John W. Simmons
1) The gin game
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A bittersweet comedy that follows the relationship that develops between nursing home residents Fonsia Dorsey and Weller Martin during a series of gin games. As the games progress, their ailments, misfortunes, and losses are exposed in funny, honest, and increasingly heated moments, and what begins as a tentative friendship quickly turns into a battle of wills.
2) Ruby Bridges
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When bright six year old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time.