Articles by Erin Oke

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  Very Young Girls

  David Schisgall

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  Very Young Girls is a disturbing documentary about teenage prostitution in New York City, where the average age of a prostitute is 13 years...

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  The Visitor

  Thomas McCarthy

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  Like director Thomas McCarthy’s brilliant debut feature, The Station Agent, his follow-up film, The Visitor, also tells the story of an iso...

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  The Babysitters

  David Ross

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  The Babysitters is a pretty dark, oddly amoral take on suburban life. The story starts with overachieving Shirley, a 16-year-old with a cru...

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  Battle in Seattle

  Stuart Townsend

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  Battle in Seattle is a fictionalised account of the 1999 protests that shut down the World Trade Organization meeting. Taking place over a...

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  Finding Neverland

  Marc Forster

  PUBLISHED Jul 4, 2007

  Inspired by true events, Finding Neverland imagines the life of playwright J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) as he writes his most famous work, Pet...

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  2:37

  Murali K. Thalluri

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2007

  2:37 is an Australian film following a group of teenagers around school on the day one of them decides to commit suicide. The story is told...

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  The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

  Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  Set in the Arctic Circle in 1922, the film takes as its source material the titular journals of a Danish explorer who chronicled the meetin...

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  The Namesake

  Mira Nair

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  The Namesake is a wonderful new film from Monsoon Wedding director Mira Nair. Based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake follows two...