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After a renegade TV channel starts showing pirated American movies, Lena and Potato fall in love with and escape into Hollywood's happy endings. Meanwhile, Potato meets Jesus Christ at his Sunday school and brings his new imaginary friend home. One day Lena discovers an ad for applying to a mail-order bride catalogue and decides to try it out.
The question of how to convey characters speaking a language other than English in a fully English-language production is one that many a director of an exotically-set Hollywood production or ...
Pages in category "Films about famine" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Akaler Shandhaney;
The film premiered in North America at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2018. [23] The film also had a screening at a special event at the Irish Film Institute as part of the art and film exhibition on the Famine in Ireland. [24] The film's first trailer was released on 27 July 2018. [25]
Dominic Roy is a 17-year-old headstrong and hardworking teen who works in the local potato harvest farm to earn money to escape the struggling Maine hometown hopefully for a better future. Dominic's best friend Casper, a reckless teenager who has always dreamed with Dominic about leaving Van Buren, Maine and moving to Boston.
One Potato, Two Potato is a 1964 black-and-white American drama film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Barbara Barrie and Bernie Hamilton.The film centers on an interracial romance and was produced and released at a time which such were very rarely openly conducted in the United States, and violated the prevailing social norms of the time.
Highland Potato Famine: Scotland: 1845–1852: Great Famine killed more than 1,000,000 out of over 8.5 million people inhabiting Ireland. Between 1.5–2 million people were forced to emigrate [86] Ireland: 600,000 to over 1,500,000 that emigrated 1846: Famine led to the peasant revolt known as "Maria da Fonte" in the north of Portugal [87 ...
The first known outbreak of the potato blight, Phytophthora infestans, occurred in the eastern United States in 1843. [4] As the blight spread to the north, it also crossed the ocean, reaching the potato fields of Ireland in September 1845, [5] three months before completing its journey along the American coast and arriving on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland.