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This is "Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America—and changed American theater forever. The play’s title comes from a line in Langston Hughes’s poem 'Harlem,' which warns that a dream deferred might 'dry up/like a raisin in the sun.'" --book jacket.
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Set in Yonkers, New York in 1942, two boys, aged 13 and 16, must spend one year with their austere and demanding grandmother. While the war rages in Europe, Jay and Arty learn the ropes from Uncle Louie and assorted relatives, all peculiar characters. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Gia Carides, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Diskin, Arye Gross, Roxanne Hart and Kenneth Schmidt.
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Madea, everyone's favorite wise-cracking, take-no-prisoners grandma, jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news as a family. It's up to Madea, with the help of the equally rambunctious Aunt Bam, to gather the clan together and make things right the only way she knows how: with a lot of tough love, laughter, and the revelation...
10) A quiet place
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A family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival.
11) The day after
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A striking tale of what could happen after a nuclear war. Families try to survive in rural Kansas as radiation slowly kills everything around them.
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"August, Friday the 13th, 2004: An estranged racially-mixed stepfamily reluctantly gathers at a Central Florida home for an anniversary party, fully intending to keep the visit brief but Hurricane Charley takes an unexpected turn that changes everything. As the storm strengthens and the relatives are forced to huddle together in a cramped hallway, their bitter resentments and differences - race, age, faith, gender, sexual orientation - come to a boil."--container....
15) Aunt Bam's place
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When family's falling out, it's time to call in Aunt Bam to set a few things straight! Bam's nephew-in-law is granted weekend visitation with his children, but his drunken ex shows up with trouble in mind. Now it's up to Bam to calm things down.
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"A successful faimly man suffering early-onset Alzheimer's wanders away from home and gets lost into the world the day before Thanksgiving, causing widespread panic within his family. He is eventually 'rescued' by a fatherless, thirteen-year-old homeless girl. Together, they forge a unique friendship that ultimately heals broken hearts and redefines the meaning of 'family'." --container
17) Special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world =: Kuhle wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt?
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This playlist includes the following special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world, How the Berlin worker lives (dir. Slatan Dudow, 1930) Slatan Dudow: a film about a marxist artist (dir. Volker Koepp, 1974) original prologue, with Herbert Jhering, 1958.
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