2453 – Gasoline Rainbow (2023)

timespace coordinates: 2020’s small-town Oregon > the Pacific coast

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Gasoline Rainbow is a 2023 American drama film written, directed, shot, and edited by the Ross brothers. It stars Tony Abuerto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Makai Garza. (wiki)

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2411 – They Shot the Piano Player (2023)

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They Shot the Piano Player (Spanish: Dispararon al pianista) is a 2023 adult animated docudrama film directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. Centred around the real-life disappearance and presumed murder of Brazilian pianist Francisco Tenório Júnior in 1976, the film stars Jeff Goldblum as an American music journalist investigating Tenório’s case.

The film’s soundtrack includes music by João GilbertoCaetano VelosoGilberto GilVinicius de Moraes and Paulo Moura, with some of the musicians also appearing in the voice cast as themselves testifying about Tenório’s importance and influence as part of Goldblum’s investigation. (wiki)

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2160 – Breaking (2022)

spacetime coordinates:  July 7, 2017, Wells Fargo Bank, Marietta, Georgia

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Breaking (original title 892) is a 2022 American thriller drama film starring John Boyega as a Marine Corps veteran, Brian Brown-Easley. It is written and directed by Abi Damaris Corbin and co-written by Kwame Kwei-Armah, based on the 2018 Task & Purpose article “They Didn’t Have to Kill Him” by Aaron Gell. The film also stars Nicole BeharieSelenis LeyvaConnie BrittonJeffrey Donovan, and Michael Kenneth Williams. (wiki)

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2062 – Captain Phillips (2013)

timespace coordinates: 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking,  the Guardafui Channel to Mombasa, Kenya (off the coast of the Horn of Africa)

Captain Phillips is a 2013 American biographical thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass. The film tells the story of the eponymous Captain Richard Phillips, a merchant mariner who was taken hostage by Somali pirates. It stars Tom Hanks as Phillips, alongside Barkhad Abdi as pirate leader Abduwali Muse.

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The screenplay by Billy Ray is based on Phillips’s 2010 book A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, which Phillips co-wrote with Stephan Talty. (wiki)

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