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Mame is an unconventional individualist socialite from the roaring 20's. When her brother dies, she is forced to raise her nephew Patrick. However, Patrick's father has designated an executor to his will to protect the boy from absorbing too much of Mame's rather unconventional perspective. Patrick …and Mame become devoted to each other in spite of this restriction, and together journey through Patrick's childhood and the great depression, amidst some rather zaney adventures. (Read More)
| Themes: | huntingwealthdysfunctional familytraveldrunkennessdrinkingpregnancychristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | paris franceschoolnew york city |
| Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipsecretaryactresslove trianglewriterboyfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1920s1930s1940s |
| Story: | fox huntingplantation ownerfox huntunwed pregnancyboarding schoolchristmas presentbased on playcocktail partyswitchboard operatorreference to the marx brothersside saddleoil baronmatterhornheavily pregnant motherstock market crash …bulgematurationsalesclerkinterior decoratorremodelingtelephone operatorfree spiritunwed motherreference to karl marxcigarette holdernonconformitypublishingbroken engagementbohemianfortuneconnecticutnephewliquormemoirsnobexpectant mothermountain climbingelopementplantationsocialitealpsfriendship between womenguardiangeorgiamasturbation referencedepartment storelast will and testamenthoneymooneiffel tower parishangovermakeoverstaircasestairwayfoxsouthernergraduationplaybigotryegyptbackstageanti semitismembarrassmentirishservanteccentricclass differencesmonkeypoethorse ridingbraceletmarriage proposalchildorphanalcoholcollegefalling from heightdrinkpartycharacter name in titlebased on novel (See All) |
Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acro …ss two generations. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancychristmasfriendship |
| Characters: | actresslove trianglefriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1920s1930s1940s |
| Story: | fox huntchristmas presentelopementlast will and testamenthoneymoonservantclass differencesmarriage proposaldrinkpartybased on novel |
The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appoin …ted husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire - then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters - family, friends and fortune. (Read More)
| Themes: | huntingwealthdrinking |
| Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipwritermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | fortunenephewelopementembarrassmentirishclass differencesmarriage proposaldrinkpartycharacter name in title |
In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II asks for the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from e …xile back to London. John is a morally-corrupt drunkard and a sexually- active cynical poet. When the King asks John to prepare a play for the French ambassador so as to please him, John meets the aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her into a great star. He falls in love with her and she becomes his mistress. During the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls into disgrace with the court. When he was thirty-three years old and dying of syphilis and alcoholism, he converts to being a religious man. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingfriendship |
| Characters: | actresswriterfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | based on playplaybackstageembarrassmentservantmonkeypoethorse ridingalcoholdrink |
Aviator Andre Jurieux has just completed a record-setting flight, but when he is greeted by an admiring crowd, all he can say to them is how miserable he is that the woman he loves did not come to meet him. He is in love with Christine, the wife of aristocrat Robert de la Cheyniest. Robert himself i …s involved in an affair with Genevieve de Marras, but he is trying to break it off. Meanwhile, Andre seeks help from his old friend Octave, who gets Andre an invitation to the country home where Robert and Christine are hosting a large hunting party. As the guests arrive for the party, their cordial greetings hide their real feelings, along with their secrets - and even some of the servants are involved in tangled relationships. (Read More)
| Themes: | huntingwealthdrunkennessdrinkingfriendship |
| Locations: | paris france |
| Characters: | love trianglefriendfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | cigarette holdermemoirbackstageembarrassmentservantclass differencespoetdrinkparty |
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romanti …c entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennesspregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | paris francenew york city |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1920s1930s1940s |
| Story: | bohemianeiffel tower parismonkeymarriage proposalpartycharacter name in title |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin …d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingchristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | schoolnew york city |
| Characters: | writerfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | christmas presentelopementfriendship between womenhoneymoongraduationbigotrymarriage proposalcollegedrink |
In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Francois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to …respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthtraveldrinkingchristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | paris franceschool |
| Characters: | boyfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | boarding schoolanti semitismservantchildorphandrink |
'Louisa May Alcott' (qv)'s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of ho …w the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancychristmas |
| Locations: | paris francenew york city |
| Characters: | writerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | boarding schoolexpectant motherplaymarriage proposalpartybased on novel |
Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early …flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due? (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingpregnancychristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipactresslove trianglefriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | unwed pregnancyfriendship between womenstairwaybackstagedrinkparty |
A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in pre-WWII Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained venee …r of servitude. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthfriendship |
| Period: | 1930s1940s |
| Story: | fox huntanti semitismservantclass differenceshorse ridingmarriage proposalbased on novel |
When an adopted fox and a to-be hunting hound become inspepearable friends as pups, their friendship grows stronger every day in their "childhood." But as they grow older, they grow farther and farther apart, to the day when the two old comrades bond is put the ultimate test.
