Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975), The Mother (2003), Buena Vista Social Club (1999), The Good Companions (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Revitalization movies.
Storyline: A widowed grandmother (Maureen Stapleton) falls in love at a ballroom, dancing with a married mailman (Charles Durning).
Plot Keywords: widow, friend, mail carrier, dancer, love interest, emotional, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: May (Anne Reid) is a middle-aged grandmother who lives in Northern England with her husband, Toots (Peter Vaughan). When Toots dies while the couple is visiting their children in London, May begins to feel a sense of isolation and falls into a deep depression. Needing something new and vital to cling to, May takes refuge in the arms of Darren (Daniel Craig), a burly handyman who is not only half her age and married, but also sleeping with her daughter, Paula (Cathryn Bradshaw).
Plot Keywords: grandmother, daughter, son, handyman, lover, wife, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of legendary Cuban musicians, some as old as their nineties, were brought together by Ry Cooder to record a CD. In this film, we see and hear some of the songs being recorded in Havana. There is also footage from concerts in Amsterdam and New York City's Carnegie Hall. In addition, many of the individual musicians talk about their lives in Cuba and about how they got started in music.—George S. Davis
Plot Keywords: singer, guitarist, pianist, musician, spirited, emotional, havana ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a philanthropic spinster in search of adventure), and Jess Oakroyd (a down to earth, practical man recently made redundant from his job) leads to a change of fortune. Re-launched with Miss Trant's money, they tour England, at first with little success. Inigo falls in love with the troupe's talented and pretty young girl singer, Susie Dean. The troupe is threatened with disharmony, but, due to Inigo's intervention, and the marriage of the principal dancer (Jerry Jerningham) to Lady Parlitt (whose family "own a chain of theatres"), all turns out well for Susie by the end, when she triumphs in a lavish London revue, with the other members of "The Good Companions" in the audience, cheering her triumph.—Roger Mellor <roger@mellor48.freeserve.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: singer, spinster, songwriter, dancing girl, love interest, spirited, lighthearted ...
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