"Are you feeling alone?"
Two lonely strangers meet under an unusual circumstance and form a connection that helps them to face their realities and individual struggles.
Social & External
The people behind it
Penelope Lutz
Cat
Kellan Harrah
Max
Shasta Power
Rachel
Dianna Lutz
Cat's Mom
Jennalee Williams
Winter
Ryan Sesker
Piper
Piper Hart
Ryan
Olivia Perrine
Customer
Michelle DeGroot
Woman with Dog
Katrina Finch
Passerby
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A gay man in Soho looking for a new roommate tries to come to terms with a new reality after 9/11.
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A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
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When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
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