07 Sep 2005
Paradise Now
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Barbara Frietchie
Two lovers in a small town in Maryland are torn apart by the Civil War--she is loyal to the south while he heads north to join the federal army, determined to protect the Union. Eventually his unit arrives in his hometown and he is reunited with his lover, but things aren't the way they used to be.
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Florence Vidor Barbara Frietchie
Edmund Lowe William Trumbull
Emmett King Col. Frietchie
Joseph Bennett Jack Negly
Charles Delaney Arthur Frietchie
Louis Fitzroy Col. Negly
Gertrude Short Sue Rogers
Mattie Peters Mammy Lou
Mark Hamilton Fred Gelwek
Jim Blackwell Rufus
George A. Billings Abraham Lincoln
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