In Search of a Dream (1997)
Two friends in Washington Heights take different paths to earn a living: one working in a grocery store, the other as a drug dealer.
Two friends in Washington Heights take different paths to earn a living: one working in a grocery store, the other as a drug dealer.
Elvis NolascoPepe
Kamar de los ReyesMarcos
Mateo GómezCharlie
Marcos Antonio MirandaPeter
Benny NievesJulio
Jessy TerreroYeyo
Fidel ViciosoCoco
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A young couple facing eviction and debt experiences an unexpected event that changes their lives.

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A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.
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When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

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After a drug dealer schemes against them in secret, two student gangs ignite a bitter feud that triggers a chain of violent consequences.

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