An ode to friendship and familiarity.
Old lovers reunite, a friendship is betrayed, a pet is killed, a runaway discovered, and a co-worker comes back from the dead in these five interconnected tales about suffering from kindness. Shot over five-years worth of weekends featuring a massive cast and crew, this ambitious, feature-length, no-budget indie shows a side of Maine not seen anywhere else (no lobstermen here, sorry) and finds bleak comedy in a backwater state being dragged into a diverse and inclusive 21st century.
On a remote island off the coast of Maine, Liv, after years of silence, begins to weave a language out of Shakespeare's words. A driven neurologist, brought to the island to protect her, commits her to a psychiatric hospital. She becomes a full-blow rebel in the hospital; her increasing violence threatens to keep her locked up for life as she fights for her voice and her freedom.
Of Maine’s more than 5000 commercial lobstermen only 4% are female. The Captain celebrates that fearless minority through the lens of Sadie Samuels. At 27 years old, she is the youngest and only female lobster boat captain in the Rockport, Maine harbor. Despite the long hours and manual labor of hauling traps, Samuels is in love — obsessed even — with what she calls the most beautiful, magical place on the planet. Her love for lobster fishing was imparted early in her childhood by her dad Matt, who has been her mentor and inspiration since she was a little girl in yellow fishing boots.
Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.
Journalisten Selena stirrer på avisartiklen i sin hånd. Hendes mor, Dolores, som hun ikke har set i årevis, er under mistanke for mord. Modvilligt vender Selena hjem til sin fødeby for at hjælpe sin mor. Selena er nu langt fra sikker på, at den bryske Dolores er uskyldig. For hvad var det egentlig, der skete med Selena's far for 20 år siden?
1988. Flere børn forsvinder sporløst i den lille by Derry. Da Bill Denbrough's lillebror Georgie pludselig også er væk, starter han selv en indædt jagt på at finde svar på mysteriet. Denne søgen sender den 12-årige dreng og hans venner ned i byens kloakker, hvor den onde og skrækindjagende klovn Pennywise lurer i mørket. Børnene får en noget anderledes sommer, hvor de både får deres venskaber sat på prøve, tvinges til at se deres værste frygt i øjnene og samtidig må tage kampen op imod Pennywise, hvis synderegister går flere hundrede år tilbage i tiden.
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
Den forældreløse Homer Wells er blevet taget under doktor Wilbur Larch's vinger. Lægen bestyrer et hjem for forældreløse børn og har udset sig Homer som sin efterfølger, men en dag dukker Candy og Wally op. Homer længes efter at se verden og får muligheden for at vælge: Vil han følge med til Wallys æblefarm, eller vil han blive resten af livet, hvor han blev født?
De to erfarne karriereofficerer, uden så meget gang i karrieren, Buddusky (Nicholson) og Mulhall (Otis Young), får til opgave at føre en ung sømand, Meadows (Randy Quaid), fra flådebasen i Virginia til et fængsel i New Hampshire, hvor han skal tilbringe otte år for en mindre forseelse. Buddusky og Mulhall begynder at synes helt godt om Meadows og beslutter sig for at give ham nogle uforglemmelige oplevelser på deres rejse mod nord. Deres udskejelser begynder i Washington, hvor de lige nøjagtig undgår et enormt barslagsmål, hvorefter de drikker deres hjerner ud på hotellet. I New York kommer de i klammeri med nogle soldater, og i Boston tager Buddusky Meadows med på et bordel, så han kan blive en rigtig mand. Til sidst skal Buddusky og Mulhall, meget mod deres vilje, aflevere Meadows, og da indser de, at de er ligeså meget fanger i deres verden, som Meadows er i sin.
Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the landlady's creepy and increasingly persistent son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with kindly neighbor boy Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.
Familien Fowler lever et ganske normalt liv i en lille by i staten Maine. Matt (Tom Wilkinson) er byens læge og ynder at fiske, hans hustru Ruth (Sissy Spacek) er skolens musiklærer, og deres søn Frank (Nick Stahl) er hjemme i sommerferien efter sit første år på college. Frank er forelsket i den noget ældre Natalie (Marisa Tomei), der ikke helt er blevet skilt fra sin ex-mand Richard, som er sygeligt jaloux over at se sin kone rende rundt med en anden mand. Snart rammer en grusom tragedie, der fuldstændig splitter den lille Fowler-kernehusholdning.
Klovnen Pennywise er tilbage for at terrorisere byen Derry 27 år efter, at de syv venner fra "Taberklubben" bekæmpede ham. Nu er børn igen begyndt at forsvinde i byen. Mike samler derfor klubben, der ellers for længst er gået hvert til sit. Skadet af fortidens traumatiserende oplevelser, må de nu hver især stå ansigt til ansigt med deres værste frygt for én gang for alle at tilintetgøre Pennywise – der er endnu mere dødbringende end nogensinde før.
BELFAST, MAINE is a film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. It is a portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the cultural life of the community. Among the activities shown in the film are the work of lobstermen, tug-boat operators, factory workers, shop owners, city counselors, doctors, judges, policemen, teachers, social workers, nurses and ministers. Cultural activities include choir rehearsal, dance class, music lessons and theatre production.
Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, Mr. Hamilton, is a mysterious character away in Europe, but Osh assures them he won't mind their living there, since he won't be coming home for a long time yet. The children and a cousin who comes to live with them have various adventures before an unexpected visitor shows up
En lille amerikansk landsby bliver hjemsøgt af uhyggelige og uforklarlige ulykker. Byen gribes af panik, men myndighederne står magtesløse. En 11-årig dreng, der er lammet i benene og hvis yndlingsbeskæftigelse er at læse gyserlitteratur, er tilsyneladende nærmere en forklaring, da han får mistanke om at det er en varulv der er på spil.
Affected by a classmate's sudden disappearance, an orphan girl, raised in a church on a small island off the coast of Maine, falls into an obsessive mania on her way to discovering herself.
Newly single Brian Connor moves to Maine and buys a long abandoned house in the country. After moving in, he begins to communicate with a woman who lived in the house 50 years ago and who died under mysterious circumstances.
FEATHERED COCAINE is not a wildlife documentary. It is a documentary about the international trade of falcons. After the trade of drugs, people and weapons, smuggling falcons is ranked No 4 in the list of the most profitable illegal trades. Most people are not aware that the effects of the falcon trade has exerted huge influence over thousands of years on politics, economy and society all around the world. FEATHERED COCAINE reveals in an investigative way the contexts between the trade of falcons and historical events, where royal dynasties, institutions like the CIA and the KGB, the oil industry and Al Queda were involved. This documentary was filmed and released shortly before the 'supposed' execution of Osama bin Laden, who CIA Operative Alan Parrot & his Team had met with 6 times between 2004 & 2010. As of October 11th, 2020.