- published: 21 Jul 2012
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Brian Moore (first name /briːˈæn/ bree-AN; 25 August 1921–11 January 1999), who has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel", was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in 1976, 1987 and 1990). Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
Moore was born and grew up in Belfast with eight siblings in a large Roman Catholic family. His grandfather, a severe, authoritarian solicitor, had been a Catholic convert. His father, James Bernard Moore, was a prominent surgeon and the first Catholic to sit on the senate of Queen’s University and his mother, Eileen McFadden Moore, a Donegal farmer's daughter, was a nurse. His uncle was the prominent Irish nationalist, Eoin MacNeill, founder of Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) and Professor of Irish at University College Dublin.
Actors: Tyler Gallant (actor), Arlene Newman-Van Asperen (actress), Cassie Self (actress), Tiffany Hofstetter (actress), Helen Gibson (actress), Helen Gibson (writer), Helen Gibson (producer), Helen Gibson (director), Yvette Edmond (miscellaneous crew), Brooklynn Ray (actress), Chuee the Pug (actress), Radmilla Cody (actress), Chris Burnett (actor), Geoff McClelland (editor), Olivia McClelland (actress),
Plot: The story revolves around newlywed Michelle a French farm girl looking for love and acceptance in her new life as a US military wife. She encounters Gabby, the busybody neighbor that intrudes in everyone's life while thumping her Bible. Hanalei, the beautiful Chaplain's wife suffers from a lack of attention and bulimia. Bea is a hipster grandmother watching her daughter dawn's two children while she is deployed overseas. Ex-stripper Lucy, the next-door home schooling mother of five, has the love and patience of Mother Teresa. All the women reside on Romans Road, a base housing street bustling with activity. Each woman of destiny must wrestle with a haunting past and dark secret that has crippled their life journey. The skeletons come out and the masks fall off as they struggle to embrace their heart's desire. Filled with humor and heartbreak, Romans Road will make you laugh and cry as the realities of their stories unfold. Together they resolve to enjoy life, no matter what, embracing the good, the bad and the ugly...come what may.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Paul Jarrett (actor), Colin Cunningham (actor), Benjamin Ratner (actor), C. Ernst Harth (actor), Colin Cunningham (writer), Colin Cunningham (miscellaneous crew), Colin Cunningham (producer), Daryl Bennett (composer), Richard Benwick (editor), Jim Guttridge (composer), Michael David Simms (actor), Betty Linde (actress), Kelsa Kinsly (actress), Ralph Alderman (actor), Robert Thurston (actor),
Plot: Michael Bates and Brian Moore are friends despite being different in personality. Michael is straightforward and is harboring anger issues which he doesn't even realize. Brian is a spiritualist, always on the look out for the good in people. Both are having a difficult time in their respective lives. Michael seems to be more committed to his live-in girlfriend than she is to him. And Brian is fired from his job as a mechanic because he over-analyzes the customers rather than do his work. To get away and have some fun, the two decide to take a weekend fishing trip to the lake. Once there, they find what looks to be a unnamed grave marker in the middle of the forest. With only a key close to the grave with the stamp "PUM ZACH" as a possible clue, Brian talks a reluctant Michael into finding out who owned the key and is therefore the probable person buried. Based on information from a local, Brian and Michael decide to drive from their home in San Francisco to the Nevada desert to consult with an Indian shaman. On their journey, they meet among others a kleptomaniac named Cory, a man named Wayne Newton who volunteers to be their guide, a fundamentalist Christian gas station owner, and a dog on wheels. In their search for the truth, they end up finding out more about themselves than they do about who is buried in the woods.
Keywords: animal-in-cast-credits, anti-semitism, apache, automobile, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, buddy, buffalo-nickel, bumper-sticker, california, christianActors: Thomas N. Heffron (director), Walter Hiers (actor), Wanda Hawley (actress), Douglas Z. Doty (writer), T. Roy Barnes (actor), Jeanne Carpenter (actress), Margaret Loomis (actress), Bertram Johns (actor),
Genres: Comedy,