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Budget. $1.6 million [1] Box office. $13.9 million [2] Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante. For portraying Escalante, Edward James Olmos was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at ...
Vancouver. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, is a 1991 made-for-television Christmas family drama film directed by Charles Jarrott. The film is based on the story behind the widely reprinted editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church written in response to a letter by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon asking whether Santa Claus was real in 1897.
Spencer's Mountain is a 1963 American family drama film written, directed and produced by Delmer Daves from the 1961 novel of the same name by Earl Hamner Jr. [2] and starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. [3] The supporting cast features early appearances by James MacArthur, Veronica Cartwright and Victor French, while longtime Hollywood ...
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 11% based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 4.35/10.The website's critics consensus reads: "Brave, autobiographical, but also completely off the mark, Virginia is a frantic drama that fails to pull the viewer in." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 33 out of 100, based on 14 critics ...
The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by American author Jeannette Walls. Walls recounts her dysfunctional and nomadic yet vibrant upbringing, emphasizing her resilience and her father's attempts toward redemption. Despite her family's flaws, their love for each other and her unique perspective on life allowed her to create a successful life of her ...
In 2006, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times added it to his "Great Movies" collection, referring to it as "a film that rebukes the past when it might also have feared the future". [19] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 93% approval rating, based on 27 reviews with an average rating of 8.1/10. [20]
It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas supernatural drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift" self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol. [4]
Marshall High School is also home to an award-winning theater program, which won the District level competition nine years running, and won the championship at the AAA State Finals of the Virginia High School League One-Act Festival five times (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007), which is the record for most wins among all Virginia high schools.