Movie Time #78: My Life Without Me (2003)

▶️ This film is set in the 🇺🇸US but actually a 🇨🇦Canadian-🇪🇸Spanish co-production. It tells the true story of a young mother who is terminally ill (=soon dying from a disease) but doesn’t tell her family about it. Watch how she cleverly plans everything for the time after her death.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

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Movie Time #83: Minari (2020)

▶️ Today’s movie is an Oscar-winning drama about a Korean immigrant family in 1980s America. See their very modest lives and how, against all odds (=unlikely), they try to make a living (=earn enough money to live) from a piece of land.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

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Movie Time #84: I Am Sam (2001)

▶️ Today’s movie is a drama about an intellectually (=mentally) disabled single father (=a man raising his child alone without the mother) who fights to keep his daughter. Watch how he forges an unlikely and comical bond (forge a bond =start being connected emotionally) with his lawyer.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

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Movie Time #85: The Great Debaters (2007)

▶️ Today’s movie is a drama set in 1930s Texas where a teacher and social justice activist leads his students to take on (=challenge, compete with) Harvard University in a nationwide debate contest. Watch how these Afro-American students struggle in their racist society but finally show what they are capable of.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

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