| Themes: | huntingfriendship |
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Story: | fox huntingfox huntfoxorphan |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat …e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthdysfunctional familydrinkingpregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | love trianglewriterfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | unwed pregnancyhangoverdrinkparty |
The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene ('Carey Mulligan' (qv)), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak ('Matthias Schoenaerts' (qv)), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy ('Tom Sturridge' (qv)), a handsome and reckless Serg …eant; and William Boldwood ('Michael Sheen (I)' (qv)), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. (Read More)
| Themes: | huntingdrinkingpregnancychristmasfriendship |
| Characters: | friendhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | unwed pregnancylast will and testamentstaircaseservantmarriage proposalorphanfalling from heightdrinkpartybased on novel |
Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots. Both women start a journey not only to find their family's tragic story, but to see who they really are an …d where they belong. They question what they used to believe in. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinking |
| Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipboymother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | stairwayanti semitismmarriage proposalchildorphandrinkcharacter name in title |
The son of Zamindar Narayan Mukherjee, Devdas (Shahrukh Khan) was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He grew up in the lush village of Taj Sonapur, where he spent his childhood, indulged by his lovely playmate Paro (Aishwarya). They grew up sharing a special relationship, in which they existed o …nly to each other. Oblivious of all the differences of status and background, a bond that would never break grew between them. Slowly, it changed to love but it was still unsaid. But the reverie was broken when his family sent Devdas to London for education. Paro's world crashed knowing that her Devdas would be gone and she lit a diya, for it signified the fast coming back of her loved one. Years passed and Devdas returned. Devdas was besotted by her stunning beauty and longed to have her back. But Zamindar Narayan Mukherjee (Vijay Crishna), Devdas' father, met Paro's mother Sumitra's (Kiran Kher) marriage proposal with condescending arrogance. It caused a rift between the families and even though Devdas tried to convince his father, only antagonism came his way. Finally, he moved away from Paro and wrote a letter to her, asking her to forget him. Only, he didn't realize that he would never be able to forget her ever! And much later, when he reached out to her, it was too late as she was far too humiliated. She scorned him for not standing by her and they parted forever with a heart-broken Paro entering into a chaste marriage with a wealthy, much older man, Zamindar Bhuvan (Vijayen… (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyfriendship |
| Characters: | actresslove triangleboyfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | cigarette holderfriendship between womenstairwayservantclass differencesbraceletmarriage proposaldrinkcharacter name in titlebased on novel |
Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, …not the answering of them. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingfriendship |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | boarding schoolguardianservantclass differenceschildorphanalcoholdrinkpartybased on novel |
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cous …in, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthdrunkennesspregnancychristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | paris france |
| Characters: | love trianglefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | side saddleexpectant motherplantationgeorgiahoneymoonstairwaysouthernerservantmarriage proposalpartybased on novel |
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
| Themes: | wealthdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | paris francenew york city |
| Characters: | actresslove trianglewriterfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | staircasedrinkparty |
Melanie Carmichael, an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like fiancee of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn't forget about her family back down South. More importantly, h …er husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce papers seven years ago. To set matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. When things don't turn out the way she planned them, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in New York City. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familydrunkenness |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | love trianglefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | remodelingplantationhangoversouthernerembarrassmentservantclass differenceshorse ridingmarriage proposal |
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mecha …nical man) that doesn't work without a special key. Hugo needs to find the key to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets George Melies, a shopkeeper, who works in the train station, and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingfriendship |
| Locations: | paris franceschool |
| Characters: | actresswriterboyfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1930s |
| Story: | eiffel tower parisembarrassmentpoetchildorphandrinkcharacter name in title |
In 1902, in London, the spinster Beatrix Potter lives with her bourgeois parents. Her snobbish mother, Helen Potter, had introduced several bachelors to Beatrix until she was twenty years old, but she had turned them all down. Beatrix Potter has been drawing animals and making up stories about them …since she was a child, but her parents have never recognized her as an artist. One day, Miss Potter offers her stories to a print house, and a rookie publisher, Norman Warne, who is delighted with her tales, publishes her first children's book. This success leads Norman to publish two other books, and Miss Potter meanwhile becomes the best friend of his single sister Millie Warne. Soon Beatrix and Norman fall in love with each other, but Helen does not accept that her daughter would marry a "trader". However, Beatrix's father Rupert Potter proposes that his daughter spend the summer with his wife and him in their country house in Lake District, and if she is still interested in Norman after the summertime, he would bless their marriage. When Miss Potter stops receiving letters from Norman, she is disappointed. Then one day she receives a letter from Millie explaining what had happened to Norman. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthchristmasfriendship |
| Characters: | secretarywriterboyfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | christmas presentfriendship between womenservantclass differencesmarriage proposalchildpartycharacter name in title |
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to wri …te with. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingpregnancy |
| Characters: | writerboymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | stairwayirishpoetmarriage proposaldrinkcharacter name in titlebased on novel |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o …f The Beatles. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingfriendship |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipboyfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | guardianbackstagecollegedrinkparty |
Homer is an orphan in remote St. Cloud, Maine. Never adopted, he becomes the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch, who imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. When Wally and p …regnant Candy visit the orphanage Dr. Larch provides medically safe, albeit illegal, abortions Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's family apple farm. Wally goes off to war, leaving Homer and Candy alone together. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him? (Read More)
| Themes: | pregnancyfriendship |
| Characters: | love triangleboyfriendfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1920s1930s1940s |
| Story: | unwed pregnancyorphanbased on novel |
The five highly trained Bennett sisters in Georgian England must try to protect themselves from the growing zombie threat, find suitable husbands for themselves, battle marriage proposals and unlikely suitors, and save the country before it's too late.
