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It's 3000 Pokédollars, but she got more than that just from random thank-you presents for healing, so she probably can. She can optionally choose to pay extra (this comes with no special privileges).

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She doesn't even know what charitable cause the extra money goes to so no. One full price ticket.

She will spend the afternoon looking to see if there's such a thing as a movie theater. Maybe there is and she could watch a second movie!

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Yes! There's a movie theater in Pokéstar Studios showing new releases, designed as a sort of audience test, and another movie theater in town showing slightly-less-recent releases with a little more filtering for quality.

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Which one's cheaper?

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New releases at Pokéstar Studios! 

Does she have preferences about genre? There are a couple different movies playing this afternoon.

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She invented children's theater a couple of years ago and would be fascinated if they have it here! Failing that a romance.

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They have children's theater! Today, they're playing Mystery Doors of the Magical Land.

In a faraway kingdom, Prince Tony, a child of about twelve, is the selfish, spoiled heir to the throne. (His outfit looks rather like someone tried to reconstruct the clothing of one of the counts at the convention, having seen it exactly once, with completely different materials.) One night, he sneaks out on his own to wander the castle grounds. He finds a mysterious white door, and decides to investigate it.

Upon walking through the door, he finds himself in a magical kingdom known as the Land of Enchantment. He encounters a mysterious woman and immediately insults her. This proves to be a mistake, as she reveals herself to be the queen of the magical kingdom, Bellelba, who (in context) is probably some kind of sorcerer. Bellelba threatens to kidnap him and force him to be her servant forever, never to return to his home kingdom, and sends out one of her Pokémon to guard the door. Tony seems to consider this objectionable primarily because he considers being a servant to be beneath him, and complains that he doesn't have servants to fight this battle for him.

Tony attempts to battle her with his Pokémon, one of the ice-cream-like species Laia met earlier. Over the course of the battle, he and his Pokémon visibly start to lose energy. She taunts him, telling him that every moment he breathes the air in this kingdom, it saps his strength and willpower; terrified, he and his ice cream cone find enough resolve to rally and knock her Pokémon unconscious, before his own Pokémon collapses, exhausted. He declares that he will now return home, only to realize that during the battle, the door disappeared entirely. The queen mocks him for thinking that defeating her Pokémon would allow him to escape and traps him in a magical cage, leaving him to be guarded by a stuffed toy.

Tony attempts to escape, but finds that the only exit to the cage, a sturdy black door, refuses to budge. The toy lets slip that the door is in some unclear metaphysical sense a Pokémon, and can be battled just like a Pokémon can. Tony begins to battle the door, but realizes quickly that defeating it won't be sufficient — instead, he needs to scare the door-Pokémon into fleeing. Partway through the battle, the toy makes a cryptic comment, and Tony recognizes it as his long-lost brother, Kevin, who disappeared years ago and left Tony as the only heir. Tony and his ice cream cone manage to scare away the door. Tony wavers over what to do, but decides to invite Kevin to flee with him, even knowing that it means Kevin will take his place as heir. Kevin agrees, and the two of them flee.

As they flee, Bellelba returns and confronts them. She mocks them and challenges Tony to another battle; this time, she sends out several door-Pokémon in turn. With Kevin's help, Tony figures out that he needs to knock every door-Pokemon unconscious except the door that brought him here. There is an extended action sequence, during which it is revealed that Bellelba has spent the past century luring travelers into the magical kingdom (which seems like it might be more like a personal demiplane?) in order to drain their life-energy and achieve immortality. She compares herself to Tony's father, the king, and Tony has an epiphany that kings ought to rule on behalf of their subjects, not merely for personal gain. Ultimately, Tony manages to defeat every door but the white one; in the process, Bellelba also disappears, having put her own life-energy into the doors to animate them. The magical kingdom begins to come apart, and Tony and Kevin flee back home through the door.

An epilogue reveals that Kevin ultimately abdicated in favor of Tony, who ended up being a good ruler thanks to what he had learned in the magical kingdom.

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...that's a pretty confusing lens on monarchy but she's impressed with the child actor playing Tony!

