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I’m a 19-year-old music (BMus) student at Huddersfield University. I’m in my first year, and my first instrument is singing, although I play a little tiny bit of piano too. I live in halls of residence; my room’s constantly a tip. Seriously. If a bomb hit it, it wouldn’t look much worse.
Before I went to [...]

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Dirty Dancing (1987)
IMDB rating: 6.00
Plot: Set in the 1960s, Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes to a very respectable summer camp in the Catskills. Baby has grown up in privileged surrounds with her doctor father and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before [...]

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8 Mile (2002)
IMDB rating: 6.60
Plot: A rap version of “Saturday Night Fever.” B-Rabbit, a wannabe rapper from the wrong side of Detroit’s 8 Mile, has problems: he dumps his girlfriend when she tells him she’s pregnant; to save money to make a demo tape, he moves into his alcoholic mom’s trailer; his job’s a dead [...]

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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
IMDB rating: 4.30
Plot: When the teenager Mary Elizabeth Cep, a.k.a. Lola, moves with her mother and two younger twin sisters from New York to the suburb of Dellwood, New Jersey, she has the feeling that her cultural and entertaining world ended. While in school, the displaced Lola becomes close [...]

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Dancer in the Dark (2000)
IMDB rating: 7.80
Plot: Selma is a Czechoslovakian immigrant, a single mother working in a factory in rural America. Her salvation is her passion for music, specifically, the all-singing, all-dancing numbers found in classic Hollywood musicals. Selma harbors a sad secret: she is losing her eyesight and her son Gene stands to [...]

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