| Themes: | wealthtraveldrunkennessfriendship |
| Characters: | aunt nephew relationshiplove trianglefriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | elopementservantclass differencesmarriage proposalfalling from heightpartybased on novel |
William Miller is a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming-of-age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
| Themes: | traveldrunkennessdrinkingfriendship |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | love triangleboyfriendmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | graduationembarrassmenteccentricpoetalcoholdrinkparty |
Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, is presented as the real author of Shakespeare's works. Edward's life is followed through flashbacks from a young child, through to the end of his life. He is portrayed as a child prodigy who writes and performs A Midsummer Night's Dream for a young Elizabeth I. A ser …ies of events sees his plays being performed by a frontman, Shakespeare. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingpregnancy |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | actresswriterboyfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | publishingplaybackstageservantpoetchilddrink |
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best fri …ends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingpregnancychristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | friendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | unwed pregnancybased on playsocialitealcoholdrinkpartycharacter name in title |
Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels, captivating women al …l around the city and inspiring them to break free from the control of men and become more like Dorsey's initial identity. This newfound role, however, lands Dorsey in a hot spot between a female friend/'lover,' a female co-star he falls in love with, that co-star's father who falls in love with him, and a male co-star who yearns for his affection. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingfriendship |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | actresslove trianglefriendfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | cocktail partyplaymarriage proposalalcoholdrinkcharacter name in title |
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) was Hollywood's top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) recounts how Dalton used words and wit to win two Academy Awards and expose the absurdity and injustice under th …e blacklist, which entangled everyone from gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) to John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familydrinkingchristmasfriendship |
| Characters: | writerfriendfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | christmas presentcigarette holderhorse ridingdrinkpartycharacter name in title |
Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." Based on the Broadway musical based on …the novel. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthdrinkingfriendship |
| Locations: | paris francenew york city |
| Characters: | love triangleboyfriend |
| Story: | eiffel tower parisbackstagemarriage proposaldrinkbased on novel |
A group of reporters are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigat …e further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the top of the world. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthdrunkennessdrinkingchristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | paris francenew york city |
| Characters: | writerfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1920s1930s |
| Story: | christmas presentstock market crashmemoirguardianservantbraceletdrinkpartycharacter name in title |
Eve (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her idol, aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). It seems innocent enough as Eve explains that she has seen Margo in EVERY performance of her current play. Only playwright/critic DeWitt (George Sanders) sees through Eve's evil plan, which is …to take her parts and her fiance, Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill). When the fiance shows no interest, she tries for playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe), but DeWitt stops her. After she accepts her award, she decides to skip the after-party and goes to her room, where a young woman named Phoebe has sneaked into her room and fallen asleep. This is where the "Circle of Life" now comes to fruition as Eve will get played like she played Margo. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingfriendship |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | actressfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | cigarette holderconnecticutstaircaseplaybackstagedrinkpartycharacter name in title |
Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman for a Boston apartment block. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown, north of the city. His brother's heart has given out suddenly, and he's been named guardian to his 16-year-old nephew. As if losing his …only sibling and doubts about raising a teenager weren't enough, his return to the past re-opens an unspeakable tragedy. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingpregnancyfriendship |
| Characters: | friendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | nephewguardianlast will and testamentdrink |
Biopic of billionaire 'Howard Hughes (I)' (qv), starting with his early filmmaking years as owner of RKO studios but mostly focusing on his role in designing and promoting new aircraft. Hughes was a risk-taker spending several fortunes on designing experimental aircraft and eventually founding TWA a …s a rival to Pan AM airlines owned by his great rival Juan Trippe. When Trippe's politico Senator Ralph 'Owen Brewster (I)' (qv) accuses Hughes of being a war profiteer, it's Hughes who gains the upper hand. Hughes also had many women in his life including a long relationship with actress 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv). From an early age however, Hughes was also germophobic and would have severe bouts of mental illness. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthdrinking |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | actressfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1920s1930s1940s |
| Story: | free spiritconnecticuteccentricmarriage proposalparty |
The classic stage hit gets the Hollywood treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a com …edy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessfriendship |
| Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | based on playfree spiriteccentricalcoholpartycharacter name in title |
