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Tag: depression era

  • The Battlers

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    Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.

  • Liam

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    A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa’s dad loses his job. Liam, who’s about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has…

  • Mary Poppins Returns

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    Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.