Carol Joan MonPere was an Award-winning screenwriter and producer whose work romanticized California's Central Valley and championed strong feminist characters.
A desperate mother becomes detective to solve her 5 year-old daughter's death. The authorities suspect that the girl has been killed by a well-known person of the family.
California 1962, Five girls: beautiful Sharon, ugly-duckling Andy, nice Poo and hot-to-trot Jill support their best friend Tookie when she prepares to marry her boyfriend Pat. But the two of them realize that they are not prepared to get married, that the locks of marriage will prevent them from doing things they want to do first.
California 1962, Five girls: beautiful Sharon, ugly-duckling Andy, nice Poo and hot-to-trot Jill support their best friend Tookie when she prepares to marry her boyfriend Pat. But the two of them realize that they are not prepared to get married, that the locks of marriage will prevent them from doing things they want to do first.
Un juguete de cuerda, un ratón de hojalata con su hijo, inician una nueva existencia cuando, rotos y abandonados en la basura, son recogidos y recompuestos por un vagabundo. El ratón y su hijo, perseguidos por la malvada Rata Manny, encuentran ayuda y amistad entre los habitantes de su nuevo territorio, viven el reencuentro con viejos conocidos y, finalmente, lograrán cumplir su sueño de formar junto a ellos un verdadero hogar. Sus peripecias construyen una historia divertida, brillante e imaginativa, que es todo un clásico moderno de la literatura infantil. Basada en una popular novela de Russell Hoban.