In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kiting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the … death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kiting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption. (Read More)
| Themes: | traveldrinkingfriendship |
| Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipwriterboyfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | graduationservantorphancollegepartybased on novel |
This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's i …nfidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late? (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingpregnancy |
| Characters: | love triangleboyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1920s |
| Story: | socialiteservanthorse ridingmarriage proposalorphandrinkbased on novel |
In late 1951, Eilis Lacey, a young Irish girl, emigrates to Brooklyn. Sponsored by Father Flood, a priest from her native town Enniscorthy, she is assured to find a full-time job there. But the early days are tough, seasickness being soon replaced by loneliness and homesickness, two feelings all the … more acutely felt by Eilis for having had to leave behind her widowed mother and her dear sister Rose. She nevertheless little by little manages to find her footing by adapting to her job as a salesgirl, by studying bookkeeping at Brooklyn College as well as with a little help from both Father Flood and Mrs. Kehoe, the owner of the boarding school she now lives in. And not only does graduation follow but love shows its face in Tony, an Italian-American plumber, full of adoration and respect for her. They end up marrying, although keeping the thing secret. It is at that point that tragedy strikes inciting Eilis to return to Enniscorthy to support her mother morally. And there a strange thing happens : she gradually gets lured by the charms of her native place, going far as to let herself be wooed by Jim Farrell, a young local. (Read More)
| Themes: | traveldrinkingchristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | schoolnew york city |
| Characters: | love trianglefriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | boarding schoolsalesclerkdepartment storegraduationirishmarriage proposaldrinkbased on novel |
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago, is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar, who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky, an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, howeve …r, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. (Read More)
| Themes: | pregnancy |
| Characters: | love trianglefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1920s1930s1940s |
| Story: | unwed pregnancypoetorphancharacter name in titlebased on novel |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
| Themes: | wealthdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | paris francenew york city |
| Characters: | writerboyfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | class differencesmarriage proposalcollegedrinkparty |
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, … escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad... (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familydrunkennessdrinkingfriendship |
| Locations: | schoolnew york city |
| Characters: | boyfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | cocktail partyliquorembarrassmentdrinkpartybased on novel |
Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder him. Together they strangle David with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a small p …arty. The guests include David's father, his fiancee Janet and their old schoolteacher Rupert from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthdrinkingfriendship |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipwriterfriendmother son relationship |
| Story: | based on playdrinkparty |
Returning from Navy service in World War II, Freddie Quell drifts through a series of breakdowns. Finally he stumbles upon a cult which engages in exercises to clear emotions and he becomes deeply involved with them.
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingpregnancy |
| Locations: | schoolnew york city |
| Characters: | aunt nephew relationshipwritermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | department storechildcollegedrinkparty |
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacey is Duane's ste …ady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives. (The movie was adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry). (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthchristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | boyfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | christmas presentmaturationelopementhangovergraduationcollegepartybased on novel |
In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the story of three people in love, a love which does not af …fect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years. (Read More)
| Themes: | pregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | paris france |
| Characters: | love trianglewriterfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1920s1930s |
| Story: | eiffel tower parismarriage proposalcharacter name in titlebased on novel |
Erik is expelled from school for fighting. He ends up at a private boarding school where the senior students control the young ones. Erik finds a friend in Pierre, his room mate. The story revolves around Erik who just wishes to be left alone and graduate. He doesn't listen to what the seniors have …to say and they don't like it. (Read More)
| Themes: | pregnancychristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | writerfriendmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | boarding schoolgraduationanti semitismbased on novel |
Teenager Andie is one of the not-so-popular girls in high school. She usually hangs out with her friends Iona or Duckie. Duckie has always had a crush on her, but now she has met a new guy at school, Blane. He's one of the rich and popular guys but can the two worlds meet?
| Themes: | wealthdysfunctional familydrunkennessdrinkingfriendship |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | father daughter relationship |
| Story: | reference to karl marxsnobclass differences |
In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working …but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthtraveldrinkingpregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | paris franceschool |
| Characters: | boyfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | socialiteeiffel tower parisanti semitismclass differencesmarriage proposaldrink |
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