Learning in Focus Movie Trailers
Most Popular Learning in Focus Trailers
Total trailers found: 19
Pigeon Feathers Trailer (1988)
17 February 1988
From the pen of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("Witches of Eastwick," "Rabbit Run"), comes the story of a young man's search through the questions of life and death, and the wondrous discovery of living in the soaring beauty of one of nature's simplest creations.
Barn Burning Trailer (1980)
17 March 1980
Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning.
The Displaced Person Trailer (1977)
12 April 1977
A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.
The Blue Hotel Trailer (1977)
19 April 1977
Nebraska in the 1880's: bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect The Wild West to be. But for a naive Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of THE BLUE HOTEL represents the quintessential western fantasy.
Rappaccini's Daughter Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden.
I'm a Fool Trailer (1977)
05 April 1977
Traveling from town to town during the summer of 1919, young Andy (Ron Howard) has left his Ohio home in search of adventure and romance as a horse trainer on the country fair racing circuit.
Paul's Case Trailer (1980)
11 February 1980
Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh.
The Golden Honeymoon Trailer (1980)
04 February 1980
Charley Tate is an old windbag, often a braggart, but somehow always lovable. Married over fifty years to his ever-patient wife Lucy, the two of them are on their Golden Honeymoon in Florida.
Seize the Day Trailer (1986)
09 September 1986
Tommy Wilhelm is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life.
Go Tell It on the Mountain Trailer (1984)
31 August 1984
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.
Henry James' The Jolly Corner Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Expatriate Spencer Brydon returns to his now-empty childhood home, and finds himself obsessed with what his life would have been, had he not left America.
Soldier's Home Trailer (1977)
26 April 1977
Harold Krebs went off to fight in World War I, "the war to end all wars." But when he comes home, Harold finds that he doesn't fit in any more.
The Sky Is Gray Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the 1940's.
The Greatest Man in the World Trailer (1981)
09 June 1981
This version of James Thurber's tale tells the story of a young amateur pilot who beats Charles Lindbergh's feat of nonstop flying around the world--with his own unique ways of conserving fuel and energy.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Trailer (1980)
17 March 1980
A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson.
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Trailer (1980)
03 March 1980
Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses around her doctor and her children.
Almos' a Man Trailer (1976)
05 April 1976
Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930s, this 15-year-old's problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood.
The Music School Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
This drama is based on a John Updike story and is narrated by the author. It is the tale of an angst-filled hero attending music school.
The Revolt of Mother Trailer (1988)
17 February 1988
Father is going to build a new barn. Mother (Academy Award nominee Amy Madigan) wants the new house she's been promised.
