After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles.
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The people behind it
Zuzana Stivínová
Lenka
Miroslav Donutil
Dohnal
Tomáš Hanák
Petr
Milan Lasica
Bach
Kateřina Hajná
Eva Holubová
Anna
Luboš Svoboda
Michal
Daniela Třebická
Vlasta Dohnalová
Lucie Vačkářová-Gančeva
Bibina
Karel Roden
Dr. Marek
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A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.
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An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
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The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern England, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.
A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.
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A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
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A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.
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