male friendship

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male friendship

4 guys and trouble

2002
Four friends promise their dying fraternity brother they will take care of his little sister, Bunches, but things become more complicated when the girl grows into a lovely young woman.

The adventures of Tom Sawyer

and, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2002
Presents the text of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," the story of a mischievous boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the 1800s; and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a novel in which Huck, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped slave, make a break for freedom down the Mississippi.

Something the Lord made

2004
Dramatization of the true story of lab technician Vivien Thomas, a black surgical genius who fought bigotry in the 1940s, as he collaborated with Dr. Alfred Blalock on a pioneering procedure for "blue babies.".

Comrades

brothers, fathers, heroes, sons, pals
1999

The Old Man and the Sea

2004
Hemingway's triumphant yet tragic story of an old Cuban fisherman and his relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream combines the simplicity of a fable, the significance of a parable, and the drama of an epic.

Parrot and Olivier in America

2010
Depicts the unlikely friendship between Olivier, an aristocratic survivor of the French Revolution, and Parrot, the motherless son of an itinerant English printer who meet when they come to America. Their shifting narratives describe their adventures apart and together and describes the newly founded American democracy.

The power of one

1999
Terrorized because of his family's political beliefs, PK, a young, white South African orphan, turns to a wise old prisoner who teaches him how to box. As PK grows to manhood, his skill gives him a sense of justice and the confidence to take on the unjust system he sees around him.

De ratones y hombres

2007
Sustained by the hope of someday owning a farm of their own, two itinerant laborers arrive to work on a ranch in central California.

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