A small film that somehow restores your faith in life, in people, in, well,… everything

RELEASED IN 2006 and written & directed by Brad Silberling, “10 Items or Less” is a drama about an aged has-been actor (Morgan Freeman) who researches for an indie gig after a four-year dry spell. He meets a spitfire checkout clerk named Scarlet (Paz Vega) at a supermarket in a Latino community of Los Angeles. Impressed by the young woman, he decides to help her while psyching-up for the role.

The plot is obviously borrowed from 2003’s “Lost in Translation.” To key you off, the girl is named... read the rest.