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Alchemy (1995 film, USA) article
Alchemy is a 1995 American television drama film written and directed by Suzanne Myers. It won the Grand Jury prize at SXSW in 1996.

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The Rose Garden (1898 film, the Netherlands) article
borrowed Puzzle format

Puzzle (Rompecabezas) is a 2010 Argentine drama film directed by Natalia Smirnoff. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

Plot
A middle-aged housewife, Maria del Carmen (Maria Onetto), suddenly finds she has a gift for assembling puzzles. Unbeknownst to her husband (Gabriel Goity) and two college-age sons, she begins practicing for a tournament with a man (Arturo Goetz) she met through an ad in a puzzle shop. The thrill "of a woman discovering her special gift and rejoicing in it" is just one of the surprises in store for Maria, as she starts to look differently at the pieces of her life, and to try new things.

Cast

 * María Onetto
 * Arturo Goetz
 * Gabriel Goity
 * Henny Trayles
 * Mirta Wons

Reception
Critical reception to the film was mostly positive, according to reviews cited at IMDb, with the notable exception of V.A. Musetto in the New York Post who said, "If the plot of the Argentine soaper Puzzle seems familiar, that's because it's nearly identical to the story in the French movie Queen To Play." Comparing this film to Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman, in which Maria Onetto starred in 2008, Stephen Holden of The New York Times said, "Although Puzzle is a much smaller, less ambitious film without the ominous political subtext of Ms. Martel's masterwork, its story...has implications about sexual inequality in Argentina's middle class." Holden also notes that Smirnoff served as Martel's casting director on the 2008 film. The A.V. Club says, "its conclusion is pleasing and not at all pat, a portrait of a woman who's learned she deserves to keep some things for herself."

Proposed Flight Plot Summary
Airline captain William "Whip" Whitaker awakens in his Orlando hotel room with flight attendant Katerina "Trina" Marquez after a night of sex, drinking, drugs, and very little sleep. He boards SouthJet Flight 227 to Atlanta in the pelting rain, where co-pilot Ken Evans' concerns about his readiness to fly are allayed by veteran flight attendant Margaret Thomason, who is well aware of Whip's alcohol and drug use. Whip threads the plane into calm skies above the severe turbulence at takeoff, and after Ken takes over Whip discreetly mixes vodka with his orange juice and takes a nap. Whip is jolted awake just before their final descent, and the plane goes into a steep dive. After failing to achieve any pitch control, Whip rolls the plane into an inverted position to bring it out of the dive, then maneuvers the plane right-side up just before crash-landing in a field. He loses consciousness upon impact. Whip awakens in an Atlanta hospital with minor injuries. He is greeted by Charlie Anderson, a friend who now represents the airline's pilots union. Whip is regarded as a hero who saved 96 of 102 souls on board, although an NTSB official informs him Trina was among the six people who were killed. Margaret survived and Evans has been put into a coma. Whip's next visitor is his drug dealer, Harling Mays, armed with cigarettes and assorted contraband. Sneaking into the stairwell for a smoke, Whip meets Nicole, who is recovering from a heroin overdose. He promises to visit her sometime and gets her address. To avoid the media, Harling takes Whip to his late father's farm to recuperate. When he meets Charlie and his attorney, Hugh Lang, they tell him that the NTSB performed a toxicology screen while he was unconscious in the hospital, revealing his alcohol intoxication and drug use, which could send Whip to prison on both drug and manslaughter charges. Whip storms out, even though Lang promises to get the drug tests disqualified on technical grounds, and finds himself looking for Nicole's apartment on the way home. He stops her landlord from beating her as she is skipping out on her lease, and pays him not to pursue her before he invites her to stay at the farm. Nicole and Whip begin sleeping together, but she is trying to stay clean and sober while his alcoholism worsens. He goes with her to one AA meeting but leaves her there, and she soon moves out. When the media discover his farmhouse he drives in a drunken stupor to the home of his ex-wife and their teen-aged son, who call the police. He begs to stay with Charlie, refusing to get help but vowing not to drink before the NTSB hearing. In the meantime he pressures Margaret to censor her testimony, and never bothers to visit Evans and his wife until he learns Evans is awake and ready to testify also. The night before the hearing, Charlie and Hugh lock Whip in a guarded hotel room to keep him from drinking. There is no alcohol in his mini-bar, but a sleepless Whip finds the door to the adjoining room unlocked, where Charlie and Hugh discover him, still inebriated, the next morning. They call Harling, who brings cocaine to jolt him awake for the hearing. At the hearing, the lead NTSB investigator, Ellen Block, reveals that a broken jackscrew in the elevator assembly was the direct cause of the plane's crash. She commends Whip on his valor and skill, acknowledging that no other pilots were able to land the plane safely in simulations of the crash. Just as it appears Whip will escape culpability, Block raises the fact that two empty vodka bottles were found in the trash on the plane, which Whip drank with his orange juice. She points out that only the flight crew had access to the alcohol, telling the assembly that one toxicology report was disqualified but that Trina's was positive for alcohol. She repeatedly asks Whip if he believes Trina consumed the vodka on the plane, and finally Whip breaks down, admitting that he drank the vodka on the flight. He says he has been drunk most of the time before and since the accident, including then and there at the hearing. About a year later, Whip speaks to his fellow inmates in prison during a support group meeting, happy to be sober and free from his demons and addictions. He has kept in contact with Nicole and sober friends on the outside, and welcomes his son's visits as they reconnect.