Ngenest (2015)
Sometimes Life Must be Laughed At
ジャンル : コメディ, ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 31分
演出 : Ernest Prakasa
シノプシス
From elementary school to adulthood, Ernest has struggled all his life to fit in but finds solace in his best friend and the woman of his dreams.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
2人の白人青年に暴行を受けた黒人 少女の父親カールは自ら犯人を射殺する。陪審員全員が白人という圧倒的にカールに不利な状況の中、彼を助けるべく若き弁護士が立ち上がる。J．グリシャム原作の映画化。
アメリカ・ミシシッピ州。1960年代当時、白人家庭でメイドとして働く黒人女性は“ヘルプ”と呼ばれていた。作家志望のスキーター（エマ・ストーン）はメイドの置かれた立場に疑問を抱き、彼女たちにインタビューをすることに。仕事を失うことを恐れて、皆が口をつぐむ中、一人の女性の勇気が社会を揺るがすことになる。
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
1958年、バージニア州。白人男性のれんが職人、リチャード・ラビングは、子どものころから親しいアフリカ系女性ミルドレッドから妊娠したと告げられ、彼女に結婚を申し込む。だが当時の同州では異人種同士の結婚は禁じられ、2人は仕方なく首都ワシントンに行って結婚し、地元に戻って新居を構えることに。だが、そこにブルックス保安官がやって来て2人を逮捕し、2人に離婚するか、州外に引っ越すかという選択を迫る。
鬼才ジョナサン・デミ監督がアン・ハサウェイを主演に撮り上げた、リアルな家族のストーリー。姉の結婚式のために帰宅したドラッグ中毒の妹の姿を通じ、家族の心の痛みと見えない絆を描く。
Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes Mike's car and then, after an odd sequence of events, shoots out the studio's window. Later that evening, Mike rescues an action movie star in a fistfight at a bar. In return, the actor befriends Mike, gives him a gift, offers him work on his newest film, and introduces Mike's wife to his own - the women initiate business dealings. Then, things go sour all at once, Mike's debts mount, and going into the ring may be his only option.
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
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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In a politically-divided United States, a man struggles to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday without destroying his family.
In 2008, New York mother Tiffany Rubin faced every parent's worst nightmare when her six year old son Kobe vanished into thin air. Upon learning that Kobe had been kidnapped by his biological father and taken to South Korea, Tiffany seeks the assistance of American Association for Lost Children representative Mark Miller, who guides her through the arduous process of traveling to Korea, and getting Kobe back.
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a beautiful Japanese American Lily Dawanura (Tamlyn Tomita), at the outset of World War II. The clash of cultures, at once painful for the two lovers, becomes insurmountable after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Lily and the Kawamuras are relocated To a bleak, outdoor internment camp in California, Jack is drafted into the Army, powerless to help the woman he loves abandoning all hope of ever winning her family's approval.
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From elementary school to adulthood, Ernest has struggled all his life to fit in but finds solace in his best friend and the woman of his dreams.
In the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials.
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