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Toronto Festival Best Film
Roberto Benigni stars and directs this award littered Chaplinesque comic fable. In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido, an imaginative man, turns to humour, pretending that the Holocaust is a game and tha
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PLACES IN THE HEART (1984)
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Two Oscars were awarded for this stirring tale of a young widow trying to run a cotton farm through the Great Depression with the help of family and a disparate group of friends. Superb.
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