In Corrina, Corrina Ray Liotta plays a 1950s jingle composer whose wife dies, leaving him to raise their grieving young daughter (Tina Majorino) alone. Dad hires an African-American housekeeper (Whoopi Goldberg), who helps fill the gap in the child's life--and then Dad's life. Soon an interracial relationship crossing the social mores of the era is underway. Written and directed by Jessie Nelson (The Story of Us), the film is a spot-on recreation of 1950s suburbia without gratuitous kitsch. Liotta is perfect as a working man of the day, given to white shirts and narrow ties; Goldberg gives one of her finest performances as the level-headed Corrina; and little Majorino is heartbreakingly effective. But the film entirely bears the stamp of one person, and that's Nelson, who has a wonderfully witty eye and a sophisticated but sensitive approach to the crosscurrents of emotion at play in this story. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine is the mastermind behind this suspenseful murder-mystery based on a true story about a peaceful Vermont farming valley that was flooded to create a luxurious lake resort. At the time one evicted farmer whose mother and ancestors were buried in their 250 year old back yard cemetery warned of the terror that would one day strike the three greedy perpetrators - a land baroness billionaire banker and unscrupulous politician. Ten years later a cri
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