Ballyhoo is a play about a Jewish family in the south around Christmas. The play takes place in a house, mainly in one room, the family room. There are four people who live in the house. A working man who looks to be in his early fifties, his sister who is probably in her late forties, her daughte...

Love and friendship plays a major role in everyday life. This is shown particularly well in the film Billy Elliot, directed by Stephan Daldry. It is set in Everington in 1984, during the miners' strike. Throughout the film love and friendship is portrayed in a range of different ways as Billy, ...

In recent research, I've found that Pearl Harbor and In Love and War are two very similar films. They both portray an injured soldier from either World War I, or World War II, who falls in love with a nurse, while competing against a friend for her attention. Although Pearl Harbor received be...

An Officer and a Gentleman was made in 1982. It stars Richard Gere as Zack Mayo, Debra Winger as Paula Pokrifki, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as Sgt. Emil Foley. I think that the cast is amazing. Louis Gosset, Jr. won best supporting actor for his role, and Debra Winger was nominated for best supportin...

English Coursework - Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' Concealment and disguise are the driving forces behind the dark comedy that is 'Twelfth Night'. The character Viola decides to adopt the disguise of a man, which has serious consequences for herself and others around he...

In the clip from Casablanca, the mise en scene, cinematorgraphy, and sound, work in in unison to create a significant meaning to the film. The sequence of events adds the missing story piece of their love, and clues the viewer that something bad is yet to occur. This is achieved through the overa...

BOOK BRIEF 1. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 2. Settings: 1640: Hotel De Bourgone - The night's play was to be Baro's Clorise, and the leading actor was to be Montfleury. It was the famous theater in which Corneilli's Le Cid was introduced. 1640: Ragueneau's Pastry Shop...

Friend or Fairy?A Midsummer Night's Dream is the best of Shakespeare's early comedies. It is an unrealistic fantasy concerning lovers, fairies and royalty. Its action centers around four lovers' plights brought about by the fantasy world in which they enter. All through this play, there is a supe...

The FantastiksThe Fantastiks is the longest running play in American theatre history. I thought I was not going to enjoy the play, but I couldn't of been more wrong. I thought the play was hysterical; it had a simple story line that anyone could understand. I really liked that the themes of the pl...

What does it mean to be lucky? Or, what does it mean to be successful? How does money corrupt those terms? The beginning of "The Rocking Horse Winner" gives the reader a sense of fantasy. As a general rule, children love fairy tales. We grow up reading stories like Little Red Riding Hood or watching...

The love of Hamlet for Ophelia Hamlet is without any reservations, one of Shakespeare's most mystifying plays. Although the play has a concise story, it is filled with many uncertainties relating to different issues behind the plot. The reader is left with many uncertainties about the true fee...

'Twelfth Night' is an elusive play. It is a combination of both comedy and melancholy but cannot be classed as just one or the other. There are parts such as the letter to Malvolio, which are amusing but then lead to the reader feeling pity for him when he is cruelly treated. Feste is an ...

"An Untouchable's Tale" is a film based on the novel "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy. It is a story about love, laws, and breaking it. Here, an Untouchable named Velutha, falls into a forbidden love with a divorced woman belonging to an upper caste – Ammu. T...

I have now seen "Good Will Hunting" twice, and I liked it even more the second time.Now THIS is a terrific movie. Just a terrific movie from start to finish, with barely a flaw to speak of. It is moving and funny, romantic and painful, familiar and fascinating. And it's a wonderful story to boot. In...

My first impression of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe was that it was a "woman's" novel. This was because the movie, which was more popular than the book, was advertised as a "chick flick". To say the least, I was wrong. The novel poses many issues that face the people of the 1920'...

Hamlet is without any reservations, one of Shakespeare's most mystifying plays. Although the play has a concise story, it is filled with many uncertainties relating to different issues behind the plot. The reader is left with many uncertainties about the ...

In the books, Human Comedy, Mama I Love You, and One Day in the Afternoon of the World William Saroyan uses the family theme.Saroyan makes the family the background in his books. He shows how the family has its good and bad times together, how it separates after arguments and how it comes back toge...

A couple of days before his sixty fifth birthday, Bill Parish, a business tycoon (Hopkins), starts to have premonitions about death. The recent heart attacks he has been having, which are accompanied by voices lead him to this premonitions. Although Bill Parish has always had a privileged life being...