Allan Miller
Small Wonders
This inspirational documentary deservedly earned a 1995 Academy Award nomination. Divorced mother Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras taught music in the New York City school system until the budget ax eliminated her job. Dedicated to music and her students, she established a foundation and raised money to create her own violin program in three East Harlem schools. The film follows Guaspari-Tzavaras as she lugs her equipment from school to school, teaching students who range from young beginners to high-school students. The students' recitals include performing for an auditorium full of parents, playing the “Star-Spangled Banner” before a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden, and finally making a Carnegie Hall appearance accompanied by world renown violinists Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman.
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Uten nåla i veggen
Manager Dick Harper and his attractive young wife Jane are used to a comfortable lifestyle. They just build a swimming-pool when Dick is fired very unexpectedly - leaving him with $70,000 debt on the house. They try to hide this from the neighbors and just cut down their expenses, but soon it's obvious: living from unemployment bonus drives them crazy, it's uncertain if they can keep the house. Dick decides that robbing drug stores is their only way out - but this takes more skill than expected! Only as a team Dick and Jane can succeed.
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George Segal og Jane Fonda spiller hovedrollene i denne underholdende parodien på den øvre middelklassens sedvaner og den prisen folk er villig til å betale for å holde på en komfortabel livsstil. Samtidig som de nettopp har bygd et nytt svømmebasseng - i huset som allerede har satt dem i stor gjeld - blir Dick sagt opp fra den høytlønnede sjefsjobben sin. Den hjemmeværende Jane er ikke særlig bekymret til å begynne med da hun tror at hun kan begynne å arbeide selv og at de bare må stramme inn livreimen for en liten stund. Men snart viser det seg at Dicks arbeidsledighet ikke går så veldig bra, og at Jane ikke er spesielt flink til så veldig mye annet enn å bruke penger. Så når Jane helt utilsiktet kommer seg unna med å stjele 2000 dollar, får de blod på tann, og de to forstår at de har funnet en ny løsning: de skal stjele de pengene de trenger for å leve. Det er bare en ting de ikke regnet med: å være raner er faktisk hardt arbeid!
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