Barbara Barrie – MRQE

“Suddenly Susan”

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer who begins to adjust to being single, and who learns to be independent-minded, after being taken care of all her life.

Guess Who’s Coming for Christmas? (TV)

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The visitor that you might expect for Christmas is not who shows up in this film. Instead, a mysterious stranger (Bridges) befriends a small-town eccentric (Mulligan) and confides in him that he is from another planet.

My Breast (TV)

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist’s real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she’s forced to re-examine her life when she receives the troubling diagnosis.

American Playhouse:: Working (TVE)

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker’s viewpoint–showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people–construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries, and cleaning women, Working is both an exploration of the individuals’ occupations and a lament for lost hopes and dreams.

Child of Glass (TV)

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Alexander Armsworth and his family move to an authentic antebellum mansion which once was owned by a river pirate. Alexander is drawn into a century-old mystery when he sees the ghost of a little girl and she asks for his help in finding the “child of glass” by reciting a riddle. He has only a day or two to solve the riddle…or be haunted for the rest of his life!

The Odd Couple: Together Again (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Felix’s daughter Edna is getting married, and his wife Gloria throws him out of the house for a few days, so that she can plan the wedding herself, without him getting in the way. Felix temporarily moves in with Oscar, who is still living in the same apartment from the TV show. Due to throat cancer, Oscar had to have one of his vocal cords removed, and he can only speak in a raspy whisper. Meanwhile, plans for the wedding are going on, and things get complicated when Felix finds out that Edna’s fiancé has been divorced twice.

Two of a Kind (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his “smother” actually likes things that way. One day Nolie visits his beloved grandfather in a rest home and is horrified at how the old man has deteriorated, vegetating in his wheelchair. He realizes that this is partly due to the medication the nurses are giving him. Nolie decides that he must rehabilitate Grandpa himself, since no one else cares. Furthermore, he and Grandpa must keep their project a secret. It’s a job for a man, and time for Nolie to become one.

Summer of My German Soldier (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father can’t seem to love her. Her town eventually becomes host to a prisoner of war camp. A young german soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him hiding in her secret places in the woods outside of town. After getting to know him she ends up harboring him from his captors, and, in the way of many adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking to help him, but in his company she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to face the heartbreaking events to come.

Twelve Thirty

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

TWELVE THIRTY is drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled in each of their lives, wreaking havoc in the process.

Harvest (2010/I)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their patriarch. With endearing moments of humor and uplifting spirit, Harvest is a portrait of a family awkwardly yet delicately hanging on to what was, what now is, and to one another.