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| On November 4, 1970 on The CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reported on a true, horrific story that was about to rock the country. A 13-year-old girl was discovered in the small Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia who was still in diapers, barely able to walk and unable to speak. Kept in severe isolation by her parents with virtually no human contact for more than 10 years, she was confined to her bedroom, tied to her potty-chair and left to fend for herself. As Cronkite noted, it was one of the most horrendous cases of child abuse ever to surface. Much like an animal, the girl spat, sniffed and clawed. She had none of the traits or characteristics of conventional human behavior, nor could she comprehend such modern societal conveniences as silverware or bathroom etiquette. Her emotional development was practically non-existent, and she could not speak. With this heartbreaking story, the world was being introduced to a fragile, beautiful teenager who seemed and behaved like an infant, or Wild Child. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Drama, USA
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| Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, Kaminsky must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang. Search keywords
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Categories: 1986, Action, USA
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| The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris". Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Comedy, Drama, USA
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| Because the film on Oklahoma farm opens during the depression, two concurrent visitors hit literally the Wagoneer home: A ruinous dust storm and a convertible which is steered incredibly through it, Red, the brother missu. A more roguishly mitdem land west musician, it has just been invited to recite his chance of a lifetime for the great Ole Opry, to become a success. However, the way is back in Nashville, Red goes clearly terribly, and he is fallow and ill with tuberculosis to start. To avoid a little bit, 14, his own chance of a lifetime sighted "to grow up to be a Baumwollpflücker my whole life," asks mA to let go him with the uncle Rot as a driver and Schützling. Thus an adventure trip begins screamingly funny as well as sharply.
Weil sich der Film auf einer Oklahoma Farm während der Depression öffnet, schlagen zwei gleichzeitige Besucher wörtlich den Wagoneer nach Hause: Ein ruinöser Staubsturm und ein Kabriolett, das wahnsinnig dadurch gesteuert ist, Rot, der Bruder der missu. Ein schelmischer mitdem Landwestmusiker, er ist gerade eingeladen worden, für den Großartigen Ole Opry, seine Chance einer Lebenszeit vorzusprechen, ein Erfolg zu werden. Jedoch ist das Weg zurück in Nashville, Rot fährt klar schrecklich, und er ist brach und krank mit Tuberkulose, um zu starten. Bisschen, 14, seine eigene Chance einer Lebenszeit sehend, zu vermeiden "aufzuwachsen, um ein Baumwollpflücker mein ganzes Leben zu sein," bittet Ma, ihn mit dem Onkel Rot als Fahrer und Schützling gehen zu lassen. So beginnt eine Abenteuerreise sowohl urkomisch als auch scharf. Search keywords
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Categories: 1982, Comedy, Drama, Music, USA
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