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Title	Cider House Rules, The (1999)
Alternative/Original Title
Disability	General VERY MINOR
Country	USA
Length	125
Genre	Drama
Rating	?
Director	Lasse Hallstrom
Cast	Michael Caine Tobey Maguire Charlize Theron
Notes	Set in New England before and during World War II. Michael Caine plays Dr. Larch who runs an orphanage, is addicted to ether and does abortions on the side. He also delivers the babies of unwed mothers. Tobey Maguire plays Homer who grows up in the orphanage and learns under Dr. Larch's tutelage to deliver babies and do abortions. Uneasy about the latter he leaves the orphanage with a young couple, Wally and Candy, who visited Dr. Larch for an abortion. He gets a job picking apples and works and lives alongside migrant (Black) workers who all live together in dormitories (just as he had in the orphanage). When Wally goes off to the war he falls in love with Candy. Under Dr. Larch's care is a young boy with breathing difficulties who spends time under a special canopy. He dies while still young. http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/c/cider.html

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