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The film is set in the Kona Coffee Belt of Hawaii during the 1920s. Japanese immigrant laborers and the white upperclass live in a rigidly classist society. Jo, an orphan of mixed-race lineage, finds himself ostracized by both groups until Doc, a white doctor from the mainland, is hired as a physician for workers on the plantation owned by Mr. Danielson.
Amazing Grace is a 2006 biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted, about the abolitionist campaign against the slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament. The title is a reference to the 1772 hymn "Amazing Grace".
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner. London: HarperPress. ISBN 978-0007228850. OCLC 80331607. Hochschild, Adam (2005). Bury the Chains: prophets and rebels in the fight to free an empire's slaves. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0333904915. Pollock, John (1977). Wilberforce. New York: St. Martin's Press.
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Furthermore, as the same scene is set in 1782, the Duke would have been serving in the Royal Navy. (Indeed, George Washington, in that same year, endorsed a plot to capture the Prince in New York. [3] [4]) The film briefly refers to William's founding of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In reality, this post-dated the ...
You might even call "Will & Harper" the trans "Will & Grace." "The impact that a sitcom like 'Will & Grace' had for the queer community, gay community, is massive," says the film's director, Josh ...
The sexual voraciousness of newspaper heiress Grace Caldwell threatens to destroy the reputation of her wealthy Pennsylvania family. As a precocious teenager, she is assaulted in her room in her own house by her older brother Brock's friend Charlie Jay, to whom she finally yields willingly, the first of a long series of lovers.