Under the Skin of the City (2001)
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 32分
演出 : Rakhshan Banietemad
脚本 : Rakhshan Banietemad, Farid Mostafavi
シノプシス
Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to his burgeoning career in radical politics; and an older son who goes to great lengths--such as attempting to sell the family's meager house--in order to get an engineering job in Japan as a means of getting out of Iran.
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On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
ジェニーは保護された環境で育ったにもかかわらず、頭脳明晰で可愛く、オックスフォード大学への進学を希望している、将来有望なティーンである。そんなジェニーの前に、魅力的だが年上の求婚者デイビッドがピカピカの車で現れ、ジェニーは忘れられない大人の生活を体験することになる。
Alice, a young innocent Catholic girl, is tempted into masturbating after an AOL chat suddenly turns sexual, however is conflicted as the act would be considered a sin.
マイアミの貧困地域で、麻薬を常習している母親ポーラと暮らす少年シャロン。学校ではチビと呼ばれていじめられ、母親からは育児放棄されている彼は、何かと面倒を見てくれる麻薬ディーラーのホアンとその妻、唯一の友人のケビンだけが心の支えだった。そんな中、シャロンは同性のケビンを好きになる。そのことを誰にも言わなかった。
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クリスマスに恋人ハーパーの実家に招待され、そこで彼女にプロポーズするつもりでいたアビー。だが実はハーパーは家族にカミングアウトしておらず、2人の関係も隠していることが判明し...。
Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.
運命の相手は、ひと目でわかる──それは本当だった。高校生のアデルは、道ですれ違ったブルーの髪の女に、一瞬で心を奪われる。夢に見るほど彼女を追い求めていたその時、偶然バーでの再会を果たす。彼女の名はエマ、画家を志す美学生。アデルはエマのミステリアスな雰囲気と、豊かな知性と感性に魅了される。やがて初めて知った愛の歓びに、身も心も一途にのめり込んで行くアデル。数年後、教師になる夢を叶えたアデルは、画家になったエマのモデルをつとめながら彼女と暮らし、幸せな日々を送っていた。ところが、エマが絵の披露をかねて友人たちを招いたパーティの後、急に彼女の態度が変わってしまう。淋しさに耐えかねたアデルは、愚かな行動に出てしまうのだが──。
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