Richard Chew
1) I am Sam
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Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities...
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Luke Skywalker begins a journey that will change the galaxy. Nineteen years after the formation of the Empire, Luke is thrust into the struggle of the Rebel Alliance when he meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has lived for years in seclusion on the desert planet of Tatooine. Obi-Wan begins Luke₂s Jedi training as Luke joins him on a daring mission to rescue the beautiful Rebel leader Princess Leia from the clutches of Darth Vader and the evil Empire.
4) Real genius
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"When a group of crazy college geniuses put their heads together, almost anything can happen. Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 16-year-old whiz kid, and Lazlo, America's number one brain, literally lives in a world of his own -- Chris' closet. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project, they still find the time to turn the dorm into an ice-skating rink, dismantle a nerd's car and reassemble it in his room, and throw a beach...
5) Goin' south
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"Henry Moon [is] a third-rate outlaw in this 1860s western. Moon is saved from hanging by the intervention of a lovely young woman who agrees to marry and take charge of him. Julia Tate [is] the headstrong but genteel Southern virgin who weds Moon only to help her work the gold mine she insists is on her property"--Container.