Sesame Street: Old School Vol. 1 (1969-1974) (2008)
ジャンル : ファミリー
上映時間 : 7時間 20分
演出 : Jon Stone
シノプシス
A collection of complete episodes, including the pilot, from the first five years of the groundbreaking US kids' show that actually managed to entertain and educate at the same time. Join Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, Elmo and Oscar the Grouch for a trip down memory lane while singing along to 'C Is for Cookie' and 'Rubber Duckie'. You might learn something...
テネシー州メンフィス。裕福な白人家庭の夫人リー・アンは冬の夜、近所の道を薄着で歩くアフリカ系少年マイケルを見かけ、同情して彼を家に泊める。家庭に恵まれないマイケルは最近、私立校に入学させられたが、すっかり落ちこぼれていた。リー・アンと家族は純真なマイケルに感心し、そのまま彼を家に住まわせて家族と同様に接する。やがて学力が改善したマイケルは、競技のルールも知らないまま入ったアメフト部で活躍していく。
Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.
ウーピー・ゴールドバーグ主演でヒットした『天使にラブソングを…』の続編となるミュージカル・コメディ。前作の1年後、ラスベガスで忙しい毎日を過ごすデロリスは、かつての仲間から聖キャサリン修道院のピンチを知らされる。
マペットの少年ウォルターは、地方で人間の兄ゲイリーと暮らしている。大人になったゲイリーは恋人メアリーと旅行でLAに行くことになり、同行することになったウォルターは大ファンであるTV番組「マペット・ショー」のスタジオを見られると大興奮。しかしスタジオはもう使われていなくて荒れ果て、石油王の陰謀で解体の危機に直面していた。ウォルターたちはスタジオを守ろうと、引退したマペットのカーミットを訪ねる。
極悪ガエルのゴンゾがロシアの刑務所から逃げ出し、世間を恐怖に陥れていた。一方、ザ・マペッツの面々は敏腕プロモーターのドミニク・バジーの提案でワールドツアーを行うが、ある日座長のカーミットは自分とうり二つのゴンゾにはめられ、逮捕されてしまう。カーミットに成り済ましザ・マペッツに潜入したゴンゾは、世界を股に掛けた陰謀をたくらむ。
本が大好きな中学生の少女・雫。彼女はある時、図書カードに何度も連ねられた男子の名を見つける。その男子・天沢聖司の名に、淡い恋心を抱く雫。だが実際の天沢は、ぶしつけで粗野なヤツだった・・・。
独裁政治を学ぶ体験授業をきっかけに洗脳されていく高校生たちの姿を描き、ドイツで大ヒットを記録した心理スリラー。アメリカで起こった実話をドイツの高校に置き換え、『エリート養成機関 ナポラ』のデニス・ガンゼルがメガホンを取った。主演には『エーミールと探偵たち』などに出演するドイツの俳優ユルゲン・フォーゲル。単純な興味や好奇心、ゲーム感覚から、あっという間に集団狂気に変化していく様子は、実話ならではのリアルさを帯び、身の毛もよだつほどのラストも衝撃的だ。
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
The story follows the misadventures of a New York City beautician who is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.
ボルティモアの労働者の街から、ジム・ヘンソンの作り出すセサミ・ストリートの世界へ。エルモを操るケヴィンの夢物語とは? 語りはウーピー・ゴールドバーグ。
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman didn't really know what they were in for when they enlisted in the U.S. Army; they just wanted to get a job and make some money. But these new recruits are so hapless, they run the risk of getting kicked out before their military careers even begin. Soon, though, they're sent to the Middle East to fight for their country -- which they manage to do in their own wacky ways.
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz follows a young woman named Dorothy Gale who dreams of becoming a singer but is unable to pursue her dreams. After being swept up by a tornado with her pet prawn Toto, Dorothy embarks on a journey to meet the Wizard of Oz, the person who both Dorothy and the citizens of Oz believe can help make her dream come true.
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.
Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.
Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.