Swoosie Kurtz
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English
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Academy Award winner Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow star in this film based on John Irving's expansive, offbeat best-selling novel. When Jenny Fields (Close) decides to become a mother, she has no intention of finding a husband or of having marital sex, so she gets herself pregnant by a hospitalized solder on his deathbed. And so begins the unusual life of Garp (Williams), who is destined to be anything except what he himself desires...
2) Citizen Ruth
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English
Description
Ruth Stoops is pregnant, confused and in trouble with the law for the umpteenth time. But it doesn't stop there. She soon becomes the unwitting object of a wacky tug-of-war that erupts when pro-lifers square off with pro-choicers and everyone goes to ridiculous extremes trying to claim her as a national symbol for their cause.
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English
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"[A] powerful, enlightening and moving chronicle of our time. 'And the band played on' follows the struggle of a handful of strong-willed men and women who took on the fight to save lives. Dr. Don Francis [is] a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control who seeks to uncover the cause of a number of mysterious deaths. With little funding for a subject few will even discuss, not only must he fight the disease, but a disinterested public, the government,...