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Goats (2012)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father means 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called Goat Man. So when Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store. But not in the way you’d think. Though often stoned, the exceedingly smart and capable Ellis effortlessly aces school and excels at track. As the year progresses, it’s his relationships with the adults in his life that test him, challenging his beliefs about responsibility and trustworthiness.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, funny, art house, indie film, independent film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, teenage life, youth, parents and children, fall in love, eccentric family, roommate, father son relationship, boy girl relationship, divorced parents, preparatory school, stepmother, weed, self discovery, mother son relationship, soul searching, high school, goat, misfit, stoner, profanity, sexual content, bittersweet, remarry ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, arizona, tucson arizona
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
witty, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
not serious, humorous, independent film, light, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
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Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
coming of age, teenager, debauchery, nihilism, teenage boy, drug, friendship, drug dealing, sarcasm, friend, slacker, youth ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, life turned upside down, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family problems, disorder, parents and children, manhood, youth, dysfunctional family, dark humor, family in crisis ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
cult classic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, stylized, bad ending, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage life, internet, youth, high school, teenage girl, coming of age, sex scene, teenager, infidelity, affair, depression, video game ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, melancholic, semi serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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