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Talk of the Town

Like old black and white movies? I loved this one.
“When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson (and murder; one man was lost). Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley …which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap. [...]

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Persuasion

It’s Jane Austen, so I’m assuming most of you have seen it, but it’s not one of the more recently produced ones (1995 – looks more like 1985) so I thought I’d post for some who might be interested. It’s a little slow, but I still like it.
Sir Walter Elliot (Corin Redgrave), a spendthrift baronet [...]

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The Inheritance

Okay, here’s another one of my favorite chick flicks. The acting is cheesy, but somehow that adds charm to it. It’s a sweet story. I’ve been attached to this video which is a movie adaptation of the book by Louisa May Alcott, who also wrote “Little Women”. It definitely doesn’t have the depth or (great [...]

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North and South

Margaret Hale is one of literature’s most original heroines. The daughter of a middle-class minister, she has enjoyed a privileged upbringing in rural southern England, until her father leaves the church on a matter of conscience and uproots his family, including Margaret’s frail mother, from their comfortable life in the south to the industrial northern [...]

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