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When Billy Broke His Head, a Documentary (1994, rereleased with AD in 2013) Not Rated When Billy Broke His Head ...and Other Tales of Wonder is an entertaining, irreverent road movie about disability, civil rights, and the search for intelligent life after brain damage. Following a traffic-accident, journalist Billy Golfus woke from a coma to find himself head-injured, hemiplegic and dependent on others. When Billy Broke His Head... tells of Golfus' struggle to make a new life for himself in the face of pervasive discrimination and bureaucratic "helping systems." Accompanied by filmmaker David E. Simpson, Golfus travels the country encountering disabled people of all stripes, and witnessing the strength and anger that has forged a civil rights movement for disabled Americans. Laced with humor and biting wit, [it] is a widely acclaimed, groundbreaking film about disability culture; a no holds barred, first-person account that refuses to tell the "inspirational" stories we have come to expect from films about people with disabilities. Winner: 1995 Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award.

When the Bough Breaks, starring Theo Rossi and Morris Chestnut (2016) Rated PG-13 John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. After exhausting all other options, they finally hire Anna (Jaz Sinclair), the perfect woman to be their surrogate – but as her pregnancy progresses, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on John. The couple becomes caught up in Anna’s deadly game and must fight to regain control of their future before it’s too late.

When the Game Stands Tall, starring Michael Chiklis and Jim Caviezel (2014) Rated PG Inspired by the true story, Jim Caviezel ... plays high school football coach Bob Ladouceur during the season that changed everything. As coach of the Spartans Football Team, Bob always tells his players that winning doesn't matter. Yet somehow, with the aid of assistant coach Terry Eidson (Michael Chiklis...), he’s led the team to a record-breaking 151 straight victories. When his wife Bev (Laura Dern ...) urges him to refocus on his family, Bob is blinded by the pressure to keep the streak alive. Now, in the midst of a season of crisis and tragedy when the Spartans stand to lose everything, a remarkable young player (Alexander Ludwig...) helps Bob rediscover that teamwork outshines personal glory When The Game Stands Tall.

Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues - from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump.

Whiplash, starring J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller (2015) Rated R A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie (2016) Rated R A journalist recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan.

Set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, WHITE BOY RICK is based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe Jr., who became an undercover police informant and later a drug dealer before he was abandoned by his handlers and sentenced to life in prison.