A mixed-race boy in post-war Austria living with his prejudiced grandparents wants to join the Vienna Boys’ Choir to find his GI father who is unaware of his existence.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
A beloved book about a young girl’s puberty & confusion of faith in an interfaith marriage is faithfully transferred to the screen.
Menari (2021)
The troubled Yi family attempt a new start on a farm in Arkansas, with the wife skeptical & the husband hopeful of raising Korean vegetables.
An American Rhapsody (2001)
When a Hungarian family that has fled to America manage after 6 years to bring the infant they had left behind, their troubles are far from over.
The Man Without Gravity (2019)
A boy is born not subject to gravity, his grandmother & mom keeping this secret, but as a man he exploits the gift, retires & reunites with a girl.
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
The turbulent early life of a “hillbilly” boy whose drug-addicted mother almost caused him to miss his Yale law degree.
Gifted (2017)
On the 1st day of 1st grade Mary’s teacher discovers she is gifted in math, setting off a fight between her uncle raising her & his mother over how to do so–in a normal school as he promised her deceased mother, his sister, or isolated in a school for geniuses.
Rhapsody In August (1991)
In August a Nagasaki grandmother informs her grandchildren about the A-bomb that killed her husband &, resentful that it was Americans who dropped the bomb, is uncertain about her mixed blood nephew visiting from Hawaii.
Song of the Sea (2014)
Based on Irish folklore, this is the story of a brother & his half-selkie sister who save the faerie world on a journey from Dublin back to their father at their lighthouse home.
Tammy (2014)
After Tammy is fired from her fast food restaurant job she reluctantly embarks on a trip to Niagra Falls with her grandmother & learns life lessons enroute.