Loretta Lynn (Sissy Spacek) is one of eight children born to Ted Webb (Levon Helm), a coal miner raising a family despite grinding poverty in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky (pronounced by locals as “Butcher Holler”). She marries Oliver Vanetta (Doolittle) “Mooney” Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones) when she is 15 years old. A mother of four by […]
Lorenzo’s Oil
At the beginning of the film, Lorenzo (Noah Banks, Zack O’Malley Greenburg) is portrayed as a active and exuberant young. A few years later, he begins to show neurological problems, loss of hearing, and tantrums. Lorenzo is diagnosed as having adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) which is usually fatal within two years. When they fail to find a […]
Boys Don’t Cry
Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) moves to a small Nebraska town. He is a teenage female-to-male non-operative transgender man. When Brandon is discovered to be anatomically female by the brother of a woman he dated, he becomes the target of physical threats. He moves to Falls City, Nebraska where he cultivates friendships with ex-convicts John Lotter […]
Born On The Fourth of July
The film begins with Ron Kovic’s (Tom Cruise) childhood during a summer in Massapequa, New York. He plays war in the woods, attends a Fourth of July parade, plays and wins at a local neighborhood baseball game, and watches President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address, which later inspires him to enlist in the Marines. After […]
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