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1) Good boys
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"Three 6th grade boys ditch school and embark on an epic journey while carrying accidentally stolen drugs, being hunted by teenage girls, and trying to make their way home in time for a long-awaited party"--www.imdb.com.
3) The Boy Game
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The truth is all boys suffer under cultural codes that demand toughness and silence. This is the landscape in which kids who bully (who have often been targeted themselves) thrive but lose their emotional wholeness, the unspoken harness that keeps targets from speaking up, and that leaves the many bystanders watching, conflicted, but too scared to act. Boys desperately need a way to talk about the painful gender straitjacketing they are subject to,...
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On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to "date" their introverted nineteen-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing.
7) Ek Tha hero
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A 11-year-old village boy, fondly called Hero, has a passion for cycling and dreams of having his own cycle someday. He faces a roller coaster ride to make his dream come true, but he doesn't give up. Hero sets a strong example of perseverance and emerges as a real hero.
8) Cyrus
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"A recently divorced guy meets the woman of his dreams. Then he meets her son"--from www.imdb.com.
9) Hell's house
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Independently produced by Bennie Zeidman, Hell's house (1932) is a Pre-Code melodrama that captured Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien just before they were catapulted to superstardom at Warner Bros. An exposé of the American penal system (not unlike I am a fugitive from a Chain Gang and The mayor of hell), Hell's house stars Junior Durkin as a wholesome farmboy who moves to the city after the death of his mother. Dazzled by the smooth talk and beautiful...
10) Measure of a man
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A bullied teenage boy experiences a turning point in his life when he learns to stand up for himself.
11) Around the block
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"An Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family"--www.imdb.com.
13) St. Vincent
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After his parents get divorced, a boy finds a friend and mentor in the grouchy, hedonistic older man living next door.
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The Smell of Burning Ants is a haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness. Through formative events of a boy’s life, we come to understand the ways in which men can become emotionally disconnected and alienated from their feminine side. The common dismissal that “boys will...
15) Dear Evan Hansen
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"Film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Evan Hansen, a high school senior with Social Anxiety disorder and his journey of self-discovery and acceptance following the suicide of a fellow classmate"--www.imdb.com.
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In his groundbreaking book, Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices, Ralph Fletcher took an expedition into the murky and sometimes dangerous world of boys and writing. Ralph's new video, Dude, listen to this! explores the issue face-to-face as he meets with a group of boys who voluntarily give up recess time each week to meet and talk about their writing. Dude, listen to this! thoughtfully examines the exuberance, sly humour, and surprising sensitivity...
18) Camp Manna
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"Ian Fletcher, a "nonbeliever", is shipped off to a backwoods Christian camp, where he is forced to compete in (and survive) a Biblically-themed Olympiad known as the God Games."--www.imdb.com.
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