Michael Zadoorian
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The unforgettable cross country journey of a runaway couple in their twilight years determined to meet the end of all roads on their own terms—a major motion picture from Sony Pictures Classics starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland.
The Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck
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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 homelife 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 the...
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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.
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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...