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ALMOS' A MAN - Story By Richard Wright - Starring LeVar Burton, Madge Sinclaira
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Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930's, this 15 year-olds problem is shared by teenagers today
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BARN BURNING - Story By William Faulkner - Starring Tommy Lee Jones, and Diane Kagan
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Abe Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning.
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BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR - Story By F. Scott Fitzgerald - Starring Shelley Duvall and Bud Cort
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It's the hot summer of 1919. Visiting her cousin Marjorie (Veronica Cartwright), sweet-but-dull Bernice (Shelley Duvall) is transformed into a smooth-talking man-trap by her vampish kin.
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BLUE HOTEL, THE - Story By Stephen Crane - Starring David Warner, and James Keach
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Nebraska in the 1880's - bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect The Wild West to be. But for a naïve Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of "THE BLUE HOTEL" represent the quintessential western fantasy.
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DISPLACED PERSON, THE - Story By Flannery O'Connor- Starring John Houseman, Irene Worth, Samuel L. Jackson
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Set in Georgia during the late 1940's, the " displaced person" is a Polish refugee (Mr. Guizac) who's relocated by a priest (John Houseman) to work on Mrs. McIntyre's (Irene Worth) farm.
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THE GOLDEN HONEYMOON - Story By Ring Lardner - Starring James Whitmore, and Teresa Wright
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Charley Tate (James Whitmore two-time Academy Award Nominee, and Tony Award Winner) is an old windbag, often a braggart, but somehow always lovable.
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THE GREATEST MAN IN THE WORLD - Story By James Thurber - Starring Brad Davis, and Carol Kane
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Fortified with only a gallon of gin and a salami, Smurch bests even Lindberg with the first non-stop, around the world flight. During the four days he's airborne, this unknown kid becomes a world hero.
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I'M A FOOL - Story By Sherwood Anderson - Starring Ron Howard and Amy Irving
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Traveling from town to town during the summer of 1919, young Andy (Ron Howard) has left his Ohio home in search of adventure and romance as a horse trainer on the country fair racing circuit.
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THE JILTING OF GRANNY WEATHERALL - Story By Katherine Anne Porter - Starring Geraldine Fitzgerald
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Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses her doctor and her children. She seems so strong and in control. Yet she has never had the upper hand in her destiny.
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LOVE AND OTHER SORROWS - Story By Harold Brodkey - Starring Christopher Collet and Elizabeth Franz
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A St. Louis summer in the 1950's. A great summer for the coming-of-age of a sixteen year old boy. A great summer to learn a little about love and a lot about life.
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THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG - Story By Mark Twain - Starring Robert Preston, and Fred Gwynne
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Hadleyburg has a reputation for unshakable honesty. The smug towns-people are proud of this virtue and keep themselves honest by simply avoiding temptation.
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PAUL'S CASE - Story By Willa Cather - Starring Eric Roberts
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Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his chance by stealing some money and subsequently running off to glamorous New York City.
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PIGEON FEATHERS - Story By John Updike - Starring Christopher Collet, and Caroline McWilliams
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From the pen of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ( Witches of Eastwick, Rabbit Run ), comes the story of a young man's search through the questions of life and death, and the wondrous discovery of living in the soaring beauty of one of nature's simplest creations.
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RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER - Story By Nathaniel Hawthrone - Starring Kathleen Beller, and Kristopher Tabori
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Set in 18th Century Italy, "Rappaccini's Daughter" is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden.
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REVOLT OF MOTHER - Story By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Starring Amy Madigan
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Set against the beautiful rustic backdrop of farming life in 1890 New England, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's poignant story brings us two hard-working people of the land
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THE SKY IS GRAY - Story By Ernest J. Gaines - Starring Olivia Cole and James Bond III
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From Ernest J. Gaines, author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the 1940's.
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SOLDIER'S HOME - Story By Ernest Hemingway - Starring Richard Backus, and Nancy Marchand
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Harold Krebs (Richard Backus) went off to fight World War I, the war to end all wars. Then he came home... and found himself wishing it had never ended.
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