Arturo Puig, Brittany Murphy, Carlos Santamaria

This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy" written by Paula Vogel, a woman (Brittany Murphy) joins the Navy during the 1950's and discove...( read more  read more... )rs lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts", written by Terrence McNally, a teacher (Steven Weber) in a 1970's classroom struggles with his closeted gay status. Finally in "Amos and Andy", a father (Edward Asner) wrestles with his own emotional acceptance of a present day wedding between his son (James Le Gros) and another man.

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R, 105 min.

Directed by: Adolfo Aristarain, Donna Deitch

Release Date: January 29, 2000

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DVD Release Date: April 20, 2004

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  • April 19, 2008
    Phenomenal movie! Absolutely favor!
  • June 28, 2009
    Common Ground is three short stories about homosexuality. The first one is called A Friend Of Dorothy and stars Brittany Murphy,she plays Dorothy a young girl in the navy. Mr Roberts is the second story and is about a closet gay school teacher and a young male pupil who is about ...( read more)to come out and finally the last story (which was my favourite) was Amos and Andy which follows a gay son who wants acceptance from his father on the morning of his same sex wedding. All stories take place in a small American town,Homer,Connecticut. Eric Stoltz is the narrator and plays a small part in each of the stories.

    The acting was great and each story was very moving.
  • May 18, 2008
    Good movie. The second story was my favorite out of the three. Each story was really nice. Aw Eric Knudsen was so cute and little. The first story was okay too. The last one was my least favorite, but it was okay.
  • March 24, 2008
    This movie had potential, but fell through the cracks. To bad.
  • November 18, 2007
    We all may be different. But in the end we are all the same.
  • June 23, 2007
    Just A Good All Around movie
  • May 23, 2007
    three stories showing generational views on homosexuality.

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