Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
Plot: The Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) is a man of great principle and a devout Catholic in the time of King Henry VIII. The King wants to dissolve his marriage to the queen (a Spanish princess and the widow of his late brother) so that he can marry Anne Boleyn. All around …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
A+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | None |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 1935 |
The Plot: Harpo, Chico, and Groucho Marx bring their sublime brand of anarchy to perhaps its most fitting setting in this comic masterpiece. Groucho is (as ever) a fast-talking fortune hunter (this time called Otis P. Driftwood), chasing (as ever) dim dowager Margaret Dumont (this time called Mrs. Claypool). Mrs. Claypool brings two Italian opera …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| Profanity: | Mild |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Jessie's brother brings a prostitute with him when he goes fishing with Norman and Paul; they fall asleep nude and are sunburned badly |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Paul has a drinking problem |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Mostly off-screen |
| Diversity Issues: | Paul brings a half-Cheyenne date into a bar that does not permit Indians |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 1992 |
Writer Norman Maclean’s autobiographical story of growing up in Montana with his brother Paul begins, “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing.” Their Presbyterian minister father taught Norman and his brother Paul schoolwork, religion, and fishing as though they were all one subject. He was strict and thorough in all …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
Plot: Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) arrives in Italy with her strait-laced aunt Charlotte (Maggie Smith). Disappointed at not getting the room with a view they had been promised when making their reservations at the inn, they are not sure whether it is proper to accept the offer of Mr. Emerson (Denholm Elliot) and his …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
A| Lowest Recommended Age: | 4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Aunt Sissy is involved with many different men, and at one point Katie refuses to let her see the children because she is a bad influence. |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Johnny has a serious drinking problem. |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Inexplicit scene of Katie in labor may scare younger children, who should be reassured; very sad when Johnny dies. |
| Diversity Issues: | Issues relating to assimilation, poverty. |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 1945 |
Plot: Francie Nolan (Peggy Ann Garner), an imaginative and sensitive girl, lives with her family in a Brooklyn tenement. She adores her father, Johnny (James Dunn), a dreamer with a drinking problem, and respects but resents her down-to-earth mother, Katie (Dorothy McGuire). The family struggles to rise from poverty. Francie and her brother must each …
