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Big Sonia
In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91 year old Sonia Warshawski, great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor, runs the tailor shop she's owned for more than thirty years. But when she's served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to revisit her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide. A poignant story of generational trauma and healing, Big Sonia also offers a laugh out loud funny portrait of the power of love to triumph over bigotry, and the power of truth telling to heal us all.

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Despicable Me 3
Gru discovers from his mother that he has a twin brother, Dru, whom he's never met. Dru was given to his father to raise after their parents' divorce. Brothers Gru and Dru (both voiced by Steve Carell) finally reunite. Meanwhile, former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt (Trey Parker) has been bitter since puberty, when his TV series was abruptly cancelled. To exact revenge for what he sees were unjustified wrongdoings, he hatches a plan for world domination. To stop him, Gru, Dru, Gru’s wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig), their children, and the Minions must band together.

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