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Though made by the daughter of iconoclastic filmmaker John Cassavetes, Broken English is a surprisingly old-fashioned affair. Just as her friend Sofia Coppola wrote about a woman much like herself for Lost in Translation, Zoe Cassavetes has done something similar for her first film (although Before Sunset seems to have exerted a greater influence)...

The producers of the internationally acclaimed drama Once Were Warriors return to the familiar themes of race and identity with this story of culture clash and racism. Aleksandra Vujcic is the frustrated grown daughter of Croatian patriarch Rade Serbedzija, who has relocated his family from the war-torn former Yugoslavia to his wife's homeland of New Zealand and supports his clan by smuggling drugs...

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This charming Disney live-action picture is a genuine sleeper. It's a variation on the old boy-runs-away-to-join-the-circus story, except this time the boy is a girl. After she joins a traveling show in the 1930s, spunky teen Sonora Webster (Gabrielle Anwar) learns the ropes and eventually lands a plum role in the program: riding a horse off a 40-foot-high diving board into a tank of water...