.......okay now she wants to watch a romance.

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They have a romance too! This one is called Love in Lumiose.

Mariette, a Pokémon groomer, moves back to her hometown of Lumiose City, in the Kalos region. Her childhood best friend, Felicien, works at a rival Pokémon salon.

When her sister (who appears to be all of about twelve) stops by for a visit before challenging the Elite Four, she teases Mariette about being single and suggests she check out the local dating scene. Mariette starts dating Christophe, a Pokémon Trainer who works in "Prism Tower," which appears to be some kind of tall, pointy structure. Christophe is shockingly nice by Chelish standards, but occasionally criticizes her career.

Meanwhile, Mariette's salon is preparing for an annual Pokémon grooming contest, competing against Felicien's salon; Mariette plans to enter her Furfrou (a dog-like Pokémon) into the contest. Mariette invites Christophe to come watch; he makes dismissive comments but ultimately agrees.

On the day of the contest, Mariette's Furfrou is uncooperative, and she can't get the hair style quite right. Christophe makes fun of her and tells her to try pursuing a real career. Felicien overhears and challenges Christophe to a Pokémon battle, even though he expects it will mess up his Furfrou's hairstyle and cause him to lose the contest.

Christophe and Felicien battle. Felicien initially has the advantage, but Christophe yells at his Pokémon to try harder, and manages to pull out a victory. However, when Mariette sees this, she breaks up with him on the spot, despite his protests that he's a better Trainer and therefore a better boyfriend. Mariette asks Felicien out on a date, and the pair of them jointly agree to withdraw from the Pokémon grooming contest, in order to be fair to both salons.

In the final scene of the movie, Mariette and Felicien, now an established couple, decide to start their own salon together. Mariette's sister drops by again and makes fun of Mariette for not realizing that she was telling her to ask Felicien out.

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Awwww. It's a little hard to get invested in the stakes - the music is doing a lot of work there but there's just not all that much there - but the language of the film is very cunningly put together and they sure make those Furfrous look fancy.

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She can get a coupon for a free bowl of Cornn Berries next time she visits the theater if she fills out a survey with her thoughts on the movies she saw, does she want to do that? It helps the studio decide which ones they want to release and market more widely.

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Sure, though she will note on the survey that she's very foreign and these were two of the only three movies she's ever seen in her life.

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Great! There's a free-response section where she can fill that in, and then several other questions that are less open-ended. (How much did she enjoy them, on a scale from 1 to 5? How likely would she be to recommend these movies to a friend? and so on)

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She fills all that in - she's not familiar with the scale of 1 to 5 so she winds up treating it sort of ordinally, with approximately equal numbers of each numerical response - and turns it in.

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Here's her coupon!

Where is she headed next?

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She'll swing by the hospital again.

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There's a woman standing outside the hospital, with unfamiliar local equipment set up around her (some of which vaguely resembles equipment from Pokéstar Studios headquarters). She appears to be giving some sort of speech to the equipment.

"...appears to be from a distant region, and — oh, hello, ma'am, who might you be?"

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"- my name is Laia Solandra, and you?"

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"I'm Malka, here with Unova News, reporting on rumors of a human with magical healing powers at this very hospital!"

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"Why, that's me! I'm empowered by Shelyn, the Legendary Pokémon of love and art, and as Her cleric I have the ability to channel positive energy and heal all wounds."

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"Well, that's certainly exciting! What else can you tell our viewers about Shelyn? Does she give people this power often?"

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"Shelyn has lots of clerics on my planet! She wants everyone to help make the world around them more beautiful, and to have wonderful friendships and loving families, and spend their afterlives with Her in Nirvana or somewhere they find even more delightful than that."

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"Nirvana? Is that the region you're from?"

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"No, it's an afterlife, the Neutral Good afterlife. I'm from Golarion, it's a planet. I got here when a strange Pokémon attacked a whole crowd of people I was sitting with and then here I was!"

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"Well, I can't say I understood all that, but we're certainly glad to have you around! Are you here to do more of the healing?"

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