In this movie, an 18-year old girl, Jack, finds herself stuck in a tough situation. Jack had a little sister, “Coke.” Their mother had passed away and they did not have a dad. Jack was on probation for many crimes that she had done. Since she had been 18-years old,she wanted to get custody of her 11-year old sister, but she had no way of getting it because she had no job nor a house. Jack and “Coke” had to sneak to be able to see each other. Jack and her sister had faked a Red-Cross foundation to raise money. Jack’s probation officer had caught her with her little sister. When the officer saw them, Jack ran away and hid at her friend’s house. Jack was in desperate need of making money. While they were doing the “foundation,” a man about 40-years …show more content…
Glory’s mom didn’t think that Glory was ever going to be calm to get into this very intelligent school that she has always wanted to put her in. As Jack keeps teaching Glory more and more things each and everyday, she becomes very smart. Suddenly, one day Glory’s brother, Robert, came in the house and said that he had smelled cigarette smoke and nobody knew what it was coming from. Robert thought it was very fishy and went into Jack’s room that she had been staying in and started going through all of her stuff. While he was going through her stuff, he had found papers from her probation officer and also written checks that were the mom’s. Jack had been trying to forge the mother’s signature and hiding all of the papers from the probation officer. As soon as Robert had found all that, he had told his mom and dad and they called the probation officer’s number that was on the paper. Jack had been in shock and had no idea what was going on when she saw her probation officer at the house. Jack had been kicked out and was no longer allowed seeing them and Glory was upset because they were really close with each other. Of course all of this had happened right before Glory’s interview with the school and Glory was only comfortable around Jack with talking and everything else. Jack had talked to the family to see if she was allowed helping at the school interview and they had said yes. After the interview, the school had said Glory was a very smart girl and that they will hear back from them soon. Once the interview was over, Jack was taken by the probation officer and but in jail. That is the summary of the movie “Jack of the Red
A movie, “The Other Sister,” is about two mentally challenged people name Carla Tate and Daniel. Carla Tate, a 24-year old woman, return to San Francisco from a sheltered boarding school after long years. After rejoining with her overprotective mother Elizabeth, a gentle and thoughtful father Radley, and two young and older sisters, Carla announces that she wants to attend a local school called Bay Area Polytech, a normal vocational school. Nevertheless of her mother Elizabeth’s disapproval, Radley supports her to pursue her dream. On the first day, Carla meets a boy named Danny and helps him when someone calls him “retarded.” They both get close to each other and fall in love quickly. Carla envied Danny for living on his own, so
Glory Road is a 2006 sports film directed by James Gartner starring Josh Lucas and Derek Luke. The film portrays the story of how Don Haskins had the first all black starting lineup in the NCAA and led Texas Western to a national championship. Along the way, the players and Coach Haskins face great adversity throughout the season because of their all black starting lineup. As the season progresses, the threats continuously grow worse and eventually are directed towards the family of Coach Haskins. This problem continues to grow due to the fact that Texas Western’s team gains national recognition not only for being the first with an all black starting lineup, but for making i through the regular season with only a single loss As the movie progress the audience sees one of the players get beaten because of his race. Another scene shows a hotel room that has been completely trashed because it was where the black athletes were staying. I will prove that that this scene where the hotel room is trashed is racist towards the black athletes.
Walter Lee Younger is frustrated with his position in life. He struggles every day to achieve his dream of getting more money. When the $10,000 check came, it was his shot at success. His mother gave him a big chunk of it and he invested it in a liquor store and lost the money. After that, Walter became very depressed. He had lost the trust and respect from ...
Ruby got to school and people started screaming and yelling “get her out” The crowd was also holding up signs that said “Black Only” or “White Only.” The Marshalls had guns with them to keep people that wanted to hurt her away from Ruby. The Marshalls would tell Ruby to keep walking and to ignore what the people where saying. Before Ruby was inside of school all teachers were arguing to which who would be Ruby’s teacher and Barbara Henry offered to teach Ruby Bridges. When Ruby came in the door Mrs. Henry greeted Ruby with pleasure and Ruby gave her a
A sixteen year old girl named Cheyenne Wilder was sleeping in the back of her stepmoms car, when she heard the car door open. She didn’t think it was her stepmom and turns out it wasn’t. The car door shuts and the car begins to drive off. Then she realized that the car was being stolen. She couldn’t see who the person was, because for the past three years, she has been blind. She could tell it wasn’t her stepmom because the person didn’t say anything until they figured out that she was in there. The guy that kidnapped her tells her that his name is Griffin. He takes her to a house out in the middle of nowhere where he meets up with who he said was a guy named Roy. Roy is Griffin's father. Griffin then finds out that she is the daughter of the CEO of Nike. Griffin find out who she is and he says how about we keep her for ransom. Roy calls her father and tells him to give him a couple million dollars for exchange for his daughter. The deal
Glory is an American War film produced in 1989. The movie is about the first all-African-American regiment to be a part of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It is based upon letters written by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who was the commanding officer in charge of the first African America regiment. The regiment was known as the 54th Massachusetts, and it is famous for the heroic actions that took place during the Battle of Fort Wagner, where Colonel Shaw volunteered his men to lead the charge. Although there were many casualties and the battle was not successful, the 54th Massachusetts’ bravery led the Union to accept thousands of African American men into their ranks which helped the Union win the war. In many parts of the film,
Robert Gould Shaw was a son of wealthy Boston abolitionists. At 23 he enlisted to fight in the war between the states. The movie opens by Robert reading one of many letters he writes home. He is captain of 100 Union soldiers most of whom are older than himself. He speaks of the spirit of his men and how they are enthusiastic about fighting for their country just like the men in The Revolutionary war only this time they were fighting to give blacks freedom and to live in a United country where all can speak and live freely.
