Introduction Changi is a six-part Australian television miniseries broadcast by ABC TV in 2001. Outline Tom, a widower living in an aged care hostel, has mixed feelings about the impending reunion, dreading the traumatic memories that it will bring back. On the day of the reunion, the six friends meet at an RSL. Even Gordon… Read More
Introduction Changi is a six-part Australian television miniseries broadcast by ABC TV in 2001. Outline Eddie’s 78th birthday is approaching and he is shaving. He rubs his jaw as he remembers the ache of an old illness. His grandson Todd arrives at Eddie’s small, cluttered flat, bringing his girlfriend Lisa with him. More forthright than… Read More
Introduction Changi is a six-part Australian television miniseries broadcast by ABC TV in 2001. Outline Curley is out practising for his approaching driving test. Dazzled by sunlight, he loses concentration, sparking an outburst of road-rage from an impatient driver behind him. Shaken, he rests at home but the incident brings back memories of Changi. The… Read More
Introduction Changi is a six-part Australian television miniseries broadcast by ABC TV in 2001. Outline Bill, a much respected and loved University mathematics professor, is about to retire. He is visited by one of his students, Joanne, who bears a striking resemblance to a woman from Bill’s past. Joanne shows him a photo of her… Read More
Introduction Changi is a six-part Australian television miniseries broadcast by ABC TV in 2001. Outline Gordon senior is visited at home by his son Ken, with whom he has a difficult relationship. An argument about inheritance brings on a severe stroke, hospitalising Gordon and leaving him paralysed down one side. His granddaughter Nerida, to whom… Read More
Introduction Changi is a six-part Australian television miniseries broadcast by ABC TV in 2001. Outline David, a successful property developer (now retired), has recently undergone eye surgery and is temporarily blinded. The confinement of his condition forces him to confront memories that he has suppressed ever since the war. In 1942, the young David arrives… Read More
Introduction Changi is a six-part Australian television miniseries broadcast by ABC TV in 2001. Outline The series follows the trials and tribulations of six fictional Australian soldiers interned at the Changi prisoner of war camp in Singapore during World War II. Six ageing former POWs who spent three and a half years in Changi are… Read More
Introduction Ocean’s 11 (also stylised Ocean’s 11) is a 1960 American heist film directed and produced by Lewis Milestone from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Charles Lederer, based on a story by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell. The film stars five of the Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.,… Read More
Introduction Purple Hearts is a 2022 American romance film created for Netflix and directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Tess Wakefield. It stars Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine. Its story follows an aspiring singer-songwriter named Cassie and a Marine named Luke, who agree to get… Read More
Introduction La Marseillaise is a French film of 1938, directed by Jean Renoir. A vast political, social, and military panorama of the French Revolution up to the autumn of 1792, its many episodes range from the life of ordinary working people through the committed bourgeois struggling for change up to those in the upper echelons… Read More
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