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- Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
- A young girl in Bogotá witnesses her parents' murder and grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.
- I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death.
- A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
- A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.
- A young Chicago advertising executive believes a woman he sees in a café is his long-lost love. His belief leads to obsession, as he puts his life on hold in order to trail her.
- A new version of the long-running MTV reality show, which looks to unite people from different backgrounds and find a common ground.
- A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
- A romantic tale about finding a soulmate. The only difference here is that both partners are women...in Chicago's lesbian community.
- A realistic look into the lives of real pimps such as Ice-T, Don "Magic" Juan and others. Alongside real hookers, thugs and their clients on the mean streets of various cities within America.
- A psycho dressed as a hippie is killing couples in Lake Front. As the police search for more clues and the body count gets higher, they discover every five years, for five days, the killer kills 5 couples. Will they catch this madman or will he get away for another five years?
- 20071h 44mUnrated9.2 (16)VideoWhat Poor Gods We Do Make: The Story and Music Behind Naked Raygun," the 2-disc DVD/CD focuses on the band's history and the development of their music from "Basement Screams" to "RaygunÉ Naked Raygun" through interviews with the band and many interviews, including Steve Albini, The Lawrence Arms, 88 Fingers Louie, Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers, The Effigies and many more. The film aspect also focuses on the history and influence of Chicago's independent and punk scene, even though it was often, and still, overlooked by punk historians and more recently, documentary filmmakers. The CD portion of the release will feature live highlights from their shows since Naked Raygun's reunion at Riot Fest 2006, and will include all of the songs most identified with Naked Raygun.
- At Chicago's North Avenue Beach, the lifeguards are the law. These ragtags will do everything in their power to make sure you don't go out past your waist. Best friends Hughie (the hopeless romantic) and Otis (the ladykiller) get caught in one love triangle after another as young vixen Maggie and tomboy May make it hard for them to keep their eyes on the water at all times. As the summer sun heats up, so does tension among the crew, and their despotic superiors make sure that's it's never just another day at the beach.
- They thought she had the perfect life; wealthy and privileged, an honor student with her whole life mapped out. What they didnt know was what lied inside of her; pain and anguish; tearing at her until there was nothing left. Lost and alone, the young women (Heather Dorff), finds solace in the form of a glistening blade, splitting her skin deeply. Her self-indulgent mother and obnoxious sister (Kelsey Zukowski), are completely oblivious to her inner-turmoil. She has long since become numb to the world around her, getting that sensual release, as the razor cuts deeper, watching the blood drip, is all that matters. As soon as the last drop falls, the calm is stripped away from her with it. How far will she go to silence the hunger that now consumes her? Will she be able to regain control of her life, body, and sanity?
- After 6 month of unemployment, Jacob Dunin starts to lose it.
- Chicago's St.Vitus Improv Workshop has collected sketches created with the singular goal of taking ideas and filming them - in a single day, and on a zero-to-micro budget. Four stories have been worked from either a script idea, or an improvised scenario brought in by a writer or a member of the workshop, and riffed on/improvised in front of the camera on the day of the shoot. In common to all of the stories are a feel and affection for the city of Chicago, and carrying on a tradition of improvisational comedy that has its roots in the city, including its references to personal relationships, current social trends and pop-culture media tropes.
- A hard breakup separated Martin and Beth almost a year ago and neither ever filled their partners place with someone else. Martin is struggling with his new job as a realtor and on top of that, Beth shows up at an open house hosted by him and seeks some closure.
- A military veteran from the 1991 Gulf War comes home to his girlfriend. There is something he doesn't want to talk about. Kelsey, his girlfriend pursues the issue, following him across the winter wind-swept Lake Michigan lake front in a high wind. Exhausted, he stops and tells her that he was downwind from a chemical dump in the war, and his whole unit was exposed to possible nerve gas contamination, and he was sick. She is socked. They regroup in their apartment and try to re-bond, but there is something already in his mind. He has become politically radicalized, and she cannot talk reason into him. She desperately tries to stop him, but can't. Following him outside in the early morning under the urban Chicago EL line tracks, she catches up with him and begs him to stop and reconsider. He lets loose, on his motivations. She again tries to block him and stop him, but he is determined. He has been forced in radical actions beyond their relationship. After he is gone, she ponders on the Lake Michigan beach and then later in her apartment, understands what he is about to do. It is then she finally understands him. But of course it is all too late. 16mm BW film, shot on a CP 16 with sync sound. Chicago, Illinois, Ukrainian Village, upper Loop downtown, Chicago city Lake Michigan shore parks.
- Matt is interrupted during a suicide attempt, by his friend Andy, and what commences is a conversation about depression, suicide and understanding.
- A video game designer creates a rock star that comes to life and begins taking over the world with his music.