Being a United States History major, the choice for this movie review was simply a no brainer. For this paper I have chosen to review the Civil War based movie named Glory. The movie was released in 1989, just after the centennial of the Civil War ending. Glory was innovative, due to the fact that not many movies portrayed how the blacks were important to the North winning the war against the South. The movie had an all-star cast that consisted of Matthew Broderick as Col. Robert Shaw, Denzel Washington as Pvt Trip, and Morgan Freeman as Sgt Major John Rawlins (IMDB.com). Before critically reviewing this wonderful movie, I only watched the movie for the significance of it being about our nation’s history and war. As I critically watched
The plot of the movie was that a man’s sister had died and he believed she had been murdered. The viewer later learns that the girl is alive and had an affair with her husband’s doctor. The man never finds out his sister was still alive because she gets
Leslie Carter, Carter’s sister, died in 2012 because of drugs and alcohol. Since Carter had dealt with the same addictions and won he couldn’t “shake the feeling that Leslie would have found some truth, hope and direction” in his book “and that it might have helped save her life” (Carter 4). Carter was blamed for his sister’s death because he was never there for his sister. Instead of helping his sister get over some of the same struggles he suffered with, he was furthering his own career. Carter began to think that he was the cause of his sister’s death and that in some way he could have prevented it.The overwhelming feeling of guilt in Carter’s life intensified when he didn’t attend the funeral of his sister because he was afraid that his family members would blame him for Leslie’s death as well. The last time him and his sister spoke they did not end on good terms, which added to his feeling of shame. To appease his guilt, he wrote his autobiography so that hopefully other people could find guidance through his struggles and past mistakes. Walls’ first memories were those of poverty, but when she grew older she became successful and provided a good life for herself. Walls now lives in an apartment in New York City but she “could never enjoy the room without worrying about [her] Mom and Dad huddled on a sidewalk grate somewhere” (Walls 4). At the same time she “was embarrassed by them, too, and ashamed of [herself] for wearing pearls and living on Park Avenue while [her] parents were busy keeping warm and finding something to eat” (Walls 4). Walls has conflicting feelings: she feels embarrassed at the way her parent’s chosen lifestyle but at the same time she feels guilty for feeling this way. No matter how hard she tries, her parents will not accept her help because they took pride in
The film that interested me for this assignment was “Boyz n the Hood”. The movie was about a Los Angeles neighborhood expanding of drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results. It was about how one teen had family support to guide him on the right path in life regarding the social problems around him. The other two teens in the film wasn’t as fortunate and fell into the social problems of drugs, violence, and gangs; where one ended up dead.
Instead of providing a safe and loving environment for her daughter, she built up anger towards her and eventually lashed out, physically and emotionally abusing her. Mary carries resentment towards Precious because Carl preferred having sex with Precious rather than Mary. The resentment continued and progressively became more aggressive as the movie went on. Child abuse is a major social issue in not only the United States but all over the world. Cases of child abuse and neglect that involve black children are reported and are approximately twice that of the cases that involve white children. This film sheds light on negative social issues that occur in young African- American children lives, and how these characters within this movie gained power and ultimately decide to peruse a positive life for themselves. Out of the 7.4 billion people in this world, forty million children are abused each year; that is only the amount of reported cases and does not include unreported cases. In the United States, a child is abused every ten seconds. Abuse typically leads to an unsuccessful life, despite your race or ethnicity. Statically speaking, child abuse victims have a 38% increase arrest rate for violent crimes; and 84% of all prison inmates had been abused as a child. As her mother beats her; Precious dreams of a better life and eventually takes the necessary steps to achieve that dreamed about life. The director
The movie “Glory” tells the history and the story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. It became the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. The Regiment was made up of black soldiers – some were Northern freemen, some were escaped slaves. The leader was General Robert Gould Shaw, the son of Boston abolitionists. The men of the 54th Regiment proved themselves worthy of the freedom for which they fighting, and the respect of their fellow white soldiers.
This is a movie about a professional killer, or "Cleaner", named Léon played by Jean Reno, and his unlikely interaction with a 12-year old girl, Mathilda played by Natalie Portman. Mathilda's family is murdered by corrupt Drug Enforcement Agents (DEA) lead by Agent Stansfield played by Gary Oldman. Agent Stansfield, is portrayed as a drug addict, mentally unstable and an overtly violent and corrupt law enforcement team leader.
It’s 10:30am and Janice, Alex’s mother, receives a phone call. “Hi Janice, this is Mrs. Smith calling with regards to Alex. Yes, he isn’t having a good day. He has been very disruptive this morning. We tried calling down Alex’s older sister to calm him down, and to talk to him, but he wouldn’t calm down. Would you please come and get him?”