Hala is the story of a Pakistani-American teenage girl struggling against traditional parents who would destroy her freedom–& includes the mother’s struggle as well.
Hala (2019)
Finding Grace (2020)
18-year-old Allie, sentenced to 100 hours of community service, does not get along with the cranky black woman at a nursing home. She might be heading to jail if she does not shape up.
Tigertail (2020)
A 3 generation story in which a Taiwanese son gives up his lover so he can come to America so he can care for his mother, works so hard he loses his wife & alienates his daughter.
Loss Prevention (2018)
Adventure lovers will enjoy this independent film about a daughter and her father caught up in a corporate espionage caper, directed by Brian Cunningham and Matt Niehoff. Nik (Abisha Uhl) is working as a bartender at her father’s bar “The Soggy Weasel.” Their relationship is strained a little because she has bigger plans for her life, …
Searching (2018)
First-time feature director Aneesh Chaganty keeps us leaning forward in our seats to learn what has happened to the missing teen-aged Margot (Michelle La), whose plight is told entirely via computer screens. In just a few minutes the story of her relationship to her father and her deceased mother is revealed so movingly via their stored …
Miss Hokusai (2015)
In this animated film set in 1814 Edo (Tokyo) the great artist Hokusai’s assertive daughter also is an artist, who might have created some attributed to him.
Ant-Man (2015)
An ex-con is chosen by a scientist to don his Ant-Man costume & shrink in size so that he can combat an enemy wanting to misuse his discovery.
White God (2014)
When Lili’s beloved dog is abandoned on the streets by her father, she sets out to find it, while it suffers from cruel adults & then leads a dog revolt.
Begin Again (2013)
Five stars! You’ll love this musical fairy tale with its love stories and beautiful New York scenes. Click the movie title to read my entire review.
The Music Box (1989)
A lawyer daughter defends her respected father of charges of being a war criminal, a killer of Jewish women & children back in Hungary during the Nazi era.