The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.
1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a glimpse of the conditions for African-Americans as well as some of the attitudes and influences on their lives. But whether he is able to sell the piano so that he can get enough money to buy some property and "no longer have to work for someone else" involves the story (or lesson) that the piano has to show him.
Gere é Eddie Jillette, um policial durão e descompromissado que ao jurar vingança pela morte do parceiro, acaba mergulhado num tórrido caso com a única testemunha do crime, a namorada do assassino. Basinger é esta, a provocante Michel, que fica no meio de uma guerra entre Gere e Losado, o chefão do crime a quem ela pertence. A vingança de Jillette leva-o das ruas de Chicago para o violento submundo de New Orleans, de onde ele sequestra a garota de Losado. Ao escapar de um pântano traiçoeiro levando a bela Michel, eles são perseguidos sem descanso, mas a tensão cria um clima sensual de forte atração entre os dois. Com o tempo esgotado, Jillette confronta Losado em um clímax explosivo em que lutam "Sem Perdão".
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
A deranged engineer, bent on revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, sets two passenger trains on a collision course, and con-man Robert Fuller puts his life on the line to ward off the crash.
Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930s.
