Buddy Visalo (Michael Rispoli) is a factory worker, a frustrated crooner who once had a shot at the big time. Buddy's dreams of greatness have been reduced to an endless series of failed moneymaking schemes. His latest is buying a two-family house for him and his wife, Estelle (Katherine Narducci) and converting the ground floor into a neighborhood bar where he can perform. The wrench in the works is that he also inherits the upstairs tenants, Mary,a pregnant Irish girl fresh off the boat (Kelly Macdonald) and her abusive, alcoholic husband, Jim (Kevin Conway). As Buddy's gang of Italians tries to handle the situation, the girl goes into labor, and a baby is born, forcing them all to confront the limits of their tolerance and compassion.

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an eastern rail baron to track down Joey Garza, a new kind of killer, only a boy, who kills from a distance with a rifle.

Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.

1973 film by Buzz Kulik

The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality.

television series originally broadcast from 1995 to 2002

In a small desert town just beyond the shadow of magic mountain, children are the gods of foreclosed homes and underpasses. Three teenagers find things to do in a place that offers nothing. They discover first love, friendship and avoid the realities of becoming an adult.

詹姆斯生在渔民家庭，父母不希望他过漂泊海上的危险生活，想让他念完法学院，离开渔港去城里定居。但是18岁的詹姆斯渴望成为一名像父亲那样的真正的渔夫，梦想有一天驾驶父亲的船出海捕鱼。他不顾父母的强烈反对，在一艘名叫“凯尔特号”（Cape Keltic）的渔船上找了一份工作，体验到向往已久的大海的美丽，也体会到渔夫的艰辛。詹姆斯坚持不懈的努力得到了船长的赏识，但父亲仍然反对他的选择，似乎有什么秘密瞒着他……

I just saw this movie after a mere 20 year hiatus. I wondered what I'd think of it after so many years.
The answer is I liked it a lot. I won't go into any details as they have been amply covered already. I will just say that it was thought provoking and my wife and I talked about it for a couple of hours afterward.