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American Justice
Joe Case (Jack Lucarelli) is a vacationing ex-cop who witnesses a murder while staying with his pal Dave Buchanon (Jameson Parker). He is convinced that he has discovered that a corrupt cop Jake Wheeler (Gerald McRaney) is the head of an illegal alien trafficking ring across the Mexican border.
A Small Circle of Friends
A drama about a love triangle among three college students set in the turbulent '60s on the Harvard campus. The plot is about an intertwining relationship among Leo (Brad Davis) who chases after Jessica (Karen Allen) while his buddy Nick (Jameson Parker) also has a mad crush on her. Leo is into journalism, and it always seems he is either too late on a scoop or he just never appears to be too serious about it, Jessica paints her way around campus and always seems to have a cause,but she is leaning toward law school, and then there's Nick, who is a pre-med student, he is the son of a doctor. All three of their relationships takes a serious turn when Leo's number comes up on the Vietnam draft. While Nick makes his feelings known to Jessica he also trys to help his friend Leo avoid the draft, they all move in together but not happily ever after. They try to help each other find their way through the political upheaval and social change of the turbulent sixties, but there is much turmoil among situations as things become more complex than they were ready for.
The Bell Jar
This is an autobiographical novel, about how Sylvia Plath's protagonist character, Esther Greenwood, sinks into a deep depression during the summer following her third year of college. Esther spends all of of June interning at a ladies' fashion magazine in Manhattan, but despite her initial expectations, she shows no interest in the work and becomes increasingly unsure of her own path. She grows disenchanted with her traditional-minded boyfriend, Buddy Willard,(Jameson Parker) a medical student who "had won a prize for persuading the most relatives of dead people to have their dead ones cut up, Buddy seemed to have it all going,
once he took Esther on a tour of the hospital halls where he showed her all kinds of things kept in glass bottles, needless to say, she was disgusted beyond belief. Returning home to a New England suburb, Esther learns that she's been rejected from a Harvard summer school fiction course. Her relationship with her mother is painfully strained. Suddenly, Esther finds herself unable to sleep or read or concentrate. Her mother takes her to a Dr. Gordon, a psychiatrist, She undergoes a few unsuccessful sessions with him, as well as terrifying electroshock therapy. She becomes increasingly depressed, thinks obsessively about suicide, she even has a few plans plotted out but there were silly reasons on why she couldn't go through with the plans. One was that she planned to hang herself but the rafters weren't sturdy enough, a thought even silly to Esther. She then attempts to kill herself by crawling into the cellar and taking a bottle of sleeping pills: "red and blue lights began to flash before my eyes. The bottle slid from my fingers and I lay down." Esther vomits, and not only failed at killing herself but she wakes up in the city hospital and then goes, through the financial intervention of a benefactor, to a private psychiatric institution. There, Esther begins gradually to recover. She enjoys the pleasant country-club surroundings and develops a closeness with her psychiatrist, Dr. Nolan. Esther also undergoes a more successful regimen of shock therapy, after which she feels the "bell jar" of depression lifting. The stigma of attempted suicide and hospitalization seems to free Esther to feel and act defiantly, she loses her virginity to a man she's met on the steps of Harvard's Widener Library. At the novel's end, Esther is preparing to leave the psychiatric hospital and is describing herself, optimistically, as transformed.
Sylvia Plath committed suicide in February, 1963
White Dog
Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) hits a beautiful white dog with her car one night and then and takes the dog to the vet where he is nursed back to health. She inquires with the doctor about what would happen to the animal if nobody claims him or looks for him, whereas the doctor tells her if he is not inquired about by his owner within a certain amount of days that he'll be destroyed. She cannot allow that to happen so she pays the $280 vet bill and takes the dog home.
Julie's boyfriend, Roland (Jameson Parker) come to her home as he always has, only to be sneered at by this new found animal, he growls and stares at Roland in more than a vicious way, and the red flag goes up as her boyfriend stays alert to this dogs behavior, because Julie is insistant that he is just protecting her.
One eveninng , this dog saves her life by viciously attacking and killing a rapist who breaks into her home. It is then discovered that the dog has been trained to attack black skin people. So Julie consults an animal trainer whose name is Carruthers (Burl Ives), who urges her to have the dog destroyed, but a black trainer, Keys (Paul
Winfield), who has tried before many times to break the training of such dogs but never has he succeeded, steps in. He treats the dog kindly and spends a lot of time trying to train him to overcome the fear of blacks instilled in him. It escapes one night and mutilates a black man in a church, but Keys rescues it. Later, a man and his two
granddaughters come to Julie and demand their dog back. She lets the old man know she is upset with him for raising a killer dog. Eventually, Keys believes that he has the dog under control, but duringa rigid and final test, it turns vicious again and kills Carruthers, even though he is white.
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