Michael Zadoorian
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Ella and John have shared a wonderful life for than sixty years. Now, their doctors and middle-aged children just want them to cruise gently into that undignified night of old age. Instead, they embark on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery along Route 66, with the broken record of John's memory as their soundtrack. Thought time is catching up with them, Ella is determined to make it to their destination for one more happy day together.
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Set in early 1970s Detroit, a divided city still reeling from its violent race riot of 1967, Beautiful Music is the story of one young man's transformation through music. Danny Yzemski is a husky, pop radio—loving loner balancing a dysfunctional home-life with the sudden harsh realities of freshman year at a high school marked by racial turbulence.
But after tragedy strikes the family, Danny's mother becomes increasingly erratic and angry about...
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Los Robina han compartido una vida maravillosa durante más de sesenta años. Ahora, con ochenta y tantos, ella tiene cáncer y John sufre Alzheimer. En su afán por vivir una gran aventura, estos dos "viejos sin suerte" huyen de la supervisión de sus hijos y de sus médicos, que parecen controlar sus vidas, y se escapan de su casa a las afueras de Detroit decididos a vivir unas vacaciones prohibidas para volver a descubrirlo todo.
Con Ella como...
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Ella macht sich nichts vor. Sie ist schwer krank und ihr Mann John zu senil, um zu wissen, welchen Tag wir heute haben. Ob es eine gute Idee ist, sich mit über achtzig in ein Wohnmobil zu setzen und über die Route 66 nach Disneyland zu türmen? Natürlich nicht. Doch soll es das tatsächlich schon gewesen sein mit dem Leben? Ella ist die Wächterin der Erinnungen und der Straßenkarten. Und sie werden losfahren - auch wenn sie nicht weiß, ob die...
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Joe Keen and Ana Urbanek have been a couple for a long time, with all the requisite lulls and temptations, yet they remain unmarried and without children or a mortgage, as their Midwestern values (and parents) seem to require. Now on the cusp of forty, they are both working jobs that they're not even sure they believe in anymore, but with significantly varying returns. Ana is successful; Joe is floundering; both are in limbo, caught somewhere between...