20 Feet from Stardom
Documentary ⢠PG-13 ⢠2013 ⢠1 hr 29 min
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A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense, allows the film to show the investigation, research and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the Unitedstatian South.
An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation he works for turn against him.
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
The intersecting stories of twenty-four charactersâfrom country star to wannabe to reporter to waitressâconnect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.
Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.