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Ranger's Apprentice

The story follows an orphan who becomes the apprentice of a man as they battle to keep the fantastical kingdom of Araluen safe from a multitude of threats.

Run, Rose, Run

A young woman comes to country music's capital city to pursue her music-making dreams. The source of her heart-wrenching songs is a brutal secret she has tried desperately to hide, but the past she has fled is reaching out to control her future—and it may destroy everything she has worked for.

Razorblade Tears

Two men team up to seek vengeance for their murdered sons in the face of intolerance and prejudice in the rural South and find redemption along the way.

River Town

A celebrated American writer journeys to China for the long-awaited Chinese publication of his first book, triggering memories from twenty years earlier when he taught English literature to Chinese college students while on the brink of a nation's unprecedented change.

Race to the South Pole

In the early 1900s, two explorers try to be the first person to reach the last uncharterd territory on the planet, the South Pole. Englishman Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen are explorers from antithetical countries. Their race, seen as heroic during a golden age of exploration, sparks international interest and galvanizes the world to see who will reach the Southernmost point first.

Rant

In a dystopian future, urban dwellers are forcefully divided by curfew into two separate classes: the respectable Daytimers and the oppressed Nighttimers. Buster Rant Casey, a murderous demolition driver, takes part in the Party Crashing derby in a world where people intentionally crash into each other violently to feel, and create a vivid reality of the experience.

Riot

A governor's teenage son is sent to prison as part of Scared Straight, a crime-prevention program that imprisons delinquent teens for a short period in the hopes of deterring them from a life of crime. While the teenager is there, a riot breaks out and the prisoners take him hostage. He teams up with other street kids and a con to stop the riot.

Roosevelt

The film will chronicle the formative years of Roosevelt as he reinvented himself from a slight and privileged New York politician with a Harvard degree to the burly commander of the Rough Riders, a track that would lead him to the New York governorship, the vice presidency and the White House, when William McKinley was assassinated.

Red Bird

Lured by a brochure his doctor gives him after informing him that his emphysema has left him with scarcely a year to live, 52-year-old Oswald T. Campbell abandons wintry Chicago for Lost River, Alabama, where he believes he’ll be spending his last Christmas. Frances Cleverdon, one of four widows and three single women in town, hopes to fix him up with her sister, Mildred–if only Mildred wouldn’t keep dying her hair outrageous colors every few days. When Frances and Oswald become involved in the life of Patsy Casey, an abandoned young girl with a crippled leg, the townspeople and neighboring communities rally round shy, sweet Patsy as Christmas approaches.

Replay

An advertising executive uses his knowledge of the future to make a fortune and go after the woman of his dreams, instead of the woman he married.

Rube

In the 1950s, Reuben Sturman begins selling "girlie magazines" in Ohio, imports porn from Europe and brings peep shows to America. Despite legal challenges, he becomes a billionaire in the 1970s but gets into business with the Gotti mob in New York, ends up in jail and dies penniless.

Racing Dreams

Three young racers compete in the World Karting Assn.'s National Pavement Series. Clocking speeds up to 70 mph, the trio chase the National Championship title and move closer to achieving their dream of becoming NASCAR racers.

Repairman

Hap Rosecrans, a washing machine repairman, is a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome. He's a recovering alcoholic, as well as a reformed arsonist, caring for his mother in a convalescent home while skewing to a regimen of honest repair work. His integrity is tested when, his finances floundering, he is forced to go to work for a corrupt leasing and repair operation.

Richard Pryor: Is It So...

Focuses on the life and career of groundbreaking comedian Richard Pryor, who found unprecedented success on the stage and screen, but also suffered from drug addiction and personal problems.

Rodham

During the height of the Watergate scandal, rising star Hillary Rodham is the youngest lawyer chosen for the House Judiciary Committee to Impeach Nixon, but she soon finds herself forced to choose between a destined path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for Bill Clinton, her former boyfriend who now teaches law in Arkansas.

Ruined

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play, the movie will tell the story of a brothel madam in Congo as she struggles against both the government and rebel forces during war.

Ryan Wash Debate Project

Ryan Wash, an openly gay male debater from inner-city Kansas, emerges from personal turmoil that includes the death of his mother, to set out on a life-long search to re-find home in the electrifying world of competitive debating. It is a world that simultaneously inspires and betrays him, until he embraces his own identity and revolutionizes the debate establishment. Wash wins the 2013 Cross Examination Association and National Debate Tournament championships.