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"Outdoor art is disappearing all over the neighbourhood! From elaborate Halloween decorations to the Stream of Dreams fish display across the fence at Stephen and Renée's school, it seems no art is safe. Renée's brother, Attila, has been cursing those model fish since he first had to make them as part of his community service. So everyone thinks Attila is behind it when they disappear. But, grumpy teen though he is, Attila can do no wrong in Renée's...
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Kelly, Nathan, Curtis, Alisha, and Simon are five unruly teenagers forced to do community service as payback for their crimes. But when a freak electrical storm hits their town, strange things begin to happen to them that are way out of their control. In fact, they have no idea that they've actually turned into superheroes, each with a power they didn't choose or want. They must save their town from the evil that has descended upon it.
43) 30 days
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Two star basketball players are sentenced to 30 days labor in each other's communities following a brawl between their two teams. When they return to their home turf, both see their new attitudes put to the test.
44) Unstrung
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Even as a violin prodigy, Olivia Klein courted trouble. But when her marriage to high-stakes investor Rob Van Doren takes another wrong turn, Olivia acts out once too often. A night of bad behavior results in community service hours. Time is to be served with Theo McAdams, an inner-city teacher whose passion for music eclipses Olivia's. As she inches toward a better place, life surprises Olivia in the form of her first husband--baseball legend Sam...
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A bullied boy and his tormentors discover a creature while doing school-mandated community service. Claiming her for their own, the group keeps the creature captive, revealing the monster within themselves as her ferocious sister scours the city in search of her missing sibling.
47) Homeless
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"Life is definitely not meant to be this hard. His mother tragically dies of cancer, his once perfect world is turned upside down, and the coldhearted streets of Detroit couldn't care less. Now Lonnie McKay, homeless and alone, is caught up in the system at the mercy of others. Faced with women who could possibly help him but refuse to do so, he soon develops a vindictive dislike for every female he comes in contact with. Under the influence of anything...
48) On the run
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When a persistent youth offender is caught yet again, he is sentenced to community service as the partner to a blind runner.
49) Role models
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Danny and Wheeler are two salesmen who trash a company truck while on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice - the two can either do hard time or serve 150 hours of community service in a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad. Once the center's ex-con director gives them an ultimatum, Danny and Wheeler are forced to tailor their brand of immature wisdom to their...
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Crushing volume 2
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Party girl Kiernan Rand is a second-semester senior at posh Steinshift High School, and she's all set to attend U Miami in the fall--or so she thinks. When Kiernan receives scary news about her academic standing, then has a run-in with the law at a last-hurrah party, she is forced to mend her ways and do community service. There she meets program supervisor Toby Kaufman, who inspires her to care about her environment--and him. The Girls Who Go to...
52) The pledge
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Tory Hedderman is a typical, self-centered 16-year-old with the motto, 'If it doesn't have to do with me, why should I care?' However, when Tory is caught vandalizing a statue of a World War I vet, he is ordered to perform community service at a local veterans' home where he comes face to face with those who teach him about the sacrifices that have been made for the country. Features footage of real veterans sharing their thoughts on patriotism and...
53) Nobody's there
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Following an act of vandalism against her father's girlfriend, a seventeen-year-old girl is paired by the court with an eccentric senior citizen whose hobby as a sleuth turns deadly.
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Film Movement volume 5, film 10
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"Ivan is an unusually optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to. His newest 'helper' is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously serving his community service time so he can return to hell-raising."--Container.
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Film Movement volume year 5, film 10
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Ivan is the minister at a remote, rural church. A bit of a Pollyanna, he's volunteered the rectory as a half-way house for recently paroled convicts. His current charges are a Saudi immigrant addicted to robbing gas stations and an alcoholic convicted of sexual assault. His newest "helper" is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously biding his time before he can return to hell-raising. Asked to set a goal for his stay, Adam sarcastically answers that he'd...
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Hot shot attorney Nick Fallin works at his father's ultra successful law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick. Arrested for drug use, he's sentenced to do 1,500 hours of community service, somehow to be squeezed into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions, and board meetings. He's now a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of kids caught up in difficult...
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Silver bells. When an ambitious businessman gets in a scuffle with a ref at his son's basketball game, he is suspended from his job and sentenced to community service, manning a red kettle and ringing bells for the Salvation Army for the rest of the Christmas season. At first he finds this humiliating, and in his self-pity determines to be the world's worst bell ringer. But as he encounters the people behind the kettle, his life, and especially his...