicer home, a higher-paying job, tailored suits, luxury car - leave little room for the people who were part of his old, simpler life: his plain wife and close friend Bob. As his relationships buckle under the strain of his snowballing ambition, it becomes uncertain if James can ever return...

Jos Bakker is on a crossroad in his life. He needs to make a decision, either hold on to his freedom and his unattached way of life, or settle down and create a family with the woman he loves.

A 1950s housewife living with her husband in an idealistic experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding troubling secrets.