Starring
Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Natalie Portman, Christopher Walken, Marcia Gay Harden,
John Goodman, Debra Monk, Larry Pine, Stephen Spinella,
...
Summary:
Somewhere in the Russian country, about 1900. People
fall in love, people drink, people shoot birds and even
themselves. Medvedenko, a schoolteacher, is in love with
Masha, the daughter of Shamrayev who is the Manager of
Sorin's estate, where the play takes place. But Masha is
in love with Konstantin, the son of Sorin's sister
Arkadina, a celebrated actress. He is in love with Nina,
an aspiring actess who lives across the lake near the
estate. He suffers from the humiliation of his mother
who is more interested in the writer Trigorin than in
him. Trigorin himself is in love with the landscape
since it offers him distraction from his manic desire to
write. Eventually Arkadina spoils a play that Konstantin
has set up with Nina in the main role. His yearning for
a new form of theater alienates him from Nina who falls
for Trigorin. She leaves Konstantin and moves to Moscow
with Trigorin to become an actress. And then things go
to hell.
The Diary of Anne
Frank (1997)
Director:
James Lapine
Starring:
George Hearn, Linda Lavin, Natalie Portman, Harris Yulin,
Austin Pendleton, ...
Summary:
The Diary of Anne Frank was a dramatization of the book
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, the personal
account of a teenage Jewish girl in hiding with her
family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. The diary, first
published in the U.S. in 1952 and considered one of the
most single important documents of World War II, has
been translated into 55 languages and has captured the
hearts of readers all over the world. It was first made
into a play in 1955 by Frances Goodrich and Albert
Hackett. Writer Wendy Kesselman incorporated new
material from The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive
Edition, published in 1995 by Doubleday, which contains
thirty percent more material than was released
previously. Omitted from the original publication by
Anne's father and by the first Dutch publisher, many of
these passages deal with Anne's transition from a girl
to a young woman, as well as her stormy relationship
with her mother and sister. And then things go to hell.
