The Learning Tree

The Learning TreeRemember that special growing up year in your life? When you had your first real adventure, discovered love, faced an enemy, withstood the death of a loved one, stood up for a principle, backed a friend? Maybe, like Newt Winger's growing up year, it was all of them. A personal triumph for director producer writer composer Gordon Parks (adapting his novel), The Learning Tree traces one watershed year in the life of young Newt (Kyle Johnson), in which

Jordan and a superb behind-the-cameras team make Michael Collins a man and a movie you won't soon forget

who helped define '50s sci-fi as the luckless protagonist of The Incredible Shrinking Man

They don't have to be crazy

" college freshman Tom Butterfield asks a doctor about an orphaned little boy

he soon finds himself in love with the oldest daughter (Marsha Hunt) and even becomes close friends with her younger sister (Virginia Weidler)

the closest people could come to experiencing this timeless tale of love

the first of three brisk

playing twin girls from both sides of the tracks

he also charms and seduces his daughter (Susan Hampshire)

would combine acting with a writing career that included the scripts for many early-T V Westerns produced by Warner Bros

The Stingiest Man in Town: Rankin/Bass departs from its usual stop-motion "Animagic" process for this line animation adaptation of Dicken's A Christmas Carol

modest little funny-bone tickler