Tacoma Reads 2024: MoviesLike this list

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• A Bread Factory

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  In part one, after 40 years of running a community arts center, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple come to town and build an enormous complex down the street. Part two revolves around rehearsals…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Casablanca beats

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  Director Nabil Ayouch drew on his own experience opening a youth cultural center in Casablanca for this story of a former rapper named Anas who takes a job teaching hip hop in an underprivileged neighborhood. Despite differences in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Garden

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  The 14 acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles was the largest of it's kind in the United States. It was started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992. Since that time, the South Central Farmers have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harlem Rising

  a Community Changing the Odds

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  Harlem Rising is a feature-length documentary tracing the fifty-year history of the Harlem Children's Zone through folks in the community who grew up with the organization.

• The Hate U Give

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  Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Too Late

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  It has been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus, and Wendell, aka 'the Chain Breakers,' escaped the torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison: the Hogan Hills Retirement Home. Each of the boys has an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Resurrection of Gavin Stone

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  Gavin Stone, a washed-up former child star is forced to do community service at a local mega-church and pretends to be Christian so he can land the part of Jesus in their annual passion play only to discover that the most important role of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Suburbicon

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  A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Us the Ashes

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  A reference and ode to Chief Seattle's Treaty of 1854, is a collection of five Indigenous Documentary Shorts from across the world. As each short highlights different Indigenous stories of fly fishing conservationists in the Pacific…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Treme. The Complete First Season

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  Amid the ruins of New Orleans, ordinary people--musicians, chefs, residents--find themselves clinging to a unique culture and wondering if the city that gave birth to that culture still has a future.

• Women Talking

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  The women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Though the backstory, we see a community of women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better…Read moreRead more of this annotation