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Polly: Comin' Home! (1990)
Director: Debbie Allen
Cast: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia RashÄd, Dorian Harewood, Brandon Quintin Adams
Runtime100 min
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Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.
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Polly: Comin' Home! is a 1990 family musical TV movie directed by Debbie Allen. While the film's critical reception is not widely documented, it features Broadway-style songs that tell an interesting story of an orphan involved in matchmaking and promoting racial understanding in 1950s Alabama.
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Fans of heartwarming family stories and Broadway-inspired musical numbers will particularly enjoy this 1990 TV movie directed by Debbie Allen. The unique blend of uplifting songs and a charming plot about an ingenious orphan working to bring people together makes Polly: Comin' Home! a delightful and feel-good viewing experience.
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Pollyanna is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. The book's success led to Porter soon writing a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Further sequels followed, including Pollyanna Plays the Game by Colleen L.Ā Reece, published in 1997. Due to the book's fame, "Pollyanna" has become a byword for someone who, like the title character, has an unfailingly optimistic outlook; a subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. Despite the use of the term to mean "excessively cheerful", in the context of the novel it means to always see the good side of the situation.
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