04/10/10 THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER. Based on the bestselling novel by Kim Edwards. Cast: Emily Watson, Dermot Mulroney. About a doctor who abandons his just born mongoloid (down syndrome) daughter and suffers guilt his whole life.
06/10/10 THINGS BEHIND THE SUN. Dir.: Allison Anders. Abt a singer whose signature song is about having been raped. She goes about drunk singing this song. The LA mag takes notice and the writer Own Richardson recognizes her as the girl on whom his older brother orchestrated the assault involving him. Owen tries to put his own demons at rest.
06/10/10 RAISIN IN THE SUN (2008). Film adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's famous play about the state of black-white relationship, about how a poor black family struggles to own a house in the white neighborhood.
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