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Cursed opens on a cold and gray January morning. Sleet and snow are swirling as Regan Reilly arrives at a warehouse in Long Island City with a trunk full of her old case files from Los Angeles. After
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In the trenches of a typical day, every parent encounters a child afflicted with ingratitude and entitlement. In a world where material abundance abounds, parents want so badly to raise self-discipli
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Late at night on the eleventh-floor balcony of a deserted building on the Persian Gulf, American businessman Steve Kemp finds himself falling back in love with Helen -- the Irishwoman he'd left more
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