Posts Tagged ‘pulitzer-prize-source’

Picnic (1955)

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Holden, William | Novak, Kim | Field, Betty | Strasberg, Susan | Robertson, Cliff | O'Connell, Arthur | Felton, Verna | Shaw, Reta | Adams, Nick | Bailey, Raymond | Wilson, Elizabeth | Russell, Rosalind | Adams, Warren Frederick | Baker, Carle E. | Bemis, George E.
Directors: Logan, Joshua
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The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy (Alan Benson) who also happens to be the son of the richest man in town. Hal is an egocentric braggart - all potential and no accomplishment. He meets up with Madge Owens, the town beauty queen and girlfriend of Alan Benson.

Anna Christie (1930)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Garbo, Greta | Bickford, Charles | Marion, George F. | Dressler, Marie | Mack, James T. | Phelps, Lee | Baxley, Jack | O'Brien, William H.
Directors: Brown, Clarence
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Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Costello, Dolores | Baxter, Anne | Holt, Tim | Moorehead, Agnes | Collins, Ray | Sanford, Erskine | Bennett, Richard | Welles, Orson | August, Edwin | Baxley, Jack | Blees, William | Clement, Lyle | Cooper, Bobby | Dillaway, Don
Directors: Fleck, Fred
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The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Megna, John | Overton, Frank | Murphy, Rosemary | White, Ruth | Peters, Brock | Evans, Estelle | Fix, Paul | Paxton, Collin Wilcox | Anderson, James | Ghostley, Alice | Duvall, Robert | Windom, William | Denton, Crahan | Hale, Richard
Directors: Mulligan, Robert
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In the rural American south during the depths of the Depression, two children watch as their principled father takes a stand against intolerance.

Proof (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Paltrow, Gwyneth | Hopkins, Anthony | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Davis, Hope | McCarthy, Danny | Daszkjewicz, Tobiasz | Houston, Gary | Wittman, Anne | Zimmerman, Leigh | Stinton, Colin | Burnett, Leland | Keefe, John | Chung, Chipo | Harris, C. Gerod | Seth, Roshan
Directors: Madden, John
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The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father’s ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.

Thousand Acres, A (1997)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Lange, Jessica | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Robards, Jason | Firth, Colin | Carradine, Keith | Anderson, Kevin | Hingle, Pat | Pitoniak, Anne | Lynch, John Carroll | Ruginis, Vyto | Williams, Michelle | Moss, Elisabeth | Toler, Ray | Tigar, Kenneth
Directors: Moorhouse, Jocelyn
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A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.

Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (2004)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Spain | UK
Actors: Abraham, F. Murray | Bates, Kathy | Byrne, Gabriel | Chaplin, Geraldine | De Niro, Robert | Dequenne, Émilie | Domínguez, Adriana | Keitel, Harvey | Le Bihan, Samuel | López de Ayala, Pilar | Lynch, John | Pinon, Dominique | Polish, Mark | Polish, Michael | Sheridan, Jim
Directors: McGuckian, Mary
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Five people are killed in a freak accident when a lofty rope bridge collapses. The film details a priest’s journey to discover if there was a divine reason for the bloody disaster. Set in Lima, Peru, during the 18th century. Based on the Thornton Wilder novel, and first made in 1929.

Shipping News, The (2001)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Spacey, Kevin | Moore, Julianne | Dench, Judi | Blanchett, Cate | Postlethwaite, Pete | Glenn, Scott | Ifans, Rhys | Pinsent, Gordon | Behr, Jason | Pine, Larry | Arnette, Jeanetta | Joy, Robert | Gainer, Alyssa | Gainer, Lauren
Directors: Hallström, Lasse
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An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family’s longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper “The Gammy Bird” finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey…

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Tandy, Jessica | Aykroyd, Dan | LuPone, Patti | Rolle, Esther | Havrilla, Joann | Hall Jr., William | Sugarman, Alvin M. | Geigerman, Clarice F. | Moore, Muriel | Kaler, Sylvia | Gold, Carolyn | Fox, Crystal R. | Hannah, Bob | McKinnon, Ray
Directors: Beresford, Bruce
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An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair’s life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.