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Our Town (2003)

Our Town poster
Directed by
James Naughton
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A stage production is filmed live at a theater. It follows the everyday lives and small moments of residents in a fictional early 20th century New Hampshire town, observing their routines, loves, and losses.

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What happens

Our Town is a 2003 American made-for-television film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder starring Paul Newman, who was nominated for both an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding acting. It was filmed at the Booth Theatre in Manhattan, where it played on Broadway in 2002. The production originated at the Westport Country Playhouse. The film originally aired May 24, 2003, on Showtime and was also shown on PBS as part of Masterpiece Theatre on October 5, 2003. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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