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Men, Women & Children is a 2014 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and co-written with Erin Cressida Wilson, based on a novel of the same name written by Chad Kultgen that deals with online addiction. The film stars Rosemarie DeWitt, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer, Dean Norris, Adam Sandler, Ansel Elgort, Kaitlyn Dever, and ...
Paradise Road is a 1997 Australian war film directed by Bruce Beresford, about a group of English, American, Dutch, and Australian women who are imprisoned by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II. It stars Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Julianna Margulies, Jennifer Ehle, Cate Blanchett in her feature film debut, and ...
Women Talking is a 2022 American drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley.Based on the 2018 novel by Miriam Toews, itself inspired by the gas-facilitated rapes that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia, [5] the film follows a group of American Mennonite women who discuss their future, following their discovery of the men's history of ...
“To say ‘women and children’ in the 21st century — as if families can be whole without the fathers, as if children that have come back with their fathers still there can in any way start ...
"Women and children first", known to a lesser extent as the Birkenhead drill, [1] [2] is an unofficial code of conduct whereby the lives of women and children were to be saved first in a life-threatening situation, typically abandoning ship, when survival resources such as lifeboats were limited.
Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. [ 1][ 2] The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three ...
9. Little Women (1994) The ‘90s version of Little Women starring Winona Ryder as Jo March is just as wonderful as the most recent adaptation, and it would be the perfect, feel-good drama for the ...
Little Children is a 2006 satirical melodrama film [3] directed by Todd Field, based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta who co-wrote the screenplay with Field. It follows Sarah Pierce ( Kate Winslet ), an unhappy housewife who has an affair with a married neighbor ( Patrick Wilson ).