The Glass Menagerie
"Her first Gentleman caller...!"
An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.
"Her first Gentleman caller...!"
An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.
Jane Wyman
Laura Wingfield
Kirk Douglas
Jim O'Connor
Gertrude Lawrence
Amanda Wingfield
Arthur Kennedy
Tom Wingfield
Ralph Sanford
Mendoza
Ann Tyrrell
Clerk
John Compton
Young Man
Gertrude Graner
Instructor
An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.