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Factotum

Henry Chinaski is a writer, and sometimes he actually writes. More often he moves from place to place and job to job, making money as he needs it. He meets Jan, whose self-destructive tendencies are as bad as his own. __________________________________________________________________________

Factotum (2006) - Rated R - 94 minutes

Starring: Matt Dillon, Marisa Tomei, Lili Taylor, Didier Flamand, Karen Young

Directed by: Bent Hamer                                                                                                                            Screenplay by: Jim Stark, Bent Hamer

Genre: Drama, Biopic

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Factotum (1975) - 205 pages

Author: Charles Bukowski

Genre: Fiction

Nearing Grace/Nearing's Grace

Set in the 1970s, the story follows the Nearing family after the death of their mother. The family makes one bad choice after another in their attempt to deal with the tragedy. The teenage son, Henry, screws up in the normal high school way: misunderstanding girls and ignoring school.

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Nearing Grace (2006) - 1 hr 40 min

Starring: Jordana Brewster, Gregory Smith, David Morse, Ashley Johnson, Chad Faust

Directed by: Richard L. Rosenthal                                                                                                          Screenplay by: Jacob Aaron Estes

Genre: Drama

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Nearing's Grace (1979) - 175 pages

Author: Scott Sommer

Genre: Fiction, Drama, Coming of Age

To Kill A Mockingbird

  The story follows young Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus across three years in a small Southern town. Scout recounts her childhood summers and the arrest and trial of the young black man her father represented in court. The man is accused of raping a white woman - and her father (and Scout) take a lot of heat for his representation of him. Throughout the story are the kids attempts - along with their friend Dill - to see their mysterious unseen neighbor, Boo Radley.  __________________________________________________________________________

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) - 2 hrs 11 min

Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Frank Overton, Paul Fix

Directed by: Robert Mulligan                                                                                                                   Screenplay by: Horton Foote

Genre: Drama, Coming of Age __________________________________________________________________________

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - 288 pages

Author: Harper Lee

Genre: Fiction, Domestic Fiction, Coming of Age, Legal Story

Shock to the System

Gay private detective Donald Strachey is hired by several different people to prove that they didn't murder Paul Haig - a prominent product of an ex-gay therapy group. Strachey has to go undercover inside the therapy group to find the answers.

(In the film, Paul Haig is Strachey's client and he goes undercover to find out what happened to him.)

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Shock to the System (2006) - Rated R - 91 min

Starring: Chad Allen, Morgan Fairchild, Michael Woods, Sebastian Spence, Daryl Shuttleworth

Directed by: Ron Oliver                                                                                                                                     Screenplay by: Ron McGee

Genre: Drama, Crime/Gangster

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A Shock to the System (1995) - 192 pages

Author: Richard Stevenson

Genre: Fiction, Mystery

Movies Released in August 2006

                      

How to Eat Fried Worms - Based on the book by Thomas Rockwell

      

         

         

Nearing Grace (Limited Release) - Based on Nearing's Grace by Scott Sommer

                   

                                   

         

Factotum (Ltd Release) - Based on the book by Charles Bukowski

                                 

                                                                           

          

The Night Listener - Based on the book by Armistead Maupin

                        

               

                        

Shock to the System (Ltd Release) - Based on the book by Richard Stevenson

The Night Listener

The Night Listener is fictional but based on events in the author's own life.  In the story, Gabriel Noone is a professional storyteller with his own radio show called "Noone at Night". When Gabriel recieves a book to possibly promote on the show he reads it as he does most others. But he discovers that this one is different. It is a memoir written by an HIV-positive 13-yr-old incest, rape and sexual slavery survivor named Pete. Pete escaped the horrors of his early childhood to be adopted by therapist Donna Lomax. The memoir was  part of his recovery, as was "Noone at Night". Gabriel becomes a father figure to the boy and is drawn into a relationship with him via late night phone calls. Gabriel's friends and then Gabriel begin to question the relationship and who Pete really is.

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The Night Listener (2006) - Rated R - 1 hr 31 min

Starring: Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Sandra Oh, Rory Culkin, Joe Morton

Directed by: Patrick Stettner                                                                                                                     Screenplay by: Armistead Maupin, Patrick Stettner, Terry Anderson

Genre: Drama, Thriller

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The Night Listener (2000) - 344 pages

Author: Armistead Maupin

Genre: Domestic Fiction

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