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OUR ONGOING, OCCASIONALLY SMARTASS, DEFINITELY UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO WHAT’S PLAYING IN ST. LOUIS THEATERS More than 60 percent of Americans do not own a passport, and the film No Escape is hardly a commercial for getting one — or for promoting tourism in Asia, where fewer than 5 million of us ventured last year, for that matter. Owen Wilson plays Jack, a married American father of two, who relocates there for work

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ing a book or making a life-long commitment, super high. In American Ultra Jesse Eisenberg plays Mike, an aspiring comic-book author who (kind of) pays the rent with the money he earns working at a convenience store. He has just never quite gotten around to proposing to his girlfriend Phoebe (Kristen Stewart). But somehow seemingly dim Mike manages to off a guy using just a spoon, which might begin to explain why CIA agents are after the pair. And who hasn’t been there while baked out of their mind? ● Here’s every Philosophy 101 class ever: Whorls of words and hypotheticals and logic and morality alternate between forcing

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