At The Movies

Larry Crowne
Tom Hanks and Julie Roberts star in the story of a downsized big box store employee who enrolls in his local college to start over. Until he was downsized, affable, amiable Larry Crowne was a superstar team leader at the big box company where he's worked since his time in the Navy. Underwater on his mortgage and unclear on what to do with his suddenly free days, Larry heads to his local college to start over. There he becomes part of a colorful community of outcasts, also rans and the overlooked all trying to find a better future for themselves, often moving around town in a herd of scooters. In his public speaking class, Larry develops an unexpected crush on his teacher Mercedes Tainot, who has lost as much passion for teaching as she has for her husband. The simple guy who has every reason to think his life has stalled will come to learn an unexpected lesson: when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might discover your reason to live.
 

On DVD

The Warrior's Way
After a lifetime of training in martial arts and swordsmanship, Yang has eliminated all but one of his clan's enemies, an infant whose smile instantly melts his heart. Unwilling to kill her and unable to protect her from his own deadly tribe, Yang takes the baby girl and flees, planning to seek refuge with an old friend living in Lode, a frontier town in the American West. He arrives to find that his friend has died and the once thriving Gold Rush town is in shambles, inhabited only by a few dozen eccentrics including Lynne, a beautiful, spirited knife thrower in training, and Ron, a worn out drunk. In order to make a safe home for the child far from the reach of his murderous clansman, Yang decides to stay on as the town's new laundryman, sealing his sword for good.
 

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