Word: sammi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RAINBOW. Twenty years after cinematizing Women in Love, Ken Russell returns to the questing eroticism of D.H. Lawrence. Given a story worth telling and a heroine (Sammi Davis) worth caring about, Russell can still direct with passion and poise...
...RAINBOW. Twenty years after cinematizing Women in Love, Ken Russell returns to the questing eroticism of D.H. Lawrence. Given a story worth telling and a heroine (Sammi Davis) worth caring about, Russell can still direct with passion and poise...
...Rainbow is a coming-of-age story set in turn-of-the-century Britain, when the modern world was also coming of age. In its first sequence, little & Ursula Brangwen (who will grow up to be played by an intense Sammi Davis) races dangerously close to the water, reaching out for the title symbol. As she leaves home in the final sequence, another rainbow arches above her, beckoning her onward. In between, she experiments with lesbian and heterosexual lovers (Amanda Donohoe and Paul McGann, respectively), endures a bleak passage as a teacher in a working-class school and witnesses...
Bill's sister Dawn (Sammi Davis) is only fifteen, but with the war on, she's already got a soldier beau. "It's the war," her mother says. "It's quick, quick, quick." Dawn replies, "I'm 15, still in school, and I want to be a nun when I grow up." A few months later she's pregnant...
John Boorman's family -- here called the Rohans -- waged and, from a semidetached house in suburban London, waited out the war against Hitler. Dad (David Hayman) joined the army. Mum (Sarah Miles) stayed home with the three children. The teenage daughter (Sammi Davis) discovered the romance of sex under fire. Her preschool sister (Geraldine Muir) held on to any available hand. And Bill (Sebastian Rice Edwards), Boorman's seven-year-old surrogate, was thrilled to pieces by the explosive newness of it all. A bombed-out house with all its booty! A Luftwaffe pilot parachuting into the neighborhood! If these...