I'm planning on watching several movies this coming weekend and reviewing them since it's a long weekend. I'm going to post a trailer and summary for each of the movies that I am going to watch just so you can get an idea of what they're about. Enjoy!
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1961.
Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He
agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many
of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides
to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it change any of the racial
tension in the town ? Written by Colin Tinto
<cst@imdb.com>
Through the eyes of "Scout," a feisty six-year-old
tomboy, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD carries us on an odyssey through the fires of
prejudice and injustice in 1932 Alabama. Presenting her tale first as a sweetly
lulling reminiscence of events from her childhood, the narrator draws us near
with stories of daring neighborhood exploits by she, her brother
"Jem," and their friend "Dill." Peopled with a cast of
eccentrics, Maycomb ("a tired and sleepy town") finds itself the
venue of the trial of Tom Robinson, a young black man falsely accused of raping
an ignorant white woman. Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem's widowed father and a
deeply principled man, is appointed to defend Tom for whom a guilty verdict
from an all-white jury is a foregone conclusion. Juxtaposed against the story
of the trial is the children's hit and run relationship with Boo Radley, a
shut-in who the children and Dill's Aunt Rachel suspect of insanity and who no
one has seen in recent history. Cigar-box treasures, found in the knot hole of
a tree near the ramshackle Radley house, temper the children's judgment of Boo.
"You never know someone," Atticus tells Scout, "until you step
inside their skin and walk around a little." But fear keeps them at a
distance until one night, in streetlight and shadows, the children confront an
evil born of ignorance and blind hatred and must somehow find their way home. Written
byMark Fleetwood
<mfleetwo@mail.coin.missouri.edu>
The place: a small town in the south of the United States. The
time: the early 20th century. A black man is accused of raping a woman, and an
idealistic lawyer gets to defend him. We start watching the reasons that make
his defense far from easy; and that's mostly because nobody in this town seems
determined to believe in the guiltlessness of an accused negro. Written by Chris
Makrozahopoulos <makzax@hotmail.com>
In the rural American south during the depths of the Depression,
two children watch as their principled father takes a stand against
intolerance.Written by Carl Schultz
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