Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slave whom Sethe has not seen in eighteen years. Paul D, dusty and hardened but always with a twinkle in his eye, wants to start a new life with Sethe and her quiet daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise), who is bright and beautiful but is also being suffocated by her mother's overprotective rein. All goes well at first as Paul D begins to unlock Sethe's heart and melt Denver's cold demeanor through his natural charm and exuberance. But their fragile existence becomes threatened by the emergence of a strange girl known simply as Beloved (Thandie Newton...
...vast, sweeping movies of recent memory to shame. The film tells the story of a single family and manages to weave a stunningly intricate emotional epic. The main narrative unfolds in a flashback. Reporter Ellen Gulden is being questioned by a district attorney about assisting in her cancer-stricken mother's death. Using characters grounded in the simplicities of life, One True Thing gives us something almost unparalleled in recent cinematic memory--the triumph of the ordinary. Soman Chainani...
After the death of my brother, my mother revealed something I think about every day. She told me that my brother had been greatly concerned when I left for Harvard, fearing that I would encounter and be disillusioned by the same cynicism that he had felt at Yale years earlier...
...following itsperformance, the director aNd several actors takeup the issue of the script's resilience. They hopethat The Death of Bessie Smith will not becordanted off into the traditional box of racialissues. However the interaction with audiencemembers quickly digressed into an actor's personalaccounts of racism and how his mother was affectedby them in her childhood. This works against whatthey are attempting to accomplish and proves asdoes the play that the opposite is true. We havemade progress since 1937, and more than condemningthe residual racism which exists today, theoutrages in this play underscore the achievementsthat the black and white communities...
Ribeiro's mad scene seemed too calculated and hesitant, as if she never really let herself go and never let her emotions overcome her. It was only in the final moments of the scene as she dashed blindly from the arms of her mother and slipped through Albrecht's arms crumpling to the floor that her expression of utter hopelessness and loss brought shivers down my spine. It was just too little, too late...