Sentences with phrase «docudrama recounting»
The Lady in the Van (PG - 13 for a disturbing image) Fact - based docudrama recounting the unlikely friendship forged between a celebrated playwright (Alex Jennings) and a homeless woman (Maggie Smith) living in a car parked in his driveway.
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Chappaquiddick (PG - 13 for smoking, profanity, mature themes and disturbing images) Historical docudrama recounting Ted Kennedy's (Jason Clarke) summer of ’69 car accident that claimed the life of 28 year - old, campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).
Hacksaw Ridge (R for graphic violence, gruesome images and ethnic slurs) World War II docudrama recounting the battlefield heroics of Army Medic Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) who saved 75 fellow G.I.'s lives during the fight for Okinawa.
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It complicates the film's relation to history, so thinly veiled at times (Thornton's James Carville, Emma Thompson's Hillary Clinton stand out in particular, but also Kathy Bates's conflation of Betsey Wright and Vincent Foster), but ultimately this is not a docudrama of historical recreation (like Oliver Stone's W. or the Jay Roach / Danny Strong HBO movies Recount and Game Change, let alone a fantasy of a Hawksian White House as in its most direct descendant, Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing).
One Day You'll Understand (Unrated) Holocuast docudrama, based on Jerome Clement's autobiographical novel, set in the Eighties, recounting a Frenchman's (Hippolyte Girardot) obsession with determining what happened to his Jewish grandparents who perished in a concentration camp during World War II.
7 Days in Entebbe (PG - 13 for violence, smoking, drug use, mature themes and brief profanity) Historical docudrama, set in Uganda in 1976, recounting an Israeli commando unit's daring rescue of a hijacked, Air France jetliner's passengers and crew.
DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Documentary Relates True Story of the Great Debaters A year ago, Denzel Washington directed and co-starred in The Great Debaters, a compelling, if fanciful docudrama which recounted how a debate team from an unheralded, Southern black college had traveled in 1935 from Texas to Cambridge, Massachusetts to defeat Harvard and win the national championship in a competition aired live, coast to coast, on national radio.