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Mark is a desperate unemployed writer who lives in a world where everyone unfailingly tells the truth. People don't even know what fiction is. Every thought, no matter how humiliating or harsh, tumbles out unvarnished. Then one day, Mark becomes so desperate he concocts a lie. In a world where everyone is unfailingly honest, a lie is believed with total and absolute gullibility. Mark can get anything he wants. The one thing he truly wants is the love...

TYRANNOSAUR follows the story of two lonely, damaged people brought together by circumstance. Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower, drinker, and a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger. Hannah (Olivia Colman) is a Christian worker at a charity shop, a respectable woman who appears wholesome and happy. When the pair is brought together, Hannah appears as Joseph’s potential savior, someone who can temper his fury...

Two misfits search for Saxon treasure in the English countryside. Andy has completed his archaeology degree at last, but he worries about providing for his wife, Becky, and newborn son while also trying to live up to the expectations of his imperious mother-in-law. Lance, meanwhile, is still looking for love. The world of metal detecting proves just as tumultuous as their personal lives when a young German man enlists the DMDC to uncover a mysterious...

Roberto once had a promising career in advertising. Now out of work because of the economic downturn, he struggles to keep his family afloat and their dire situation a secret from his adoring wife Luisa. After yet another dead end interview, Roberto's chances for a promising future seem slim, until a freak accident places him at the center of a wild media storm. Realizing his opportunity, Roberto hires a brazen agent to help him leverage his newfound...

Noah McManus is a young politician who loses a high-powered job when his boss is entangled in a scandal during a Senate race. Adding to his grief, he loses his fiance the same day. Feeling overwhelmed, Noah takes his dog and escapes to a small town in Massachusetts called Harpswell. There, he falls for a bookstore owner and the town itself, and he begins to find a sense of purpose and belonging that has been absent from his life.

Long Islander Tommy spends time at his neighborhood bar, where he becomes involved with various colorful characters.

With the holiday season at hand, single mom Nicky Talbot is unemployed and struggling to afford a nice Christmas with her eight-year-old daughter. Hearing that Cartwright's Department Store is hiring temporary holiday help, Nicky rushes in to apply, but is rejected by Senior VP Fiona Aldrich, who considers Nicky a threat to the relationship she hopes to have with Bill, a charming and handsome store manager.

To be or not to be? To act or not to act? The questions are the same to Joe, a struggling (jobless) actor whose every sinew and synapse cries out to perform and to soften the blow of not landing a part in a mega budget sci-fi movie. So in the stalwart (desperate) tradition of actors everywhere, Joe vows to put on a show, a special (even more desperate) version of the greatest play in the English tongue.

In an effort to boost circulation and save her job, star reporter Anne Mitchell concocts an explosive story about an unemployed middle-class worker, John Doe, who plans to strike a blow against society and big government. When a rival newspaper discovers that her story is a phony, it's up to Anne to find a stand-in John Doe to turn her fiction into fact.

Dr. Oliver Sacks experiments with the drug L-dopa, which inspires the 'awakening' of a number of catatonic patients, some of whom had been sleeping for as long as 30 years.