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The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed off from the world, Helen cannot communicate with anyone, nor anyone with her. Often frustrated and desperate, Helen flies into uncontrollable rages and tantrums that terrify her hopeless family. The gifted teacher Annie Sullivan is summoned by the family to help the girl understand the world from which she is isolated, freeing Helen Keller from her internal prison forever. Television remake of the 1962 film which also starred Patty Duke in the role of Helen Keller.
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The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed off from the world, Helen cannot communicate with anyone, nor anyone with her. Often frustrated and desperate, Helen flies into uncontrollable rages and tantrums that terrify her hopeless family. The gifted teacher Annie Sullivan is summoned by the family to help the girl understand the world from which she is isolated, freeing Helen Keller from her internal prison forever. Television remake of the 1962 film which also starred Patty Duke in the role of Helen Keller.
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Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit. Growing up among drug pushers, prostitutes, and pimps, Billie Jean still has some things going for her: fierce pride, a loyal friend named Fish, and, at last, enough savings to visit her father 1200 miles away in prison.
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Desde que era una niña, Natalie Miller siempre pensó que era un patito feo. A pesar de que su madre la animó a crecer para ser bonita, Natalie nunca creyó que sucedería. Alquila un apartamento en Greenwich Village a una casera excéntrica y consigue un trabajo en el Topless Bottom Club. Va en motocicleta al trabajo, decora su loft con una cabeza de alce y sube y baja en un montaplatos para llegar a su apartamento. Allí, Natalie conoce a David, un artista, y los dos tienen una historia de amor antes de que ella descubra que él está casado.
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El fotógrafo Sam Hendrix conoce en un avión a una modelo. La joven lleva consigo una muñeca llena de droga y la cambia por una muñeca de regalo que lleva Sam sin que éste se dé cuenta. Más tarde, en Greenwich Village, dos delincuentes que tratan de recuperar la droga se encuentran en el apartamento del fotógrafo con Roat (Alan Arkin), un despiadado criminal que ha asesinado a la modelo porque intentaba traicionarlo. Su conversación se ve interrumpida por la llegada de Susy (Audrey Hepburn), la esposa de Sam, que es ciega.
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En la época de la Gran Depresión, la crítica situación de Dodson (Mississippi) empeora con la llegada de Owen Legate (Robert Redford), un funcionario del ferrocarril cuya misión es despedir a gran parte de los empleados locales. Alva Starr (Natalie Wood) es una joven muy hermosa y coqueta con muchos planes y ningún sitio a donde ir hasta que Legate aparece en su vida. Su aventura sentimental enfurece a la distante y despreocupada madre de Alva (Kate Reid) y enciende el deseo de venganza del pueblo.
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Cansado de convencionalismos y ataduras, Murray Burns, iconoclasta escritor, deja su empleo como guionista de un programa infantil y se refugia en su apartamento donde convive con su sobrino Nick, de nueve años. Hace siete que su hermana se marchó y dejó al niño con él. Sin oficio ni beneficio, los servicios sociales deciden encargarse de Nick y una pareja de asistentes sociales, Sandra y Albert, se personan en casa de Murray. Surge entre él y Sandra una especial relación. Albert, estricto profesional, aconseja a su compañera dejar el caso y prosigue con las diligencias para buscar otro hogar al niño. Sandra convencerá a Murray de que busque un empleo para conservar a su sobrino. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Cansado de convencionalismos y ataduras, Murray Burns, iconoclasta escritor, deja su empleo como guionista de un programa infantil y se refugia en su apartamento donde convive con su sobrino Nick, de nueve años. Hace siete que su hermana se marchó y dejó al niño con él. Sin oficio ni beneficio, los servicios sociales deciden encargarse de Nick y una pareja de asistentes sociales, Sandra y Albert, se personan en casa de Murray. Surge entre él y Sandra una especial relación. Albert, estricto profesional, aconseja a su compañera dejar el caso y prosigue con las diligencias para buscar otro hogar al niño. Sandra convencerá a Murray de que busque un empleo para conservar a su sobrino. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Una familia contrata a Ana Sullivan para educar a Helen, una niña sorda y ciega. Un trauma infantil, un oscuro complejo de culpa, por la muerte de su hermano, impulsa a la maestra a redimirse mediante la educación de la niña. La incompetencia y la negligencia de los padres han hecho de Helen una niña mimada, incapaz de someterse a ninguna disciplina, y con la que toda comunicación parece imposible. La adolescente vive aislada en un mundo propio completamente ajeno a los demás. Sin embargo, Ana Sullivan conseguirá, con mucha paciencia y rigor, romper esa burbuja, ese aislamiento.
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Based on the screenplay by Mel Dinelli, this story revolves around Helen Warren, a beautiful mute girl, who becomes the target of a mysterious killer who preys on young handicapped women.
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A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
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Su nombre verdadero: William Bonney. Su nombre legendario: Billy El Niño, el famoso y escurridizo pistolero de El Zurdo. No se había visto nunca en el lejano Oeste a alguien como el chico de Brooklyn, el problemático adolescente que escribió su nombre con sangre en los anales de la historia...
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Wandering around America, young Nick Adams encounters a washed-up punch-drunk boxer known as "The Battler".
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Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors. This musicalization of Thornton Wilder's classic play stars Frank Sinatra who introduces the song, "Love and Marriage," which would go on to be immortalized as the theme song to the sitcom Married with Children.
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Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appears and revitalizes her dreams of a better place, and finds his own sense of worth refreshed by this vital young girl. When Duke Mantee and his gang, wanted killers, show up and take hostages, Gabrielle falls in love with the poetic Alan, and Squier begins to see a way to give Gabby the life she deserves.
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This musical version of the tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up aired live on television on March 7, 1955. It was so popular that it was restaged the following year, and again four years later.
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Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.
