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Muriel's Wedding

Comic tale of a warm but klutzy woman who worships ABBA and is determined to have the wedding of her dreams. American adaptation of the 1994 Australian film. Names have been changed for some characters.

Summer of Sam

During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders. The story centers on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. Remake of the 1999 film.

Jungle Fever

Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary. Some character names have been changed or modified. Remake of the 1991 film.

Do the Right Thing

On the hottest day of the year In the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Remake of the 1989 film.

Union Dues

The setting is Boston, Fall 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNatt, a seventeen year old runaway from West Virginia drifts into a commune of young revolutionaries.

Los Gusanos

In 1981 Miami, exiled Cuban Marta de la Peña is beautiful, religious and obsessed with conquering Cuba via an odd assortment of would-be guerrillas.

Polish Wedding

The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family. Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop Russell and becomes pregnant by him. Russell is pressed hard to marry Hala. Remake of the 1998 film.

Moonstruck

Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry. Remake of the 1987 film.

I Like it Like That

Money issues and misunderstandings divide a couple who struggle to raise their children in the Bronx. Remake of the 1994 film.

School Daze

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college. Stage musical adaptation of the 1988 film.

Bagdad Cafe

Bagdad Cafe (1987) A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter. Remake of the 1987 film. The Name and/or race of some characters have been changed.

Tomorrow Will Be Better

At 17, Margy has limited expectations beyond the life she’s known. Based on the he 1948 novel.

Maggie - Now

In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Based on the 1953 novel.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat LIVE!

Television adaptation of the 1982 musical.

Clybourne Park

Film based on the 2010 play. I know there is already a movie being made but this is my version.

In the Heights Live!

Television adaptation of the Broadway musical

Fiddler on the Roof Live!

Television adaptation of the Broadway musical.

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Film adaptation of the 1996 Broadway play.

Parade

Film adaptation of the Broadway musical.

Smarter Than Einstein

Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two friends with genius level IQs, plot to commit the "perfect crime". One without consequences.They ultimately carry out the cold blooded murder of their neighbor, Bobby Franks. Based on a true story.