What if she had been telling the truth? What if I really was someone else? Someone beautiful and powerful. Someone buried alive and suffocating to death. Very far away, on the other side of the television screen.
I never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would be the object of so much genuine affection. It makes it all the more difficult for me to say what I’m now going to say.
Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982)
SALMONBERRIES (1991)
dir. Percy Adlon
A woman who grew up in a small town in Alaska goes to the public library to try and find out who her parents were. She was brought to town as a baby in a cardboard box with “Kotzebue” on it, which is the name of the town and also the name of the family that founded the town. She eventually befriends the librarian, an East German immigrant who lost her husband while escaping from behind the Iron Curtain. They help each other try to find closure to the events in their past.
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