"Making peace with absence."
On a beach, a man shares a peaceful moment with his father, somewhere between memory and imagination.
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The people behind it
Mack Stannard
The son
Kent Stannard
The father
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A council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.
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Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
A 9 year old boy experiences God's power in a supernatural way.
After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.
Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
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Based on the best-selling book, Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days, and told through the eyes of Jackson's trusted bodyguards, Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard. The movie will reveal firsthand the devotion Michael Jackson had to his children, and the hidden drama that took place during the last two years of his life.
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