Movies: Learning In Focus

  • 1985
    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985)

    Go Tell It on the Mountain

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    This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often...

    Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • 1986
    Seize the Day

    Seize the Day (1986)

    Seize the Day

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    Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in...

    Seize the Day
  • 1980
    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980)

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

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    A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson...

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
  • 1981
    The Greatest Man in the World

    The Greatest Man in the World (1981)

    The Greatest Man in the World

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    This version of James Thurber's tale tells the story of a young amateur pilot who beats Charles Lindbergh's feat of nonstop flying around the world--with his own unique ways of conserving fuel and energy....

    The Greatest Man in the World
  • 1980
    The Golden Honeymoon

    The Golden Honeymoon (1980)

    The Golden Honeymoon

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    Charley Tate is an old windbag, often a braggart, but somehow always lovable. Married over fifty years to his ever-patient wife Lucy, the two of them are on their Golden Honeymoon in Florida. Everything goes perfectly... until Lucy meets her former f...

    The Golden Honeymoon
  • 1977
    The Blue Hotel

    The Blue Hotel (1977)

    The Blue Hotel

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    Nebraska in the 1880's: bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect The Wild West to be. But for a naive Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of THE BLUE HOTEL represents the quintessential western fantasy. No one can convince The Swede that his ...

    The Blue Hotel
  • 1976
    Almos' a Man

    Almos' a Man (1976)

    Almos' a Man

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    Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930s, this 15-year-old's problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still tre...

    Almos' a Man
  • 1977
    The Displaced Person

    The Displaced Person (1977)

    The Displaced Person

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    A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s....

    The Displaced Person
  • 1977
    I'm a Fool

    I'm a Fool (1977)

    I'm a Fool

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    Traveling from town to town during the summer of 1919, young Andy (Ron Howard) has left his Ohio home in search of adventure and romance as a horse trainer on the country fair racing circuit. Ashamed of his occupation, Andy leads Lucy to believe he's...

    I'm a Fool
  • 1980
    Barn Burning

    Barn Burning (1980)

    Barn Burning

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    Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sart...

    Barn Burning
  • 1980
    Paul's Case

    Paul's Case (1980)

    Paul's Case

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    Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his chance...

    Paul's Case
  • 1980
    The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

    The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (1980)

    The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

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    Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses around her doctor and her children. She seems so strong and in control, and yet she has never had the upper hand in her destiny. One morning, a flood of long-forgotten...

    The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
  • 1980
    Rappaccini's Daughter

    Rappaccini's Daughter (1980)

    Rappaccini's Daughter

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    Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden. However, the strange and unearthly beauty...

    Rappaccini's Daughter
  • 1980
    The Sky Is Gray

    The Sky Is Gray (1980)

    The Sky Is Gray

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    From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the 1940's. James, the boy in question, h...

    The Sky Is Gray
  • 1988
    Pigeon Feathers

    Pigeon Feathers (1988)

    Pigeon Feathers

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    From the pen of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("Witches of Eastwick," "Rabbit Run"), comes the story of a young man's search through the questions of life and death, and the wondrous discovery of living in the soaring beauty of one of nat...

    Pigeon Feathers
  • 1977
    Soldier's Home

    Soldier's Home (1977)

    Soldier's Home

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    Harold Krebs went off to fight in World War I, "the war to end all wars." But when he comes home, Harold finds that he doesn't fit in any more. He needs peace and quiet to figure out what has happened to him and who he has become, but his mother pres...

    Soldier's Home
  • 1974
    The Music School

    The Music School (1974)

    The Music School

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    This drama is based on a John Updike story and is narrated by the author. It is the tale of an angst-filled hero attending music school....

    The Music School