Rafe y Danny crecieron juntos en una zona rural estadounidense y su amistad se ha prolongado a lo largo de los años hasta las filas del ejercito del aire, donde los dos son pilotos de combate. Rafe encontró en Evelyn, una valiente enfermera, al amor de su vida, pero pronto es llamado a servir en la fuerza aérea británica para combatir a los nazis como representante del ejército estadounidense. Mientras tanto, Danny y Evelyn son enviados a la base aérea de Pearl Harbor en Hawai. Una vez allí, ambos se enamoran mientras Rafe es derribado en combate. Para sorpresa de ambos, Rafe sobrevive y regresa a Pearl Harbor pero todo se complica cuando se produce un mortal bombardeo por parte del ejercito japonés.
Adaptación de la novela publicada en España con el título de 'El Ladrón del Rayo. Después de ir a un campamento, Percy, un chico aparentemente normal, (Lerman) descubre que es hijo de Poseidón, el dios de los mares, y que su mejor amigo Grover (Jackson) es un sátiro. A partir de ahí, él y sus dos amigos (dos semidioses y un sátiro) recorrerán el país, que está plagado de monstruos mitológicos, para restaurar el orden cósmico antes de que se ponga el sol en el día más largo del año. Percy busca recuperar la paz, rescatar a su madre, conocer a su padre y comprender quién es él mismo. Todo un reto que debe superar en apenas diez días.
La mojigata de Rose rompe relaciones con Maggie, la juerguista de su hermana pequeña, debido a una indiscreción relacionada con el novio de Rose. El ambiente enrarecido se normaliza con la llegada de Ella, la abuela que ninguna de las dos hermanas sabía que existía.
Un grupo de alborotadores se ven obligados a asistir a la escuela nocturna con la esperanza de que aprueben el examen de GED para terminar la escuela secundaria.
Ishaan Awashi es un niño de 8 años cuyo mundo está plagado de maravillas que nadie más parece apreciar: colores, peces, perros y cometas, que simplemente no son importantes en la vida de los adultos, que parecen más interesados en cosas como los deberes, las notas o la limpieza. E Ishaan parece no poder hacer nada bien en clase. Cuando los problemas que ocasiona superan a sus padres, es internado en un colegio para que le disciplinen. Las cosas no mejoran en el nuevo colegio, donde Ishaan tiene además que aceptar estar lejos de sus padres. Hasta que un día, el nuevo profesor de arte, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, entra en escena y se interesa por el pequeño Ishaan.
Dos jóvenes se ganan la vida practicando toda clase de estafas, tarea para la que se muestran muy habilidosos. Mientras uno es un perfecto charlatán, el otro es capaz de inventar todo tipo de artilugios. Pretenden reunir un millón de libras para comprarse una lujosa mansión. Un día conocen a una chica que se les une y de la cual se enamorarán ambos. Una de las más frescas comedias británicas de los 90, cuyas señas de identidad residen en un guión muy ingenioso y en una banda sonora que recopilaba a los grupos británicos más exitosos del momento. La joven Kate Beckinsale (Mucho ruido y pocas nueces) realiza una excelente interpretación.
Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to light. Personal relationships with his son Patrick have been strained as a result. The only ones who ever knew anything about it were his deceased wife and his best friend, Thurgood who he works with, who both agreed to help keep it covered up for him as long as they could. However, when his treasured grandson begins experiencing the same problems, Mike realizes that he can't hide his secret any longer, or if he tried to, it would be most difficult. Even more so when he is endorsed and volunteers to run as a candidate for local election.
In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, killing two fellow students and wounding 25 others. In this first in-depth television examination of a school shooter, FRONTLINE reveals the intimate inside story of how the “shy and likeable” Kip Kinkel from a solid middle-class family became the boy police call “a cold-hearted killer.”
Una joven mujer disléxica y artística se siente abrumada por la desesperación cuando se encuentra definida, no por sus talentos, sino por sus discapacidades.
How far would a mother go to reverse her child’s fate? Based on writer/director Ann Hu’s story, that’s the question facing Lan (Zhu Zhu), who travels with her 9-year-old daughter Meimei (Harmonie He) from their small town in China to New York City.
Nobody's perfect. We've all got our strengths and weaknesses. Kristi knew her weakness and discovered Brad's -- dyslexia, a learning disability. She learned what a learning disability is, and about handicaps -- those you see and those you don't.
A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers she is dyslexic.
Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.
Does having a learning disability mean that you can’t learn? Eight children prove that the answer is a definitive 'No' in this documentary. Interviews with kids are intercut with scenes of the children engaged in activities that reflect their talents to form a compelling portrait of the ways in which these young people use their strengths to overcome their challenges.
Inspirational tale set in the late 1940s involving an elderly blind woman with a unique collection of bells in her home and a dyslexic 12-year-old boy who form an offbeat friendship to help each other overcome a disability.
What is at the bottom of this dark hole, which a child's tear has dug in the sheet of paper? What are these strange hieroglyphs written on this board? It's not easy to be a schoolboy when letters and words get mixed up! It's not easy to make people recognise your different... Underneath it all, there are these assessments! Below fifty, you don't pass! So you have to hang on to stay in the race.
This film puts you inside the head of a dyslexic child trying to get through the 5th grade in the 1970's.
Inspired by a true story, A Mind of Her Own tells the poignant and moving story of Sophie, a determined young girl whose ambition to become a doctor is obstructed by the fact that she is severely dyslexic. But Sophie, encouraged by her closest friend, Becky, has never been one to give up and, despite being advised by parents and school teachers to be realistic and pursue something less academic, she puts herself through college and university, in the process achieving a first class degree in biomedical science and a PhD conducting research into post trauma regeneration of the spinal column which ultimately leads to her achieving worldwide recognition for her work and helping to develop a cure for paralysis. Written by Owen Carey Jones
A young woman works to overcome her dyslexia with the help of a good-hearted cab driver.
Arlo, a dyslexic actor, seems to be auditioning well. That is until he’s asked to perform a new monologue.