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[2015]
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English
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"Corbin, a longtime legal champion for the downtrodden, is slowly drinking himself into the grave. His love for 'mountain water' has cost him his marriage to the godliest woman he knows, ruined his relationship with his daughter Roxy, and reduced the business at his small Georgia law firm to a level where he can barely keep the bill collectors at bay. But it isn't until his son Ray threatens to limit Corbin's time with his grandson that Corbin begins...
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English
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Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks...
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