On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, they indulge in spontaneous games and horseplay - sometimes echoing the distant war, at other times revealing their own insecurities and petty vindictiveness.
Colin Welland
Willie
Michael Elphick
Peter
Robin Ellis
John
John Bird
Raymond
Helen Mirren
Angela
Janine Duvitski
Audrey
Colin Jeavons
Donald
Dennis Potter
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, they indulge in spontaneous games and horseplay - sometimes echoing the distant war, at other times revealing their own insecurities and petty vindictiveness.
Anyone else grow up reading Enid Blyton books? Those "Secret Seven" or "Famous Five" stories where young folks had some jolly japes, sometime tempered with a baddie and some ingenious traps and wheezes? I thought for a while that this is what we were going to get here as a collection of youths are playing merrily in a forest in the middle of WWII. There's no sign of the atrocities of the war per se, here, but as the children play their dialogue and attitudes make it clear that their's isn't the innocence we might have initially expected. There are five boys and two girls and for just over an hour we watch their games become, well something just a bit more than that. The playful starts to become the serious, the fun more serious, the constraints of their age that ought to hem in their imagination become much more blurred - there is a realism to the behaviour that shouldn't be quite so prevalent - yet! As with any "tribe" there are leaders and followers, those who are bolder and those more timid - and writer Dennis Potter quite effectively imbues the characters with strengths and weakness that don't always conform to the stereotypes of the biggest, the oldest, or the girls being the "weaker". For me, Michael Elphick's "Peter" and Janine Duvitski's "Audrey" stood out as the complexities of their persona teased and terrorised, but Colin Welland and John Bird also added an huge amount richness to a story that ends up about as far away from Miss Blyton's idyll as it might be possible to imagine. It's frantic at times, the dialogue comes thick and fast and the story has a certain roundness to it that is anything but predictable. Is it wartime that is making those children grow up, is it nature, nurture - all three? It's entertaining, but in quite a provocative and lively manner and well worth an hour.
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
มิตรภาพที่ไม่น่าจะเกิดขึ้นได้พัฒนาขึ้นมาในคืนสุดเหวี่ยงคืนหนึ่งในแอล.เอ. ระหว่างนักข่าวที่กำลังดิ้นรนและนักแสดงชื่อแอร์เว วิลเชอเซ คนแคระที่ถือปืนที่โด่งดังที่สุดในโลก ส่งผลให้เกิดเหตุการณ์ที่เปลี่ยนแปลงชีวิตของทั้งคู่ไปตลอดกาล
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
สมาชิกของกองพลทหารอากาศที่ 101 ของกองทัพบกสหรัฐกำลังต่อสู้เพื่อประเทศของตนท่ามกลางภูมิประเทศที่ขรุขระของเมืองบาสโทญ ประเทศเบลเยียม ในเดือนธันวาคม พ.ศ. 2487 ฮอลลีย์และเพื่อนร่วมชาติชาวอเมริกันของเขาได้เห็นโรเดอริกส์ สมาชิกของพวกเขาเสียชีวิตจากการโจมตีของศัตรูไปแล้ว ทหารเหล่านี้พยายามตอบโต้การโจมตีของนาซีชุดใหม่ แต่สิ่งที่พวกเขาต้องการจริงๆ คือการเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพอากาศ หากไม่มีท้องฟ้าที่แจ่มใส พวกเขาจะไม่มีวันได้รับการสนับสนุนทางอากาศที่ต้องการ
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
จากหนังสือชื่อเดียวกันภาพยนตร์ต้นฉบับของเอชบีโอนี้ บอกเล่าเรื่องราวที่แท้จริงของผู้หญิงที่เซลล์ถูกนำมาใช้เพื่อสร้างเซลล์มนุษย์อมตะสายแรก
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.