Berkeley 2007  R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bobby Roth
Cast: Nick Roth, Laura Jordan, Henry Winkler, Bonnie Bedelia, Tom Morello, Jake Newton, Sebastian Tillinger, Wade Allain-Marcus, Sarah Carter, Sarah Bibb, Ruby Roth, Tracey Walter, Thomas Gibson, Reed Diamond, Henry G. Sanders
Eighteen-year-old Ben Sweet (Nick Roth) enrolls at UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and as a means of avoiding the draft in the midst of the anti-war movement. While at Berkeley, Ben learns to party '60s' style–including sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He joins a rock band and goes through a number of life changes discovering by story's end that his "true self" lies in writing.
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A Boy Called Hate 1995 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mitch Marcus
Cast: Scott Caan, James Caan, Adam Beach, Missy Crider, Elliott Gould, Byron Lee Nashold, Kevin Michael Richardson, CeCe Tsou, Duane Davis, Wade Allain-Marcus
After having the word "hate" tattooed on his arm, a troubled teenager (Scott Caan) in Los Angeles adopts "Hate" as his nickname. One night while riding with his gang, Hate is an eyewitness to an attempted rape. He rescues the girl, and his troubles really begin.
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 Waist Deep 2006  R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Cast: Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate, The Game, Shawn Parr, Henry Hunter Hall, Johnny C. Pruitt, Darris Love, William Duffy, Kimora Lee, Wade Allain-Marcus
Contemporary Los Angeles is the setting for O2's (Tyrese Gibson) trials and tribulations, which take place after he realizes that his son, Junior (Henry Hunter Hall), has been kidnapped during a carjacking and is now in the hands of the Outlaw Syndicate, which is run by Meat (The Game). O2 forces street hustler Coco (Meagan Good) to help, and the duo sets out through Los Angeles neighborhoods using any means possible to obtain the $100,000 ransom needed to get Junior's freedom.
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| 1. Berkeley (2007)
2. A Boy Called Hate (1995)
3. Waist Deep (2006)
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