Twist of Faith (2013)
ジャンル : ドラマ, テレビ映画
上映時間 : 1時間 25分
演出 : Paul A. Kaufman
シノプシス
Jacob Fisher, an Orthodox Jewish Cantor and amateur songwriter who resides in Brooklyn, New York, witnesses the senseless murder of his wife and three children. Catatonic, Jacob walks out on his Jewish mourning ritual, leaving behind his Jewish garments, wallet and keys. Abandoning his identity, he wanders aimlessly, hoping somehow to understand his tragedy. Fortuitously, he lands in Brent, Alabama (population 2,500), where he is embraced by Nina, a single mother and the lead singer of a small gospel choir, her Uncle Moe and their gospel community.
世界的にその名を知られる黒人医師ジョン(ポワチエ)はハワイで知り合った白人女性ジョーイ(C・ホートン)と人種の壁を越えて結婚を誓い合い、互いの両親の許しを得るためサンフランシスコのドレイトン家を訪れる。最初戸惑っていた母も、娘の喜ぶ様子を見て次第に祝福する気になるが、父マットの心境は複雑だ。
ハンクはアメリカ南部の刑務所で死刑囚棟の看守を長年務めてきた男。彼の父も同じ看守を務め、今は息子のソニーが同じ道を歩み始めたところだった。ハンクは父譲りの人種差別主義者だったが、息子のソニーは心の優しい人間で、そんなハンクの考え方に疑問を感じていた。黒人の囚人ローレンス・マスグローヴの処刑の日、ハンクとソニーが電気椅子に向かうローレンスに付き添うことになったが、慣れないソニーは執行の直前に取り乱してしまった。刑の執行後、自らの職務に厳格なハンクはそんなソニーの態度を厳しく叱責してしまう。
1957年、コネティカット州。紅葉の美しいニューイングランドの町ハートフォード。キャシーは愛すべき夫と子供たちに囲まれ、貞淑な妻であり賢い母として忙しくも幸せな毎日を送っていた。女性として常に美しく、“理想の主婦”として雑誌の取材を受ける彼女は周囲の賞賛と憧れの対象だった。しかし、ある日夫の忌まわしい秘密が露呈され、キャシーの人生は一転する。
ヨーロッパ人による植民地戦争が激化する18世紀半ばの建国直前の新大陸アメリカを舞台に、インディアンに育てられた白人青年の愛と友情を描く。ジェイムズ・G.ロビンソンの小説をマイケル・マン監督が映像化した感動作。
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
マンハッタンのウエスト・サイド。イタリア系の若者からなるジェット団と、プエルトリコ系の若者からなるシャーク団は不良グループ同士、町で顔を合わせればにらみあうという一触即発の関係だ。しかし、ジェット団のリーダー、リフの親友であるトニーは、シャーク団のリーダーであるベルナルドの妹、マリアと出会って、互いに一目惚れしてしまう。やがてリフとベルナルドがけんかした末、ひとりが命を落としてしまう事件がおこる。
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King Lines follows Chris Sharma on his search for the planet's greatest climbs. From South American fantasy boulders to the sweeping limestone walls of Europe, Sharma finds and climbs the hardest, most spectacular routes. Off the coast of Mallorca he discovers his most outrageous project yet, a 70 foot arch rising from the Mediterranean Sea...
1953年、ニューイングランド地方。名門女子大、ウェルズリー大学に女性教師キャサリンがカリフォルニアから赴任してくる。彼女は美術史の助教授として就任し、優秀だが米国一保守的といわれるこの大学に自立心を育てるなどの教育方法で新しい風を吹き込もうと意気込んでいた。しかし先輩教師は、学生にとって重要で価値あるものは教育よりもエリートの恋人からもらう婚約指輪、とキャサリンの考えを一蹴する。それでも彼女は期待を込めて初日の授業に臨むが、早速したたかな優等生ベティら女生徒たちの反発に翻弄されてしまう…。
An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization "The Man" defending the values of the black people in North America. When the Afro-American candidate Gen. Warren Boutwell behaves strangely in his presidential campaign, Undercover Brother is hired to work undercover for "The Man" and find what happened with the potential candidate.
'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.
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Two hapless explorers lead an ill-fated 1804 expedition through the Pacific Northwest in a hopeless, doomed effort to reach the Pacific Ocean before Lewis and Clark.
Cedric the Entertainer plays Jake, a seemingly regular guy who has no idea who he is after being hit over the head by mysterious assailants. When he finds himself entangled in a government conspiracy, Jake and his pursuers become convinced that he is an undercover agent.
A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.
An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
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