Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a "gentleman caller" appears, things move to crisis point. (IMDb.com)
'Pleasantly Plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963. (from imdb)
A film version of the acclaimed Broadway musical, based on E.L. Doctorow's prized novel. A mosaic of life at the turn of the century, it tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker, a Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in New Rochelle, NY; and Tateh, a Latvian Jewish immigrant.
Ren McCormack is an energetic kid from Chicago who moves (along with his mother) to the lonely town of Beaumont. In Beaumont, dancing has been abolished by the powerful Reverend Moore. It is now up to Ren, and his friends, to have the town back on its feet again.
The story of the mental and emotional demise of aging southern belle Blanche DuBois, born to a once-wealthy family of Mississippi planters. Her downfall in the cramped French Quarter one-bedroom apartment of her sister (Stella) and animalistic brother-in-law (Stanley) is at the hands of savage, brutal forces in modern society. In her search for refuge, she finds that her sister lives with drunkenness, violence, lust, and ignorance.
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