Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balcony in San Juan. This next skit, "A View from the Roof," revolves around Betty, an emotionally frustrated Jewish wife who is duped by a suave Puerto Rican artist. The third skit, entitled "My Mother's Luck," is essentially a long monologue spoken by a Jewish mother to her daughter Hannah, who is preparing to live with her wealthy father in pre-WWII Germany...
...Your children. Congratulations: it is fifteen years after graduation, and you've finally hit the big time: two boys and one girl. Your daughter just got her elementary school "yearbook" and suddenly wants to see yours. "Wow, Mom," she says, "you did so much stuff in college! What's Model U.N.?" And you say, "Um, uh, I'm not sure." "But it says here you were Vice-President!" You clear your throat and say, "Well, it was a long time ago." This is just too depressing to think about...
Photographer Bryan Lee, 28, of Ottumwa, Iowa, entered a living nightmare last spring. His daughter Makenzie, 4, had developed liver cancer, and the only thing that could save her was a new liver. Since the demand for transplantable organs is always greater than the supply, Makenzie had gone on a waiting list--but high up, due to the severity of her condition...
Ohio, 1873, eight years after the Civil War, 18 years after Sethe ran away from the Sweet Home plantation. She had been defiled by the master's sons, then beaten so artistically that her back remains latticed with scars. Now Sethe lives with her teenage daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise) at 124 Bluestone Road--a house that jitters and glows red with the rambunctious ghost of Beloved...
Paris is for lovers. Why, in the 1960s, a girl could even love her genially alcoholic writer dad (Kris Kristofferson). Based on the memoirish novel by James Jones' daughter Kaylie, this beautifully observed film is a domestic epic in miniature: of precocious kids and stern teachers, of maids and their amours, of complex friendships ended by fate's whim. In an exemplary cast the standouts are Luisa Conlon and Leelee Sobieski as the daughter at seven and 14, and Anthony Roth Costanza as her brilliantly effeminate best friend. The Merchant-Ivory attention to period detail often seems like the movie...