The story revolves around a young gay boy, the son of a Baptist preacher, who has not spoken since he witnessed a traumatic murder at a very young age. He is driven from his back country home by his abusive father, and travels to Olympia where he meets a young store owner who takes him in. This is the heartwarming story of young love set in Washington state. Follow this young pair as they fall in love and through caring and understanding the young boy regains his ability to speak.

Forget about Kevin Costner's sun-kissed, water-colored, Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves. Black Robe, which was directed by Bruce Beresford, a director who gave the world the finest film of the early '80s Australian new wave, Breaker Morant, and who continually collides cultures and ethnicity in his films (Mister Johnson, Driving Miss Daisy), matches and surpasses the Costner epic as an expertly crafted, brutal saga of redemption and salvation. In 1634 a young French Jesuit missionary is assigned to trek 1,500 miles through the New France wilderness to a mission settled in Huron Indian country. Black Robe chronicles the journey of Father Laforgue (Lothaire Blutheau) as he leaves his Jesuit brothers and, with the aid of a young translator and guide, Daniel (Aden Young), and eight canoes of Algonquin Indians, moves into the uncompromising Canadian northern territory on a die-hard mission to convert the natives. Mixing elements of Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans and Roland Joffé's The Mission, Beresford offers a restless tale of Laforgue's conflicted faith juxtaposed against the sublime spiritual harmony with the land that the Huron and Algonquin already hold. Black Robe dances to its own drummer and is tuned into the precarious balance between nature's mystery and spirit and the strident, unyielding religious ethic. The cinematography by Peter James is relentlessly cruel and bleak, but it absolutely conveys the obstacles that face the idealistic and blind young priest, who by the end, has faced his own awakening. The film also features one of the late, great composer Georges Delerue's most noble scores. -Paula Nechak.

BMI Vol. 2 gNew M3 Takes on JDM Super Sports!h Best Motoring International Vol. 2 is packed with full track racing action, comprehensive tests, technical highlights, and amazing performances by Japanfs top racing drivers. Program 1 focus on the New DC5 Integra Type R (Type R version of the Acura RSX). M. Kurosawa takes the all-new ITR on track at Hondafs Takasu Proofing Centre, comparing the carfs new features with the original DC2 model at full throttle. Special interview with Hondafs chief engineer, Yutaka Otobe is a must see to find out the production concept of this new machine. Witness the head to head battles in Program 2, which features the new E46 M3, Carrera (996) and all the JDM Super Sports, such as the R34 Skyline GT-R, Lancer EVO VII, and NSX Type S. Two amazing battles will make you sweat, as the thrilling in-car cameras and close-up insets of driverfs footwork provide excitement never before available on video. The Drift King takes the M3, Carrera and NSX on the track for a drift test! Learn the trick by studying the Kingfs footwork for the ultimate car control! Program 3 includes the gInitial Dh style one-on-one battle on the Touge (mountain roads), which is a totally new style of racing entertainment. [+]