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Mother and Child (2009) #123
FILM
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Directed by Rodrigo García. With Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Alexandria M. Salling. A drama centered around three women: A 50-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years ago, and an African American woman looking to adopt a child of her own. |
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Cathy Come Home (1966) #1423
TV DRAMA
Main
Cathy Come Home: Directed by Ken Loach. With Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis, Wally Patch. A wedding. Happy and promising. A young couple, new to the ways of life. The joys of parenthood: A dream comes true. Then the first incident in a long, spiraling chain of events, and down they go. No job, no money. Moving from house to house, each smaller than the last. Hope is briefly found, But fate strikes again under a cruel word: Eviction. The family flees. A caravan is their shelter. But little did they know what was to come. Fire, destruction. Rage. Discrimination towards the poor. Hope is lost. The last straw is pulled. Distress. Separation. The family torn apart. Mother and children, father all alone. The ship can sink no lower. Or so they thought. Broke. Crushed. Chased from their last shelter. A mother clings to her children. And the final blow: children ripped from her loving arms |