Weeds
1987
115 Min
Synopsis
Serving a life sentence at San Quentin, Lee Umstretter (Nick Nolte) has little to live for — a fact he demonstrates through multiple suicide attempts. But hope comes in the form of literature, which ultimately inspires him to write a play about jailhouse life. After a newspaper critic (Rita Taggart) sees his work, she secures Umstretter’s release, and he continues to pursue his theatrical dreams outside prison walls in this well-acted drama.
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John D. Hancock
John D. Hancock (born 12 February 1939, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American stage and film director, producer and writer. He is the son of Ralph and Ella Mae Rosenthal Hancock. His father was a musician with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Chicago, Illinois and his mother a school teacher. Hancock spent his youth between their home in Chicago and their fruit farm in La Porte, Indiana. In high school he was the Assistant Concertmaster of the Chicago Youth Orchestra playing the violin. He is perhaps best known for his work on Bang the Drum Slowly. His other film-directing credits in the 1970s were California Dreaming, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, and Baby Blue Marine. —wikipedia
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