Perhaps because it's something nearly all of us can relate to (apart from The Bradys), messed-up families have always been a popular subject for filmmakers in all genres. Whether you're playing it for laughs ('Arrested Development', 'Go For Zucker'), drama ('Kramer vs Kramer', 'Nil By Mouth'), or thrills ('The Quiet Family', 'Olivier, Olivier') the family dynamic is a deep well of ready-made love/hate relationships, seething resentments and hidden secrets. What more could a filmmaker, or a film-watcher, ask for!
Based on the lives of big-band stars Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, who star as themselves in this biographical chronicle that begins with their childhood in... Read more
In this musical adventure Shirley Temple stars as Ching-Ching an orphan on the streets of Shanghai who inadvertently finds herself aboard a ship to Am... Read more