It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
Genres
Overview
A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his existence to mundane activities.
Details
Budget
$3000
Revenue
$0
Runtime
85 min
Release Date
1988-12-31
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
27
Vote Average
5.4
Richard Linklater
James Goodwin
Dan Kratochvil
Linda Finney
Tracy Crabtree
Linda Levine
Lisa Schiebold
Erin McAfee
D. Montgomery
Scott Van Horn
Daniel Johnston
Tammy Gomez
Keith McCormack
5.0
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4.4
Into the Fire
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1988-09-01 | en
7.4
Guns of the Trees
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1961-02-28 | en
3.7
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2006-06-13 | en
5.3
Wartime
While on a seemingly routine delivery run for the Brigadier, Benton finds himself close to his childhood home, where ghosts from his past have never rested easily… Trapped in a nightmare world where past and present are one, will he be lost forever or can he fight his way back to reality, where he is desperately needed?
1988-01-01 | en
5.3
Almost You
Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an accident that leaves her temporarily confined to a wheelchair and requiring the services of a private nurse, the beautiful Lisa enters the Boyers' lives. A complicated situation develops as Alex sees Lisa as the cure for his own problems as well as his wife's.
1985-03-29 | en
4.3
Silver City
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6.0
Terminal USA
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1993-09-17 | en
5.1
Man at the Top
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4.5
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1998-01-02 | en
8.3
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2010-02-15 | en
7.6
The Whirl
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2012-11-10 | sr
4.2
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6.0
Bakerman
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0.0
The Olden Days Coat
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6.1
The Hellions
Luke Billings (Lionel Jeffries) and his family have a problem with the new police sergeant Sam Hargis (Richard Todd) so they take over a small Transvaal town with the attention of drawing Hargis into a showdown. Hargis tries to get back up from the townsfolk who do not want to know, so is forced to lay low. As things get out of hand one of the Billings boys takes an interest in the storekeeper's wife, Priss Dobbs (Anne Aubrey). Having had enough her husband, Ernie (Jamie Uys) takes up the gun and heads down the main street alone. An act that prompts Hargis to join him. Slowly, the townsfolk turn up to back them up.
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0.0
Sunsets
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7.2
The First of May
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5.6
Scrapple
Amy and Rick are playing a nice game of scrabble. Rick however, has an overwhelming feeling of superiority. Losing is out of the question.
2004-01-15 | en
5.5
Tropic Pathway
Follow the adventures of Kiss of the Spider Woman scribe Manuel Puig portrayed by Fabio Aste, who left Argentina after being persecuted for his homosexuality and settled in exile in Rio de Janiero in this intimate drama from filmmaker Javier Torre. Though life in Rio was full of romance and adventure for Manuel, the controversy surrounding him grew ever more intense, until the only way out was a trip back to his native Argentina. In the years that followed, Puig eventually made the painful decision to move to Mexico, where he spent his final days until death caught up with him at the age of fifty-eight.
2005-02-24 | es