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A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met.
Radio is a 2003 American biographical sports drama film directed by Mike Tollin, who also produced with Herb Gains and Brian Robbins. It was inspired by the 1996 Sports Illustrated article "Someone to Lean On" by Gary Smith. [1][2] The article and the movie are based on the true story of T. L. Hanna High School football coach Harold Jones (Ed ...
Say Anything... is a 1989 American teen romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe (in his feature directorial debut). The film follows the romance between Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), an average student, and Diane Court (Ione Skye), the class valedictorian, immediately after their graduation from high school.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Cameron Crowe, based on his 1981 book Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story, and starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus, and Ray Walston. Crowe went undercover at ...
The radio editor of The Plain Dealer newspaper wrote, "Except for a slightly tired introductory scene" the premiere episode "was imaginative and sure". [9] His review described the dialog as "strong and purposeful and sharply written" and said that the actors "were exceptionally well cast." [9]
The Terminal. The Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stanley Tucci. The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry to the United States, but is unable to return to ...
The Saint is the nickname of the fictional character Simon Templar, featured in a series of novels and short stories by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963. After that date other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983; two additional works produced without Charteris's participation were published in 1997. The character has also been portrayed in the franchise The ...
Sold is a novel by Patricia McCormick, published in 2006. It tells the story of a girl from Nepal named Lakshmi, who is sold into sexual slavery in India. The novel is written in a series of short, vignette-style chapters, from the point of view of the main character. The 2014 movie Sold by Oscar -winning director Jeffrey D. Brown is based on the same novel. [1]