A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Burt Lancaster & Judy Garland take an untouched theme - and make it touching and unforgettable!
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 42分
演出 : John Cassavetes
シノプシス
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.
Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance at education and satisfying his disappointed parents
Tom Lee is more interested in the arts than in sports, something that sits uneasily with both his father and his classmates. Tom's school housemaster Bill Reynolds even gives him a hard time for his "effeminate" interests. However, Bill's wife Laura sympathizes with Tom and tries to help him with her own overtures.
the film is about how a barber's life is turned upside down when a film unit comes to the village for a shoot, and the news spreads that superstar Ashok Raj (Mammootty) is the barber's childhood friend. The script also by Srinivasan is so layered that every frame has a comment to make about the world and every line of the dialogue, on the mores of the society. The craze for celebrities and the problems of leading a principled life are discussed without being preachy.
School boy Stanley does not carry lunch, which is noticed by a teacher who forces kids to share their food with him. He soon warns Stanley that he must get a lunch box if he wants to attend school.
After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In addition, Canan, a granddaughter of Hüseyin, announces she is pregnant and the father is her English boyfriend, and no one knew anything.
After losing her family to fox hunters, five-tailed Yobi lives in the forest with some shipwrecked aliens, far away from the humans. When one of her alien friends gets captured by a villager, Yobi has no choice but to adventure into the human world to rescue him. At the village, Yobi meets many humans, including Geum Yee who studies at a school for maladjusted children. Interested in Geum Yee, Yobi joins the students and revels in the fun of human life, but both a fox hunter and a mysterious shadow man are on her trail.
Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter’s makeshift classroom. Set in 1987 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this movie tells the story a brand-new teacher and Mom who is given a tougher than expected teaching job and winds up teaching homeless children in a school that is housed in a room and called, literally, The School with No Name. She has some personal prejudicial hurdles to cross before she is able to be a true teacher for these children and of course there are hurdles like the lack of books and supplies.
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Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes!
舞台はロンドン。公立学校ながら、厳しい教師と生徒たちの間でささやかな対立がはじまっていた。厳格な教えを説く教師たちや子供に過干渉な親たちと、それらに従うことなくそれぞれの目的や楽しみを見つけようとする子供たち。
気が弱く大人しい11歳のダニエルもそんな生徒の一人だったが、同じ学校に通うメロディという少女と出会う。2人はいつしか互いに惹かれあい、悩みを打ち明け、初めて心を許す相手を見つけたと感じた。純粋ゆえに恐れを知らない2人は、学校をさぼって海水浴場へデートに出かけたことから校長先生に叱られ、クラスメートたちにも散々笑い者にされる。ダニエルは悪友オーンショーにしつこくからかわれ、殴り合いの喧嘩まで繰り広げてしまう。
事情を聴くこともなく押さえつけようとする大人たちに対し、2人は一つの望みを口にする。それは「結婚したい」という驚くべきものだった。「どうして結婚できないのか」と問うが、当然親も教師もとりあわない。ある日、教師が授業を始めようとすると、教室はほとんどもぬけらの空であった。自分たちの手で2人の結婚式を挙げようと、クラスの生徒が集団エスケープしたのである。教師たちはあわてて彼らを探しに行く。
廃線脇の隠れ場所で、オーンショーが神父を務める結婚式がとり行われていた。ダニエルとメロディが誓いの言葉を唱えようとした時、教師たちに見つかってしまい、子供たちは散り散りに逃げていく。暖かい日差しの中で大人と子供の乱闘が繰り広げられ、発明狂の男の子が作った自家製爆弾が車を見事に爆破すると、大人たちは恐れをなして一目散に逃げて行く。子供たちはやんやの喝采を挙げる。その頃、ダニエルとメロディの2人はオーンショーの助けで追手を振り切り、トロッコに乗って線路のはるか向こうへと駆け出して行った。
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