Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who were able to come to the United States, Canada, and Australia often sailed on tightly packed, disease-ridden "coffin ships," aptly named as a large percentage of their passengers never made it to the shores they sought. Even more who survived the grueling Atlantic crossing felt earth again only to be soon buried within it. The island of Grosse Ile, used as a quarantine site for incoming immigrants to Quebec, today holds the graves of thousands. Those who did survive faced widespread and serious discrimination and hatred...
...They have both smiled their way through everything they've gone through," Stahl said. "Their faces say, 'Hey, we're not disgusted, we're not guilt-ridden, were not agonized, so why should...
...They have both smiled their way througheverything they've gone through," Stahl said."Their faces say, `Hey, we're not disgusted, we'renot guilt-ridden, were not agonized, so why shouldyou...
...Soon enrolls at Bay Tech Junior College where she meets Daniel McMare (Ribisi), another mentally challenged 20-something student. Danny, unlike Carla, attended mainstream public school and now lives on is own through her relationship with Danny, which later becomes romantic, Carla realizes and seeks independence, something her guilt-ridden mother is not ready to grant. Quickly the tate family's influence and prodding convinces Keaton's character to help Carla find her own apartment, giving her "Independence and dignity." Throughout the film, Carla and Danny struggle to discover their place in the world while Mrs. Tate battles with...
...suffering in its purest form--when people die, they die violently and horribly. Good is corrupted, and evil abounds. There is no redemption. There are no happy endings. It is an incredibly dark vision but one that is undoubtedly held be Walker, the former Tower Records clerk-turned-angst-ridden-screen- writer, who must have kept of a copy of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan handy when he sat down to write his first film, Seven, and his new one, 8MM. Both films share an incredibly bleak outlook of the human condition, and while these visions are certainly helped...