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Charles is a Salt Lake City civil servant who loves (*LOVES*) Laura, a lovely housewife with a lovely step-daughter and an A-frame-selling, ex-quarterback husband named Ox. His roommate is “an unemployed jacket salesman,” his mother is a spacey, laxative overdosing, overly eccentric basket-case, his perpetually happy sister finds love in the dorkiest of guys, his step-father has a jones for Turtle Wax and his boss asks him for advice about his Ivy League son’s sexual problems. He listens to Janis Joplin and dreams of getting Laura back once and for all. He does everything in his power to win her back from Ox, and the lengths he goes to provide the structure of the film in this bittersweet romantic comedy…a film that explores what happened to the Woodstock generation when they transcended their idealism (i.e. it was expected that they fall in love and face the music of routine). Charles is perhaps the quintessential saint of this ideology.

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2.12GB | 1h 35m | 1024×556 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/16F8FC972A179B6/Joan_Micklin_Silver_-_(1979)_Chilly_Scenes_of_Winter.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/F9A5074A383E75A/CHILLY_SCENES_OF_WINTER_español.srt

Language:English
Subtitles:English,Spanish

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Synopsis:
It’s 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. He has assimilated to American life, having learned English, anglicized his name to Jake, and shaved off his beard. He is working at a $12/week job as a seamster, the money earned to be able to bring his wife Gitl and his son Yossele to America from Russia. Regardless, he has fallen in love with another woman, a dancer named Mamie Fein. Nonetheless, he is excited when he learns that Gitl and Yossele are indeed coming to America. His happiness at their arrival is dampened when he sees that Gitl is not “American” looking like Mamie and has troubles assimilating as quickly as he would like. Except to Mamie, he tries to show a public façade that everything is fine at home with Gitl. But can their marriage survive these differences, and if not, will Gitl be able to manage in this new land where she has few supports?

2.51GB | 1 h 29 min | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/99F5BC52A979874/Hester.Street.1975.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the ’70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.

2.13GB | 1h 41mn | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0F42F9E0DD9F90B/Between.the.Lines.1977.576p.Bluray.AAC.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English SDH

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