A young news reporter schemes to take over the job of a veteran news anchor whose ratings he’s been hired to promote.
Tag: 1980s
In a future United States, the only transport available to an individual is public transportation. Predicated on an assertion that “the oil has run out”, an increasingly totalitarian central government has ordered all personal vehicles be impounded by law. One man, a former race car driver, yearns again for his ability to choose his own roads and destiny. He reassembles his race car hidden from confiscation, and sets out for “Free California” which has broken away from the new regime, aided by a young technically savvy teen who feels alienated from this “social” society.
After Mel Adler’s apartment burns down, his son, who harbors some ill will towards him, tries to put him in a retirement home. He’s also very hard on his son, Jody. He’s telling him which college he should go to. But when he decides to go where he wants, Mel decides to join him, and when he gets there, he clashes with some of the teachers and finds himself attracted to one of them. Eventually, he learns that he might flunk out so he tries to cram so he can pass.
Gaston Kaboré’s movie «Zan Boko explores the conflict between tradition and modernity with a family in a rural contexr. It has been for long time a central theme in many African films. Kaboré tells the poignant story of a village family swept up in the current tide of urbanization. In doing so, «Zan Boko» expertly reveals the transformation of an agrarian, subsistence society into an industrialized commodity economy.
Two English girl babies are switched by mistake in a 1930s hospital, but by being raised by parents other than the real ones, their lives are enriched.
Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighbouring antique store and things get a little complicated.