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Graveyards are usually about endings. But in December 1961 Waltraud Niebank embarked on a new life in East Berlin's Pankow Cemetery. She might have been mistaken for a young widow as she scanned the headstones, although in truth, her husband was alive. He was living in West Berlin and Niebank had been separated from him for four months. Now she was looking for a concealed tunnel which would reunite them. Soon after their wedding, the cemetery had been divided by a cinder-block barrier, part of a fortification some 100 miles (160 km) in length which would eventually...
...Paul Rudd) getting jilted, taking a room with a straight woman named Nina (Jennifer Aniston) and having them fall into, yes, affection. On her part, though, that develops into something a little more intense, especially when she contrasts his sweetness to the abrasiveness of her straight lover, Vince (John Pankow). Those feelings grow when she discovers that she's pregnant and that George is a much more supportive prenatal companion than Vince. Maybe, she thinks, he'd be a better father too. As for sex, well, as someone once said, nobody's perfect. And George does encouragingly tell her that...
...movie uses a series of montages saturated with stereotypes to track the "developing" friendship of Nina and George. (They go to amusement parks. They watch videos together in makeshift slumber parties. And, yes, they go dancing.) The complication, of course, is Nina's boyfriend, Vince (John Pankow), an outspoken civil liberties lawyer who naturally resents George's intrusion. Tension builds until the bomb explodes: Nina announces her pregnancy and her desire to raise the baby with George instead of Vince...
Amid the run-down villas in East Berlin's once genteel Pankow district, the lovely stucco house at Am Iderfenngraben 23 looks decidedly out of place. The wrought-iron gate is freshly painted; the clay roof shingles gleam in the afternoon sun. Rudolf Musch, a construction engineer, has spent most of his savings renovating the 1920s home since his family moved in eleven years ago. But the Musches, who pay $92 a month in rent for their 1,658-sq.-ft. space, may soon find themselves on the street. Hilmar Schneider, the owner of the house, who left the East...
...candid and self-aware. Kaiulani Lee is the older sister who sacrificed by staying home to tend to her father, Haviland Morris the sister who opted to marry for money, Margaret Colin the one who drowned herself in the Molotov cocktail of alcohol laced with utter honesty. John Pankow excels as the village lad who romanced each girl in turn, settled for the one who would have him, and went on to a diplomatic career that eclipses the golden clan's luster in every mind but the one that counts...