J. Emmett Winn wrote: > As part of a research project I'm interested in--I'm looking for > suggestions for movies to investigate. Briefly: I'm looking for films > where characters of an "upper-class" (broadly defined: economic, social > etc) are "moralized, "emotionally healed," shown a "better" life > perspective, etc. by characters of a "lower-class" (again broadly defined). > > Further I'm primarily interested in mainstream contemporary Hollywood > cinema (made since about 1977 or so) that fit this very broadly defined > category. Some examples are: > White Palace, Titanic, Pretty Woman, & Passion Fish Two comedies come to mind: _Down and Out in Beverly Hills_ (1986), the remake of _Boudu Saved from Downing_, in which a scruffy Nick Nolte reshapes the rich family of Richard Dreyfus and Bette Midler; and, perhaps less perfectly a fit, _Trading Places_ (1983), the Eddie Murphy/Dan Aykroyd vehicle. Jim Marsden/Bryant College ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.