The film opens at St. Anne’s Academy, a California Catholic school in 1968, where a young girl named Deloris Wilson (Isis Carmen Jones) is scolded for wisecracking and disobeying rules. The setting then changes to the present day, where Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) is a lounge singer working in a casino called The Moonlight […]
Mississippi Burning
The story is loosely based on the real-life murders of civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. After the three are reported missing, two FBI agents are sent to investigate the incident in rural Jessup County, Mississippi (modeled after Neshoba County where the real murders took place). The two agents take completely different approaches: Agent […]
A Christmas Carol
This is the desert-island choice of the many versions of A Christmas Carol, with a magnificent, full-bodied portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge by Alastair Sim that leaves everyone else in the dust. Lean and direct, this film’s version of the story wastes no time trying to impress viewers with the magical nature of the spirits’ visitations. […]
Chariots Of Fire
The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice. The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the […]