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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new "lector" (who reads Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.
7) Overboard
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
8) House of D
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
An American man living in Paris recalls his adolescence in New York City with his depressed widowed mother and other people that made an impression on his life.
9) Smart people
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After an accident, Lawrence, a chilly intellectual professor, goes to the hospital and is afterward deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a physician and former student of Lawrence who remembers her disappointment in him as a teacher and role model. But, Janet and Lawrence become romantically involved. Meanwhile, Lawrence's adopted brother Chuck and his teenage daughter Vanessa try to come to terms with each other.
12) Leonard part 6
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
An ex-secret agent turned restaurateur is enlisted to stop an evil woman from destroying the world while also trying to win back his ex-wife and keep his daughter from making a mistake in marriage.
14) Christmas town
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Liza visits her estranged father a week before Christmas. Even though the town is decked out for the holidays and is full of Christmas spirit, strange events start occurring as soon as she arrives, challenging everything she once believed in.
15) City Island
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Vince Rizzo is a lifelong resident of the tiny, tradition-steeped Bronx enclave of City Island. A family man who makes his living as a corrections officer, Vince longs to become an actor. Vince would rather let his wife believe his weekly poker games are a cover for an affair than admit he is secretly taking acting classes in Manhattan. When Vince is asked to reveal his biggest secret in class, he inadvertently sets off a chaotic chain of events that...
16) Overboard
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
When Leonardo, a wealthy businessman, has a yachting accident and develops amnesia, an ill-treated employee exacts some revenge. Kate is a single mom who manages to convince Leonardo that she is his wife. Hilarity ensues as Leonardo must take on the task of helping Kate raise her three daughters. Will Kate's plan succeed to perfection, or will she discover that Leonardo isn't such a bad guy after all? It's classic role reversal in this remake of an...
19) The Flamingo kid
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When the son of a plumber from Brooklyn is invited to a fancy beach club one summer day, he is lured from his working class world.
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