Starring: Mary Stuart Masterson, James Earle Jones, Geraldine Page, Erika Alexander, Jordan Charney, Peter Gallagher, Anne Meara
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Written by Connie Kaiseman and Nan Mason, Directed by Connie Kaiseman,
an Ivory/Merchant joint
Starring: Mary Stuart Masterson, James Earle Jones, Geraldine Page, Erika Alexander, Jordan Charney, Peter Gallagher, Anne Meara |
High level Brit talent is behind this inspiring tale of a young American rich girl who seeks to transcend class distinctions and help a few young people born and raised under difficult circumstances.
Mary, the little drummer girl who would later thwart Princess Lea and get together with virile Eric of the Stoltz clan, is presented here as the favoured offspring of an old money family. However, her fondest dream is to help those less fortunate than herself-in particular the residents of a nearby orphanage with many minority and poor kids.
Her prim and proper parents do not provide the expected moral support, and the poverty professionals also view her with a bit of suspicion. Our girl makes it her personal mission to reunite a pair of young African-American sisters so that they might be together in the System until a possible dual adoption can take place.
Out of frustration, Mary must call on Peter the pimp, who has a "client" in the institution, to help her "liberate" the older sister from a new joint. It goes badly, and Mary is caught in the act of disobeying an order of the director of the orphanage/homeless shelter, none other than James himself, and his strict assistant Anne.
Mary must resign, but the talent show she organized with the all the kids at the home goes extremely well and invigorates all of the youngsters. She`s clearly left her mark as she leaves her cherished job behind.
Her devotion has awakened in JEJ the initial zeal with which he once pursued his own personal mission in this field as an ambitious young man. We are given every indication that the Man will rehire our heroine after a suitable probationary period.
Everyone will be happy.
Trivia: cameo by a very young Jennifer Lopez.
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