華麗なる週末 (1969)
Boon is a reiver (that's a cheat, a liar, a brawler and womaniser) and he had just four days to teach young Lucius the facts of life (like cheating, lying, brawling and womanizing).
ジャンル : コメディ, ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 46分
演出 : Mark Rydell
脚本 : Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.
シノプシス
ウィリアム・フォークナーの小説『自動車泥棒』を映画化した隠れた秀作。アメリカ南部。少年・ルーシアスが、祖父が手に入れた車でメンフィスへと北上する旅に同行し、冒険を満喫する。マックィーンの人情味あふれる演技が新鮮。
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。
スティーブンキング小説に基づいたスリラー。 デップは悪い時代を経験している作家です。創造的な干ばつは、彼の妻 からの分離のプロセスによって悪化します。 このような状況では、奇妙なキャラクターが彼の人生の中で登場し、彼が彼の物語の1つを盗用したと非難します。
1964年、ミシシッピーの小さな町から公民権運動家3人が突然消えた。事件解明のために派遣されたFBI捜査官の二人は、やがて恐るべき事実を暴き出す……。第一級の社会派サスペンス映画。アラン・パーカー監督作。
『ホーリーマン』のエディ・マーフィと『ブルー・ストリーク』のマーティン・ローレンスという、アメリカ2大コメディアン共演による爆笑コメディ。無実の罪で終身刑になった2人の男の姿を描く。
父親の再婚で13人もの兄弟と暮らすことになった女子高生の姿を描く、禁断のキョーダイ的恋愛衝突を描いたラブコメ・アニメ。バレンタインを間近に控え、恋とハプニングの物語を繰り広げる。
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
ミシシッピーの小さな町にやってきたオーエンは、下宿先でアルバという美しい女性に出会う。恋に落ちたふたりだったが、アルバの母親は彼らの仲を裂こうとするのだった……。
Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Huck Finn (Robert Gordon).
A documentary filmmaker and her crew fight the elements and try to cope with their fears as they seek to understand the strange mystery of a flooded island where hundreds have died.
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farming and timber practices and their impact on impoverished farmers.
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.
A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother.
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
In 1961 Mississippi was a virtual South African enclave within the United States. Everything is segregated. There are virtually no black voters. Bob Moses, enters the state and the Voter Registration Project begins. The first black farmer who attempts to register is fatally shot by a Mississippi State Representative. But four years later, the registration is open. By 1990, Mississippi has more elected black officials than any other state in the union.
The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duke and his cohort, Dauphin.
This warm 90 minutes documentary shows us unknown blues musicians from Mississippi. They play everywhere : on the streets, in dirty little bars, in a barber shop, in big clubs. The film really captures the true faces of blues and shows us that this music had nothing to do with nostalgia or record company hypes. Documentary on the Delta blues.