2024-09-30
A lonely 13-year-old rescues a family of geese from land developers and forms a bond with them. Inspired by actual events.
Julia Roberts heads a strong ensemble cast in this moving drama about the power of individuality. Roberts plays a progressive 1950s Wellesley College art professor, who runs afoul of the faculty when she teaches her students to reach for the stars.
A newscaster is due to go live on local television in the middle of a hot flash, in Thea Hollatz's animated comedy about a woman trying to keep her cool when one type of flash leads to another.
Two Asian Canadian adolescent girls are given one hour at the school dance by their strict immigrant parents and vow to make the most of it.
In this lush drama directed by Ruba Nadda, a U.N. official (Tom McCamus) asks his longtime security guard (Alexander Siddig) to escort his wife (Patricia Clarkson) through Cairo, blissfully unaware of the consequences it will wreak on their marriage.
Jim Henson's Muppets leave the block to retrieve their friend Big Bird, who's been nesting with a family of dodo birds in Illinois. Cameos by Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, Chevy Chase, Joe Flaherty, Waylon Jennings, Dave Thomas. Ken Kwapis directed.
After flooding an ant hill, a boy finds himself shrunk to insect size and learns some valuable lessons when he is forced to live among his victims. Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep head the voice cast in this rollicking animated treat. Directed by John A. Davis.
The daughter of a retail guru who markets clothes "inspired" by top designers, goes to extreme measures to prove her talent designing haute couture.
In this riveting sci-fi action film, two scientists race to avert a catastrophe when a series of climate-control satellites malfunction. They soon discover a conspiracy involving the satellites, which were designed to prevent natural disasters on Earth.
Two impressionable young sisters growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver find their fledgling religious beliefs leading them toward opposite ends of the spectrum following a series of family misfortunes. As elder daughter Karena looks to Christianity as a means of improving her family's lot in life, her strong-willed younger sister Eve—born under the sign of the fire hors
A smart-mouthed 12-year-old girl bounces around between foster homes, causing trouble at each stop with her unruly behavior. A kindhearted woman eventually takes her in and becomes the mother she's never had in this emotional comedy-drama.
A battle between good and evil takes place when an orphan begins a quest to find a missing shard of a crystal that holds the world in equilibrium.
A Native Canadian boy grows up in a Canadian-Indian residential school in the 1970s, isolated from his tribe and Ojibwe heritage. With the help of a kindly clergyman, he strives to overcome the racism and stereotypes he faces on the ice hockey pitch.
In this uplifting drama, three generations of Canadian aboriginal women find strength in family while confronting addiction and dysfunction in rural Ontario.
A 15-year-old girl sells pot on a Native Canadian reservation in this stunning thriller set in 1976, but when her drug money goes missing, she incurs the wrath of a cruel school official. Meanwhile, her father is set to be released from prison.