I'm planning a movie night for my school and we are trying to find a movie that has to do with poverty since we are using this as a theme for the year. I would really rather use a Hollywood film over a documentary since it would have more student appeal. Any suggestions/ideas/details? THANKS!
2006-08-23 16:10:23 · 13 answers · asked by catalina 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
American History X, Modern Times, A Little Princess, Trading Places, Sister Act 2, Aladdin, Rent, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They all range on levels of seriousness depending on what your looking for.
2006-08-23 17:46:04 · answer #1 · answered by DisneyRox 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Grapes of Wrath.
The original great book by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck was made into a great movie in the 1940 that won 2 Oscars. It is about the poverty in the great depression and a family that was forced to move from Oklahoma to California.
2006-08-23 16:17:10 · answer #2 · answered by Diane D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angela's ashes. omigod.
Angela's Ashes is a memoir by American author Frank McCourt, and tells the story of his childhood. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930, the eldest son of Malachy and Angela McCourt. He is joined by brother Malachy in 1931, twins Oliver and Eugene in 1933, and a sister, Margaret, in 1934. After the death of his sister Margaret when she was only a few weeks old, his parents moved back to their native Ireland, where his younger twin brothers both died within a year of the family's arrival and where Frank's youngest brothers, Michael (b. 1936) and Alphie (b. 1940) were born. Life in Ireland, and specifically life in Limerick City, in the 1930s and 1940s, is described in all its grittiness. The story ends when he finally gets the money together to go back to America. Frank McCourt relates the second part of his life in the book 'Tis. And the third book, which is a continual of his life journey in Teacher Man.
Angela's Ashes won several awards, including the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography). The memoir was adapted to a feature film Angela's Ashes in 1999 starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle
2006-08-23 16:17:35 · answer #3 · answered by Miranda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Accattone: The Scrounger(1961)
2006-08-23 16:12:06 · answer #4 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look for "LOS OLVIDADOS" (I do not know the name in English) the 1950 master piece of Luis Buñuel about a group of very miserable children in Mexico City. There is an English subtitled version.
2006-08-23 16:27:32 · answer #5 · answered by Alexira 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cinderella Man
2006-08-23 16:14:30 · answer #6 · answered by Belledeau Brat 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Monster with Halle Berry?
2006-08-23 16:15:41 · answer #7 · answered by wondering in michigan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angela Ashes, only cos i got a little part in it!! thats about poverty, you should have seen the clothes they made us wear, and we where supposed to be makin our confirmation
2006-08-23 22:22:51 · answer #8 · answered by ♡♡Gneaseach♡♡ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say Cinderella Man or Charlie and the Chocolate factory. but then again, I have not put alot of thought into that one...
2006-08-23 16:18:26 · answer #9 · answered by mobile_wireless_news 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theres a film called ROOTS its about black slaves and how they wer treated as they wer traveling to an other country on a ship.
2006-08-24 00:03:26 · answer #10 · answered by catherine m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