"If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?"22 May 1999Drama, Comedy121 mins
After his wife dies, middle-aged businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight-and-a-half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. As a year passes, the women begin asserting their own power.
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Gavin built a giant volcano sculpture that's now in his dad's shed. Gavin seeks his dad's understanding but he's uninterested in modern art and refuses to participate in the documentary.
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
Courtney Snow, an author with writer's block, still haunted by the suicide of her best friend while they were in prep school, finds herself teaching at the very same school while trying to get back on her feet.
Annie and Mary were in love in college but ultimately went separate ways. They spend a weekend rekindling when Mary asks Annie to help spread her husband's ashes in the Catskill Mountains.
Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.
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Synopsis After his wife dies 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal at the prompting of his playboy son ...
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