21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the hilarious, from the angry to the tentatively celebratory, many of the major and recurrent issues associated with our fraught but beloved union are reconsidered with elegance, wit, brutal honesty, and a little outright insanity.
Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neither are they wonderful for his lesbian friend Lucy who constantly bickers with her lover Ingrid. Lucy complicates Andrew's life when she introduces him to the suspicious-looking, enigmatic Jerry.
18세기 프랑스의 작은 마을, 밝고 아름다운 소녀 벨은 아버지와 함께 단 둘이 살고 있다. 마을 청년 개스톤은 벨의 미모에 반해 끈질기게 구애를 하지만, 벨은 책 읽기만 즐기며 평범한 시골생활에서 벗어나기를 꿈꾼다. 그러던 어느 날, 아버지가 흉측한 야수의 성에 갇히게 되는 일이 벌어지고 벨은 아버지를 구하기 위해 아버지 대신 자신이 성에 남기로 한다. 그녀를 경계하던 야수는 순수하고 아름다운 벨에게 조금씩 마음을 열게 되고, 벨 또한 흉측한 외모에 가려진 야수의 따뜻한 영혼을 발견하게 된다. 한편 질투심에 눈이 먼 개스톤은 야수를 없애기 위해 마을 사람들을 이끌고 야수의 성으로 향하는데...
Tony Danza stars in this prison drama about Jerome "Jerry" Rosenburg, a self-professed "jailhouse lawyer" who defends himself against the homicide charge that has put him on death row. This tense movie, made in Canada, has the feel of a biographical documentary.
Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.
Brothers Grimm tales like "The Golden Goose," "The Bremen Town Musicians" and "The Blue Light" come to life in this stripped-down stage production, which forgoes elaborate sets and costumes in favor of creative acting techniques and storytelling.
