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• Wonder

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  Based on the hugely popular junior novel, this film tells the story of a boy with extreme facial differences who's entering public school for the first time in the fifth grade.

• Encanto

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  This heartwarming animated musical celebrates a multigenerational Columbian family with surprising abilities, and surprising secrets.

• The Kids Are All Right

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  Julianne Moore and Annette Benning brilliantly play the mothers of two teenagers who decide to track down their biological father, a sperm donor who is unaware of their existence.

• On the way to School

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  This enlightening documentary chronicles the ordinary, yet extraordinary treks of four children as they make their way to school in Kenya, Argentina, Morocco and India.

• Loving

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  This biographical film tells the story of Mildred and Richard Loving who married in 1958, a time when their interracial marriage was illegal in their home state of Virginia. They contested their arrest for breaking this law in a case that made it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Furious 7

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  Say what you like about the merits of this franchise, but the diversity and loyalty of this clan of found family is powerful.

• Erin Brockovich

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  Julia Roberts turns in the performance of a lifetime as an unemployed single mother who takes on multibillion-dollar energy corporation that is poisoning the local water supply.

• Fatherhood

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  Kevin Hart brings laughter and tears as a widowed single father who faces his own insecurities and blatant bias as he cares for his young daughter.

• Whale Rider

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  This is an inspiring story of a young Māori girl raised by her father and grandfather whose ambition to lead her tribe one day is refuted because the role is reserved for males.

• The Birdcage

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  Robin Williams and Nathan Lane play partners who pretend to be straight to meet the family of their son's finance. The moral of this and every story is that it's always best to be yourself!

• Rain Man

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  After their father's death, a opportunistic and selfish man must embrace life with his autistic savant brother who was bequeathed the bulk of their father's considerable estate.

• A Quiet Place

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  A family with a deaf daughter uses their knowledge of sign language to stay quiet and stay safe in a post-apocalyptic world where monsters hunt by sound.

• Still Alice

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  When Alice is diagnosed with early onset familial Alzheimer’s Disease shortly after her 50th birthday, she and her family struggle to come to terms with this will mean.

• The Big Sick

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  A Pakistan-born comedian falls for a White grad student, but his Muslim family was hoping for an arranged marriage. When the girlfriend falls ill, this further complicates things as her dysfunctional parents enter the picture.