Insights from the Cinematic World: hero

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on the acclaimed bestselling novel by Ben Fountain, is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (newcomer Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour.

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The Program

From director Stephen Frears comes the true story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history; Lance Armstrong, the world-renowned Tour de France champion.

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PEOPLE PLACES THINGS represents everything I know, think and feel about being a parent, a writer and a person. It is the most personal story I have ever told. It is also probably the funniest. -- writer / director Jim Strouse

People Places Things

A heartfelt comedy that finds a newly single graphic novelist navigating life, raising his young twin daughters, inspiring a classroom full of students, and discovering new love while letting go of the woman who left him.

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