Low-profile pics in limelight at Sundance

January 14, 2009 "Finest," a reunion of "Training Day" partners Antoine Fuqua and Ethan Hawke, leads a pack of prominent titles seeking distribution, along with movies that follow this year's trend toward one-word titles, including "Spread," "Manure" and "Shrink" (an Ashton Kutcher-toplined off-color comedy, the Polish brothers' return to Park City and a Kevin Spacey drama from television veteran Jonas Pate, respectively). Buyers expect at least one or two films to go for solid seven figures, with one or two more pulling in respectable sales. In that growing group is Cherien Dabis' "Amreeka," the story of a Palestinian single mother who moves from the tumultuous Middle East to rural Illinois.

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