Horton Foote
Publisher
A & E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Mrs. Watts is undeterred and makes an escape to the local bus station, where she befriends Thelma, a young woman traveling home.
Publisher
Lions Gate Films, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic drifter comes into the life of a lonely widow and her young son in the barren flatlands of Texas. But when Mac is revealed to be a once-famous country singer, he must confront a painful past that includes his bitter superstar ex-wife.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
About racial prejudice and emotional unrest in 1940s Georgia. Henry Warren is an unscrupulous and racist landowner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming town. Blocking his path are sharecroppers Rod McDowell and Reeve Scott, one white and one black.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Best friends Lennie and George find themselves unemployed in Depression-era California, unable to keep jobs for long because of Lennie's childlike mentality - When they're hired at the Tyler Ranch, they thrive on the work despite the strict supervision of Curley, the boss' mean spirited son - But their world is ripped apart when Curley's unhappy wife becomes the innocent victim of Lennie's compassion, forcing George to make a compassionate decision...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
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