Horton Foote
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1950's Houston, an affluent couple is transformed by tragedy when their son dies under mysterious circumstances and the husband loses his job of 40 years. Shirley Knight recreates her Tony-nominated performance in this 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Phyllis Applegate, Jamie Hanes, Shirley Knight, Lynne Marta, Ronan O'Casey, Daniel Passer, Kenna Ramsey, David Selby and Tom Virtue.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Since 1939, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," has chronicled with compassion and acuity the experience of American life both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and his original screen play Tender Mercies earned him Academy Awards. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, the Gold Medal for Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama, and the President's...
4) 4 new plays
Author
Publisher
Smith and Kraus
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 224 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Orphans' home cycle volume 1
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 330 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four plays dramatize the trials of Horace Robedaux, whose father's sudden death places Horace between his father's and his mother's families.
Author
Series
Orphans' home cycle volume 2
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 177 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three plays of courtship and marriage trace the currents of family life back to their source in the struggle of the human spirit.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him-- except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Mrs. Watts is undeterred and makes an escape to the local bus station, where she befriends Thelma, a young woman traveling home.
14) Of mice and men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
15) Main Street
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Several residents of a small Southern city whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown. In the midst of today's challenging times, each of the colorful citizens of this close-knit North Carolina community, will search for ways to reinvent themselves, their relationships and the very heart of their neighborhood.
17) Tomorrow
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man leaves his father's farm to work at a local sawmill. He rescues a young pregnant woman, who has been abandoned by her husband and family, and the two fall in love.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
20) Tender mercies
Publisher
Lions Gate Films, Inc
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic drifter comes into the life of a lonely widow and her young son in the barren flatlands of Texas. But when Mac is revealed to be a once-famous country singer, he must confront a painful past that includes his bitter superstar ex-wife.
