The slate is clean or close to it. That is terrifying and also, somewhere underneath, a little bit open. These films are about people who had to begin again -- and what they found when they did.
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
The starting-over process here is shown without shortcuts. That is what makes it useful.
Beginning again, truthfully
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
About people who had to begin again. Not inspiring exactly -- just true.
Beginning again, truthfully
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
The starting-over process here is shown without shortcuts. That is what makes it useful.
No false starts
After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.
About people who had to begin again. Not inspiring exactly -- just true.
Beginning again, truthfully
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
About people who had to begin again. Not inspiring exactly -- just true.
Beginning again, truthfully
Beginning again, truthfully
Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.
About people who had to begin again. Not inspiring exactly -- just true.
Beginning again, truthfully
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
The starting-over process here is shown without shortcuts. That is what makes it useful.
Beginning again, truthfully
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
About people who had to begin again. Not inspiring exactly -- just true.
Beginning again, truthfully
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
The starting-over process here is shown without shortcuts. That is what makes it useful.
No false starts
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
About people who had to begin again. Not inspiring exactly -- just true.
Beginning again, truthfully
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.